{"id":349236,"date":"2018-02-21T17:26:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T16:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-york-times-exploits-parkland-tragedy-to-escalate-anti-russian-campaign\/"},"modified":"2018-02-21T17:26:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T16:26:38","slug":"new-york-times-exploits-parkland-tragedy-to-escalate-anti-russian-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-york-times-exploits-parkland-tragedy-to-escalate-anti-russian-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times exploits Parkland tragedy to escalate anti-Russian campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>New York Times exploits Parkland tragedy to escalate anti-Russian campaign<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    21 February 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Less than four days after the Parkland school shooting, the <em>New York Times<\/em> has found a way to turn a national tragedy that claimed the lives of 17 high school students into an opportunity to escalate its unrelenting campaign of anti-Russian propaganda, involving the continuous bombardment of the public with reactionary lies and warmongering.<\/p>\n<p>Against the backdrop of a major escalation of military tensions between the two countries, the <em>Times<\/em> seized upon the Justice Department indictment of Russian nationals over the weekend to claim that Russia is at \u201cwar\u201d with the United States. Now, the <em>Times<\/em> has widened this claim into an argument that Russia somehow bears responsibility for social divisions over the latest mass shooting in America.<\/p>\n<p>Its lead headline Tuesday morning blared: \u201cSHOTS ARE FIRED, AND BOTS SWARM TO SOCIAL DIVIDES &#8211; Florida School Shooting Draws an Army Ready to Spread Discord\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the <em>Times<\/em>, Russian \u201cbots,\u201d or automated social media accounts, sought \u201cto widen the divide\u201d on issues of gun control and mental illness, in order to \u201cmake compromise even more difficult.\u201d Russia sought to exploit \u201cthe issue of mental illness in the gun control debate,\u201d and \u201cpropagated the notion that Nikolas Cruz, the suspected gunman\u201d was \u201cmentally ill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The absurd claim that Russia is responsible for the existence of social divisions in America is belied by the shooting itself, which is a testament to the fact that American society is riven by antagonisms that express themselves, in the absence of a progressive outlet, in outpourings of mass violence.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of this campaign is to target anyone who would criticize the underlying social causes of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/02\/21\/pers-f21.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 New York Times exploits Parkland tragedy to escalate anti-Russian campaign 21 February 2018 Less than four days after the Parkland school shooting, the New York Times has found a way to turn a national tragedy that claimed the lives of 17 high school students into an opportunity to escalate its unrelenting campaign of anti-Russian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-349236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}