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Summary of Oliver Stone’s “The Putin Interviews” w/ Keith Knight
Scott Horton: Why the Debunked RussiaGate Hoax Still Matters
Scott Horton Debunks David Frum’s “RussiaGate” Lies
The Antiwar Comic: Real Fake News
Sorry for the late post. Website issues. Must be those dastardly Russians! Call Rachel Maddow!
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Scott Horton: The Role of the United States in Ukraine’s 2014 Coup
War in Ukraine: Conservative Radio Show Hosts the Libertarian Institute w/ Keith Knight
[E]xpanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-Cold-War era. Such a decision may be expected to inflame the nationalistic, anti-Western and militaristic tendencies in Russian opinion; to have an adverse effect on the development of Russian democracy; to restore the atmosphere of the cold war to East-West relations, and to impel Russian foreign policy in directions decidedly not to our liking.
– George Kennan, New York Times, 1997
Only People Threatened by Russia May Bear Arms
Pundits and politicians who routinely deny that Americans have the natural right to keep and bear arms nevertheless are thrilled by the scenes of Ukrainian civilians bearing arms in order to resist the Russian invaders.
I guess only people threatened by Russians have the right to keep and bear arms.
But don’t those same pundits and politicians tell us that we Americans are threatened by Russia? Ergo…