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Amazon founder and Washington Post CEO Jeff Bezos gets on an elevator for a meeting between President-elect Donald Trump and technology industry leaders at Trump Tower in New York, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016. (AP/Evan Vucci)
WASHINGTON — Barely two months have passed since Donald Trump’s inauguration, and the new administration has been plagued by a series of scandals and controversies directly related to a flood of unauthorized leaks to the press.

Traditional Russian wooden dolls called Matryoshka are displayed at a souvenir street shop in St.Petersburg, Russia. (AP/Dmitri Lovetsky)
UNITED NATIONS — Despite President Donald Trump’s divisive policies and inflammatory rhetoric, many of his opponents have instead concentrated for months on hurling accusations of collusion with Russia against him.

By Gareth Porter | Consortium News | February 25, 2017 Opponents of the Trump administration have generally accepted as fact the common theme across mainstream media that aides to Donald Trump were involved in some kind of illicit communications with the Russian government that has compromised the independence of the administration from Russian influence. But […]

By Robert Parry | Consortium News | February 22, 2017 A grave danger from the Western mainstream media’s current hysteria about “fake news” is that the definition gets broadened from the few made-up stories that are demonstrably false – often fabricated by kids to get more clicks – to include reasonable disputes about the facts […]

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Fleeing to Canada is no longer an option By Philip Giraldi • Unz Review • February 21, 2017 Liberals are supposed to be antiwar, right? I went to college in the 1960s, when students nationwide were rising up in opposition to the Vietnam War. I was a Young Republican back then and supported the war […]

Michael Flynn’s extraordinary resignation, less than a month after Donald Trump took office has shocked the political establishment in the US. But what are the wider implications for the US and wider world?
1. Trump’s War Against MSM and The Deep State Will Continue
The proximate cause leading to Flynn’s resignation were anonymous leaks given to msm, including the stridently anti-Trump Washington Post. If anything, Trump who has made his disdain for mainstream media abundantly clear, will now be all the more vociferous in his attacks on the old guard.

By Stephen J. Sniegoski • Unz Review • February 15, 2017 The media has generally presented Trump as being ignorant and nonsensical in his discussion of American policies, and one example is his negative references to NATO as obsolete. The mainstream media is aghast that any political leader of the U.S. could possibly take a […]

Exclusive: President Trump’s acceptance of National Security Advisor Flynn’s resignation marks Official Washington’s first big success in neutering Trump and killing hopes for a détente with Russia, reports Robert Parry. By Robert Parry The neocon-dominated U.S. foreign policy establishment won…Read more →

Mainstream journalists have betrayed their calling By Philip Giraldi • Unz Review • February 7, 2017 The Editorial page of The Washington Post newspaper generally holds to its current progressive-dominated program consisting of anti-racism, pro-diversity plus multiculturalism, “choice,” LGBTQ “rights,” and, ironically, constant war. It is not noted for its sense of humor except on […]