“Politico is reporting that officials in the eastern European country of Ukraine are seeking ways to apologize to incoming President Donald Trump for their secretive efforts to help Hillary Clinton’s candidacy.”
Read more: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/12/politico-ukrainian-officials-election/
“In claiming that Russia ‘interfered’ with the election, they are merely projecting their own sins on to Vladimir Putin. The entire agency, as presently constituted, represents a threat to the Republic. Forget ‘reform’ of the CIA: what’s needed is a thoroughgoing top-to-bottom purge. President Trump must not back down from his reported plans to do just that.”
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2017/01/05/purge-the-cia/
“Yes, corbettreport.com has made this new, mysterious, anonymously-authored ‘propaganda list’ of websites to watch out for in the era of #FakeNews and Russians under every rock. And yes, the list is as ridiculous as that sounds. Join me today as I look into the latest pathetic attempt by a flailing establishment to bolster their discredited mouthpiece media organs and counter the ascendant alternative media. (Spoiler: they’re going to lose this battle as well.)”
With her Christian Democratic Union party facing increasing losses at the hands of German voters fed up with zero economic growth and state-run facilities bursting at the seams handling millions of Middle Eastern war refugees, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has begun shaking a stick at the Internet:
Merkel cautioned that public opinion was being ‘manipulated’ on the internet. ‘Something has changed — as globalisation has marched on, (political) debate is taking place in a completely new media environment. Opinions aren’t formed the way they were 25 years ago,’ she said.
Europe’s bureaucrats were one step ahead, and in a shocking move, on Wednesday the EU Parliament voted on a non-legislative resolution which calls for the EU to ‘respond to information warfare by Russia.’ Russian news websites RT and Sputnik news agency were alleged to be among the most dangerous ‘tools of Russian propaganda.’
“Trump and Putin now have an opportunity to change course. Within the first 90 days after Trump’s inauguration, they have a chance to halt the downward spiral in U.S.-Russian relations, avert a massive arms race, save trillions of dollars in military budgets over the next decade, and, most important, reverse the frightening march to war. I do not say this lightly. This scenario is possible.”
http://www.moneyandmarkets.com/trump-putin-big-war-little-deal-83125
“Russia is not the only nation whose lawmakers and politicians are heading in this direction, especially when it comes to requiring backdoors for encrypted communications. Time and time again, technologists and civil liberties groups have warned the United States, France, Holland, and a host of other nations that the anti-encryption laws they propose cannot be obeyed without rewriting the laws of mathematics. Politicians have often responded by effectively telling the Internet’s experts ‘don’t worry, you’ll work out a way.’ Let us be clear: government backdoors in encrypted communications make us all less safe, no matter which country is holding the keys.”
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/russia-asks-impossible-its-new-surveillance-laws
“Evidence for this comes on the back of the recent airstrike carried out by US jets over Mosul, targeting an ISIS facility allegedly containing a huge amount of cash intended to pay its fighters and finance future military operations. Imagine if a Russian military commander made a statement such as this, openly acknowledging that civilians would be killed in future Russian airstrikes. The uproar across Western media platforms would be off the scale. There would likely even be attempts to convene an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council in order to censure the Russian government, along with a concerted attempt to isolate Moscow and reduce it to pariah status.”
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/328781-us-civilians-syria-war/
“The real threat to peace circa 1990 was that Pax Americana would not go away quietly in the night. In fact, during the past 25 years Imperial Washington has lost all memory that peace was ever possible at the end of the cold war. Today it is as feckless, misguided and bloodthirsty as were Berlin, Paris, St. Petersburg, Vienna and London in August 1914. The modern Warfare State has been the incubator of American imperialism since the Cold War, and is now proving itself utterly invulnerable to fiscal containment, even in the face of a $19 trillion national debt. So 101 years after the Christmas truces along the Western Front there is still no peace on earth.”
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/christmas-2015-why-there-is-no-peace-on-earth/
“The Joint Chiefs felt that a direct challenge to Obama’s policy would have ‘had a zero chance of success’. So in the autumn of 2013 they decided to take steps against the extremists without going through political channels, by providing US intelligence to the militaries of other nations, on the understanding that it would be passed on to the Syrian army and used against the common enemy, Jabhat al-Nusra and Islamic State. Once the flow of US intelligence began, Germany, Israel and Russia started passing on information about the whereabouts and intent of radical jihadist groups to the Syrian army; in return, Syria provided information about its own capabilities and intentions.”
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n01/seymour-m-hersh/military-to-military
“Each year more than one trillion dollars goes up in smoke. More accurately, it is stolen from the middle and working classes and shipped off to the one percent. I am talking about the massive yearly bill to maintain the US empire. None of this trillion dollars taken from us is spent to keep us safe, despite what politicians say. In fact, this great rip-off actually makes us less safe and more vulnerable to a terrorist attack thanks to resentment overseas at our interventions and to the blowback it produces. The money is spent to maintain existing conflicts and to create new areas of conflict overseas that in turn feeds the demands for more military spending.”