[Peace-discuss] "Progressives like DN encouraged war by parroting Russiagate propaganda and excluding dissenting voices" -- Aaron Maté

[J.B. Nicholson]

karen aram via Peace-discuss wrote:
> Just listen to what "The Nation’s,” Katrina Vandenheuval has to say, on "Democracy
> Now," both of which are liberal Democrat media’s, not socialists nothing to be
> feared.
Aaron Maté, who started at Democracy Now and left DN in part because of how DN was 
cheering on war (essentially), posted the following in a series of posts on twitter.com:

https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1486088112778268675 starts the thread and reads:

> Amy Goodman of @democracynow asks "where are the progressives?" on stopping war in
> Ukraine. The answer is that progressives like DN encouraged war by parroting
> Russiagate propaganda and excluding dissenting voices, e.g. the late Stephen F.
> Cohen, barred from DN after April 2017.
Katrina vanden Heuvel & Stephen F. Cohen's were married. He died in 2020.

There are other posts in Maté's thread including screenshots of DN pieces to back up 
his point. I found it interesting; Aaron Maté's and Karen Aram's posts reminded me of 
just how DN has changed from challenging to serving the establishment.