© AFP 2017 / Saul Loeb
In George Orwell's classic dystopia
1984, the mutability of the past is a lethal weapon in the arsenal of tyranny: if history can be molded into whatever shape is required, all the better to serve the Party and Big Brother. Quite a feat, believable perhaps only as fiction, and yet this is surpassed by what our "liberals" have accomplished in real life: the abolition of history, at least in their own minds. As writer Yasha Levine shows
here, the editors of
Mother Jones - a magazine that has published the most "out there" "Russia-gate" tall tales - have completely forgotten their own history as the victim of Russia-hating anti-"subversive" government witch-hunters:
"[O]f all the liberal media, Mother Jones should be most ashamed for fueling the moral panic about Russian 'disinformation.' It wasn't too long ago that the Reagan Right attacked Mother Jones for spreading 'Kremlin disinformation' and subverting America. There were threats and leaks to the media about a possible Senate investigation into
Mother Jones serving as a Kremlin disinformation dupe, a threat that hung over the magazine throughout the early Reagan years. A new Senate Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism (SST for short) was set up in 1981 to investigate Kremlin 'disinformation' and 'active measures' in America, and the American 'dupes' who helped Moscow subvert our way of life. That subcommittee was created to harass and repress leftist anti-imperial dissent in America, using 'terrorism' as the main threat, and 'disinformation' as terrorism's fellow traveler. The way the SST committee put it, 'terrorism' and 'Kremlin disinformation' were one and the same, a meta-conspiracy run out of Moscow to weaken America.
"And
Mother Jones was one of the first American media outlets in the SST committee's sights."
As Levine points out, Adam Hochschild, the founder of
Mother Jones, "responded publicly to the threats coming out of the Senate" by
pointing out that the accusations were short on facts, but long on the implication that anyone who criticizes our military buildup or US foreign policy was a Kremlin agent. The same thing is happening today - with the difference being that Mother Jones is now in the role of accuser.
Comment: The reason for the similarity between ISIS and nazism is that they are both pathocratic, totalitarian systems. The ideology - whether Islamist or fascist - is just window dressing.