A good wrap up on Russophobia and it’s lasting effects.

“ But this is a measure of the extent Russiagate has plunged us into Alice–in–Wonderland depths where what is up is down, what is dark is light, what is true is to be buried, what is false is to be held high — where blindness is preferred to sight.

This leads us to the essential question we now face, or one of them. What are the consequences of the Russiagate scam? If it rested on lies start-to-finish, this is not to say it did not exact its price. It did. The price is high, and we are fated to pay it for some time to come.”


Obituary for Russiagate

I think Patrick Lawrence is right about the silver lining. Having corporate media soil itself will go some ways to promoting independent journalism. An ironic outcome if it plays out that way. Bill Clinton thought it would be swell to have news media consolidate and passed another neoliberal ‘modernization’ act to hand the industry to slippery people like Gates, Murdoch and Bezos eventually. His wife may have reversed that trend of corporate consolidation with her
Fakakta conspiracies pumped out by her aligned media.

The upshot seems to be liberals getting more authoritarian as Lawrence points out and we’ve seen. Rick still hasn’t said if he supports the 1st amendment but is down with torturing a journalist doing his job. Same journalist liberals hailed as a hero exposing war crimes in Iraq. Russiagate has been a learner, fer sure.