The operation appears to have been carefully planned and was ready for a rollout after Hillary's inauguration considering that the legislation calling for the creation of the Orwellian Ministry of Truth was drafted earlier this year and according to some reports was influenced by the input of private black ops professionals. The warmongering globalist think tank The Atlantic Council was singing the praises of the coming crackdown back in March.
Well things didn't go as planned but Mrs. Clinton's implosion didn't stop the project which is going to make damned sure that the alternative media is destroyed so as to not be so rudely embarrassed again. The point is that this was all in the making for quite some time and now that bizarre pivot to attacking the so-called "alt-right" by Hillary back in August makes perfect sense. Hell, it's always easy to get everyone onboard with demonizing and stamping out speech that is unpopular, racist or otherwise inflammatory but it will always only be the proverbial camel's nose under the tent to the fascists.
The left-leaning Black Agenda Report was one of the websites selected by the murky PropOrNot and in a post by Glen Ford concurs that the "fake news" operation is a part of the bigger picture of smashing dissent.
In his epic condemnation of the WAPO and the fascist PropOrNot entitled "Fascism with a Democratic Party Face", Mr. Ford writes:
If anyone thought that BAR was being shrill when we said that a late-stage capitalist variety of fascism was brewing in Hillary Clinton's Big Tent, the "fake news" offensive proves our point. On the heels of President Obama's outburst on his farewell tour of Germany, where he twice whined about the dangers of well-packaged "misinformation" on the internet, the Democrat-friendly Washington Post conveyed legitimacy to the propagators of a list of 200 web sites designated as "Russian propaganda outlets and sympathizers" -- including Black Agenda Report, the only Black outlet to make the cut.
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The amateurs at PropOrNot are even cruder. The sites on its list were put there for "behavioral" reasons, says their anonymous Fuhrer. Thus,
"in an important sense it does not matter whether they are being knowingly directed and paid by Russian intelligence officers (although some of them undoubtably are), or whether they even knew they were echoing Russian propaganda before being called out: If they continue to do so, for whatever reasons, their willingness to uncritically echo Russian propaganda makes them a tool of the Russian state. The term 'useful idiot' often applies, and calling them out is justified, appropriate, and valuable."
The object, however, is not just to "call out" the listed sites, but to prosecute and suppress them, since they may "have violated the Espionage Act, the Foreign Agent Registration Act, and other related laws."
Had Clinton won the election, she would have begun a campaign of repression against the Left along the same national security lines as the Washington Post article, with that paper probably leading the propaganda charge.
The targeted sites are finally fighting back but despite a blistering piece by Pulitzer Prize winner Glenn Greenwald, the Washington Post isn't clarifying or retracting their disgraceful piece. This could be a sign that the entire story was planted by the intelligence community who probably even arranged the interview with the anonymous head of PropOrNot who despite the unwillingness of revealing the methodology of his list is given the protection normally afforded to anonymous leakers with agendas.
Hell, it's not as if the CIA hasn't already been exposed for planting stories in the press and keeping reporters on the payroll. Former Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein reported on this in his blockbuster 1976 expose "The CIA and the Media" and Operation Mockingbird is a documented historical fact. Only God knows how commonplace that this has become in the post 9/11 world of the surveillance state Gomorrah. The WAPO will never retract or apologize quite simply because they are a part of the game and always have been.
The real reason why a new American secret Gestapo with all of their surveillance state toys will be going after these voices is that they are opposed to the neocon/neoliberal agenda which is under an unprecedented assault as the western world rebels against the post-WW II globalist order. No "news" organization has provided a louder voice for war and even a regime change in Moscow that Pravda on the Potomac.
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