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'Deep State' winsÂ… Trump is being tamed to toe the line
Post Date: 2017-01-13 08:15:46 by Ada
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.Finian Cunningham (born 1963) has written extensively on international affairs, with articles published in several languages. Originally from Belfast, Ireland, he is a Master’s graduate in Agricultural Chemistry and worked as a scientific editor for the Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, England, before pursuing a career in newspaper journalism. For over 20 years he worked as an editor and writer in major news media organizations, including The Mirror, Irish Times and Independent. Now a freelance journalist based in East Africa, his columns appear on RT, Sputnik, Strategic Culture Foundation and Press TV. US Elections 2016 Donald Trump “finally concedes” Russia hacked ...
Neocons Have Declared War on Donald Trump
Post Date: 2017-01-13 07:40:26 by Ada
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After several rather lame false starts, the Neocons have now taken a step which can only be called a declaration of war against Donald Trump. Published with the permission of the author. First appeared on The Saker It all began with CNN published an article entitled “Intel chiefs presented Trump with claims of Russian efforts to compromise him” which claimed that: Classified documents presented last week to President Obama and President- elect Trump included allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump, multiple US officials with direct knowledge of the briefings tell CNN. The allegations were presented in a ...
US Spy Chief Presents Third-Party Debates as Proof RT Is Anti-US
Post Date: 2017-01-09 06:34:11 by Ada
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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s latest report on the alleged “election hacking” by Russia includes a substantial section focused around the idea that Russian government-funded channel RT is overtly anti-American. This is a common enough accusation, but when set out in a multi-page report format, a lot of the charges fall remarkable short. Nowhere was this more apparent, however, than on the first page of the Annex on RT, which presented the fact that RT America hosted US presidential debates which included third-party candidates. There has of course been long-standing annoyance among many in the US that the “mainstream” US media’s ...
RussiaGate: Fire the CIA!
Post Date: 2017-01-08 10:48:05 by Ada
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The latest on the RussiaGate Scandal is that, while the U.S. intelligence hydra does not have a “smoking gun” to prove Russia hacked the election, they have “assessed” that Russia is the likely suspect. Okay, now, in the United States, do we sentence people to prison based on suspicions without a court conviction? Oh, wait, yes we do. In Guantanamo. Ok, well, what does “assess” mean anyway? The dictionary definition is: “to estimate or judge the value, character, etc., of; evaluate”. So, we’ve taken out sanctions on Russia because of a guess, basically. “We guess Russia did it. So we must punish them!” Gosh, I bet a hypothesis could ...
U.S. Foreign Policy and the Campaign to Destabilize the Trump Presidency
Post Date: 2017-01-06 17:32:41 by Ada
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Introduction Obama has formally accused Moscow of interfering in the US elections on behalf of Donald Trump. These are serious allegations. Whereas the sanctions are directed against Russia, the ultimate intent is to undermine the legitimacy of president-elect Donald Trump and his foreign policy stance in relation to Moscow. According to the US media, the sanctions against Moscow were intended to ”Box in President-elect Donald J. Trump” because Trump “has consistently cast doubt” that Putin was involved in the alleged hacking of the DNC. In an earlier report on Kremlin meddling, the NYT (December 15) depicted Donald Trump as “…a Useful Idiot”… an ...
Purge the CIA
Post Date: 2017-01-06 07:19:49 by Ada
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They’re a threat to the republic Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified at a hearing on “Russian interference” in the election that there’s a difference between “skepticism” of the intelligence community’s assessment and “disparagement” of said community. While stopping short of asking for a “safe space,” this admitted liar used the opportunity to cry on the shoulders of Donald Trump’s assembled enemies: “We’re not perfect,” he burbled, but hey everybody makes mistakes. Clapper’s remarks were clearly aimed at Trump, who has tweeted his contempt for the effort by the CIA and allied agencies ...
Will Trump Transform the CIA?
