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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Russia Gate Hoax - Evidence # 4 - Political Motivation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>“Still, the claims about Russia are unique in their wide proliferation, broad acceptance, and status as something to be constantly referred to as though already established, constantly augmented by other Russia-related stories that add nothing to the central claim. This phenomenon, in my view, is as dangerous as any lies and fabrications coming out of the racist right. “<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Believing the Russian ‘Hacking’ Claim<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>May 26, 2017 • <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2017/05/26/believing-the-russian-hacking-claim/#comments"><span style='color:blue'>146 Comments</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Save<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Government lies are common when seducing a population to support a war, but the Russian “hacking” claims are unusual in that U.S. officials supply no evidence while the “fact” is just assumed, as David Swanson explains.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>By David Swanson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>When the U.S. public was told that Spain had blown up the <i>Maine, </i>or Vietnam had returned fire, or Iraq had stockpiled weapons, or Libya was planning a massacre, the claims were straightforward and disprovable.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><a href="https://consortiumnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/dcia-brennan.jpg"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=300 height=198 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D49B69.3C593E60" alt="https://consortiumnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/dcia-brennan-300x198.jpg"></span></a><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>CIA Director John Brennan addresses officials at the Agency’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia. (Photo credit: CIA)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Before people began referring to the Gulf of Tonkin incident, somebody had to lie that it had happened, and there had to be an understanding of what had supposedly happened. No investigation into whether anything had happened could have taken as its starting point the certainty that a Vietnamese attack or attacks had happened. And no investigation into whether a Vietnamese attack had happened could have focused its efforts on unrelated matters, such as whether anyone in Vietnam had ever done business with any relatives or colleagues of Robert McNamara.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>All of this is otherwise with the idea that the Russian government determined the outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. U.S. corporate media reports often claim that Russia did decide the election or tried to do that or wanted to try to do that. But they also often admit to not knowing whether any such thing is the case.