Recollecting Russiagate
My own analysis of Russiagate published in mid-2019 was Russiagate and Propaganda. It should have been worrying enough. I wrote and submitted the manuscript to Routledge for publication 2018-2019, well in advance of publication of the Mueller report. Mueller (a former director of the FBI, a close friend of the FBI director James Comey, who set up the FBI’s own involvement with Russiagate, and assisted by dozens of FBI agents - have I repeated “FBI’ sufficiently?), in retrospect, seems to have offered very little and nowhere near as penetrating a perspective as the findings that surfaced during the Durham investigation which, though it may not have yielded successful prosecutions, unearthed catastrophically damning information of the hoax.
I first read the amazingly comprehensive dissection of the Russiagate hoax by historian and Russia expert Richard Sakwa (Deception: Russiagate and the New Cold War, published by Lexington in 2021) quite some time in advance of its publication. While Sakwa and I make liberal reference to important, former intelligence sources such as Ray McGovern, or investigative journalists, such as Aaron Mate, there is no excuse but no surprise as to why neither book hailed the attention of western mainstream media in timely fashion, or at all, and that is because western mainstrteam media, along with the Democratic Party machine and its collaborators in the spheres of law enforcement, intelligence, and IT, were principle drivers of this false narrative and seemingly uninterested in or embarrassed by the truth. Scholars don’t count apparently, unless they have pinned their colors to the neocon flag (what is that, a skull and crossbones?)
Will a similar fate befall the edited collected that I have assembled with Stephen Marmura, Russiagate Revisited, to be published shortly by Palgrave? Even since we put that collection together there have been a string of further revelations, including the Twittergate Files that expose the extent to which Twitter executives allowed the manipulation of their social media machine by Democrats and the FBI. It is with all this in mind that I recommend readers to a recent discussion on The Duran by the two Alexanders: (The Duran).
This also covers the scandals of the Biden classified documents, with reference back to Trump’s similar scandal (at least Trump kept his classified documents in a safe and in a secure location) and, somewhere in the murkiness, thoughts about the story of Hunter Biden’s laptop (which mainstream media in their superlative wisdom decided - incorrectly, as it turned out - on our behalf, or rather on Biden’s behalf and on behalf of the DNC - to be inauthentic and therefore something we shouldn’t know about and they shouldn’t investigate), and, of course, about Ukraine, with whose coup regime Joe Biden and Hunter Biden have been so intimately associated.
The main point is: Russiagate was the hysteria-inducing hoax that serves as prelude to (another) war fought on totally false, hysteria-inducing pretext (the “unprovoked” conflict).
(My contributions here may be more sparse over the next day or so, but I should be back in more regular swing by the weekend)
I commend your continuing efforts. What a singularly depressing world it is. The more I learn of history, the more it seems humanity has always had this tendency, that the psychopaths wend their way to the top of whatever hierarchy they can find, and gleefully spread their contagion of lies, collecting the benefits and apparently also the get-out-of-jail-free card. But what is also trying, and why I so much appreciate your and other's publications in defiance of this, is how many of my family, friends and compatriots prefer the lies to the reality. Once you see it, though, you can't unsee it, so thank you for keeping on keeping on.