David Stern and Kenneth P. Vogel — Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire

This news article is significant in establishing what George Eliason has been asserting about a Ukrainian connection in the 2016 presidential election.

The article is mostly comprised of unconfirmed allegations and countercharges — he said, she said stuff.

However, it shows that there is another dimension unfolding that the neither US intelligence services nor the US media reported that appears to be relevant.

The Clinton campaign worked to sabotage Bernie and apparently Trump, too, and there seems to be a Ukrainian trace regarding the later.

However, at this point it is difficult to impossible to distinguish between assertion and fact, and allegation and evidence in the fog of politics.

Stay tuned.

Politico

Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire
David Stern and Kenneth P. Vogel

Jonathan Turkey — Did The Clinton Campaign Try To Sack Mika Brzezinski?

Mika Brzezinski has now claimed that not did the Clinton campaign try to pull her off the air but that the brass at MSNBC knew about it and said nothing publicly.

On air, Brzezinski said “I was concerned the campaign was not understanding that perhaps there was an arrogance. They needed to sort of get off their high horse and understand that this isn’t over. I’ll just say it: NBC got a call from the [Clinton] campaign. Like I had done something that was journalistically inappropriate or something and needed to be pulled off the air.”

Jonathan Turkey
Did The Clinton Campaign Try To Sack Mika Brzezinski?

Jonathan Turkey

Glen Greenwald — A Clinton Fan Manufactured Fake News That MSNBC Personalities Spread to Discredit WikiLeaks Docs

Back in October, when WikiLeaks was releasing emails from the John Podesta archive, Clinton campaign officials and their media spokespeople adopted a strategy of outright lying to the public, claiming – with no basis whatsoever – that the emails were doctored or fabricated and thus should be ignored. That lie – and that is what it was: a claim made with knowledge of its falsity or reckless disregard for its truth – was most aggressively amplified by MSNBC personalities such as Joy Ann Reid and Malcolm Nance, The Atlantic’s David Frum, and Newsweek’s Kurt Eichenwald.…

That the emails in the Wikileaks archive were doctored or faked – and thus should be disregarded – was classic Fake News, spread not by Macedonian teenagers or Kremlin operatives but by established news outlets such as MSNBC, the Atlantic and Newsweek. And, by design, this Fake News spread like wildfire all over the internet, hungrily clicked and shared by tens of thousands of people eager to believe it was true. As a result of this deliberate disinformation campaign, anyone reporting on the contents of the emails was instantly met with claims that the documents in the archive had been proven fake....

I will be shocked if any of them now acknowledge this even with [Marco] Chacon’s confession [see link below]. That’s because MSNBC has repeatedly proven that it tolerates Fake News and outright lies from its personalities as long as those lies are in service of the right candidate (when Democrats were smearing Jill Stein as a Kremlin stooge, Reid’s program aired Nance’s lie to MSNBC viewers that Stein had previously hosted her own show on RT: an utter fabrication that MSNBC, to this day, has never corrected or even acknowledged despite multiple requests from FAIR).

Every day, literally, you can turn on MSNBC and hear various people so righteously lamenting the spread of “Fake News.” Yet MSNBC itself not only spreads Fake News but refuses to correct it when it is exposed. How do they have any credibility to denounce Fake News? They do not....

But the problem here goes way beyond mere hypocrisy. Complaints about Fake News are typically accompanied by calls for “solutions” that involve censorship and suppression, either by the government or tech giants such as Facebook. But until there is a clear definition of “Fake News,” and until it’s recognized that Fake News is being aggressively spread by the very people most loudly complaining about it, the dangers posed by these solutions will be at least as great as the problem itself.

The Intercept
A Clinton Fan Manufactured Fake News That MSNBC Personalities Spread to Discredit WikiLeaks Docs
Glen Greenwald

You MUST READ this.

The Daily Beast

I’ve Been Making Viral Fake News for the Last Six Months. It’s Way Too Easy to Dupe the Right on the Internet.
Marco Chacon

Paul Robinson — Blame Canada! … Or Putin

Part of me wants to think that this article is a spoof. But political commentary has become so deranged of late that it is no longer possible to tell what is a joke and what is for real.

Banana republic.

Irrussianality

Blame Canada! … Or Putin
Paul Robinson | Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa