Katrina vanden Heuvel is turning The Nation into a Trump/Putin-apologist, Seth Rich troofer rag

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14. Hit piece? Sounds like your judgment is as clouded by a personal relationship as hers is.

She uses as an excuse in that thread of her being tied to her husband is unfair but she is the editor of the magazine that he has gotten plenty of space in for his articles that have been called Putin apologia by many. He is not respected by the people fighting for human rights in that part of the world. Both of them use the term anti-Russia hysteria when we know the real culprit is not a country or people but the criminal oligarchy headed by Putin and those he surrounds himself with. And she and Cohen know that but are trying to make it about another cold war. It is about the war of the criminal oligarchs around the world (including some in America) against democracy. If they truly reflected the 150 years of the Nation's values they would be on the right side of that fight instead of minimizing what Putin is doing around the world.

As I said in another post, Cohen claims Putin hasn't been proven to be behind the murders and attacks on dissidents as if a court in Russia would do that. Even in vanden Heuvel's response in the thread the best she can say about Putin is yes he is an authoritarian ... but ... and then goes on to condescend to tell us ignorant folks that we need common sense .. I guess that means we are not supposed to worry about the existential threat that Putin, Trump and other criminal authoritarian oligarchs around the world pose to democracy.

And neither you nor her have anything to say about the Seth Rich tin foil hat ties. Also, if people read the comments section of the article Kevin Kresse does a fine job of debunking one of the central claims about bandwidth. Instead of gracing DU with her comments, perhaps she should have spent more time as an editor and had some of the technical material verified by an independent source.

As I wrote, we are at war because of a very determined strategy by Putin and others to take down democracies worldwide through cyber attacks. Articles like the one they published only serve to aid them and our enemies at home.