.@ggreenwald raises very important points regarding #RussiaGate story, brings forth much-needed skepticismhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvfuClgEMz0 …
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“the defense team is seeking a wealth of information on what the US knows about the trolling operation, including a full list of fake social media accounts, the names of suspected co-conspirators, details of electronic surveillance by US“https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-troll-farm-goes-after-muellers-files …
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@colinkalmbacher: “Mueller’s prosecutors were apparently caught off-guard by those requests–it’s been widely assumed that no one named in the February indictment would even bother to respond to the accusations, much less fight back against them”https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/is-robert-muellers-russian-troll-farm-indictment-falling-apart/ …Show this thread -
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@BMarchetich: to believe that Russian troll campaign destroyed American democracy is to believe that “poorly worded Russian Facebook ads, not systemic oppression, are the cause and fuel of anger, rebellion, and discord”https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/05/russia-troll-2016-election-interference-ads …Show this thread -
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@ggreenwald: “the informant used by the FBI in 2016 to gather information on the Trump campaign was [someone whose] decades of work for the CIA [...] is quite publicly known.”https://theintercept.com/2018/05/19/the-fbi-informant-who-monitored-the-trump-campaign-stefan-halper-oversaw-a-cia-spying-operation-in-the-1980-presidential-election/ …Show this thread -
Very informative interview by
@kthalps with@aaronjmate on the flaws of the#Russiagate narrative, why it makes for bad opposition to Trump, and how it actually serves the bipartisan political elites:https://soundcloud.com/katie-halper/aaron-mate-on-trumps-collusion-with-israel …Show this thread -
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@aaronjmate: "While it’s certainly possible that Mueller will make new indictments that go to the core of his case, what’s been revealed so far [in the 5 guilty pleas, 20 indictments, and over 100 charges] does not make a compelling brief for collusion"https://www.thenation.com/article/mueller-indictments-still-dont-add-collusion/ …Show this thread -
In this must-watch video,
@jeremyscahill breaks down how#RussiaGate is a misnomer, as there is strong evidence indicating that the Trump team actually colluded with Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the UAEhttps://theintercept.com/2018/06/10/more-than-just-russia-theres-a-strong-case-for-the-trump-team-colluding-with-saudi-arabia-israel-and-the-uae/ …Show this thread -
Yet more evidence that the Trump collusion that actually took place was not with Russia:https://twitter.com/rgoodlaw/status/1012657518303219712 …
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@aaronjmate does it again, and exposes the many flaws of the Russiagate conspiracy theory in this excellent interview with@Isikoffhttps://youtu.be/eoFe05u787sShow this thread -
If, as
@adamentous reports here, Israel, Saudi Arabia & the UAE, countries that enjoy "unparalleled influence" with the Trump Administration, had to help Trump's team to communicate with Russian officials, doesn't this story undermine#Russiagate?https://bit.ly/2L73g91Show this thread -
how convenient... and thus Russiagate continues to be a totally evidence-free zonehttps://twitter.com/DougHenwood/status/1017823197251751936 …
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Lo and behold, here’s the purpose of these indictments: https://www.businessinsider.de/trump-cancel-putin-summit-after-mueller-indictments-2018-7?r=US&IR=T … Interestingly, Stephen F. Cohen in his weekly discussion with
@batchelorshow warned of the possibility of attempts to sabotage the Trump-Putin meeting: https://www.thenation.com/article/summitgate-campaign-vs-peace/ …Show this thread -
Just a reminder that the guy whose words are to be taken at face value in
#Russiagate lied about Iraq’s WMDshttps://youtu.be/mNeqrTbkZmMShow this thread -
So Gallup did a poll on what Americans see as the largest (non economic) problem facing the country, and the 'Situation with Russia' is literally too small to even represent a number. https://news.gallup.com/poll/1675/most-important-problem.aspx …pic.twitter.com/oN49tYRIVe
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Actual meddling, with actual evidence &actual consequences: “In a video clip aired Tuesday by Israeli television, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasted that Israel was responsible for US President Donald Trump’s decision to quit the Iran nuclear deal.”https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-recording-netanyahu-boasts-israel-convinced-trump-to-quit-iran-nuclear-deal/ …
