Mccarthyism

Russia’s Lavrov Denounces ‘new Mccarthyism’ In Attacks On Russian Ambassador Kislyak

... Mc Carthyism’ in Attacks on Russian Ambassador Kislyak. March 3, 2017 (EIRNS)—In remarks to the media today, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov denounced as a "new Mc Carthyism," allegations by anonymous U. S. officials that Russia’s ambassador to the U. S., Sergei Kislyak, is a "spy and recruiter of spies.". "I can cite the media that say all this is very much reminiscent of a witch hunt and the Mc Carthyism era which we all thought was long gone in the U. S., a civilized country,". Lavrov said, TASS reported. "As for accusations against Kislyak and those he met with, our ambassador is accused of meeting with the U. S. politicians who opposed the Obama administration. This is the essence of the accusations, to be honest. We don’t want to, and we won’t ape" the American approach to Kislyak, Lavrov said, noting that were Moscow "to apply the same principle, and scrutinize U. S. ambassador to Russia (John) Tefft and his contacts, we would see quite an amusing picture.". Lavrov pointed out that ...

Joe Mccarthyism In Our Own Time

... country about the growing menace of Communistic influence in the nation’s capital and in the nation; he belittled and demeaned his opponents, including persons in the media such as Edward R. Murrow, using his position to shield himself from legal liability; he refused to correct the record which he created with false “facts” even though contrary facts were apparent for all the world to see; and he used unfairly against his political opponents their own words which they later used fairly against him to devastating effect (the difference being the context provided the quotations), the latter of which strategy may well bring down the present Accuser-and-Dissembler-in-Chief. Mc Carthy had his day before being undone by his own words and the famous retort, “At long last, sir, have you no decency?” asked by the lawyer for the U. S. Army. Pulitizer Prize-finalist and historian Ted Morgan opens the ...

Russia Says Us Infighting On Sessions Hampers Mending Ties

... unfounded accusations that promoted widespread fear. Noting Russia won't mimic the U. S., Lavrov added that "if we applied the same principle to Ambassador (John) Tefft's activities in Russia and his contacts, it would have made quite a funny picture.". Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov deplored that Russia has become a tool in the U. S. political struggle. "Regrettably, influential forces in the U. S. are using relations with Russia as an instrument for achieving certain goals or treating our relations as a collateral damage in their internal fighting," he said in remarks carried by Russian news agencies. "It causes a strong regret, but we aren't making a tragedy out of it.". Ryabkov added that Moscow continues to believe that restoring ties "destroyed by Obama's administration" is a daunting but still achievable goal. "We will work on it on such a pace, with such intensity and succession of steps that would be comfortable for the American side," he said. "We aren't going to artificially rush any processes. We realize that it will take certain time for the current U. S. ...

Trump Confronts New Mccarthyism

... vilification of Vladimir Putin. Donald Trump speaking at CPAC 2011 in Washington, D. C. (Flickr Gage Skidmore). This anti-Russian hysteria reached a point of near absurdity in the last days of the Obama Administration with its trust-us allegations that the Russians defeated Hillary Clinton by releasing some emails showing how the Democratic National Committee sabotaged Bernie Sanders and other emails revealing what Clinton had told Wall Street banks but didn’t want the voters to know. If you noted that Clinton had previously blamed her defeat on FBI Director James Comey for reopening and re-closing the investigation into her use of a private email server, you risked being labeled a “Putin apologist” or a “Kremlin stooge.”. Of course, the anger toward anyone who resisted the “Russia-did-it” conformism did not come from nowhere. One can trace the current hostility to dissenters against U. S. foreign policy back to the presidency of George W. Bush when he gutted the Bill of Rights in promulgating the Patriot Act with almost no public challenge. In the post-9/11 climate – when any resistance to Bush’s edicts was regarded as close to treason – many of us became ...

The President Accused Obama Of ‘mccarthyism.’ But Trump’s Mentor Helped Enforce It

... Carthyism today. — West Wing Reports (@West Wing Report) March 4, 2017. After World War II, Mc Carthy, a Republican senator from Wisconsin, made claims that large numbers of communist spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the U. S. government and needed to be weeded out. The accusations happened during a period of escalating tensions with the Soviet Union and growing fears about the global spread of communism. Mc Carthy interrogated alleged sympathizers at Senate hearings that came to bear his name. Just an accusation could ruin reputations and careers. [ The irony of Republicans complaining about Mc Carthyism ]. Cohn was the brains behind Mc Carthy's rise to power and, to many Americans, one of the first real television personalities, according to his obituary in The Washington Post. “Mr. Cohn, with his slick hair, dark complexion and heavy-lidded eyes,” the obit said, “was frequently seen whispering in the senator's ear.”. ...

His Father Stood Up To Mccarthyism. This N.j. Congressman Shows No Such Courage

... has the courage to defend his record - he hasn't met with constituents in a town hall in years - and the same waiting game is now being played in most red districts throughout New Jersey and the U. S. The congressman  says he "applaud(s) the effort" of NJ 11 th For Change to hold town halls, but he will continue to boycott them because he believes they are incapable of "civil discourse.". Meanwhile, he is batting 1.000 : Fourteen times he has cast a vote this term, and every one supports the position held by Donald Trump. He lacks the mettle to buck Trump, and maybe Frelinghuysen can live with that. But he also lacks the mettle to uphold the legacy of a father who was a true profile in courage. * * * *. Readers from the 11 th District who would like to  contact Rep. Frelinghuysen can do so at 973-984-0711 and 202-225-5034. The congressman issued a solicited statement that arrived too late to include in this editorial. "I certainly do not agree with everything this President says, does or how he presents his positions to the world.  But I do agree with giving him an opportunity to govern. He has been ...

