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TomCADem

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19. Daily Beast - How Putin Played the Far Left
Thu Jun 1, 2017, 02:23 AM
Jun 2017

I was at an anti-Trump rally in Los Angeles, which was awesome. However, I still saw some folks in the crowd pushing the Communist party and passing out flyers promoting the secession of California, which Russia heavily promotes along with Texit. The Russians are not for the left or the right. They are opportunists.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/how-putin-played-the-far-left



Moscow’s attempts to cultivate America’s far-left long predate the presidency of Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin, according to available evidence, donated more funds per capita to the U.S. Communist Party than any other communist claque during the Soviet period, when Moscow’s intelligence operations against the “main adversary” involved recruiting agents of influence and spies of a progressive background who were sympathetic to the Soviet cause. But the past 18 months have seen a noted spike in information warfare aimed at gulling the Bernie Bros and Occupy-besotted alternative-media set, which saw Clinton as more of a political danger than it did Trump.

Perhaps the starkest case in point is Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and her constituency. In December 2015, the Kremlin feted Stein by inviting her to the gala celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Kremlin-funded propaganda network RT. Over a year later, it remains unclear who paid for Stein’s trip to Moscow and her accommodations there. Her campaign ignored multiple questions on this score. We do know, however, that Stein sat at the same table as both Putin and Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, Trump’s soon-to-be national security adviser. She further spoke at an RT-sponsored panel, using her presence to criticize the U.S.’s “disastrous militarism.” Afterward, straddling Moscow’s Red Square, Stein described the panel as “inspiring,” going on to claim that Putin, whom she painted as a political novice, told her he “agree[d]” with her “on many issues.”

Stein presents herself as a champion of the underclass and the environment, and an opponent of the surveillance state and corporate media, and yet she seemed to take pleasure in her marriage of true minds with a kleptocratic intelligence officer who levels forests and arrests or kills critical journalists and invades foreign countries. Their true commonality, of course, is that both Putin and Stein are dogged opponents of U.S. foreign policy.

Indeed, her pro-Kremlin stance wasn’t limited to merely praising Putin’s amicability. Stein joined the Russian president and Kazakhstani dictator Nursultan Nazarbayev in describing Ukraine’s 2014 EuroMaidan revolution as a “coup,” and claimed, bizarrely, that NATO is currently “fighting… enemies we invent to give the weapons industry a reason to sell more stuff.” For good measure, she also asserted in September that “Russia used to own Ukraine,” by way of defending its colonization. She even selected a vice-presidential candidate who, when asked whether the downing of Flight MH17—a massacre almost certainly caused by Russian-supplied separatists in eastern Ukraine—was a false flag, responded, “[T]hat’s exactly what has happened.”
Thank you for this report, Tom Cha May 2017 #1
Thank you for this report, Tom Cha May 2017 #2
Was this SCantiGOP May 2017 #3
No, This Is... TomCADem May 2017 #4
lol.. first time Cha May 2017 #11
Thank you Tom. murielm99 May 2017 #5
Is this fake news: roomtomove May 2017 #6
If not.... roomtomove May 2017 #7
It's fake news. geek tragedy May 2017 #9
RUSSIAN! RUSSIAN! RUSSIAN! HarmonyRockets May 2017 #13
To be fair, he didn't "defend" Kushner. Honeycombe8 May 2017 #8
It's a distortion of the truth. pnwmom May 2017 #12
Not so much fake news as it is simply a premise predicated wholly on a logical fallacy. LanternWaste May 2017 #16
Yes it is Bradical79 May 2017 #17
Thanks for the 538 link. I never heard of it before. I put it on my home screen. BigmanPigman May 2017 #10
Among the top five..that's an interesting way to put it...I wonder.. melman May 2017 #14
Yup, Gillibrand is #1 TomCADem May 2017 #15
They're playing their long game again... Wounded Bear May 2017 #18
Daily Beast - How Putin Played the Far Left TomCADem Jun 2017 #19
K&R betsuni Jun 2017 #20
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