Why is America's leading liberal magazine publishing its pieces with a Russian propaganda outlet?
Last edited Tue Jul 3, 2018, 03:53 PM - Edit history (1)
Pieces from The Nation are popping up on RT.
CASEY MICHEL JUL 2, 2018, 5:04 PM
UPDATED: JUL 2, 2018, 6:17 PM
The past year and a half has been a busy one for RT. Early last year, the United States’ director of national intelligence described the outlet, formerly known as Russia Today, as Moscow’s “principal international propaganda outlet.” A few months ago, RT registered with the Department of Justice as a foreign agent.
And now, RT has a new contributor: Stephen Cohen, a contributing editor with liberal magazine The Nation.
A number of Cohen’s pieces from The Nation have been cross-posted on RT’s website since January. A note at the bottom of each of the articles alerts readers that the piece in question “was originally published by The Nation.”
Many of the pieces fit within Cohen’s reputation as a vocal critic of the ongoing investigations into Russia’s interference efforts during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The articles Cohen has published on RT also happen to fit within Moscow’s denials of any interference efforts.
To wit, Cohen’s most recent piece on RT described the ongoing investigations as “the number-one threat to American national security, a reality for which the Democratic Party, though not solely, bears a very large responsibility.” Another June piece noted that the “core narrative” of the ongoing investigations “has always lacked actual evidence.”
https://thinkprogress.org/the-nation-is-publishing-with-rt-434f02f16bde/
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Cohen’s writings at The Nation have led to staffers at the magazine “openly revolting against the magazine’s pro-Russian tilt,” as The Chronicle of Higher Education summed last fall. (White supremacist David Duke has endorsed Cohen, and Duke’s website wrote that Cohen “has no peer in his ability to destroy the anti-Russia and anti-Putin lies.”)
Now, it appears Cohen’s material is no longer confined to the pages of The Nation, but has begun extending to Russia’s most popular propaganda site as well.
UPDATE: After this article’s publication, Cohen told ThinkProgress that RT had initially reached out to him with the cross-posting request, writing via email that “RT correctly asked me and I personally gave it permission to re-post my Nation commentaries.” He did not respond to ThinkProgress’ questions regarding potential concerns about publishing with RT.
As a subscriber to the oldest magazine in this country since July 6, 1865.................I am going to be emailing the magazine and ask them what the fuck................and I just voiced my concerns, Russia after all has been killing journalists, throwing people off buildings, and cyber attacking elections in this country and elsewhere.................
UPDATE.....................
July 3, 2018 3:23 ET............just got and read the response from the Nation magazine VP of communications.
And will respond.........................
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