AFRICA

GENNADY ZYUGANOV—We should all understand that a war of annihilation has been launched against us. Its aim is to dismember our country, to enslave the people and turn our lands into a zone of colonial plunder. It is fraught not only with large-scale losses: to lose in this situation means to disappear.

The present challenge is as fateful as the Time of Troubles in the 17th century, the Patriotic War of 1812, the foreign intervention in 1918-20, the clash with fascism during the Great Patriotic War and the treacherous destruction of the USSR. The USA and its Nato accomplices have set about to multiply their vicious achievements of the ‘wild 90s’.

EDITOR—Russia is considering “asymmetric” measures against Kiev’s sponsors due to Ukraine’s use of Western-supplied weapons against its territory, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. 

The Russian leader’s remarks came at a meeting with heads of international news agencies on Wednesday, on the sidelines of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).

“We have no illusions in this regard,” Putin added, repeating his prior comments that Ukrainian troops might be pulling the trigger but the US and its allies are providing the intelligence and targeting information.

Russia will respond by boosting air defenses and destroying these missiles, Putin said. 

GLEN FORD—Three-quarters of the 50 Black full-voting members of the U.S. House ought to be on Black Lives Matters’ shit list (the organization’s and the wider movement’s) as Class A Enemies of the People, based on their votes for the 2018 legislation that made cops a protected class and assault on police a federal hate crime. Black Democrats have for nearly half a century been the hands-on managers of mass Black incarceration, gentrification and austerity in Black America. They don’t give a damn about Africa, including the slaughter of six million Congolese at the hands of U.S. client regimes – the worst genocide since World War Two.  They stand (or kneel) with Nancy Pelosi, who keeps the nation and world safe for the oligarchy. 

MARGARET KIMBERLEY—(FIRST RUN ON 4 JULY 2012) While Obama and Clinton try to scuttle Kofi Annn’s Syrian peace plan and hint at President Assad’s prosecution before the ICC, the ICC shows its true colors. When Palestinians petitioned the ICC to investigate war crimes committed by Israel in Gaza, they were turned away. Moreno-Ocampo determined that because Palestine has not been recognized by U.N. General Assembly it has no standing to seek justice for the 2,000 people massacred by Israel in 2008 and 2009. The hypocrisy is blatant, and proves that the United States and its allies present the greatest threats to peace in the world.

EDITOR—Because of his apparent “reasonableness” in matters concerning Russia, the Ukraine War, and the Middle East, John Mearsheimer seems to many to be a public intellectual deserving of wide respect and credibility, says Garland Nixon, but such a view would be wrong. For Mearsheimer is just another Neocon, albeit a Neocon whose predilect bogeyman is China, the most dangerous of all possible US adversaries. Listen carefully to this talk by Garland analysing how a confrontation with China could easily get out of hand and escalate to all-out nuclear war, and you will see why Mearsheimer may be much more toxic than even John Bolton or Victoria Nuland, both chiefly obsessed with Russia.