By Jim Jatras, February 21, 2018
http://russiafeed.com/
Mueller’ indictment of the Russians (as easy as indicting the proverbial “ham sandwich”) is seen as an effort to distract Americans from genuine collusion rotting the core of our public life.
House Intelligence Committee Chair Takes on the Deep State
By Ray McGovern, Feb. 19, 2018
https://consortiumnews.com/
Millions of Americans Demand $130,000 for Not Having Sex With Trump
By Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
18 February 18
Millions of Americans on Wednesday demanded that Donald J. Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, issue them checks in the amount of $130,000 for not having sex with Trump.
After Cohen revealed that he had issued such a check to Stormy Daniels, a porn star who he claims never had intimate relations with his client, there was widespread outrage among other Americans who had also not had sex with Trump but had not been paid for not doing so.
“Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy for Stormy Daniels,” Tracy Klugian, a florist in Santa Rosa, California, said. “I just want my check, too.”
Harland Dorrinson, a bank teller in Akron, Ohio, said that he had already e-mailed Cohen to demand payment. “I have never come close to having sex with Trump, and that should be worth something,” he said. “Specifically, $130,000.”
But, even as millions of Americans clamored to be compensated for abstaining from sex with Cohen’s client, others, like Carol Foyler, of Tallahassee, Florida, took a different view. “Never having sex with Donald Trump should be a reward in itself,” she said.
This is from Reader Supported News, which, since it stopped re-posting articles by the late Robert Parry a year or two ago, has been serving thin gruel from writers drinking Kool Aid at the DNC/DOJ/FBI/CIA trough. But, this time satirist Borowitz, we think, hits the mark. Enjoy.
By Mike Whitney, February 18, 2018
http://www.unz.com/mwhitney/
Robert Mueller does prove one thing; i. e., that 70 should be the age of statutory senility.
By Ray McGovern and William Binney, February 16, 2018
February 9, 2018 (58 minutes)
Nat Parry, John Pilger, and Ray share stories about journalist Robert Parry who died on January 27 after suffering strokes and undiagnosed pancreatic cancer. Hosting the telephone interviews was Michael Welch of the Global Research Radio News Hour.
Pilger speaks from minute 2 to 16; Ray from 16:40 to 29:30; Nat from minute 30 to 50 and, lastly, there is 7 minutes of an interview of Robert Parry himself that Welch recorded in December 2017. There Bob describes the ever increasing challenges to good journalism, including marginalization of alternative journalism by the giant Internet corporations.
Ray took advantage of the chance to tell a highly instructive vignette about Bob Parry and what he called the Establishment (between minutes 20:00 and 23:30).
By Stephen F. Cohen, The Nation, February 7, 2018
https://www.thenation.com/article/russiagate-or-intelgate/
The publication of the Republican House Committee memo and reports of other documents increasingly suggest not only a “Russiagate” without Russia but also something darker: The “collusion” may not have been in the White House or the Kremlin.
Warning to those who have still not recovered from the HWHW (Hillary Would Have Won) virus after 15 months: read at your own risk.
Steve Cohen is still the best. Thankfully he not only knows about Russia and Joe McCarthy, but also he is allergic to the Kool Aid in so ample supply these days in “learned” circles. “Thankfully,” for the future of our Republic is at stake.
Yes, Virginia, there IS a Deep State, and the dominant drivel — not only in the media, but also from people who should know better — may well help what in Soviet parlance were called “the organs of state security” prevail over our Constitution, as they did in the USSR. Please read, reflect, ask questions, and spread this one around.
By Coleen Rowley and Nat Parry, February 9, 2018
‘This is Nuts’: Liberals Launch ‘Largest Mobilization in History’ in Defense of Russiagate Probe
This excellent piece largely speaks for itself, but Ray added the following background and comment under the Rowley/Parry consortiumnews.com piece:
February 9, 2018 at 11:57 am
Well done, Coleen and Nat,
Against the background of the excellent article Coleen wrote last June on Mueller:
https://consortiumnews.com/
and one I wrote earlier, having had a chance to question Mueller personally before a large audience at Georgetown University:
https://consortiumnews.com/
… well, in the Bronx, we would call Mueller a crook; in Manhattan, a white-collar criminal.
Given the state of the law and the Russia-gate cheerleading media — both mainstream AND progressive — Mueller’s demonstrable malfeasance of the past has not yet put a dent in the “universally respected” honorific the New York Times has bestowed on him. Not yet.
What may do him in, rather, is the same tragic flaw that did in the main characters of the Greek tragedies of two and a half millennia ago. The Greeks called it hubris.
That Mueller picked Dumb-Strzok and his mistress, senior FBI attorney Lisa Page — not to mention so many other widely known supporters/defenders of Mrs. Clinton — to run his investigation is a perfect example of the overweening, unbridled arrogance that led to the downfall of many a Greek hero.
Appearance of bias be damned.
And did no one notice how Mueller’ best friend forever Comey immediately admitted that the reason he had one of his sidekicks leak sensitive information to the NY Times was that he wanted a special counsel picked toot sweet. And who would that, toot sweet, turn out to be? … his old joined-at-the-hip partner in crime, Bob Mueller (thank you, Jesus!)
The supreme irony is that the “universally respected” Robert Mueller is now hoisted by his own petard of hubris. The newness about Nunes — and rowdy Gowdy — is their willingness to take on Mueller’s closest friends, despite media charges, driven largely by Democrats still suffering from the HWHW (Hillary Woud Have Won) virus, that rabid Republicans are trying to sabotage his investigation.
Actually, Mueller has done a pretty good job of that himself, thank you very much.
I’m not a politician; cannot gauge whether it a good or bad idea that Mueller, Rosenstein, et al. be fired for cause (with respect to Rosenstein, signing deceptive FISA applications is a felony). I would guess it would be best politically to leave Mueller there to stew in his own juice.
In my view, if Mueller had an ounce of integrity, he would resign — if only because of the incredibly partisan way in which he staffed his investigation. Is he perhaps waiting for his old FBI buddies to dig up some dirt on Nunes and Gowdy? I would not put that past him, given his checkered career (see, again, Coleen’s excellent article of last June).
Be prepared for things to get still uglier.
Once again, hats of to Coleen Rowley — and Nat Parry. Like father, like son.
Tom Woods had done his homework, asked good questions, and gave Ray enough time to adduce facts and make analytic observations that may be totally new to many listeners. Robinson’s Feb. 2 op-ed was highly revealing — a symbol of the obstacles Nunes faces from both “mainstream” and “progressive” media — all having donned their We Love the FBI T-shirts. Here, for example, is how Robinson’s op-ed begins:
“Presidents don’t win fights with the FBI. Donald Trump apparently wants to learn this lesson the hard way.
“Most presidents have had the sense not to bully the FBI by defaming its leaders and — ridiculously — painting its agents as leftist political hacks. Most members of Congress have also understood how unwise it would be to pull such stunts. But Trump and his hapless henchmen on Capitol Hill, led by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), have chosen the wrong enemy. History strongly suggests they will be sorry.” …
