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Feb 5 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1/2 Spoke tonight about the Russiagate playbook, illustrated by the treatment of AP's Matt Lee, of US officials lodging allegations against Russia and then painting any skepticism as Kremlin subservience.

Its roots lie in partisan hackery & bipartisan neocon hegemony:
2/2 Rather than seek evidence like Mike Lee did, US journalists across the spectrum have accepted Russia-tied allegations on faith, giving us such hits as Trump Russia collusion, Russian bounties, Havana Syndrome, Hunter's laptop being Russian disinformation, and now Ukraine.
I believe this was the network debut, at least for me, of #BlueAnon.
*Matt Lee

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Feb 3
The key point -- which few in US media will make -- about the US fighting ISIS in Syria is that the US not only sparked ISIS by invading Iraq, but then used ISIS as a tool for regime change in its dirty war on Syria.

John Kerry explained it best:
"The reason Russia came in is because ISIL was getting stronger, Daesh was threatening the possibility of going to Damascus and so forth. And that’s why Russia went in. Because they didn’t want a Daesh government and they supported Assad," Kerry privately admitted in 2016.
"And we know that this was growing. We were watching. We saw that Daesh was growing in strength, and we thought Assad was threatened. We thought, however, we could probably manage, that Assad would then negotiate. Instead of negotiating, he got Putin to support him."
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Feb 1
It remains as unfortunate as ever that US media is so devoted to ignoring the compromise of the OPCW by its gov’t & client states to falsely blame Syria for chemical attacks. The aim is obvious: whitewash the 10-year dirty war and justify ongoing economic warfare against Syria.
The only way to ignore this conclusion is to ignore the trove of leaks that expose the OPCW’s extensive cover-up of its Douma probe & attacks on the veteran scientists who challenged it.

For any journalist who isn’t a pro-war propagandist or coward, it’s fascinating reading.
Original leaks are housed on a website that most in media use, except when the topic happens to be the OPCW’s Syria cover-up: wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/

More leaked material & reporting here: thegrayzone.com/category/opcw-…
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Jan 28
New @PushbackShow: As the US floods Ukraine with weapons and US bombs kill more Yemeni civilians, @andrewmcockburn, author of “The Spoils of War", on the US arms industry’s role in promoting and profiting from global carnage. via @TheGrayzoneNews
When Russia seized Crimea in 2014, an attendee at a DC arms industry gathering told @andrewmcockburn that the mood was "borderline euphoric."
@andrewmcockburn Andrew also discusses how the DC war machine has fueled the Saudi war on Yemen & the dirty war on Syria.

He also looks back on his groundbreaking 1988 PBS documentary, made with wife Leslie Cockburn, “Guns, Drugs, and the CIA,” about the agency’s role in the global drug trade.
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Jan 25
Amy Goodman of @democracynow asks "where are the progressives?" on stopping war in Ukraine. The answer is that progressives like DN encouraged war by parroting Russiagate propaganda and excluding dissenting voices, e.g. the late Stephen F. Cohen, barred from DN after April 2017.
To illustrate, the question "where are the progressives?" is posed while parroting both the neo-McCarthyite talking point that Tucker Carlson wants to "side with Russia" and Dem Rep. Tom Malinowski's claim that Carlson "fans" are flooding Congress with calls to that effect.
In reality, Carlson actually said: "Why is it disloyal to side with Russia but loyal to side with Ukraine?" -- which Russiagaters reflexively attacked him for.

So to answer DN's original question of "where are the progressives?": they're still busy parroting the Russiagaters.
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Jan 22
Sounds like Britain has taken what the US actually did to Ukraine in 2014, and rebooted it for Russia. Here's Obama-Biden official Victoria Nuland & then-US Amb. Geoffrey Pyatt privately deciding to install Arseniy Yatsenyuk ("Yats is the guy") as Ukraine's next Prime Minister:
Slipped in to almost every article about the latest nefarious Russian plot alleged by Western governments is a quiet, inconvenient admission: there's no evidence to show us.
Oh but don't worry: anonymous US officials "said they believe the British intelligence is correct." Case closed then. What matters is what our officials "believe", not what actual evidence they have actually collected, and can show us.
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Jan 22
When Trump paused such “lethal aid,” Dems cried treason & impeached based on premise he was using it to compel a probe of Biden. But they had no evidence his Biden scheme was tied to this “aid.” Hence they leaned in on Cold War jingoism & hoping that John Bolton could save them:
I warned at the time, in columns for The Nation, that Dems’ Ukrainegate, like its Russiagate predecessor, was not only based on flawed/non-existent evidence but also dangerous — further legitimating in left-liberal circles a neocon Cold War agenda. thenation.com/authors/aaron-…
I couldn’t find too many takers. Instead, Cold War fanatics were elevated as brave anti-Trump resistance heroes no matter how many unhinged, chauvinist things they said:
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