EDITOR—Garland carefully dissects the Russian way of war, its by now irrefutable capacity to out-produce and out-match the West in war materials and military personnel qualifications, and how Moscow is now systematically using its accumulated strategic weight to cause a gigantic tide of collapse—political and military—across Ukraine, leaving the West no real options, except delusions and stubborn propaganda, none of which will deny the facts on the ground imposed by the Red Army. Since the end of WW2 (if not far longer) the West has been plotting the encirclement and downfall of first the Soviet Union and then Russia. Protestations by Russia that this was unacceptable fell on deaf ears. Eventually, after the US coup in Kiev in 2014, the Western alliance showed up literally on Russia’s doorstep, “Moscow’s front yard”, forcing the country, now under Pres. Putin, to rapidly put its economy and military industries on a war footing.
Russia again tried the diplomatic route to no avail until 2021, but in 2022 Pres. Putin, witnessing the way the Kiev regime’s army was shelling the Donbas area with a view to conquering those rebel provinces by force, ordered the SMO into Ukraine. Three or four NATO-trained and supplied armies later, and probably no less than 300,000 to perhaps even 500,000 dead and wounded, plus substantial destruction of Ukraine’s infrastructure…
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CBS pulls out all the stops to prop up Israel’s accusations.
7 minutes readEDITOR—Using all the dog whistles in the Zionist playbook to justify Tel Aviv’s horribly disproportionate response to the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, CBS Sunday Morning is apparently happy to allow its huge megaphone to reiterate pro-Israel accusations.
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EDITOR—The idea of NATO troops to Ukraine is a nonstarter, opines Garland Nixon. Neither the US, nor the West, have the capability now to match Russia and her allies in terms of military hardware output and quality, nor in the superiority of her battle-hardened armies. We are watching the spectacular collapse of an Empire. Meanwhile, other aggressive parts of the Empire can’t even properly defend themselves, as was demonstrated during the Iranian drone/missile attack on Israel. It took the assets of the collective West to degrade a bit the Iranian assault and even then they could not stop (as they claim) many of Tehran’s missiles.
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How wildlife crossings protect both animals and people
5 minutes readP. GREANVILLE—This project, which as an added benefit creates jobs in the US, something badly needed at this point, costs a pittance compared to the obscene sums (such as the US$ 95 billion recently approved by our non-representative political class) to be squandered on repulsively criminal regimes in Ukraine and Israel, not to mention to pick an idiotic and equally criminal fight with China. Criminal because a war with China will be mind-boggingly destructive to everyone on this planet, including Americans, who—assuming they survive— will see their already tenuous standard of living plummet dramatically as a result of a conflict “of choice” started by the US establishment.
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MICHAEL HUDSON—Well, to prevent this kind of embarrassment, and to prevent the embarrassment of journalists who were doing all this, Seymour Hersh described the [Mai Lai] massacre, and that helped inflame the opposition to Johnson. Well, President Biden, who’s approved Netanyahu’s plan, the first people you have to kill are the journalists. If you’re going to permit genocide, you have to realize that you don’t want the domestic U.S. population or the rest of the world to oppose the U.S. and Israel. You kill the journalists. And for the last, ever since the October 2nd Al-Aqsa event, you’ve had one journalist per week killed in Israel. That’s part of it.
The other people you don’t want, if you’re going to bomb them, you have to start by bombing the hospitals and all of the key centers. That also was part of the idea of the Vietnam War. How do you destroy a population? This was all worked out in the 1970s, when people were trying to use systems analysis to think, how do you work back and see what you need?