February 28 2017, 7:14 a.m.
Source: The Intercept
Beginning with its cover image menacingly featuring Putin, Trump and the magazine’s title in Cyrillic letters, along with its lead cartoon dystopically depicting a UFO-like Red Square hovering over and phallically invading the White House, a large bulk of the article is devoted to what has now become standard – and very profitable – fare among East Coast news magazines: feeding Democrats the often-xenophobic, hysterical Russia-phobia for which they have a seemingly insatiable craving. Democratic media outlets have thus predictably cheered this opus for exposing “Russian President Vladimir Putin’s influence on the presidential election.”
1. Obama and Clinton have radically different views on Russia
1. Obama and Clinton have radically different views on Russia
[includes a video of CIA former director Mike Morelli]
2. The risk of a new Cold War is very real and very dangerous
[includes a video of Nom Chomsky]
3. The U.S. media refuses to say if the U.S. interferes in Russia’s domestic politics
4. The U.S. Government still has provided no evidence of its theories about Russian hacking
5. Fixating on Russia continues to be used to distract from systemic failures of U.S. elites
Using Russia – yet again – to whitewash our own sins and systemic failures is bad enough.
Let’s just hope it doesn’t lead the two countries back into a protracted and devastating Cold War or, worse still, direct military confrontation. With tensions rising and rhetoric becoming harsher and more manipulative, both of those outcomes are more likely than they’ve been in many years.
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