{"id":32162,"date":"2018-03-10T08:46:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T13:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32162"},"modified":"2018-03-10T08:46:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T13:46:46","slug":"the-rise-of-the-new-mccarthyism-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32162","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of the New McCarthyism"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2018\/03\/09\/the-rise-of-the-new-mccarthyism-2\/\">The Rise of the New McCarthyism<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>From the Archive:<\/strong>\u00a0On March 9, 1954, Senate Republicans criticized Joe McCarthy\u2019s overreaches and took action to limit his power, marking the end of McCarthyism. On the anniversary of that event, we republish an article on the New McCarthyism by Robert Parry.<span id=\"more-26208\"><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Make no mistake about it: the United States has entered an era of a New McCarthyism that blames nearly every political problem on Russia and has begun targeting American citizens who don\u2019t go along with this New Cold War propaganda.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6559\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a class=\"image-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/josephmccarthy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6559\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/josephmccarthy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"299\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wisconsin, who led the \u201cRed Scare\u201d hearings of the 1950s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A difference, however, from the McCarthyism of the 1950s is that this New McCarthyism has enlisted Democrats, liberals and even progressives in the cause because of their disgust with President Trump; the 1950s version was driven by Republicans and the Right with much of the Left on the receiving end, maligned by the likes of Sen. Joe McCarthy as \u201cun-American\u201d and as Communism\u2019s \u201cfellow travelers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The real winners in this New McCarthyism appear to be the neoconservatives who have leveraged the Democratic\/liberal hatred of Trump to draw much of the Left into the political hysteria that sees the controversy over alleged Russian political \u201cmeddling\u201d as an opportunity to \u201cget Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Already, the neocons and their allies have exploited the anti-Russian frenzy to extract tens of millions of dollars more from the taxpayers for programs to \u201ccombat Russian propaganda,\u201d i.e., funding of non-governmental organizations and \u201cscholars\u201d who target dissident Americans for challenging the justifications for this New Cold War.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post, which for years has served as the flagship for neocon propaganda, is again charting the new course for America, much as it did in rallying U.S. public backing for the 2003 invasion of Iraq and in building sympathy for abortive \u201cregime change\u201d projects aimed at Syria and Iran. The Post has begun blaming almost every unpleasant development in the world on Russia! Russia! Russia!<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rise of the New McCarthyism From the Archive:\u00a0On March 9, 1954, Senate Republicans criticized Joe McCarthy\u2019s overreaches and took action to limit his power, marking the end of McCarthyism. On the anniversary of that event, we republish an article on the New McCarthyism by Robert Parry. Make no mistake about it: the United States [&hellip;]<\/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],"tags":[149,6963,16168,561,7971,7203,694,827],"class_list":["post-32162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-cold-war","tag-consortium-news","tag-joe-mccarthy","tag-neocons","tag-new-mccarthyism","tag-robert-parry","tag-russia","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32162","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=32162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32163,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32162\/revisions\/32163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}