RUSSIA & UKRAINE – Johnson’s Russia List table of contents :: JRL 2016-220 :: Saturday, 26 November 2016
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Johnson’s Russia List :: JRL 2016-#220
Saturday, 26 November 2016
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1. New York Times: U.S. Officials Defend Integrity of Vote, Despite Hacking Fears.
2. The Observer: Michael Sainator, Clinton Distraction Circus Hits Panic Mode Over Russia And ‘Fake News.’ Democrats wriggle out of self-reflection and accountability by blaming outside forces.
3. www.thedailybeast.com: Shane Harris, Sorry, Hillary Clinton Fans. There’s ‘Zero Evidence’ of Election Hacking. Democrats cried hallelujah when computer scientists reportedly pressed Hillary Clinton ask for recounts. But even those experts say an election hack is beyond unlikely.
4. Washington Post: Craig Timberg, Russian propaganda effort helped spread ‘fake news’ during election, experts say.
5. The Intercept: Ben Norton and Glenn Greenwald, Washington Post Disgracefully Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist From a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group.
6. https://surveillancevalley.com: Yasha Levine, On Blacklists and Russia ‘Hacking’ American Democracy.
7. Fortune: Mathew Ingram, No, Russian Agents Are Not Behind Every Piece of Fake News You See.
8. Irrussianality: Paul Robinson, Euronews. (with comment)
9. Washington Post: Eric Chenoweth, Americans keep looking away from the election’s most alarming story. U.S. intelligence agencies determined that Moscow actively interfered before the vote.
10. Washington Post: Adam Taylor, Before ‘fake news,’ there was Soviet ‘disinformation’
11. Medium.com: Jeffrey Carr, The DNC Breach and the Hijacking of Common Sense.
12. Medium.com: Jeffrey Carr, Faith-based Attribution.
13. PBS Newshour: Does The U.S. Government Really Know Who Hacked Democrats’ Emails?
14. Council on Foreign Relations: Max Smeets, When Naming Cyber Threat Actors Does More Harm Than Good.
15. Reuters: James Bamford, Don’t be so sure Russia hacked the Clinton emails.
16. http://www.propornot.com: An Initial Set of Sites That Reliably Echo Russian Propaganda. (excerpt)
17. Harper’s Magazine: Andrew Cockburn, The New Red Scare. Reviving the art of threat inflation.
