The Panama Papers on global tax evasion – described as the biggest media leak ever – were obviously primed for yet another political smear against Russian President Vladimir Putin. It was just the latest in a series of Western media campaigns to besmirch the Russian leader going back several years.
When
the hacked data started to be published earlier this week, the Western
news media ran lurid headlines implicating Putin in massive financial
impropriety. This was despite the glaring anomaly that neither Putin nor
any of his family were even mentioned in the leaked information. In
short, it was another exercise by ropey Western journalism of
inculpation by assertion, prejudice and innuendo.
The fact that one of the main sources of
the Panama Papers information – the Washington DC-based International
Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) – is funded by CIA-linked
organizations immediately raised suspicion that the implications made
against Putin were a politically motivated propaganda stunt.
It seems highly likely that the CIA and related anti-Putin groups like the George Soros-supported Open Societies Foundations were involved in at least trying to orchestrate the Putin smear. But how these shadowy entities became involved remains a curious question.
It seems highly likely that the CIA and related anti-Putin groups like the George Soros-supported Open Societies Foundations were involved in at least trying to orchestrate the Putin smear. But how these shadowy entities became involved remains a curious question.
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