Matt Taibbi: It’s Official – Russiagate is This Generation’s WMD
The Iraq war faceplant damaged the reputation of the press. Russiagate just destroyed it.
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Facebook Erases Hundreds of Alternative Media Pages in Mass Purge
This Real News Network segment with journalist Max Blumenthal and EFF’s David Greene discusses Facebook’s new practice of erasing popular alternative media pages that had millions of likes and suspending anti-war and anti-police brutality accounts, in coordination with Twitter.
Read more...The Trump-Media Logrolling
Looking at who the media has silenced in the Trump era, such as critics of America’s wars and of Israel.
Read more...Debunking the Putin Panic with Stephen F. Cohen
Professor Stephen F. Cohen stresses that while there is much to criticize Putin for, many US political and media claims about him are false and reckless,
Read more...Bill Maher Leads Attack on Larry Wilkerson over Trump Meeting with Putin
Larry Wilkerson is roughed up by Bill Maher for the crime of saying taking steps to avert nuclear war with Russia is a good idea.
Read more...Reader Coping Strategies for Engaging With Committed Liberals
Reader survival strategies for dealing with dogmatic friends and colleagues.
Read more...The Left as the New Enemy Within: Domestic Wargaming Exercise Includes “Progressive” AntiGlobalist Baddies, Um, Terrorists
Apparently needing to justify spending and domestic surveillance, military exercises depict leftie future terrorists as official threats.
Read more...PropOrNot – Setting Up the Atlantic Council for Lawsuits
Some sleuthing into who might be backing the low-life hit men at PropOrNot, a group linked to Ukrainian fascists that defamed Naked Capitalism, ConsortiumNews, Counterpunch, the Ron Paul Institute, Paul Craig Roberts, Black Agenda Report, and other sites.
Read more...The CIA Bull in Glenn Simpson’s Russia Shop
Russia case was a black job assigned by Republican candidates for president, then the Democratic National Committee, to discredit Trump in favor of Hillary Clinton.
Read more...Lee Camp: How To Create NPR’s Propaganda – As Seen In a Hit Piece Against Me
NPR stoops to intellectually and factually dishonest bashing of comedy host Lee Camp. Not the behavior of a confident elite.
Read more...What Do Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Dick Cheney, Oprah Winfrey, Erin Brockovich, Stephen Hawking, Harrison Ford, Robert Kennedy, Jr., Jon Krakauer, Michelle Obama, Dan Rathers, Malcolm Gladwell, and Yours Truly Have in Common? Smeared by a Soros-Funded Think Tank for Appearing on RT
Another day, another McCarthyite blacklist, this one of people who have appeared on RT, which turns out to be quite a star-studded list.
Read more...John Helmer: Lunatic Russia-Hating in Washington Is 70 Years Old. It Started with Joseph Alsop, George Kennan and the Washington Post
The upper class origins of Russia-hating in the US.
Read more...Mark Ames: When Mother Jones Was Investigated for Spreading Kremlin Disinformation
Mother Jones’ sad transformation from target of Kremlin scaremongering to perp in its “evil Putin” reincarnation.
Read more...Board Member JJ Jelincic Calls Out CalPERS’ “Roy Cohn,” General Counsel Matt Jacobs
CalPERS board member JJ Jelincic shows the lengths to which the board and staff will go to silence dissident board members.
Read more...Vanity Fair Acts as Democratic Party Enforcer Against Greenwald, NC, Others; Train Wreck Ensues
James Wolcott had a hissy fit in Vanity Fair last week against parties he deems not sufficiently fixated on toppling Trump, including NC.
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