Post Date: 2017-01-06 07:03:20 by Ada
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What to expect from his new director The midnight oil is burning over at the Central Intelligence Agency as senior managers consider options relating to how to play new president Donald Trump and new director Mike Pompeo, neither of whom possesses any serious understanding either of intelligence operations or of how to lead 20,000 often difficult-to-manage employees. With the exception of the 1976 turnover that followed shortly after the devastating Church Commission report and simultaneously brought in Jimmy Carter as president and Admiral Stansfield Turner as director, the agency has always been able to control the transitions and wind up on the right side of those in power. It has ...
Obama Seized Enough Land and Water in 8 Years to Cover Texas Three Times
Post Date: 2017-01-05 11:55:04 by Ada
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Last week, in one of his final moves out of the Oval Office, Obama executively designated more than 1.5 million acres of land as national monuments, preserving their untouched façade while closing them to human expansion, development, energy use, ranching or state or local jurisdiction. In a move ignored by the liberal media last week, Obama unilaterally seized more than 1.3 million acres from Utah to establish the Bears Ears Monument, preserving it at the behest of conservationist groups and Native American tribes who claimed the land was sacred. Utah’s state legislature, however, opposed the unilateral land grab across party lines, with many speculating that Obama’s ...
Let All Opposed to War Praise Trump’s ‘Treasonous’ Tweet
Post Date: 2017-01-05 08:46:57 by Ada
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When President Obama expelled Russian diplomats over the hysterical and unproven accusation of “hacking the election” on December 29, Russian President Vladimir Putin refused to be drawn into a petty squabble, saying he would delay any response until Donald Trump assumed office. Instead, Putin’s response was to issue an invitation to American diplomats and their families in Moscow to join the official holiday celebrations in the Kremlin. Then came the shock from President-Elect Trump, in the form of a tweet (what else) heard round the world that read: “Great move on delay (by V. Putin) – I always knew he was very smart!” And to be sure that everyone saw it, ...
US Senator Warns Trump, Americans Against Listening to WikiLeaks Founder Assange
Post Date: 2017-01-04 19:45:19 by Ada
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US Senator Lindsey Graham called on US citizens and President-elect Donald Trump not to listen to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on "anything," as the latter "has a history of undermining American interest." WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — President-elect Donald Trump should place his faith in the US Intelligence Community rather than in WikiLeaks founder and head Julian Assange regarding the issue of Russian hacking of the 2016 presidential election, US Senator Lindsey Graham stated on Wednesday. "Mr. Assange is a fugitive from the law hiding in an embassy who has a history of undermining American interest," Graham told CNN. "I hope no American will be ...
Obama’s Deadly Afghan Acquiescence
Post Date: 2017-01-04 08:26:19 by Ada
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Occasionally a New York Times writer like Mark Landler will be permitted to step up to the plate and write a sensible article about President “No Guts Obama” and how he caved in to folks whom he lacked the political courage to cross. Landler’s Jan. 1 article shows, among other things, how Obama’s bowing to heavyweights like Gen. David Petraeus, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ended up getting thousands of people killed and prolonging the fool’s-errand Afghan war. The pity, of course, is that Landler’s piece, “The Afghan War and the Evolution of Obama,” comes eight years too late. There is a lot of numbness out ...
Good News: US Frozen out of Syria Peace Plan
Post Date: 2017-01-03 05:33:38 by Tatarewicz
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Support RI... As the US mainstream media obsessed last week about Russia's supposed “hacking” of the US elections and President Obama’s final round of Russia sanctions in response, something very important was taking place under the media radar. As a result of a meeting between foreign ministers of Russia, Iran, and Turkey last month, a ceasefire in Syria has been worked out and is being implemented. So far it appears to be holding, and after nearly six years of horrible warfare the people of Syria are finally facing the possibility of rebuilding their lives. What is so important about this particular ceasefire? It was planned, agreed to, and implemented without the ...
What Is The Obama Regime Up To?
