{"id":675463,"date":"2018-03-11T13:19:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T13:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/russian-narrative-being-used-to-silence-dissent-in-us-max-blumenthal\/"},"modified":"2018-03-11T13:19:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T13:19:37","slug":"russian-narrative-being-used-to-silence-dissent-in-us-max-blumenthal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/russian-narrative-being-used-to-silence-dissent-in-us-max-blumenthal\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Narrative Being Used To Silence Dissent In US \u2013 Max Blumenthal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><div>\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix\">\n<figure class=\"entry-thumbnail\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Max-Blumenthal-678x381.jpg\" alt=\"Russia collusion narrative being used to stifle dissent in US, claims Max Blumenthal\" title=\"Russia collusion narrative being used to stifle dissent in US, claims Max Blumenthal\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p><!-- wpsso ssb-content begin --><br \/>\n<!-- generated on 2018-03-11T00:09:10+00:00 --><br \/>\n<!-- .wpsso-ssb .wpsso-ssb-content --><br \/>\n<!-- wpsso ssb-content end --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wpsso schema image for pinterest pin it button --><\/p>\n<div class=\"wpsso-schema-image-for-pinterest\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Max-Blumenthal-696x464.jpg\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .wpsso-schema-image-for-pinterest --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Calls from US lawmakers to declare Al Jazeera <em>\u201canti-American\u201d<\/em> shows how the Russian narrative\u2019s real aim is to suppress political dissent, journalist Max Blumenthal has warned.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The hysteria about Russia\u2019s alleged ability to manipulate social media and influence the minds of millions of Americans serves as a <em>\u201cgeneral weapon of mass suppression\u201d<\/em> which\u00a0<em>\u201cenables a war on alternative media and narratives outside of the establishment, particularly on social media,\u201d<\/em> Blumenthal <a href=\"http:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/story:21276:Will-Russiagate-Help-the-Israel-Lobby-Censor-Al-Jazeera%3F\">told<\/a> the Real News Network.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/420904-blumenthal-russiagate-media-suppression\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rt.com<\/a> reports:\u00a0Asked about recent calls by members of Congress for Al Jazeera to register as a foreign agent for its\u00a0\u201canti-American\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201canti-Semitic\u201d\u00a0programming, Blumenthal pointed out that Russiagate has created a climate of politicized paranoia in which it is now acceptable to stigmatize and even silence voices that challenge the establishment line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was the whole point of Russiagate,\u201d\u00a0Blumenthal said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Marvelling at the mainstream media\u2019s near-unanimous praise for shady projects such as PropOrNot and Hamilton 68, Blumenthal said that 2017 saw the reintroduction of the blacklist, in which self-appointed Russian disinformation \u2018watchdogs\u2019 have already identified dozens of alternative media outlets as\u00a0\u201cKremlin disinformation vehicles\u201d\u00a0without providing evidence or even criteria for making such claims.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, Russiagate is about silencing inconvenient viewpoints \u2013 regardless of whether they have anything to do with Russia, Blumenthal argued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is an attempt at suppressing everything that\u2019s outside the establishment narrative,\u201d\u00a0Blumenthal said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are just the open platforms that the establishment, whether it\u2019s the Jeb Bush establishment or the Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama establishment, seek to destroy because it did so much damage to them in 2016, and they can\u2019t allow that to happen again,\u201d\u00a0he said, noting that RT and Al Jazeera are among the few large media organizations which allow him to speak critically about Israel and its treatment of the Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why they\u2019re putting pressure on Silicon Valley. That\u2019s why the blacklist has come back. And that\u2019s how Russiagate connects to Palestine because anyone in Palestine Solidarity depends on alternative media for oxygen,\u201d\u00a0Blumenthal added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: Senators &amp; members of Congress sending bipartisan letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions calling for an investigation into whether Al Jazeera should register as a foreign agent under FARA <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uwLKcbDGjj\">pic.twitter.com\/uwLKcbDGjj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anna Massoglia (@annalecta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/annalecta\/status\/971085979275681792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Wednesday, a group of congressmen\u00a0called for Al Jazeera\u00a0to be designated a\u00a0\u201cforeign agent\u201d\u00a0for its\u00a0\u201canti-American and anti-Semitic broadcasts.\u201d\u00a0The bipartisan letter, addressed to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, coincided with an announcement that the Qatar-funded broadcaster was releasing a film on Israeli lobbying in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Some 400 entities and individuals are currently registered as \u201cforeign agents\u201d under the 1938 Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Until recently, this list contained only a handful of foreign media outlets operating in the US. Threatened with asset freezes and arrests, a company servicing RT America was forced to register under the law in November.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<div class=\"abh_box abh_box_down abh_box_business\">\n<ul class=\"abh_tabs\">\n<li class=\"abh_about abh_active\"><a href=\"#abh_about\">About<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"abh_posts\"><a href=\"#abh_posts\">Latest Posts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"abh_tab_content\">\n<section class=\"vcard abh_about_tab abh_tab\">\n<div class=\"abh_image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yournewswire.com\/author\/cyrus\/\" class=\"url\" title=\"Sean Adl-Tabatabai\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sean Adl-Tabatabai\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1511651_10152594103870715_1942518842_o-68.jpg\" class=\"avatar 2x photo\" width=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"abh_posts_tab abh_tab\">\n<div class=\"abh_image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yournewswire.com\/author\/cyrus\/\" class=\"url\" title=\"Sean Adl-Tabatabai\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sean Adl-Tabatabai\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1511651_10152594103870715_1942518842_o-68.jpg\" class=\"avatar 2x photo\" width=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source Article from <a href=\"http:\/\/yournewswire.com\/russian-narrative-silence-dissent-max-blumenthal\/\">http:\/\/yournewswire.com\/russian-narrative-silence-dissent-max-blumenthal\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Views: 0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calls from US lawmakers to declare Al Jazeera \u201canti-American\u201d shows how the Russian narrative\u2019s real aim is to suppress political dissent, journalist Max Blumenthal has warned.\u00a0 The hysteria about Russia\u2019s alleged ability to manipulate social media and influence the minds of millions of Americans serves as a \u201cgeneral weapon of mass suppression\u201d which\u00a0\u201cenables a war [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":875,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1721],"tags":[54165,17609,27989,27335,14215,24860],"class_list":["post-675463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-news","tag-being","tag-blumenthal","tag-dissent","tag-narrative","tag-russian","tag-silence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/875"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}