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

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

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

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

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

Robert Parry — Guardians of the Magnitsky Myth

In pursuit of Russia-gate, the U.S. mainstream media embraces any attack on Russia and works to ensure that Americans don’t hear the other side of the story, as with the Magnitsky myth, reports Robert Parry....

This is to journalism as ignoring data, historicity, and operations is in economics.

Consortium News
Guardians of the Magnitsky Myth

Robert Parry

The Affair Browder-Magnitsky and Cold War 2

The Washington Post, the neocons’ media flagship, has fired a broadside at a new documentary after it blasted a hole in the side of the anti-Russian Magnitsky narrative, which helped launch the new Cold War, writes Robert Parry.

Though I am no expert on the Magnitsky case – and there surely may be flaws in the documentary – what is clear is that the widely accepted version of the Magnitsky case, portraying him and his boss as noble do-gooders who become victims of a convoluted police conspiracy, is no longer tenable or at least deserves a serious reexamination.

But preventing the Western public from seeing this important film – and then demonizing it in a Washington Post editorial on the assumption that almost no one will see it – amount to the behavior of a totalitarian society where “agit-prop” does rule, except in this case it is anti-Russian agit-prop that escapes any serious scrutiny.

Consortium News
WPost’s ‘Agit-Prop’ for the New Cold War
Robert Parry

At the end of the twists and turns in this expose, the viewer is ready to see Browder sink through the floor on a direct transfer to hell like Don Giovanni in the closing scene of Mozart’s opera

Une parole franche
A film review: Andrei Nekrasov, 'The Magnitsky Act. Behind the Scenes'
Gilbert Doctorow | European Coordinator of The American Committee for East West Accord Ltd.

Browder himself did everything he could do derail the showing of this and now the Western propaganda machine is in high gear trying to prevent its showing and to discredit it as "Russian propaganda."

The inconvenient truth is that the director is a liberal who began the project to discredit the Putin regime and then halfway through began to suspect that it was not the Russian government that was at the bottom of it, but Browder himself to cover his tracks.

This is approximately like the Russian and Western versions of what happened in Ukraine, which investigation reveals was orchestrated as regime change chiefly by the US through both NGO fronts and the State Department directly out of the US embassy.