LARRY JOHNSON—It may be that the West, stupidly in my view, sees this as a baited trap to lure Russia to intervene if the color revolution picks up steam. I believe that Russia, in light of its failure to respond to the Maidan revolution in 2014, is not going to sit passively and see how things work out. At a minimum, Russia’s intelligence service is probably passing information to its intelligence counterparts in Tbilisi about the identities of foreign operators working to manufacture chaos and the source of the funds pouring into Georgia.
LIES & PROPAGANDA
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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… -
Hollywood’s Dangerous Afghan Illusion: “Charlie Wilson’s War”. Legacy of the late Robert Parry
42 minutes readTHIS IS A REPOST
ROBERT PARRY—First, there was the ascendance of propaganda over truth. The U.S. government was well aware of the gross human rights crimes of the Afghan “muj” but still sold them as honorable “freedom fighters” to the American people. Second, there was the triumphalism of Gates and other war hawks, who insisted on rubbing Moscow’s nose in its Afghan defeat and thus blocked cooperation on a negotiated settlement which held out the promise of a less destructive outcome. -
ADAM JOHNSON—All of these nuances and qualifications are lost. Instead, the viewer is fed only panic-inducing talking points of an axiomatically expansionist and sinister Chinese threat and a brave US empire that simply needs more money to keep up. This kettle logic, inherent in all military propaganda, is central to every single talking point O’Donnell gets across: The US military is simultaneously all-seeing and all-powerful but also woefully underfunded and in urgent need of hundreds of billions more dollars.
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GEORGE GALLOWAY—Inadequate, late-hour opportunistic moves to palliate some of the horrors of Israel’s genocide of Gazans, and their full-throttle complicity in that crime, will not allow the Democrats (or Republicans) to restore their frayed respectability any time soon or ever. The wounds are now too deep. People in the US now understand that people in Palestine need justice, says Garland Nixon. ‘I’ve lost count of the number of Democrats who tell me they’ve changed their minds on Gaza’.