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Tucker Carlson of Fox News hosts US Russian expert and Professor Emeritus Stephen F. Cohen, who is a contributor to The Nation. He is married to The Nation's publisher, Katrina vanden Heuvel.We are unlikely to see him on the Rachel Maddow Show at MSNBC, where one would expect a liberal.It's turning into a topsy-turvy world.Fox News InsiderRussian Studies Prof: Criticisms of Trump Over Putin Presser Are 'Like Mob Violence' Tucker Carlson Tonight

17 Jul 2018 — The Times writes that Ecuador and the UK are in high-level talks to evict Assange. In times of dissent and with the most conservative Supreme Court of Justice ever, the expulsion of Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy and subsequent prosecution will reverse the rights of those who dare to challenge power and tell the truth, in the US and all over the World. His crime is to expose war crimes and government conspiracies against the rights of the many. Prosecuting Julian...

Paul Diesing: "The most serious deficiency of implicit formal theories is that the verbal language disguises the abstractness of the theory … The consequence of the fallacy of misplaced concreteness is that the theory looks too convincing to its proponents​ … He becomes​ the prisoner of his own logical model and is rendered incapable​ of seeing reality from any other standpoint …" Mistaking a map for the territory.  Classic error.  Virtually everyone makes it by mistaking their map...

Live right now. I know this show can be like watching paint dry but it's quite good at the moment. It's all about Russiagate, [embedded content] President Trump's refusal to accept U.S. Intelligence agencies assessments regarding Russian election interference is being heralded by mainstream as "defiant" a "blunder" and all manner of negative descriptors. Are these not the same intel agencies that insisted Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, hurling the world into 17 years of...

The entire “liberal” media and political establishment of the Western world reveals its militarist, authoritarian soul today with the screaming and hysterical attacks on the very prospect of detente with Russia. Peace apparently is a terrible thing; a renewed arms race, with quite literally trillions of dollars pumped into the military industrial complex and hundreds of thousands dying in proxy wars, is apparently the “liberal” stance. Political memories are short, but just 15 years after...

In the last few decades, China has made huge progress in science and technology. This new age of innovation has seen the birth of ‘unicorn’ tech companies like media giant Tencent, the ‘Uber of China’ Didi Chuxing, and the world’s biggest drone builder, DJI.Now, for the first time, China has broken into the top 20 of a global list of the most innovative economies.The latest Global Innovation Index singles out China for its rapid transformation into an innovation powerhouse. It has risen...

So many people subject themselves to self-imposed austerity.

Yeah, just keep ’em coming, right, so that when the last one falls flat on its face people will have already forgotten about it and instead focus on the new one. It’s been the modus operandi of the US MSM ever since Donald Trump emerged as an actual presidential candidate, and they haven’t let go.They realize by now that it divides the nation, it costs them a large chunk of their potential readers and viewers, and creates chaos all around, but the bottom line is it makes them money. Because...

This is the second and final part in my response to the Social Europe article by Stuart Holland (July 11, 2018) – Not An Abdication By The Left – where he attempts to eviscerate various writers who have dared to suggest that the “social democratic Left in Europe … has run out of ideas” or that “there has been an intellectual abdication by the Left”. He uses his experience as an advisor to Harold Wilson in the 1960s and to Jacques Delors in the early 1990s as an ‘authority’ for his rejection...

Another shoe drops. Short.Sic Semper Tyrannis Editorial - China hacked Clinton's e-mailCol. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.) At the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lang was the Defense Intelligence Officer (DIO) for the Middle East, South Asia and counter-terrorism, and later, the first Director of the Defense Humint Service. At the DIA, he was a member of the Defense Senior Executive Service. He participated in the drafting of National Intelligence Estimates. From 1992 to 1994, all the U.S....