The accusation is that Russian media outlets such as RT (Russia Today) and Sputnik, among others, are deliberately publishing news stories that aren’t true, and that incite hatred, violence and disorder.
This costs the US support and waters down pro-US propaganda, which negatively affects the implementation of US policies.
The US congress and the failed sad-sack EU have recently passed resolutions to ‘counter Russian propaganda.’ This includes banning Russian media organizations, censoring their content, and making it as difficult as possible for their journalists to function.
But when we look at all the evidence, it is clear that the US is the world’s greatest, number one, undisputed purveyor of ‘fake news.’
Let’s go over some of this evidence.
Radio Free Europe has been spreading CIA propaganda for decades in Europe; scaring the western populations with stories of secret Soviet invasion plans, imminent attacks, and all sorts of horrible scenarios.
But it turned out that it was the US and their allies who were entertaining thoughts of nuking E. Europe. None other than Winston Churchill came up with a plan to unite the British, US, German and other European countries for a mass invasion of the Soviet Union, and possible use of nuclear weapons. The plan was code-named Operation Unthinkable, but never took off because it was seen as too risky.
For decades, European journalists and newspapers were fed CIA and US government-written propaganda articles which were then published under local journalists’ names. A German journalists, Udo Ulfkotte, exposed this not too long ago. He was one of those journalists who took part in misleading the public.
In 1990, after Iraq invaded Kuwait, the US regime was mulling whether to get militarily involved or not. Congress had doubts about whether the US should commit troops and equipment to fight Iraq. But out of nowhere, came out a Kuwaiti girl with a sob-story that really tore at the congressmens’ heartstrings. She testified in front of the US Congress how she worked in a Kuwaiti hospital, and after the Iraqis invaded they came into the hospital and threw out new-born babies out of incubators on the floor, and took the incubators back to Iraq.
This testimony swayed the few remaining hold-outs, and they voted to authorize the invasion of Iraq.
But this sob-story was fake. The girl herself never worked in a hospital, and she was in fact the daughter of a Kuwaiti government official. The whole scenario was made-up, yet it was published and given airtime.
How about the Iraqi WMD accusations during the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003? The world was told by the US government and their media bull-horns terrifying tales of Saddam Hussein’s secret chemical, biological and nuclear laboratories; how they were secretly churning out WMDs that would be launched at any time.
The war criminal PM of the UK, Tony Blair, at the time went even further and stated that Saddam Hussein has unmanned drones that can attack the UK with WMDs in 45 minutes.
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The US media blindly pushed all of these lies. No dissent was allowed. Those who dared to question these allegations were called unpatriotic and seen as suspect.
But all these journalists, and the people who fed this nonsense to them, knew that these accusations and scary Iraq WMD stories were fake. There was no credible evidence to verify any of it. Yet they willingly peddled them.
These fake stories written by creatures like Judith Miller, were responsible for an illegal war of aggression which cost millions of Iraqis to be either killed or displaced, and ruined their country for who knows how much longer.
But these same journalists who wrote these lies still have their jobs. They weren’t fired, or disciplined in any way. They’re still at it, this time churning out scary garbage against Syria, Iran and Russia; again without evidence.
Remember the fake stories about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, complete with pictures of Russian servicemen which were later exposed as fakes?
Remember the pictures of the same wounded Syrian kids who showed up at different times and places?
Remember the accusations against Syrian government for using chemical weapons, without evidence? Or when rebel use of chemical weapons and gas canisters was automatically blamed on the Syrian army, even when it was the Syrian army that was the victim?
More recently, the US media has been pushing ridiculous stories about supposed Russian interference in the 2016 US elections.
Russia was accused of hacking the DNC servers, trying to rig voting machines in favor of Trump, and for publishing news stories sympathetic to Trump and unfriendly to Billary. All this is backed up by no credible evidence, like always.
The US better be careful about accusing other countries of ‘rigging’ elections, because the US has been one of the worst offenders in this respect.
The US has regularly interfered in other countries’ elections for decades. It does so by indirectly financing and aiding pro-US candidates, by serving as campaign advisors, by creating ‘civil society’ groups which are trained and ordered by US NGOs to agitate and protest against any candidate that the US doesn’t like. Such US efforts to undermine other countries have in the last decade or so led to violent ‘color revolutions,’ like in the Ukraine. The instances of such occurrences are many throughout the world.
