HISTORYLEGENDS—The Siege of Bakhmut takes a dramatic turn as Ukrainian defenders get pushed back to the city’s outskirts. Perhaps Ukraine is trading men for time, while it builds a second line of defence further West of Bakhmut.
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There is much more to the Jeffrey Epstein case than an island for sex trafficking, flight logs and a suspicious “suicide.” As journalist Whitney Webb unravels in her two-volume “One Nation Under Blackmail” series, ties between the CIA, organized crime, international arms dealers and sex traffickers date back to before World War II and the Epstein connection merely represents the latest chapter in an unbelievably sordid, many-tentacled tale of money, sex, violence, power and blackmail. Jimmy and Whitney discuss the historical connection between the military, the CIA and organized crime as well as Epstein’s ties to Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and Victoria’s Secret founder Les Wexner, among many other miscreants and malefactors.
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P. GREANVILLE—As a well-compensated puppet of the West, V. Zelensky, an actor, and comedian with excellent skills but no principles is the perfect foil to dispense p.r. BS about the realities of Ukraine 24/7. Few people know the sheer dimensions of the Western disinformation machine dedicated to advancing the Ukraine war project. By some estimates, as such things are usually kept secret, no less than 200 pr outfits are engaged in providing mendacity support for the war (in addition to the regular press and DoD internal assets), and this, perforce, must include denials and obfuscations about the true nature of Kiev’s “exemplary democracy”—demonstrably a neonazi dominated regime that has long banned and fascistically persecuted and intimidated the democratic opposition—parties, media and activists—in many cases outright murdering them.
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ERIC ARNOW—As it turned out, (not realizing it) I planned to visit 3 socalled “Hero Cities” of the Soviet Union’s “Great Patriotic War”. Russians call the invasion, which was only a part of WWII, the Great Patriotic War. It was an existential struggle of the Soviet people against the planned destruction of the country, and the enslavement or death of the people. The Soviet Union lost 27 million people, and one third of the country –the equivalent of from the East Coast of the USA to Chicago levelled.
By contrast, the USA lost about 400,000 people and the UK lost 550,000. They faced 11 worn out German divisions vs the Soviet Union facing 220 divisions. As you read below, both President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill knew all too well what the Soviet Union did to win WWII.
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SCOTT RITTER is a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and author of “SCORPION KING: America’s Suicidal Embrace of Nuclear Weapons from FDR to Trump”, and his most current book, “Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika: Arms Control and the End of the Soviet Union”. He served in the Soviet Union as an inspector implementing the INF Treaty, served in General Schwarzkopf’s staff during the Gulf War, and from 1991 to 1998 served as a chief weapons inspector with the UN in Iraq. He is highly regarded for his expertise in international security, military affairs, Russia, and the Middle East, as well as arms control and nonproliferation. Even more awe-inspiring than this admirable record is the resolve, energy and time Scott has given to bringing sanity and truth to the national conversation, since the US and NATO, with full focused intent and cold calculation, created the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
