© Wikimedia“The Gate of Hell” by Gustave Doré for Dante’s “Inferno.”
"Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate. (Abandon all hope ye who enter here.)"
—Dante, "The Divine Comedy," Inferno (Part 1), Canto 3, Line 9
Before the Tomahawk missiles start flying between Moscow and New York, Americans had better educate themselves fast about the forces and the people who claim that
Russia covered up a Syrian government gas attack on Syrians. Proof no longer seems to matter in the rush to further transform the world into Dante's vision of Hell.
Accusations made by anonymous sources, spurious sources and outright frauds have become enough. Washington's paranoia and confusion bear an uncanny resemblance to the final days of the Third Reich, when the leadership in Berlin became completely unglued.Tensions have been building since fall with accusations that
Russian media interfered with our presidential election and is a growing threat to America's national security. The
latest WikiLeaks release revealed the tools the CIA uses for hacking. One theory is that the CIA's own contract hackers were behind Hillary Clinton's email leaks and not Russians. The U.S. has a long reputation of
accusing others of things they didn't do and planting fake news stories to back it up in order to provide a cause for war. The work of secret counterintelligence services is to misinform the public in order to shape opinion, and that's what this is.
The current U.S. government campaign to slander Russia over anything and everything it does bears all the earmarks of a classic disinformation campaign, but this time is even crazier. Considering that Washington has put Russia, China and Iran on its anti-globalist hit list from which no one is allowed to escape, drummed-up charges against them shouldn't come as a surprise. But accusing the Russians of undermining American democracy and interfering in an election is tantamount to an
act of war, and that simply is not going to wash.
Comment: The reporter says he was just doing his job. The Secret Service was just doing theirs.