CJ Hopkins — Confession of a Putin-Nazi Denialist

Sticking the dagger in and twisting it.

Counterpunch
Confession of a Putin-Nazi Denialist
CJ Hopkins, author and playwright

Paul Robinson — Three doses of drivel

More example of "Putin derangement syndrome."

Textbook cases in the use of propaganda — all form Canada. Canadian views seem to be firmly in the grip of Ukrainian nationalists.

Irrussianality
Three doses of drivel
Paul Robinson | Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa

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Putative cyberattacks were already debunked in late 2016.

Recycling propaganda, on the principle that a lie told often enough becomes "truth"?

AntiWar
US Revives Debunked Electrical Grid Hacking Charges Against Russia

Jason Ditz

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Southfront
U.S. Deploys Naval Strike Groups For Attacks On Syria, Trains Militants For False Flag Chemical Attacks
JJsd95

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Russia Insider
Tread on Russia at Your Peril
 The Saker

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The Vineyard of the Saker
Russian MoD warn: US is preparing a chemical false flag attack in Syria to justify US attack

Russia’s Long Road Toward Resurgence (MUST WATCH documentary)The Saker

Norman Solomon — Danger in Democrats Demonizing Putin

With the Clintons’ corporate money machine floundering after a devastating election defeat, Democrats are desperate to find someone to blame and have dangerously settled on Vladimir Putin, writes Norman Solomon.

The Democrats have become unhinged over Trump and Putin and are looking like crazy people that are suffering from a severe case of paranoia along with rage and depression. The US "liberal media" is caught up in this mass hysteria. People like that bent on doing stupid stuff and not fit to govern.

Politically it is a suicidal strategy because by making Trump out to to Putler's stooge, they have lowered the bar almost to the ground. When Trump does anything that looks fairway smart, let alone scores a success, the Dems will look like Chicken Little screaming that the sky is falling. Dumb, dumb and dumber.

Oh, and it is also illiberal.

Unfortunately, Norman Solomon reveals himself as also a victim of this obsession, in feeling obliged to demonize Putin, too. His is just a milder case of this mass liberal OCD.

Consortium News
Danger in Democrats Demonizing Putin
Norman Solomon, co-founder of the online activist group RootsAction.org

Jessie Hellmann — Report: Putin 'personally involved' in undermining U.S. election

"Believe." ""Have high confidence." "Consistent with."

In other words, inference without actual evidence.

This passes for "intelligence." Or is it disinformation and psyops?

This reverberating around the media eco chamber along with rumor and fake news about Aleppo posing as fact. Zero evidence.

This is a transparent attempt to poison the waters so badly before the accession of DJT to power that he will be hampered from conducting policy the way he wishes, fi  he cannot be stopped from taking office.

The Hill
Report: Putin 'personally involved' in undermining U.S. election

Jessie Hellmann

UPDATE:

Anonymous sources. "Believe." "Have a high level of confidence."

"CIA has assessed, the Russian government wanted to elect Donald Trump. The FBI and other agencies don't fully endorse that view, but few officials would dispute…"

Inference. No evidence.

The push continues to delegitimize the president-elect of the US — by the losers. Losers.

NBC News
U.S. Officials: Putin Personally Involved in U.S. Election Hack
William M. Arkin, Ken Dilanian And Cynthia Mcfadden

And just like that the narrative of Russia hacking the presidential election has escalated to the highest possible level, and has officially jumped the shark.

Zero Hedge
US Accuses Vladimir Putin Of "Personal Involvement" In Election HackTyler Durden 

Sputnik — UK Lawmaker Says Russia's Interference in Brexit Referendum 'Highly Probable'

The "Putler did it" meme is going viral. This is becoming more and more hilarious. The Western elite is completely losing it. They just can't take responsibility. And when you can't take responsibility, you don't deserve it either. What a sorry bunch of losers trying to convince themselves that they didn't actually lose, you see. It was Putler that did it.

UK Labour lawmaker Ben Bradshaw said that it was "highly probable" that Russia had interfered in the referendum on United Kingdom's exit from the European Union (Brexit).

"Not only their interference, now proven, in the American presidential campaign, [but] probably in our referendum last year. We don’t have the evidence for that yet. But I think it’s highly probable," Bradshaw said as quoted by the Independent newspaper on Tuesday.

Sputnik International
UK Lawmaker Says Russia's Interference in Brexit Referendum 'Highly Probable'

Alex Christoforou — John McCain insults Russian President Putin like never before in this “fake news” Face The Nation interview [Video]

McCain unhinged. This is getting really hilarious, and I am looking forward to enjoying the show for the next four years — with the obvious qualifiers. I'm calling it, The Moron Fest. Anyone have a better title?

The Duran
John McCain insults Russian President Putin like never before in this “fake news” Face The Nation interview [Video]
Alex Christoforou

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

Judith Miller — The scary truth about what Putin really wants (and Obama’s willful ignorance)

She's baaack. Remember her lobbying for the Iraq war at the New York Times. Now she is lobbying for war with Russia at Faux Noise.

The title should be "the scary truth about what the people paying Judith Miller want."

FoxNews | Opinion
The scary truth about what Putin really wants (and Obama’s willful ignorance)
Judith Miller

Nut just Jingo Judy. It's getting thick. The propaganda machine is in full swing.

