Tag Archives: Russian hacking

Chris Hedges: The Ruling Elite’s War on Truth

November 27, 2020 · by · in capitalist system, corporate media, Election, Media

“Never mind that both ruling parties are silent about the massive interference in our elections by Israel, which uses its lobbying groups to lavishly fund political candidates in both parties and flies members of Congress and their families to Israel for junkets at seaside resorts. Israel’s intrusion in our political process, including when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress in 2015, without informing then President Barack Obama, to attack the president’s Iran nuclear deal, dwarfs that of any other country, including Russia.”

Noam Chomsky: Media Obsession with Russia and the Stories Not Being Covered in the Trump Era

August 25, 2018 · by · in capitalist system, climate change, Trump presidency

The fate of organized human society, even of the survival of the species, depends on this [US relations with Russia].

A Consensus Emerges: Russia Committed an “Act of War” on Par With Pearl Harbor and 9/11. Should the U.S. Response be Similar? by Glenn Greenwald

February 19, 2018 · by · in corporate media, Government/Politics, manufacturing consent, Trump presidency · 4 Comments

Demanding that everyone agree that “punishment” toward Russia is warranted (upon pain of being found guilty of bad citizenship), while failing to specify what punishment would be just, warranted and rational. To do that is to deliberately beat the drums of war, cultivate an atmosphere of belligerence and aggression, without any limits or notions of proportionality.

Robert Parry | The Politics Behind ‘Russia-gate’

March 7, 2017 · by · in manufacturing consent, Media, Militarism, U.S. Foreign Policy

There is a grave danger in playing partisan “gotcha” over U.S. relations with the world’s other major nuclear superpower

Evergreene Digest | Urgent to Progressives: Stop Fueling the Anti-Russia Frenzy

March 6, 2017 · by · in Government/Politics, International Relations, Militarism, U.S. Foreign Policy

Progressives who treat anti-Russia propaganda spin as fact, in order to weaken Trump, are encouraging a kind of McCarthyism. Of all the good reasons to “delegitimate” Trump, alleged Kremlin intervention in the election should rank low. Focus should instead be on his greed, pathological lying, enthusiasm for oligarchy, bigotry, environmental destruction, racism, misogyny, economic injustice, […]

Glenn Greenwald | The New Yorker’s Big Cover Story Reveals Five Uncomfortable Truths About U.S. and Russia

March 1, 2017 · by · in corporate empire, Election, International Relations, Militarism, U.S. Foreign Policy · 1 Comment

Democratic media outlets have … predictably cheered this opus for exposing “Russian President Vladimir Putin’s influence on the presidential election.”

David Price | Rogue Elephant Rising: The CIA as Kingslayer

February 19, 2017 · by · in Government/Politics, International Relations, Militarism, U.S. Foreign Policy · 1 Comment

Price: I know no reason to trust the CIA and other intelligence agencies any more than we trust Trump.

HERE’S THE PUBLIC EVIDENCE RUSSIA HACKED THE DNC – IT’S NOT ENOUGH

December 14, 2016 · by · in Election, Media, Militarism, U.S. Foreign Policy

The refrain of Russian attribution has been repeated so regularly and so emphatically that it’s become easy to forget that no one has ever truly proven the claim.