{"id":375546,"date":"2018-08-31T02:06:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T01:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/reality-winner-russiagate-and-the-left\/"},"modified":"2018-08-31T02:06:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T01:06:41","slug":"reality-winner-russiagate-and-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/reality-winner-russiagate-and-the-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality Winner, Russiagate and the Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-104907\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-29-at-6.01.56-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-29-at-6.01.56-PM.png 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-29-at-6.01.56-PM-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-29-at-6.01.56-PM-768x449.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><br \/>Reality hit hard for the left when whistleblower Reality Winner was sentenced to five years, three months in prison with three years of supervision after release and 100 hours of community service. Surely it was another pussy-hat-liberal-Russiagate-Deep-State-hoax that is descending on the honorable leftist blogosphere? Actually, it was just the opposite. Winner heroically revealed an attempt by Russian military intelligence to interfere with U.S. elections. And guess who slapped her with the\u00a0<em>longest\u00a0<\/em>sentence for a federal defendant who disclosed information to the media? It couldn\u2019t be the very same man who is challenging globalism, the Deep State and the new liberal world order as we know it, albeit on twitter? Yes, it could be actually.<\/p>\n<p>This is a hard pill to swallow for what Jeffrey St. Clair calls the Sputnik Left. Reality Winner showed us the punishment taken for real resistance to the authoritarian Trump administration. Winner not only called Trump the \u201cOrange Fascist\u201d, she was brave enough to reveal the conspiracy liberals have pretended to be chasing and leftists have been denying for the last year and a half. Those who are outraged by Julian Assange\u2019s case and not by Reality Winner\u2019s case are just as hypocritical as liberals who may be divided the opposite way.<\/p>\n<p>Yet one has to wonder why isn\u2019t the Reality Winner story a bigger story in the Russia-obsessed liberal media? There have been months of calling Donald Trump a fascist and an authoritarian&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/08\/30\/reality-winner-russiagate-and-the-left-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reality hit hard for the left when whistleblower Reality Winner was sentenced to five years, three months in prison with three years of supervision after release and 100 hours of community service. Surely it was another pussy-hat-liberal-Russiagate-Deep-State-hoax that is descending on the honorable leftist blogosphere? Actually, it was just the opposite. Winner heroically revealed an [&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-375546","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\/375546","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=375546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}