EDITORS—Kursk is a different type of operation. This is a NATO army, blatantly trained by British, Americans, French and other instructors, using highly integrated tactics and advanced western weapons and ISR, plus company-sized French and Polish units, fighting as units. The idea was to capture some key objectives, such as the Kursk NPP and hold the captured territory, while blackmailing and humiliating Russia and embarrassing Putin. . None of this has panned out as envisioned by the collective West. People forget that Russia is not at war. Russia has been fighting a special military operation. The Kursk invasion may have changed all that, and the collective West and Ukraine will finally see what defying Russia means.
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Two leading critics of global imperialism, Profs. Michael Hudson and Richard D. Wolff, analyse the present political/economic situation shaping events across the world, and the behaviour of the US empire in this historical phase characterised by the decay of US hegemony, and the rise of powerful independent powers determined to build a new order grounded in sovereignty, peace, international solidarity, and multipolarism. The guests focus on the Kursk invasion supported by NATO, which is being presented in diametrically opposite ways by the mass media. Those in the West are advancing a complete lie, suggesting that the invasion is a huge victory for Ukraine that could end up destroying Russia’s armies and the much hated “Putin regime”. The reality media used by the West’s opponents describes a Ukrainian incursion that can easily become Kiev’s last “Hail Mary”, their desperate “Last Hurrah!”. Dr Wolff concludes that we may be witnessing (from Ukraine to the Middle East) a lot of theatrics. Dr Hudson speaks about the creation of a Nazi Ukraine, via the Anglo-American persistent exploitation of regional hatreds and prejudices, especially in Western Ukraine (Galizia, etc.), all of which has created a monster in Eastern Europe, just as the West has created a similar monster in Israel (occupied Palestine). The experts are in agreement that the likelihood of the Ukraine war ending through negotiations is next to nil, as Putin has frequently suggested, since there’s no Kiev government capable of such an agreement, and the West, especially the US, is not agreement capable.
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GARLAND NIXON discusses the shabby political motives behind the state’s harassment and intimidation of anti-imperialist foreign policy activists like SCOTT RITTER. Garland talks about the work Scott does to bring the peoples of Russia and the former Soviet Union and US closer as friends who understand each other as human beings, thereby facilitating international peace. Scott, married to a woman from Georgia (Europe), a nation formerly part of the USSR, and with a lot of friends and connections in Russia, where he is well-liked. Speaking about the paranoid measures implemented by the US government. Garland mentions the case of Tulsi Gabbard, who was recently put on a “quiet skies” TSA list deeming her a “potential terrorist”. Every time she flies now, absurd as it sounds, the TSA and other security agencies inject a full security team to fly along with her. The FBI and the rest of the security agencies, notes Garland, don’t do these things because they are incompetent or stupid. They are simply “leaning” on their targets to show them they don’t like what they are doing and want them to stop. The same kind of intimidation and judicial persecution is happening right now in America’s vassal states in Europe, where people are being tried for opinion that “helps Russian propaganda”.
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GARLAND NIXON—The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has stated the need for dialogue and deliberation regarding the role of the media and the manipulation of public opinion through false news and biased information favoring powerful groups in society. He has affirmed that the people must have access to truthful, professional information that is independent of economic and political power. He has highlighted the work of alternative media and independent journalists and, to this end, has proposed holding the First Hemispheric Conference of Independent Journalists (HMIJ).
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EDITORS—We have a potential military clash in the Middle East, as Iran makes good on its promise to respond to Israel’s outrageous provocations, including the sordid assassination of Hamas negotiator Ismail Haniyeh, such acts backed up, as usual by the depraved US Hegemon. Under such circumstances, the clash between the collective West and the Russo-Iranian alliance could ignite a major world war, but Russia is fortunate to have an extremely sophisticated weapons system, and a huge industrial and scientific capacity to match, all inherited from the Soviet Union. Garland believes that Russia has a huge stake in supporting Iran, not to mention its own strategic assets in the Middle East, and may have been providing Tehran with advanced weapons systems, including powerful AD and rocket/missile systems capable of deterring and defeating a Zio/American assault.
