Jake Sullivan, Hillary strategy advisor had a KEY role in launching Russia-gate hoax – he is now national security advisor to Biden.
Same people that launched the Russia-gate hoax are now hollering that Russia invasion of Ukraine is "imminent". All to "save democracy" there -- in order to distract from the fact that St. Obama organized in 2014 bloody coup against democratically elected Ukraine government.
St. Obama installed Biden and his CIA pal Brennan as de facto governors of Ukraine -- immensely enriching US "elite" and posting and removing government members, judges and heads of industry with billions of corrupting cash -- in "fight against corruption".
US War party’s key exports are – coups, wars and all-encompassing corruption.
Best of luck to your continuing efforts as independent journalists in the best tradition of I.F.Stone’s Weekly newsletter. The last few weeks of hysterical MSM Ukraine-related propaganda have destroyed any remaining credibility they may have had. Your work is desperately needed.
Thank you, Chris. We think of it this way. We're growing but small. Ev'one does what they can, and doing what you can must be enough because it is what you have to offer.
Oh, how I miss Stephen Cohen! His knowledge and reasoned analyses seemed to keep Russiagate and the unending Ukraine crisis from tipping over into the complete hysteria we are experiencing today. I am increasing my subscription level in his memory and hope that my fellow subscribers will do the same. Patrick, would it not help to add $10 and $20 per month levels to help you reach your goals? And thank you, THANK YOU for “The Scrum!”
For those wondering why the war hysteria has been turned up to eleven lately, keep in mind Biden has his first real State of the Union speech, March 1st. Look for the declarations of victory to start several days prior.
The irony is that Ukraine could get its best possible deal with Russia right now. What would Putin give, to have Zelensky sitting across a medium sized table, discussing the security and economics agreements they just signed.
Keep in mind that Zelenskii was elected, over vociferous American objections, on an explicit policy of peace and reconciliation with Russia. For that matter, Poroshenko was elected as a relative moderate. Of course, both did a 180 immediately after taking office, and neither would have been allowed to make a deal now, lest their American masters visit Ukraine with:
Maidan3.0
Assassination
Western prosecutors suddenly take a keen interest in their financial dealings, and in the case of Zelenskii, those of I.V. Kolomoiskii (Zelenskii's oligarch sponsor)
The IMF suddenly expresses dissatisfaction with Ukraine's anticorruption efforts, such that the latest aid tranche will unfortunately be suspended indifinitely....
I guess it's getting moot at this point. I would say it doesn't seem likely Russian oil will be crossing Ukraine for the foreseeable future. The Russians can just say the pipelines have been decertified.
As someone obsessed with the physics underlaying social activities, one point that's been churning around my head for awhile, is that synchronization is centripetal, while harmonization is centrifugal. So we have nodes and networks, organisms and ecosystems, particles and fields.
Which reflects in our instinctive herding tendencies to fall in line, even when we think we are being open minded, given the enormity of the cultural foundations and numbers of people involved. So that when one of these maelstroms takes hold, it is beyond deterring and ultimately serves as educational for those dealing with the consequences.
Yes, it's obvious with various historical religious and ideological movements, but our own modern, Western culture has become unmoored for a number of reasons. Very few people have much connection to nature, most young people have been drowned in torrents of information that even those of us watching it evolve over the last half century can't quite appreciate.
Yet, like all such dynamics, it will implode, like some star going supernova.
The irony here, is that Russia is probably the most prepared, even far more than China.
They had their reality check, with the fall of the Soviet Union, while Communist China has essentially transitioned into China Inc. They have sufficient resources and a military focused on self defense.
So what happens if they just fight over the eastern provinces and we sanction them. What's our next move? That ship of burning Bentleys and Porches seems quite symbolic.
Your memory is long and your reading wide, Harrison. You remind me of Peking Review, which was printed on onion-skin paper in the late-Mao days. "... capitalists and their running dogs..." was a familiar phrase.
Not quite as serious a charge as "lying dog-faced pony soldiers," of course.
My thanks to all commenters, and certainly to those who have responded with subscriptions.
Recall the debate between Noam Chomsky and Andrew Marr:
Over the course of 30 minutes discussing the politics of the media on BBC2’s The Big Idea, the seemingly unprepared Marr, who would become the editor of the Independent in 1996, is repeatedly corrected and out-argued by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor.
