Owl: Michel Chossudovsky – Coup Being Led by Banks, Neoconservatives and Military-Industrial Complex Favoring War with Russia — Trump Backed by Main Street and Business Favoring a Foreign Policy of Peace and Commerce

U.S. Foreign Policy and the Electoral College Vote. Towards a December 19 Surprise? In a previous article entitled Constitutional Crisis, Movement to Undermine President-elect Donald Trump’s Accession to the White House? I focused on the process of confrontation between the Trump and Clinton factions leading up to the Grand Electoral College Vote on December 19th. We are …

Robert Parry: John V. Whitbeck on the Criminal Insanity of the US Establishment Claiming Russians Hacked the Election When It Was the Establishment That Lost Under Its Own Byzantine Fraud-Friendly Rules…

The Pre-emptive Anti-Trump Coup Washington insiders, trying to use Russia’s alleged hack of Democratic emails to get the Electoral College to reject Donald Trump, are risking making the U.S. look like the world’s largest open-air insane asylum, says John V. Whitbeck. The current hysteria in the United States over allegations that Russia stole the American …

Chuck Spinney: Andrew Cockburn’s Questions Challenging the (False) CIA Assertion That Russians Did the Hacking…

Questions for the Electors on Russian Hacking by ANDREW COCKBURN, Counterpunch, 14 December 2016 It is being reported that John Podesta, Chairman of the defeated $1.2 billion Clinton presidential campaign, is supporting the call by various officials, including at least forty Electors, that the members of the Electoral College be given a classified intelligence briefing …

James Comey to Donald Trump: Russians Did Not Influence Election — James Clapper Agrees with Me…

Comey to Trump: The Russians Didn’t Influence the Election In telephone conversations with Donald Trump, FBI Director James Comey assured the president-elect there was no credible evidence that Russia influenced the outcome of the recent U.S. presidential election by hacking the Democratic National Committee and the emails of John Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s …

CounterPunch: Historical & Structural Reasons for Skepticism of CIA Claims – Remaining Agnostic on Claims of Russian Hackers

Historical & Structural Reasons for Skepticism of CIA Claims: Remaining Agnostic on Claims of Russian Hackers David Price Suddenly, many on the American left now embrace notions of a CIA led coup against a rogue President-elect; with little discussion of the CIA’s long history of interfering in elections, covertly undermining candidates not of their liking. …