#RussiaGate and the #MuellerReport

Three Lessons for the Progressive Left from the Mueller Inquiry
By Jonathan Cook
The left never had a dog in this race. This was always an in-house squabble between different wings of the establishment. One wing wants to make sure the pig’s face remains painted, the other is happy simply getting its snout deeper into the trough while the food lasts. Russiagate was never about substance, it was about who gets to image-manage the decline of a turbo-charged, self-harming neoliberal capitalism. Read more...

Trump Recognizes Israeli Annexation of Golan Heights: Green Light for Global War
By Bill Van Auken
The hastily completed White House ceremony in which President Donald Trump signed a decree granting official US recognition to Israel’s illegal annexation of Syria’s Golan Heights is an act which, on its surface, appears to change few facts on the ground in the Middle East. Read more...

Venezuelan Gov’t Presents Evidence of Alleged Opposition Paramilitary Plot
By Ricardo Vaz
Venezuelan Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez presented what he claimed to be evidence of “ultra-right plans to promote regime change.” According to Rodriguez, Venezuelan intelligence

services uncovered plans to contract mercenaries from Colombia and Central America and bring them into Venezuela to execute targeted killings and acts of sabotage, adding that “at least half” of the armed groups managed to make their way into Venezuelan territory and are currently being sought. Read more...

War or Uneasy Truce in Gaza? Renewed Bombing ordered by Netanyahu
By Stephen Lendman
For hours during day and nighttime hours on Monday, IDF warplanes reigned terror on Gazan targets throughout the Strip, including residential ones. Read more...

An Iranian April Surprise?
By Philip Giraldi
The Israelis are, of course, deep into the planning for a conflict, and have recently again been promoting their repeatedly discredited casus belli claim that Iran has a secret nuclear program. Read more...

In the Wake of the RussiaGate Witch-Hunt: Now We Will Find Out if Trump Is Really the President or Merely a Figurehead
By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
We can conclude that it was a hoax cooked up by an utterly corrupt and immoral military/security complex determined to protect its $1,000 billion annual budget and the power that goes with it from the loss of its Russian enemy to normalized relations. Read more...

RussiaGate: Attorney General Barr’s Summary of the Mueller Report
By Common Dreams
On December 2, 1823 in the wake of rebellions in Latin America that had ended Spanish rule in the Western Hemisphere, US President James Monroe announced that European colonial powers that attempted to assert influence in the region would be an overt threat to the national security of the US. Read more...

Operation Condor and the United States: Torture, Death Squads and Echoes in the New Millennium
By Edward B. Winslow
On December 2, 1823 in the wake of rebellions in Latin America that had ended Spanish rule in the Western Hemisphere, US President James Monroe announced that European colonial powers that attempted to assert influence in the region would be an overt threat to the national security of the US. Read more...