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Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Frances Foster. I'm Constantine Kissen.

And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people.

Our brilliant guest today is a US journalist, Aramate, welcome to Trigonometry.

Thanks for having me. It's great to have you listen

a lot of our viewers we were just talking before won't know who you are, but we feel that you've

got a very interesting voice to add to the mix. Tell everybody a little bit about who you are,

how are you where you are, what has been the journey that brings you here talking to us?

Well, I'm a journalist. I'm a leftist, and I work for an outlet in the US called The Grey Zone,

and I also write for the Nation magazine, and my focus for the last few years has been

primarily this Russia Gate obsession in the US and how Russia was blamed for basically

all of America's domestic problems, including the election of Donald Trump,

and how I think that feeds into a very dangerous dynamic of encouraging a cold war militarism

between the West and Russia, and also excusing failed neoliberals for their own failures on many

other bad outcomes. That's taken up a lot of my time, but I also cover generally foreign policy,

particularly how the US undermines governments abroad that it doesn't like for reasons coming

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