The implosion of the collusion theory is a humiliation for everyone who promoted it.
Analysis
Michael Tracey: Never forget the Trump-Russia moral panic
By fearmongering far beyond the evidence, the media and politicians did a huge disservice to the public…
Montage: Mainstream Media Hype About Russia Collusion
“The Intercept” co-founder Glenn Greenwald tweeted this video of CNN, ABC, and MSNBC anchors and Democratic politicians declaring the end of the Trump presidency over “bombshells” in the Russia investigation.
Mueller Madness: The media pundits who got it most wrong
Special counsel Robert Mueller has definitively put to rest the collusion theory of President Trump’s election. That’s not a little embarrassing for the many journalists, talking heads, celebrities and instant experts who spent more than two years furiously speculating about a treasonous rendezvous and the president’s imminent arrest.
Peter van Buren: It Was All A Lie
Robert Mueller has come up empty handed, exposing two years of relentless Russiagate propaganda and the media that sold it.
Jeff Carlson: Spygate: The True Story of Collusion
In some respects, the media has played the most disingenuous of roles. Areas of investigation that historically would have proven irresistible to reporters of the past have been steadfastly ignored. False narratives have been all-too-willingly promoted and facts ignored. Fusion GPS personally made a series of payments to several as-of-yet-unnamed reporters.
Democracy Now: Debate Between Glenn Greenwald and David Cay Johnston
On Monday, Russiagate skeptic, the Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald, debated investigative journalist David Cay Johnston on the results of the Mueller report.
GrayZone Project: Aaron Maté buries the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory
Russiagate has imploded after Robert Mueller’s investigation found no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion. The Grayzone’s Aaron Maté explains why the conspiracy theory was bogus from the beginning, and how corporate media outlets spent the past 2 years lying.
Andrew C. McCarthy: After Mueller’s Exoneration of Trump, Full Disclosure
The FISA applications, the testimony in secret hearings, the scope memorandum – all of it.
John Nichols: Release the Mueller Report—Immediately and Completely
If we want the truth, we must have transparency-immediately and completely.
Byron York: Five things that didn’t happen in the Mueller investigation
Even at this early moment, it is possible to note some things did not happen during the Mueller investigation.
Flashback: Dec. 12, 2016: GQ Magazine’s Keith Olbermann: Is There a Russian Coup Underway in America?
“We are at war with Russia,” intoned the former MSNBC anchor.
Matt Taibbi: It’s official: Russiagate is this generation’s WMD
The Iraq war faceplant damaged the reputation of the press. Russiagate just destroyed it.
The Hill: As Russia collusion fades, Ukrainian plot to help Clinton emerges
After nearly three years and millions of tax dollars, the Trump-Russia collusion probe is about to be resolved.
Stephen F. Cohen: The Cold War Ides of March
US Cold Warriors escalate toward actual war with Russia.
Tony Wood: Organization Over Ideals (re: A. James McAdams’s Vanguard of the Revolution)
A political scientist at Notre Dame, McAdams argues that, above and beyond the many local differences in origins and outlooks, the communist party should be understood as a single, globally recurring institution, its structures broadly replicated in a variety of places over time.
Patrick Lawrence: Why the Dust Won’t Settle After Mueller’s Report
It won’t be “full and thorough” and Democrats will continue to look for political payoff from Russia-gate, writes Patrick Lawrence.
PODCAST: Stephen F. Cohen at the Los Angeles World Affairs Council
Professor Stephen F. Cohen and Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, discuss the new Cold War and how it has been exacerbated by both Washington and the US mainstream media. The discussion was moderated by UCLA professor of political science and Russia expert Daniel Treisman.
Lyle Goldstein: A Forgotten Battle: Fifty Years Ago, Russia and China Slugged it Out
Russia’s commemoration of the Damansky Island battle has been low key, but the few Russian articles that have been published did not pull any punches.
Eurasianet: Kazakhstan’s leader resigns after almost 30 years in power
Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev announced on March 19 that he is resigning, thereby bringing a close to his almost three decade-long rule over the Central Asian nation