Hawaii Congresswoman Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s critique of U.S. foreign policy is so threatening to the custodians of conventional wisdom that the NBC News abandoned to basic journalistic practice to smear her as a tool of Russia. In The Intercept Glenn Greenwald demolishes the NBC News report purporting to show that Gabbard, a 2020 Democratic presidential...
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More on ‘Putin’s Chef’ and His Private Army Called Wagner
National Security Correspondent for NPR Greg Myre’s article analyzes the background of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the man dubbed “Putin’s Chef,” and his role in the Russian government. “He epitomizes a real renaissance man in contemporary Russia, which is to say that he runs some very high-end restaurants,” said Angela Stent, the head of Russian Studies at Georgetown...
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Wagner, the Private Russian Security Force, Reportedly in Venezuela
I blogged about Wagner, the Russian private military contractor, as an instrument of President Vladmir Putin. PMCs, like Wagner, are a way that government’s secretly project power without taking responsibility. Just as the Bush administration used Blackwater in Iraq, Putin uses Wagner in Syria and now, according to The Guardian, Venezuela. “The order came down...
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Inside ‘Wagner,’ the Russian Version of Blackwater
You’ve heard of Blackwater, the private military company, that the Bush administration deployed in Iraq . Erik Prince, the founder of the notorious, since renamed firm, has tried to persuade President Trump to privatize the war in Afghanistan by hiring his new PMC to wage war on the Taliban. The same phenomenon can be seen...
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RT Video Shows Russian Fighter Jet Intercepting U.S. Spy Plane Over Baltic Sea
The Russian pilots closed in on the target, while maintaining a safe distance, and identified it as US Air Force reconnaissance plane, P-8A Poseidon. The American aircraft subsequently pulled away, while the Russian jet safely returned to base. Source: Russian Su-27 fighter jet intercepts US spy plane over Baltic Sea – Moscow (VIDEO) — RT...