To understand the Trump-Bidens-Russia-Ukraine fiasco clearly, we have to park the moral, constitutional and legal issues By Padraig McGrath | December 25, 2019 On December 23rd, the Washington Post ran a piece exploring the possible motivations behind US president Donald Trump’s decision to pause US military aid to Ukraine on July 12th last year. On […]
RT | December 24, 2019 The Guardian has corrected an article describing a “plot” to “smuggle” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange out of London, more than a year after publication. Russia called the article “disinformation and fake news” from the outset. Assange is currently languishing in London’s Belmarsh Prison, awaiting a hearing on his extradition to […]
Congress and the White House compete in year-end stupidity sweepstakes By Philip Giraldi | Unz Review | December 24, 2019 At the end of the nineteenth century, Lord Palmerston stated what he thought was obvious, that “England has no eternal friends, England has no perpetual enemies, England has only eternal and perpetual interests.” Palmerston was […]
By Larry C Johnson | Sic Semper Tyrannis | December 20, 2019 Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report insists that Guccifer 2.0 and DCLeaks were created by Russia’s military intelligence organization, the GRU, as part of a Russian plot to meddle in the U.S. 2016 Presidential Election. But this is a lie. Guccifer 2.0 and DCLeaks […]
By Nebojsa Malic | RT | December 19, 2019 There is actually some good advice in the Democratic National Committee’s five suggestions for avoiding “disinformation” online. Too bad it’s buried in hypocrisy and promotion of literal disinformation shops, grifters and frauds. On Tuesday, as Democrats launched their final impeachment push in the House of Representatives, […]
Sputnik – December 20, 2019 The US Democratic National Committee has published a list of recommendations on how to combat online disinformation. This list of “tips and additional resources” mentions Russian “propaganda outlets like RT & Sputnik.” “Don’t let yourself be manipulated. Be aware of Russian propaganda outlets like RT & Sputnik and educate yourself […]
By Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation | December 20, 2019 Fittingly for the jolly season, the House of Representatives’ vote to impeach Trump was more pantomime than serious politics. “Oh yes, he is!.. Oh no, he isn’t!..” and so it went on for nearly 10 hours of to-and-fro between Democrats and Republicans. Eventually, the […]
By Daniel Lazare | Strategic Culture Foundation | December 18, 2019 You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time. So said Abraham Lincoln – maybe. But whoever it was forgot to mention an important corollary: […]
By CJ Hopkins | Consent Facvtory | December 18, 2019 Well, it looks like we’ve somehow managed to survive another year of diabolical Putin-Nazi attacks on democracy. It was touch-and-go there for a while, especially coming down the home stretch, what with Jeremy Corbyn’s desperate attempt to overthrow the UK government, construct a British version […]
‘European values’? By Nebojsa Malic | RT | December 17, 2019 A pro-NATO Czech think tank has another piece of unsolicited advice for Western governments. Now they should refuse to give access or interviews to Russian media, who are ”not real journalists”, according to the ”wise censor”. At first blush, the ‘Kremlin Watch Strategy’ paper […]
