{"id":349457,"date":"2018-02-23T03:35:17","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T02:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-deep-state-targeting-alternative-media\/"},"modified":"2018-02-23T03:35:17","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T02:35:17","slug":"presstv-us-deep-state-targeting-alternative-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-deep-state-targeting-alternative-media\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-&#8216;US Deep State targeting alternative media&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US Deep State is not targeting President Donald Trump nor attempting to whip up war against Russia, rather it is trying to discredit alternative media analysts by identifying them with the so-called Russian subversion campaign against the United States, an American academic and political analyst says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Kevin Barrett, the author of several books including <em>Orlando False Flag: The Clash of Histories<\/em>, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Thursday. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, former Congressman Ron Paul claimed the US Deep State is behind Special Counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s indictment of 13 Russians for &#8220;defrauding America&#8221; by discrediting Hillary Clinton using social media.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Paul, a three-time American presidential candidate and the founder of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, made the comments, after thirteen Russians and three Russian companies were charged with conspiracy to interfere with the US election.<\/p>\n<p>On&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/02\/23\/553297\/Is-US-Deep-State-targeting-alternative-media\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Deep State is not targeting President Donald Trump nor attempting to whip up war against Russia, rather it is trying to discredit alternative media analysts by identifying them with the so-called Russian subversion campaign against the United States, an American academic and political analyst says. Dr. Kevin Barrett, the author of several books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-349457","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\/349457","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}