(2019-03-26). Between the lines of the Mueller Report. workers.org 
The relationship between the law and politics is once again the subject of oceans of ink — and their electronic equivalents in this digital age — as the Mueller Report is being analyzed, down to the last comma, by people who have not read it and are not allowed to . . . | Continue reading Between the lines of the Mueller Report at Workers.org
(2019-03-26). To Celebrate or to Not? The Mueller Question. counterpunch.org 
Finally, it's over. Well, sort of, anyway. Late Sunday afternoon, Attorney General Bill Barr released his much-anticipated summary of Bob Mueller's Russia investigation. The big news, of course, was that nobody in Trump's orbit "knowingly" coordinated with Russian efforts to disrupt the 2016 election. Trump won't be charged with obstruction of justice and not a single American was indicted for conspiracy. More
(2019-03-26). Lessons for the Progressive Left From the 'Failed' Mueller Inquiry. mintpressnews.com 
In the combined success-failure of the Mueller inquiry, the progressive left has an opportunity to understand in a much more sophisticated way how real power works and in whose favor it is exercised.
(2019-03-26). Democrats' Russia Obsession Let Trump Abandon Nuclear Treaties—Wilkerson and Jay. therealnews.com 
While there's ample evidence to indict Trump for obstruction and Democrats naively trusted Mueller, more crucial issue is the missed opportunity to negotiate stronger nuclear weapons treaties—Larry Wilkerson joins Paul Jay…
(2019-03-26). Democrats' Russophobia Hid Trump's Real Crimes. therealnews.com 
Gerald Horne and Jeff Cohen join host Paul Jay to unpack the Democrat and corporate media obsession with Russiagate, the foreign policy implications, and how it let Trump off the hook on major policy issues…
(2019-03-26). Editorial: Stop waiting for Mueller's report to save us. peoplesworld.org 
Wait for the Mueller report, many said, it will reveal everything. The Republicans conspired with the Russians. The election was hacked. Trump will be toast. Well, we waited. And now the report is in…sort of. It's in the hands of Attorney General William Barr, who so far has not seen fit to share its contents …
(2019-03-26). Misguided Spying and the New Zealand Massacre. globalresearch.ca Now that the bodies of 49 innocent human beings are lying in a Christchurch, New Zealand, morgue — gunned down by a heavily armed terrorist — New Zealand media are asking the obvious questions: why didn't our intelligence agencies know …
(2019-03-26). Don't Trust a Hand that Feeds the "Fascist Beast". People Around the World Are Rising Up against Their Government. globalresearch.ca The "Mueller Report" is out and as it was expected, it was disastrous news to the Democrats and pushed the fascistic minded President a little closer to his dream of creating a police state in the U.S. In this regard, …
(2019-03-26). Headlines for March 26, 2019. democracynow.org Israel Continues Airstrikes in Gaza Amid Fragile Truce, U.S. Officially Recognizes Golan Heights as Israeli Territory, Trump Suggests Probes into "Traitors" in Wake of Mueller Report, Pentagon Authorizes Diversion of $1 Billion to Build Border Wall, Father of 6-Year-Old Sandy Hook Victim Dies by Suicide, Parkland Survivors Urge Senators to Pass Background Check Act, DOJ Backs Full Repeal of Affordable Care Act, Mexico: Radio Reporter Killed Amid Spate of Journalist Murders, Venezuela: New Power Outage Hits Residents Amid Political Turmoil, Suspects in College Admissions Scam Plead Not Guilty, Green New Deal Goes…
(2019-03-26). Selected Articles: RussiaGate and the Mueller Report. globalresearch.ca Our objective at Global Research is to recruit one thousand committed "volunteers" among our more than 50,000 Newsletter subscribers to support the distribution of Global Research articles (email lists, social media, crossposts). | Do not send us money. Under Plan A…
(2019-03-26). The Mueller Report Was Never Going to Save Us. We Must Fight Collusion Ourselves. commondreams.org Special counsel Robert Mueller (C) leaves after a closed meeting with members of the Senate Judiciary Committee June 21, 2017 at the Capitol in Washington, DC. The committee meets with Mueller to discuss the firing of former FBI Director James Comey. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/mueller_wont_save_us.jpg…
(2019-03-26). Three Lessons From 'Failed' Mueller Inquiry. consortiumnews.com Jonathan Cook analyzes what progressives can glean from a major squabble between different wings of the same neoliberal establishment. By JonathanCook Jonathan-Cook.net Here are three important lessons for the progressive left to consider now that it is clear the inquiry… Read more →
(2019-03-26). Robert Reich: The Real Trump Scandal Was Never Collusion. truthdig.com We may never know for sure whether Donald Trump colluded with Vladimir Putin to obtain Russia's help in the 2016 election, in return for, say, Trump's help in weakening NATO and not interfering against Russian aggression in Ukraine. | Trump and his propaganda machine at Fox News have repeatedly conjured up a "witch hunt" and maintained a drumbeat of "no collusion," which already has mired Robert Mueller's report in a fog of alt-interpretation and epistemological confusion. | What's "collusion?" What's illegal? Has Trump obstructed justice? Has he been vindicated? What did Mueller conclude, exactly? What did he me…
