"The two men ensnared in Ukraine’s 'clever' ruse to weed out Putin’s assassins have turned out to be former Ukrainian counterintelligence officials, who despise Russia, and pledge allegiance to radical, ultra-right neo-Nazi group 'Right Sector'."
"Trump is not fighting the US deep state by advancing longtime US deep state agendas, and anyone who thinks that he is has had some very bad luck with thinking."
"The CIA operative and FBI informant used to gather information on the 2016 Trump campaign has, for weeks, been falsely depicted as a sensitive intelligence asset rather than what he actually is: a long-time CIA operative with extensive links to the Bush family who was responsible for a dirty and likely illegal spying operation in the 1980 presidential election."
"The CIA had granted Provisional Security Approval to Bohning on Aug. 21, 1967, and Covert Security Approval on Nov. 14 of the same year. Bohning was given the cryptonym AMCARBON-3."
"Belief in the Pax Americana persists, along with an appetite for armed intervention. So too does a studied indifference to costs and consequences."
"The sharpest plunge in America’s press freedom rating occurred during the Obama administration — thanks in part to its zealous prosecutions of journalists. Trump is continuing policies started by earlier presidents."
"False flag operations succeed because many people reflexively jump to accept official narratives. Conveniently timed attacks that give pretexts for war, however, are not always what they seem."
"Now as the death toll tragically stands at many tens of thousands, and with a subsequent U.N. report from 2017 documenting in detail 'the killing and maiming of children' on a mass scale, Blitzer's words are even more revealing of the role that CNN and other major American networks play in enabling and excusing U.S. and allied partners' war crimes abroad."
"The same entities that are supposed to act as the 'Fourth Estate', holding the U.S. government accountable, blindly supported reports of a chemical attack that has yet to be verified."
"We have not criminalized parents who choose to raise their kids in homes with stairs. But increasingly we have criminalized parents who choose to let their kids out of their sight."