ISIS: Putin Ain’t So “Bad” | Steve Berman
ISIS: Putin Ain’t So “Bad” | Steve Berman
By Steve BermanRussian wannabe-tsar Vladimir Putin continues to insist that the massacre at Crocus City Hall which killed at least 137 (up to 143 depending on the news source) concert-goers is linked to Ukraine. He has instructed Russian and Russia-funded media to play up possible “traces” of “Ukrainian involvement” in the shootings. Four men have been arrested …
AI Didn’t Write This Fake News | Steve Berman
AI Didn’t Write This Fake News | Steve Berman
Some things that the U.S. press is reporting as fresh news is really about as a fake as claims artificial general intelligence (AGI) is five years away. AGI has always been five years away, and likely always will be. Humans are just too good at self-deception to think we can train digital computers to be smarter …
HAIL HYDRA: It’s Time for FISA to Die | Steve Berman
HAIL HYDRA: It’s Time for FISA to Die | Steve Berman
Some members of Congress are trying hard, playing political games with scare tactics, to save FISA and Section 702. It’s not worth saving. In fact, FISA is the current apogee of weaponized intelligence, and the closest thing to a national omniopticon we, or any nation (China excepted), has ever had—a digital, all-seeing-eye controlled by a power we didn’t …
TRUMP TO RUSSIA: “Do Whatever the Hell They Want” | Steve Berman
TRUMP TO RUSSIA: “Do Whatever the Hell They Want” | Steve Berman
After the sugar rush hangover of sweet sweet Taylor Swift and her boo Travis Kelce celebrating the Chiefs repeat as Super Bowl champs (where was the Biden endorsement?), we must remember that this is an election year, where two elderly men are set to engage in rhetorical combat. One of them needs a nanny, and …
2014’s Message to 2023: Obama was Wrong, Wrong, Wrong | Steve Berman
2014’s Message to 2023: Obama was Wrong, Wrong, Wrong | Steve Berman
One of the trends on creator spaces like YouTube is “this is future me” segments commenting on content filmed in the past, or more likely, hawking a product sponsor. If “future me” 2023 had a message for us in 2014, it’s that the threats in Iran, Gaza, Taiwan and Ukraine were tests to see the …
UKRAINE: Putin’s Shutdown Madness Strategy | Steve Berman
UKRAINE: Putin’s Shutdown Madness Strategy | Steve Berman
Ukraine is taking back Russian-held territory, meter by meter, slogging through the summer into fall, at great cost: the Russian front on their territory would stretch from Norfolk to Augusta, Georgia if it was in the U.S.—to give you a sense of scale. Ukraine has made relatively tiny advances, mostly confined to a salient (a …
IMPEACHMENT: A Slow Motion Biden Train Wreck | Steve Berman
IMPEACHMENT: A Slow Motion Biden Train Wreck | Steve Berman
If you stand on the Kansas & Oklahoma line railroad tracks in Scott City, Kansas and look east, you can see the train coming from Dighton, 23 miles away. Straight and flat all the way. Like a train coming, since before the 2016 election, the Biden family, and then-Vice President Biden were deeply involved in …
A SLOG: Zelenskyy’s Moral Plea to Biden on NATO Membership | Steve Berman
A SLOG: Zelenskyy’s Moral Plea to Biden on NATO Membership | Steve Berman
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy knows that Ukraine’s future lies in NATO, and NATO said as much in its communiqué Tuesday. The long document mentions Ukraine 45 times in 90 numbered paragraphs, and establishes a NATO-Ukraine Council. Specifically, NATO said it would “support” Ukraine in defending itself against the “Russian war of aggression against Ukraine” though the meaning …
PRIGOZHIN: Putin’s Decembrist Still Has a Future | Steve Berman
PRIGOZHIN: Putin’s Decembrist Still Has a Future | Steve Berman
Yevgeny Prigozhin is known as “Putin’s chef.” In America the term would be “a fixer,” kind of like Roger Stone. if Stone had access to advanced military hardware and could raid prisons to build a gang around a core of professional thugs. In Russia, this is not an uncommon arrangement. Russian omnicrat Vladimir Putin himself …
Bakhmut’s Ruins are Putin’s Victory | Steve Berman
Bakhmut’s Ruins are Putin’s Victory | Steve Berman
It’s not Russian propaganda that Bakhmut is no longer in the hands of Ukrainian forces. Once every building is hollowed out, leveled, or structurally compromised to the point where it cannot offer shelter, there’s really nowhere for Ukrainian defenders to hide or regroup, so they left. But talk of “Pyrrhic victory” and “Russian losses” is counterproductive. …
HE KNEW ALL ALONG: Report – VP Biden Was Briefed About Hillary’s Russia Scam in 2016
HE KNEW ALL ALONG: Report – VP Biden Was Briefed About Hillary’s Russia Scam in 2016
By The FirstThe Durham Report confirmed this week that Joe Biden was briefed about Hillary Clinton’s global plot to tie Donald Trump to Russia when he was Vice President of the United States and refused to disclose the information to the public. From the Washington Examiner: President Joe Biden was briefed in 2016 about an alleged plan by Hillary Clinton to …
JUST IN: Russia Claims Putin Survived Overnight Assassination Attempt
JUST IN: Russia Claims Putin Survived Overnight Assassination Attempt
Russian officials are now claiming that Vladimir Putin survived an overnight drone attack that attempted to kill the President in the heart of Moscow. From Fox News: Russian government officials are claiming Ukrainian forces attempted to kill President Vladimir Putin with a failed drone attack. Officials say two drones were used in the “assassination attempt” …