DANNY HAIPHONG—Former US Marine Corps Officer and UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter and former CIA Analyst Larry Johnson discuss the broader implications of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Will NATO be fully demilitarized? What does this mean for Ukraine’s future and the larger world order? All these answers and more in a wide-ranging segment from a late December 2023 livestream which is more relevant than ever.
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INDRAJIT—In its bombing of everything, ‘Israel’ has paid special attention to water supplies, food stores, hospitals, and human shelter. Classic siege warfare, just with modern technology. The point of a siege is to make a place so unlivable that people either sicken, die or surrender (preferably all three). All of ‘Israel’s’ modern siege machinery comes from America, the colonial White Empire at large. They are nor merely complicit, they are the causal factor behind both ‘Israel’ and the genocide it necessarily causes.
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M K BHADRAKUMAR—Suffice to say, Iran’s missile and drone strikes against terrorist targets on Wednesday are a vivid demonstration of its assertiveness to act in self-defence in the new regional and international milieu. Iran’s so-called “proxies” — be it Hezbollah or Houthis — have reached adulthood with a mind of their own, who would decide their own strategic positioning within the Axis of Resistance. They don’t require a life-support system from Tehran. It may take some time for the Anglo-Saxon strategists to get used to this new reality, but eventually they will.
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EDITOR—Garland Nixon and his guests take an in-depth look at the social, military and economic crises detonated by the Empire, from Ukraine to the Middle East and the Far East, currently afflicting all continents, and the imperial dynamics eroding the last vestiges of Constitutional rights protecting US citizens from the horrid crimes committed by the Empire outside US borders.
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A Chinese documentary seeking to explain the slow-motion downfall of the USSR in terms of historical nihilism, basically a cultural disease eventually corroding politics. Obviously many forces and events contributed to this outcome, both internal and external. During its entire life the Soviet Union was subjected to the immense hostile pressures of world capitalism—economic (boycots, sanctions, sabotage); political, military (arms race), diplomatic (isolation, blockades), cultural (defamation) etc— all spearheaded by the US, which forced Moscow to alter its course and often adopt policies that proved more costly to its socialist construction than anticipated.
as later other socialist states,
