‘Russia Did It’ – The New Age of McCarthyismRobert Parry Consortium NewsMake no mistake about it: the United States has entered an era of a New McCarthyism that blames nearly every political problem on Russia and has begun targeting American citizens who don t go along with this New Cold War propaganda.A difference, however, from the McCarthyism of the 1950s is that this New McCarthyism has enlisted Democrats, liberals and even progressives in the cause because of their disgust with President Trump; the 1950s version was driven by Republicans and the Right with much of the Left on the receiving end, maligned by the likes of Sen. Joe McCarthy as  un-American  and as Communism s  fellow travelers. The real winners in this New McCarthyism appear to be the neoconservatives who have leveraged the Democratic/liberal hatred of Trump to draw much of the Left into the political hysteria that sees the controversy over alleged Russian political  meddling  as an opportunity to  get Trump. Already, the neocons and their allies have exploited the anti-Russian frenzy to extract tens of millions of dollars more from the taxpayers for programs to  combat Russian propaganda,  i.e., funding of non-governmental organizations and  scholars  who target dissident Americans for challenging the justifications for this New Cold War.The Washington Post, which for years has served as the flagship for neocon propaganda, is again charting the new course for America, much as it did in rallying U.S. public backing for the 2003 invasion of Iraq and in building sympathy for abortive  regime change  projects aimed at Syria and Iran. The Post has begun blaming almost every unpleasant development in the world on Russia! Russia! Russia!For instance, a Post editorial on Tuesday shifted the blame for the anemic victory of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the surprising strength of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) from Merkel s austerity policies, which have caused hardship for much of the working class, or from her open door for Mideast refugees, which has destabilized some working-class neighborhoods, to   you guessed it   Russia!The evidence, as usual, is vague and self-interested, but sure to be swallowed by many Democrats and liberals, who hate Russia because they blame it for Trump, and by lots of Republicans and conservatives, who have a residual hatred for Russia left over from the Old Cold War.The Post cited the Atlantic Council s Digital Forensic Research Lab, which has been pushing much of the hysteria about alleged Russian activities on the Internet. The Atlantic Council essentially is NATO s think tank and is financed with money from the U.S. government, Gulf oil states, military contractors, global financial institutions and many other sources which stand to gain directly or indirectly from the expanding U.S. military budget and NATO interventions.Blaming RussiaIn this New Cold War, the Russians get blamed for not only disrupting some neocon  regime change  projects, such as the proxy war in Syria, but also political developments in the West, such as Donald Trump s election and AfD s rise in Germany.The Atlantic Council s digital lab claimed, according to the Post editorial, that  In the final hours of the [German] campaign, online supporters of the AfD began warning their base of possible election fraud, and the online alarms were  driven by anonymous troll accounts and boosted by a Russian-language bot-net. Of course, the Post evinces no evidence tying any of this to the Russian government or to President Vladimir Putin. It is the nature of McCarthyism that actual evidence is not required, just heavy breathing and dark suspicions. For those of us who operate Web sites,  trolls    some volunteers and some professionals   have become a common annoyance and they represent many political outlooks, not just Russian.Plus, it is standard procedure these days for campaigns to issue last-minute alarms to their supporters about possible election fraud to raise doubts about the results should the outcome be disappointing.The U.S. government has engaged in precisely this strategy around the world, having pro-U.S. parties not only complain about election fraud but to take to the streets in violent protests to impugn the legitimacy of election outcomes. That U.S. strategy has been applied to places such as Ukraine (the Orange Revolution in 2004); Iran (the Green Revolution in 2009); Russia (the Snow Revolution in 2011); and many other locations.Pre-election alerts also have become a feature in U.S. elections, even in 2016 when both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton raised questions about the legitimacy of the balloting, albeit for different reasons.Yet, instead of seeing the AfD maneuver as a typical ploy by a relatively minor party   and the German election outcome as an understandable reflection of voter discontent and weariness over Merkel s three terms as Chancellor   the Atlantic Council and the Post see Russians under every bed and particularly Putin.Loving to Hate PutinIn the world of neocon propaganda, Putin has become the great b te noire, since he has frustrated a variety of neocon schemes. He helped head off a major U.S. military strike against Syria in 2013; he aided President Obama in achieving the Iran nuclear agreement in 2014-15; Putin opposed and   to a degree   frustrated the neocon-supported coup in Ukraine in 2014; and he ultimately supplied the air power that defeated neocon-backed  rebel  forces in Syria in 2015-17.So, the Post and the neocons want Putin gone   and they have used gauzy allegations about  Russian meddling  in the U.S. and other elections as the new propaganda theme to justify destabilizing Russia with economic sanctions and, if possible, engineering another  regime change  project in Moscow.None of this is even secret. Carl Gershman, the neocon president of the U.S.