{"id":352531,"date":"2018-03-17T01:08:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T00:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/interference-in-plain-sight-dissident-voice\/"},"modified":"2018-03-17T01:08:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T00:08:57","slug":"interference-in-plain-sight-dissident-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/interference-in-plain-sight-dissident-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Interference in Plain Sight | Dissident Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-77724\">\n<p class=\"byline\">by Othello \/ March 16th, 2018<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>History will remember that a Gulf state had a role in expelling the foreign minister of a superpower and that\u2019s just the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Abdulkhalez Abdullaa, UAE Political Science Professor<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tweet by prominent UAE political science professor, Abdulkhalez Abdullaa, as quoted in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/the-political-forces-behind-rex-tillersons-firing\/\">recent article<\/a> on <em>The American Conservative<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As the US continues to writhe in the throes of Russiagate, it is amazing to see the victory laps being taken for Rex Tillerson\u2019s removal as Secretary of State by those who are admittedly agents of foreign states. As the above-mentioned article makes clear, certain Middle East countries and their US proxies believe that their efforts resulted in Tillerson\u2019s firing.<\/p>\n<p>One could hardly ask for a clearer confession regarding foreign interference in the domestic politics of the United States. Yet journalists in the major media seem to be asleep at the wheel on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>A Russian troll farm that ran a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clickbait\">click-bait<\/a> scheme to profit from the US presidential elections inspired massive and almost hysterical coverage, despite the fact that troll farms worldwide engaged in similar practices, yet boasting about getting the Secretary of State fired is not news!<\/p>\n<p>The self-congratulatory crowing observed in certain circles over Trump\u2019s dismissal of Tillerson should serve as a wake up call about the exertion of undue influence on the American government by foreigners\u2026even those from places that the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/03\/interference-in-plain-sight\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Othello \/ March 16th, 2018 History will remember that a Gulf state had a role in expelling the foreign minister of a superpower and that\u2019s just the tip of the iceberg. \u2014 Abdulkhalez Abdullaa, UAE Political Science Professor Tweet by prominent UAE political science professor, Abdulkhalez Abdullaa, as quoted in a recent article on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-352531","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\/352531","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\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}