Two links. The first is to a review of a long essay the reviewer hopes will be turned into a book or part of one by the essay’s author; a version appeared the other day in Consortium News headed “The most powerful demolition of Russiagate yet.” The second is to the essay itself, which first appeared in The Tablet on March 28. — MCM

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Disinformation x 13: You cannot be trusted with your own mind. A review by Patrick Lawrence | patricklawrence.us  Sometime in the mid–Russiagate years, when it became clear that America was on a swoon back into the collective neuroses of the 1950s, I began to think we would have to wait for future historians to retrieve the truth buried alive in the cesspit of lies and cynical propaganda operations the deep state—and I am fine with this term—inflicted upon us in response to . . . READ MORE . . .

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A guide to understanding the hoax of the century: Thirteen ways of looking at disinformation, by Jacob Siegel | The Tablet  In 1950, Sen. Joseph McCarthy claimed that he had proof of a communist spy ring operating inside the government. Overnight, the explosive accusations blew up in the national press, but the details kept changing. Initially, McCarthy said he had a list with the names of 205 communists in the State Department; the next day he revised it to 57. Since he kept the list a secret, the inconsistencies were beside the point. The point was the power of the accusation, which made . . . READ MORE . . .