Daniel Greenfield January 13, 2022 @ Sultan Knish Blog
If
there’s one newspaper that could have had “disinformation” copyrighted
and then collected royalties from every Russian conspiracy theory, it
was the Washington Post.
The
Washington Post gained power and influence and its circulation and its
profits grew as the paper spread lies, smears, and conspiracy theories
that pandered to the prejudices and coup impulses of an angry base of
D.C. Democrat government bureaucrats, politicians, lobbyists, and
contractors who fancied themselves to be the “resistance” to the 2016
election.
The Post's opinion section filled up with headlines
like, "The Republicans have become the party of Russia", but its news
desk was no better with a false claim, later retracted, that Giuliani
had been warned by the FBI that he was the target of a “Russian
influence operation”.
Day after day, the paper built a case that
Republicans were a “threat to democracy” by “spreading Russian
disinformation”, and urgently needed to be deplatformed and censored.
Max
Boot, a Washington Post columnist, cheered Big Tech's censorship of a
New York Post story about Hunter Biden while insisting that it was
"Russian disinformation".
"Sorry, Republicans. Social media companies aren’t obligated to spread your lies," he gloated.
We
now know that there was no Russian disinformation, but that the
Washington Post’s Big Tech boss was actually the one profiting from
spreading Chinese disinformation to Americans.
The Washington Post
had been purchased by Jeff Bezos while Amazon’s federal contracts and lobbying expenditures
began to grow. One of Amazon's biggest federal paydays was a $600 million cloud contract with the CIA. Then the Big Tech giant
set its sights
on a $10 billion military cloud contract known as JEDI. After the Trump
administration noted favoritism toward Amazon, the contract was instead
awarded to Microsoft, leading to an Amazon sore loser lawsuit. JEDI was
then canceled and Amazon got a profitable piece of a new JWCC military
cloud contract.
Meanwhile, Amazon was deep in bed with Communist
China. Amazon’s marketplace is dominated by third party sellers and most
of those third party sellers are
based in China.
But a
recently leaked
internal Amazon document also revealed that the Big Tech giant was
trading the Communist regime access to Americans in exchange for doing
business in China.
While Amazon wanted the right to sell books to
the Chinese, the Communist regime wanted to be able to push its
propaganda through Chinabooks on the Amazon platform.
Jay Carney, formerly Obama's press secretary, now heading up Amazon's lobbying operation, was told before
he flew out to Beijing that the key to persuading the Communist regime to allow Amazon to continue doing business was "the Chinabooks project.”
The
China Books project is outwardly just another storefront, albeit
stocked with books on Xi. The design may be crude but the agenda shows
up at the beginning with a menu that highlights "Governance of China"
and "Books on China's Battle Against the Pandemic". While the former
category largely features Xi, the country’s Communist dictator, the
latter is where the action is.
The various texts, political,
personal, and even books on the pandemic for children, highlight the
efforts of the Communist party and treat the battle against the virus as
a vindication of the party.
The books often come through the
Foreign Languages Press, an arm of the Chinese Communist Party that is
used to spread disinformation and propaganda around the world. FLP is an
imitation of the Soviet Union's Foreign Languages Publishing House.
While the Soviet Union had shut down and freshened up its FLPH
propaganda operation in the sixties, China, which copied it in the
fifties, has kept FLP going with few changes to the operation.
Amazon
sells a lot of books, but with the Chinabooks project it had partnered
with an enemy nation’s propaganda campaign in order to be able to do
business with the Communists.
And much of that propaganda campaign was aimed at Americans.
Even while Amazon’s CEO was partnering his company with
China’s state propaganda arm,
his newspaper was accusing Republicans of being in bed with Russia. The
Washington Post’s smear campaign was true, not of Republicans, but of
its owner and his Big Tech monopoly.
Even as Amazon swallows up
American retail, it’s become little more than a front for China. Its
products come from China, but so do the third party sellers who dominate
its platform.
And yet Amazon also wields enormous influence over American policy and politics.
Despite
its close relationship to Communist China and other enemies, Amazon
controls the CIA’s cloud and will have a chunk of the military cloud.
Some of our most sensitive information is in the hands of a corporation
that doesn’t think twice about collaborating with our enemies.
Amazon
did not hesitate to give China’s Communist party the key to spreading
their disinformation to American audiences. What other digital doors
might it help China open?
Beyond the sensitive role that Amazon
plays in our military and intelligence apparatus is the political role
that it enjoys courtesy of its chairman’s ownership of the Washington
Post.
The Post sets the policy agenda for the Democrats and
columnists like Jennifer Rubin function as mouthpieces for the Biden
administration. The partnership has been extremely profitable for the
paper as lefty audiences ate up its Russiagate disinformation campaign,
sending subscription rates sky high and making its articles trend on Big
Tech social media platforms.
Qatar’s biggest foreign influence
operation, involving the death of Jamal Khashoggi, a Qatari terror
operative embedded as a columnist in the Washington Post, was enormously
successful and quickly became part of the Democrat foreign policy
agenda. The transformation of an old friend of Osama bin Laden into a
political martyr would not have been possible without the unquestioning
acceptance that the Post’s disinformation campaigns have achieved among
the Democrats and even among some less sensible Republicans.
Even
after stepping down as CEO to become Amazon's executive chairman, Jeff
Bezos still commands $180 billion worth of Amazon stock. The
intertwining of the key media outlet of D.C. Democrats and one of the
most powerful Big Tech monopolies in the country still remains.
So does the disinformation threat posed by the combination of Amazon and the Post.
Leftists
most often accuse their enemies of their own sins. While the Washington
Post colluded to censor its conservative political opponents to protect
Biden’s electoral chances, Amazon stood to profit from Biden’s win,
renewed relations with China, and a military cloud deal.
And
while the Post claimed that Republicans were spreading Russian
disinformation, it was actually the money behind its machine that was
spreading Chinese disinformation.
The paper manufactured a threat by Republicans to cover up the threat that it poses to America.
As
long as China calls the shots at Amazon, and the Big Tech monopoly and
its paper call the shots in our retail sector and our nation’s capital,
America remains in the grip of China.
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About Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield is a journalist investigating Islamic terrorism and
the Left. He is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz
Freedom Center
