Authored by Philip Giraldi via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
One has to ask why there is a crisis in US-Russia relations since Washington and Moscow have much more in common than not, to include confronting international terrorism, stabilizing Syria and other parts of the world that are in turmoil, and preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons. In spite of all that, the US and Russia are currently locked in a tit-for-tat unfriendly relationship somewhat reminiscent of the Cold War.
Apart from search for a scapegoat to explain the Hillary Clinton defeat, how did it happen?
Israel Shamir, a keen observer of the American-Russian relationship, and celebrated American journalist Robert Parry both think that one man deserves much of the credit for the new Cold War and that man is William Browder, a hedge fund operator who made his fortune in the corrupt 1990s world of Russian commodities trading.
Browder is also symptomatic of why the United States government is so poorly informed about international developments as he is the source of much of the Congressional “expert testimony” contributing to the current impasse. He has somehow emerged as a trusted source in spite of the fact that he has self-interest in cultivating a certain outcome. Also ignored is his renunciation of American citizenship in 1998, reportedly to avoid taxes. He is now a British citizen.
Browder is notoriously the man behind the 2012 Magnitsky Act, which exploited Congressional willingness to demonize Russia and has done so much to poison relations between Washington and Moscow. The Act sanctioned individual Russian officials, which Moscow has rightly seen as unwarranted interference in the operation of its judicial system.
Browder, a media favorite who self-promotes as “Putin’s enemy #1,” portrays himself as a selfless human rights advocate, but is he? He has used his fortune to threaten lawsuits for anyone who challenges his version of events, effectively silencing many critics. He claims that his accountant Sergei Magnitsky was a crusading "lawyer" who discovered a $230 million tax-fraud scheme that involved the Browder business interest Hermitage Capital but was, in fact, engineered by corrupt Russian police officers who arrested Magnitsky and enabled his death in a Russian jail.
Many have been skeptical of the Browder narrative, suspecting that the fraud was in fact concocted by Browder and his accountant Magnitsky. A Russian court recently supported that alternative narrative, ruling in late December that Browder had deliberately bankrupted his company and engaged in tax evasion. He was sentenced to nine years prison in absentia.
William Browder is again in the news recently in connection with testimony related to Russiagate. On December 16th Senator Diane Feinstein of the Senate Judiciary Committee released the transcript of the testimony provided by Glenn Simpson, founder of Fusion GPS. According to James Carden, Browder was mentioned 50 times, but the repeated citations apparently did not merit inclusion in media coverage of the story by the New York Times, Washington Post and Politico.
Fusion GPS, which was involved in the research producing the Steele Dossier used to discredit Donald Trump, was also retained to provide investigative services relating to a lawsuit in New York City involving a Russian company called Prevezon. As information provided by Browder was the basis of the lawsuit, his company and business practices while in Russia became part of the investigation. Simmons maintained that Browder proved to be somewhat evasive and his accounts of his activities were inconsistent. He claimed never to visit the United States and not own property or do business there, all of which were untrue, to include his ownership through a shell company of a $10 million house in Aspen Colorado. He repeatedly ran away, literally, from attempts to subpoena him so he would have to testify under oath.
Per Simmons, in Russia, Browder used shell companies locally and also worldwide to avoid taxes and conceal ownership, suggesting that he was likely one of many corrupt businessmen operating in what was a wild west business environment.
My question is, “Why was such a man granted credibility and allowed a free run to poison the vitally important US-Russia relationship?” The answer might be follow the money. Israel Shamir reports that Browder was a major contributor to Senator Ben Cardin of Maryland, who was the major force behind the Magnitsky Act.
Comments
Just another Russian mouthpiece slandering somebody who gets in Putin's way.
Everything Browder is saying is correct - Putin flat-out murdered Magnitsky.
That doesn't make Browder any less of a sumbag
In reply to Just another Russian… by yomutti2
Sounds like Browder uses the Soros investment strategy of placing bets on the destruction of entire nations and then setting events in motion to make that happen.
In reply to That doesn't make Browder… by zorba THE GREEK
Joominati gonna j00
In reply to Sounds like Browder uses the… by Billy the Poet
It was Solozzo all along.
In reply to Joominati gonna j00 by WTFRLY
JewSA JewSA, sorry my mistake he just sponsored a law through Congress then he immigrated to what you call 'limey land'. Where every self respecting Jewish Oligarchs seeks asylum, Londongrad! Until Death and the stolen land beckons..Palestine.
