The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Matt Taibbi about Russiagate and the most pernicious campaign of censorship since the red baiting of Joe McCarthy in the 1950s.

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The Chris Hedges Report Podcast


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The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Matt Taibbi about Russiagate and the most pernicious campaign of censorship since the red baiting of Joe McCarthy in the 1950s.

Matt Taibbi has published an investigation about a vast propaganda campaign called “Hamilton 68, launched a year after Donald Trump won the presidency, to smear critics of the Democratic Party, from the left and the right, as Russian assets. Hamilton 68 claimed it used complex data analysis and relied on so-called disinformation experts to ferret out information on social media that emanated from the Kremlin. Hamilton 68, a computerized “dashboard” designed to be used by reporters and academics to measure “Russian disinformation,” was run by Democratic operatives, including John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair, and figures from intelligence agencies such as the CIA, the FBI and Homeland Security, as well as neoconservatives and establishment Republicans, such as Bill Kristol, who do not support Trump and have been warmly embraced by the Democratic Party.

Contrary to what even well-intentioned liberals say (including Hedges and Taibbi), there was no "failure" of the press but a massive betrayal, to be expected, given the careerist and appallingly mediocre fiber of media personnel, and the antidemocratic, malignant control exercised by its owners, the billionaire class. "Failure" suggests honorable good intentions, even innocence, but such did not and does not exist in the higher echelons of the media.—Ed.

Mainstream news outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, PBS, NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, as well as Mother Jones – which ran 14 stories based on the group’s “research” – cited Hamilton 68 as an authoritative source, even as the site refused to disclose the data or methods it used to make its assessments.

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Chris Hedges is an award-winning correspondent, author and social critic.


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