(2019-03-26). Judicial Watch Statement on Mueller Report. globalresearch.ca Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement in response to the Mueller special counsel report summary made public by Attorney General Barr today: | The long, national nightmare is over and President Trump has been vindicated. The corruptly-created and …
(2019-03-26). The President Has Not Been Exonerated. thenation.com The President Has Not Been Exonerated…
(2019-03-26). Don't Believe Trump or Barr. The Investigations Are Just Beginning. truthout.org Well, that didn't take long. | The ink wasn't dry on Attorney General William Barr's laughably porous "summary" of the Mueller report before Donald Trump and his allies declared war on all who have displeased them. This included a demand from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) that Bill Clinton be investigated for his 2016 airport tarmac meeting with then-Attorney General Lore…
(2019-03-26). Three Lessons for the Progressive Left from the Mueller Inquiry. globalresearch.ca Here are three important lessons for the progressive left to consider now that it is clear the inquiry by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russiagate is never going to uncover collusion between Donald Trump's camp and the Kremlin in …
(2019-03-26). Mueller Didn't Exonerate Trump of Obstruction of Justice. truthout.org The Mueller report is finally done. On March 23, Special Counsel Robert Mueller sent the confidential report of his 22-month investigation to Attorney General William Barr. Less than 48 hours later, Barr released a four-page letter outlining Mueller's conclusions and jumping to one as well. | In response to Barr's letter, Donald Trump claimed, "There was no obstruction, none whatsoever, and it was a complete and total exoneration." But Mueller did not exonerate Trump of obstruction…
(2019-03-26). Mueller Report Does Not Disprove that Trump Is a Crook. progressive.org The truth is less dramatic, but more sordid.
(2019-03-26). John Bolton and Mike Pompeo Defy the International Criminal Court. truthout.org Events just fly by in the ever-accelerating rush of Trump Time, so it's easy enough to miss important ones in the chaos. Paul Manafort is sentenced twice and indicted a third time! Whoosh! Gone! The Senate agrees with the House that the United States should stop supporti…
(2019-03-26). Russia's Lavrov to US: Your Venezuelan Coup Violates UN Charter. telesurenglish.net Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke with United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Monday by telephone during which they discussed U.S. interventionism in Venezuela. | RELATED: | Trump Admin Wants $500M to Fund Its Intervention in Venezuela | According to Russia's foreign ministry website Lavrov told Pompeo: "Washington's attempts to organize a coup d'état in Venezuela and (U.S.) threats against the legitimate government are in violation of the UN Charter." The forei…
(2019-03-26). "Dark Day for Internet Freedom": EU to Create Online Censorship Machine. theantimedia.com (CD) — Despite widespread grassroots opposition, the European Parliament Tuesday approved sweeping copyright rules that critics warn will spawn an internet "censorship machine." NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden decried the vote, tweeting, in German, "Never forget what they did here." In a blog post, Danny O'Brien—international director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)—called passage of the copyright rules "a stunning rejection of …
(2019-03-26). 8 Cases That Prove the FBI and CIA Were Out of Control Long Before Russiagate. theantimedia.com The survival of liberty depends on skepticism of government power—and make no mistake, that includes President Trump. (FEE) — Conservatives tend to have two bad habits. First, they're prone to viewing the past through a nostalgic lens. Second, they tend to instinctively give law enforcement the benefit of the doubt. These tendencies help explain why conservatives …
(2019-03-26). 'We're not investigators': CNN chief ridiculed over defending coverage of Mueller probe. rt.com 
Netizens were up in arms this week grilling CNN boss Jeff Zucker who awkwardly defended his network's coverage of the Mueller probe, saying their job was to report facts "as we know them," rather than, you know, investigating. |
(2019-03-26). Plaintiffs and Litigators Urge Supreme Court to Strike Down Gerrymanders. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2019-03-26). How to Make Yourself an Exception to the Rule of Law. zcomm.org John Bolton and Mike Pompeo Defy the International Criminal Court…
(2019-03-26). Washington's political warfare intensifies following Mueller report. wsws.org Congressional Democrats and Trump traded accusations of treason in the wake of the Mueller report, which cleared the US president of collusion with Russia.