Chomsky begins by summarising the propaganda model he developed in the late 1980s with Edward Herman, which they argue shows the media “serve to mobilise support for the special interests that dominate the state and private activity.”
Discombobulated, Marr says: “I was brought up like a lot of people, probably post-Watergate film and so on, to believe that journalism was a crusading craft and there were a lot of disputatious, stroppy, difficult people in journalism.”
Chomsky doesn’t dispute there are people like this in the media but argues the propaganda model can be applied to US media coverage of the Vietnam war and Watergate.
For Chomsky, one of the roles “of the liberal intellectual Establishment,” within which the New York Times, BBC and Guardian operate, “is to set very sharp bounds on how far you can go. This far and no further.”
“How can you know that I’m self-censoring?” Marr asks.
To which Chomsky replies: “I’m not saying you’re self-censoring. I’m sure you believe everything you’re saying. But what I’m saying is that if you believe something different, you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting.”
Outrage to Old Stream Media "OSM" reveals a naivete. OSM has long abandoned any pretense of being anything other than what they are, "PR firms for a powerful sector of the ruling class.” It still serves a function for their silo but that is a diminished ageing model. CNN is learning that.
I am not sure why anyone would be blown away by OSM coverage to the Durham Report.
By way of constitutionally sanctioned, nominally impartial government institutions, Burt? Rather essential distinction, I'd say. See John Merryman's note just below.
Russiagate was not about spying. It was about utilizing the bureaucracy to control the outcome.
When they do finally destroy the underlaying structure, it's not the laptop warriors who get the last laugh, but the oligarchs, cartels and warlords. Look south of the border, if you want to see where we are headed in a decade or two, given current trends.
Then only when the forces pulling society back together are harder than those pulling it apart, will it get back up and heal. Society is a function of responsibilities, with rights as reward. We have lost sight of that.
Jake Sullivan, Hillary strategy advisor had a KEY role in launching Russia-gate hoax – he is now national security advisor to Biden.
Same people that launched the Russia-gate hoax are now hollering that Russia invasion of Ukraine is "imminent". All to "save democracy" there -- in order to distract from the fact that St. Obama organized in 2014 bloody coup against democratically elected Ukraine government.
St. Obama installed Biden and his CIA pal Brennan as de facto governors of Ukraine -- immensely enriching US "elite" and posting and removing government members, judges and heads of industry with billions of corrupting cash -- in "fight against corruption".
US War party’s key exports are – coups, wars and all-encompassing corruption.
Samizdat.
When the old tree is half dead and mostly a haven for termites, the end is inevitable.
Best of luck to your continuing efforts as independent journalists in the best tradition of I.F.Stone’s Weekly newsletter. The last few weeks of hysterical MSM Ukraine-related propaganda have destroyed any remaining credibility they may have had. Your work is desperately needed.
Thank you, Chris. We think of it this way. We're growing but small. Ev'one does what they can, and doing what you can must be enough because it is what you have to offer.
Oh, how I miss Stephen Cohen! His knowledge and reasoned analyses seemed to keep Russiagate and the unending Ukraine crisis from tipping over into the complete hysteria we are experiencing today. I am increasing my subscription level in his memory and hope that my fellow subscribers will do the same. Patrick, would it not help to add $10 and $20 per month levels to help you reach your goals? And thank you, THANK YOU for “The Scrum!”
For those wondering why the war hysteria has been turned up to eleven lately, keep in mind Biden has his first real State of the Union speech, March 1st. Look for the declarations of victory to start several days prior.
The irony is that Ukraine could get its best possible deal with Russia right now. What would Putin give, to have Zelensky sitting across a medium sized table, discussing the security and economics agreements they just signed.
Keep in mind that Zelenskii was elected, over vociferous American objections, on an explicit policy of peace and reconciliation with Russia. For that matter, Poroshenko was elected as a relative moderate. Of course, both did a 180 immediately after taking office, and neither would have been allowed to make a deal now, lest their American masters visit Ukraine with:
Maidan3.0
Assassination
Western prosecutors suddenly take a keen interest in their financial dealings, and in the case of Zelenskii, those of I.V. Kolomoiskii (Zelenskii's oligarch sponsor)
The IMF suddenly expresses dissatisfaction with Ukraine's anticorruption efforts, such that the latest aid tranche will unfortunately be suspended indifinitely....