-government-funded National Endowment for Democracy, publicly proclaimed the goal of ousting Putin in an op-ed in The Washington Post, writing:  The United States has the power to contain and defeat this danger. The issue is whether we can summon the will to do so. But the way neocon propaganda works is that the U.S. and its allies are always the victims of some nefarious enemy who must be thwarted to protect all that is good in the world. In other words, even as NED and other U.S.-funded operations take aim at Putin and Russia, Russia and Putin must be transformed into the aggressors. Mr. Putin would like nothing better than to generate doubts, fog, cracks and uncertainty around the German pillar of Europe,  the Post editorial said.  He relishes infiltrating chaos and mischief into open societies. In this case, supporting the far-right AfD is extraordinarily cynical, given how many millions of Russians died to defeat the fascists seven decades ago. Not to belabor the point but there is no credible evidence that Putin did any of this. There is a claim by the virulently anti-Russian Atlantic Council that some  anonymous troll accounts  promoted some AfD complaint about possible voter fraud and that it was picked up by  a Russian-language bot-net.  Even if that is true   and the Atlantic Council is far from an objective source   where is the link to Putin?Not everything that happens in Russia, a nation of 144 million people, is ordered by Putin. But the Post would have you believe that it is. It is the centerpiece of this neocon conspiracy theory.Silencing DissentSimilarly, any American who questions this propaganda immediately is dismissed as a  Kremlin stooge  or a  Russian propagandist,  another ugly campaign spearheaded by the Post and the neocons. Again, no evidence is required, just some analysis that what you re saying somehow parallels something Putin has said.On Tuesday, in what amounted to a companion piece for the editorial, a Post article again pushed the unproven suspicions about  Russian operatives  buying $100,000 in Facebook ads from 2015 into 2017 to supposedly influence U.S. politics. Once again, no evidence required.In the article, the Post also reminds its readers that Moscow has a history of focusing on social inequities in the U.S., which gets us back to the comparisons between the Old McCarthyism and the new.Yes, it s true that the Soviet Union denounced America s racial segregation and cited that ugly feature of U.S. society in expressing solidarity with the American civil rights movement and national liberation struggles in Africa. It s also true that American Communists collaborated with the domestic civil rights movement to promote racial integration.That was a key reason why J. Edgar Hoover s FBI targeted Martin Luther King Jr. and other African-American leaders   because of their association with known or suspected Communists. (Similarly, the Reagan administration resisted support for Nelson Mandela because his African National Congress accepted Communist support in its battle against South Africa s Apartheid white-supremacist regime.)Interestingly, one of the arguments from liberal national Democrats in opposing segregation in the 1960s was that the repression of American blacks undercut U.S. diplomatic efforts to develop allies in Africa. In other words, Soviet and Communist criticism of America s segregation actually helped bring about the demise of that offensive system.Yet, King s association with alleged Communists remained a talking point of die-hard segregationists even after his assassination when they opposed creating a national holiday in his honor in the 1980s.These parallels between the Old McCarthyism and the New McCarthyism are implicitly acknowledged in the Post s news article on Tuesday, which cites Putin s criticism of police killings of unarmed American blacks as evidence that he is meddling in U.S. politics. Since taking office, Putin has on occasion sought to spotlight racial tensions in the United States as a means of shaping perceptions of American society,  the article states.  Putin injected himself in 2014 into the race debate after protests broke out in Ferguson, Mo., over the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an African American, by a white police officer. Do you believe that everything is perfect now from the point of view of democracy in the United States?  Putin told CBS s  60 Minutes  program.  