The Washington Post<\/i> has a history of misrepresenting Ron Paul\u2019s views. Last year the supposed newspaper of record ran a feature article by David A. Fahrenthold in which Fahrenthold grossly mischaracterized<\/a> Paul as an advocate for calamity, oppression, and poverty – the opposite of the goals Paul routinely expresses and, indeed, expressed clearly in a speech at the event upon which Fahrenthold\u2019s article purported to report. Such fraudulent attacks on the prominent advocate for liberty and a noninterventionist foreign policy fall in line with the newspaper\u2019s agenda. As Future of Freedom Foundation President Jacob G. Hornberger put it in a February editorial<\/a>, the Post\u2019s agenda is guided by \u201cthe interventionist mindset that undergirds the mainstream media.\u201d<\/p>\n On Thursday, the Post published a new article<\/a> by Craig Timberg complaining of a \u201cflood\u201d of so-called fake news supported by \u201ca sophisticated Russian propaganda campaign that created and spread misleading articles online with the goal of punishing Democrat Hillary Clinton, helping Republican Donald Trump and undermining faith in American democracy,\u201d To advance this conclusion, Timberg points to PropOrNot, an organization of anonymous individuals formed this year, as having identified \u201cmore than 200 websites as routine peddlers of Russian propaganda during the election season.\u201d Look on the PropOrNot list. There is the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity\u2019s (RPI) website RonPaulInstitute.org<\/a> listed among websites termed \u201cRussian propaganda outlets.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n What you will not find on the PropOrNot website is any particularized analysis of why the RPI website, or any website for that matter, is included on the list. Instead, you will see only sweeping generalizations from an anonymous organization. The very popular website drudgereport.com even makes the list. While listed websites span the gamut of political ideas, they tend to share in common an independence from the mainstream media.<\/p>\n Timberg\u2019s article can be seen as yet another big media attempt to shift the blame for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton\u2019s loss of the presidential election away from Clinton, her campaign, and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) that undermined Sen Bernie Sanders\u2019 (I-VT) challenge to Clinton in the Democratic primary.<\/p>\n The article may also be seen as another step in the effort to deter people from looking to alternative sources of information by labeling those information sources as traitorous or near-traitorous.<\/p>\n At the same time, the article may be seen as playing a role in the ongoing push to increase tensions between the United States and Russia – a result that benefits people, including those involved in the military-industrial complex, who profit<\/a> from the growth of US \u201cnational security\u201d activity in America and overseas.<\/p>\n This is not the first time Ron Paul and his institute has been attacked for sounding pro-Russian or anti-American. Such attacks have been advanced even by self-proclaimed libertarians<\/a>.<\/p>\n