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Apr 30 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Unsurprisingly, Rolling Stone has quickly turned into Daily Beast 2.0 under the stewardship of editor Noah Shachtman -- a former DC Think Tank "defense" operative who then turned the Daily Beast into the nation's foremost liberal/neocon online tabloid
Rand Paul simply asked why the US had "insisted on beating the drums to admit Ukraine into NATO" -- including in a new "Strategic Partnership" agreement Blinken brokered just last fall -- despite simultaneously claiming that Ukraine would not realistically be entering NATO
Rolling Stone then does the patented John McCain move -- really, John McCain pulled almost this exact move in 2017 with Rand Paul -- and accuses Paul of doing Putin's bidding. But the new liberal/neocon fusionists love to channel their inner McCain, as exemplified by this dunce:
Here is @robertwrighter correctly describing @jscros's petulant little Rolling Stone post as "Marthyism Lite" nonzero.substack.com/p/earthling-uk…
Since 2016, this liberal/neocon synergy became the dominant editorial sensibility in most popular "liberal" media -- turbocharged by their Trump/Russia collusion obsessions. Ukraine war has now ushered in the culmination of that perverse ideological metamorphosis

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May 1
This is a special moment for Adam Schiff, the number one diehard Russiagater in Congress. Gets to accompany Nancy Pelosi on a heroic mission to Ukraine, to see the fruits of his life's work: seeing to it that the US "fights Russia over there, so we don’t have to fight them here" Image
Perhaps the $33 billion top-line figure of the proposal Biden submitted to Congress for Ukraine will go up a few notches after this crew's bold, picture-perfect visit? After all, with the wartime adrenaline now coursing through Pelosi and Schiff, what's another couple billion? Image
Remember, when Schiff ran the impeachment trial of Trump in January 2020, he worked hard to ingrain the idea that the US was already at war with Russia by way of Ukraine. It must be so moving for him to personally witness this dream come true
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Apr 29
Odd that CNN didn’t seek any additional information about this “private military contracting company” that apparently sent off a 22-year-old American to fight and die in Ukraine. Such as, you know, maybe the name of the company
Very surprising that CNN eagerly refers to foreign soldiers reportedly paid to fight on behalf of Russia as "mercenaries," but apparently would never dream of applying that term to an American citizen "fighting alongside" the Ukrainian military *against* Russia -- for money
Note the details that CNN for some strange reason chooses to omit. Did they really not ask the name of the "private military contracting company" that's apparently recruiting prison guards in Tennessee to go fight Russia? Any chance this "company" could have ties to the US Govt.?
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Apr 26
UK Armed Forces Minister just told the BBC that it's "entirely legitimate" for US/UK/EU weapons to be used to launch attacks *inside* Russian territory. One of which appears to have occurred yesterday. Remember when these weapons shipments were for strictly "defensive" purposes?
This is the essence of escalation. It doesn't have to be sudden and dramatic, like a No Fly Zone. But two months ago, no "Western" official would have publicly acknowledged facilitating direct warfare inside territorial Russia. Would have seemed shocking -- now it's just "normal"
The debate over a No Fly Zone for the first month or so -- which obviously would have been open declaration of WWIII -- now makes any incremental escalation short of that seem completely reasonable. A clever discursive tactic, when you think about it
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Apr 24
If you ever need a quick shortcut to understand why US media culture is so screwed up: this solidified @michaeldweiss’s ascendance as a Very Serious Journalist
If you look across the industry, constantly agitating for war is one of the most reliable routes to prospering as a journalist. No matter how discredited your views, no matter how corrupt or repulsive, there’s a vast lucrative architecture that will ensure your continued rise
No one ever gets “canceled” for being too pro-war, too deferential toward the national security state apparatus, too credulous about official lies and distortions which lead to enormous waste, destruction, and death. Rather, they get rewarded
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Apr 23
Anatomy of a Bogus “Disinformation” Smear mtracey.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-a…
Hadn’t even realized that @ForeignPolicy bizarrely tried to tie me with Viktor Orban and Infowars as participants in a “Russian disinformation operation.” These slimeballs don’t even bother offering a “right of reply” anymore; they just make stuff up, and then blast it right out
Imagine my shock when I discovered that @Justin_Ling, who idiotically accused me of participating in a "Russian disinformation operation," is himself an active participant in another warring party's admitted, explicit propaganda "operation"
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Apr 23
“If you are against invading Iraq, you are functionally in favor of Saddam subjugating his populace.” Same bullshit logic every single time
Interesting article from 2013 by @alexmassie
The phenomenon of "tankies" is largely fake, whereas the phenomenon of Serious Journalists like @alexmassie admitting years later that they bought into ridiculous war propaganda is very real. They express some qualified remorse: then it's onto the next war
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