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>There is no established account, with or without evidence to support it, of exactly what Russia supposedly did. And yet there are countless articles casually referring, as if to established fact to the . . .<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>“Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election” (<a href="http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5gA/ni0YAA/t.27m/KwKVfEeQSWGB70iyVtl1jw/h1/yb3msEgNtgQnSaRUAKyx8l-2BG5jREOUBCn8i3xMAK-2FdmD5HN5KuZ1TeF7yeuVSqypqRA5kIOOgQnnpWXyiWGToI-2BC-2BNFY8c45T8TczaUrBqXPZCS3D8kEQLlL7Vqv72kUleg52r0vO1sKIaU9Vn6lPE7c6cPdGTIAc-2FVoeWmgFtXlDD-2F1LWnBR-2F5jG5VNEicmM-2BIY5J9ZoSEDk2GfXQxHOZ1-2FlchRtbCTSHwq5XIa1kEukT98-2FkKaleGhXolHgFDPcgdXwWTZ7fcA-2FGLuhCwZeTiv7Pw7MIEtgKcs6-2B4xfMZRE-2F-2B1iTaE6FrYTqWV7IdDyJKyyJx5nNQ0IRm4cbaVIUHH3R9Re-2B2OcmyqSFIW7OA-3D"><span style='color:blue'>Yahoo</span></a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>“Russian attempts to disrupt the election” (<a href="http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5gA/ni0YAA/t.27m/KwKVfEeQSWGB70iyVtl1jw/h2/wspANFbyofaCTRUcC3Fm5zrk-2BLpR-2BUYwiH1EUmM2ed2ETHkfqQAprsLaGKJJrbrW0fSFW2z1aVantSL89QaHB4a7JuEry6emTUtJEXUIB49gntAu7R6Qm3ZJKkCja3qlIdiZUfo6b5Ad-2Bokld3rk-2BxgXfPkTRhHPN3bSSFHcBQqj7T9a97Q0I8PDTqE3lnTrZC-2FOhgNT-2FlmuRBME4cr62LNFF1qvVxbGe8PVCt2qIk7ge-2Bgm8eFjxEkZJT7czkUKmg2Tsu3O1IB1I4Bwfowb48LiHAt8Hx56zF1NgjPa4HMsaiXlnlvLcdispGPvJ6iX6s3q1toKeaBwaRHeQzn-2FEhZhvsp-2FXj1Tllxn-2FqSC-2FRk-3D"><i><span style='color:blue'>New York Times</span></i></a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>“Russian … interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election” (<a href="http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5gA/ni0YAA/t.27m/KwKVfEeQSWGB70iyVtl1jw/h3/Fs-2F781YsFUl9vnmKXxyXHSMvNpvi4bP-2FE-2BO2iVcRJULM7UMFslPMArLtz5oz-2Brl4o8NxroQ46VjoMNQpsQ9jGhTlgTAP2jZcYkADq7I51ObZNtK-2BXy3sb-2BEDqnn8rJtcoYEKovCbx8UScy4dDLvzSPK6aE4y5d-2BaeFHul7ApDdy4vno5nWDpmecuXZqj98sZKDHE3H1IaP-2FZVt-2BOcLRUidQeiVR1qAYoZou5YlZHz2GJPAXcdxFDOhvJZ-2FTlrdrkxsBs6wjZ10OtwG8WP357ccJwKmVkeDtRRcvcQdgrG6FWrVsR2H5-2F8qCTCNsMACeRANJEHH-2FuiXTDSy8AsNcjzxsZla9DY1v1apf3ta0QENBGpOYyj07q1t2bFYjmQ5R9QS8LyDN14AyX6u9Va-2BbNbw-3D-3D"><span style='color:blue'>ABC</span></a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>“Russian influence over the 2016 presidential election” (<a href="http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5gA/ni0YAA/t.27m/KwKVfEeQSWGB70iyVtl1jw/h4/3iaThca61p2tcSwqPS1jRnWE4lMsOHiG8lGvBrsDBAKjdXf66enKP2bS693upYxepPAGPYpqz4z5uWX2hFsWXFpSTSBIntmfFP1tXOJN9MN-2BC7gBnJeZpxoO52OIhsa-2BxCTXwVc5Hi7vFpri6659C-2F5DVkn2hihqKwrgt5Zs578-2FGIQ-2BerIBfPDH-2Bunzfh93-2BH4Z-2Bmds-2F95tBH6Y9Za2n5w1GnKxlO3OMrkdhJE-2FZXNh-2BFlaYbUqYV0zIQVKHdpp7T8dJ1Q7AJa37EP-2BN3BDegqpF0xMt8TIDeee6m3CI4EExOJ5-2BCX5d3pTBUFz2ChXuoes5UPUw6A2eM4dADpE-2FQ-3D-3D"><i><span style='color:blue'>The Intercept</span></i></a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>“a multi-pronged investigation to uncover the full extent of Russia’s election-meddling” (<a