The View from the Bridge

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[…] revealed that or 14 or 15 Kremlin-instigated content may have reached 126 million Americans.’16 So this is real, then, and not some fabrication by anti-Russian or anti- Trump forces in America? I am almost persuaded of this despite the major media’s persistent over-hyping of real stories and not so infrequent promotion of false ones.17 […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] the 2016 election, users over 65 shared more fake news than any other age group and seven times more than users between 18 and 29. In 2020, Trump has dedicated almost half of his reelection campaign budget This article explains it: 34 to Facebook ads — many of which include blatant misinformation — to […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] social issues. And Facebook revealed that Kremlin-instigated content may have reached 126 million Americans.’17 So this is real, then, and not some fabrication by anti-Russian or anti- Trump forces in America? I am almost persuaded of this despite the major media’s persistent over-hyping of real stories and not so infrequent promotion of false ones.18 […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] own reality. This is what the Republican Right and their corporate backers have been trying to do in domestic politics: create their own version of reality. The Trump campaign was unusual only in having the presidential candidate openly espousing some of the conspiracy theories. Trump If you are curious about Trump, John K Wilson’s […]

Mexico missive

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[PDF file]: Mexico missive Nick Must Thoughts on ‘The Don’ As a British citizen with temporary residence rights in Mexico, the rhetoric of Donald Trump regarding the country in which I currently live is a source of much amusement. While I have enjoyed the news coverage of Trump’s golf course adventures in Scotland,1 perhaps the most […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] the 2016 election, users over 65 shared more fake news than any other age group and seven times more than users between 18 and 29. In 2020, Trump has dedicated almost half of his reelection campaign budget to Facebook ads — many of which include blatant misinformation — to users over 65 years old.’ […]

South of the border

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[PDF file]: […] Gems from the over 150 messages in the thread, include: ‘Polls are set to open in 48 hours across the US as the authoritarian regime of Donald Trump attempts to consolidate its hold over the troubled, oil-rich, nuclear-armed, north American nation. Analysts are sceptical the election will end months of political violence.’ ‘Report from […]

The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies by Lt. General Michael T Flynn and Michael Ledeen

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[PDF file]: […] global jihad that is supposedly being waged against the United States. He has also condemned Putin’s Russia for supporting and encouraging this jihad. On the other hand, Trump himself has repeatedly made clear his admiration for Putin and expressed his willingness to accommodate Russian ambitions in the Middle East, the Ukraine and elsewhere; indeed, […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

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[PDF file]: […] as their 45th President a man who privately boasted of groping women, admitted getting his mistress (Marla Maples) pregnant while still married to his first wife (Ivana Trump), and bragged of having ‘three other girlfriends’ while ‘living with Marla’.1 Despite this record, many conservative evangelical leaders and other champions of ‘family values’ supported his […]

South of the Border

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[PDF file]: […] campaign – the one that reduced the government’s majority to a thread. Top of the tree for failing upwards must surely be the current U.S. President, Donald Trump. He’s a serial failure in business8 and his tremendous See ‘The other Analytica’ by Laurens Cerulus for Politico.eu at . 5 One of their strap lines […]

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