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McCarthyism Inc: Introducing the Counter-Terror ‘Experts’ Hyping Russian Threats and Undermining Our Civil Liberties | Alternet

Posted by M. C. on November 15, 2017

https://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/terror-cranks-sold-america-russia-panic

The New York Times cited a new organization called the Alliance for Securing Democracy as the source of the allegations about the NFL protests.

However, an investigation by AlterNet’s Grayzone Project  has yielded a series of disturbing findings at odds with the established depiction. The researchers behind the ASD’s “dashboard” are no Russia experts, but rather a collection of cranks, counterterror retreads, online harassers and paranoiacs operating with support from some of the most prominent figures operating within the American national security apparatus. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Slimy Business of Russia-gate – Consortiumnews

Posted by M. C. on October 2, 2017

So, let’s stop and unpack this Times’ reporting. First, this Alliance for Securing Democracy is not some neutral truth-seeking organization but a neoconservative-dominated outfit that includes on its advisory board such neocon luminaries as Mike Chertoff, Bill Kristol and former Freedom House president David Kramer along with other anti-Russia hardliners such as former deputy CIA director Michael Morell and former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers. How many of these guys, do you think, were assuring us that Iraq was hiding WMDs back in 2003?

https://consortiumnews.com/2017/09/28/the-slimy-business-of-russia-gate/
The “Field of Dreams” slogan for America’s NGOs should be: “If you pay for it, we will come.” And right now, tens of millions of dollars are flowing to non-governmental organizations if they will buttress the thesis of Russian “meddling” in the U.S. democratic process no matter how sloppy the “research” or how absurd the “findings.”

And, if you think the pillars of the U.S. mainstream media – The Washington Post, The New York Times, CNN and others – will apply some quality controls, you haven’t been paying attention for the past year or so. The MSM is just as unethical as the NGOs are. Read the rest of this entry »

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