href="http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5gA/ni0YAA/t.27m/KwKVfEeQSWGB70iyVtl1jw/h5/AwsfuDSlzIYtA9U8AmKe9EzfEQJ6wEn5aYiOT6KwS9J27Ymc-2FaDJEBC3RMdoM8yeQDA79TCPyaEQTwOszBANkr8pDuWKvmP0x5xkrPz9xuxy-2FkQKFKcWo8JSBhLMmz3AFBsE7K3I4opyW7EX67nBk2J8XhgRt6Zz-2F1ey64VK0GyLTFGnGl-2FtI6O6fAnv4WiZP7shJ3n5oseDkasC9RKfTUl8bFaPXCmvxltr4zZ4cMmqcNo-2Bl-2FJzlYtbqi-2Fco-2FbbDKjxOoSXJSjfE5kjSmDWDqS4oPT5RKsSXsf9tOV0-2FpQ8xC7zMQKUqAHuQA2u-2B-2BlA-2BHlS0VAeDif7FmCklbR0ck5t3VsMY38XdCS3QQBzslg-3D"><i><span style='color:blue'>Time</span></i></a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>“Russian interference in the US election” (<a href="http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5gA/ni0YAA/t.27m/KwKVfEeQSWGB70iyVtl1jw/h6/Cx3MiTKZVSZsIZ976XUXkRGt8N-2F-2FSlXIYwWk-2BTRoOsCJLxgNHlM-2F-2FhY2G23pm28hfUnyUmW9ABOtXay6RHqT0AN4ysBHrlKlUq49TrIaMiPsjZUk4LhQfCczvvE3zgpqe39ZNFURpVmwk2KjQ-2BK6w6ezGFFVR0NGosS2raOpWSURO-2Fx4R2I3fzbBt3TnFNB37-2FfHev76S8dVAfm5-2Bh7TMafl7zlKx4VvaFnS6OknQkGqzAD2gTlmObtXZPMouIZUaxY0pqA1-2BqU9lIRUkBF1BztAL-2FO-2FWTOmHS60-2F5LNSZ5WG7Bfdc2o7IErsDxpBJshRMGAg-2BEsWukRZqseT-2FsstS-2F8etur26k6FpjuM3doJ6Y-3D"><span style='color:blue'>CNN</span></a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>“Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election” (<a href="http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5gA/ni0YAA/t.27m/KwKVfEeQSWGB70iyVtl1jw/h7/sTHY5YFJY3SHgrZYxyNa6Y-2B-2F2N4DCaI00t-2FmG-2Fh-2F6uEEvNzY0ll5uXUftfYH4hV0cRPy5yQVfsphrq-2BRIXhb6qQK0yYK6Es9xXKutX8Exq0YyWgf8Peh55zxvj7LnmchsCn5NZLqPMUnD4IiIYE5CNsEBI8a-2FCUufLNNoIbMIM-2FFqjZqm6XTV6WQone9Xky-2FZPy6dQrA7MPftCpAV3jKvV-2FabWf0WU1ZL8yonu8OQZEIZPJW2dI91TlWO8WIw-2BSfYvfbjsWov7sUIg5A2CK1vetQFwqQF7IxHHSQa-2FPELoFfBFKiQJQROOKG-2BMUgesA5Va9OcjlweUUG7K8oW3X6MKjFk6S1bnf-2B-2F8rlDnGwKAhrs7KY-2Fj4kCxQX2Yho1YAc"><span style='color:blue'>American Constitution Society</span></a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>“Russian hacking in US Election” (<a href="http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5gA/ni0YAA/t.27m/KwKVfEeQSWGB70iyVtl1jw/h8/GuWUbgpV1hCcOeGEcmLF7lWkWf0N4Md5E0VV-2BnWsDUPDrztJ6MN-2BNiBPlVVEoA9GxdZCfBMZzJNbg-2FKPxE988Wuh8nrrDzvjCu1vCxrci65HngJxEo2RsSmli-2FZS4gdWMoa9IWSZKXU0Ww-2BU-2BbJFeHoWvYsimjYShrN63deix5TrNj-2B5igXEijFwSG-2BnDoGBC03K42W1x7QwVKQ2tGKJmBLfX1itYbUfpGVfh2gkvP7USXmtbOH4dK7-2B4VgIyeHH7m0ExO02qpb48vaG0c2J3P17nVIyaX9cHDOZ7ovDVZFZvrZhZUUqYxQJhzWIO-2Fp4mVdfgC-2FXf5VjDV9XTW1ApW2VStOrPSvcIe8pzYbYescPGodNjpzdFVaAffsF538U37D6Ymxags0dHj2hHVJ5fzupBP-2FIsXj-2BZ-2BMqcQ5ZaaS1asugTwJLhQMSghhtxtTS"><i><span style='color:blue'>Business Standard</span></i></a>).”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>“Obama Strikes Back at Russia for Election Hacking” we’re told by the <a href="http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5gA/ni0YAA/t.27m/KwKVfEeQSWGB70iyVtl1jw/h9/wspANFbyofaCTRUcC3Fm57QgG8GMyGMpaGocYQDYl7p7UW8ocqHZNtdMKCVLUMKi-2FKPSsvjpI-2Bcr2UOg7qL3WvC6TtvIOv70mWzh9LnLiQ2ATD9u-2BL2jWFVSYDvBFJ3INgnr9kX2jNt4m6qIjy2M91i4f6GtFyErvRIeQbix-2FPjoXlyQEG3msdkm0Mvvs5SzdMyYkqn8pWufKyq2Inqfj-2FrtMXkZGdhLo2WOk7GyBgh3N3L9ZmUhfgnGVedSZJQNl765AqmvTvmPuzgBha8HNDGP3TVJ807KqxJdn3dQSkIa7y2rSWmkF33ZXMhccc6qoeqmlfdM3Ajq8FQJTAhrdBlTLHwbthPRy0X2tT9VzWA-3D"><i><span style='color:blue'>New York Times</span></i></a>, but what is “election hacking”? Its definition seems to vary widely. And what evidence is there of Russia having done it?