Under President Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the long-standing U.S.-Saudi relationship, lubricated by oil and weapons sales, has degenerated into a gangsterly alliance in which MBS feels free to intimidate his rivals and critics while Jared Kushner pursues business deals. Case in point: former Saudi intelligence chief Saad Aljabri. He was the head...
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Russian Propaganda Repurposed by American Right-Wing Media
Source: A Bible Burning, a Russian News Agency and a Story Too Good to Check Out – The New York Times the Portland Bible burnings appear to be one of the first viral Russian disinformation hits of the 2020 presidential campaign. How does Russian disinformation work? The Russian technique is a kind of information laundering,...
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How Sen. Ron Johnson’s Investigation Became an Enabler of Russian Disinformation
The hard-right Attorney General Bill Barr says that the FBI investigation Donald Trump’s entourage in 2016, amounted to “spying.” Left- wing columnist Matt Taibbi, says the Trump-Russia investigation was a “hoax.” But that’s kind of last year’s debate. In the 2020 election cycle it is hard to dispute Ryan Goodman and Asha Rangappa’s piece in...
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DHS Reassigns Official Following Intelligence Reports On Journalists
The norm that the U.S. government shouldn’t collect intelligence on a free press still has some force, it seems. Brian Murphy’s removal fuels criticism around the DHS, which has been under heavy scrutiny in recent weeks for its use of federal officers at Portland protests. Agents from various divisions within the department were deployed to...
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Iran Detains U.S.-Based Opposition Leader Over 2008 Bombing
Iran has arrested a U.S.-based political activist on terororism charges. The Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) put out a statement. “Jamshid Sharmahd, the ringleader of the terrorist Tondar (Thunder) group, who directed armed and terrorist acts in Iran from America, was arrested following a complicated operation, and is now in (our agents’) powerful hands,”...