By Patrick ARMSTRONG | Strategic Culture Foundation | 08.01.2019 The heroes of Dickens’ Pickwick Papers visit the fictional borough of Eatanswill to observe an election between the candidates of the Blue Party and the Buff Party. The town is passionately divided, on all possible issues, between the two parties. Each party has its own newspaper: […]
RT | January 9, 2019 Shortly after Donald Trump’s election, a UK-funded covert influence group proposed opening a new office in the US to train a “younger generation of Russia watchers” and “strengthen” American role in countering Moscow, leaks show. The latest tranche of documents, anonymously uploaded online last week, include an outline for “developing […]
RT | January 10, 2019 It was supposed to be a slam-dunk proof of “collusion” with Russia: President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort shared polling data with a “Kremlin-linked oligarch,” the NY Times reported. Except he hadn’t. Documents submitted by Manafort’s lawyers in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s “Russiagate” probe, unsealed Tuesday, were redacted […]
RT | January 9, 2019 Anyone using the term ‘neocon’ is doing the Kremlin’s bidding, according to PropOrNot, a shadowy outfit that sees Russian agents everywhere, in its quest to police social media on behalf of the ruling US establishment. The anonymous and self-appointed guardians of democracy declared this week that terms such as “neocon,” […]
Sputnik – 10.01.2019 The New York Times is so eager to find proof that Paul Manafort was the definitive go-between for the 2016 Donald Trump presidential campaign and Russian actors that it tweeted out a claim a court filing unsealed Tuesday proved the connection, when the connections named were Ukrainians, not Russians. The Times article […]
Sputnik – 09.01.2019 Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya was indicted Tuesday in a US district court for obstruction of justice. The case is unconnected to the Russiagate investigation, but that hasn’t stopped US media from essentially reporting that it is. The indictment itself is just a headline-grabber, trying to bring a charge against her for “what […]
By Ray McGovern | Consortium News | January 8, 2019 The banner headline atop page one of The New York Times two years ago today, on January 7, 2017, set the tone for two years of Dick Cheney-like chicanery: “Putin Led Scheme to Aid Trump, Report Says.” Under a edia drumbeat of anti-Russian hysteria, credulous […]
RT | January 4, 2019 Hackers who leaked documents from the Integrity Initiative, a shadowy outfit funded by the UK government, claim they show its connections to the March 2018 alleged poisoning attack in Salisbury and proposed actions against Russia. The Integrity Initiative (II) was set up in 2015 by the equally shadowy “Institute for […]
Netanyahu addresses US Congress | Photo from Al Jazeera By Richard Hugus | January 4, 2019 Our world is run by oligarchs, the holders of vast wealth from monopolies in banking, resource extraction, manufacturing, and technology. Oligarchs have such power that most of the world doesn’t even know of their influence over our lives. Their […]
By Peter Van Buren | We Meant Well | December 31, 2018 Tiresome things of 2018: “News” that is just stuff someone tweeted; “News” that is just repeating what a late night TV host said; “News” reported on one web site which is just a rewrite of a story on another web site; Deification by […]
