Watching Tulsi Gabbard at the Rage Against the War Machine rally. I'd call them useful idiots, but listening to this speech I don't think they're that useful.
Listening to Ron Paul speak now, I think it's causing a permanent brain injury.
Ron Paul is saying that the best way to stop war is to not send people to war, at a rally where people are waving Russian flags.
In my mind those individuals and organisations who promoted conspiracy theories and false claims about the Douma chemical attack are up there with the worst breed of conspiracy theorists, no matter how much intellectual dressing up they like to use
They're on the wrong side of reality, let alone the wrong side of history. It's no surprise they're often the same people who deny MH17 was shot down by Russia, promote conspiracy theories about the Skripal poisoning, and blame Ukraine for Russia's invasion in the name of "peace"
So a few reasons why I don't trust Seymour Hersh's thinly sourced journalism. I've had to deal with his terribly sourced investigations since the August 2013 Sarin attacks, which @DanKaszeta and I picked apart in the Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
It was filled with claims that continued to be debunked, like when new analysis from the OPCW demonstrated that rather than being homemade Sarin like Hersh claimed, it had the fingerprints of coming from Syria' stockpiles bellingcat.com/news/mena/2017…
Hersh had another go at chemical weapon attack investigations with the 2017 Khan Sheikhoun attack, writing a story that wasn't supported by anyone involved in the conflict or any investigators but himself bellingcat.com/news/mena/2017…
Seymour Hersh's latest claims the Nord Stream pipeline was blown up by the US can be most easily summarised by his line "according to a source with direct knowledge of the operational planning."
Single Source Seymour couldn't even get it published by a star struck editor this time.