Wednesday, December 13, 2017

The Washington Post Editorial Board — The West must prepare for a wounded Putin to become even more aggressive

The West also should not shrink from the destabilization of Mr. Putin’s regime.
Imagine if a paper of record in Russia had published an editorial like that about destabilizing the US "regime." Oh, right, the head of the US "regime" is Donald Trump, and the New York Times are trying to remove him, or failing that, neuter him.

The Washington Post — The Post's View
The West must prepare for a wounded Putin to become even more aggressiveEditorial

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Fred Hiatt is the editorial page editor of the Washington Post. He is a rabid neocon.
… in general, the Post responds to dangerous and complex problems with simplistic prescriptions. [Washington Post Editor Fred] Hiatt has created a foreign-policy fairy-tale land in which nasty authoritarian regimes can be magically transformed by American leadership into democratic ones. If only. And these illusions are by no means confined to the editorial page. Hiatt has hired a retinue of new columnists, including Jennifer Rubin, Robert Kagan, Michael Gerson and Marc Thiessen, who espouse a very hard line indeed. Last October, as Americans worried about the advances of the Islamic State and the spread of Ebola, Thiessen, a former Jesse Helms staffer and George W. Bush administration speechwriter, even conjured up a scenario of “Ebola terrorism” in which these “two threats converge into one.” He envisioned terrorists deliberately infecting themselves with Ebola and then traveling to the United States to use the virus as a bioweapon. It scarcely needs saying that this was a vision completely unmoored from reality.
There is no reason to think that any of this will change soon.
The National Interest (December 15, 2014)
The Washington Post: The Most Reckless Editorial Page in America
James Carden contributing editor at The National Interest served as an adviser to the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission at the State Department, Jacob Heilbrunn, editor of The National Interest

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An op-ed by the president of the right-wing human rights group Freedom House, published in the New York Times Monday (12/11/17)—later boosted by New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker—warned of the menace of “commentators, trolls, bots, false news sites and propaganda,” and their negative effects on democracy. Missing from its analysis was any account of how the government that funds their organization—86 percent of Freedom House’s budget comes from the US government, primarily the State Department and USAID—uses social media to stir unrest and undermine governments worldwide.
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NYT Prints Government-Funded Propaganda About Government-Funded Propaganda
Adam Johnson

2 comments:

Kaivey said...

'Alternative views have a negative effect on democracy.'

Pillock! That is democracy. If he believes in democracy he should be fighting for free speech.

Noah Way said...

Bezos (WaPo, AMZ) sits on a Pentagon Defense Advisory Board and reputedly has a $600m CIA contract.