@edg Jesse Ventura,Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges, 'America's Lawyer' Mike Papatonio, political commentary comedians like Lee Camp,and the anti-war show 'Watching the Hawks'(Jesse Ventura' son Tyrel, and Oliver Stone's son Sean Stone are two of the three hosts) are just a few of the excellent shows.

People may not recognize most of the names of the opinion piece writers, but people like former weapons inspector Scott Ritter, economist Max Keiser, cultural philosopher Slavov Zizek,UK's George Galloway and Sharmine Narwani, a commentator and analyst of Middle East geopolitics and former senior associate at St. Antony's College, Oxford University with a master’s degree in International Relations from Columbia University, are recognized world wide.

RT has also consistently covered the Julian Assange story, the Yellow Vests in France (some now in London protesting Assange's imprisonment in K's GITMO) and the Palestinian cause.

Prime example is an actual recognized expert on Russian affairs, Stephen Cohen's story today.

‘Nobody ever gets points for saying anything good about Russia’: Stephen Cohen says, as Rep. Schiff spreads ignorance about Putin

"Cohen said that “politically it's advantageous to a lot of people to bash Russia,” and even some of the “progressive” Democratic Party candidates in the 2020 presidential race employ rhetoric, which is hostile toward Moscow.

It has become an American way of life to blame Russia when things go wrong. Of course, sometimes Russia is to blame, but not all the time. And yet that's become part of our discourse. (bold in original)
Speaking on the Senate floor, Schiff accused Moscow of trying to undermine the faith in democracy and government institutions around the globe.

Cohen argued that the congressman misunderstands what Russian President Vladimir Putin actually “sees as his own historical mission,” and it is almost the opposite of what Schiff attributes to him.

According to the researcher, Putin's chief ambition is “to rebuild Russia from the disaster into which it fell in the 1990s” after the collapse of the Soviet Union. (my emphasis)

The last thing Putin wants is instability. He's trying to build economy at home and economic relations with countries abroad because he sees that as a way to modernize Russia.(bold in original)

The Russia researcher said that Moscow is currently focused on ties with China, but Putin would like to have good trade relations with Europe and the US as well.

“The notion that he wants to foster discord in the very countries, with which he wants what he calls ‘modernizing trade relations’ is just ignorance on the part of Adam Schiff. Because Schiff runs his mouth a lot about Russia, we get to hear the kind of ignorance… that dominates a large segment of policy-makers in Washington.” (all emphasis mine)

https://www.rt.com/news/479380-stephen-cohen-schiff-putin/

It's shameful that we must turn to Fox News and Russia Today in order to receive relatively unbiased news coverage (taking opinion pieces with a grain of salt, of course) of happenings in the United States. The MSM are so corrupt and biased that I find it difficult to believe anything at all they purvey.

@Wally

Why was Schiff on yesterday? I thought it was the defense team's turn.

Well, go figure. It seems MSNBC and CNN have been a little fairer to Bernie lately, but they are loathe to report anything negative about Biden.

And there's another clip going around now of Tucker going apeshit about how a Bernie presidency will wreck the US economy.

I'm not turning on any MSM until the day of the Iowa caucus and then only to watch for cheating and to see if Warren is having her captains steer her voters to Biden at caucus sites where she polls less than 15%. It's going to be a circus because it's sure appears that only Bernie and Biden will top 15% overall.

BREAKING: All Big 3 networks ABC, CBS, NBC blacked out Trump defense lawyer Pam Bondi's presentation this afternoon of Ukraine corruption related to Joe Biden, son Hunter Biden & Burisma. In contrast, Big 3 carried Schiff's p.m. presentations live, preempting regular programming

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) January 27, 2020

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@Lily O Lady

. . . is learning to live with it. I prefer not to opt for that route. At least I think it's important to go down swinging if that's our fate. But I recall that Eli Manning beat the Patriots not once but twice back in their heyday (and it seems like their heyday has come and is now gone). Bottom line is that I don't think a chance like this, given the critical mass that has mobilized with Bernie, will come again in our lifetimes. And if we don't pull off the miracle now, good night nurse given our increasing inability to deal with climate catastrophe. So it goes.

Trump then Bernie, so they could figure that Dems would help the GOP defeat Bernie were he to have the nomination. Bernie can beat the GOP, but can he beat both wings of the corporate party? And this is coming from me, a Dem-exiting Bernie-or-buster. I can feel TPTB gathering up their trillions of dollars to throw against Bernie and us. Can mere humans defeat such a system of money and power?

@Lily O Lady

Trump proved its possible. Despite everything thrown at him by TPTB, he managed to eke out a victory over HRC. So it's possible that with our help, Bernie will succeed, too.

Trump then Bernie, so they could figure that Dems would help the GOP defeat Bernie were he to have the nomination. Bernie can beat the GOP, but can he beat both wings of the corporate party? And this is coming from me, a Dem-exiting Bernie-or-buster. I can feel TPTB gathering up their trillions of dollars to throw against Bernie and us. Can mere humans defeat such a system of money and power?