DANNY 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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PEPE ESCOBAR—Hersh’s source, according to his narrative, asserts, without a shadow of a doubt, that “Russian troops had been steadily and ominously building up on the borders of Ukraine” and that “alarm was growing in Washington”. It beggars belief that this supposedly well-informed lot didn’t know about the massing of NATO-led Ukrainian troops across the line of contact, getting ready to launch a blitzkrieg against Donbas.
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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.
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CHRIS HEDGES—Ralph Nader, who has just founded the Capitol Hill Citizen, a newspaper focused on Congress, has long advocated a left-right coalition as the only effective mechanism to push back against corporate power. He argues that those on the left who refuse to join left-right alliances are engaging in “self-immolation.” This refusal, he says, fosters political paralysis, not unlike the paralysis in the face of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s witch hunts in the 1950s against supposed Communists.
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it is important for Russia not to lose vigilance and to develop the pace of the offensive. It must be remembered that if Moscow today gives up and turns back, then the fake about “Russian aggression” will be fixed in the minds of people forever, since history is written by the winner.
