Patrick Henningsen

LOGICAL RANT: ‘What Russian Interference?’

As the 2018 US Midterms commence this week, it’s worth dusting off this legacy rant by Sunday Wire host Patrick Henningsen who attempts to inject a dose of common sense to try and alleviate America’s chronic “Russia Hacking” (and ‘Russian Meddling’, ‘Russian Interference’, ‘Russian Influence’, ‘Russian Collusion’ et al) condition, exposing it as the Shakespearean tragic-comedy that it truly is, and facing up up the cold reality that Hillary Rodham Clinton may well have run the worse presidential campaign in US history. Can you blame the Russians for that?

INTERVIEW: ‘US, UK Chemical Weapons Claims in Syria Fall Short of Reality’

Under both U.S. presidents, Barack Obama and Donald Trump, a steady stream of unfounded claims and dubious ‘evidence’ has been used to fashion a case against the Syria government for ‘using chemical weapons against its own people.’ One of the key actors in assembling their case against Damascus has been the western-funded pseudo ‘NGO’ known as the White Helmets. Where does the ‘official’ fiction end and the truth begin?

United States of Netflix: Lib-Con Detachment in Political Fantasyland

Patrick Henningsen
21st Century Wire
They say that sometimes ‘life imitates art,’ but where does art end and propaganda begin? 
I’ve noticed an interesting phenomenon in recent years when talking to many Americans. One thing which has become increasingly prevalent is how they will reference a plot or character from a Hollywood production when describing a real-life situation.

US Senate Calls Julian Assange to Testify as Russiagate ‘Hinges on Conspiracy’

The US Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday requested that WikiLeaks founder and editor Julian Assange testify on Russian ‘meddling’ in the 2016 election.
The ‘mutually agreed upon time and location’ also comes with the strict condition from Assange’s legal team that “testimony must conform to a high ethical standard,” according to this Wikileaks tweet:

CrossTalk: What is ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’?

Are the corporate mainstream media fueling America’s cultural wars? How much do mainstream media propagandists magnify political differences and enforce polarization?  Are mainstream journalists infected with Trump Derangement Syndrome?
CrossTalk’s host Peter Lavelle talks with Patrick Henningsen (21WIRE), Lionel Lebron (Lionel Media) and Rob Taub (Huffington Post) about the true stae of the American media and its hysterical political discourse today. Watch:

Trend Storm: ‘Why Facebook Betrayed Its User Base and What’s Next’

Trend Storm host Andrew Korybko writes: “From being indirectly implicated in the Russiagate conspiracy for supposedly allowing fake news to be peddled on its platform to being exposed earlier this year for allowing Cambridge Analytica to harvest its users’ data for political purposes, it’s fair to say that Facebook has been in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons over the past couple of years.