{"id":55136,"date":"2020-09-23T07:17:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T12:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55136"},"modified":"2020-09-23T07:17:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T12:17:42","slug":"msm-promotes-yet-another-cia-press-release-as-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55136","title":{"rendered":"MSM Promotes Yet Another CIA Press Release As\u00a0News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2020\/09\/23\/msm-promotes-yet-another-cia-press-release-as-news\/\">MSM Promotes Yet Another CIA Press Release As\u00a0News<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"eltd-blog-single-share\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-holder eltd-dropdown\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-dropdown\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<article id=\"post-8893\" class=\"post-8893 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article category-news tag-cia tag-josh-rogin tag-media tag-propaganda tag-putin tag-russia tag-washington-post\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/medium-9.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/medium-9.jpg?w=1244&amp;ssl=1 1244w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/medium-9.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/medium-9.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/medium-9.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/medium-9.jpg?resize=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p><em>The Washington Post<\/em>, whose sole owner\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/jan\/31\/amazon-defense-cloud-computing-pentagon-jeff-bezos\">is a CIA contractor<\/a>, has published yet another anonymously sourced CIA press release disguised as a news report which just so happens to facilitate longstanding CIA foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>In an article titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/a0Xyb\">Secret CIA assessment: Putin \u2018probably directing\u2019 influence operation to denigrate Biden<\/a>\u201c, WaPo\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/militarist-monitor.org\/profile\/josh-rogin\/\">virulent neoconservative war pig<\/a>\u00a0Josh Rogin describes what was told to him by unnamed sources about the contents of a \u201csecret\u201d CIA document which alleges that Vladimir Putin is \u201cprobably\u201d overseeing an interference operation in America\u2019s presidential election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/act.rootsaction.org\/p\/dia\/action3\/common\/public\/?action_KEY=8979\">True to form<\/a>, at no point does WaPo follow standard journalistic protocol and disclose its blatant financial conflict of interest with the CIA when promoting an unproven CIA narrative which happens to serve the consent-manufacturing agendas of the CIA for its new cold war with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>And somehow in our crazy, propaganda-addled society, this is accepted as \u201cnews\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1308366421316038659&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2020%2F09%2F23%2Fmsm-promotes-yet-another-cia-press-release-as-news%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=219d021%3A1598982042171&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1308366421316038659\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The CIA has had a hard-on for the collapse of the Russian Federation\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/cia-angers-russia-by-predicting-break-up-of-state-within-10-years-58297.html\">for many years<\/a>, and preventing the rise of another multipolar world at all cost has been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130724114554\/http:\/\/www.newamericancentury.org\/def_natl_sec_pdf_01.pdf\">an open agenda<\/a>\u00a0of US imperialism since the fall of the Soviet Union. Indeed it is clear that the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2019\/11\/19\/25-times-trump-has-been-dangerously-hawkish-on-russia\/\">escalations we\u2019ve been watching unfold<\/a>\u00a0against Russia were in fact\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/dem-convention-made-no-mention-of-russiagate-or-impeachment-because-those-were-fake-things-737ff9bf676e\">planned well in advance<\/a>\u00a0of 2016, and it is only by propaganda narratives like this one that consent has been manufactured for a new cold war which imperils the life of every organism on this planet.<\/p>\n<p>There is no excuse for a prominent news outlet publishing a CIA press release disguised as news in facilitation of these CIA agendas. It is still more inexcusable to merely publish anonymous assertions about the contents of that CIA press release.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSM Promotes Yet Another CIA Press Release As\u00a0News The Washington Post, whose sole owner\u00a0is a CIA contractor, has published yet another anonymously sourced CIA press release disguised as a news report which just so happens to facilitate longstanding CIA foreign policy. In an article titled \u201cSecret CIA assessment: Putin \u2018probably directing\u2019 influence operation to denigrate [&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":[5,6],"tags":[17039,135,496,512,570,30355,694,1250,28835,25468,5228],"class_list":["post-55136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-cia","tag-mainstream-media","tag-media","tag-news","tag-news-release","tag-russia","tag-truth","tag-us-central-intelligence-agency","tag-us-presidential-elections","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55136","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=55136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55137,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55136\/revisions\/55137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}