Aaron Maté is back on the show to discuss an article he wrote published at Real Clear Investigations. Maté explains how, although the origins of Russiagate are still murky, the Clinton Campaign seems to be at the center of it all. Notably with Clinton lawyers hiring Fusion GPS to look into Trump connections with Russia, an “inquiry” that led to the Steele Dossier. The Campaign’s legal team also hired Crowdstrike to investigate the DNC email leak, a step that was necessary to push the narrative that the leak was carried out by the Russians to support Trump. Maté stresses the timeline for which these events took place, because the dates alone are fatal to the establishment’s narrative.  

Discussed on the show:

• “Coming Into Focus: Hillary’s Secretive, Russiagate-Flogging Pair of Super-Lawyers” (Real Clear Investigations)
• Scott’s Interview with Craig Murray 
• “CrowdStrikeOut: Mueller’s Own Report Undercuts Its Core Russia-Meddling Claims” (Real Clear Investigations)
• Scott’s debate with Bill Kristol
• “Claims of Microwave Attacks Are Scientifically Implausible” (Foreign Policy)

Aaron Maté is an NYC-based journalist and producer. He hosts the news show Pushback for The Grayzone, and writes regularly for The Nation. Subscribe to his Substack and follow him on Twitter @AaronJMate.

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Joshua Frank, regular writer at Counterpunch.org, discusses the Democratic Party’s love for war, Obama’s LBJ moment as the war in Afghanistan becomes his own, how the fugitive status of Osama bin Laden remains a useful propaganda tool and the antiwar common ground that makes allies of political opponents.

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Glenn Greenwald, former constitutional lawyer and current Salon.com blogger, discusses the firing of Washington Post journalist Dan Froomkin, the dominance of mainstream Democrat vs. Republican talking points in the media, maverick illegal actions of the Bush administration codified into law under Obama and how governmental secrecy enables all other abuses of power.

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Michael Boldin of the 10th Amendment Center discusses how the doctrine of enumerated powers has become quaint, how the Constitution provides persuasive talking points for a strictly limited government for those otherwise undisposed, why activist priorities should be on limiting federal power as it is the most expansive and potentially destructive and how the states are, in some cases, resisting federal laws and asserting their own.

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Walter “Moderate” Block, professor of economics at Loyola University and scholar at the Mises Institute, explains why mankind should abolish governments, why we don’t need them to protect us from foreign countries or from each other and why the problems of overfishing and ocean pollution would best be solved with free markets and property rights.

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Robert P. Murphy, Mises Institute scholar and author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal, explains how FED monetary policy created speculative bubble that led to Great Depression, the historical basis for doubting Milton Friedman’s “the FED didn’t do enough” theory of the Depression, negative results of government purchasing “excess” agricultural production, Hoover’s undeserved reputation as a laissez faire “hand’s off” president and how cherry-picking facts can justify any economic theory.

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