{"id":374097,"date":"2018-08-20T05:58:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T04:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-cia-owns-the-us-and-european-media\/"},"modified":"2018-08-20T05:58:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T04:58:20","slug":"the-cia-owns-the-us-and-european-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-cia-owns-the-us-and-european-media\/","title":{"rendered":"The CIA Owns the US and European Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

William Blum shares with us his correspondence with Washington Post presstitute Michael Birnbaum. As you can tell from Birnbaum\u2019s replies, he comes across as either very stupid or as a CIA asset.<\/p>\n

When I received my briefing as staff associate, House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, which required top secret clearance, I was told by senior members of the staff that the Washington Post was a CIA asset. Watching the Washington Post\u2019s takedown of President Richard Nixon with the orchestrated Watergate story, that became obvious. President Nixon had made too many overtures to the Soviets and too many arms limitations agreements, and he opened to China. Watching President Nixon\u2019s peace initiatives water down the threat level from the Soviet Union and Maoist China, the military\/security complex saw a threat to its budget and power and decided that Nixon had to go. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy had resulted in far too much skepticism about the Warren Commission Report, so the CIA decided to use the Washington Post to get rid of Nixon. To keep the clueless American left hating Nixon, the CIA used its assets in the leftwing to keep Nixon blamed for the Vietnam war, a war that Nixon inherited and did not want.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The CIA knew that Nixon\u2019s problem was that he could not exit the war without losing his conservative base, which was convinced of the nonsensical \u201cDomino Theory.\u201d I have always wondered if the CIA concocted the \u201cDomino Theory,\u201d as it so well served them. Unable to get rid of the war \u201cwith honor,\u201d Nixon was driven to brutal methods to force the North Vietnamese to accept a situation that he could depart without defeat and soiling America\u2019s \u201chonor\u201d and losing his conservative support base. The North Vietnamese wouldn\u2019t bend, but the US Congress…<\/p>\n

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William Blum shares with us his correspondence with Washington Post presstitute Michael Birnbaum. As you can tell from Birnbaum\u2019s replies, he comes across as either very stupid or as a CIA asset. When I received my briefing as staff associate, House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, which required top secret clearance, I was told by senior members […]<\/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-374097","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\/374097","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=374097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}