Garland Nixon

MAIN EDITORS—Garland and Scott talk about “Operation Dawn Brunch” (Sunday, Oct 27, 2024) in Tudor City (45 Tudor City Place, NY 10017), an event with many of today’s most articulate antiwar, free speech, anti-imperialist and pro (genuine) democracy activists. The brunch cum panel discussions will feature, among others, Garland Nixon, Scott Ritter, Russell Dobular, Jimmy Dore, Danny Haiphong, Dennis Fritz, Diane Sare, Jose Vega, and others of equal merit.
In this episode of Warrior Update with Scott Ritter (#78), Scott explains the plight in Ukraine as the war inexorably winds down to a huge defeat for the US-supported Kiev Banderista regime and its NATO sponsors. As the regime collapses, chaos and violence spread, and winter takes its toll, many Ukrainians may want to flee to the EU, creating an enormous refugee crisis in a continent already swamped with African and Middle Eastern immigrants, most of them product of the economic and social dislocations triggered by the US empire’s intrigues and regime change operations. Furthermore, notes, Scott, Ukrainian neo-Nazis may not be embraced by the rest of Europe. Ukrainians are not very well liked by many people in Europe, including in Germany. They will likely end up filling the bottom ranks of a highly stressed labour market, at a moment when the EU’s economy is rapidly tanking due (again) to America’s hegemonist policies. Many of the men, accustomed to violence and relative lawlessness, may end up choosing lives of crime, while many women may simply become prostitutes or be victimised by sex traffickers profiting from the chaos and the breakdown of civil society.

GARLAND NIXON—Arrogance, sense of superiority and invulnerability, fanaticism, or simple idiocy (especially in the case of Ukraine) may be at work explaining the behaviour of these two nations as they actively work with Washington to accelerate their demise—political, economic, and possibly physical, too—through bigger wars which may engulf all of humanity, suggests Garland. But, says Garland, turning philosophical, we all die anyhow, and in 100 years, not to mention 1,000 or 1 Million years, our existence will be forgotten, practically an illusion, something that left no real mark on the annals of time. 

EDITORS—Scott Ritter offers an impassioned analysis of Israel’s and America’s criminal and deceitful policies in the Middle East, amounting to a provocation to expand the conflict to world war level, as Hezbollah/Iran try to neutralise Israel while seeking to maintain control of the escalation. Ritter condemns Israel in the strongest terms, stating that its policies may well destroy it. Shia Iran, for example, may revise its non-nuclear weapons policy, since the essence of Shia is to adapt to new historical conditions, and, threatened by hostile nuclear powers, Tehran may opt to develop and deploy its own. Israel and its backers must understand that even if they attack Iran and try to deal a “decapitating blow” to its military potential, they will not succeed. Iran has been building her defence capability for at least 40 years, regarding the US, not Israel, as its principal adversary. Scott believes Iran has the technical and natural resources to make nuclear warheads, and certainly to adapt them to their existing arsenal of missiles. All these assets are hidden in deep bunkers not likely to be penetrated even by nuclear explosions. If Iran feels threatened in an existential way, if Israel strikes its nuclear or other sensitive installations, the Supreme Leader may quietly issue a new Fatwah, and within 2 weeks Iran will likely have nuclear warheads capable of deleting Israel from the map. People who are cheering Israel on, feeding its insane bellicosity, are only urging its probable destruction, notes Ritter. That’s the reality the US government is apparently unable to process properly and react to, since it is deeply infiltrated by pro-Ukraine and Zionist warmongers.

EDITORS—HIGHLIGHT: Given the huge size and number of the “bunker busters” used to flatten a whole residential area in Beirut to kill Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah, the general supposition is now that this attack was made possible by the participation of  US/NATO warplanes. The Western media has kept almost totally mum about this story. 

Garland and Laith dissect the literally explosive situation in the Middle East, and how the rise of an increasingly well armed resistance impacts and complicates the global politics of US imperialism. Laith and Garland concur that this will likely be a long war, similar to the Algerian war of liberation, or the Vietnam War. Liberation wars don’t come cheap in terms of lives and infrastructure lost. As well, the team discusses how a Mideast war may affect the politics throughout the West, precipitating huge economic and political shifts in Europe, the US and Japan. As a result of a war in the ME pushing oil prices sky-high, Laith and Garland visualise the possibility of enormous disruptions in the imperial core itself, obligating (or providing the opportunity to) the ruling establishment to declare Martial Law, suspend elections, assassinate Trump, or implement other shifts and extreme policies across the globe. 

EDITOR—After a historically brief postwar period when the working class (especially in Europe) could enjoy a more tolerable standard of living thanks to the adoption of social democracy out of fear for the Soviet example— better wages, unemployment cushions, healthcare, free education, etc.—the inexorable capitalist crisis is forcing a shrinking of the “goodies” with which the ruling class bought the passivity of the masses. This is inherent in capitalism which, due to its internal dynamic always goes from boom to bust, a problem now magnified with the extension of capitalism to global dimensions under US imperialism. 

Thus, the working class today in practically all capitalist countries is feeling the pain of living under totally non-representative increasingly tyrannical oligarchies and fake democracies, a situation aggravated by a decadent set of blatantly hypocritical “civilised values” (i.e., the rise of “WOKE imperialism”), and the grotesque lies implicit in the pretend fight for human rights and against anti-semitism, that serve to muzzle free speech, protect Israel from retribution for its multitude of heinous crimes, and facilitate the deletion of democratic norms.