{"id":61296,"date":"2016-12-10T12:33:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T19:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=61296"},"modified":"2016-12-10T12:35:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T19:35:54","slug":"fake-news-nobody-does-it-better-than-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/12\/10\/fake-news-nobody-does-it-better-than-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake news? Nobody does it better than the West"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Bridge\u00a0Courtesy RT<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n
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Robert Bridge is an American writer and journalist based in Moscow, Russia. His articles have been featured in many publications, including Russia in Global Affairs, The Moscow Times, Lew Rockwell and Global Research. Bridge is the author of the book on corporate power, Midnight in the American Empire\u201d, which was released in 2013. email: robertvbridge@yahoo.com<\/div>\n
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The US establishment has a curious tendency of accusing outsiders of carrying out nefarious activities \u2013 cyber warfare, international spying and unwarranted aggression, for example \u2013 that in fact the US undertakes better than anybody else.<\/div>\n
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And so it is with the latest bit of Orwellian-speak being hurled at those who would dare contradict the Western narrative with what is being called – drum roll – fake news.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The Washington Post was recently forced to distance itself from an astonishingly sloppy\u00a0article<\/a> that cited research from a little-known group that calls itself PropOrNot. This outfit, the members of which prefer to remain anonymous, conducted the equivalent of a modern-day witch hunt against 200 websites that, in its opinion, echoed Russian propaganda.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Since much has already been written about that preposterous piece, not least of all by Glenn Greenwald<\/a> and Matt Taibbi<\/a>, for my own part I will go out on a limb and say we have not heard the end of fake news\u201d<\/em> allegations. Not by a long shot. That nagging suspicion was confirmed by an article<\/a> in ZeroHedge – one of the 200 heretical websites, incidentally, that were dragged over the coals in the Post piece.<\/p>\n

On November 30, one week after the Washington Post launched its witch hunt against “Russian propaganda fake news”, with 390 votes for, the House quietly passed “H.R. 6393, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017”<\/a>, sponsored by California Republican Devin Nunes (whose\u00a0third largest donor<\/a> in 2016 is Google parent Alphabet, Inc), a bill which deals with a number of intelligence-related issues, including Russian propaganda, or what the government calls propaganda, and hints at a potential crackdown on “offenders.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the really jaw-dropping part of the article: Curiously, the bill which was passed on November 30, was introduced on November 22, two days before the Washington Post published its Nov. 24 article citing “experts” who claim Russian propaganda helped Donald Trump get elected.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

How\u2019s that for coincidence?<\/p>\n

US Media’s ‘Madame Tussauds’<\/h2>\n

As should be expected, no other collection in the world houses more fabulous forgeries than the US Mainstream Media.<\/p>\n

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