BRAN BERLETIC—The US was behind Chechen extremists Russia fought two wars against within its own borders in the late 1990s and early 2000s If Ukraine’s use of Western weapons have failed to impede Russian success along the line of contact, it can be assumed that attempting to use them across Russia’s vast interior will only further dilute Ukrainian firepower along the front and compound its crisis further.
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EDITOR—Garland, and RBN’s Jaybefount and Sabby Sabs discuss the US Empire’s rapid unravelling as a result of its imprudent and arrogant over-reach, not to mention ghastly authoritarian nature (while blaming others of this cardinal sin!). America’s devious and often heavy-handed way of “doing business” has finally turned most of the world, except for its vassals in Europe (and even there we are beginning to see cracks in fealty) away from Washington, many nations now gravitating toward the BRICS bloc, led by China and Russia, Eurasia’s two biggest powers. Much of the attraction lies in the fact that BRICS is a multinodal network of independent nations operating on egalitarian, sovereignist and non-interventionist, democratic principles. The era of US dictating sanctions, “containment” or “deterrence” (such postures grounded in a moral judgment) toward various nations, is thankfully coming to an end.
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ARI PAUL—What is clear is that the student protesters across the country have organized a structure where many participants who are approached by media defer to appointed media liaisons (Daily Bruin, 4/27/24; KSBW, 5/3/24; Daily Freeman, 5/4/24; WCOS, 5/4/24).
For Baker and Noonan, this is evidence that the protests are at best not serious, and at worst not democratic. Indeed, corporate media, at every turn, have attempted to sully calls to halt a genocide as some kind of perverted anti-democratic extremism (Atlantic, 4/22/24; New York Times, 4/23/24, 5/2/24; Washington Post, 5/6/24, 5/6/24; Free Press, 5/6/24).
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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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EDITOR—Scott Ritter presents his uniquely insightful analysis of events in the Middle East and beyond offering clarification for the moves by various players in a confrontation —especially US, Iran and Israel—that could easily escalate into a global conflagration.