If everything was perfect, there wouldn t be the problem of Ferguson. There would be no abuse by the police. But our task is to see all these problems and respond properly. The Post s speculative point seems to be that Putin s response included having  Russian operatives  buy some ads on Facebook to exploit these racial tensions, but there is no evidence to support that conspiracy theory.However, as this anti-Russia hysteria spreads, we may soon see Americans who also protest the police killing of unarmed black men denounced as  Putin s fellow-travelers,  much as King and other civil rights leaders were smeared as  Communist dupes. Ignoring RealitySo, instead of Democrats and Chancellor Merkel looking in the mirror and seeing the real reasons why many white working-class voters are turning toward  populist  and  extremist  alternatives, they can simply blame Putin and continue a crackdown on Internet-based dissent as the work of  Russian operatives. Already, under the guise of combating  Russian propaganda  and  fake news,  Google, Facebook and other tech giants have begun introducing algorithms to hunt down and marginalize news that challenges official U.S. government narratives on hot-button issues such as Ukraine and Syria. Again, no evidence is required, just the fact that Putin may have said something similar.As Democrats, liberals and even some progressives join in this Russia-gate hysteria   driven by their hatred of Donald Trump and his supposedly  fascistic  tendencies   they might want to consider whom they ve climbed into bed with and what these neocons have in mind for the future.Arguably, if fascism or totalitarianism comes to the United States, it is more likely to arrive in the guise of  protecting democracy  from Russia or another foreign adversary than from a reality-TV clown like Donald Trump.The New McCarthyism with its Orwellian-style algorithms might seem like a clever way to neutralize (or maybe even help oust) Trump, but   long after Trump is gone   a structure for letting the neocons and the mainstream media monopolize American political debate might be a far greater threat to both democracy and peace.***TO READ MORE ON THE NEW COLD WAR: THE 21WIRE COLD WAR FILESSUPPORT 21WIRE  SUBSCRIBE & BECOME A MEMBER @21WIRE.TVMiddle-east
russia did it the new age mccarthyismrobert party consortium newspage mistake united states entered era new mccarthyism blames nearly every political problem russia begun targeting american citizens go along new cold war difference however mccarthyism new mccarthyism enlisted democrats liberals even progressive cause disgust president trump version driven republicans right much left receiving end aligned likes joe mccarthy communism fellow travelers the real winners new mccarthyism appear neoconservatives leveraged hatred trump draw much left political hysteria sees controversy alleged russian political meddling opportunity get trump already neurons allies exploited frenzy extract tens millions dollars taxpayers programs combat russian propaganda funding organizations scholars target dissident americans challenging justifications new cold washington post years served flagship noon propaganda charting new course america much rallying public backing invasion iraq building sympathy abortive regime change projects aimed syria iran the post begun blaming almost every unpleasant development world russia russia russia for instance post editorial tuesday shifted blame anemia victory german chancellor angela merkel surprising strength alternative germany afd merkel austerity policies caused hardship much working class open door mideast refugees stabilized neighborhoods guessed russia the evidence usual vague sure swallowed many democrats liberals hate russia blame trump lots republicans conservatives residual hatred russia left old cold post cited atlantic council digital forensic research lab pushing much hysteria alleged russian activities internet the atlantic council essentially nato think tank financed money government gulf oil states military contractors global financial institutions many sources stand gain directly indirectly expanding military budget nato russian new cold war russian get blamed disrupting noon regime change projects proxy war syria also political developments west donald trump election afd rise atlantic council digital lab claimed according post editorial in final hours german campaign online supporters afd began warning base possible election fraud online alarms driven anonymous troll accounts boosted of course post devices evidence tying russian government president vladimir putin it nature mccarthyism actual evidence required heavy breathing dark suspicions for us operate web sites trolls volunteers professionals become common annoyance represent many political outlook standard procedure days campaigns issue alarms supporters possible election fraud raise doubts results outcome government engaged precisely strategy around world parties complain election fraud take streets violent protests impure legitimacy election outcomes that strategy applied places ukraine orange revolution iran green revolution russia snow revolution many alerts also become feature elections even donald trump hillary clinton raised