CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—The short, low-energy Daily Beast blurb went viral by reporting on another arm-flailing Russiagate “bombshell” by the Washington Post, whose sole owner is a CIA contractor and dangerous oligarch. WaPo’s article revolves around a pseudonymous writer with alleged ties to the Kremlin who succeeded in getting published by numerous alternative media outlets, most notably in CounterPunch.
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Jill Stein in the Crosshairs: the Russia Investigation Shifts to Clinton’s Political Rivals
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If Hillary Clinton Had Won, We’d Be Even Worse
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RT Television DARES to Challenge the French Intelligentsia!
18 minutes readThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. ALL CAPTIONS…
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Rise and Decline of the Welfare State: Class Struggle and Imperial Wars as the Motor Force of US History
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