JOHN VAROLI—I’m at a loss for words trying to describe the depravity and wickedness of Biden’s White House, which eagerly provides the weapons and infrastructure to incinerate thousands of children in Gaza; and then launches numerous terrorist attacks against Russia, hoping to provoke Moscow to respond in a manner that would be the casus belli for World War 3.
CITIZENS’ MEDIA
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Assange freed, after striking deal with US Justice Dept
26 minutes readEDITOR—“Thirteen-and-a-half years and two extradition requests after he was first arrested, Julian Assange left the U.K. yesterday, following a bail hearing last Thursday, held in private at his request,” said Stephen Parkinson, the chief prosecutor for England and Wales.
The plea deal brings an abrupt conclusion to a criminal case of international intrigue and to the U.S. government’s yearslong pursuit of a publisher whose hugely popular secret-sharing website made him a cause célèbre among many press freedom advocates who said he acted as a journalist to expose U.S. military wrongdoing. U.S. prosecutors, in contrast, have repeatedly asserted that his actions broke the law and put the country’s national security at risk.
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Putin’s “war” to re-shape the American Zeitgeist
18 minutes readALASTAIR CROOKE—The new American narrative is no negotiations with Moscow now, but maybe it will become possible sometime early in the new year – after the U.S. elections. Well, Putin might surprise again – by not jumping at the prospect, but rebuffing it; assessing that the Americans still are not ready for negotiations for a ‘complete end’ to the war – especially as this latest narrative runs concurrently with talk of a new Ukraine offensive shaping up for 2025. Of course, much is likely to change over the coming year. The documents outlining a putative new security order however, were already drafted by Russia in 2021 – and duly ignored in the West. Russia perhaps can afford to wait out military events in Ukraine, in Israel, and in the financial sphere.
They are all, in any event, trending Putin’s way. They are all inter-connected and have the potential for wide metamorphosis.
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EDITOR—A tour de force analysis of how the US Empire is imploding, as it fights its multiplying contradictions and the collapse of long-held myths giving it legitimacy—starting with the illusion of American democracy, freedom, and ruling class patriotism—while its military supremacy is also eroding fast and has actually been surpassed by peer nations such as Russia and China. In this context, the Western totalitarian ruling class sees no way out from the necessity of imposing ever more stringent censorship and repression on sectors of the population that insist on spreading “inconvenient truths”. Same extreme methods are being used to keep the Empire’s vassals in line, which the Empie is cannibilising. Trump obviously offers no real change, but, as a super imperialist anchored in nationalism, he promises to make the working class gets its share of the imperialist loot.
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FILTHY MEDIA—CBS 60 Minutes “The Capital of Free Russia”
14 minutes readEDITOR—Loaded with lies and malicious innuendo, 60 Minutes “reports” on Russia are models of devious disinformation in which truth is upended, and neo-Nazis hailed as avatars of “democracy”. Scott Pelley. a senior honcho at 60 minutes, is, as usual, reliably cringeworthy. Pelley either knows nothing about the subject or is a consummate presstitute—maybe both, as is the case with so many prominent figures in US media. True to his mission, he doesn’t warn the audience that Lithuania has long been a rabid Russophobic nation (like Poland and the rest of the Baltics), and that they eagerly collaborated with the Nazis, and in a way, still do.