questions legitimacy balloting albeit different instead seeing afd maneuver typical ploy relatively minor party german election outcome understandable reflection voter discontent weakness merkel three terms chancellor atlantic council post see russian every bed particularly hate putin world noon propaganda putin become great b te noire since frustrated variety noon schemes he helped head major military strike syria aided president obama achieving iran nuclear agreement putin opposed degree frustrated coup ukraine ultimately supplied air power defeated rebel forces syria post neurons want putin gone used gay allegations russian meddling elections new propaganda theme justify stabilizing russia economic sanctions possible engineering another regime change project even secret carl freshman noon president national endowment democracy publicly proclaimed goal ousting putin the washington post writing the united states power contain defeat danger the issue whether summon but way noon propaganda works allies always victims nefarious enemy must thwarted protect good world in words even ned operations take aim putin russia russia putin must transformed aggressors putin would like nothing better generate doubts fog cracks uncertainty around german pillar europe post editorial said he relies infiltrating chaos mischief open societies in case supporting afd extraordinarily cynical given many millions russian died defeat fascists seven decades ago not labor point credible evidence putin there claim violently atlantic council anonymous troll accounts promoted afd complaint possible voter fraud picked even true atlantic council far objective source link putin not everything happens russia nation million people ordered putin but post would believe it centerpiece noon conspiracy dissentsimilarly american questions propaganda immediately dismissed kremlin stage russian propagandist another ugly campaign spearheaded post neurons again evidence required analysis saying somehow parallels something putin tuesday amounted companion piece editorial post article pushed unproven suspicions russian operatives buying facebook ads supposedly influence politics once evidence article post also reminds readers moscow history focusing social inquiries gets us back comparisons old mccarthyism true soviet union denounced america racial segregation cited ugly feature society expressing solidarity american civil rights movement national liberation struggles africa it also true american communists collaborated domestic civil rights movement promote racial key reason edgar hoover fbi targeted martin luther king leaders association known suspected communists similarly reagan administration resisted support nelson manila african national congress accepted communist support battle south africa apartheid regime interesting one arguments liberal national democrats opposing segregation repression american blacks undercut diplomatic efforts develop allies africa in words soviet communist criticism america segregation actually helped bring demise offensive king association alleged communists remained talking point segregationists even assassination opposed creating national holiday honor parallels old mccarthyism new mccarthyism implicitly acknowledged post news article tuesday cites putin criticism police killings unarmed american blacks evidence meddling politics since taking office putin occasion sought spotlight racial tensions united states means shaping perceptions american society article states putin injected race debate protests broke ferguson fatal shooting michael brown african american white police officer do believe everything perfect point view democracy united states putin told cbs minutes program if everything perfect problem ferguson there would abuse police but task see problems respond properly the post speculative point seems putin response included russian operatives buy ads facebook exploit racial tensions evidence support conspiracy hysteria spreads may soon see americans also protest police killing unarmed black men denounced putin much king civil rights leaders shared communist dunes ignoring reality instead democrats chancellor merkel looking mirror seeing real reasons many white voters turning toward populist extremist alternatives simply blame putin continue crackdown dissent work russian operatives already guise combating russian propaganda fake news google facebook tech giants begun introducing algorithms hunt marginalized news challenges official government narratives issues ukraine syria again evidence required fact putin may said something democrats liberals even progressive join hysteria driven hatred donald trump supposedly fascist tendencies might want consider climbed bed neurons mind fascism totalitarianism comes united states likely arrive guise protecting democracy russia another foreign adversary clown like donald new mccarthyism algorithms might seem like clever way neutralize maybe even help oust trump 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Your task is to classify the provided input as real or fake news. Label 0 is meant for fake news, Label 1 is for real news. TEXT: ‘Russia Did It’ – The New Age of McCarthyismRobert