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6 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Good time to remind you that @nytimes supported Yeltsin's 1993 against the Russian Congress—and praised Clinton's backing of Yeltsin's coup. Image
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This is astounding: @nytimes flipping around Yeltsin’s US-backed coup in 1993 to claim it was actually Russia’s parliament that overthrew itself. We know they’re alike because some Russian parliamentarians dressed weird, according to Andrew Higgins’ little mind.
The author of this atrocious fake history piece, Andrew Higgins, has won 2 Pulitzers for his Russia "reporting", both wildly undeserved. I co-wrote a piece with Taibbi on Higgins' first undeserved Pulitzer. These hacks are tenured for life.
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28 Dec 20
New Radio @TheWarNerd series on Yeltsin's 1993 coup against Russia's parliament — backed by Clinton, EU and the western press corps.
Part I just posted:
patreon.com/posts/radio-wa…
how it started how it ended ImageImage
Washington Post, 6 months before Yeltsin's US-backed coup in 1993: "Support a coup in the name of democracy?...it would be not just expedient but right to support undemocratic measures undertaken to avert a far more anti-democratic outcome."

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5 Nov 20
Flipped to the OANN channel to see how they're coping, and the presenter was eyebrowing about King Tut's Curse, citing all the same urban legends I heard in middle school. I have no fucking idea what her point was.
Now there's a boy presenter interviewing a crazy lady about vote fraud in PA.

You don't want to eat pot brownies and watch OANN, trust me—unless you want to wind up in ER with Stage-5 Panic Attacks.
Fox News is this year's pizza parlor in the anti-Trump conspiracy, if I understand OAN boy presenter right
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30 Aug 20
So many nerdoid laser beam dreams down the drain, thanks to the frickin' inverse square law...
Last @RadioWarNerd ep I read letter from Belarusian author Vladimir Kozlov ("USSR: Diary of a Perestroika Kid"). No neolib, Kozlov makes clear that Luk's continued rule extremely toxic, radicalizing youngs fast. Unsaid: longer Luk stays, more likely BY youngs go nationalist/NATO
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17 Aug 20
Speaking of color revolutions: re-upping our Radio @TheWarNerd interview with Marcie Smith on the color revolution brainbug— Gene Sharp
patreon.com/posts/radio-wa…
And here's a 30 minute FREE preview of our Color Revolutions deep dive
And read Marcie Smith's color revolution exposé "Change Agent: Gene Sharp's Neoliberal Violence"
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6 Feb 20
Re-reading this old OSS sabotage manual. US intelligence has trained large numbers of people to devise ways of sabotaging outcomes without getting caught—the more banal, the better. Some of these spies take their skills to the private intel contracting sector. #ShadowInc
"Always be profuse in your apologies. Frequently you can 'get away' with such acts under cover of pretending stupidity, ignorance, over-caution..."
"delay putting enemy calls through, give them wrong numbers, cut them off 'accidentally'..."
"Advocate 'caution.' Be 'reasonable' and urge your fellow-conferees to be 'reasonable' and avoid haste..." #MayorCheat
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13 Jul 19
In 1975, Jesse Helms & the US far-right attacked President Ford for refusing to meet with Solzhenitsyn. Ford considered Solzhenitsyn to be a "horse's ass" & far-right crank.
Today, Buzzfeed is channeling old Jesse Helms to attack Sanders. Demented.
Somehow buzzfeed cites Solzhenitsyn's AFL-CIO speeches & Harvard speech—without describing the batshit contents: Solzhenitsyn denounced the US withdrawal from Vietnam War, detente, Hollywood movies, liberal media, even Angela Davis. Somehow Sanders is supposed to honor this.
(two screenshots above taken from Rick Perlstein's great book "The Invisible Bridge")
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