The US also needs to be careful about accusing Russia of publishing fake news, because as was stated earlier, the US is the pre-eminent disseminator of fake news worldwide. Do they want Putin banning US media operating in Russia for the same reasons?
These US organizations also plant ‘fake news’ stories in newspapers to discredit any politician that the US regime doesn’t like for whatever reason.
So the US better be careful that Putin, or leaders of some other countries don’t start investigating US interference in their elections, because the US will end up with a lot of egg on its face.
At the Nuremberg war crimes trials after WW2, those German officials who were found responsible for publishing fake news and incitement to violence which led to death and destruction of other countries and peoples’ were punished.
But somehow US peddlers of lies that lead to violence and death are exonerated. This just shows what a low standard US journalism has fallen to in recent years.
But somehow Billary’s illegal and criminal acts, from Benghazi to the DNC’s deliberate, illegal and unethical undermining of the Bernie Sanders campaign in favor of Bilalry get no airtime, and are condemned by the media as ‘conspiracy theories,’ even when the evidence is overwhelming.
When the MSM is not spreading ‘fake news,’ it is involved in shooting the messenger. Any individual or organization that actually uncovers unpleasant facts about the US MSM’s elitist darlings is smeared by the MSM. Look at the treatment given to Edward Snowden and Julian Assange of Wikileaks.
Facts are indeed dangerous things for the MSM journalists to touch. Their careers would evaporate should they dare to tell people the truth, and they know it.
But since they are lame, pathetic cowards with no integrity, they won’t ever do so.
These MSM hacks use the media platform to incite hatred and violence toward others on behalf of the US regime. Then they dare accuse Russia of doing the same, and call for Russian media outlets to be controlled or shut-down. So much for the freedom of speech in the US!
The reality is, that all these stories about Russia trying to publish ‘fake news’ to undermine the US, and all the efforts to ‘counter Russian propaganda,’ is just a desperate attempt at psyops, and a veiled attempt to censor any media critical of US propaganda.
News channels like RT, Sputnik and others are simply exposing the ugly side of US policies, and dare to give voice to the critics and victims of these policies. There is nothing ‘fake’ about this.
The US regime is simply furious that their lies are being successfully countered by factual accounts by news channels like RT.
Billary’s election loss, Trump’s efforts at rapproachment with Russia, and his plans to end regime change operations has the neo-cons and their pals in convulsions. This ‘fake news’ controversy is just cheap PR, a desperate grasping at straws by the scummy, entrenched interests in the US establishment who hate anything and anyone who deviates from what they want.
This Russian ‘airing out’ of the US government’s dirty laundry is undermining US propaganda efforts, and that sets US policy back quite a lot.
I regularly go on RT, Sputnik and other sites, and I can attest that they are professional news sites. And when it comes to the accusation that the Russian media deliberately published stories that were pro-Trump and anti-Billary to affect the election results, well, that is just not true. Both news sites during the election were neutral. They published articles that were critical of both candidates. I just didn’t see either one take a certain side.
I’ve read articles on there that were quite hostile to Trump, and even predicted that he’s done for.
It seems like the evidence for the supposed pro-Trump bias in the Russia media works like this: these US hacks and liars are cherry-picking a positive story about Trump published one day, but ignore a negative story about Trump a few days later.
So the only people who think these sites were biased in favor of Trump are those who obviously never visited them.
All the attempts of the US government and media to accuse other countries of publishing ‘fake news’ will go nowhere.
The US regime can longer say and do what it wants. The world is watching, and drawing appropriate conclusions.
SYRIA UPDATE
The US, EU and UN wailed and cried about the 'poor, trapped civilians in E. Aleppo,' and how they desperately wanted to help them. Now that those civilians are free from the rebels’ control, the three stooges don't care about the civilians anymore. They're no longer talking about helping them in any way. All that the US and their disgusting allies care about is saving the rebel creatures-and this was their only concern all along. All else was just a lie, and we can see it now.
Five years of the greasiest western propaganda and fake news about Syria have been obliterated in the last two weeks in Aleppo. That's why US and their pals are getting desperate and trying to come up with any way, no matter how pathetic and ridiculous, to smear Russia. But it's not going to work. These Syrian civilians’ stories are exposing the rebels and their western backers as criminals. The neo-cons and their media hacks must be having a nervous breakdown.
Fortunately, Aleppo has been liberated after four years of being under the control of violent, western-sponsored militants.
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