The Hill: Ariel Cohen, What Clinton and Trump need to know about Putin’s Russia

Washington Post: George Will, Vladimir Putin is bringing back the 1930s

Washington Post: Masha Gessen, Five myths about Russia

Anne Applebaum — The Dutch just showed the world how Russia influences Western European elections

Putler went and done it again. This rises to the level of the Brookings Institution report that since Putin was not named in the Panama papers, he must have engineered the leak himself.

At the last count (2013) Applebaum was paid almost a million USD to write this stuff, according to John Helmer. She is also involved with US government involvement in influencing the politics of foreign nations, also according to Helmer in the same piece.

This rises to the level of the Brookings Institution report that since Putin was not named in the Panama papers, he must have engineered the leak himself.

The Washington Post
The Dutch just showed the world how Russia influences Western European elections

Anne Applebaum

TRANSCRIPT: Samantha Power, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Remarks at the October Palace in Kyiv, Ukraine

Neoconservatism on display. Samantha Power puts Victoria Nuland to shame. These people are not only Obama's but also Hillary's.

Johnson's Russia List
TRANSCRIPT: Samantha Power, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Remarks at the October Palace in Kyiv, Ukraine

But now even some of the louder voices are backing off.

Is sentiment on the Ukraine-Russia conflict turning amongst Western politicians and journalists? A series of events in the past month suggests so, and in just the last week a string of articles attempted to inject a note of pragmatic realism into the debate, where shrill warmongering was the previously the norm.

‘Putin is not Auric Goldfinger.’ Is sentiment towards Russia turning?

Business New Europe – bne.eu – Ben Aris in Moscow

Progressive "left" falls for media propaganda spewed by NYT — Bill Moyers Morning Reads and the NYT

This AM, Bill Moyers Morning Reads news summary that generally blows the whistle on the outrageous contains a link to this instead of blowing the whistle on it:

“There Are No Longer Any Limits” — On Friday, shortly after calling for Russians to engage in a mass protest against Vladimir Putin’s leadership, Boris Nemtsov, one of Russia’s most effective opposition leaders, was gunned down as he walked across a Moscow bridge. In the NYT Magazine, Julia Ioffe writes that the shooting has unnerved “Moscow’s embattled liberals” and says the Kremlin is “muddying the waters” around Nemtsov’s killing with an array of improbable theories about who perpetrated the crime.

Even the Moyers people are drinking the Kool-Aid. I don't think that they are consciously or intentionally spewing the propaganda line, but they seem to have been taken in by it. I guess they have forgotten about Judith Miller and the NYT belated apology for hyping the Iraq war based on propaganda.

Bloomberg View — Nemtsov's Murder Defines Putin's Russia

The new narrative.

This one is actually funny: "The government has also licensed Russian nationalists and the security services to pursue a covert war in Ukraine, a connection Nemtsov was threatening to expose with a report on the Russian soldiers fighting and dying there."

The new talking point that you'll be hearing a lot of in the US media and among its UK poodle and European vassals: Putin is creating a nationalist (fascist) attitude of hatred in Russia. (Who'se projecting here?)

There is no evidence the Kremlin ordered Nemtsov's killing, and it would have as much to lose as to gain from such a public execution on one of the most closely surveilled sidewalks in Russia. Nevertheless, since Putin returned to the presidency in 2012, he has systematically stirred up hatred for his political opponents, tarring men such as Nemtsov as members of a treacherous “fifth column.” [oligarchs, neoliberals, Russian mafia and assorted American stooges] 

Most recently, pro-Kremlin legislator Dmitriy Sablin joined in creating the so-called Anti-Maidan movement, which brings together ultra-nationalists, Communists and a Hells-Angels-style motorcycle gang [sic] to counter opposition protests. The government has also licensed Russian nationalists and the security services to pursue a covert war in Ukraine, a connection Nemtsov was threatening to expose with a report on the Russian soldiers fighting and dying there. [fabrication]

Indeed, the most frightening interpretation of the liberal politician’s death is that the alliance of security service officers and ultra-nationalist thugs Putin has unleashed is now beyond his control.  [Think US deep state here.]

Nemtsov’s death may not change things in Russia; much of the population appears to be caught up in a nationalist fervor. [In American it's called "patriotism."] But outside the country, perhaps it can end any illusions that Putin's toughness is somehow a trait to be admired. He has taken Russia back to an old and discredited form of government. [I'm confused. Would that be Stalinism or Nazism?]

Bloomberg View
Nemtsov's Murder Defines Putin's Russia
The Editors

Another talking point is that Boris Nemstsov was incorruptible.

Stringer News (pictures, Russian text) via Fort Russ, translated by J. Hawk
 “The second level, more expensive, starts at $1500 for an evening"--or how Nemtsov rolled

Another talking point is that Nemstov was popular. His party was at the 1% level with no national representation. Moreover, he was generally unpopular owing to his position in the Yeltsin regime that had brought the oligarchs to power and resulted in massive deprivation in Russia. On the other hand, Putin is broadly created for reversing that direction and returning Russia to a path of prosperity and greatness. Russians do not blame Putin for the current economic crisis, which they attribute to the fall in the price of oil and Western sanctions, which they regard as grossly unfair and politically motivated to attack a rising Russia.

Gallup — Americans Increasingly See Russia as Threat, Top U.S. Enemy

Gearing up.

Gallup
Americans Increasingly See Russia as Threat, Top U.S. Enemy

Nick Cohen — Russia Today: why western cynics lap up Putin’s TV poison

The Guardian
Russia Today: why western cynics lap up Putin’s TV poison


Nick Cohen