Trump's Mentor Was Joseph Mccarthy's Sidekick

... tower just before the 2016 election - tactics Trump said hearkened to the Mc Carthy hearings and Red Scare of the late 1940 s and '50 s. "Nothing found," Trump tweeted. "This is Mc Carthyism!". Mc Carthyism is something of which Trump should have in-depth knowledge. His lifelong attorney and mentor - Roy Cohn, one of the men who helped mold Trump into Trump - was, as one author called it, Joseph Mc Carthy's sidekick. After World War II, Mc Carthy, a Republican senator from Wisconsin, made claims that large numbers of communist spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the U. S. government and needed to be weeded out. The accusations happened during a period of escalating tensions with the Soviet Union and growing fears about the global spread of communism. Mc Carthy interrogated alleged sympathizers at Senate hearings that came to bear his name. Just an accusation could ruin reputations and careers. Cohn was the brains behind Mc Carthy's rise to power and, to many Americans, one of the first real television personalities, according to his obituary in The Washington Post. "Mr. Cohn, with his slick hair, dark complexion and heavy-lidded eyes," the obit ...

A Film About Mccarthyism, Edward R. Murrow, And Courage

... the internet, there was not a good way to get a read on the national consensus until the newspapers published. The news staff sends a colleague to bring the papers and as they wait, a nervous silence descends on the room, lingering like pervasive clouds of cigarette smoke. If we look at that kind of power and intimidation and feel tempted to shirk our duty, it is helpful to know that even our heroes felt fear. They didn’t know what the outcome would be. But they still did their duty. Another of the film’s strengths is that it portrays vigorous debate among the members of the journalistic team at CBS as to precisely what journalists are called to do. Must they always provide two sides of every argument with equal weight? Is it wrong to have a journalistic point of view? Should journalists keep pressing, being a burr in the side of leaders or should they let them self-destruct when they get off ...

Trump, Islamophobia And The New Mccarthyism

... States in the 1960 s and other monarchies to support the Muslim Brotherhood movement to derail and prevent Nasser's Arab socialist program in the post 1953 Free Officers Revolution. Another example of this strategy was the recruitment of all Muslim religious and political trends into the war effort against the Russians in Afghanistan and during the Iran-Iraq conflict. Here, one has to say that the modern intensification of violent trends in the Arab and Muslim world have to be traced to the dual strategy of confronting the socialists on the one hand and the success of the Iranian Revolution on the other. All Islamic Sunni trends and groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood, the Wahhabi Movement and Sufi groups, were drawn into this confrontation. The global Jihad movement was born during the Cold War and was part of the tools chest in the superpowers confrontation. The proposed terrorist labeling boils down to an attempt to criminalize a set of related ideas and beliefs that are connected to a group that came into existence in 1928. The Muslim Brotherhood is an outspoken promoter of a political system in ...

The Irony Of Republicans Complaining About Mccarthyism

... by congressional Republicans to prop up that spin — are already looking like ham-handed political interference," wrote Post columnist Greg Sargent. While Nunes argued there was nothing much to investigate, his Democratic colleague on the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff of California, made clear to reporters that no meaningful investigation has yet taken place. He and other lawmakers are demanding hearings that would compel agencies like the FBI to clarify what they know and don't know about Russian meddling in the elections and contacts with the Trump camp. As a masterful expose by the New Yorker explains , it's probably certain that Moscow wanted to influence the U. S. elections — 17 different federal intelligence agencies, after all, agreed that Russia was responsible for hacking the Democratic National Committee's emails. The question of direct collusion with the Trump camp, though, is much ...

Nunes Warns Against New Outbreak Of Mccarthyism

... Nunes, who chairs the committee investigating the allegations made in the Washington Post, said on Monday that he hadn’t seen any evidence so far to back the allegations. “We can’t have Mc Carthyism back in this place,” he said. We can’t have the government… chasing down American citizens, hauling them before the Congress as if they’re some secret Russian agent.”. But the senior Democrat on the committee Adam Schiff, also of California, said: “The committee has reached no conclusion on whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia” as it had so far called no witnesses or obtained documentary evidence. The committee is looking into claims by anonymous spooks that Mr Trump’s campaign advisers were in touch with Russian intelligence during last year’s elections. It followed accusations by Barack Obama’s outgoing government in January that Kremlin-paid hackers leaked embarrassing emails from Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Mr Nunes, a member of Mr Trump’s transition team, admitted that the White House had asked him to talk to a reporter about the ...

Mccarthyism Made Us Veer Away From A Systemic Doctrine For Change

... of dollars of government research and development that built the aerospace industry, the semiconductor computer industry, the biotech industry, the containerization industry, half of the pharmaceutical industry. Right? Never mind that 400 of the richest people in our country control as much wealth as the 95 percent of the rest of the country. No, no. I mean, that's beginning to be publicized, that the 1 percent, you know, control. But the real dynamic that isn't being [incompr.] is if you start getting people saying, hey, we own all this stuff, why are we paying such high price for drugs? That drug was developed with taxpayer money by the National Cancer Institute and the NIH-that's a federal agency. They give it away to a drug company. See. So that's the real revolutionary education. It's that the biggest wealth of our country is owned by the people and controlled by corporations. JAY: Okay. In the next segment of our interview, I'm going to ask Ralph whether the kind of legislative reforms that he's so well known for, is it still possible to have these ...