In reply to Joominati gonna j00 by WTFRLY
(((They))) usually are scumbags!
In reply to That doesn't make Browder… by zorba THE GREEK
(((The Chosen Ones?)))
In reply to (((They))) usually are… by Colonel Klinks Ghost
Holy shit does this ever end? Every day five new ones pop off the conveyor belt from Mordor spewing Marxism, venom and destruction.
In reply to (((The Chosen Ones?))) by Troll Magnet
In Hell it ends. Just ask ZBig, DaveRock, and Dick Holbrooke.
In reply to Holy shit does this ever end… by Ms No
Gosh, I loved this post.
In reply to Holy shit does this ever end… by Ms No
I worked with a contractor in The Ukraine some years back by the name of Yomutti . Any relation?
In reply to Just another Russian… by yomutti2
Right. Browder's 23mm tax fraud scheme was actually engineered by Russian police officers who just happened to arrest the crusading lawyer and kill him.
Were you born yesterday?
In reply to Just another Russian… by yomutti2
He wasn't born yesterday. Alternatively, he cashed a check from an obscure US NGO, after fulfilling his contractual obligations, so he could pay the rent.
In reply to Right. Browder's 23mm tax… by Savvy
The Browder story is far bigger than just Magnitsky.
http://z-news.xyz/correspondence-between-navalny-and-browder-proves-the-subversive-actions-of-navalny-in-favor-of-the-west/
In reply to He wasn't born yesterday… by Canadian Dirtlump
I'll have to punt and commune with my friend boris on this.
In reply to The Browder story is far… by bretthar123
Try again.
In reply to I'll have to punt and… by Canadian Dirtlump
you can say that again.
In reply to Try again. by bretthar123
Perhaps a third time 🤠
In reply to I'll have to punt and… by Canadian Dirtlump
Navalny was promoted to be the next puppet of the Anglo-Zio Corporation.He was to be the fighter for Freedom and Democracy in Russia. If he had his way then Russians would have had this today,
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B65nXKLIIAABT4x.jpg
Navalny can piss-off to Tel Aviv and do Democracy there or better yet to Washington DC.
In reply to The Browder story is far… by bretthar123
Nuke N.Y.C. and Hollywood, 90% of problems solved.
In reply to Just another Russian… by yomutti2
and D.C.
In reply to Nuke N.Y.C. and Hollywood,… by ebworthen
and palo alto
In reply to and D.C. by DCon
Gay Bay and Excremento desperately need a 7-point+ to flatten them/take out the trash.
In reply to and palo alto by just the tip
right - Putin is everywhere!
In reply to Just another Russian… by yomutti2
Fawk off Hasbara scum. Browders not even Russian, Browder is an American Jew.
In reply to Just another Russian… by yomutti2
THIS particular "someone" is an opportunist asshole who is far more deeply connected than it would appear, both by heritage and marriage. Besides that it is more likely the truth lies somewhere in between, the long incarceration of Magnitsky and his reported mistreatment being more synonymous with an effort to extract information, a Guantanamo-style rendition! As the old saw goes "When you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas", so there were probably quite a few people who might have had an interest in Magnitsky's torture and demise, including Browder himself. Putin would have been a VERY long way back in the queue, so your assertion is neither logical nor substantiated beyond doubt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Browder (Grandfather)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Browder (Father)
https://www.ft.com/content/b39168d8-2024-11e3-9a9a-00144feab7de (Browder interview)
In reply to Just another Russian… by yomutti2
Hear hear !!!!
In reply to THIS particular "someone" is… by The Harlequin
I assume you are one of those conspiracy terrorist who are incapable to read English. IF you are capable to read English you should right now stop reading and immediately go look into mirror and slap your self with a brick throughout your face for the utter stupidity you presenting yourself here.
There is written deposition available that Browder filled in 2015 where he clearly said Magnicky didn't have law degree and was not attending any law school. More over independent organization for human right that Browder like to use actually found no sign of torture of beating on Magnicky's body. Browder should be in jail now in Russia for tax fraud that ie committed by his fake scheme of hiring fake Afghan veterans which never happened to avoid paying taxes which he transferred to his off-shore accounts. He should be in jail in US as well for committing perjury in front of congress where he clearly lied.
