Russiagate

Those hapless individuals who run the United States are again slipping into a fantasy world where Americans are besieged by imaginary threats coming from both inside and outside the country. Of course, it is particularly convenient to warn of foreign threats, as it makes the people in government seem relevant and needed, but one might recommend that the tune be changed as it is getting a bit boring.

With a familiar playbook of evidence-free, anonymously sourced red-baiting, the forces behind Russiagate try to stop Bernie Sanders’ primary success.…
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By Will Banyan (Copyright © 21 February 2020) TRUMP: Look, Putin…… from everything I see, has no respect for this person. CLINTON: Well, that’s because he’d rather have a puppet as president of the...

Amid new fear-mongering about “Russian interference,” former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter on Trump’s overlooked, reckless escalation of the US-Russia…
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Randy Credico, a key figure in the Roger Stone trial, on Stone’s 40-month sentence and how Stone’s lies, free liquor…
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Patrick Henningsen
21st Century Wire
“It’s like a nightmare, isn’t it? It just keeps getting worse and worse.”
– Grady Seasons in The Color of Money

In this segment recorded on Thursday February 21st, Jacquie Luqman and Sean Blackmon are joined by Patrick Henningsen, co-founder and executive editor of 21st Century Wire, to talk about allegations by Julian Assange’s legal team that Dana Rohrabacher offered a pardon to Assange on behalf of Donald Trump on the condition that Assange could prove the source of John Podesta’s leaked emails was someone unrelated

Patrick Henningsen
21st Century Wire
Today, the President’s long-time friend and former campaign consultant, Roger Stone, was sentenced to 40 months in a federal prison for multiple charges relating to his Congressional testimony and Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.

Amid the hubbub over the Trump administration’s latest affront to the rule of law, it’s worth keeping in mind what the late great Anglo-American journalist Sally Belfrage had to say about the three rules of US discourse:
Never mean what you say.
Never say what you mean.
Be sincere.

In painting critical reporting on the Iowa caucuses debacle as a Russian plot, a Western government-backed information warfare shop smeared…
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