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Oct 6 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
Whereas cable news will only present neocon pundits, retired generals, and ex-intel officials to sell you the Ukraine proxy war, @democracynow has the exclusive on self-described leftists who will sell you the Ukraine proxy war:
Like any neocon, this guest scolds leftists who spread "Putin propaganda," such as referring to the 2014 "US-backed coup" & "exaggerating the presence of Nazis in Ukraine."

Before @democracynow banned long-time guests like Stephen F. Cohen, it spread that "Putin propaganda" too.
After the guest dismisses the Nazi role in Ukraine as "Putin propaganda", Amy Goodman asks about Russia's role as "a center of the far right globally."

The guest responds by claiming that Russia influenced Brexit and had shady "relationships" with Trump. #BlueAnon ImageImage

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Oct 6
The Intercept buried this story's actual scoop: that "clandestine American operations inside Ukraine are now far more extensive than they were early in the war," with "a much larger presence of both CIA and U.S. special operations personnel" now than in February.
Instead, Intercept highlights their spook sources' evidence-free narrative that "corruption" has made "the Russian army a brittle and hollow shell."

That's a way to promote prolonging the proxy war. And a bizarre claim to make about an army that's captured up to 20% of Ukraine.
This is typical behavior from James Risen, author of Russiagate fan fiction.

A more accurate picture can be found elsewhere, with US officials warning "that the most dangerous moments are yet to come" as Russia "has avoided escalating the war" by, e.g., avoiding infrastructure.
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Oct 4
Former Clinton campaign staffer @NoahShachtman continues his quest to bury Rolling Stone's countercultural past and turn it, like the Daily Beast, into another neocon rag. Here he enlists Assange back-stabber @jamesrbuk to scold @rogerwaters for challenging pro-war propaganda.
Bad faith "journalism": @jamesrbuk declares that "no credible independent expert agrees with" Roger's claim of false flags by Syrian insurgents. Yet in the raw transcript, @rogerwaters tells James of 3 OPCW officials who've raised such concerns. James omits them from his article:
Question for @NoahShachtman and @jamesrbuk: when you decided to declare that "no credible independent expert agrees with" @rogerwaters's claim of false flags by Syrian insurgents, why didn't you include that Roger cited three former OPCW experts who've raised such concerns?
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Sep 29
.@cenkuygur hosted me in Feb. 2019 to debate his belief that Trump is a Russian asset. ()

Cenk hasn't invited me back for an update on how that turned out for him. Instead, he's pivoted to insulting and lying about me, as he newly does here:
.@cenkuygur claims that I said it's "true" that Assad got 95% of the vote in Syria. That's a lie. What I actually said is that I'm not an election monitor, and relayed the views of Syrian friends, who don't trust the tally, but nonetheless say Assad has a large base of support.
What I also said is that Syria's vote is not my business, coming from the West, which spent billions of dollars on a dirty war that destroyed the country, and is now further crushing it with murderous sanctions -- policies that @cenkuygur either ignores, or whitewashes.
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Sep 29
In this article, @jkirchick chides veteran US diplomat Chas Freeman for telling me that the US "will fight to the last Ukrainian."

Oddly, James has no criticism for @LindseyGrahamSC, who recently declared that US weapons ensure that Ukraine "will fight to the last person."
@jkirchick @LindseyGrahamSC The takeaway I'm drawing from @jkirchick here is that, from his point of view, it's "Intellectually Bankrupt" for the "Anti-War Camp" to criticize the US policy of fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian, but perfectly fine for neocons to celebrate it.
.@jkirchick is so offended by the notion that the US is fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian, that he charts its use from "the anti-imperialist left and the isolationist right."

Yet excludes its use by Lindsey Graham, a member of James' own camp: the pro-proxy war neocons.
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Sep 29
NYT's source is Ukrainian government. NYT claims to have verified a grand total "of one soldier and his girlfriend over the phone." Others, NYT says, were "authenticated" by "cross-referencing" the alleged Russian #s w/ social media accounts & messenger apps, which can be faked.
.@evanhill claims that "we're confident in our findings." Is his "Visual Investigations Team" still confident in its "finding" that Syria committed a chemical attack in Douma, an allegation exposed as a fraud by the OPCW leaks? If so, why have they ignored the OPCW leaks?
@evanhill On its Douma "investigation", btw, @evanhill's NYT unit collaborated with Bellingcat, without disclosing that it's funded by Western states and spook firms involved in the Syria dirty war. Even Bellingcat's UK funders have privately admitted that it spreads disinformation.
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Sep 4
The claim is actually that the US, via its messenger Boris Johnson, scuttled peace in Ukraine.

And these threads only "rebut" that by ignoring the core details of the Ukrainian Pravda (UP) article that they're citing. (pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/…)
.@IlyaMatveev_ says there's "no evidence that [Johnson] pressured Zelensky," while @ahatanhel says the UP article "does not mention Johnson's pressure on Zelensky." But that's false.
Citing "sources close to Zelensky", UP reported that Russia-Ukraine outlined a "future agreement."

But Johnson informed Zelensky that Putin "should be pressured, not negotiated with," & that if Russia-Ukraine sign security guarantees, the West would not.

An order for more war.
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