Russian reflexive control is subverting the American political landscape

As the world fully enters the 21st century, the social and political landscape of America has undergone a profound shift. Republican lawmakers have praised Russian President Vladimir Putin for exposing what can be at best described as a lack of ethics in the Democratic party, and at worst, outright corruption. The Republican president-elect has hailed […]

Moscow warns it may restrict U.S. media in Russia

Russia is within its rights to restrict the operations of U.S. media organizations in Russia in retaliation for what Moscow calls U.S. pressure on a Kremlin-backed TV station, a Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman said on Sunday. Russian officials have accused Washington of putting unwarranted pressure on the U.S. operations of RT, a Kremlin-funded broadcaster accused […]

FU-RT: Russia Today finally forced to register as a foreign agent

Years ago I was having a conversation with a friend who, at the time, worked at ABC news.  He told me that they never run anything that negative about Russia because the last time they did, the network was kicked out of the country for like seven years.  They learned their lesson and played nice […]

Russian network RT must register as foreign agent in US

The company that runs the U.S. version of RT, the Russian state-owned outlet originally known as Russia Today, must register with the Justice Department as a foreign agent, signaling that all of their content would be labeled as propaganda from Moscow. In a report Monday, RT did not name the company that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has […]

MAKS 2017! What is it? Where is it? Why you should check this out!

With all the Russian mania these days how many of you know what MAKS is? The International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS is one of the largest air shows in the world and is based out of the Gromov Flight Research Institute (LII) airfield which is about 25 miles south-east of Moscow. Today, International Aviation and Space […]

American train, advise, assist program helped Russians win the war

As typical of Russian propaganda and so-called “fake news” we are told by state-sponsored active measures efforts like Russia Today that everything America does is imperialist, neo-colonialist, and needlessly provocative.  Watching RT is like listening to Noam Chomsky or Howard Zinn get up to the podium at some lefty university event wearing a sweater with […]

One weird dude: the implosion of former CIA analyst Larry Johnson

Larry Johnson came onto my radar a few years back when I penned a book about Benghazi with Brandon Webb.  We were the first ones to really tell the story behind what happened that night in Libya, and it certainly caused a bit of a dust-up.  Larry Johnson took to his website and described us […]

Moscow had contacts with Trump team during campaign, Russian diplomat says

MOSCOW — Russian government officials had contacts with members of Donald Trump’s campaign team, a senior Russian diplomat said Thursday, in a disclosure that could reopen scrutiny over the Kremlin’s role in the president-elect’s bitter race against Hillary Clinton. Facing questions about his ties to Moscow because of statements interpreted as lauding Russian President Vladi­mir Putin, […]

Trump or Clinton as president, Moscow might not care

Russia has hung like a bad omen over this entire, ill-begotten election. Here’s Donald Trump praising Vladimir Putin, and there’s Mike Pence echoing that praise. There’s Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid asking the FBI to look into Trump’s campaign advisors for nefarious Russia ties. Here are Democrats, howling that the Kremlin is hacking this election in […]