Posts Tagged ‘russiagate’

US flatly rejects Assange’s Russiagate testimony

     The rejection by ‘Russiagate’ investigators in the US to interview WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange shows that they are not interested in hearing him out, journalist Max Blumenthal told RT. Assange, who is currently incommunicado in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, reportedly offered – through an intermediary – to talk to US investigators about the […]

US has no interest in hearing what Julian Assange can freely say about Russiagate – Max Blumenthal

Assange, who is currently incommunicado in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, reportedly offered – through an intermediary – to talk to US investigators about the release of DNC documents by WikiLeaks during the 2016 US election campaign. Assange willing to testify on alleged Russian hacking US intelligence claims that WikiLeaks acted on behalf of Russia […]

Trump instructs Kelly to get Russiagate docs released to Congress

     President Trump left a Monday meeting with FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein with an agreement on future steps to facilitate the release of Russia-probe documents to Congress. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said the men “agreed that White House Chief of Staff Kelly will immediately set up a […]

Jill Stein Breaks the Silence on Being a Russiagate Target

Jill Stein breaks silence, completing handover of documents to Senate Committee. (Full Statement) “We are facing a precarious historic moment. Democracy is threatened by interference in our elections, and by interference in our civil liberties. Likewise we are endangered by warmongering, rampant militarism, nuclear confrontation and accelerating climate change. To solve any of these interlinked […]

Whether it’s Russiagate, Skripal or Syria, the Media Have Lost Their Grip on Reality

Despite a series of collapsing mainstream narratives, the establishment can’t help but doubling (and tripling) down on their government-issued official conspiracy theories. Paul Mansfield 21st Century Wire The “Blame Russia” for absolutely everything world we currently occupy has reached a point almost beyond return and is scaling heights that would turn Joseph McCarthy green with […]

The Untold Story: Russiagate and the Media’s Authoritarian Turn

NEW YORK — Published 25 years ago this fall, Mark Danner’s 22,000-word article for the New Yorker magazine recreated, in painstakingly vivid detail, the 1981 massacre of nearly 800 villagers by a  Salvadoran Army brigade hunting for communist guerrilla fighters: Through the window she saw soldiers leading groups of men from the little whitewashed church […]

‘Hold my beer and watch this!’ – Russiagate and the demise of western culture

The Saker Rattlesnakes have a terrible reputation.  Here were I live, in Florida, we have the biggest rattlesnakes on the planet, the Eastern Diamondback (Crotalus adamanteus).  They are huge and can reach well over 2m (6ft) in length and weigh up to 15kg (30lbs).  The Eastern Diamondback’s venom is not the most potent out there, […]

Mueller witness in Russiagate probe has a history of pedophilia – but no connection to Russia

     How did George Nader – Lebanese-American businessman, globe-trotting “fixer,” convicted child molester – get caught up in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation? The answer, it seems, can be found in the shadows, where Nader has long operated. His long history included intrepid back-channel mediation between Israel and Arab countries – and a 15-year-old pedophilia […]

Trump Promotes Longtime Russia Hawk Just As Russiagate Loses Momentum

Trump Promotes Longtime Russia Hawk Just As Russiagate Loses Momentum Above Photo: Mike Pompeo speaking at the 2012 CPAC in Washington, D.C. February 2012. (Flickr Gage Skidmore) Rex Tillerson, whose hotly scrutinized ties to Russia have been a centerpiece of Rachel Maddow’s conspiratorial ravings for many months, has been fired. Replacing him as Secretary of State will be […]

Stephen Cohen: Russiagate as Historical Amnesia or Mass Denialism

Many aspects of Russiagate are said to be unprecedented—which is very far from the truth… Stephen F. Cohen, professor emeritus of Russian studies and politics at NYU and Princeton, and John Batchelor continue their (usually) weekly discussions of the new US-American Cold War. (Previous installments, now in their fourth year, are at TheNation.com) Russians pride themselves […]

‘Progressive’ Journalists Jump the Shark on Russiagate

‘Progressive’ Journalists Jump the Shark on Russiagate A lack of skepticism has characterized much of the reporting on Russiagate, with undue credibility being given to questionable sources like the Steele dossier, and now progressives like Jane Mayer and Cenk Uygur are joining the bandwagon. Jane Mayer of The New Yorker and Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks […]

How "Russiagate" helps the Israel lobby

Ali Abunimah Lobby Watch 6 March 2018 Ever since Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 US presidential election, the Democratic Party establishment has held tightly to the belief that her shock defeat was not the result of her and their shortcomings, but rather due to a nefarious Russian plot to “hack” the election in “collusion” with […]

Antedote Radio: The Consequences of Ignoring the Real “Russiagate” Scandal

Greg McCarron and Jeremy Rothe Kushel discuss an article by Australian blogger Caitlin Johnstone in which she tries to prove that “Russiagate” is a media and government created myth. While Caitlin speaks important truths about why no one should believe the US government based on its long history of lies and deceptions, Caitlin appears to […]

Real Goal Of “Russiagate” Is To Prepare For Endless Austerity Fnd War

Real Goal Of “Russiagate” Is To Prepare For Endless Austerity Fnd War Above Photo: From Blackagendareport.com “The ruling circles of the imperial superpower set out to destabilize and call into disrepute the government of the home country.” Robert Mueller, the former head of the national political police (FBI), has indicted 13 Russian nationals for the crime of […]

Skeptics who see Russiagate as warmongering will never get respect in the press

A week ago I prepared a draft of a post about Russiagate, intending to revise it and publish; but since then I was scooped by everyone–even in one limited respect by freaking Ross Douthat who is the least obnoxious conservative columnist at the New York Times. (Actually, on his best days, or the others’ worst, […]

#Russiagate debunked – proof that a Russian BOT farm just placed adverts on Facebook for click-bate

#Russiagate debunked – proof that a Russian BOT farm just placed adverts on Facebook for click-bate and money The Jimmy Dore Show This show by Jimmy Dore proves that #Russiagate is a load of bull and the troll farm is just placing adverts on Facebook, half of them after the election, to get clickbate and […]

UK COLUMN: BREXIT Slipping, Assange Deconstructs Russiagate, Oxfam Corruption Crisis

BREXIT looking more unlikely, Julian Assange tears apart the latest Russian Troll indictment, UN and Oxfam corruption crisis and more. UK Column News anchor Mike Robinson and guest host Patrick Henningsen with yesterday’s news round-up. Watch: . START – Brexit: EU will crumble in Brexit talks… 03:14 – UK accounts for 40% of EU spending […]

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Russiagate

“An epidemic terror seized upon the nations,” wrote Charles Mackay in his 1841 masterpiece, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. “It was a crime imputed with so much ease, and repelled with so much difficulty, that the powerful, whenever they wanted to ruin the weak, and could fix no other imputation upon them, […]

The comprehensive guide to and history of the ‘Russiagate’ hoax

     The first thing to say is that Russiagate has nothing whatsoever to do with any Russia meddling in the US or any other election, or “subverting American democracy”. Its about money and power – isn’t it always? Background Russia and China refuse to become vassal states of the US Empire. They conduct their own […]

Russiagate ‘investigation’ only aimed at bringing Trump down

     An investigation has been launched to find out whether the campaign of US President Donald Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election, an allegation dismissed both by Moscow and Washington. Trump says he is willing to talk to Special Counsel Robert Mueller who is tasked with investigating Moscow’s alleged meddling in […]

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