Post Date: 2017-01-02 10:48:22 by Ada
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Obama has announced new sanctions on Russia based on unsubstantiated charges by the CIA that the Russian government influenced the outcome of the US presidential election with “malicious cyber-enabled activities.” The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a report “related to the declaration of 35 Russian officials persona non grata for malicious cyber activity and harassment.” The report is a description of “tools and infrastructure used by Russian intelligence services to compromise and exploit networks and infrastructure associated with the recent U.S. election, as well as a range of U.S. government, political and private sector ...
Is Trump About to Debunk the Media’s ‘Putin-gate’ Conspiracy Theory?
Post Date: 2017-01-02 09:01:58 by Ada
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Cold war drama fizzling fast “It wouldn’t be a bad opening for a Tom Clancy novel about the Cold War” – that’s how the Los Angeles Times described the sequence of events leading up to the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats (“spies”) and the latest face-off between Washington and Moscow. Indeed the whole episode of has about it a fictional aura, which is, after all, only appropriate, since the entire basis of this latest cold war drama is pure invention. The Russian “spy nest” had supposedly been in use since 1972 – but our Keystone Kops were just now getting around to dismantling it. Oh well, better late than never! It’s a 45-acre ...
Escalating the Risky Fight with Russia
Post Date: 2016-12-30 07:12:28 by Ada
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Exclusive: To box in President-elect Trump, the neocons and liberal hawks are pushing for “crippling sanctions” against Russia that they see as crucial to their dangerous “regime change” agenda in Moscow, reports Robert Parry. The neocons and their liberal-interventionist chums never seem to think through one of their “regime change” schemes. It’s enough that they wrote the plan down in some op-ed article or reached a consensus at a think-tank conference. After that, all there is to do is to generate the requisite propaganda, often accompanied by intelligence “leaks” and maybe some heartbreaking photos of children, to rile up the American ...
Christmas Crackers, Moscow-Style
Post Date: 2016-12-28 07:16:24 by Ada
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If something went wrong, Putin must have done it. My wife is English, so every Christmas we include in our celebration holiday crackers. For those unfamiliar with British traditions, the crackers are cardboard tubes wrapped in decorated paper. When you pull on the ends they pop open with a bang, and inside there is a paper crown to commemorate the visit by the three kings as well as a small gift item. This year my cracker would not pop open, a failure that I chose to attribute to Vladimir Putin. On Facebook it is possible to find numerous accounts of mishaps where someone eventually comments, “Putin did it.” It is, of course, a joke—but it is a reflection of how the ...
New Year’s Resolutions for Donald Trump and Congress
Post Date: 2016-12-28 05:52:39 by hondo68
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In the spirit of New Year’s, here are four resolutions for President-elect Trump and Congress that will enable them to really make America great again: 1) Audit the Fed….and then end it: The Federal Reserve Bank's easy money policies have eroded the American people’s standard of living and facilitated the growth of the welfare-warfare state. The Fed is also responsible for the growth in income inequality. Yet Congress still refuses to pass Audit the Fed, much less end it. During the campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump promised that Audit the Fed would be part of his first 100 days agenda. Unfortunately, he has not spoken of auditing the Fed or another aspect of monetary ...
Sanctioning Evil
Post Date: 2016-12-27 09:34:07 by Ada
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President Obama did something recently that no president had done since Bill Clinton in 1995: he allowed a bill to become law without his signature. According to the “presentment clause” in article I, section, 7, clause 2 of the Constitution: Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall ...
Wielding Claims of ‘Fake News,’ Conservatives Take Aim at Mainstream Media
Post Date: 2016-12-27 09:10:37 by Ada
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Rush Limbaugh in 2012. On his radio show, Mr. Limbaugh accused the mainstream media of spreading fake news, saying, “They just make it up.” Credit Julie Smith/Associated Press WASHINGTON — The C.I.A., the F.B.I. and the White House may all agree that Russia was behind the hacking that interfered with the election. But that was of no import to the website Breitbart News, which dismissed reports on the intelligence assessment as “left-wing fake news.” Rush Limbaugh has diagnosed a more fundamental problem. “The fake news is the everyday news” in the mainstream media, he said on his radio show recently. “They just make it up.” Some supporters of ...
