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STEPHEN LENDMAN was born in 1934 in Boston, MA. In 1956, he received a BA from Harvard University. Two years of US Army service followed, then an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1960. After working seven years as a marketing research analyst, he joined the Lendman Group family business in 1967. He remained there until retiring at year end 1999. Writing on major world and national issues began in summer 2005. In early 2007, radio hosting followed. Lendman now hosts the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network three times weekly. Distinguished guests are featured. Listen live or archived. Major world and national issues are discussed. Lendman is a 2008 Project Censored winner and 2011 Mexican Journalists Club international journalism award recipient. His new site is at http://stephenlendman.org
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STEPHEN LENDMAN—Manafort: Simply a dirty business operator connected to Trump, another dirty operator, like hundreds of thousands in America, his indictment part of a propaganda witch-hunt organised by the Deep State with the Democrats as battering rams and their whore media providing the hysterical megaphone. Many of the allegations relate to events that took place long before there was a Trump candidacy. Not to mention that doing business—crooked or not—with Russia or any other country is not a political crime.
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I had expected the charges against Manafort and Gates to be spun into the Russian Tale, of course, as media had already decided that the testimony would prove the elusive “Russian collusion.” It didn’t matter that none of this had anything to do with Russia. This is just the state of contemporary journalism. This issue was already framed by media, from NBC to online liberal publications, as the key to providing proof of that “Russian meddling.” They zealously concentrate on reciting key words and phrases (“Russian meddling,” “collusion,” etc.) as frequently as they had recited the phrase, “Iraq’s stockpiles of… Read more »