{"id":403316,"date":"2019-04-18T14:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/russiagate-is-dead-long-live-russiagate\/"},"modified":"2019-04-18T14:00:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T13:00:47","slug":"russiagate-is-dead-long-live-russiagate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/russiagate-is-dead-long-live-russiagate\/","title":{"rendered":"RussiaGate is Dead! Long Live Russiagate!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Now that Mueller\u2019s $40 million Humpty Trumpty investigation is over and found wanting of its original purpose (to retire Trump), perhaps the ruling class can return without interruption to the business of destroying the world with ordnance, greenhouse gases, and regime changes. A few more CIA-organized blackouts in Venezuela (it\u2019s a simple trick if one follows the Agency\u2019s \u201cFreedom Fighter\u2019s Manual<\/a>\u201d), and the US will come to the rescue, Grenada style, and set up yet another neoliberal regime. There is a small solace that with Trump, Pompeo, and Bolton, there is at least a semblance of transparency in their reckless interventions. The assessed value of Guaido and Salman, they forthrightly admit, is in their countries\u2019 oil reserves. And Russians better respect the Monroe Doctrine and manifest destiny if they know what\u2019s good for them. Crude as they may be, Trump\u2019s men tell it like it is. And when Bolton<\/a> speaks of \u201cthe Western Hemisphere\u2019s shared goals of democracy, security, and the rule of law,\u201d he is of course referring to US-backed coups, military juntas, debt bondage, invasions, embargoes, assassinations, and other forms of gunboat diplomacy.<\/p>\n

That the US is not already formally at war with Russia (even with NATO forces all along its borders) has only to do with the latter\u2019s nuclear arsenal deterrent. Since World War II, a period some describe as a \u201ca period of unprecedented peace,<\/a>\u201d the US war machine has…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair Now that Mueller\u2019s $40 million Humpty Trumpty investigation is over and found wanting of its original purpose (to retire Trump), perhaps the ruling class can return without interruption to the business of destroying the world with ordnance, greenhouse gases, and regime changes. A few more CIA-organized blackouts in Venezuela (it\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-403316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}