It is becoming increasingly self-evident that Steve Bannon’s opposition to Donald Trump’s unprovoked attack on Syria was the proximate cause for his removal from his position observing the National Security Council. His disagreements and personally poor relationship with Ivanka Trump’s husband Jared Kushner also certainly played a role.
I’ll proudly say it — I supported Trump in the past and and still do in some respects.
I’m 110% opposed to his international agenda, the details of which I outlined right after the election in one of my Sputnik articles (which trolls deliberately leave out of their infowar narratives about me), but still stand by his domestic policies.
People freak out because so many of them are rigid dogmatic ideologues who can’t separate issues and only believe in maximalist approaches of either totally supporting someone and every single thing they do or opposing the whole package.
Steve Bannon’s demotion and deletion from his seat observing meetings of the National Security Council, came a day prior to America’s illegal bombing of Syria.
Bannon was well known for his conservative views which were deeply anti-establishment, anti-deep state, mildly pro-Russian and totally anti-Salifist and anti-Saudi.
The timing of Bannon’s demotion and the missile strikes on Syria is unlikely to be coincidental. It is certainly symbolic.
The man who helped define the now dead Trump movement, was moved over whilst the neo-cons and deep state veterans remain.
Julian Assange has sent out two somewhat cryptic but humorous tweets about the phenomenon of western elites’ love of censorship and the imposition of a conformist driven political culture.
It comes in response to a video produced by Paul Joseph Watson of InfoWars where he hypothesised that conservatism is the new counter-culture.
Vladimir Putin has directly answered the big question. Appearing at a panel hosted by CNBC, Putin referenced the infamous George H.W. Bush line when he asked his audience to read his lips when promising no new taxes.
Putin’s assurance that Russia did not meddle in the US election will almost certainly not change the tune of those who think otherwise.
In our latest dissection of season 6 of Homeland, I joined Pearse on Porkins Policy Radio to discuss the latest few episodes. With the revelation that Dar Adal has been running a sock puppet click farm to manipulate US public opinion, Homeland has dragged this season right up to date. It is no longer a series about spies pursuing terrorists, but about how deep politics is conducted and the increasingly important role of big data.
Beginning a new series on the history of Al Qaeda, this week I provide the basis for what's coming in the next several episodes. What is or was Al Qaeda? Four distinct models have been proposed to try to answer this question so I outline each, drawing on the works of Rohan Gunaratna, Jason Burke/Adam Curtis, Nafeez Ahmed and Daniele Ganser.
The vicious conflict between US President Donald Trump and the mainstream media shows no signs of abating.
But the mass media’s monopoly on the flow of information is breaking. Their days are numbered.
If it will not report factually, the traditional corporate mass media will lose its place in democratic society.
The Duran’s Peter Lavelle explains why he Donald Trump will ultimately prevail against the US mainstream media in the battle over fake news.
The US mainstream media is fighting a losing battle against the rise of online alternative media like The Duran.
While corporate-sponsored establishment outlets like CNN and the New York Times denounce alt media as so-called “fake news,” it is they who prove themselves the true purveyors of falsity on a daily basis.
Here’s analysis from The Duran’s Peter Lavelle:
