Joaquin Flores — Assange confirms: hit piece on Fort Russ backed by Neocons

Julian Assange has made it clear what his research has uncovered about the 'research' used by one of FRN's (Fort Russ News) opponents - the billionaire blog known as 'Vice News'. Over a month ago in December, Vice News wrote a hit piece in which Fort Russ was singularly named and singled out as a particularly pernicious outlet of 'fake news'. In particular, their slanderous claim was based upon the 'data' compiled by a shadily financed method it called 'Hamilton 68'. Supposedly a 'score' which 'rates' a non NATO non Israel compliant news source based upon it's 'friendliness' to the 'Putin and Assad regimes'.

We struck back, exposing Vice News as an instrument of the US and Zionist, Trans-Atlantic power elite. We showed that the Hamilton 68 matrix offered zero published methodological framework. In other words, as Assange as come forward to say, it's 'unfalsifiable'.

But we didn't know until just a few days ago that this 'method' is sponsored by some of the very well known neocon war criminals, responsible for millions of confirmed murders world-wide....

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Assange confirms: hit piece on Fort Russ backed by Neocons
Joaquin Flores | Editor-in-Chief of Fort Russ News, as well as the Director of the Belgrade based think-tank, the Center for Syncretic Studies.

Tom Winter — A glimpse behind the scenes at Fort Russ

Now that Vice News has been citing us, referring, for instance, to a “website promoted by the Kremlin-linked accounts called Fort Russ” it may be a good time to pull back the curtain for a glimpse behind the scenes at Fort Russ.

First, of course, simply click “about” at the top of the FR home site. But I can only confess for one. Me.

We are all of us polyglots. In my case, following the news in six languages, thanks to the internet, I have long known that the US press was feeding the country something less than truth. In 2014 Kristina Kharlova was already doing something about it, making the Russian side available for English-speaking readers, with the motto "Read what Russia reads." For me, she is a hero, and I jumped to offer my services.

A volunteer translator for Fort Russ spends much more time scanning the world press than actually translating. Here is a typical morning, at the Nebraska Headquarters of Fort Russ, before breakfast....

Kremlin tools or Internet heroes?

Note: The historical Fort Ross is in Sonoma County, California on the northern coast just above the Bay Area. I have driven past it numerous times but not visited.

"Ross" and "Russ" are romanizations of the same Russian term, Россъ. Russia is a romanization of Росси́я.

Here is a picture of it from the Wikipedia article.

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A glimpse behind the scenes at Fort Russ

Tom Winter