Mexico’s newly elected president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (“AMLO”), just won a sweeping victory by all accounts, but that hasn’t stopped the Russia fearmongering express from rolling on in the mainstream press.
Prominent journalists and politicians seized upon a shabby, politically motivated, “intelligence” report as proof of “Russian interference” in the U.S. election without the pretense of due diligence, argues Jack Matlock, a former U.S. ambassador in Moscow. By Jack Matlock Did…Read more →
Lost in all of the Russiagate drama is the fact that ‘collusion’ has already been proven – just not in the way most Russiagaters can only dream about.
An explosive report by investigative journalist John Solomon on the opinion page of Monday’s edition of The Hill sheds a bright light on how Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) and then-FBI Director James Comey collaborated to prevent WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange from discussing “technical evidence ruling out certain parties [read Russia]” in the controversial leak of Democratic Party emails to WikiLeaks during the 2016 election.
The U.S. was in talks for a deal with Julian Assange but then FBI Director James Comey ordered an end to negotiations after Assange offered to prove Russia was not involved in the DNC leak, as Ray McGovern explains. By…Read more →
A British elite challenged by large parts of the British population is rallying around trumped-up fear of Russia as a means of protecting its interests, as Alexander Mercouris explains. By Alexander Mercouris Special to Consortium News in London Hostility to…Read more →
As this hopelessly open-ended investigation rolls on, many are quick to point out the litany of indictments in its wake. The problem, however, is nothing has actually been proven on the remit of collusion. It’s still an epic fail – many in media and government have staked their careers on it.
A new French law to combat so-called “fake news” fits in all too well with the growing establishment campaign to censor dissident opinion by one means or another, argues Jean Bricmont. By Jean Bricmont The French government of Emmanuel Macron…Read more →
Julian Assange remains cut off from the world in Ecuador’s London embassy, shut off from friends, relatives and thousands of supporters, leaving him unable to do his crucial work, as John Pilger discusses with Dennis J. Bernstein. By Dennis J…Read more →
Last week, Consortium News writer Daniel Lazare pulled together the story of Britain’s involvement in fabricating the Trump-Russia collusion narrative which was then capitalized on by the Obama White House, the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016, and later by the US deep state (CIA, FBI, DOJ and
