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The Actual News

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Matt Taibbi: We're in a permanent coup MSM Defends CIA’s ‘Whistleblower,’ Ignores Actual Whistleblower US Senator, FBI Agents Say Mueller Covered Up the Role of Saudi Prince "Bandar Bush" Role in 9/11 RFK Jr. Names Who He Believes is Real Killer of Father Bobby Kennedy Media Assails Epstein Suicide Skeptics as "Conspiracy Theorists" Tucker Carlson Drops Epstein Bomb, Now Blackmail Tapes? SPECIAL SERIES: 9/11 Eighteen Years Later, What We Now Know A USS Liberty’s Hero’s Passing, by Ray McGovern Important Stories You May Have Missed The New Yorker Southern Poverty Law Center expose: It's about money.     Chris Hedges: Jeremy Hammond Exposed State’s Plan to Criminalize Democratic Dissent (Real News Network) Will Epstein Prosecutors Use Photo Evidence of Illegal "Client" Activity? Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says "rogue CIA" may have killed uncle . Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Thinks Sirhan Did Not

Matt Taibbi Deconstructs Russiagate "Coup"

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We're in a permanent coup By Matt Taibbi I’ve lived through a few coups. They’re insane, random, and terrifying, like watching sports, except your political future depends on the score. The kickoff begins when a key official decides to buck the executive. From that moment, government becomes a high-speed head-counting exercise. Who’s got the power plant, the airport, the police in the capital? How many department chiefs are answering their phones? Who’s writing tonight’s newscast? When the KGB in 1991 tried to reassume control of the crumbling Soviet Union by placing Mikhail Gorbachev under arrest and attempting to seize Moscow, logistics ruled. Boris Yeltsin’s crew drove to the Russian White House in ordinary cars, beating KGB coup plotters who were trying to reach the seat of Russian government in armored vehicles. A key moment came when one of Yeltsin’s men, Alexander Rutskoi – who two years later would himself lead a coup against Yeltsin – prevailed upon a M