In a progress report of sorts on the 90-day investigation into the coronavirus origins – with which US spies were tasked back in May – a trio of CNN reporters mainly makes excuses for why it might not be completed in time, and could require another three months. The spies …
Read More »Tara Reade: I told my story, but there are countless others too afraid of the Democrat protection machine to come forward
“I told my story, my love, so that you could tell yours.” Ophelia, by Semi Chellas I was silent for a very long time. I had a child to raise alone after my divorce in a culture that creates many obstacles for women under the best circumstances. In 2019, my …
Read More »‘Smeared, shut out & shadow-banned’: the inside story of how RT was branded a ‘foreign agent’ by free press-loving US officials
Speaking at a roundtable on press freedom at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Thursday, Anna Belkina, RT’s deputy editor in chief, set out how American legislation was limiting the multinational news agency’s work in the country, which bills itself as the leader of the free world, and elsewhere. …
Read More »Bogus story of Iranian interference in Scottish politics shows Western media to be the true election meddler
On May 3, The Times published a bombshell front-page report alleging that Tehran was “almost certainly” attempting to interfere in the impending Scottish parliament elections, “encouraging Scottish separatism,” in order to “attack the constitutional integrity” of the UK. The source of this shocking claim was a preview of a report …
Read More »CNN looks deep into Derek Chauvin’s EYES to keep George Floyd story alive
A Minneapolis jury on Tuesday convicted Chauvin of second- and third-degree murder, as well as second-degree manslaughter, for his role in the death of George Floyd last May. The verdict was as favorable as any Black Lives Matter activists or their supporters in the media could have hoped for, but …
Read More »New York Times ‘bounties’ non-story shows US/UK media has got so used to blaming Russia, it’s basically now doing it out of habit
“A Powerful Russian Weapon: The Spread of False Stories.” So ran a headline in the New York Times in August 2016. If it were only a Russian phenomenon, the world would be a much better place. Alas, the Times is far from immune from spreading “false stories” itself. From Walter …
Read More »Fake news all along: Confidence game with ‘Russian bounties’ story shows one shouldn’t trust spies & self-serving media
So convoluted was the phrasing of the not-quite-admission of wrongdoing on Thursday, that some media outlets – looking at you, The Hill – actually took it as proof the claim Russia had offered Taliban money to kill US troops was true! “The US intelligence community assesses with low to moderate …
Read More »White House admits lack of confidence in DEBUNKED story about Russian bounties – after Biden repeatedly used it to attack Trump
“The US intelligence community assesses with low to moderate confidence that Russian intelligence officers sought to encourage Taliban attacks against US coalition personnel in Afghanistan in 2019, including through financial incentives and compensation,” a senior Biden administration official told reporters on Thursday. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki confirmed the new …
Read More »Trump chastises WaPo for ‘hoax’ report after paper corrects story alleging ex-president pressured Georgia election official
The now-discredited story, published in January, alleged that Trump had instructed the state’s top elections investigator to “find the fraud” that led to Democrat Joe Biden’s election victory, and that she would be a “national hero” if she did. But on Monday, the paper issued a lengthy correction after an …
Read More »WaPo issues huge correction to story on Trump’s pressuring of Georgia election official, says he was misquoted, but resumes attack
The reported claims that Trump had told the state’s top elections investigator to “find the fraud” behind Joe Biden’s election victory, and that she would be “a national hero” if she did, were completely false, the Post admitted. The newspaper said the error came to light when Georgia’s secretary of …
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