JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: A STORY OF THE LENGTHS TO WHICH AMERICA’S ESTABLISHMENT – HERE THE FBI AND THE NEW YORK TIMES – WILL GO TO ATTACK A SMALL INTERNET SITE FOR THE POLITICAL NATURE OF ITS CONTENT RATHER THAN ANY QUESTION OF ITS ACCURACY – THE NEVER-ENDING SAGA OF AMERICAN RUSSO-PHOBIA – DECLINING EMPIRES ARE DANGEROUS BEASTS

John Chuckman


COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY JOE LAURIA IN CONSORTIUM NEWS


“RUSSIAGATE: NYT, FB & FBI Say Anti-Trump Site, Now Shutdown, Was Russian Effort to Help Trump Win”

“Misgivings about who ran this site can co-exist with legitimate alarm about the combined attacks by the FBI, the Times and other corporate media on the political nature — and not the accuracy — of its published content”

https://consortiumnews.com/2020/09/04/russiagate-nyt-fb-fbi-say-anti-trump-site-now-shutdown-was-russian-effort-to-help-trump-win/


An excellent piece of reporting giving the reader a good sense of perspective in this matter.

It is frightening to learn the lengths to which American officials and the New York Times go to attack a small site guilty only of saying critical and fair-minded things about American politics.

America is truly entering a new period of witch hunts.

Well, that whole establishment lies about everything from Syria and Iraq to Venezuela and China, so why not a little site too?

Are we reaching a time when saying something true is a crime in America?

The FBI is starting to sound like the Catholic Church hierarchy at the time of Martin Luther.

This just adds to a truly ominous sense about the country and where it is going.

Declining empires are dangerous beasts.