In Consortium News, Max Blumenthal illuminates one aspect of the Hunter Biden story that other news outlets are ignoring. Burisma, the Ukraine gas company that employed the son of Joe Biden, the American vice president, also doles out money to other Washington power players in order to buy influence in Washington. So, while cable news...
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Trump Relationship with CIA Sinks to New Low
The Washington Examiner is generally pro-Trump in its coverage but this report from White House correspondent Rob Crilly conveys the dismay widely felt in the intelligence service about the president’s recent actions. Kevin Carroll, a former CIA case officer, said, “It’s a very troubled relationship. Trump got it off to a terrible start with comments...
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Ukraine: A Short History of U.S. Meddling
Some inconvenient truths in this post from Yasha Levine, author of Surveillance Valley, a history of Pentagon-Silicon Valley collaboration. From Paul Manafort, President Trump’s campaign manager, to Tad Devine, Bernie Sanders’s 2016 strategist to Hunter Biden, son of the Democratic candidate, feeding at the Ukraine trough has been the norm. Levine is not making excuses...
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Beto O’Rourke: Trump and Russia Threaten National Security
On the Campaign Trail: Where He’s Coming From In his three terms in Congress, Beto O’Rourke staked out positions on issues of war and peace to the left of President Obama. Where other candidates have gone along with the foreign policy consensus in Washington, O’Rourke sometimes broke with it. While his signature foreign policy issue...