You should be ashamed of yourself for kissing the feet of scumbag fraudulent globalist who got rid of his US citizenship to avoid taxes. There is your hero Browder. People like that swine and the " Harvard boys" with their shock therapy of unregulated predatory capitalism which literally costed human lives in Russia should be hang.
No wonder Russians like Putin that kicked those assholes out of Russia.If the American people had slightest clue of what the US done to them in 90tis they would feel a lot different about Russia's attitude.
In reply to Just another Russian… by yomutti2
yomutti2 is not well informed. He apparently only likes to listen to one side and not to reason -----> Cui Bono
In reply to I assume you are one of… by Thordoom
"If the American people had slightest clue of what the US done to them in 90tis they would feel a lot different about Russia's attitude."
Completely agree.
Fellow Americans watch this documentary. Very well done, imo.
The Rise of Putin and The Fall of The Russian-Jewish Oligarchs (1/2)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q2Cl8lSv9Is
Philip Giraldi, excellent article, thanks.
In reply to I assume you are one of… by Thordoom
You know nothing about this subject
In reply to Just another Russian… by yomutti2
billionaire? i'm sure it's only a matter of time before some fling from the past decides to cash his/her "harassment" lottery ticket
Ha ha if I served the guy coffee I'd change my identity and flee to Panama.
In reply to billionaire? i'm sure it's… by ted41776
The latest list of "Evil Russian Millionaires" from the US gov. shows how QUICKLY money can disappear from accounts in the West of the said people. Oh, I forgot, THEY BROKE THE LAW ;-)
In reply to billionaire? i'm sure it's… by ted41776
R.I.P Robert Parry (June 24, 1949 – January 27, 2018)
Guess (((who))) he is!
If you want to find the most corrupt ((element)) at the beating heart of the putrid swamp, look for those with the strongest anti-Russia rhetoric. This isn't even a jest, its nearly foolproof. . . analyze their financial and social ties, and be amazed, they are almost without a single exception swamp rats of the most disgusting variety.
I still cannot believe we're living in a timeline in which we're actually beating back this scum, and reclaiming our nation.
Immigrate Russian Jews trying to direct attention away from immigrant Russian Jews influence through the Israel lobby to direct US foreign policy against Russia through the network of neocons. Neocon is code name for Zionist.
We took in a great wave of Russian Communist Jews in the 90's after the fall of the Soviet Union. Communism in this country has gone through the roof.
20% of Israel's population is Russian Jews. Both the US and Israeli population of Russian Jews are the Khazar gypsies. Names like Kagan and Nuland are Khazarian. Supreme Court Ginsberg, Khazarian, original with very little genetic changes, she's a gypsies with inverted logic. We even have a lesbian on the Supreme Court, it's a coincidence she's a Jew too. Strange, the highest incidence of homosexuality in the world is in Israel according to Israeli media. Inbreeding?
The smaller the tribe the greater the inbreeding to keep the tribes self identity. But it was Israeli genetic scientist published findings on 40% being inbred, carrying the schizophrenia gene, and the term schizophrenia was first coined by a Swiss professor in 1908 to explain the eastern European Jews. The reason, inbreeding.
There are 124 different kinds of Jews, 40% are inbred. The MSM projects and programs inverted logic from an inbred species. The MSM is loaded with inverted logic thinkers. They project inverted logic into the mind of America.
Don't you get a feeling the media wants to destroy America? It's because they do, they're inverted logic thinkers, if you're not like them, then you must be destroyed, must be disrupted, life destroyed, property stolen because we're Deplorables. That's what it's all about, now lets sing Kumbaya.
It's a war between two species, the inbred against the human.
Look at the many examples of inbreeding, Debbie Wasserman Shultz. She even spoke out against intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews at a political rally caught on tape. And don't forget, Obama and the rise of the homosexuals installed loads of inverted logic thinkers throughout the media system and government.
We have two species in north America, the human and the non-human. The non-humans want to destroy our culture and they are willing to start a race war or to have us over run by wave after wave of hard core economic refugees from the ghettos of the third, fourth, and fifth world.
I wonder if you intend so much dry humor in your posts or if you are just dead serious. I am imagining a snide tone there. I am not laughing at the content because you could be right for all I know but it's also funny as hell.
"Names like Kagan and Nuland are Khazarian. Supreme Court Ginsberg, Khazarian, original with very little genetic changes, she's a gypsies with inverted logic."
