{"id":210346,"date":"2024-09-05T23:58:40","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T20:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/?p=210346"},"modified":"2024-11-21T22:30:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T20:30:39","slug":"doj-clampdown-on-russian-media-authoritarian-move-proving-us-empire-has-no-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arabtelegraph.com\/?p=210346","title":{"rendered":"DoJ Clampdown on Russian Media: \u2018Authoritarian\u2019 Move Proving US Empire Has No Clothes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The US Justice Department\u2019s sweeping crackdown on Russian media on Wednesday to the thunderous applause of the legacy media will leave Americans a little less informed, less safe and a lot less free, observers including long-time Sputnik contributors say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt looks like the US Department of Justice is producing another election year spectacular. Sixty days before the election we are invited to suspend our disbelief and embrace \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20240905\/western-media-frenzy-over-rehashed-claims-of-russian-meddling-in-us-election-1120041645.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Russia, Russia, Russia: The Sequel<\/a>.\u2019 And once again the DOJ is rounding up the usual suspects: Trump, Russia and Democracy,\u201d political commentator and Newsmax columnist&nbsp;<strong>Michael Shannon<\/strong>&nbsp;told Sputnik, commenting on the DoJ\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20240905\/persecution-of-sputnik-rt-contributors-highlights-us-hypocrisy--ex-cia-analyst-1120021228.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unprecedented crackdown<\/a>&nbsp;on Russian media Wednesday over alleged \u201cdisinformation\u201d and an election-related \u201cmalign influence operation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI predict the audience for this lame sequel will be the remaining mask wearers, Clot Shot booster advocates, Trump haters, consonant crusaders and government employees. Anyone else with simple common sense will see it for what it is: The DOJ\u2019s attempt to influence the election,<strong>\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Shannon stressed.<a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20240905\/doj-clampdown-on-russian-media-authoritarian-move-proving-us-empire-has-no-clothes-1120047290.html#\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The figures being alleged by the Justice Department are also laughable, according to the observer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cLet\u2019s put alleged Russian influence buying in perspective. The indictment says Tenent Media was given $10 million to \u2018influence the election.\u2019 I\u2019ve got news for you. $10 million would barely influence a US Senate race. The amount is hardly a drop in the bucket for a presidential race. Donald Trump and Joe Biden combined spent $1.85 BILLION in 2020,\u201d Shannon emphasized.<a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20240905\/doj-clampdown-on-russian-media-authoritarian-move-proving-us-empire-has-no-clothes-1120047290.html#\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\" id=\"1120047290-1\">Silencing Speech<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI regret the actions of my government in silencing legitimate journalistic outlets, and look forward to the day when freedom of speech and a free press is not constrained by a dubious \u2018Russian exception\u2019 that is violative of Constitutional norms and values,\u201d former US Marine intelligence officer, UN weapons inspector and commentator Scott Ritter wrote in a social media post.<a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20240905\/doj-clampdown-on-russian-media-authoritarian-move-proving-us-empire-has-no-clothes-1120047290.html#\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ritter, who has already suffered a campaign of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20240812\/scott-ritter-fbi-raids-part--parcel-of-us-govt-intimidation-1119734622.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blatant intimidation by the FBI<\/a>, including a raid on his family home and the confiscation of his passport,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20240905\/scott-ritter-says-ending-cooperation-with-rt-sputnik-due-to-us-sanctions-1120022824.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced the termination of his work for Sputnik<\/a>&nbsp;and other Russian media after the DoJ and Treasury&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20240904\/us-slaps-sanctions-on-rossiya-segodnya-media-group-1120019219.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new restrictions<\/a>&nbsp;were announced, fearing he would be further targeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\" id=\"1120047290-2\">\u2018Staggering Hypocrisy\u2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Former CIA analyst-turned whistleblower and author&nbsp;<strong>Larry Johnson<\/strong>&nbsp;highlighted the DoJ crackdown\u2019s off the charts&nbsp;<strong>\u201chypocrisy that is staggering in its magnitude and its foulness,\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;telling Sputnik that the claims of Russian media attempts to \u201cmeddle\u201d in the upcoming US presidential election are simply laughable when considering that the US government has allocated&nbsp;<strong>\u201calmost $4 billion to interfere or meddle in the political affairs of other countries\u201d in 2024 alone.