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The “Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections” even exists as a factual event in <a href="http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5gA/ni0YAA/t.27m/KwKVfEeQSWGB70iyVtl1jw/h10/pWWMb227pKUyLAVPqXDfNnnkmZy2pdmwY65f-2FoHk-2BldIGyPTLQansdYfLAw4rDlhwpT7g1S9aUq7AiP76O4n6-2B0twO3naau3L0d99rSoJzybwljK71WiEtO6Mmt2KLA6H2sQ5QqSKgBC-2F4OGOaudm50O5wEgOV-2BvMkPqtfitf1nYWkqjQwaoSj6Ekz1LZ3UD6zu7PGBkPpuwyEDDvuOADcgcwkRGNM9nU8TU6ULsORfPoHhXvinqFavfC-2BYzIG5Zey7mzl6aETkSJ-2FWRovGCw-2FKgCUwLYHT7x1kVjT2rpN8-2B4m2qPfpq7JJLki8bynAt2E-2BfTJ7SVc7e1iPEm2wnkFO0w-2B-2BgZ81SNMiYwfyw66I-3D"><span style='color:blue'>Wikipedia</span></a>, not as an allegation or a theory. But the factual nature of it is not so much asserted as brushed aside.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Former CIA Director John Brennan, in the same Congressional testimony in which he took the principled stand “I don’t do evidence,” testified that “the fact that the Russians tried to influence resources and authority and power, and the fact that the Russians tried to influence that election so that the will of the American people was not going to be realized by that election, I find outrageous and something that we need to, with every last ounce of devotion to this country, resist and try to act to prevent further instances of that.” He provided no evidence.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Activists have even planned “demonstrations to call for urgent investigations into Russian interference in the US election.” They declare that “every day we learn more about the role Russian state-led hacking and information warfare played in the 2016 election.” (<a href="http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5gA/ni0YAA/t.27m/KwKVfEeQSWGB70iyVtl1jw/h11/qlWhYMURYFIJvS3SNY6CG6FUTnBdv7ge8rwh4XTdwwCIaJGI8Bf38f6dQEKQPQl-2FyABhLQJq26-2BcZB7h-2FFOiPm4YIiGB2rkffyVtGHZAKLIRoJtPKCrSy1lVGH-2FEswY1OR3uOX-2B3O-2BHht-2FOYPt8JAgkOISiENh61NvGT4hP0kRnyqc2zRpECkYjLmjMerVjcGGnyrRNhzVkE8XUOGnqWM8DiYDjgkUeDMbD1ZIEU7qkeqZMDRItccCMj2UDEc8TYloOV-2F9e4jOvnNwTANEJ-2FPrKAAoe7Lm6n-2FTn3LVfGBo0-3D"><span style='color:blue'>March for Truth</span></a>.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Belief that Russia helped put Trump in the White House is <a href="http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5gA/ni0YAA/t.27m/KwKVfEeQSWGB70iyVtl1jw/h12/-2BgG2Axp9Q5O6CwaCfGvIKsQEIo-2B9hCwzE8qGLqpBbbgVCKej5lgdpvWfDCBn3rO-2B0MDCD26g-2BKV2Ke0zEQ3iocFZo2ULfg-2FgPuHDUYmXfvkon0YALYRDa3INfoMnPe-2BWdq9OfM4RB9OLhXV5lb4DuyVwfWfyA3qzRxbla-2BHEra7kieNrau4J-2BO-2B54N65uAWDHCTyMhpEgS2P2iDA17IclShAOM16-2Fxt8Peo8ebu-2B7sq8Z-2BLmGymOpUaQoePR-2FE5F0fuMOsUWf4fr9bOo88Ul5YotEUAzx1EnpWHS8n-2FR0JdKj1BRfSijxt81flUNFqZBszH3S-2Fr1QAlLu7Y7HO51ykJ3ZuadgdiqxHwIoENlBGSEyyz3csmBrdl8gEuiSH13OIxcTrV2b7uT6Zw996E0RA-3D-3D"><span style='color:blue'>steadily rising</span></a> in the U.S. public. Anything commonly referred to as fact will gain credibility. People will assume that at some point someone actually established that it was a fact.