Parry Consortium NewsMake no mistake about it: the United States has entered an era of a New McCarthyism that blames nearly every political problem on Russia and has begun targeting American citizens who don t go along with this New Cold War propaganda.A difference, however, from the McCarthyism of the 1950s is that this New McCarthyism has enlisted Democrats, liberals and even progressives in the cause because of their disgust with President Trump; the 1950s version was driven by Republicans and the Right with much of the Left on the receiving end, maligned by the likes of Sen. Joe McCarthy as  un-American  and as Communism s  fellow travelers. The real winners in this New McCarthyism appear to be the neoconservatives who have leveraged the Democratic/liberal hatred of Trump to draw much of the Left into the political hysteria that sees the controversy over alleged Russian political  meddling  as an opportunity to  get Trump. Already, the neocons and their allies have exploited the anti-Russian frenzy to extract tens of millions of dollars more from the taxpayers for programs to  combat Russian propaganda,  i.e., funding of non-governmental organizations and  scholars  who target dissident Americans for challenging the justifications for this New Cold War.The Washington Post, which for years has served as the flagship for neocon propaganda, is again charting the new course for America, much as it did in rallying U.S. public backing for the 2003 invasion of Iraq and in building sympathy for abortive  regime change  projects aimed at Syria and Iran. The Post has begun blaming almost every unpleasant development in the world on Russia! Russia! Russia!For instance, a Post editorial on Tuesday shifted the blame for the anemic victory of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the surprising strength of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) from Merkel s austerity policies, which have caused hardship for much of the working class, or from her open door for Mideast refugees, which has destabilized some working-class neighborhoods, to   you guessed it   Russia!The evidence, as usual, is vague and self-interested, but sure to be swallowed by many Democrats and liberals, who hate Russia because they blame it for Trump, and by lots of Republicans and conservatives, who have a residual hatred for Russia left over from the Old Cold War.The Post cited the Atlantic Council s Digital Forensic Research Lab, which has been pushing much of the hysteria about alleged Russian activities on the Internet. The Atlantic Council essentially is NATO s think tank and is financed with money from the U.S. government, Gulf oil states, military contractors, global financial institutions and many other sources which stand to gain directly or indirectly from the expanding U.S. military budget and NATO interventions.Blaming RussiaIn this New Cold War, the Russians get blamed for not only disrupting some neocon  regime change  projects, such as the proxy war in Syria, but also political developments in the West, such as Donald Trump s election and AfD s rise in Germany.The Atlantic Council s digital lab claimed, according to the Post editorial, that  In the final hours of the [German] campaign, online supporters of the AfD began warning their base of possible election fraud, and the online alarms were  driven by anonymous troll accounts and boosted by a Russian-language bot-net. Of course, the Post evinces no evidence tying any of this to the Russian government or to President Vladimir Putin. It is the nature of McCarthyism that actual evidence is not required, just heavy breathing and dark suspicions. For those of us who operate Web sites,  trolls    some volunteers and some professionals   have become a common annoyance and they represent many political outlooks, not just Russian.Plus, it is standard procedure these days for campaigns to issue last-minute alarms to their supporters about possible election fraud to raise doubts about the results should the outcome be disappointing.The U.S. government has engaged in precisely this strategy around the world, having pro-U.S. parties not only complain about election fraud but to take to the streets in violent protests to impugn the legitimacy of election outcomes. That U.S. strategy has been applied to places such as Ukraine (the Orange Revolution in 2004); Iran (the Green Revolution in 2009); Russia (the Snow Revolution in 2011); and many other locations.Pre-election alerts also have become a feature in U.S. elections, even in 2016 when both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton raised questions about the legitimacy of the balloting, albeit for different reasons.Yet, instead of seeing the AfD maneuver as a typical ploy by a relatively minor party   and the German election outcome as an understandable reflection of voter discontent and weariness over Merkel s three terms as Chancellor   the Atlantic Council and the Post see Russians under every bed and particularly Putin.Loving to Hate PutinIn the world of neocon propaganda, Putin has become the great b te noire, since he has frustrated a variety of neocon schemes. He helped head off a major U.S. military strike against Syria in 2013; he aided President Obama in achieving the Iran nuclear agreement in 2014-15; Putin opposed and   to a degree   frustrated the neocon-supported coup in Ukraine in 2014; and he ultimately supplied the air power that defeated neocon-backed  rebel  forces in Syria in 2015-17.So, the Post and the neocons want Putin gone   and they have used gauzy allegations about  Russian meddling  in the U.S. and other elections as the new propaganda theme to justify destabilizing Russia with economic sanctions and, if possible, engineering another  regime change  project in Moscow.None of this is even secret. Carl Gershman, the neocon president of the U.S.