{"id":24430,"date":"2017-08-03T22:34:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T02:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24430"},"modified":"2017-08-03T22:34:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T02:34:37","slug":"a-blacklisted-film-and-the-new-cold-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/08\/03\/a-blacklisted-film-and-the-new-cold-war\/","title":{"rendered":"A Blacklisted Film and the New Cold War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Consortium News<\/em> has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/08\/02\/a-blacklisted-film-and-the-new-cold-war\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Blacklisted Film and the New Cold War<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSpecial Report: As Congress still swoons over the anti-Kremlin Magnitsky narrative, Western political and media leaders refuse to let their people view a documentary that debunks the fable, reports Robert Parry.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This seems like spy craft right out of the original cold war. It doesn&#8217;t matter if you believe either side is lying as long as you don&#8217;t believe either side is telling the truth. You also have to believe that your pure mind is being protected for you by prohibitions of seeing a film that your protectors claim is a lie. What&#8217;s the point of letting you decide for yourself. It&#8217;s not like your right to know is protected by the First Amendment to our Constitution or anything.<\/p>\n<p>The more they try to suppress it, the more likely I am to think they are trying to hide something. The more they call out Russian propaganda, the more likely I am to be suspicious of corporate media propaganda sponsored by our government.<\/p>\n<p>Chances are we will never know the truth, but I refuse to be led into war by deception again.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps through a groundswell of demand on social media we can insist that our representatives free us up to view this documentary.  Do we need a special prosecutor to look into our corrupt Congress?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consortium News has the article A Blacklisted Film and the New Cold War. Special Report: As Congress still swoons over the anti-Kremlin Magnitsky narrative, Western political and media leaders refuse to let their people view a documentary that debunks the fable, reports Robert Parry. This seems like spy craft right out of the original cold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24431,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24430\/revisions\/24431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}