Chuck Spinney: Jonathan Cook on Clinton’s Hypocrisy, Fake News, and US Intelligence Perfidy in False Claims About Russia “Hacking” the Election

The below essay by Jonathan Cook is a show stopper.  Cook, a British writer, is an independent reporter based in Nazareth, Israel.  Cook has proven himself to be one of  the most insightful western observers now reporting on Israel, the Palestinian conflict, and the Middle East in general. In the classic Beyond Culture, the great …

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 …

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. …

Robert Steele: Is Blaming the Russians a Desperate Attempt to Cover Up US Intelligence Community Routine Spying on US Politicians Including the President?

Completely apart from Deep State – Two-Party Tyranny – Wall Street machinations against Donald Trump, the legitimately elected next President of the United States of America, the current efforts of the US Intelligence Community to blame the Russians for hacking the election are in my view a desperate attempt to distract everyone from the fact …

Glenn Greenwald: Anonymous Leaks Are Not Evidence — A Sharp Critique of Fake News from the Washington Post

Anonymous Leaks to the WashPost About the CIA’s Russia Beliefs Are No Substitute for Evidence The Washington Post late Friday night published an explosive story that, in many ways, is classic American journalism of the worst sort: the key claims are based exclusively on the unverified assertions of anonymous officials, who in turn are disseminating their own claims …

Robert Steele: CNN (Chris Cuomo) Full of Crap — Fake News — Millions Did Vote Illegally — and Millions Were Also Repressed Illegally

Watching CNN at 0725 on the morning of 5 December 2016 just makes me sick to my stomach. The CNN representative — Chris Cuomo — is totally full of crap, but the Trump surrogate, Congressman Issa, is shallow and unprepared. CNN — the Clinton News Network — is a completely controlled surrogate for an official …