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18 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Trump admin rejects Russian proposal to extend New START, a vital nuclear accord, for just 1 year to avoid killing it entirely — & threatens “a costly arms race” unless Russia caves.

To all Russiagaters who demanded that Trump “stand up to Putin”, behold the fruit of your labor:
WhAt dOeS PuTiN HaVe oN TrUmP?
Poll question: do you think @maddow @chrislhayes @lawrence or any other prime time MSNBC or CNN show will even acknowledge that Trump is on the verge of killing New START, the Obama accord that limits the nuclear arsenals of US and Russia, and threatening a new arms race?
WSJ: “the top Amer­i­can arms ne­go­tiator has warned Mos­cow that if Mr. Trump is re-elected and the two sides don’t come to terms, the U.S. would al­low the New START treaty to lapse and then ex­pand its nu­clear forces.”

Can anyone guess why Democrats don’t call this out?

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20 Oct
New @PushbackShow: Noam Chomsky warns that the Trump admin poses a unique threat to humanity, but its most reckless policies -- from killing nuclear weapons accords with Russia to imposing new sanctions on Iran -- are receiving far too little attention.
Chomsky on OPCW scandal: "US & its allies want evidence provided by some of the top inspectors to be banned... they want to ensure it's not discussed, meaning they have no confidence in their own conclusions, meaning the US bombing of Syria was undertaken on false presences."
"Whether their report is correct or not, I have no judgment. But what we do know is the US & its allies don't want it discussed. They don't want evidence discovered by the some of their top inspectors to be looked at. The OPCW is capitulating to this, which is pretty shocking."
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18 Oct
.@TheGrayzoneNews exclusive: ex-OPCW chief José Bustani defends the whistleblowers who challenged a cover-up of their Syria probe.

Bustani also reacts to US-allies blocking his UN testimony -- & reveals he was spied on before US ousted him over Iraq war.
The OPCW inspectors who challenged a cover-up of their investigation in Douma, Syria are so experienced that they worked under the OPCW's first Director General, José Bustani.

Here, Bustani explains why he has come forward to defend them. Full interview: thegrayzone.com/2020/10/18/ex-…
Former OPCW chief José Bustani on media silence over the OPCW Syria cover-up scandal, & how media coverage could make a difference in protecting the OPCW from political exploitation by US & other Western states.

cc @TheIntercept & @democracynow , who have ignored this story.
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11 Oct
In 2002, @GeorgeMonbiot said José Bustani, the OPCW chief ousted by US for challenging Iraq war, has "done more to promote world peace than anyone else on earth."

In 2020, US just blocked Bustani from testifying at UN in defense of OPCW's Syria whistleblowers. George is silent. ImageImageImageImage
Read Jose Bustani's suppressed testimony here: (thegrayzone.com/2020/10/05/ex-…)

Read @Jonathan_K_Cook's critique of @GeorgeMonbiot's curious pattern of silence here: (jonathan-cook.net/blog/2020-10-0…)
.@GeorgeMonbiot, why the silence over the US -- under the Trump administration, in case you forgot -- blocking the testimony of a diplomat you once said had "arguably, done more in the past five years to promote world peace than anyone else on earth"?
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9 Oct
I always thought the Alfa Bank-Trump story was just another dumb Trump-Russia conspiracy theory fed to credulous media stenographers, but now it looks much worse: read between the lines, & it looks like a criminal set-up. Durham is investigating it. newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
The story never made sense. A group of "self-appointed guardians of the Internet" (-The New Yorker, sincerely 😂) discover some suspicious activity between a Trump server and Russia's Alfa Bank.

An Alfa suit now alleges this was actually a criminal set-up:
Idea that this was a set-up makes total sense. Which sounds more plausible:

A) "self-appointed guardians of the Internet" discover secret communications between Trump & Russian bank server

B) It was deliberate fraud to fake a Trump-Russia tie. And it would be far from alone.
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8 Oct
1/ One of Russiagate's biggest conspiracy theories is that Konstantin Kilimnik is a Russian spy who shared sensitive Trump polling data w/ Russia.

This interview by @JakeTapper of ex-Trump aide Rick Gates destroys these claims & displays the media malpractice that spread them:
2/ re: spy claim, Gates notes Kilimnik was "a high-value asset" of the US, but Mueller/Senate excluded evidence of this. (see e.g. realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/…)

Gates also poses a simple Q that most journalists, including @JakeTapper, have not re: spy claim: "Where’s the evidence?"
3/ Gates then debunks notion that KK got sensitive polling data: "it was called top-line data. That is simply that it has Trump 50 percent, Clinton 48 percent... It was a combination of some internal polling on specific states, as well as a lot of public data that was shared."
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7 Oct
.@democracynow has ignored the OPCW scandal for over a year. This attempt to acknowledge it has several errors, starting w/ the title: it isn’t the “U.N.” that blocked the testimony: it’s the countries that bombed that Syria — US/UK/France — that blocked the testimony at the UN.
.@democracynow then misreports the scandal as: "leaked documents show two OPCW investigators have questioned the official findings."

No, the leaks show the OPCW team found evidence that Syria had not committed a chemical attack, but were censored & sidelined (under US pressure)
.@democracynow has made a visible editorial shift on Syria, excluding voices that challenge the pro-proxy war narrative. That's partly why DN last had on Stephen Cohen in April 2017. And that's why even when they finally acknowledge the OPCW scandal, they still get it wrong.
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