Lucy Komisar — Browder challenges Der Spiegel

Browder gets caught out.

The Komisar Scoop
Browder challenges Der Spiegel
Lucy Komisar

The Case of Sergei Magnitsky: Questions Cloud Story Behind U.S. Sanctions Benjamin Bidder

Article linked to in German yesterday. Here is the English translation.

Spiegel Online English
The Case of Sergei Magnitsky: Questions Cloud Story Behind U.S. Sanctions

Benjamin Bidder

RT — Anti-Russian sanctions based on fraudster’s tales? Spiegel finds Magnitsky narrative fed to West by Browder is riddled with lies

British*investor Bill Browder has made a name for himself in the West through blaming Moscow for the death of his auditor, Sergey Magnitsky. Der Spiegel has picked apart his story and uncovers it has major credibility problems.

* Bill Browder is an American-born ex-pat living in London. He gave up his American citizenship for British.

RT
Anti-Russian sanctions based on fraudster’s tales? Spiegel finds Magnitsky narrative fed to West by Browder is riddled with lies

Spiegel Online
Wie wahr ist die Geschichte, auf der die US-Sanktionen gegen Russland beruhen?

Benjamin Bidder

Craig Murray — The Magnitskiy Myth Exploded

The conscientious judges of the European Court of Human Rights published a judgement a fortnight ago which utterly exploded the version of events promulgated by Western governments and media in the case of the late Mr Magnitskiy. Yet I can find no truthful report of the judgement in the mainstream media at all.

The Magnitsky Hoax has been a major card played in imposing sanctions on Russia.

Craig Murray Blog
The Magnitskiy Myth Exploded
Craig Murray, formerly British ambassador to Uzbekistan and Rector of the University of Dundee

Note that the discrepancy in spelling between Magnitskiy and Magnitsky is owing to difference in transliteration from Cyrillic to Roman script, similar to Sergei and Sergey.

Epstein is no Different than Magnitsky — Martin Armstrong

This is what struck me immediately on learning of Epstein's "passing," the near certainty of which I had mentioned to a friend several days before. He asked me, "Do you mean he will be 'suicided?"

Of course, this remains just a hypothesis based on a suspicion that is based on "cui bono?" The truth of the matter will likely never be established to the satisfaction of all. Even if it is "established through evidence" in an investigation, the result won't be universally accepted, for good reasons based on previous investigations. Then the dissenters will be called conspiracy theorists. What else is new?

But I would say that there is a fundamental difference between the two cases in terms of cui bono, which you will recognize if you have been following the Magnitsky-Browder affair.

Armstrong Economics
Epstein is no Different than Magnitsky
Martin Armstrong

Mueller Report Gets the Trump Tower Meeting Wrong; Promotes Browder Hoax — Lucy Komisar

More propaganda in the Mueller report. This is not new "news." It was reported back when. But Mueller went along with the hoax anyway.

Consortium News
Mueller Report Gets the Trump Tower Meeting Wrong; Promotes Browder Hoax

Lucy Komisar

Martin Armstrong — Russiagate – The Slow Drip of the Coup to Take over Russia

Martin Armstrong was on the onside on this and explains what really went down and how new of it was suppressed and is being suppressed to protect the powerful.

Putin knows this, of course. I wonder how much of it he told Trump during their private meeting.

Armstrong Economics

Russiagate – The Slow Drip of the Coup to Take over Russia

Martin Armstrong

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Intel Today
Two Years Ago — Blast From The Past : The NSA & the CRYPTO AG Sting (And why it matters to Dag Hammarskjöld murder investigation)

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Mint Press News
How an American Anthropologist Tied to US Regime-Change Proxies Became the MSM’s Man in Nicaragua

Elias Hazou — The Magnitsky affair: the confession of a hustled hack

Before getting down to brass tacks, let me say that I loathe penning articles like this; loathe writing about myself or in the first person, because a reporter should report the news, not be the news. Yet I grudgingly make this exception because, ironically, it happens to be newsworthy. To cut to the chase, it concerns Anglo-American financier Bill Browder and the Sergei Magnitsky affair. I, like others in the news business I’d venture to guess, feel led astray by Browder.

This is no excuse. I didn’t do my due diligence, and take full responsibility for erroneous information printed under my name. For that, I apologize to readers. I refer to two articles of mine published in a Cypriot publication, dated December 25, 2015 and January 6, 2016....

