KIM PETERSEN—Swanson suggests that Russia could have sent unarmed non-violent defenders into Donbas. Swanson realizes that some of these unarmed defenders could be killed but rationalizes that thousands more could die in a war. All these choices that Swanson puts forward in the radio interview conspicuously place an onus on Russia. Russia did pursue a path to peacefully solve its security concerns vis-à-vis Ukraine seeking membership in NATO. The then-German chancellor Angela Merkel, then-French president Francois Hollande, and Ukraine’s former president Petro Poroshenko have all admitted that the Minsk agreements were a stalling tactic so that Ukraine could become militarily fortified.
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ERIC ZUESSE—he cover-up by the U.S.-and-allied ‘news’-media of Seymour Hersh’s blockbuster self-published February 8th investigative-news report that Joe Biden himself had ordered the destruction of the Nord Stream gas pipelines, wasn’t only the virtually total blackout of it that was engaged in by almost all ‘news’-media in The West — their failing to report that Hersh had issued any such news-report — but was ALSO the denigration of it by the very few that did mention it. Almost only non-mainstream news-media in The West DID report about it, and the four mainstream ones that did were treating it casually and briefly.
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The American Empire is a Sore Loser That Will Get Us All Killed
16 minutes readDANNY HAIPHONG—The American Empire is unmatched in its warmongering and its propaganda alike. This process occurs by design. The endless streams of misinformation pouring out of U.S.-dominated corporate media manufacture consent for the American Empire’s endless wars. However, seeds of desperation are beginning to bloom in the U.S. and the Collective West’s imperial garden. The ruling elite, generally so confident in the inherent truths of American exceptionalism and the West’s imperial superiority, are now being confronted with an uncomfortable reality: the American empire is losing.
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MARGARET KIMBERLEY—Joe Biden and his foreign policy team at the State Department, National Security Agency, and the Central Intelligence Agency first discussed the operation one year before carrying it out, and months before Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine began. The fear of deepening integration between Russia and Germany was the cause of alarm. They wanted to end Europe’s resource and financial connections to Russia, and decided that exploding the means of transporting natural gas was a good idea.
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Extensive and outspoken interviews with military expert Scott Ritter by Danny Haiphong and Richard Medhurst. Ritter covers a wide variety of topics, from the general situation in Ukraine, to the Russians approach and strategy, and the prospects for further war and eventual victory for Russia, regardless of what the West can throw at Moscow’s armies. Scott analyses, for example, the futility of sending advanced NATO weapons to Ukraine, from tanks to guns to airplanes, all of which require a great deal of practice to be effectively used.