-government-funded National Endowment for Democracy, publicly proclaimed the goal of ousting Putin in an op-ed in The Washington Post, writing:  The United States has the power to contain and defeat this danger. The issue is whether we can summon the will to do so. But the way neocon propaganda works is that the U.S. and its allies are always the victims of some nefarious enemy who must be thwarted to protect all that is good in the world. In other words, even as NED and other U.S.-funded operations take aim at Putin and Russia, Russia and Putin must be transformed into the aggressors. Mr. Putin would like nothing better than to generate doubts, fog, cracks and uncertainty around the German pillar of Europe,  the Post editorial said.  He relishes infiltrating chaos and mischief into open societies. In this case, supporting the far-right AfD is extraordinarily cynical, given how many millions of Russians died to defeat the fascists seven decades ago. Not to belabor the point but there is no credible evidence that Putin did any of this. There is a claim by the virulently anti-Russian Atlantic Council that some  anonymous troll accounts  promoted some AfD complaint about possible voter fraud and that it was picked up by  a Russian-language bot-net.  Even if that is true   and the Atlantic Council is far from an objective source   where is the link to Putin?Not everything that happens in Russia, a nation of 144 million people, is ordered by Putin. But the Post would have you believe that it is. It is the centerpiece of this neocon conspiracy theory.Silencing DissentSimilarly, any American who questions this propaganda immediately is dismissed as a  Kremlin stooge  or a  Russian propagandist,  another ugly campaign spearheaded by the Post and the neocons. Again, no evidence is required, just some analysis that what you re saying somehow parallels something Putin has said.On Tuesday, in what amounted to a companion piece for the editorial, a Post article again pushed the unproven suspicions about  Russian operatives  buying $100,000 in Facebook ads from 2015 into 2017 to supposedly influence U.S. politics. Once again, no evidence required.In the article, the Post also reminds its readers that Moscow has a history of focusing on social inequities in the U.S., which gets us back to the comparisons between the Old McCarthyism and the new.Yes, it s true that the Soviet Union denounced America s racial segregation and cited that ugly feature of U.S. society in expressing solidarity with the American civil rights movement and national liberation struggles in Africa. It s also true that American Communists collaborated with the domestic civil rights movement to promote racial integration.That was a key reason why J. Edgar Hoover s FBI targeted Martin Luther King Jr. and other African-American leaders   because of their association with known or suspected Communists. (Similarly, the Reagan administration resisted support for Nelson Mandela because his African National Congress accepted Communist support in its battle against South Africa s Apartheid white-supremacist regime.)Interestingly, one of the arguments from liberal national Democrats in opposing segregation in the 1960s was that the repression of American blacks undercut U.S. diplomatic efforts to develop allies in Africa. In other words, Soviet and Communist criticism of America s segregation actually helped bring about the demise of that offensive system.Yet, King s association with alleged Communists remained a talking point of die-hard segregationists even after his assassination when they opposed creating a national holiday in his honor in the 1980s.These parallels between the Old McCarthyism and the New McCarthyism are implicitly acknowledged in the Post s news article on Tuesday, which cites Putin s criticism of police killings of unarmed American blacks as evidence that he is meddling in U.S. politics. Since taking office, Putin has on occasion sought to spotlight racial tensions in the United States as a means of shaping perceptions of American society,  the article states.  Putin injected himself in 2014 into the race debate after protests broke out in Ferguson, Mo., over the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an African American, by a white police officer. Do you believe that everything is perfect now from the point of view of democracy in the United States?  Putin told CBS s  60 Minutes  program.  