Scott Ritter

SCOTT RITTER—A centerpiece of Scott’s impassioned denunciation of Zionist perfidy is the murder of Hind Rajab, a 6-year-old. “Layan,” Mohammed Salem Hamada, the relative in Germany who placed the call later recounted, “told me that her father and my aunt—her mother is my aunt—were shot and they are all dead. She said the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] soldiers were shooting them and she also told me that the tanks are getting closer to them. Layan explained that she had been shot in the leg, as had 6-year-old Hind. Layan told Mohammed that “she didn’t know how bad the injury or injuries were because she was covered—all of them were covered—in blood.” Layan then handed the phone to Hind, who told Mohammed “Please help me. Please come and rescue us. Rescue me.” Mohammed broke down. “I was literally crying because I was unable to do anything, and I think all of my family were in the same situation.”

His wife took the phone away from the sobbing man. “Sweetheart,” she told Hind, “don’t be scared, God loves you and he will take care of you.”

EDITOR—Former Marine Corps Intelligence Officer and UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter reacts to Israel’s latest escalation with Iran that left several of its top military brass slain in Syria. What happens next will shock you. Scott stresses the fact that Iran cannot easily replace the key military leaders they just lost, and that a tit-for-tat retaliation may unleash an escalation cycle with Israel for which Iran may not be ready. Ritter advises calm and deliberate continuation of the strengthening of the “Axis of Resistance”. Otherwise, much could be lost, including the loss of world focus on the Gaza tragedy, which is looking like it could finally deliver a change of policy in the region and a Palestinian state or integration in a non-Apartheid Israel.  Scott notes that Israel is set to receive a large number of F-15s, long-distance fighter-bombers, needed for an strategic blow against Iran. This indicates the direction Washington and Tel Aviv are thinking. Scott also says it’s a foregone conclusion that the Americans knew the Israelis would be hitting the WCK food aid workers. The current war is highly integrated between the US and the Israelis, notes Scott, so the claim the Americans were surprised by the attack on WCK is a complete lie.

SCOTT RITTER—Western governments, analysts, and pundits have loudly proclaimed that the men who carried out the attack on the Crocus City Hall had nothing whatsoever to do with Ukraine, and instead have collectively embraced a narrative that paints the men as members of the Islamic State-Khorasan (ISIS-K). ISIS is an off-shoot of Al-Qaeda-Iraq (AQI) which emerged in 2013 when core AQI members relocated to Syria. In 2014 ISIS declared itself to be a caliphate and began a series of operations which saw it take control on a third of Syria and a quarter of Iraq before being driven back and ultimately defeated by a coalition which included Iraq, the United States and Iran.

SCOTT RITTER—The discrediting of Putin’s government with an eye to his removal from power has been a goal of the C.I.A. since 2005, when the C.I.A., together with British intelligence, began actively working to create viable political opposition movements inside Russia.

While these efforts have largely failed (the recent death in a Russian prison of Alexei Navalny, believed to have been a creation of the C.I.A., underscores the scope and scale of this failure), the C.I.A.’s covert political warriors in the Political Action Group of the Special Activities Center continue to try to undermine Putin through various means.

SCOTT RITTER—The capital of the Kirov Region is the city of Kirov, located some 560 miles northeast of Moscow. While Kirov is known for its heavy industry, the Kirov region is also a leading producer of lumber. In 2007, the Kirov Region undertook a reorganization of the region’s timber industry, consolidating control over thirty-six timber mills under a single roof, a State unitary enterprise known as Kirovles. One of the problems confronting Kirovles was curtailing the practice of selling lumber for cash undertaken by many of the timber mills. The managers of the timber mills made a pretty profit, but this money was not registered as income for Kirovles, and as such the enterprise was operating at a deficit.