If there is one thing the last 48 hours have proved to me, it’s this. Donald Trump is no longer acting President. The coup against Trump has been completed. May as well have elected HRC.Zero Hedge Luongo: "The Coup Is Complete - Trump Is Done" Tom LuongoSee alsoRussia InsiderBody Language Expert: Trump Acting 'Defeated', Like He's 'On the Run' (Video) Mark Bowden
Read More »Rand Paul — Deep State Exists, Uses Intelligence for Political Purposes
Paul pointed out that he believed Obama-era CIA Director John Brennan, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and others used intelligence collected “without any judicial warrants” for political purposes, in addition to “try to bring Trump down.”... The AntiMediaRand Paul: Deep State Exists, Uses Intelligence for Political Purposes Truth In Media
Read More »Steven Chovanec — In Venezuela, It’s “Democracy” if US-Backed Candidates Are Empowered, “Tyranny” if They Are Not
Control of the narrative runs from the US deep state through the "lamestream" media where propaganda poses as journalism. In this article, Maduro can be replaced with Putin, and Venezuela with Putin. It's the same script. TruthoutIn Venezuela, It's "Democracy" if US-Backed Candidates Are Empowered, "Tyranny" if They Are NotSteven Chovanec, Truthout | News Analysis
Read More »Monmouth University Polling Institute — Public Troubled by ‘Deep State’
A majority of the American public believe that the U.S. government engages in widespread monitoring of its own citizens and worry that the U.S. government could be invading their own privacy. The Monmouth University Poll also finds a large bipartisan majority who feel that national policy is being manipulated or directed by a “Deep State” of unelected government officials. Americans of color on the center and left and NRA members on the right are among those most worried about the reach of...
Read More »Ray McGovern — Former CIA Chief Brennan Running Scared
In the crosshairs? Not just Brennan either. None of the leaking, unmasking, surveillance, or other activities directed against the Trump campaign can be properly understood, if one does not bear in mind that it was considered a sure thing that Secretary Clinton would become President, at which point illegal and extralegal activities undertaken to help her win would garner praise, not prison. But she lost. The "perfect crime" that wasn't. Now "the gang that couldn't shoot straight" is...
Read More »Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn — Meet the CIA: Guns, Drugs and Money
Eye-opener, if you are not up on this stuff. Your government at work.CounterpunchMeet the CIA: Guns, Drugs and MoneyJeffrey St. Clair - Alexander Cockburn
Read More »Andrew McCarthy — Was the Steele Dossier the FBI’s ‘Insurance Policy’?
In conclusion, while there is a dearth of evidence to date that the Trump campaign colluded in Russia’s cyberespionage attack on the 2016 election, there is abundant evidence that the Obama administration colluded with the Clinton campaign to use the Steele dossier as a vehicle for court-authorized monitoring of the Trump campaign — and to fuel a pre-election media narrative that U.S. intelligence agencies believed Trump was scheming with Russia to lift sanctions if he were elected...
Read More »Putting Trumpgate and Russiagate to bed – links
Deep state plot outed.Consortium News The Scary Void Inside Russia-gate Stephen F. Cohen The Foundering Russia-gate ‘Scandal’ Robert Parry Protecting the Shaky Russia-gate Narrative Robert Parry Russia-gate’s Litany of Corrections Robert Parry Sucking Liberals into a New Cold War William Blum Russia-gate’s Reach into Journalism Dennis J. Bernstein Sic Semper TyrannisFake News, Sedition and Public Apathy Your Trump Dossier Cheat Sheet Publius TacitusIrrussianalityThe latest...
Read More »Philip M Giraldi — How America’s Deep State Operates to Control the Message
It is not possible to overstate the power of certain constituencies and corporate lobbies in the United States. These pressure groups, joined by powerful government agencies, many of which have secret agendas that focus on national security, constitute what is increasingly being recognized as “Deep State America.” Deep State is the widespread belief that there exists in many countries an entrenched and largely hidden infrastructure that really controls the national narrative and runs...
Read More »Philip Giraldi — How I Got Fired
Apropos in light of all the furor over "Russian influence," what about Israeli influence through the American neocons? Philip Giraldi had the temerity to ask and found that it is not only politically incorrect, but it is also a firing offense.The Unz ReviewHow I Got Fired Philip Giraldi | former counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, and a founding...
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