Tag Archives: Russiagate

The Ex-Prime Minister of Ukraine, Mykola Azarov, (2010 - 2014) has today in Moscow spoken in defense of American political adviser, Paul Manafort, who for a long time advised the Ukrainian government, and is now under charges in the United States. I was amazed when formal charges were brought against Manafort, whom I have known for many years personally, met dozens of times, talked for hours. And when they tell me that this man is accused of plotting against the US and pursuing a hostile...

Leonid Bershidsky calls BS. The Facebook ads placed by a Russian troll farm and released on Wednesday by the U.S. Congress Intelligence Committee show that the Russian propaganda campaign of 2016 didn't favor either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. Instead, it mocked and goaded America, holding up a distorted but, in the final analysis, remarkably accurate mirror.This directly contradicts previous U.S. intelligence community assessments. "We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered...

Professor Robinson considers Russiagate in the light of applying scientific method and finds the methodology wanting.IrrussianalityBasic scientific methodPaul Robinson | Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa

Not even Glenn Beck would draw so many far-fetched connections. This is my impression, too.Conventional economic studies are rigorous formally but based on questionable assumptions about the real world and little if any hard evidence.The sociology of Russiagate is similar in a different way since there is zero rigor. However, it is based on hugely ideological tacit assumptions and the conclusions are more allegation based on inference than chargeable offenses based on evidence.Both are just...

Whether preplanned or inadvertent, one of the most likely and far-reaching consequences of the fake news RussiaGate scandal is that Facebook and other social media giants might soon come under strict regulation by the state.The artificially contrived and “deep state”-driven RussiaGate scandal has been inflated to epic proportions and has already resulted in the unexpected suicide of the US’ soft power, but this never-ending conspiracy theory is now poised to affect the rest of the world in...

There are two competing explanatory narratives battling for mind-share in the U.S.: 1. The nation's social discord is the direct result of Russian social media meddling-- what I call the Boris and Natasha Narrative of evil Russian masterminds controlling a vast conspiracy of social media advertising, fake-news outlets and trolls that have created artificial divides in the body politic, or exacerbated minor cracks into chasms. 2. The nation's social discord is the direct result of soaring...

This is why HRC lost. (snark)RTRT reveals its top promoted tweets during US election campaign, & the results may surprise you “The most expensive Twitter ad [at $12,000] on RT America was about Bernie Sanders – not Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, but Bernie Sanders. Meddling for Trump? The most expensive Twitter ad was about Bernie Sanders – RT Editor-in-Chief

Getting some perspective that the US media is not only not providing but is also constructing a narrative based on inference and insinuation rather than evidence.Consortium NewsSorting Out the Russia Mess Robert Parry See also Making stuff up. Wall Street On ParadeRussia Probe: New York Times Writes Its Own IndictmentPam Martens and Russ Martens Also Russia’s criminal prosecution authorities have expressed their appreciation for the indictments published in Washington on Monday...

Inquiring mind want to know just who is "colluding" here? The American ConservativeThe Plot to Bring Down Trump Patrick J. Buchanan See alsoScott Ritter pulls out his magnifying glass and looks at the Democratic side of the story. It's not pretty. The Democratic Law Firm Behind the Russian Collusion Narrative Scott Ritter, former Marine Corps intelligence officer who served in the former Soviet Union implementing arms control treaties, in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert...

$100,000 is exactly the amount the Comintern gave in the 1920s to organize a campaign against John L. Lewis leading the mine union. No, I am not adjusting for inflation, so in real terms the sum in the 20s was much higher. The Comintern also gave at least $35,000 to start the Daily Worker, again that is a nominal figure from the 1920s. The American Communist Party received subsidies too. Many other communist subsidies, media and otherwise, remain hidden or at least uncertain....