Russia, Ukraine and Donbass republics
Post Date: 2016-12-24 07:14:12 by Ada
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Russian President Vladimir Putin says Russia is “stronger than any potential aggressor” because it has modernized its nuclear missiles and other forces. He also said the US withdrawal in 2001 from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty had “created the conditions for a new nuclear arms race.” Putin: “Dear comrades,(Уважаемые товарищи) Russia is stronger than any potential aggressor” The US Department of State immediately went into an overdrive trying to proclaim that the US military is stronger than Russia’s defense forces. The Russia’s Foreign ...
Election Therapy From My Basket of Deplorables
Post Date: 2016-12-24 06:45:48 by Ada
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WASHINGTON — First I had to deal with the president-elect scolding. During his interview with The New York Times on Tuesday, Donald Trump chided me twice for being too tough on him. Sitting next to our publisher, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Trump invited everyone around the table to call him if they saw anything “where you feel that I’m wrong.” “You can call me, Arthur can call me, I would love to hear,” he said. “The only one who can’t call me is Maureen. She treats me too rough.” Then I had to go home for Thanksgiving and deal with my family scolding me about the media misreading the country. I went cold turkey to eat hot turkey: no therapy ...
Putin: Russian ambassador's murder provocation aimed at undermining Syria peace process
Post Date: 2016-12-19 16:29:31 by Ada
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The fatal attack on Russia's ambassador to Turkey, who was killed by a gunman on Monday, is "clearly a provocation" aimed at undermining both Russian-Turkish relations and the settling of the Syrian crisis, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. "This murder is clearly a provocation aimed at undermining the improvement and normalization of Russian-Turkish relations, as well as undermining the peace process in Syria promoted by Russia, Turkey, Iran and other countries interested in settling the conflict in Syria," Putin said in a statement on Monday evening. READ MORE: Russian ambassador to Turkey dies after gun attack in Ankara – Foreign Ministry The ...
Washington’s Commandos Without Borders
Post Date: 2016-12-19 07:50:18 by Ada
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When Donald Trump enters the Oval Office, awaiting him will not only be his own private air assassination corps (those CIA drones that take out terror suspects globally from a White House "kill list"), but his own private and remarkably secret military. Ever since John F. Kennedy first made the Green Berets into figures of military glamour, there’s always been something alluring to presidents about the U.S. military’s elite special ops forces. Still, that was then, this is now. In the twenty-first century, the Special Operations Command, which oversees those elite forces cocooned within the regular military, has gained ever more power to act in ever more independent ...
Trump taps Boehner foe (Mick Mulvaney, House Freedom Caucus) as budget chief
Post Date: 2016-12-18 16:11:36 by hondo68
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Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C.(Photo: Alex Brandon / AP file photo)President-elect Donald Trump said he will nominate Representative Mick Mulvaney, a founding member of an outspoken group of fiscal conservatives who helped oust a former U.S. House speaker, to be director of the Office of Management and Budget.“We are going to do great things for the American people with Mick Mulvaney,” Trump said Saturday in an e-mailed statement. “Right now we are nearly $20 trillion in debt, but Mick is a very high-energy leader with deep convictions for how to responsibly manage our nation’s finances and save our country from drowning in red ink.”Since arriving in Congress as part of ...
CIA meddled in ‘hundreds’ of elections: Ron Paul
Post Date: 2016-12-17 01:54:55 by Tatarewicz
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RT US government “propagandists” push for a foreign policy of “intervening around the world,” former presidential candidate and founder of the Institute for Peace and Prosperity, Dr. Ron Paul, told RT in a wide-ranging interview that also touched on Syria. Read more Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pp Jonathan Ernst Clinton blames FBI director & Russia for her defeat Following reports that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for personally directing a cyberattack that cost her the 2016 presidential election, Dr. Paul shrugged off the allegations as a “fiasco” in an interview with RT’s Neil ...
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