(2019-03-26). The Dangerous and Unrelenting Extremism of Clarence Thomas. truthdig.com Do Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices get more liberal as they age? A formidable body of academic research suggests that they do. This idea offers a sliver of comfort to those alarmed by Donald Trump's appointment of Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the nation's most powerful judicial body, as well as by the even more disturbing prospect that if Trump is reelected, he may get to place additional conservatives on the court. | Although no one is sure what causes this liberalizing dynamic, it's e…
(2019-03-26). Supreme Court Hears the League's Landmark Redistricting Case. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2019-03-26). Unequal Justice: The Supreme Court Tackles Political Gerrymandering, Again. progressive.org If the court upholds partisan gerrymandering, it will be a bad day for democracy.
(2019-03-26). Media's 2-yr infatuation with Russiagate could hand Trump victory in 2020 — analysts (VIDEO). rt.com 
Journalists who peddled Russiagate accounts have struggled to cope with Mueller's deflating findings, but their suffering will likely intensify now that they've handed Donald Trump ammunition for his re-election, analysts told RT.
(2019-03-26). 'Pay Attention to This': Right-Wing Supreme Court Hints at Troubling Decision on Partisan Gerrymandering. commondreams.org Even as voting rights advocates urge the U.S. Supreme Court to "be on the right side of history" by putting voters and not lawmakers first, the court's right-wing majority indicated Tuesday it may refuse to impose constitutional limits on extreme partisan gerrymandering. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/fair_maps_protest.jpg…
(2019-03-26). The Dangerous and Unrelenting Extremism of Clarence Thomas. commondreams.org Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. (Photo: Wikimedia Commos) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/thomas.jpeg…
(2019-03-26). Democrats 'caught red-handed lying' on Trump-Russia, but 'march on' — Ron Paul on Mueller report. rt.com 
With Republicans blocking Democrat calls to release Robert Mueller's full report, former Congressman Ron Paul told RT that the Democratic party needs to own up to peddling the 'Russian collusion' lie and move on. |
(2019-03-25). As Mueller Finds No Collusion, Did Press Overhype Russiagate? Glenn Greenwald vs. David Cay Johnston. democracynow.org 
As congressional Democrats call on the Justice Department to release the full Mueller report, we speak to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who have closely followed the probes into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election: Glenn Greenwald, a founding editor of The Intercept and a leading critic of the media coverage of alleged Russian collusion, and David Cay Johnston, formerly of The New York Times, now founder and editor of DCReport.org, who has written critically about Donald Trump for decades. His most recent book is "It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America."
