There is no ambiguity at all regarding Julian Assange and Craig Murray's position.
"Ex-British ambassador who is now a WikiLeaks operative claims Russia did NOT provide Clinton emails - they were handed over to him at a D.C. park by an intermediary for 'disgusted' Democratic whistleblowers"
-UK Daily Mail, Dec. 14, 2016
How can any American argue that Murray and Wikileaks' revelations are not newsworthy? They are the publishers of the emails! So, that story must have appeared on the front pages of every US newspaper and on the 24/7 cable news barrage; no?
Censorship is clearly at play here. Any "news" article that covers the CIA's conspiracy theory but omits the WikiLeaks counter-narrative is not journalism at all, and clearly violates basic journalistic ethics.
The Blackest Kettle Around
Psychological projection is when you accuse others of doing what you yourself do. It happens quite a bit more than people realize. Would the Russians be justified in working against a candidate who threatened to escalate a hot war in Syria against their own military and national security interests?
I'll not belabor America's bloodstained imperial record of overthrowing legitimate democracies, like Iran in 1953 or Chile in 1973. But more recent events should not be avoided, as we assess what's really going on here in the intelligence sector's assault on Russia and Putin and Trump.
What America did to Ukraine should be first and foremost, as we talk about foreign interference in the democratic processes of sovereign nations. In 2004 US agencies were exposed for their parts in a soft coup, or "color revolution."
"The Democratic party's National Democratic Institute, the Republican party's International Republican Institute, the US state department and USAid are the main agencies involved in these grassroots campaigns as well as the Freedom House NGO and billionaire George Soros's open society institute."
-Guardian, Nov. 25, 2004
Former Representative Dennis Kucinich brilliantly flipped the script on Bill O'Reilly, after the second coup perpetrated against Ukraine by the USA.
"What I'd do is not have USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy working with U.S. taxpayers' money to knock off an elected government in Ukraine, which is what they did. I wouldn't try to force the people of Ukraine into a deal with NATO against their interest or into a deal with the European Union, which is against their economic interest... You have to look at the United States behind the scenes efforts in Ukraine to understand what's going on - 65 programs by the National Endowment for Democracy--"
Closer to Vladimir Putin's home, Russia kicked out State Department and CIA front "USAID" in 2012. The charge was that the US government agency was interfering in Russia's election process and violating its sovereignty.
"We showed that no one can impose anything on us -- no one, nothing! We showed that our people can distinguish between the desire for renewal and political provocation that has but one goal: to destroy Russia's statehood and usurp power."
CrossCheck
Closer to our own homes we have the real theft of the 2016 presidential election going completely unreported, drowned out by the anti-Russian hysteria campaign. In a situation that is difficult to explain, Greg Palast has reported on the purging of millions of minority citizens from voter rolls in key swing states since August. Real election tampering happened in several key states and that easily cost Clinton crucial electors. How is it that a fake hacking story becomes the most widely covered news of the modern age, while the violation of voters' civil rights in monkey wrenching state elections received zero scrutiny?
Honestly, I'm at a loss to explain this mentally retarded strategy by the Democratic Party, but it has a precedent. In Florida 2000 the exact same voter purge led to the exact same result. And Greg Palast was there documenting and reporting on it, but we never heard a single sentence about that election theft from Al Gore, Bill Clinton or his Justice Department.
Noise-Based Politics
The Russian angle is not only dangerous, reckless, motivated by ulterior ambitions, and likely false. It drowns out the other news, like Donald Trump's cabinet of horrors. While the nation should have marshaled against this gaggle of billionaire psychopaths, instead we were drummed up into a fictitious Russians-Are-Coming panic.
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