Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: 538: Who Is In The Top 5 of Anti-Trump Senators? Yes, Corey Booker. [View all]TomCADem
(17,378 posts)19. Daily Beast - How Putin Played the Far Left
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
Moscows attempts to cultivate Americas 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 Moscows 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 Steins 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, Trumps 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 Moscows 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 wasnt limited to merely praising Putins amicability. Stein joined the Russian president and Kazakhstani dictator Nursultan Nazarbayev in describing Ukraines 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 MH17a massacre almost certainly caused by Russian-supplied separatists in eastern Ukrainewas a false flag, responded, [T]hats exactly what has happened.
Edit history
Please sign in to view edit histories.
20 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
RecommendedHighlight replies with 5 or more recommendations
Not so much fake news as it is simply a premise predicated wholly on a logical fallacy.
LanternWaste
May 2017
#16
Thanks for the 538 link. I never heard of it before. I put it on my home screen.
BigmanPigman
May 2017
#10