Consortium News Exclusive: The U.S. mainstream media finally has its “smoking gun” on Russia-gate — incriminating information from a junior Trump campaign adviser — but a closer look reveals serious problems with the “evidence,” writes Robert Parry.
21st Century Wire says…
While the mainstream press can’t wait to find out (or get illegally leaked Grand Jury details) about the next target of ‘Russian Collusion’ investigator and special counsel Robert Mueller, lest we forget that back in February 2003 it was Mueller who helped W. Bush, Dick Cheney and the rest of the neocon establishment sell the Iraq War.
Twitter’s pitch deck for RT?
21st Century Wire says…
In what appears to be a coordinated attack on RT and Sputnik, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey (@jack) has declared all advertising purchased by the two media outlets unfit for the online news and social networking service.
MEDIA MEDDLING: Jeremy Corbyn is now being smeared by Tory MP Michael Gove with the help of pro-war media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
21st Century Wire says…
As the wheels continue to come off of the Russiagate bandwagon, establishment media operatives are now resorting to more desperate tactics to try and defame any dissenters who veer away from the official party-line on all things Russian.
TAKING THE MICKEY: RT UK billboard campaign on London Underground pokes fun at US-led Russiagate campaign of hysteria.
Philip Giraldi
Unz Review
Finian Cunningham
Sputnik
Google is the latest US internet company to claim it found “Russia-linked” advertisements on its network – allegedly posted to influence the US presidential election last year.
WASHINGTON DC – This week the Senate Intelligence Committee finally gave an update on its continuing investigation into whether Russia actually had anything to do with the 2016 Election. If anyone was expecting any actual evidence to be presented, they would have been sorely disappointed, again.
As 21WIRE said last year, the Russian hacking, or Russiagate story was a political hoax from the start. What this story can now demonstrate, is that for the last 18 months, the entire mainstream media has been promulgating a highly politicised, and relentless campaign of fake news designed to implicate Russia in an imaginary scandal.
While it seemed as though the “Russiagate” hysteria was beginning to lose steam, corporate media outlets in recent weeks have worked to rekindle the scandal through a series of stories that purport to expose the meddling of the Russian government in last year’s U.S. presidential election.
