Author: Eric Garris

SIGN THE PETITION

To: Martin Baron, Executive Editor, The Washington Post

Smearing is not reporting. The Washington Post’s recent descent into McCarthyism – promoting anonymous and shoddy claims that a vast range of some 200 websites are all accomplices or tools of the Russian government – violates basic journalistic standards and does real harm to democratic discourse in our country. We urge The Washington Post to prominently retract the article and apologize for publishing it.

Background:

• The Intercept: Washington Post Disgracefully Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist From a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group
• Consortium News:Washington Post’s “Fake News” Guilt
• Common Dreams: Journalists Denounce WaPo Fake News as Red Scare Redux
• Fortune: No, Russian Agents Are Not Behind Every Piece of Fake News You See
• Rolling Stone: The Washington Post “Blacklist” Story Is Shameful and Disgusting

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From the TAC website:

On November 15, 2016, The American Conservative gathered leading scholars, journalists, and policy experts to discuss the future of U.S. foreign policy in the wake of the 2016 election. Former U.S. Senator and Secretary of the Navy Jim Webb delivered a keynote address at the conference, “Foreign Policy in America’s Interest: Realism, Nationalism, and the Next President”, held at George Washington University in downtown Washington, DC. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), a Congressional critic of unauthorized military interventions, also made remarks, while other political analysts and foreign-policy experts discussed what type of mandate Donald Trump will have as he takes office and how the new administration should handle relations with Russia. A final discussion with prominent historians and scholars reflected on what 2016 means for the country’s longstanding commitment to intervention and globalism.

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Trump’s CIA Chief pick Rep. Mike Pompeo on the Syria crisis on Fox News in 2013. Pompeo called himself a “libertarian conservative” and said that is why he supports Congress authorizing an attack on Assad.

Antiwar.com contributing editor Lucy Steigerwald joined Adam Camac to talk about her article, The Religious Fervor of the Pledge of Allegiance and the National Anthem.

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Antiwar.com contributing editor Lucy Steigerwald spoke at Liberty Fest in New York last weekend on The Horrors of War.

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