{"id":19559,"date":"2016-04-05T12:15:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T17:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19559"},"modified":"2016-04-05T12:15:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T17:15:46","slug":"corruption-as-a-propaganda-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19559","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Corruption\u2019 as a Propaganda Weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2018Corruption\u2019 as a Propaganda Weapon<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Exclusive:<\/strong>\u00a0Mainstream U.S. journalism and propaganda are getting hard to tell apart, as with the flurry of \u201ccorruption\u201d\u00a0stories aimed at Russia\u2019s Putin and other demonized foreign leaders, writes Robert Parry.<\/p>\n

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Sadly, some important duties of journalism, such as applying evenhanded standards on\u00a0human rights abuses and financial corruption, have been so corrupted by the demands of government propaganda \u2013 and the careerism of too many writers \u2013 that I now become suspicious whenever the mainstream media trumpets some sensational story aimed at some \u201cdesignated villain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Far too often, this sort of \u201cjournalism\u201d is just a forerunner to the next \u201cregime change\u201d scheme, dirtying up or delegitimizing a foreign leader before the inevitable advent of a \u201ccolor revolution\u201d organized by \u201cdemocracy-promoting\u201d NGOs often with money\u00a0from the U.S. government\u2019s National Endowment for Democracy or some neoliberal financier like George Soros.<\/p>\n

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Russian President Vladimir Putin delivering a speech on the Ukraine crisis in Moscow on March 18, 2014. (Russian government photo)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

We are now seeing what looks like a new preparatory phase for the next round of \u201cregime changes\u201d with corruption allegations aimed at former Brazilian President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The new anti-Putin allegations \u2013 ballyhooed by the UK Guardian and other outlets \u2013 are particularly noteworthy because the so-called \u201cPanama Papers\u201d that supposedly implicate him in offshore financial dealings never mention his name.<\/p>\n

Or as the Guardian\u00a0writes<\/u><\/a>:\u00a0\u201c<\/strong>Though the president\u2019s name does not appear in any of the records, the data reveals a pattern \u2013 his friends have earned millions from deals that seemingly could not have been secured without his patronage. The documents suggest Putin\u2019s family has benefited from this money \u2013 his friends\u2019 fortunes appear his to spend.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2018Corruption\u2019 as a Propaganda Weapon Exclusive:\u00a0Mainstream U.S. journalism and propaganda are getting hard to tell apart, as with the flurry of \u201ccorruption\u201d\u00a0stories aimed at Russia\u2019s Putin and other demonized foreign leaders, writes Robert Parry. Sadly, some important duties of journalism, such as applying evenhanded standards on\u00a0human rights abuses and financial corruption, have been so corrupted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[1769,357,3771,496,13259,655,660,7203,694,827],"class_list":["post-19559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-corruption","tag-george-soros","tag-guardian","tag-mainstream-media","tag-panama-papers","tag-propaganda","tag-putin","tag-robert-parry","tag-russia","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19561,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19559\/revisions\/19561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}