"...40% being inbred, carrying the schizophrenia gene, and the term schizophrenia was first coined by a Swiss professor in 1908 to explain the eastern European Jews. The reason, inbreeding."
That is right up there with the guy on the other thread talking about "The ice picking of the Jew Trotsky". You guys are killing me.
In reply to Immigrate Russian Jews… by MK ULTRA Alpha
Please research every point, I did. That report is from years of research.
I could explain so much more, where they came from in India,. the ancient Indian ruling caste genetic code found in many Jews. I've track them to their origin and it's not Israel.
I can explain about the Khazar empire, the racial make up, the division of labor, division of profits and spoils. I can tell the story from Roman History, Gibbons the most famous historian, wrote of the last full blooded emperor killed by the Khazars, then the rise of Conan, a true story, he fought the snake kings, and who were the snake kings, the Khazar gypsies who worshiped the snake. And how the Khazars married into Conans royal dynasty, this is the history of the Byzantine empire, really the old Greek empire controlled at the top by Romans and later peoples of the empire. Go read it, it's in Gibbons.
In reply to I wonder if you intend so… by Ms No
I have always thought there were huge similarities between Gypsy and Jewish culture. The two are very unique and have huge similarities in behavior. I saw not long ago how one Jewish family and possibly two pretty much controlled Rome's money and tax collected from their own. It's amazing to think how long this could have been going on. The Khazars makes sense too.
Edit: Now I know you were just dead serious. Like I said, I wasn't laughing at the content it was the presentation. It has a Monty Python quality to it to me.
In reply to Please research every point,… by MK ULTRA Alpha
Ah hem!
According to the Encyclopedia Brittanica 1975 edition, if memory serves me well, humans (that's you untermensch), go through periods of inbreeding and outbreeding.
The benefits of outbteeding are lauded elsewhere, but what are the benefits of inbreeding?
Isolated pockets of inbreeding occurs which allows recessive genes to manifest.
Recessive genes of cause, may be pathological or not, depending on their expression.
The expressed recessive genes, if pathological, are subject to Mr. Darwin's little number and are eliminated.
Benign or beneficial recessive genes are conserved.
Have you ever wondered why Blue eyed blonds rule the world?
So throw your tropes around with due regard to the evidence.
And on to schizophrenia, the Madness of Adam and Eve.
The rate of schizophrenia (if we concede that schizophrenia means voices in the head and hallucinations, visions etc) remains constant worldwide at 1% for females and 2% for males.
Why?
Because that is the optimal amount to engender the crazyness of genius, without which, you sir, would still be trying to grasp the fundamentals of fire making.
The puzzle amongst Israeli scholars is why the Semites have twice the rate of schizophrenia than the rest of the world, with its commensurate side effect, genius.
They punch way above their weight when it comes to making our lives a misery.
In reply to Please research every point,… by MK ULTRA Alpha
Semites?
Genesis 10 2-5
Look Japeth family
In reply to Ah hem!… by Is-Be
I'm not sure what your deal is, but despite any error or hyperbole in that retard's post, he's generally right.
When he says nuland he doubtlessly references victoria nuland - among other things assistant secretary of state who despite being jewish, who fucked over ukraine by aligning the US with Neo Nazi pro Stepan Bandera groups, like the Svoboda group's Oleh Tyahnybok . Nuland is not a Ashkenazi name itself. Victoria Nuland's dad changed his last name from Nudelman to Nuland. Her dad battled mental illness and spoke glowingly of electro shock therapy - so consider her lineage.
Regarding Trotsky, I'm not sure what your issue is. His original surname was Bronstein and he was indisputably a marxist jew. He died in mexico from wounds sustained from an icepick / pickaxe attack. From there one can draw a direct line from these marxist ( jews ) to the modern neo con movement.
In reply to I wonder if you intend so… by Ms No
I was aware of every single thing that you mentioned there. What I am not aware of is rates of Jewish inbreeding and the research on it etc. I can't have an opinion on something I don't know about. I have seen some of the schizophrenia material and it wouldn't surprise me. I have a Jewish landlord of Russian decent that is extremely mentally ill and I met a full 1% Jew not long ago that was the stereotypical monster variation, to an astonishing extent.
All I was saying is that it was funny. The guy was a monster so him getting ice picked wasn't really a big deal actually it was a good thing. It's just something about "the ice-picking of the Jew" that struck me as hilarious but I didn't want to be a mean about it as if ice-picking any Jew is funny.
