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MM's avatar

C'mon, Alex -- she SAID they have no ties to the CIA, isn't that enough for you? Give a regime-changer a break!

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TeeJae's avatar

"“How is it pro–democracy to support mobilizations that seek to remove elected leaders?”

“Isn’t that sort of what democracy is?” she fired back in a tacit admission that her organization views foreign meddling and support for violent putschists abroad as an intrinsically democratic act."

And yet, they consider (alleged) Russian meddling in our elections to be "a grave threat to our democracy!" The blatant hypocrisy here is off the charts.

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Feral Finster's avatar

I had no idea that it was even remotely controversial that the NED was a CIA cutout.

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mrjest@fastmail.com's avatar

Professional liars are never good liars. Thanks for letting them prove it.

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KarlWatch's avatar

Only in the US, would an enemy propagandist like Aaron Maté be able to wander the streets of Brooklyn all day. Imagine a pro-US-agenda "journalist" doing the same thing in Moscow today.

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jujitzujesus's avatar

Calling US gov't agencies and politicians out on their lies, corruption, and crimes might be inconvenient for those in power attempting to hide the truth, but ultimately I'm extremely happy to have these GENUINE journalists working FOR the American people.

What does a pro-US-agenda journalist look like to you? An obvious puppet financially tied to shady agencies spouting opinions and generalizations like "experts say", "stand for democracy", or any use of the undefinable, made-up word "misinformation"?

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KarlWatch's avatar

Aaron is a Canadian, and if he were smart, he'd either be back in Vancouver or making plans to be Tara Reade's roommate.

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Thomas Scherrer's avatar

I mean... it's just laughable that when Aun realized she was in No Man's Land, she went right to the version of the Packers Sweep: "are you supporting Belarus"? As a means to regain the advantage. These meets don't realize that their narrative is crumbling like a foundation in Ellington.

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