{"id":42473,"date":"2016-07-08T12:26:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T16:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=42473"},"modified":"2016-07-08T12:26:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T16:26:53","slug":"guest-column-by-vladimir-putin-paul-craig-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=42473","title":{"rendered":"Guest Column By Vladimir Putin &#8212; Paul Craig Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Putin tells Western Journalists That Their Lies Lead Directly To WW III<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article45055.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article45055.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Putin is mistaken in his apparent belief that Western journalists are independent agents who could choose not to lie for Washington. As Udo Ulfkotte, a former editor for the German main daily newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, made clear in his book, every European journalist of any consequence is on the CIA\u2019s payroll. (The book is now available in English:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/journalists-for-hire-dr-udo-ulfkotte-phd-phd\/1123110264?ean=9781944505479&amp;st=PLA&amp;sid=BNB_DRS_Core+Shopping+Books_00000000&amp;2sid=Google_&amp;sourceId=PLGoP680&amp;k_clickid=3x680\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/journalists-for-hire-dr-udo-ulfkotte-phd-phd\/1123110264?ean=9781944505479&amp;st=PLA&amp;sid=BNB_DRS_Core+Shopping+Books_00000000&amp;2sid=Google_&amp;sourceId=PLGoP680&amp;k_clickid=3\u00d7680<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The same can be said for the Washington presstitutes.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t you think it is extraordinary that the most important issue of our time is not an issue in the presidential election?<\/p>\n<p>That liberals, progressives, and the putative leftwing believe that the issues of our time are Ronald Reagan, gun control, and transgender rights demonstrates the complete collapse of thought in Western civilization.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2016\/07\/07\/guest-column-by-vladimir-putin\/\">http:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2016\/07\/07\/guest-column-by-vladimir-putin\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putin tells Western Journalists That Their Lies Lead Directly To WW III<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}