How Putin Played the Left
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Perhaps the starkest case in point is Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and her constituency. In December 2015, the Kremlin feted Stein by inviting her to the gala celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Kremlin-funded propaganda network RT. Over a year later, it remains unclear who paid for Stein’s trip to Moscow and her accommodations there. Her campaign ignored multiple questions on this score. We do know, however, that Stein sat at the same table as both Putin and Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, Trump’s soon-to-be national security adviser. She further spoke at an RT-sponsored panel, using her presence to criticize the U.S.’s “disastrous militarism.” Afterward, straddling Moscow’s Red Square, Stein described the panel as “inspiring,” going on to claim that Putin, whom she painted as a political novice, told her he “agree[d]” with her “on many issues.”
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Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: good at drinking water
Any regrets, Bernie people?
Any regrets, Bernie people?
from above article:
In a few swing states, after all, Clinton lost to Trump by a margin smaller than Stein’s total statewide voter haul. The Nation has tens of thousands of subscribers and a venerable, 150-year-old pedigree for liberal advocacy. The WikiLeaked DNC and John Podesta emails, meanwhile, gradually released during and after the Democratic National Convention in August, did untold damage to Clinton’s campaign.
What remains of the internationalist wing of the Republican Party is understandably unnerved by how much of the American right has happily aligned with Putin’s spymasters and arms-length purveyors of “active measures” and provided cover for a foreign government’s interference in a U.S. election.
But the American left has just as much reason to take stock. Ideologically promiscuous and unbound by the orthodoxies of a single party or historical narrative, Putin has cultivated dupes, fellow travelers, and purblind fools among plenty of American progressives who, whether by accident or design, have facilitated the rise of the most extremist and reactionary president this country has ever elected
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: snoey
Stein described the panel as
Stein described the panel as “inspiring,” going on to claim that Putin, whom she painted as a political novice,
Words fail.
The man who rose to head of the KGB (which only goes back to the Tsars) and used it to take over the currrent Russian government, is political novice.
Do they make sure to tie a rope around an ankle in case she floats away?
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Markd (not MarkD)
It is and should be a non
It is and should be a non-partisan issue.
Using technology which includes all aspects of social media, Russia has proven here in the US as well as in several of it's former Soviet states that it can mess with peoples heads. Many other countries in the EU and more are also falling under the spell. In our case here in the US, he was playing everyone and he had his bets hedged like betting on all horses in a race. If Hillary won, he would've succeeded in getting the nation to believe the "rigged" theories about her deal. If Trump won, he had the dupe in place.
Forgetting any and all politics and policies (which I know is hard for us all), you have to know that something is amiss when America hires a man like Trump who, based on facts on the ground and all supplied by him directly, is the worst human being since Nixon, for the top job in the country. First, one would think the country learned after Nixon, but also, at least Nixon had a documentable history of some level of public service, etc. We are keenly aware of the voluminous list of Trumps negative issues, besides being some level of rich which we apparently think must be good, what is the list of good to great things Trump has accomplished?