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Perhaps you should read some non-partisan perspective before you rekimdle the HUAC. https://consortiumnews.com/2023/05/21/chris-hedges-why-russiagate-wont-go-away/

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Speaking as Putin's agent? Or willing fool?

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Parrot prattling planted partisan platitudes.

"Putin cost Hillary the presidency" remains based on appeal to authority.

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Manafort, Flynn and sundry others were convicted for 2016 violations including FARA. Biden administration was asleep at the switch and let the statute of limitations run on the Mueller prosecutions. Trump pardoned several co-conspirators.

This time is much worse. Included election voiolations, voter supression and intimidation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2024_United_States_elections#:~:text=The%20Russian%20government%20has%20interfered,support%20for%20Ukraine%20aid%20and

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Yes, American politics is corrupt and dirty, but corruption and slime is hardly the home territory of just one of the two cartel parties. Jimmy Carter was the only influential Democrat with the courage to honestly state that we are an oligarchy and no longer a democracy. He applied that to our political system, not to just one party.

Wikipedia articles can be written, revised, and edited by anyone. For this reason it is not a credible reference. The Durham report is a different matter.

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YOU are not a credible reference. The Durham report was completely discredited.

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You are advocating for channeling a dead president and talking about credibility. That pretty much sums it up.

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35576-9 You do partisan politicking. I prefer science.

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They were not aware that he LOST at trial. Was discredited.

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"They??" The "Nature" article by Eady et al.? It is the latest credible peer-reviewed article, and they never even cite Durham and thus did not rely on him as a source.

If you want to believe that "they were not aware" of it, you can. I'm not a mind reader, so I don't know that they were unaware of, but I think it much more likely that between the team of authors and the peer reviewers, they were aware of the best available information and synthesized it appropriately. That information confirmed that voter influence by Russian trolls did not produce the 2016 loss for HRC.

From the time of their unanticipated loss in 2016, the Democratic Party operatives tried to blame their loss on anything and everything from Russians (DEBUNKED) to Bernie Sanders (also THOROUGHLY debunked). So in 2024 they ran again on a "vote for the lesser evil" and vote blue no matter who theme." Plus they added a "Donate here" button on every communication and then a request that their rank and file get behind apartheid, an ethnic cleansing, and a genocide...but remain shushed and never talk about it. The rank and file sent them a warning by a "none of the above" vote in mid term. As a result, over 12 million registered Democrats that voted for Biden in 2022 stayed home. And Trump won the presidency after garnering even fewer votes than he garnered when he lost in 2022.

Rinse and repeat...and lose. If they do a third rinse and repeat, the operatives of the Democratic Party will lose even worse.

Time to go beyond finger-pointing and seeking scapegoats.

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Hedges has a long, credible history as an investigative journalist. He apparently has the Durham 306 p. report as a source. Does Tom Hartmann? If so, will Tom explain this content? If he does, will he source his information?

"Durham’s 306-page report, sent to Congress by Attorney General Merrick Garland earlier this week, is even more excoriating. It concludes that the F.B.I. engaged in a witch hunt — code named Crossfire Hurricane — orchestrated by Hillary Clinton’s campaign that was aided and abetted by senior F.B.I. officials who loathed Trump.

The Clinton campaign provided bogus information to the F.B.I. about ties between Trump and Russia, including a charge made by Michael Sussmann and Marc Elias, the general counsel to the Clinton campaign, that there was a secret channel between the Trump Organization and the Russian Alfa Bank."

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You must know they took it to trial== and lost. It turned out that Durham also failed to report another investigation performed by the Italian CIA that implicated Trump.

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The bottom line is that Americans are as propagandized as Russians or anyone else. Daniel Solomon comes from a perspective that the US is somehow virtuous and these other countries are not, which is simply biased towards the window one is looking out of. Those who do not want to accept that Democrats are actively working against the public interest just as Republicans do will look for a scapegoat, in this case Putin, Russia, anti-war activists, progressives etc. Hedges is absolutely right in that Hartmann liberals are no different than Trump supporters. They have some sort of religious belief in monsters like Biden and Harris and anyone who bursts that bubble must be working for Putin or some other dictator who has minimal if any effect on American politics. It's time for the old guard, including the Bidens, Hartmanns and Daniel Solomons, to be replaced by those who are honest in diagnosing at treating our systemic issues in lieu of propping up those who are constantly wrong in their assessments and predictions. https://barryjkaufmando.substack.com/p/democracy-dies-in-darkness-but-we

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Putin is a war criminal.

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