(2019-03-25). Three Lessons for the Left from the Mueller Inquiry. counterpunch.org 
The left never had a dog in this race. This was always an in-house squabble between different wings of the establishment. Late-stage capitalism is in terminal crisis, and the biggest problem facing our corporate elites is how to emerge from this crisis with their power intact. One wing wants to make sure the pig's face remains painted, the other is happy simply getting its snout deeper into the trough while the food lasts. More
(2019-03-25). Barr issues Mueller report summary that pleases the president. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—After 22 months of investigation of the links between 2016 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump's campaign and secret manipulation of that election by Russian individuals and entities, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report is in. Attorney General William Barr released a summary letter yesterday that does much more to validate President Trump's claims about the probe …
(2019-03-25). Good Agent, Bad Agent: Robert Mueller and 9/11. counterpunch.org 
This profile of Robert Mueller originally ran in CounterPunch on June 21, 2017. Robert Mueller, the former FBI director named special counsel for the investigation into Russian interference in the presidential election, is depicted as an iconic G-man: serious, patrician, and totally incorruptible. But in reality, it's a little different. As with FBI Agent Dale More
(2019-03-25). Mueller Finds No Trump-Russia Coordination, But "Does Not Exonerate" Trump of Obstruction of Justice. democracynow.org 
There was no collusion. That was the key finding of special counsel Robert Mueller's long-awaited report into whether President Trump and members of his campaign conspired with the Russian government to win the 2016 election. While the full report on Mueller's 22-month investigation has not yet been made public, Attorney General William Barr sent a four-page letter to congressional leaders on Sunday laying out his interpretation of Mueller's findings. Barr wrote that the report concluded Russia meddled in the 2016 election but that "the Special Counsel's investigation did not find that the Trump campaign or anyon…
(2019-03-25). Traces of the CIA in Venezuela's nationwide power outage. mronline.org 
A CIA has had its eyes on the country's vulnerability for years, looking to use an electrical failure to promote destabilization and put an end to the Bolivarian Revolution. | Source
(2019-03-25). Autonomous weapons that kill must be banned, insists UN chief. un.org UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged artificial intelligence (AI) experts meeting in Geneva on Monday to push ahead with their work to restrict the development of lethal autonomous weapons systems, or LAWS, as they are also known.
(2019-03-25). VIDEO: Russiagate Implodes: Aaron Maté Buries the Trump-Russia Conspiracy Theory. thegrayzone.com Russiagate has imploded after Robert Mueller's investigation found no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion. The Grayzone's Aaron Maté explains why the…
(2019-03-25). There Will Be No Repercussions for the Media's RussiaGate Conspiracy Theorists. mintpressnews.com The Mueller report's conclusions are bound to fuel conservative critics of the media and make any exposures of actual wrongdoing less impactful, as the president will be able to brush it off as another example of fake news.
(2019-03-25). Crooked hate clown not a traitor on purpose at least. thecanary.co Following a two-year investigation, Robert Mueller has apparently found that Donald Trump didn't collude with the Russians. Which is good to know, right? Unless … | Read more Crooked hate clown not a traitor on purpose at least | By John Shafthauer
(2019-03-25). Trump Is Going to Thank MSNBC Until November 2020. consortiumnews.com Peddlers of Russia-gate have boosted the U.S. president's re-election campaign, writes Caitlin Johnstone. By Caitlin Johnstone CaitlinJohnstone.com After news broke that Robert Mueller had turned in his final report without recommending any further indictments, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow began frantically retweeting blue-checkmarked Twitter pundits who… Read more →
(2019-03-25). No, the Media Didn't Over-Hype 'Russiagate'. thenation.com No, the Media Didn't Over-Hype 'Russiagate'
(2019-03-25). Chelsea Manning held in solitary confinement for more than two weeks. wsws.org Manning has been subjected to solitary confinement after refusing to testify before a grand jury empaneled for the purpose of crafting frame-up charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
(2019-03-25). Mueller report is a political debacle for the Democratic Party. wsws.org The findings of the Mueller report cap two years of right-wing anti-Russia hysteria on the part of the Democrats, which has only strengthened the Trump administration.
(2019-03-25). Trump is Going to Repeat This Until November 2020. Thanks, MSNBC. theantimedia.com (CJ Opinion) — After news broke that Robert Mueller had turned in his final report without recommending any further indictments, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow began frantically retweeting blue-checkmarked Twitter pundits who claimed that since nobody knows the contents of the report yet, the news that the number of Americans indicted for conspiring with the Russian government is set at zero doesn't …
(2019-03-25). Robert Mueller May Not Have Found Evidence of Collusion, but His Report Proves the System Worked. theintercept.com 
The special counsel's completion of a comprehensive inquiry is an important sign that the slide into a Donald Trump-led autocracy has been halted.