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Could you explain your VEEP Mr. Baraka's bizarre Russian disinformation statements?

Anti-semetic "false-flag" conspiracy theories:

Baraka also questioned news stories about the June 2014 kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers, which Israel blamed on Hamas members and which led to Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip against Hamas. One month after the kidnappings, which he called a "false flag operation," Baraka indicated in an interview his belief that "the kids were supposed to be kidnapped but they weren't supposed to be murdered. That was an accident. But nevertheless it gave Israel the pretext that they were setting up for, and that was the opportunity to basically attack Hamas in order to destroy the unity government."

Source: http://noliesradio.org/archives/85748

Anti-American propaganda:

Baraka has also asserted that the atrocities of the Syrian Civil War are being "fomented by a demented and dying U.S. empire, with the assistance of the royalist monarchies of the Middle East and the gangster states of NATO."

Source: http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/06/04/the-syrian-elections/

Called Assad's fake elections in 2012 legitimate, even though the U.N. said otherwise:

Baraka has rejected the U.S. position that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and the 2014 Syrian presidential election are illegitimate. In an article, he wrote that the idea of Assad's illegitimacy had been "carefully cultivated by Western state propagandists and dutifully disseminated by their auxiliaries in the corporate media." He further argued that the election was proof that Syrians have "not surrendered their national sovereignty to the geostrategic interests of the U.S. and its colonial allies in Europe and Israel," United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon criticized Syria's holding of an election during an ongoing civil war for undermining a political solution to the conflict, and the lack of independent election monitoring was widely reported.

Source: http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/06/04/the-syrian-elections/

Repeated the Russian disinformation about Nazi hordes "genociding" Russians in Ukraine, along with falsely claiming the perpetrators of the Odessa Massacre were "U.S. supported":

Baraka characterized the 2014 Ukrainian revolution as a "U.S.-supported coup" that contained "racist neo-Nazi elements." After the 2014 Odessa clashes, which resulted in the deaths of 42 pro-Russian and six pro-Ukrainian protestors, Baraka wrote that he was "outraged by the murder of people defending their rights to self-determination at the hands of U.S.-supported thugs in Odessa."

Source: http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/02/18/obamas-legacy-permanent-war-and-liberal-accommodation/

Source: http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/benghazi-boko-haram-why-i-support-benghazi-inquiry

Repeated the Russian disinformation of MH17 being a "false-flag", along with accusing OSCE monitors of being "spies":

Two days after the event, Baraka expressed his suspicions that the shootdown of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine was a "false flag" operation, saying: "Someone wrote about three weeks ago that we should expect a major false flag operation in eastern Ukraine that's going to be then blamed on the Russians. And that's exactly what has happened. They're trying to say in the Western press that the Ukrainian government does not have access to that kind of weaponry, when it's clear that they do." He criticized Western media coverage of the event for "undermining anything coming from Russia Today. That's where you see the story being advanced that there is a possibility that this story is a little more complicated than people realize." Baraka also claimed that observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe were "sent in basically as spies who showed up on the scene to quote-unquote 'monitor'."

Source: http://noliesradio.org/archives/85748

Transcript of the show, as some people are accusing Wikipedia of taking Mr. Baraka's words out of context:

“What do you think of this plane—Malaysian plane shootdown?” Barrett asks. “The U.S. media is putting out the possibilities of this being done by the Russians or by the pro-Russian Ukrainians, but President Putin’s plane was flying through there shortly before this plane was shot down—it looks like Putin’s plane may have been targeted. If so, obviously that wouldn’t have been done by the Russians or pro-Russian separatists quote unquote, that would have been done by the Kiev Zio-Nazi government. Which is what it is—these Zionist Jewish oligarchs, billionaire criminal dons, are funding Nazi street thugs. These are the people who overthrew the legitimate democratically elected government of Ukraine and created a fascist junta, and they are the ones who would be the suspects, at least in my opinion—somebody shooting at Putin’s plane, and yet the media doesn’t even raise that as a possibility.”

“And when it’s raised, it’s raised as a conspiracy,” Baraka responded. “I think that this is a—I was trying to find the citation, I remember reading, I can’t remember who it was, someone wrote about three weeks ago that we should expect false flag, a major false flag operation in eastern Ukraine that’s going to be blamed on the Russians. And that’s exactly what has happened.”

Accused the U.S. of being behind Boko Haram so that it would occupy Nigerian oil fields and kick out the Chinese:

Baraka has criticized calls for Western military action against the jihadist rebel group Boko Haram, arguing that "a purely military response will only exacerbate an insurgency whose roots lie in the complex socio-historical conditions and internal contradictions of Northeast Nigeria." Baraka also stated that while he was "outraged" by the kidnapping, he was also suspicious of U.S. humanitarian concerns in the region: "U.S. policymakers don’t give a damn about the schoolgirls in Nigeria because their real objective is to use the threat of Boko Haram in the northern part of the country to justify the real goal of occupying the oil fields in the south and to block the Chinese in Nigeria."

Source: http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/benghazi-boko-haram-why-i-support-benghazi-inquiry

Regularly associates with 9/11 conspiracy theorists, Holocaust deniers, anti-semetic CIA/Mossad false-flag conspiracy theories:

In January 2016, Baraka's "Je suis Charlie" article was republished in an anthology about the November 2015 Paris attacks,ANOTHER French False Flag? Bloody Tracks from Paris to San Bernadino, edited by Kevin Barrett, a Holocaust denier and 9/11 conspiracy theorist. Other contributors to the anthology (including controversial figures such as Gilad Atzmon and Alain Soral) posited "that the Charlie Hebdo attacks and many others were perpetrated by the CIA and Mossad" as "false flags."

Accused Sanders of being controlled opposition and of supporting war crimes, while saying his campaign is a commitment to "white supremacy":

In February 2016 during the Democratic Party presidential primaries, Baraka wrote that "[i]n this period of media-driven pseudo-opposition in the form of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Beyoncé, or even Bernie Sanders, it is increasingly difficult to make the distinction between image and reality, especially when the production of images and symbols is controlled by dominant forces with an interest in keeping us all stupid." In September 2015, he said that "the world that a President Sanders promises—continued war crimes from the sky with drone strikes and Saudi led terror in support of the Western imperial project." He has referred to Obama and the Sanders campaign as "a tacit commitment to Eurocentrism and the assumptions of normalized white supremacy."

Are these out of context? Factually and objectively, all of them are false. I'm worried he's being influenced by Russian/Iranian propaganda, thus showing his lack of judgement.

In your opinion, why does Russia have such strong computer programmers and mathematicians? What is different in Russia when it comes to teaching mathematics than in the West?

Are you descended from Russia Imperial royalty?

Looks like you fell for Putin's lie that America's foreign agent law is "a lot more strict" than Russia's.

Newsflash: it's not. In Russia, if you're a foreign agent, you have to state a specific piece of text indicating you're a foreign agent on every tweet, article, ad, video, podcast, etc. Oh, and did I mention that if it's an article, you must write this slanderous disclaimer in twice the font size of the article?

You didn't know any of this, because you believe what the Russian government tells you without your brain doing any processing.

Recently, Bellingcat was designated a foreign agent in Russia, even though they have no physical or legal presence in the country! Does your brain know why the Russian government did this? To make it harder for Russian media outlets to cite Bellingcat when reporting on the government's geopolitical crimes. It's a tool of censorship.

And Assange has nothing to do with Russia, so why would Meduza talk about him? Just because you're butthurt they expose the Russian government's corruption, and you feel like asking them about talking about Assange is a way to get back at them? Pathetic.