During the decades of the Soviet Union, there was a Russian spy hiding in plain sight. He was welcome in boardrooms, even the White House.
His name was Armand Hammer.
Hammer represented Soviet interests practically from its beginning. As detailed in the 1996 biography Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer, Hammer befriended Lenin back in 1921. He continued to represent Russian interests almost until his death, in 1990.
During his life he was often called a “go-between,” because as CEO of Occidental Petroleum he was a business executive welcome on both sides of the Iron Curtain. While The New York Times called him a “riddle” in 1981, a more accurate term from Epstein’s work is traitor.
I believe we have another Armand Hammer in our midst, which is why I bring his name up.
That man’s name is Rupert Murdoch.
I can find no other reason for his behavior than that he has a love for authoritarianism and, especially, racist fascist authoritarians like Vladimir Putin. He has an absolute stranglehold over Australia’s media and thus that government continues to deny climate change, despite its obvious effects. He also has a stranglehold over the media in Great Britain, where Brexit has destroyed the economy.
His newspapers and Fox News have since become the primary media vehicles for Donald John Trump, who it’s now clear has been carrying water for Putin ever since he came down his Trump Tower escalator in 2015.
Now is not the time, as they say, for our government to be pointing fingers. Not with Putin’s finger on the nuclear trigger, not with the war in its most dangerous days, not with democracy on the brink of a cascading defeat.
But the time is coming, where we need to re-evaluate Murdoch’s legacy and ask whose side he was on. I know this.
It wasn’t ours.
