{"id":298315,"date":"2017-03-09T17:04:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T16:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-wikileaks-revelations-and-the-crimes-of-us-imperialism\/"},"modified":"2017-03-09T17:04:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T16:04:06","slug":"the-wikileaks-revelations-and-the-crimes-of-us-imperialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-wikileaks-revelations-and-the-crimes-of-us-imperialism\/","title":{"rendered":"The WikiLeaks revelations and the crimes of US imperialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"page\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>The WikiLeaks revelations and the crimes of US imperialism<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    9 March 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>With increasing frequency, aggressive foreign policy moves by Washington have been palmed off by the media and political establishment as defensive responses to \u201chacking\u201d and \u201ccyber-espionage\u201d by US imperialism\u2019s geopolitical adversaries: Russia and China.<\/p>\n<p>For months, news programs have been dominated by hysterical allegations that Russia \u201chacked\u201d the Democratic National Committee in order to subvert the 2016 election. As the print and broadcast media were engaged in feverish denunciations of Russia, the US and its NATO allies moved thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks to the Russian border.<\/p>\n<p>Not content to allege interference only in the American election, the US media and its international surrogates have alleged Russian meddling in elections in France, Germany and other far-flung countries. Prior to the current furor over Russian \u201chacking\u201d of the election, the Obama administration used allegations of \u201chacking\u201d and \u201cintellectual property theft\u201d to justify the trade sanctions and military escalation against China that accompanied its \u201cpivot to Asia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whenever the State Department, the CIA or unnamed \u201cintelligence officials\u201d proclaim another alleged \u201ccyber\u201d provocation by Washington\u2019s geopolitical rivals, news anchors breathlessly regurgitate the allegations as fact, accompanying them with potted infographics and footage of masked men in darkened rooms aggressively typing away at computer keyboards.<\/p>\n<p>But the official narrative of a benevolent and well-intentioned US government coming under attack from hordes of Russian and Chinese hackers, spies and \u201cinternet trolls\u201d was upended Tuesday with the publication by WikiLeaks of some 9,000 documents showing the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/03\/09\/pers-m09.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The WikiLeaks revelations and the crimes of US imperialism 9 March 2017 With increasing frequency, aggressive foreign policy moves by Washington have been palmed off by the media and political establishment as defensive responses to \u201chacking\u201d and \u201ccyber-espionage\u201d by US imperialism\u2019s geopolitical adversaries: Russia and China. For months, news programs have been dominated by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-298315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}