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Keeping the story in the news without evidence are articles about polling, about the opinions of celebrities, and about all kinds of tangentially related scandals, their investigations, and obstruction thereof. Most of the substance of most of the articles that lead off with reference to the “Russian influence on the election” is about White House officials having some sort of connections to the Russian government, or Russian businesses, or just Russians. It’s as if an investigation of Iraqi WMD claims focused on Blackwater murders or whether Scooter Libby had taken lessons in Arabic, or whether the photo of Saddam Hussein and Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands was taken by an Iraqi.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>A general trend away from empirical evidence has been extensively noted and discussed. There is no more public evidence that Seth Rich (a Democratic National Committee staffer who was murdered last year) leaked Democratic emails than there is that the Russian government stole them. Yet both claims have passionate believers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Still, the claims about Russia are unique in their wide proliferation, broad acceptance, and status as something to be constantly referred to as though already established, constantly augmented by other Russia-related stories that add nothing to the central claim. This phenomenon, in my view, is as dangerous as any lies and fabrications coming out of the racist right.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is director of </span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5gA/ni0YAA/t.27m/KwKVfEeQSWGB70iyVtl1jw/h13/8kGEYiRVKQmyE92vRIVnT7iz1PjXYZjUzOt31LYKqTZ0AHBAIA5O5zaIRL7xHZKRwzMakBpfQfGvydxtVy0qFaOCL-2BVKIAKaWAnIdUkd2BKP46uxA8Lm3Kd7kkMqlqxvjGxKTPAKXq3wT8CR-2FoERl-2BL4RGM6wd0UdvQiWOzirW7Ubd8GscyMvD0YwF8Rwq0TdULJGbGrEorZENyJOSCp-2B1R0RfbxsRQ-2B7vcJeFOqmi866XY0WajDW6yidvl-2B-2BYlGlvotfIWljukA3dn0rnw7-2FA-3D-3D"><b><span style='color:blue'>WorldBeyondWar.org</span></b></a><b> and campaign coordinator for </b><a href="http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5gA/ni0YAA/t.27m/KwKVfEeQSWGB70iyVtl1jw/h14/Rm0N4Fc1RZ9OlcshJTuDOAE934X3aSGfFM4OtsuVrrSTbbZsxg2sdAEQKA2GjelKvqbxbpywSO8QOxHHw3QTRv97KhmWQxRCTOqwCEDkHcz9m3JmuWzHjdjmN8srXTDkRLfBxFHZwxeAwF36kDK1u6yd3zXCHJze020RGpy7LJyvaUrR00XFJiWC-2FQjAHekQkYdPdJFyGt-2FSYXdIuFmfG5BkuwHrPZiw2N9onVaI9JgDsca8CYxsaWJeQBeyhIDudYCtWENliNjHAmz4rQLrmA-3D-3D"><b><span style='color:blue'>RootsAction.org</span></b></a><b>. Swanson’s books include </b><a href="http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5gA/ni0YAA/t.27m/KwKVfEeQSWGB70iyVtl1jw/h15/2dJX7vfGJc-2Blgwz3zyDBV-2BcHBDc8UV1CjkQQqN26HEOvb5glM5-2FFgU254XfGo7jOAH183jZLMs0w-2BCazR8l9sgftTxwnC5CGFq-2FRqP48WUHLO-2BdtS9L6DQapdc4qL-2BVBBjhBxAV1WL4rS-2BUOJo0ywRhIuaXFO4J-2Fw6-2B5H7kX06yJVvePkoru4yk14kZfRVNIX-2F42bipXrYBAD206XAsXM7XTcbcjuSqYBAfG0khn-2BM5mXmZPf4saGcu9NGmcMTTJDAY48kN-2FPQp5TOXN99-2Bp4A-3D-3D"><b><i><span