“Everyone Needs An Enemy”: New Narratives, Recycled Propaganda and the Return of the Russian Bogeyman
Anti-Russian news coverage in the United States has taken on a new urgency of late. This fog of made-up facts and stories is akin to the general tone of discourse about U.S.-Russia relations today.
by Alex Cacioppo
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, another member of the Trump administration to have had contacts with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, recused himself on Thursday, March 2, from an ongoing FBI investigation into alleged Russian interference in the U.S. election in November. The move elicited frantic calls for Sessions’s resignation.
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