{"id":402674,"date":"2019-04-08T07:16:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T06:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/iraqs-wmds-foundin-russia\/"},"modified":"2019-04-08T07:16:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T06:16:37","slug":"iraqs-wmds-foundin-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/iraqs-wmds-foundin-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq\u2019s WMDs Found\u2026In Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_110646\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110646\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110646\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/04\/B2B6506D-ED36-4822-B0E8-B34F4F966DF9.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/04\/B2B6506D-ED36-4822-B0E8-B34F4F966DF9.jpeg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2019\/04\/B2B6506D-ED36-4822-B0E8-B34F4F966DF9-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-110646\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">White House photo by Eric Draper<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In late 2017, actor Morgan Freeman announced in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V2av__s-598\">video <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2017\/09\/22\/why-bashing-morgan-freeman-of-all-people-is-suddenly-the-rage-in-russia\/?utm_term=.6def25974621\">created<\/a> by a <a href=\"https:\/\/investigaterussia.org\/advisory-board\">who\u2019s who of senior U.S. Intelligence officials<\/a> that Russia had attacked the United States and that \u2018we\u2019 were at war. Freeman, whose net worth is said to be about a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.celebritynetworth.com\/richest-celebrities\/actors\/morgan-freeman-net-worth\/\">quarter-billion dollars<\/a>, claimed that ex-Soviet \u2018authoritarian\u2019 Vladimir Putin, bitter about the dissolution of \u2018his\u2019 country, was behind the attack. The terms \u2018attack\u2019 and \u2018war\u2019 were not qualified as metaphors.<\/p>\n<p>The crudeness of the appeal\u2014 provoking naked fear of invading hordes of godless communists led by an evil dictator, had a retro quality that undid thirty years of technocratic upgrading of American agitprop Where is the Reagan-era <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0087985\/\">Patrick Swayze packing a grenade launcher<\/a> when you need him? Or going back a bit further in agitprop history, where is Kevin McCarthy with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0049366\/\">panicked warning about your neighbors<\/a> going to sleep as good Americans and waking up as <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">communists s<\/span>tooges of the Kremlin?<\/p>\n<p>Within weeks of Donald Trump\u2019s electoral victory the \u2018true American\u2019 press, in the form of the Washington Post, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/\">revealed<\/a> that it had a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/news\/2014\/10\/14\/documents-that-changed-the-world-joseph-mccarthys-list-1950\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">known communists who had infiltrated the U.S. government<\/span><\/a> political websites that were acting as witting or unwitting agents of the Kremlin, current company included. One could be forgiven for imagining that the \u2018authoritarian\u2019 Donald Trump was behind the smear. \u00a0But no\u2014 it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/12\/09\/the-anonymous-blacklist-promoted-by-the-washington-post-has-apparent-ties-to-ukrainian-fascism-and-cia-spying\/\">appears to have been<\/a> Ukrainian \u2018patriots\u2019 with ties to both the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/04\/05\/iraqs-wmds-found-in-russia\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House photo by Eric Draper In late 2017, actor Morgan Freeman announced in a video created by a who\u2019s who of senior U.S. Intelligence officials that Russia had attacked the United States and that \u2018we\u2019 were at war. Freeman, whose net worth is said to be about a quarter-billion dollars, claimed that ex-Soviet \u2018authoritarian\u2019 [&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-402674","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\/402674","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}