Foreign Policy

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The Damage Russiagate Has Done

Authoritarian liberals have unleashed a censorious syndrome peculiar to our national character, dating to 17th century Quaker hangings in Boston. By Patrick Lawrence An inhabitant of Twitterland named “Willow Inski” took to the keyboard on Oct. 11, asking why anyone […]

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A Russiagate Film Full Of False Assumptions

Alex Gibney’s new, four-hour documentary on election meddling does little to seek the facts, and descends into conspiracy. By Mark Episkopos With the U.S. presidential election only several weeks away, the specter of Russian election interference has again become a […]

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How the Media Has Whitewashed FBI Abuses in the Russia Probe

It’s hard to decide which development is worse: the FBI’s lengthy pattern of arrogant misconduct, or the mainstream media’s willingness to be an accomplice in excusing such misconduct. Either behavior undermines government accountability and the protection of civil liberties. The […]

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Former Intel Officials Try To Downplay Ratcliffe’s Russiagate Releases

US Intelligence officials were quick to speak through their stenographers in the media to downplay the contents of a memo released last week by Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe about the origins of Russiagate. The memo made an explosive […]

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Who Robbed Russia? Did Al Gore know about the massive lootings?

By David Ignatius for The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1999/08/25/who-robbed-russia-did-al-gore-know-about-the-massive-lootings/8e1fc17a-19c0-48c7-93ad-873ec86e47af/ You can see the question rumbling toward Al Gore like a freight train in the night: What did the vice president know about the looting of Russia by organized crime, and why […]

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Don’t Put Belarus in the Middle

The West Needs to Balance the Interests of Moscow and Minsk By Yauheni Preiherman and Thomas Graham For the past two months, Belarus has seized headlines in the West. A rigged presidential election followed by mass protests prompted commentators throughout […]

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Russia’s foreign policy enters new China-aligned phase

Moscow is redefining its relations with Germany, Europe and the wider world in sight of its alliance with Beijing The following is the fourth installment of an extended report on one of the most important geopolitical developments of the 21st […]

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NYT Releases Sequel of Putin-the-Poisoner: the Incredulous Case of Mr. N

The New York Times released sequel six in the best-selling Putin-the-Poisoner series on September 22. The incredibly gifted junior G-men and women in the Times Tower have sleuthed yet another episode of boundless evildoing by the arch-villain Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. […]

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Discredited Russian Bounty Story Exposes Media’s Role in Status Quo

The military says they can’t find evidence to support it, yet the New York Times and others have not repudiated the reports or issued corrections. By Maj. (ret.) Danny Sjursen It is an old journalistic trope: no one reads the […]

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America Is Finished

By John Quincy Adams About twenty years ago The Atlantic published a piece by Jeffrey Tayler named “Russia is finished” subtitled “The unstoppable descent of a once great power into social catastrophe and strategic irrelevance.” Not a very successful prediction was […]