90 Miles From Tyranny

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Tuesday, November 29, 2016

The Washington Post has really outdone itself this time. Having served as the primary megaphone for hate-mongering and anti-Trump propaganda since last summer, the WAPO is upping the ante by giving legitimacy to a shadowy group that has published a blacklist of 200 + websites that have been labeled as fronts for Vladimir Putin’s sinister plot to overthrow America. The sites on the list have two things in common: a criticism of an endless series of global wars instead of spending that money at home and a bent for criticizing Hillary Clinton.

On Thanksgiving Day while families across the fruited plain were sitting down to their holiday feast and diving into a daylong slate of football games, the WAPO published an extraordinarily sleazy piece that promoted the work of a murky website called PropOrNot that is recruiting volunteers as monitors of “Russian” meddling. The piece which was written by a guy named Craig Timberg writes that:
“The flood of ‘fake news’ this election season got support from a sophisticated Russian propaganda campaign that created and spread misleading articles online with the goal of punishing Democrat Hillary Clinton, helping Republican Donald Trump and undermining faith in American democracy, say independent researchers who tracked the operation.”

Not that the government and the corrupt establishment hasn’t done a good enough job of “undermining faith” in American democracy itself nor one party’s insistence of putting forth as it’s presidential candidate a tainted arch-criminal in a Chairman Mao pantsuit. No, it’s those in the alternative media who called bullshit on the official narrative and are now not only being blamed for...Read More HERE

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