DefDog: Desperate Deep State Floats Story – Russians “May” Be Aiding Taliban in Afghanistan According to NATO Commander [Who Should Be Immediately Relieved of Command]

The guy is either insane or a criminal. Russia may be aiding Taliban in Afghanistan, top US general says The top U.S. general in Europe told lawmakers Thursday that he sees evidence Russia might be supplying the Taliban in an effort to undermine the United States, in what could be a significant turning point in …

Berto Jongman: New York Times, Part of the Deep State, Asserts the Deep State Does Not Exist; Fake News — and the Deep State — Are Imploding…

What Happens When You Fight a ‘Deep State’ That Doesn’t Exist Though Mr. Trump has not publicly used the phrase, allies and sympathetic news media outlets have repurposed “deep state” from its formal meaning — a network of civilian and military officials who control or undermine democratically elected governments — to a pejorative meant to …

Robert Steele: Evidence Grows of Impeachable Offenses by Barack Obama, James Clapper, John Brennan, and Mike Rogers (as well as Predecessors) UPDATE 1 – Larry Klayman Letter to HPSCI

Whistleblower Tapes: Trump Wiretapped “A Zillion Times” By ‘The Hammer,’ Brennan’s and Clapper’s Secret Computer System President Obama’s Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper and his Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director John Brennan oversaw a secret supercomputer system known as “THE HAMMER,” according to former NSA/CIA contractor-turned whistleblower Dennis Montgomery. Clapper and Brennan were …

Robert Parry: NYT = “Tin-Foil Hat” Fake News

NYT’s ‘Tinfoil Hat’ Conspiracy Theory There is a “tinfoil-hat” quality to The New York Times’ pushing its “Donald Trump Is Russia’s Manchurian Candidate” conspiracy theory as the newspaper sinks deeper into a New McCarthyism, reports Robert Parry.

Michael Kearns: Insights on Facebook Data & Psychological Profiling — Hyped but Interesting

The Data That Turned the World Upside Down Psychologist Michal Kosinski developed a method to analyze people in minute detail based on their Facebook activity. Did a similar tool help propel Donald Trump to victory? Two reporters from Zurich-based Das Magazin went data-gathering.​ Phi Beta Iota: Cambridge Analytica appears to have some deep talents but …

CounterPunch: US Two-Party Tyranny is Dead

Our Two Party System is Dead The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) famously proclaimed the death of God.  Following this far more momentous precedent, it would now be fair to proclaim the death of the debilitating, semi-established duopoly party system that disables progressive politics in the United States. The analogies are many.