The truth is seeping out.

The Duran
The Magnitsky affair: the confession of a hustled hack

Elias Hazou

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Behind the Curtain
The Suppression of Truth in the Land of Lies: An Oxymoron
Edward Curtin

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FAIR — Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
Facebook’s New Propaganda Partners

Alan MacLeod | Glasgow University Media Group

Lucy Komisar — I’ve Been Browder’s Number One Journalist Critic for Two Decades. Here’s What President Trump Should Know About Handling Him

The ongoing Browder saga.

Lucy Komisar is an investigative journalist who focuses on financial and corporate corruption, particularly the use of offshore bank and corporate secrecy havens. She began investigating William Browder nearly 20 years ago when she learned of his use of an offshore company in the Isle of Man to siphon off profits from the Russian company Avisma, cheating minority investors of dividends and the Russian Treasury of taxes.

Her expose was published by 100Reporters, a highly regarded website that has received funding from the Ford and MacArthur Foundations.

Last October, 100Reporters ran her story about tax cheating in Russia by Browder’s company Hermitage and his use of Sergei Magnitsky’s death to build a campaign to block Russian attempts to recoup about $70 million in evaded taxes and illicit stock buys.

Russia Insider
I’ve Been Browder’s Number One Journalist Critic for Two Decades. Here’s What President Trump Should Know About Handling Him

Lucy Komisar

Sputnik — ‘It Must Be Seen': Filmmaker Andrei Nekrasov Urges Public to See Magnitsky Film

Andrei Nekrasov, writer and director of the film "The Magnitsky Act: Behind the Scenes," sits down with Sputnik to discuss his latest film and encourage viewers to look past the disinformation campaign launched against both the movie and its creators....

Sputnik International
‘It Must Be Seen': Filmmaker Andrei Nekrasov Urges Public to See Magnitsky Film

Tom Luongo — The Curious Case of Bill Browder

The plot thickens — and widens. Tom Luongo explains how Browder is just a symptom.

Interesting that people on the so-called right are on this, while people on the so-called left are gobbling blue pills.

Back in the Sixties and Seventies, it was folks on the left that were into these things. Now the situation is reversed. It's the Libertarian and Alt-Right that are on it.

Tom Luongo Blog
The Curious Case of Bill Browder

Tom Luongo

Martin Armstrong — Why Has the Magnitsky Film Been Banned in USA & Europe?

Inquiring minds want to know. Martin Armstrong zeros in. This is not about Magnitksy's death, which even his family agrees was not the result of the Russian government, or even Bill Browder's machinations. It's too pervasive not to be state sponsored. Armstrong suggests why. It's quite possible that Vladimir Putin explained this to Donald Trump privately, but the president is too boxed in to use the information publicly. High intrigue, indeed, and at the state level, if Armstrong is even remotely in the ball park.

Armstrong Economics
Why Has the Magnitsky Film Been Banned in USA & Europe?

Martin Armstrong

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In my view, MA is biased against the left as while, to which he attributes the "sins" of socialism, and he tends to accentuate what confirms his view. Conversely, he tends to overlook the "sins" of the right in the direction of fascism. At the same time, he makes many relevant points and is often in a position to report from the inside, for example, in the Magnitsky affair, having been an investor in Hermitage Capital.

I definitely agree that Donald Trump is a symptom rather than a cause and that is social and political dynamic, exacerbated by economic inequality, has a way to run. It is becoming not only increasingly divisive but also alarmingly so.

What Comes After Trump Will Be a Major Political Confrontation that May Lead to Civil War

Patrick Armstrong — RUSSIAN FEDERATION SITREP 2 AUGUST 2018

More on Browder, among other things.

Sic Semper Tyrannis
RUSSIAN FEDERATION SITREP 2 AUGUST 2018

Patrick Armstrong

Alex Krainer — The Strangulation of the Russian Economy in the 1990s Was a Deliberate IMF policy

The foregoing article is an excerpt from Chapter 3 of my book “Grand Deception: the Truth about Bill Browder, Magnitsky Act and Anti-Russian Sanctions.” Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here.

