AARON MATE—Maddow not only cast Trump as a Russian stooge for daring to discuss – and possibly de-escalate – the Venezuelan crisis with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the top-rated liberal cable news host expressed sympathy for John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, the most militaristic members of the Trump administration.
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His resignation lays bare the astonishing rot in the establishment politics and media. The absence of real journalism in the US is dooming the American people and the nations it still controls.
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Why Are These Anti-Russian And Anti-Chinese Narratives So Similar? (And how Hillary might become vice-president)
30 minutes readMoA—The FBI, and others involved, knew very early on that the Steele dossier was a bunch of lies. But the issue was kept in the public eyes by continued leaks of additional nonsense. All this was to press Trump to take more and more anti-Russian measures which he did with unprecedented generosity. The accusations about a Trump-Russia connection were the ‘Russia bad’ narrative that pressed and allowed Trump to continue the anti-Russian policies of the Obama/Biden administration. A similar string of continuous policies from the Obama/Biden administration’s ‘Pivot to Asia’ and throughout the four years of Trump is the anti-China campaign.
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A Dem Presidency means The Return of the Blob
19 minutes readPEPE ESCOBAR—Michele Flournoy may be the epitome of the Return of the Blob: the quintessential, imperial functionary of what former CIA analyst Ray McGovern brilliant christened MICIMATT (the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank complex). The ideal imperial functionary thrives on discretion: virtually no one knows Flournoy outside of the Blob, so that means the whole planet.
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Why this clown, the “eunuch senator from Vermont”, after all the flim flam and betrayals still tries to inject his verbiage in the political debate is hard to fathom. Vanity? Lack of self-awareness? He’s got some nerve, that’s for sure. But the rest of the (admittedly execrable) political establishment never respected him, seeing him as a mere annoyance. A mosquito with a big ego and lot of very naive followers.