Desperation makes for poor strategy.
Doug Bandow: Madeleine Albright Is Back, but She Is Still Living in the Past
Bad advice is still bad advice.
Lucy Komisar: NY Times writes disinformation, but CFR panel doesn’t want to hear it
For mainstream media, “disinformation” is something the Russians do, and maybe the Chinese. When I confronted three mainstream journalists – two who made seamless moves into the U.S. government –with fake news by the New York Times, they presented pitiful excuses.
Tucker Carlson: Adam Schiff and His Claims of “Evidence of Collusion”
Rep. Adam Schiff and the entire apparatus of official Washington including, prominently, Evelyn Farkas and Susan Rice, has been exposed by the newly released House Intelligence Committee transcripts, as well as by the documents just released in the Michael Flynn case.
Maj. Danny Sjursen: The Sudden Martyrdom of the Government Whistleblower
Few see the irony in the corporate mainstream media’s love affair with the anonymous whistleblower in President Trump’s alleged Ukraine-gate affair. Yet everyone should.
Kimberly A. Strassel: The Russia-collusion narrative was pure fantasy
Mr. Barr’s transparency threatens to reveal further that the Russia-collusion narrative was pure fantasy.
Matt Korda: When Talking About the Climate Crisis, We Can’t Forget About Nuclear Weapons
Both are existential threats, but only one is getting the attention it deserves.
Glenn Greenwald: New Documents Reveal Broad Corruption in the Russiagate Investigations
The ability to distinguish between ideological questions from evidentiary questions is vital for rational discourse to be possible, yet has been all but eliminated at the altar of tribal fealty.
Nikolas K. Gvosdev: Where Will Ukraine Go from Here?
Russia’s longstanding effort to bypass Ukraine as its conduit to Western markets will soon be completed, while changes in both European and American political priorities and strategic assessments may diminish the importance of Ukraine.
Gerard Baker: Evidence is growing Obama bent the rules over Russian collusion
Every presidency gets a reappraisal at some point.
Max Blumenthal: DC’s Atlantic Council raked in funding from Hunter Biden’s corruption-stained employer
The shady arrangement between the Atlantic Council and Burisma – the gas company at the center of the ‘Ukrainegate’ scandal – is just one dubious deal out of many at a DC think tank that has become a clearinghouse for legal corruption.
Rand Paul: Unmasking Flynn ‘was a conspiracy of high ranking Obama officials’
Senator Rand Paul, R-KY, on requesting DNI Grenell testify on Flynn unmasking.
VIDEO: Krystal Ball: Does Defending Andrew Yang Make me a Russian Plant?
Krystal Ball gives Rising a Russia pop quiz.
WSJ Editorial: All the Adam Schiff Transcripts
Americans expect that politicians will lie, but sometimes the examples are so brazen that they deserve special notice.
Ann Wright: ‘Planet So Small We Must Live in Peace’
Ann Wright reports on her citizen-to-citizen trip to Russia. Everywhere, including in Siberia, memories of World War II are still fresh.
Paul Robinson: The Narcissism of Russiagate
It’s not been a great week for proponents of Russiagate conspiracies.
CNN: Trump administration expected to announce exit from ‘Open Skies’ treaty
According to the State Department, the treaty “is designed to enhance mutual understanding and confidence by giving all participants, regardless of size, a direct role in gathering information through aerial imaging on military forces and activities of concern to them.”
Michael Horton: Welcome To The Military-Industrial Pandemic
Now, as the U.S. winds down its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the “war on terror” is passé. The new threats are the old threats: Russia and China. The pivot away from the war on terror to renewed preparations for combatting China and Russia will be even more profitable for the defense industry because this means increased funding for big-ticket legacy weapons systems.
Aaron Mate and Max Blumenthal: US arming of Ukraine is a scandal on its own
There is growing evidence that President Donald Trump briefly froze U.S. military assistance to Ukraine for political goals. Max Blumenthal explores how the Ukrainegate scandal overlooks the dangers of those weapons sales to Ukraine and the corrupt interests behind it.
The Grayzone: Russian journalists accuse NY Times of stealing stories that earned it Pulitzer Prize – for second time
The New York Times has been accused for a second time of stealing major scoops from Russian journalists. One of those stories won the Times a Pulitzer Prize this May.