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Could the Russians Seize Congress?

Lawrence, Patrick
http://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/16/patrick-lawrence-could-the-russians-seize-congress/

Publisher:  Consortium News
Date Written:  16/04/2024
Year Published:  2024  
Resource Type:  Article

A look back at the Red Scare and how charges of "Russian interferance" are often used to deflate criticism now

Abstract:  As the November elections draw near, let us brace for another barrage of preposterous propaganda to the effect Russians are poisoning our minds with "disinformation," "false narratives," and all the other misnomers deployed when facts contradict liberal authoritarian orthodoxies.

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There is invariably an ulterior point when those in power try on tomfoolery of this kind. In each case they have something they need to explain away.

In 2016, it was Hillary Clinton's defeat at the polls, so we suffered four years of Russiagate. Pelosi felt called upon to discredit those objecting to the Israeli–U.S. genocide in Gaza.

Now we have a new ruse. Desperate to get Congress to authorize $60.1 billion in new aid to Ukraine, Capitol Hill warmongers charge that those objecting to this bad-money-after-bad allocation are… do I have to finish the sentence?
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