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“The gap between elite and public priorities highlights an endemic problem that long predates Trump. Since his election, however, the elite fixation on alleged Russian meddling and the president’s suspected collusion has exacerbated that divide.”https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1022529666496782337?s=21 …
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@SuziWeissman talks to@SethAckerman about the meaning and implications of mainstream-media reporting on Russia, and to Hille Ticktin of@UofGlasgow on what drives anti-Russia animus in the US https://www.blubrry.com/jacobin/35937049/jacobin-radio-russiagate/ …Show this thread -
Thread on how Russiagate hysteria crowds out important coverage and discussion about Saudi Arabia/UAE meddling in US politicshttps://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1025185154220916741?s=21 …
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@jricole: “there is increasing evidence that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were part of the plot to put Trump into office and then to manipulate him, a story the Washington press often ignores in favor of a sole fixation on Russia”https://www.juancole.com/2018/08/problem-erratic-savagely.html …Show this thread -
"Russia condemned a new round of U.S. sanctions as illegal on Thursday after news of the measures sent the rouble tumbling to two-year lows and sparked a wider asset sell-off over fears that Moscow was locked in a spiral of never-ending curbs by the West."https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-sanctions/russia-reels-cries-foul-after-u-s-sanctions-spiral-escalates-idUSKBN1KU13C …
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@PatPorter76: “amid the U.S. foreign policy establishment’s fascination for the extent of Trump’s collusion with Putin, its almost Trumpian fixation with televisual optics ... it neglects the prosaic details of concrete commitments” https://warontherocks.com/2018/08/crisis-and-conviction-u-s-grand-strategy-in-trumps-second-term/ …pic.twitter.com/NP1DbyMJUl
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American scholars Stephen Cohen and John Mearsheimer discuss Russiagate: “Any fool could’ve told you that by bringing in countries on Russia’s borders, with historical grievances against Russia, was going to diminish everybody’s national security”https://youtu.be/SJBQikfYyKs
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@Gallup: “Although U.S.-Russian tensions continue to simmer, more Americans are inclined to believe the U.S. is better off trying to improve relations with Russia.” https://news.gallup.com/poll/241124/favor-diplomacy-sanctions-russia.aspx …pic.twitter.com/y7AKxFqq7y
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Interestingly, this new Gallup poll indicates that the more one is exposed to the highly propagandized media coverage of Russiagate, the more hostile towards Russia one becomes https://news.gallup.com/poll/241124/favor-diplomacy-sanctions-russia.aspx …pic.twitter.com/xsnpxk5UvJ
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The Lanny Davis CNN Trump Tower story sheds light into into the kind of anonymous sourcing common in much of the Russiagate reporting. Important to keep in mind whenever reading Trump-Russia stories https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stevenperlberg/lanny-davis-cnn-trump-tower-story …pic.twitter.com/dMTaxTEgsY
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On the “Trump/Russia story, the U.S. media has repeatedly and frequently ... gotten major stories completely wrong, always in the same direction: exaggerating the threat posed by Russia to the U.S., and concocting evidence of Trump/Russia collusion”https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1034530620813258757?s=21 …
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@aaronjmate: "Mueller has uncovered criminal activity, but not as of yet a conspiracy with a foreign power. ... The Russiagate fixation has diverted attention from many of Trump’s damaging policies"https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1040322823896674304 …Show this thread -
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@freedomrideblog: “Putin is a multi-purpose villain. He is blamed for the vote theft conducted by white Americans against black people that resulted in the Donald Trump presidency.”https://www.blackagendareport.com/freedom-rider-russiagate-covers-black-vote-theft …Show this thread -
Yet more evidence of the biggest scandal no one talks about—
#Israelgatehttps://twitter.com/dfriedman33/status/1040605067320209411?s=21 …
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“Bob Woodward said that in his two years of investigating for his new book, 'Fear,' he found no evidence of collusion or espionage between Trump and Russia. Woodward said he looked for it "hard" and yet turned up nothing.”https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/09/14/woodward_no_evidence_of_collusion_between_trump_and_russia_i_searched_for_two_years.html …
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