{"id":355942,"date":"2018-04-09T15:41:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T14:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/still-smearing-jeremy-corbyn\/"},"modified":"2018-04-09T15:41:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T14:41:54","slug":"still-smearing-jeremy-corbyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/still-smearing-jeremy-corbyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Smearing Jeremy Corbyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_100931\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100931\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-29-at-6.01.48-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"382\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Garry Knight | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>My previous piece in <em>CounterPunch <\/em>indicated how Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of UK\u2019s opposition Labour Party, has in recent weeks endured several media-driven accusations about being a Czech spy in Cold War days; that he is a \u201cPutin stooge\u201d for wanting detailed evidence when a Russian double agent, exiled in the UK, and his daughter visiting from Russia, were attacked by toxic nerve agent; \u00a0and that Corbyn is somehow \u201ca figurehead for antisemitism\u201d or has a \u201cblindspot for antisemitism\u201d where his party is concerned.<\/p>\n<p>The Czech spy charge resulted in Corbyn\u2019s main accuser, a Conservative MP, settling out of court for damages.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cPutin stooge\u201d accusations have subsided for now.\u00a0 In a pointed <a href=\"https:\/\/mondediplo.com\/2018\/04\/01salisbury-halimi\">editorial<\/a> in <em>Le Monde Diplomatique\u00a0<\/em>(now republished in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/04\/03\/license-to-kill-4\/\"><em>CounterPunch<\/em><\/a>), titled \u201cLicense to Kill\u201d, Serge Halimi mentioned that Russia is only one among several countries using \u201cextraterritorial assassination\u201d as a way to liquidate supposed traitors or opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Few of these countries, apart from Russia, have incurred international condemnation.<\/p>\n<p>Foremost among the deployers of \u201cextraterritorial assassination\u201d are Israel and the US (Obama, the winner of the Nobel Peace (sic) Prize, alone authorized more than 2,300 such killings during his presidency).<\/p>\n<p>Other countries resorting to state-sponsored assassinations include France (at least one a month during the presidency of the \u201csocialist\u201d Hollande), Germany, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/04\/09\/still-smearing-jeremy-corbyn\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Garry Knight | CC BY 2.0 My previous piece in CounterPunch indicated how Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of UK\u2019s opposition Labour Party, has in recent weeks endured several media-driven accusations about being a Czech spy in Cold War days; that he is a \u201cPutin stooge\u201d for wanting detailed evidence when a Russian double [&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-355942","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\/355942","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=355942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}