style='color:blue'>War Is A Lie</span></i></b></a><b>. He blogs at </b><a href="http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5gA/ni0YAA/t.27m/KwKVfEeQSWGB70iyVtl1jw/h16/oOrf4U-2FQJ-2Bbavx96gfibBouwpdmFNuiMKSUuvYlrdyKdVpZEQcSg-2FHTwyTc6-2F1LfAj35s5ZtWrh4l-2B6AnBH0oRqrwXe5S-2FwLAb3UYLev-2Fq023q6ATm-2F0cru6j-2F-2FZ85tfRnsgCX8YGmyNICUFovQAUYCwcvAHEPax550DbS4ZtRPml4-2BD4OmZBTA7rCoM5ogUF8P43HG4ssYk9YyjKNSZr8W-2FGgnaEKUp7D25WhIDe7HUpsCqXTfWjX9-2B6owXWnDPypqCI8N-2B3zT32UKBG0nRig-3D-3D"><b><span style='color:blue'>DavidSwanson.org</span></b></a><b> and </b><a href="http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5gA/ni0YAA/t.27m/KwKVfEeQSWGB70iyVtl1jw/h17/OCyNDn9i98-2BOopV0K0WrPlXurDuZUFHFwszHWrtaI-2FHdEh4rm-2BTUDmQf6Yq-2Bugt8pnSdBmBWgRDMBKtgreb-2FADy5ridH60M5dZWgBYqM59nVJr5ihy6ujTN5sW9-2FtIjajzEFdUFaI1GEX4ERnCig5Z3t7F33TjfvK-2FCaz0dGRraxfU-2BbEeCKFICpKb33Fhq8OjTbJSuS2GVb6bEflM5cWlPi1TjAsLueXxZVjb2XFr4XLN-2F9kvqGYE080aUMw4V3J1Z-2BZsUfPRRPaYl-2BCnPbbQ-3D-3D"><b><span style='color:blue'>WarIsACrime.org</span></b></a><b>. He hosts </b><a href="http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5gA/ni0YAA/t.27m/KwKVfEeQSWGB70iyVtl1jw/h18/oOrf4U-2FQJ-2Bbavx96gfibBnm-2BVlGuOFiXHSH4gi871eE3R5QwOFfdSafVARWSXlGUeFC-2F4gzB4n2LMXA4nZaxf3V-2FZVG6n35Kt5VuzFAeUvQZooPxAWgFzWUZ8vNsXyTZ8WmYKj2NSzsaM8OnNggE9eN1QO-2F-2Bg-2BjnS-2FtQS6zLGXBSIbLSinjxKVlXHWZ7iXWEBoN5XFrMAEIj56VA6a36YIuQtsUkRHCBUaW1vLqMuCnGhcfOqwSWK9AxoVVOKbXNVBwXBE-2BZS15D2PD5Nhc0r-2FrfhrTpx-2FSs1NaccjF584c-3D"><b><span style='color:blue'>Talk Nation Radio</span></b></a><b>. He is a 2015, 2016, 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee. Follow him on Twitter: </b><a href="http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5gA/ni0YAA/t.27m/KwKVfEeQSWGB70iyVtl1jw/h19/9RXDenI7BReTpKa-2F42PXTJC1Pe5qfm2rpo0Teozm7DLYb4xKRPC1XxtId9m0-2FRiUNK1TfigA9W3UjwXInpBd0QCkZg5qAnSwTfRo-2B5rjO4qrqLTRvOFsgClg1Z4yXuYNW2pAbmYknBbTCS1Li-2B4qnuJRP-2BrjhXSU6MNOEWFiJvaqr6JMU1jE5sysvH61SRkWgQajnv-2FElK0Ktx4rJIqsbNgxaDMDdq0LoDhNCHPOaD7Xcc2otkd-2BIooJSrmNxm8mn6Uah2YHfJQYg89M-2Bxpw6XBS2xbociWoJLXg-2BJjOQQI-3D"><b><span style='color:blue'>@davidcnswanson</span></b></a><b> and </b><a href="http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5gA/ni0YAA/t.27m/KwKVfEeQSWGB70iyVtl1jw/h20/9ZtgBbtsz-2BGzBX39C579VCiURT-2Bh8-2Ba0ZcPyxXTNW7cUnDh-2FudfkAIr4Mk8nn7XLNHw3cH9bDLKCKlbwDxsUPBYG-2BKWZyq6PGNpvKe4jtGD05LIFA3ax8WMorkIYHli-2BEHCIGmv4QztNPg-2BVjRkZE1n0-2BPvTf8AEYawzl-2B8mpz4aoBiGq4zV7Q80i8KlvZbZv-2BvvatUisc-2FW3okhE1meBRYT-2B2m2nplOhhA4-2B3F9skZrMPVtMwFyh7tnuOQ0cOu8a8fcdCnvnfv4C3Ka9uSNgqFLtkB1Bsx52BibaQwVhrCwTaFnZE9jlqTgfCay0eBA"><b><span style='color:blue'>FaceBook</span></b></a><b>. [This article originally appeared at </b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://davidswanson.org/were-dealing-with-a-new-type-of-war-lie/"><span style='color:blue'>http://davidswanson.org/were-dealing-with-a-new-type-of-war-lie/</span></a>]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>