strategic-culture | That
the relationship between Moscow and Washington should be regarded as
important given the capability of either country to incinerate the
planet would appear to be a given, but the Washington-New York
Establishment, which is euphemism for Deep State, is actually more
concerned with maintaining its own power by marginalizing Donald Trump
and maintaining the perception that Vladimir Putin is the enemy head of
state of a Russia that is out to cripple American democracy.
Beyond
twisting narratives, Russiagate is also producing potentially dangerous
collateral damage to free speech, as one of the objectives of those in
the Deep State is to rein in the current internet driven relatively free
access to information. In its most recent manifestations, an anonymous
group produced a phony list of 200 websites that were “guilty” of serving up Russian propaganda, a George Soros funded think tank identified
thousands of individuals who are alleged to be “useful idiots” for
Moscow, and legitimate Russian media outlets will be required to register as foreign agents.
Driven
by Russophobia over the 2016 election, a group of leading social media
corporations including Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter have been
experimenting with ways to self-censor their product to keep out foreign generated or “hate” content. They even have a label for it: "cyberhate". Congress
is also toying with legislation that will make certain viewpoints
unacceptable or even illegal, including a so-called Anti-Semitism Awareness Act that
would potentially penalize anyone who criticizes Israel and could serve
as a model for banning other undesirable speech. “Defamatory speech”
could even eventually include any criticism of the government or
political leaders, as is now the case in Turkey, which is the country
where the “Deep State” was invented.