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Popular independent media personality&nbsp;<strong>Jackson Hinkle<\/strong>&nbsp;says Americans looking for alternative perspectives and sources of information will the most to suffer from the DoJ\u2019s move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe can topple governments. We can kill sovereign presidents of sovereign countries. But for a media company to be reporting on the facts\u2026about what\u2019s actually going on in the world, and then for the United States to sanction them, it\u2019s absolutely insane,\u201d Hinkle said. \u201cI think millions of Americans want to hear that truth, and that\u2019s why they\u2019re going after companies like Sputnik so hard right now.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20240905\/doj-clampdown-on-russian-media-authoritarian-move-proving-us-empire-has-no-clothes-1120047290.html#\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Jackson Hinkle blasts US crackdown on Russian media: &#8220;millions of Americans want to hear that truth&#8221;<br><br>\u201cWhat I find so interesting about all this is that when it comes to any other country, if it&#8217;s the United Kingdom, if it&#8217;s Israel, if it&#8217;s Canada or wherever, foreign influence\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DKlqIZD0xx\">https:\/\/t.co\/DKlqIZD0xx<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7Gud6tVgbJ\">pic.twitter.com\/7Gud6tVgbJ<\/a>\u2014 Sputnik (@SputnikInt)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SputnikInt\/status\/1831539027926794314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\" id=\"1120047290-3\">America&#8217;s Empire Has No Clothes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Retired US Air Force Lt. Col. and ex-DoD analyst-turned whistleblower&nbsp;<strong>Karen Kwiatkowski<\/strong>&nbsp;agrees, saying the perception of the US both inside and outside the country has plummeted in recent years, and that Washington and its allies want to silence dissenting voices to try to get Americans to stop \u201casking uncomfortable questions\u201d about the conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza and elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cSanctioning information outlets is popular in authoritarian countries, but sanctions in general only attract attention to poor political decision-making and political fear and are easily worked around,\u201d Kwiatkowski\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SputnikInt\/status\/1831564023575310739\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">emphasized<\/a>, echoing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SputnikInt\/status\/1831515443128844656\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sentiments expressed by<\/a>\u00a0the Russian Foreign Ministry that the DoJ\u2019s move signals a \u201cdecline of \u2018liberal democracies\u2019, where authorities resort to such primitive methods of influencing their electorate.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20240905\/doj-clampdown-on-russian-media-authoritarian-move-proving-us-empire-has-no-clothes-1120047290.html#\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\" id=\"1120047290-4\">?Falling Hegemon&#8217;s Last Gasps<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Independent geopolitics expert&nbsp;<strong>Lorenzo Maria Pacini<\/strong>&nbsp;warns that Washington\u2019s shortsighted move against Russian media is \u201cridiculous\u201d and cannot stand and will inevitably backfire, \u201cbecause they\u2019re trying to force the other countries of the world to follow a kind of hegemony that is falling.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Western efforts to enforce hegemony are failing in a new multipolar era \u2014 analyst<br><br>Lorenzo Maria Pacini, an associate professor of political philosophy and geopolitics and a member of the Multipolarity forum, sounded off on the US sanctions against Russian media companies\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DKlqIZD0xx\">https:\/\/t.co\/DKlqIZD0xx<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vbdQXS5n1L\">pic.twitter.com\/vbdQXS5n1L<\/a>\u2014 Sputnik (@SputnikInt)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SputnikInt\/status\/1831556623115977008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Finally, writer and historian&nbsp;<strong>Dr. Gerald Horne<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20240905\/a-unique-kind-of-fascism-us-continues-clampdown-on-alternative-media-1120022422.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told Sputnik<\/a>&nbsp;that the DoJ decision, when taken together with the recent spate of attacks on independent and alternative media personalities across the West, signals a \u201chysteria\u201d gripping Western political elites over the emergence of a counterhegemonic bloc of nations willing and able to challenge US power as the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20240516\/kissingers-nightmare-us-bid-to-crush-russia--china-economically-only-drives-them-closer-1118474909.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nightmares<\/a>&nbsp;of leading foreign policy architects like Zbigniew Brzezinski of countries like Russia, China and Iran forming a \u201cde facto alliance\u201d become a reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Justice Department\u2019s sweeping crackdown on Russian media on Wednesday to the thunderous applause of the legacy media will leave Americans a little less informed, less safe and a lot less free, observers including long-time Sputnik contributors say. \u201cIt looks like the US Department of Justice is producing another election year spectacular. 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