Shock therapy gave Russia one of the worst and longest economic depressions of the 20th century, an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe for a peace time crisis, and a criminally inequitable privatization of public assets. The reasons why things happened this way in Russia generally aren’t well understood in the west. Even among better informed intellectuals, the failure of shock therapy is often thought to be vaguely related to some sinister flaw in the Russian society.

It is what Bill Browder characterized as “the dirty dishonesty of Russia,” or “Russia’s evil foundation,” which spawned corruption and criminality of staggering proportions. In this toxic environment, the sweet fruits of western democracy and capitalism simply could not grow in spite of the generous benevolence of Russia’s western friends.

Such a credulous version of events was never based on any coherent analysis of what transpired in Russia during the 1990s. Rather, it was based on purposeful perception management in the Western media....

While many among Russia’s western helpers did come with sincere and honorable intentions, the whole project, insofar as it was determined by its command and control structure, was simply a massive, bald-faced criminal enterprise.…

Putin is hated since he stepped in and halted it. Too his credit, at the end Yeltsin recognized what was happening and brought in Vladimir Putin to correct it. He did, to a great degree, without creating undue discord in Russia by working to balance the social, political and economic interests involved. It's a monumental task to switch systems and Putin has done a reasonably good job of it.

The Western neoliberal solution had been to "let the market" sort it out, ignoring the role of power relations. It nearly destroyed Russian society.

Russia Insider
The Strangulation of the Russian Economy in the 1990s Was a Deliberate IMF policy

Alex Krainer
Reprinted from a 6 part series at The Naked Hedgie. This is part 3.

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Former hedge fund manager Bill Browder, the faux crusader for human rights, has made very serious claims of corruption against Vladimir Putin, claims which many media personalities in the West have treated as true and factual without ever challenging them. Browder, the go-to expert on Putin’s corruption, presents these claims in his bestseller, “Red Notice.” At first blush, they show Vladimir Putin in a very negative light that may shock the reader. A more careful scrutiny of Browder’s case shows it to be a disingenous, baseless smear, which further begs the question: if this is the best (worst) Browder can offer as proof against Putin, what exactly do the ceaseless allegations of his corruption amount to? The following excerpt from my book (currently banned, but available here in electronic format) examines the merits of Bill Borwder’s assertions.

Whenever publications or media are banned or censored, either officially by law or regulation, or unofficially by being held off the market, it is a tell.

The Naked Hedge
How Bill Browder “proved” Vladimir Putin’s corruption

Martin Armstrong — Magnitsky Affair & the Murder of Edmond Safra in Monaco

International intrigue. Martin Armstrong was there and reports his version of it.

Armstrong Economics
Magnitsky Affair & the Murder of Edmond Safra in Monaco

CNN Confirmed Money Was Stolen from IMF
Martin Armstrong

Martin Armstrong — Magnitsky Act & the Strange Backdrop

There's more to this than meets the eye. As usual, follow the money. Marty Armstrong shows the way.

Armstrong Economics
Magnitsky Act & the Strange Backdrop
Martin Armstrong

Martin Armstrong — Magnitsky Act is Back

Apparently, when the film first appeared, there were only 46 views. After our post, it exceeded 20,000. It was then pulled, of course. Here is the new link. Let’s see how long this one will last.

Armstrong Economics
Magnitsky Act is Back

Martin Armstrong

Martin Armstrong — Magnitsky Act & the Cover-Up of Unprecedented Corruption

Not only Browder but other American predators preying on Russia in the Yeltsin years. Armstrong saw it up close as an investor in Browder's fund, Hermitage Capital.

Armstrong Economics
Magnitsky Act & the Cover-Up of Unprecedented Corruption

Martin Armstrong

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Another Banned Documentary Hidden from Americans Concerning Russia

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Why is Former Ambassador Refusing to be Questioned by Russians?

Philip Giraldi — Is Bill Browder the Most Dangerous Man in the World?

The darling of the war party needs to answer some questions

Update: The link to the film exposing Browder provided in this article has been taken down.

Unz Review
Is Bill Browder the Most Dangerous Man in the World?

Philip Giraldi, former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer, now Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest and founding member of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity

Patrick Armstrong — The Browder Documentary

Link to Andrey Nekrasov's video on Browder, The Magnitsky Act - Behind the Scenes.

Sic Semper Tyrannis

The Browder Documentary

Patrick Armstrong