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How the CIA Really Won Hearts and Minds
In ‘Patriotic Betrayal,’ author Karen M. Paget meticulously documents the agency’s long infiltration of student groups around the world. But she avoids the most important question: Why?
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‘Tricky Dick’ vs. the Pink Lady
Nixon’s victory over Helen Gahagan Douglas was one of the nastiest in history, and a prototype for today's GOP smear tactics. In an exclusive excerpt from The Pink Lady, Sally Denton revisits the infamous Senate campaign.
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The FBI, My Husband, and Me
What I know now about Ted, whose photographs documented the 1960s, and about J. Edgar Hoover’s attempts to label him a Soviet spy. By Shirley Streshinsky. (June 6, 2016)
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Surveillance Valley: On Blacklists and Russia ‘Hacking’ American Democracy
Where’s the evidence? So much effort has been thrown at implicating the Russians in some way and none of the evidence has stuck — time and time again the evidence fizzles and people move onto the next big scandal that also evaporates on closer inspection… By Yasha Levine.
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Washington Post Disgracefully Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist From a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group
With the help of uncritical journalists, a story about “fake news” ended up disseminating far more than it exposed. By Ben Norton, Glenn Greenwald.
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The Fake News Fake Story
Blame the media, not Moscow. By Philip Giraldi.
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Why Are Media Outlets Still Citing Discredited ‘Fake News’ Blacklist?
The publicizing of an anonymous blacklist is a prime example of how fake real news on real fake news spreads without question. By Adam Johnson.
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The New Red Scare
Reviving the art of threat inflation. By Andrew Cockburn.
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The Democrats “Russia Hacking” Campaign is Political Suicide
The Democratic Party is doing incalculable damage to itself by shapeshifting into the party of baseless conspiracy theories, groundless accusations, and sour grapes. By Mike Whitney.
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Twitter blocks government ‘spy centers’ from accessing user data
ACLU investigation revealed fusion centers could access monitoring tech to target activists and journalists while racially profiling people deemed ‘suspicious.’ By Sam Levin.
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The Deranged Twitter Thread That Proves Establishment Liberals Have Lost Their Minds
Why did establishment liberals fall in love with a deranged Twitter thread? It’s time for some game theory. By Sam Kriss.
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WashingtonsBlog: What The Russian Hacking Report Doesn’t Say
Today, the Department of Homeland Security and FBI released a report alleging Russian hacking. The report itself is only five and a half pages long in large print...
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Something About This Russia Story Stinks
Nearly a decade and a half after the Iraq-WMD faceplant, the American press is again asked to co-sign a dubious intelligence assessment. By Matt Taibbi.
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U.S. Intelligence Got the Wrong Cyber Bear
The U.S. government's technical report on Russian hacking identifies a tool that is readily available. By Leonid Bershidsky.
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DefenseOne: Weaponized Narrative Is the New Battlespace
And the U.S. is in the unaccustomed position of being seriously behind its adversaries. By Brad Allenby and Joel Garreau, co-directors of the Weaponized Narrative Initiative.
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Young Russian denies she aided election hackers: ‘I never work with douchebags’
White House claims Alisa Shevchenko was involved in hacking the US election but in an interview she says authorities misinterpreted facts or were fooled. By Shaun Walker and Sam Thielman.
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WashPost Is Richly Rewarded for False News About Russia Threat While Public Is Deceived
In the current D.C. climate on Russia, all relevant journalistic incentives encourage and reward false news. By Glenn Greenwald.
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On Whitewashing Russia: Power-worshippers Only See Black-and-White
“The media never intended to learn anything from Iraq except how to better peddle fables, and it hasn’t even learned that.” By Jason Hirthler.
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American Unintelligence on Russia
America’s case against the Kremlin suffers from major flaws that should be acknowledged, even by those who argue that Russia hacked U.S. democratic institutions, says Kevin Rothrock.
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Russia, Trump & Flawed Intelligence
A close reading of the intelligence report on Russian interference in the US election shows that it does nothing to clarify the abnormalities of Trump’s campaign and election. Instead, it suggests that the US intelligence agencies’ Russia expertise is weak. By Masha Gessen.
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