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House Republicans ask US Treasury to investigate PSL, Code Pink, Breakthrough News, other orgs for alleged affiliation with Communist Party of China (hexbear.net)
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[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 77 points 2 days ago (1 children)

FAIR.org with a takedown of the original NYT article about Singham from two years ago

Rubio was mad about it:

So it should come as no surprise that the piece has led to a call for a federal investigation into those Singham-funded nonprofits. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) sent a letter to the Justice Department citing the Times article and arguing that the groups, including the antiwar organization Code Pink and the socialist think tank Tricontinental, “have been receiving direction from the CCP [Chinese Communist Party].” Rubio concluded, “The CCP is our greatest adversary, and we cannot allow it to abuse our open system to promote its malign influence any longer.”

Sigh:

If you think China is evil and Communists are the devil—as you might, if you read US corporate news media (FAIR.org, 5/15/20, 4/8/21)—this sounds like important reporting on a dangerous man. The trouble is, there’s nothing illegal about any of this. All the Times succeeds in proving in this article is that Singham puts considerable money, amassed by selling a software company, toward causes that promote positive views of China and are critical of hawkish anti-China foreign policy, which is his right as an US citizen. If you were to replace “China” in this tale with “Ukraine,” it’s hard to imagine the Times assigning a single reporter to the story, let alone putting it on the front page.

[–] SmithrunHills@hexbear.net 36 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Hey, maybe a ghoulish Republican openly frothing about China hopefully results in the libs disentangling themselves from Sinophobic fearmongering? Big cope i know but

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 49 points 2 days ago

The odds are much better that they simply agree with him with the whole 'broken clock right twice a day' shtick

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 29 points 2 days ago

Liberals will be wearing swastika armbands and sieg-heiling before they even think about dropping the China bullshit

[–] randomquery@hexbear.net 35 points 2 days ago

That's why they have the NYT write these ridiculous reports. This way the libs can eat the whole thing up, just like the Pompeo story about the "debt trap" in Sri Lanka.