My dear friend and senior contributing editor to this publication, Paul Edwards, has just alerted me to Tom Feeley’s struggle to stay alive. For those in the genuinely progressive, anti-imperialist community, who, for some reason, never heard of Tom, let me just put it simply: Tom Feeley is editor at Information Clearing House, which he correctly describes as, “A fiercely, independent source of news and information.” Yes, ICH is a key link in the ridiculously thin line of grotesquely underfunded websites still devoted to truth, truth when it matters most. ICH is a massive archive of genuine independent leftist analysis, and an invaluable tool in the contest with the forces working to impose an Orwellian world of fake democracy, constant war, widespread oppression and exploitation, and capitalogenic ecocide. Indeed, ICH would not be around without Tom’s unwavering dedication. This is why Paul’s fraternal words resonate so much in this quarter:
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EDITOR—Garland examines the latest attempt on Trump and concludes there are many loose ends and bizarre aspects, starting with the fact that the suspect, Ryan Routh, despite his notorious career as a violent felon, with a charge of possessing “weapons of mass destruction”, several standoffs with police, and a known obsession with Ukraine, was (at least officially) NOT being followed by the FBI and police, while the Western authorities disperse their police energies persecuting and harassing peaceful activists such as Tulsi Gabbard, Richard Medhurst, Scott Ritter, Danny Shaw, and others working to stop the Palestinian genocide (condemned by the world’s highest courts!), and the looming nuclear WW3.
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SCOTT RITTER—In writing How the Chechen miracle kick-started the Russian ‘Path of Redemption’, Helping Crimea recover from decades of Ukrainian misrule is a tough but necessary challenge, We are witnessing the bittersweet birth of a new Russia, and Why did it take Russia so long to realize Donbass was worth fighting for?, I provided unique reporting that was unavailable anywhere else in the world – Western media outlets would never allow such reporting to be published on their pages or websites, and Russian news outlets had never seen such reporting from an independent Western perspective.
This is exactly what journalism is supposed to be – hard-hitting, probing analysis based upon first-hand observations derived from access to high-level sourcing.
I picked RT as the publisher of these articles because I wanted this reporting to be available not only to a global English-speaking audience, but also to a Russian audience.
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EDITOR—”Iran does not need to attack Israel” declares Scott Ritter, arguing that Israel is being consumed by its own fanatical military over-reach and ideological contradictions fuelled by Zionism. Ritter does not see the two-state solution as feasible. The process will be much more gradual, he declares. Israel is the problem. Zionism is the problem. The Israeli people are the problem..they are not worth saving…because they believe in Zionism and the necessity of [enabling] an apartheid state. Thus, for peace and justice to have a chance in the Middle East, Israel [the concept] has to go away. Then perhaps a single state, Palestine, may arise to provide a home to Palestinians, Christians and Jews, to live in peace as the Holy Land was intended to do. “Israel now, due to its irrational policies is a sinking ship that left to its own devices will fail.” Ritter is not alone in his opinions. Other respected observers of the Middle East situation have come to the same conclusion, including prominent Jewish thinkers and activists such as Norman Finkelstein (“Israel is a lunatic state”); Miko Peled (“Israel must be dismantled to have peace in Palestine”), Max Blumenthal, Aaron Maté, Katia Halper, Glenn Greenwald, etc.
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EDITOR—Leading Russian geostrategic analyst Dmitry Orlov provides some answers to the question many people are pondering lately: Are NATO’s constant escalations liable to trigger a nuclear war? When will Putin decide that enough is enough and respond in kind? What happens if NATO and its toxic puppet Ukraine score major hits in Moscow and other major Russian cities, or in key defence spots? Orlov suggests that Russia’s way of responding to such dangerous insults may be far less spectacular than blowing up a bunch of Western cities in retaliation (which Russia certainly can do) and far more effective and indirect, attacking, in effect the vital points of the West’s economic organism: electric power, transportation fuels, strategic arms production materials, and so on.