If everything was perfect, there wouldn t be the problem of Ferguson. There would be no abuse by the police. But our task is to see all these problems and respond properly. The Post s speculative point seems to be that Putin s response included having  Russian operatives  buy some ads on Facebook to exploit these racial tensions, but there is no evidence to support that conspiracy theory.However, as this anti-Russia hysteria spreads, we may soon see Americans who also protest the police killing of unarmed black men denounced as  Putin s fellow-travelers,  much as King and other civil rights leaders were smeared as  Communist dupes. Ignoring RealitySo, instead of Democrats and Chancellor Merkel looking in the mirror and seeing the real reasons why many white working-class voters are turning toward  populist  and  extremist  alternatives, they can simply blame Putin and continue a crackdown on Internet-based dissent as the work of  Russian operatives. Already, under the guise of combating  Russian propaganda  and  fake news,  Google, Facebook and other tech giants have begun introducing algorithms to hunt down and marginalize news that challenges official U.S. government narratives on hot-button issues such as Ukraine and Syria. Again, no evidence is required, just the fact that Putin may have said something similar.As Democrats, liberals and even some progressives join in this Russia-gate hysteria   driven by their hatred of Donald Trump and his supposedly  fascistic  tendencies   they might want to consider whom they ve climbed into bed with and what these neocons have in mind for the future.Arguably, if fascism or totalitarianism comes to the United States, it is more likely to arrive in the guise of  protecting democracy  from Russia or another foreign adversary than from a reality-TV clown like Donald Trump.The New McCarthyism with its Orwellian-style algorithms might seem like a clever way to neutralize (or maybe even help oust) Trump, but   long after Trump is gone   a structure for letting the neocons and the mainstream media monopolize American political debate might be a far greater threat to both democracy and peace.***TO READ MORE ON THE NEW COLD WAR: THE 21WIRE COLD WAR FILESSUPPORT 21WIRE  SUBSCRIBE & BECOME A MEMBER @21WIRE.TVMiddle-east
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TEXT: russia did it the new age mccarthyismrobert party consortium newspage mistake united states entered era new mccarthyism blames nearly every political problem russia begun targeting american citizens go along new cold war difference however mccarthyism new mccarthyism enlisted democrats liberals even progressive cause disgust president trump version driven republicans right much left receiving end aligned likes joe mccarthy communism fellow travelers the real winners new mccarthyism appear neoconservatives leveraged hatred trump draw much left political hysteria sees controversy alleged russian political meddling opportunity get trump already neurons allies exploited frenzy extract tens millions dollars taxpayers programs combat russian propaganda funding organizations scholars target dissident americans challenging justifications new cold washington post years served flagship noon propaganda charting new course america much rallying public backing invasion iraq building sympathy abortive regime change projects aimed syria iran the post begun blaming almost every unpleasant development world russia russia russia for instance post editorial tuesday shifted blame anemia victory german chancellor angela merkel surprising strength alternative germany afd merkel austerity policies caused hardship much working class open door mideast refugees stabilized neighborhoods guessed russia the evidence usual vague sure swallowed many democrats liberals hate russia blame trump lots republicans conservatives residual hatred russia left old cold post cited atlantic council digital forensic research lab pushing much hysteria alleged russian activities internet the atlantic council essentially nato think tank financed money government gulf oil states military contractors global financial institutions many sources stand gain directly indirectly expanding military budget nato russian new cold war russian get blamed disrupting noon regime change projects proxy war syria also political developments west donald trump election afd rise atlantic council digital lab claimed according post editorial in final hours german campaign online supporters afd began warning base possible election fraud online alarms driven anonymous troll accounts boosted of course post devices evidence tying russian government president vladimir putin it nature mccarthyism actual evidence required heavy breathing dark suspicions for us operate web sites trolls volunteers professionals become common annoyance represent many political outlook standard procedure days campaigns issue alarms supporters possible election fraud raise doubts results outcome government engaged precisely strategy around world parties complain election fraud take streets violent protests impure legitimacy election outcomes that strategy applied places ukraine orange revolution iran green revolution russia snow revolution many alerts also become feature elections even donald trump hillary clinton