ANTIFASCISTS

ERIC ZUESSE—The debate within the Truman Administration over how to deal with communism reached a point in 1950 when the viewpoint of diplomat George Kennan favoring its “containment” became pitted against that of investment banker Paul Nitze, favoring the attainment of an all-inclusive American empire. Nitze’s view won out, because Truman himself had already, by no later than 25 July 1945, been privately persuaded by his personal hero General Dwight Eisenhower, that if the U.S. wouldn’t take over the entire world, then the Soviet Union would.

SCOTT RITTER—I got to know Phil in 2002, when he returned to the television talk show circuit on MSNBC as the host of Donahue.

America was, at that time, collectively beating the drums of war, with the Bush administration making the case that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction that posed a threat to world peace sufficient enough to justify a military invasion.

Phil, however, thought it was important to ask questions before signing on to the government case for war. He asked his producer, Jeff Cohen, to find a voice in opposition to the war. Jeff called me, and asked if I would be the guest on Phil’s premier. I accepted.

EDITOR—Glenn chats with Prof. Jonathan Turley, one of America’s foremost scholars on Constitutional Law and author of The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.  Turley warns about the enormous advances of the “censorship industry”, an underhanded offshoot of the MICIMATT, currently focusing on tightening controls on the official narrative by cynically curtailing free speech in the name of protecting Americans from “disinformation”. Ironically, it is precisely the US establishment, also called “the Deep State,” that is and remains the main originator and disseminator of global disinformation. Just about everything it says about current and past realities, from the nature of the US political system (hint: it ain’t a democracy), to the facts about Russia, Iran, Putin, China, the Ukraine War and the Israeli genocide on Palestinians—among other things—is a total lie, the world upside down. In this Orwellian framework, a powerful obstacle is the US Constitution’s First Amendment, offering all Americans the absolute right to Free Speech, as a human right, notes Prof. Turley.

EDITOR—The S-400 is considered by all experts that I have consulted, to be highly likely to be effective against the two main categories of weapons that the U.S. is preparing to unleash against Iran, by the hundreds, when Iran will respond to those assassinations: Tomahawk missiles, and stealth F-35 and F-22 fighter jets. The Tomahawks are not stealth, and they are subsonic (very slow), but they have the advantage of flying very close to the ground and thus being undetectable by most radars. However, the S-400 Triumph’s radar can track all altitudes, and its missiles fly at a large multiple of the Tomahawk’s speed, and so the system is well suited to hitting Tomahawks.

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.