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Dem Convention Made No Mention Of Russiagate Or Impeachment, Because Those Were Fake Things
They received no mention because they were only ever really about distracting from the major flaws in the party and building the case for new cold war escalations. https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/dem-convention-made-no-mention-of-russiagate-or-impeachment-because-those-were-fake-things-737ff9bf676e
They received no mention because they were only ever really about distracting from the major flaws in the party and building the case for new cold war escalations. https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/dem-convention-made-no-mention-of-russiagate-or-impeachment-because-those-were-fake-things-737ff9bf676e
The only interesting thing about either of the conventions held by America’s two mainstream political parties this month was not anything that was said by the interminable parade of vapid speakers, but rather what those speakers did not say.
Despite their dominating mainstream news cycles for years on end, at no time during the four-day Democratic National Convention was the word “impeachment” ever uttered, nor was any mention made of the Mueller investigation into allegations of collusion between Trump and Russia.
Politico reports:
And, of course, it was utter bullshit. And that is indeed why the Democrats saw no need to mention it at their own four-day convention despite dominating news cycles with it for years.
Russiagate and Ukrainegate were never the cataclysmic scandals that the Democrats and their allied media factions portrayed them as. They weren’t even actually about getting rid of Trump.
Anyone with an ear to the ground knew that Russiagate would fizzle, and anyone capable of counting Senate seats knew impeachment would fail to remove Trump. The drivers of these attention-monopolizing narratives knew this also.
All you really need to know about Russiagate was that it was started by unsubstantiated claims by the US intelligence community, and in the end it facilitated pre-existing plans by the US intelligence community. Everything else in between those two points is just empty narrative.
In 2017 Parry documented how the original assessment that Russia meddled in the US election in the first place was put forward without proof by just a couple dozen officers from three intelligence agencies hand-picked by the notoriously Russophobic then-DNI James Clapper.
So the whole thing has been plainly bogus from the beginning, with the foundation laid by secretive and unaccountable intelligence agencies who have an extensive history of lying about exactly this sort of thing.
And it just so happens to have paved the way for operations against a longtime geostrategic foe that were being unfolded well before Trump’s arrival in the White House.
This is an excerpt from an article by legendary Australian journalist @johnpilger from March 2016:
This is an excerpt from an article by legendary Australian journalist @johnpilger from March 2016:
This was all happening during the Obama administration. But he was still more doveish than the spooks and cold warriors who drive US foreign policy would prefer, resisting for example loud calls from the warmongers to arm Ukraine against Moscow and install a no-fly zone in Syria.
The heir apparent to Obama’s throne, Hillary Clinton, did not suffer from such peacenik scruples. She’d already been making people on both sides of the aisle nervous with her anti-Russia hawkishness, and supported both arming Ukraine and installing a no-fly zone in Syria.
So these escalations were already underway, and more were being prepared for.
Then what happened? Somehow a political neophyte who’d been talking about making nice with Russia got in instead.
Then what happened? Somehow a political neophyte who’d been talking about making nice with Russia got in instead.
We suddenly found ourselves bombarded with narratives from the US intelligence community and its mass media stenographers about Russian election meddling and Trump playing some mysterious role in it.
We were never at any time presented with any proof of these claims which rose anywhere near the level required in a post-Iraq invasion world, but we were hammered with them anyway, day in and day out, year after year.
The cold warriors wanted their escalations, and they got them. From beginning to the end, that’s all this was ever about. They pushed the narratives, the media joined in because it was great for ratings, and the Democrats joined in because it took the focus off their deep flaws.
And now the slow motion third world war between the US-centralized power alliance and the loose collective of unabsorbed governments is right on schedule, with Biden all set and ready to carry the omnicidal torch forward.
The 2016 scandals are well enough forgotten, no progressive changes have been made, and there is no need to talk about Russiagate or impeachment at the Democratic National Convention.
Because everyone already got what they wanted. Everyone except ordinary people, of course.
Because everyone already got what they wanted. Everyone except ordinary people, of course.
There are lots of hyperlinks in the article if you've just read the thread and are curious about any of the assertions here.