Edit: the ice picking is on the other thread that I am discussing on. I elaborated up above what I was talking about.
In reply to I'm not sure what your deal… by Canadian Dirtlump
Nuland is married to Kagan, the neocon at Harvard, who runs a disinformation operation etc. I read Kagan was a Khazar name. There are many Kagans in the think tank business directing foreign policy. All neocons, even seen photos of two Kagans walking with Army officers, they run a think tank promoting neocon foreign policy direction.
The majority of the Jews are from eastern europe, not Germany as many believe.
And I forgot calling me retarded from an anti-American foreigner is a complement and coming from one of the anti-American Canadians is even better.
AMERICA FIRST.
edit, but it was a good report by the Canadian, we must give due credit, but I knew of Nuland's name change and what she did in the state department she bragged she spent around $4 or $5 billion overthrowing the government and installing a Jew as president of the Ukraine. But Kagan was said to be Khazar with evidence presented, more research, it's eastern european and russian.
Again, the majority of Jews in the US are of eastern european and russian origin, and Khazaria is the origin of eastern european and russian jews.
In reply to I'm not sure what your deal… by Canadian Dirtlump
Nuland is married to Kagan and they form a potent neo con team doubtlessly. Regardless of whether or not their current last names are Khazar, it is indisputable that they are generally pro globalist therefore anti american. That being said nuland would not be historically a khazarian last name.
I can't say definitively where the majority of jews are from, but I will say that in no way does it make sense to me, that a "jew" from Europe who is non semitic, should be allowed to blindly return to Israel while an Arab of proven Palestinian lineage is frozen out.
Finally, if for some reason you think I have targeted you for scorn, you are wrong. Moreover if you think I have some anti american bent, you are again wrong. I am Canadian, and as such have always considered Americans as my best friends internationally. As a kid, my family visited America and I was always struck by the patriotism I saw. I loved to see the Americans I interacted with manifest such strong patriotism - something I normally didn't see at home.
Fast forwarding decades, after seeing the political corruption in all western countries, and being to that point, indelibly jaded, along came Donald Trump. After waking up, and realizing that the worst of humanity was at work in our daily lives, Agent Orange decided to run for president. I was first introduced to Trump in the late 80s, when my dad brought home a copy of the art of the deal. I knew he was a man of the people, I knew he wasn't racist, I knew despite his economic standing, that he would jump into the political ring if ( as he himself said ) there was no other option.
Despite knowing how the political process works in the US I put myself behind Trump from day one. Being awake I'm no stranger to being mocked, so when I planted my flag in the Trump camp I was not bothered when I was called every name in the book by otherwise luke warm pinko canadians.
In early October of 2016 I am on record as saying that barring an illegal theft of votes, trump will win. Not that it matters in the grand scheme of things, but realize that manifesting such an attitude in Canada was and is grounds for mocking and alienation.
Thanks to the media in Canada, on Us election day hillary was forecast to win. I begged to differ. As I listened to the results on the radio as I traveled the highway, Hillary started out the favorite. As the night wore on and I got home, the race was narrowed and Trump won.
You call me an anti American Canadian. To this moment I thank God that Trump won the election, and moreover I am sure that God's fingerprints are on his win.
Temper your rage. I am thrilled, as a Canadian, that you have a leader who puts his citizens first.
In reply to Nuland is married to Kagan,… by MK ULTRA Alpha
Canadian your extremely intelligent, I will remember this exchange. But I've got to rest been fighting communist all day and night.
And sometimes, we have foreigners all the way from Europe on here, Argentina, Bolivia, and I can name many more, even Australia, this is like ham radio in the space age, they have such an anti-American rant and the US based ZH posters get on a defeatist rant, then there's the communist kids, brainwashed, full blown mindless, Godless communism have been programmed into Obama youth, and I go off, so I apologize for wrongly accusing you of being a communist.
In reply to Nuland is married to Kagan… by Canadian Dirtlump
Godless?
It depends which god you genuflect before.
Are you meaning the foreign god who killed his wife Ashera? The Abrahamic deicidal Patriarch?
The god of the schizophrenic Jews?
Or do you mean our own dear Lord and Lady, Frey and Freya who keep a warm hearth for all their descendants?
A loving couple, free from the angst of gender wars and faux guilt.
In reply to Canadian your extremely… by MK ULTRA Alpha
Pagination