Jonathan Cook analyzes what progressives can glean from a major squabble between different wings of the same neoliberal establishment. By JonathanCook Jonathan-Cook.net Here are three important lessons for the progressive left to consider now that it is clear the inquiry…Read more →
Peddlers of Russia-gate have boosted the U.S. president’s re-election campaign, writes Caitlin Johnstone. By Caitlin Johnstone CaitlinJohnstone.com After news broke that Robert Mueller had turned in his final report without recommending any further indictments, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow began frantically retweeting blue-checkmarked Twitter pundits who…Read more →
WASHINGTON – Friday marked the end of months of speculation, as Special Counsel and former FBI Director Robert Mueller delivered his report into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election to the attorney general. The headline conclusion of Mueller’s report was reported far and wide: there would be no new indictments for collusion. As the New York Times reported, Mueller “would not recommend new indictments, a statement aimed at ending speculation that Mr.
Déjà vu 2016: like the surprise election result, President Trump claims another victory over the mainstream media machine and Washington’s political elites – this time laying to rest a two and half year-long political charade and festival of fake news which came to be known as ‘RussiaGate’.
Consortium News Editor Joe Lauria predicted on Nov. 5, 2016 that should Clinton lose, the Democrats would blame Russia to try to remove Trump from office, even without evidence. It was the birth of Russia-gate. Joe Lauria wrote that if…Read more →
After 2 years of investigations, Robert Mueller’s epic tome has finally been turned in, and surprise, surprise – it contains no ‘Trump-Russia Collusion’. We unpack some of the main points of the report and how the media are in meltdown now that the biggest political hoax in US history has finally run aground.
Co-hosts Mike Robinson and Patrick Henningsen break down the top early week news stories.
From the “scandal’s” outset, Consortium News adopted journalistic skepticism, led by founding editor, the late Robert Parry, with Ray McGovern, Daniel Lazare, Patrick Lawrence, Gareth Porter, Joe Lauria & VIPS debunking much of the mania that seized the land. In the wake…Read more →
The final Mueller report should be graded “incomplete,” says VIPS, whose forensic work proves the speciousness of the story that DNC emails published by WikiLeaks came from Russian hacking. March 13, 2019 MEMORANDUM FOR: The Attorney General FROM: Veteran…Read more →
We’re coming up on the first anniversary of the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, and the official story has...
The master plot went something like this: the Russian government interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election with the goal of getting Donald Trump elected. After tens of millions spent, hundreds of interviews, and hundreds of thousands of documents produced – the disgraced former FBI director Robert Mueller could not manage to produce any evidence of ‘Trump-Russia Collusion’ – which was the original remit of his epic witch hunt. As failures go, this one is hard to top.
