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How the Left Lost Its Mind
Polemicists, conspiracists, and outright fabulists are feeding an alternative media landscape—where the implausibility of a claim is no bar to its acceptance. By McKay Coppins.
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Democrats with dreams of impeachment should consider how Iran-Contra turned out
The investigation brought indictments and convictions — but Reagan weathered the storm. By Nicole Hemmer.
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How Cold War philosophy permeates US society to this day
When Cold War philosophy tied rational choice theory to scientific method, it embedded the free-market mindset in US society. By John McCumber.
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Russiagate Is More Fiction Than Fact
From accusations of Trump campaign collusion to Russian Facebook ad buys, the media has substituted hype for evidence. By Aaron Maté.
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Vladimir Putin: Computer Genius?
One fundamental issue with models is that they do not cope well with change, such as the kind that happens in an election race, or, for that matter, a war. By Andrew Cockburn.
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Senate Democrats worry Russia could jeopardize reelection bids
A warning from the Senate Intelligence Committee has vulnerable lawmakers fretting about election security. By Kyle Cheney, Elana Schor, Cory Bennett.
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Louise Mensch Is More Dangerous than Facebook
This isn't the first time a capitalist model designed to maximize profit failed us socially, but it might be the first time such a failure is sanctioned by the constitution. By Roger Sollenberger.
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Hillary Clinton Just Told Five Blatant Lies About WikiLeaks
As part of her ongoing “Thank God You Didn’t Elect Me” tour, Hillary Clinton made her debut on Australian television last night... By Caitlin Johnstone. (Oct. 16, 2017)
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Fear and loathing on Hillary Clinton’s grievance tour
I bought a $200 ticket to Hillary Clinton's book event. All I got was her aggrieved fingerpointing. By Matthew Walther.
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Is This Professor ‘Putin’s American Apologist’?
How Stephen F. Cohen became the most controversial Russia expert in America. By “Tailgunner” Jordan Michael Smith.
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Google will ‘de-rank’ RT articles to make them harder to find – Eric Schmidt
Eric Schmidt says that Google will “engineer” specific algorithms to make RT and Sputnik less prominent on the search engine’s news feeds.
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America’s Righteous Russia-gate Censorship
Arriving behind the anti-Trump “resistance” and the Russia-gate “scandal” is a troubling readiness to silence dissent in the U.S., shutting down information that challenges Official Narratives, writes Robert Parry.
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Turkey pardoned by Trump had multiple contacts with Russian officials
Grav E. Gobbles, a 4-year-old bird from western Minnesota, received a pardon Tuesday during a ceremony in the Rose Garden. But how Gobbles was able to secure a presidential pardon has come under scrutiny, sources say. By Paul Sharpe. [Satire]
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The Scalp-Taking of Gen. Flynn
The Russia-gate prosecutors have taken the scalp of ex- National Security Adviser (and retired Lt. Gen.) Flynn for lying to the FBI. But this case shows how dangerously far afield this “scandal” has gone, reports Robert Parry.
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US ‘orchestrated’ Russian spies scandal, says Kaspersky founder
Eugene Kaspersky, head of Kaspersky Labs, hits out at FBI, media and government actors he claims organised a smear campaign. By Alex Hern.
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Dasvidaniya, Donna Brazile, the Dismal Dollar Democrat
To say that Brazile brings an insiders’ view to the 2016 election is an understatement. By Paul Street.
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While Dems Babbled About Russia, GOP Passed Trickle-Up Economics Tax Bill
Yesterday my social media feeds were ablaze with people celebrating the latest new “bombshell” Russiagate revelation, which, as always, turned out to be nothing once the facts rolled in. Less than nothing, in fact... By Caitlin Johnstone.
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Russiagate, Swine Emperor Trump And Me
After months of carefully explaining my politics every time I wrote about Russiagate, I finally sat down to explain my position in essay form. By Nina Illingworth.
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How Russia-gate Rationalizes Censorship
The Russia-gate hysteria has spread beyond simply a strategy for neutralizing Donald Trump or even removing him from office into an excuse for stifling U.S. dissent that challenges the New Cold War, reports Joe Lauria.
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Why the Deep State Is at War With Trump
If you were a Martian visitor just disembarked from of one of Elon Musk's rocket ships and were therefore uninfected by earth-based fake news, the culprits in Washington's witch-hunt de jure would be damn obvious. By David Stockman.
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