I guess it's getting moot at this point. I would say it doesn't seem likely Russian oil will be crossing Ukraine for the foreseeable future. The Russians can just say the pipelines have been decertified.
As someone obsessed with the physics underlaying social activities, one point that's been churning around my head for awhile, is that synchronization is centripetal, while harmonization is centrifugal. So we have nodes and networks, organisms and ecosystems, particles and fields.
Which reflects in our instinctive herding tendencies to fall in line, even when we think we are being open minded, given the enormity of the cultural foundations and numbers of people involved. So that when one of these maelstroms takes hold, it is beyond deterring and ultimately serves as educational for those dealing with the consequences.
Yes, it's obvious with various historical religious and ideological movements, but our own modern, Western culture has become unmoored for a number of reasons. Very few people have much connection to nature, most young people have been drowned in torrents of information that even those of us watching it evolve over the last half century can't quite appreciate.
Yet, like all such dynamics, it will implode, like some star going supernova.
The irony here, is that Russia is probably the most prepared, even far more than China.
They had their reality check, with the fall of the Soviet Union, while Communist China has essentially transitioned into China Inc. They have sufficient resources and a military focused on self defense.
So what happens if they just fight over the eastern provinces and we sanction them. What's our next move? That ship of burning Bentleys and Porches seems quite symbolic.
Not lying dog faced pony soldiers, Patrick. From your part of the world - Running Dog lackeys of the capitalist, imperialist warmongers.
Your memory is long and your reading wide, Harrison. You remind me of Peking Review, which was printed on onion-skin paper in the late-Mao days. "... capitalists and their running dogs..." was a familiar phrase.
Not quite as serious a charge as "lying dog-faced pony soldiers," of course.
My thanks to all commenters, and certainly to those who have responded with subscriptions.
Diana: Many thanks. Shall write you separately.
Burt! Really, Burt!
Bravo!
Your news is always insightful. Charlie LeDuff is a news reporter that is also independent at No BS News Hour. He is interesting to listen to.
https://www.nobsnewshour.com/
Recall the debate between Noam Chomsky and Andrew Marr:
Over the course of 30 minutes discussing the politics of the media on BBC2’s The Big Idea, the seemingly unprepared Marr, who would become the editor of the Independent in 1996, is repeatedly corrected and out-argued by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor.
Chomsky begins by summarising the propaganda model he developed in the late 1980s with Edward Herman, which they argue shows the media “serve to mobilise support for the special interests that dominate the state and private activity.”
Discombobulated, Marr says: “I was brought up like a lot of people, probably post-Watergate film and so on, to believe that journalism was a crusading craft and there were a lot of disputatious, stroppy, difficult people in journalism.”
Chomsky doesn’t dispute there are people like this in the media but argues the propaganda model can be applied to US media coverage of the Vietnam war and Watergate.
For Chomsky, one of the roles “of the liberal intellectual Establishment,” within which the New York Times, BBC and Guardian operate, “is to set very sharp bounds on how far you can go. This far and no further.”
“How can you know that I’m self-censoring?” Marr asks.
To which Chomsky replies: “I’m not saying you’re self-censoring. I’m sure you believe everything you’re saying. But what I’m saying is that if you believe something different, you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/uncovering-ignorance-bbcs-big-beasts
Outrage to Old Stream Media "OSM" reveals a naivete. OSM has long abandoned any pretense of being anything other than what they are, "PR firms for a powerful sector of the ruling class.” It still serves a function for their silo but that is a diminished ageing model. CNN is learning that.
I am not sure why anyone would be blown away by OSM coverage to the Durham Report.
Any serious political campaign "spies" on their opponents campaign.
By way of constitutionally sanctioned, nominally impartial government institutions, Burt? Rather essential distinction, I'd say. See John Merryman's note just below.
Russiagate was not about spying. It was about utilizing the bureaucracy to control the outcome.
When they do finally destroy the underlaying structure, it's not the laptop warriors who get the last laugh, but the oligarchs, cartels and warlords. Look south of the border, if you want to see where we are headed in a decade or two, given current trends.
Then only when the forces pulling society back together are harder than those pulling it apart, will it get back up and heal. Society is a function of responsibilities, with rights as reward. We have lost sight of that.