EDITOR—Soiled diaper on D-Day. Who is actually running the US, asks investigative journalist Anya Parampil, because it clearly isn’t Joe Biden. The oligarchic nature of the US government, its hidden behind the throne corporate forces and billionaires, should be the concern of every thinking American, says Anya Parampil, in this chat assessing the dangers and possibilities for ordinary Americans as they go through a process of social and political chaos and disintegration with no clear understanding of the personalities involved nor the actual outcomes. As most readers of this publication know, the duopoly only offers “lesser evil” candidates, and each round of elections the choices are worse. Is there any consequential daylight between Trump and Biden?
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Land of the Free? Better watch what you say and to whom
25 minutes readPHILIP GIRALDI—Ritter, to be sure, has been a powerful voice critiquing the Iraq War, where his inspections turned up no WMD and he declared, in August 2002, that a case had not been made for attacking Saddam Hussein. If George W. Bush and his gang of neocons plus Congress had only paid attention to Scott Ritter, the US would have been spared the loss of thousands of soldiers and the utter waste of trillions of tax dollars. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis also died as a result of the US attack on their country.
Since that time, Ritter has been an activist who calls for dialogue, negotiation and diplomacy to avoid wars, particularly in the current context where the United States is supplying tens of billions of dollars in arms to expand the war with Russia, sustain the attacks on Gazans and establish a pretext for a war with China over Taiwan.
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The Jeffrey Sachs-Tucker Carlson interview: the most important interview ever?
by Thomas Fazi180 Mins readTHOMAS FAZI—[Quoting Jeffrey Sachs]—”[Saying that Russia’s invasions of Ukraine was unprovoked is] very dangerous because it’s wrong. It gets the whole story completely wrong, and it misunderstands the trap that we set for ourselves as the United states to push Ukraine deeper and deeper and deeper into this hopeless mess that they’re in right now.
Basically, it started very simply, which is that the United States government — let’s not call it the US people, they had nothing to do with this — but the US government said: “We’re going to put Ukraine on our side and we’re going to go right up to that 2,100 kilometre border with Russian. We’re going to put our troops and NATO and maybe missiles, whatever we want, because we are the sole superpower of the world and we do what we want”.
And it goes back, actually a long way. It goes back 170 years. The Brits had this idea, first surround Russia in the Black Sea region, and Russia’s not a great power anymore. And that was Lord Palmerston’s idea in the Crimean War, 1853 to 1856. And the Brits taught us what we know about empire, and they basically taught us the idea…”
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GARLAND NIXON—Garland chronicles the disintegration of the Washington created and supported Neonazi regime in Kiev after an Obama-approved coup in 2014, how the US Neocons have seen their dreams of destroying Russia smashed by Moscow’s surprising military resiliency, and how the longer this war lasts without a real resolution, the more dangerous for the world, which now stands close to the nuclear abyss.
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PCR—“Scott Ritter explains that any further attacks on Russian strategic sites or attacks on Russian territory using missiles or cruise missiles will result in Russia hitting back against all the NATO targets — inside and outside Ukraine — responsible for such attacks.
“This includes US aerial reconnaissance assets: US satellites, AWACS, and Reaper drones; it includes any NATO headquarters and air bases that were involved in the preparation, programming, targeting, and launching of the long-range missiles and drones used to hit Russian territory. This includes bases within France, the UK, Germany, and possibly the US.
“Ritter says that such attacks would result in the NATO nations struck by Russian retaliatory strikes invoking Article V of the NATO Charter, claiming they had been attacked by Russia. Ritter says that if NATO member states take this action and unite in war against Russia, then Russia will launch a massive nuclear strike against all these nations. I hope he is wrong.