raised questions legitimacy balloting albeit different instead seeing afd maneuver typical ploy relatively minor party german election outcome understandable reflection voter discontent weakness merkel three terms chancellor atlantic council post see russian every bed particularly hate putin world noon propaganda putin become great b te noire since frustrated variety noon schemes he helped head major military strike syria aided president obama achieving iran nuclear agreement putin opposed degree frustrated coup ukraine ultimately supplied air power defeated rebel forces syria post neurons want putin gone used gay allegations russian meddling elections new propaganda theme justify stabilizing russia economic sanctions possible engineering another regime change project even secret carl freshman noon president national endowment democracy publicly proclaimed goal ousting putin the washington post writing the united states power contain defeat danger the issue whether summon but way noon propaganda works allies always victims nefarious enemy must thwarted protect good world in words even ned operations take aim putin russia russia putin must transformed aggressors putin would like nothing better generate doubts fog cracks uncertainty around german pillar europe post editorial said he relies infiltrating chaos mischief open societies in case supporting afd extraordinarily cynical given many millions russian died defeat fascists seven decades ago not labor point credible evidence putin there claim violently atlantic council anonymous troll accounts promoted afd complaint possible voter fraud picked even true atlantic council far objective source link putin not everything happens russia nation million people ordered putin but post would believe it centerpiece noon conspiracy dissentsimilarly american questions propaganda immediately dismissed kremlin stage russian propagandist another ugly campaign spearheaded post neurons again evidence required analysis saying somehow parallels something putin tuesday amounted companion piece editorial post article pushed unproven suspicions russian operatives buying facebook ads supposedly influence politics once evidence article post also reminds readers moscow history focusing social inquiries gets us back comparisons old mccarthyism true soviet union denounced america racial segregation cited ugly feature society expressing solidarity american civil rights movement national liberation struggles africa it also true american communists collaborated domestic civil rights movement promote racial key reason edgar hoover fbi targeted martin luther king leaders association known suspected communists similarly reagan administration resisted support nelson manila african national congress accepted communist support battle south africa apartheid regime interesting one arguments liberal national democrats opposing segregation repression american blacks undercut diplomatic efforts develop allies africa in words soviet communist criticism america segregation actually helped bring demise offensive king association alleged communists remained talking point segregationists even assassination opposed creating national holiday honor parallels old mccarthyism new mccarthyism implicitly acknowledged post news article tuesday cites putin criticism police killings unarmed american blacks evidence meddling politics since taking office putin occasion sought spotlight racial tensions united states means shaping perceptions american society article states putin injected race debate protests broke ferguson fatal shooting michael brown african american white police officer do believe everything perfect point view democracy united states putin told cbs minutes program if everything perfect problem ferguson there would abuse police but task see problems respond properly the post speculative point seems putin response included russian operatives buy ads facebook exploit racial tensions evidence support conspiracy hysteria spreads may soon see americans also protest police killing unarmed black men denounced putin much king civil rights leaders shared communist dunes ignoring reality instead democrats chancellor merkel looking mirror seeing real reasons many white voters turning toward populist extremist alternatives simply blame putin continue crackdown dissent work russian operatives already guise combating russian propaganda fake news google facebook tech giants begun introducing algorithms hunt marginalized news challenges official government narratives issues ukraine syria again evidence required fact putin may said something democrats liberals even progressive join hysteria driven hatred donald trump supposedly fascist tendencies might want consider climbed bed neurons mind fascism totalitarianism comes united states likely arrive guise protecting democracy russia another foreign adversary clown like donald new mccarthyism algorithms might seem like clever way neutralize maybe even help oust trump long trump gone structure letting neurons mainstream media monopolies american political debate might far greater threat democracy peace to read more on the new cold war the cold war filessupport subscribe become a member