{"id":36114,"date":"2018-07-21T08:23:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T13:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36114"},"modified":"2018-07-21T08:23:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T13:23:11","slug":"guardians-of-the-magnitsky-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36114","title":{"rendered":"Guardians of the Magnitsky Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2018\/07\/21\/guardians-of-the-magnitsky-myth-2\/\">Guardians of the Magnitsky Myth<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>FROM THE ARCHIVES:<\/strong>\u00a0In pursuit of Russia-gate, U.S. mainstream media embraces any attack on Russia and works to ensure Americans don\u2019t hear the other side of the story, as with the Magnitsky myth, reported Robert Parry on\u00a0Oct. 28, 2017.<span id=\"more-29119\"><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a class=\"image-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/robert-parry-306x264.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-28788\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/robert-parry-306x264-130x130.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"84\" height=\"84\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a>As Russia-gate becomes the go-to excuse to marginalize and suppress independent and dissident media in the United States, a warning of what the future holds is the blacklisting of a documentary that debunks the so-called Magnitsky case.<\/p>\n<p>The emerging outlines of the broader suppression are now apparent in moves by major technology companies \u2013 under intense political pressure \u2013 to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/10\/26\/russia-gate-breeds-establishment-mccarthyism\/\">unleash algorithms<\/a>\u00a0that will hunt down what major media outlets and mainstream \u201cfact-checkers\u201d (with their own checkered histories of getting facts wrong) deem to be \u201cfalse\u201d and then\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/10\/25\/nyts-assault-of-press-freedom\/\">stigmatize that information<\/a>\u00a0with pop-up \u201cwarnings\u201d or simply make finding it difficult for readers using major search engines.<\/p>\n<p>For those who believe in a meaningful democracy, those tactics may be troubling enough, but the Magnitsky case, an opening shot in the New Cold War with Russia, has demonstrated how aggressively the Western powers-that-be behave toward even well-reported investigative projects that unearth inconvenient truth.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the U.S. and Europe, there has been determined effort to prevent the American and European publics from seeing this detailed documentary that dissects the fraudulent claims at the heart of the Magnitsky story.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary \u2013 \u201cThe Magnitsky Act: Behind the Scenes\u201d \u2013 was produced by filmmaker Andrei Nekrasov, who is known as a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin but who in this instance found the West\u2019s widely accepted, anti-Russian Magnitsky storyline to be a lie.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardians of the Magnitsky Myth FROM THE ARCHIVES:\u00a0In pursuit of Russia-gate, U.S. mainstream media embraces any attack on Russia and works to ensure Americans don\u2019t hear the other side of the story, as with the Magnitsky myth, reported Robert Parry on\u00a0Oct. 28, 2017. 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