Dispatches from
STEPHEN LENDMAN
I t shouldn’t surprise. Since the deplorable Clinton co-presidency, America has been on a slippery slope toward full-blown tyranny – notably post-the-9/11 mother of all false flags.
NB: This is not intended to endorse Trump, whom we oppose, albeit on an issue by issue basis, but to highlight the treachery of the Democrats. Every media organ associated with them is shouting the “Russian hacking” accusation from the rooftops—NPR, Rachel Maddow, DemocracyNow!, CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, Daily Kos, MoveOn, AVAAZ, and scores of liberaloid shills and establishment magazines, as well as almost the entire Hollywood celebrity establishment. It makes for a powerful megaphone, but all the sanctimonious shouting and theatrics won’t make a big lie into a truth. Oh, by the way, it was not hacking, but an insider leak.—Ed.
ABOVE IMAGE: DNI’s chief, James Clapper, before Congress. Not even him is comfortable asserting the “Russians did it.” Besides the very idea of “hacking” disseminated by the media is wrong. The damaging info came via an insider leak, within the DNC.
STEPHEN LENDMAN lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III." ( http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html ) Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.
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