Calling the Russian election attack another September 11 betrays an insulting lack of perspective, akin to that of a bored teenager who claims sitting through algebra class is “literally torture”…
Rachel Maddow’s Ratings Tank After Mueller Report
Here are Rachel Maddow’s ratings since news of the Mueller Report…the results may surprise you, or will they?
Stephen F. Cohen: The Real Costs of Russiagate
The editor of The New Yorker, itself an ardent Russiagate publication, asks whether “the moral and material corruption [Trump] has inflicted will be with us for a long while.” Perhaps. But the institutional costs of Russiagate are likely to be with us for even longer.
Dr. Matt Bivens: Russiagate: The Great Tragic Comedy of Modern Journalism
I know of smart, progressive-leaning journalists who politically oppose Donald Trump, but who feel like strangers in their own newsrooms, afraid to speak out against this mob psychosis.
Alex Shepherd: Give It Up, Democrats. The Russia Investigation Is Over.
There’s no need to turn the Russia investigation into the next Benghazi.
Leonid Bershidsky: Looking for external enemies is counterproductive for both Russia and the U.S.
The level of Russia expertise in the U.S. media and intelligence community is lower than it should be.
NYC EVENT: Friday March 29 at The Soldiers Sailors Club
At 7 pm on Friday the New York Military Affairs Symposium will host Stephen F. Cohen who will talk about his new book War With Russia? and discuss why the New Cold War is more dangerous than the one we survived.
PODCAST: Stephen F. Cohen Talks to NYC Radio Personality Frank Morano
Professor Cohen and Frank Morano dig into the latest headlines…
Aaron Mate: RIP, Russiagate
The implosion of the collusion theory is a humiliation for everyone who promoted it.
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.
Mueller does not find Trump campaign knowingly conspired with Russia
WASHINGTON, March 24 (Reuters) – Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian meddling in the 2016 election did not find that any U.S. or Trump campaign officials knowingly conspired with Russia, according to details released on Sunday.
Paul Sperry: Dossier-Tied Firm Pitches Reporters Daily on ‘Collusion’
Key Democratic operatives and private investigators who tried to derail Donald Trump’s campaign by claiming he was a tool of the Kremlin have rebooted their operation since his election with a multimillion-dollar stealth campaign to persuade major media outlets and lawmakers that the president should be impeached.
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.