The Peace Press — Wednesday, March 27, 2024 edition

“Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear — kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor — with the cry of grave national emergency… Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.”
~General Douglas MacArthur, 1957

“Lumping US adversaries into a single-headed monster is a paranoid delusion used as to fuel militarism”

“There was no axis then, and there still isn’t one now.

The purpose in tying together unrelated adversaries has always been to exaggerate the size of the threat to the United States to scare policymakers and the public into supporting more military spending and more overseas conflicts. If inflating the threat from any one adversary isn’t enough to instill sufficient fear, the invention of an axis that includes some or all adversaries around the globe can be very useful to hawks. Because it automatically calls to mind World War II and the fight against the Axis Powers, it also helps them to demonize the other states and smother domestic dissent. Supporters of hawkish policies in each region will then have an incentive to embrace the axis rhetoric and reinforce these views among their political allies.”

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/axis-of-evil/
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“The empire’s worst atrocities happen in the open because the empire’s worst atrocities involve butchering and starving huge numbers of people, which is impossible to do in secret. They can assassinate a government official here and sign a malignant secret agreement there without needing to do it openly, but murder at mass scale isn’t something you can conceal in the information age.

The US-centralized globe-spanning power structure therefore relies heavily on its historically unprecedented ability to psychologically manipulate global populations when carrying out such atrocities. The empire has invested more heavily in soft power than any empire or government in human history, and the science of modern propaganda has been advancing under this investment at least as rapidly as military technology has been.”

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-empire-doesnt-hide-its-worst
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“Failure of British Policy in Russia — Ian Proud, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaTcVzUPPAE
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“France could be leading the American people down a path toward a nuclear conflict decidedly not in the interests of the American people — or of humanity itself, VIPS warns President Joe Biden.”

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/03/25/vips-memo-the-french-road-to-nuclear-war/
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“Biden claims “Putin will not stop after Ukraine”. HISTORY SHOWS OTHERWISE. In April 2022, he did stop — momentarily — when the Ukrainians agreed to remain neutral — momentarily. I add a crusty comment on Madeleine Albright by fmr French ambassador.”

https://raymcgovern.com/2024/03/24/what-will-putin-do/
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“The American delegation’s warnings about Russia outraged Niger. Abdramane said, “Niger regrets the intention of the American delegation to deny the sovereign Nigerien people the right to choose their partners and types of partnerships. Also, the government of Niger forcefully denounces the condescending attitude accompanied by the threat of retaliation from the head of the American delegation towards the Nigerien government and people.”

The American effort in Niger is crucial for the hypocrisy it reveals in American foreign policy. On March 21, 2022, at the beginning of the war in Ukraine, State Department spokesperson Ned Price explained that one of the “core principles at the heart of the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine” is that “each and every country has a sovereign right to determine its own foreign policy, has a sovereign right to determine for itself with whom it will choose to associate in terms of its alliances, its partnerships, and what orientation it wishes to direct its gaze.”

The United States was prepared to risk a war with Russia, a third world war, a potential nuclear war, and the injury and death of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers for a “core principle” that it does not subscribe to: at least not when it comes to Africa or when it does not convenience the United States. The U.S. “den[ies] the sovereign Nigerien people the right to choose their partners and types of partnerships.””

https://original.antiwar.com/Ted_Snider/2024/03/24/what-does-the-coup-in-niger-tell-us-about-the-war-in-ukraine/
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“The majority of Americans believe it is likely that the US will be involved in a world war during the coming decade. Under President Joe Biden, the US is preparing for great power wars with Russia and China, engaged in multiple Middle East conflicts, and posturing for a confrontation with Iran and North Korea.

According to a new YouGov poll, 61% of Americans responded that it is very or somewhat likely that a world war would break out in the next five to ten years. About two-thirds of people responding to the poll said they believe the war will turn into a nuclear conflict.”

https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/most-americans-believe-us-will-be-in-world-war-within-next-decade/
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“Indeed, this German debate around further arms sales to Ukraine is mirrored in almost all the European countries that have been supplying weapons for the war against Russia. Thus far, polling data across the continent shows large majorities against the continuation of the war, and therefore against the continuation of arming Ukraine for that war.”

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/26/europe-sleepwalks-through-its-own-dilemmas/
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“US foreign policy establishment blindly intent on beating Russia on the battlefield and crushing its economy. Neither will happen.”

https://asiatimes.com/2024/03/america-has-no-ukraine-plan-b-except-more-war/
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“Since the Krokus attacks occurred, the West has been in utter overdrive to pin the blame on ISIS while absolving Ukraine from any responsibility. The heavy-handed desperation with which they’ve gone to lengths in doing this reveals the game and tells us everything we need to know about the nature of the attacks.

Same goes for Nord Stream and many others. So why this pearl clutching by the Western commentariat that Ukraine would never resort to killing civilians?”

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/west-desperately-deflects-as-ukraines
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Brian Berletic on Ukraine and F-16's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ay43E94W58
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Former Army Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis on the U.S.military:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok112nk-2ZE
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Former Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis on the Russia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVepJULRaiM&t=7s
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Former Army Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis with University of Chicago Professor John Mearsheimer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE0ocxT2H5E
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Former Army Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis with former USMC Captain and State Department Official Matthew Hoh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UAC9JJ08M8
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Judge Napolitano with former British diplomat Alastair Crooke:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uy6KVHRB30
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Judge Napolitano with former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvr6cYbwOoc&t=2s
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Judge Napolitano with former CIA Analyst Larry Johnson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBwnKVSPZ-0
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Judge Napolitano with former USMC Captain and UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCKOmn_ARYI
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Judge Napolitano with Columbia Professor Jeffrey Sachs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTwsHqhomSE&t=1068s
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Judge Napolitano with former USMC Captain and State Department Official Matthew Hoh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN_2K4q5Ov4
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Judge Napolitano with former Air Force Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski:
Proxy Wars Produce Enemies of the State

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGpez21nCH4
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The Duran on Rafah:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7euc48kgkY0
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The Duran with former Swiss Intelligence office Jacques Baud:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIzKxXR5pvA
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Garland Nixon on the U.S. Empire on Russia’s and China’s borders:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_mHrO-EiVs
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“Normally I do a weekly chat with Nima on Friday. But the 22 March terrorist attack on the civilians attending a concert at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow required a Monday discussion. Here it is:”

https://sonar21.com/doing-a-deep-dive-on-the-crocus-city-hall-terrorist-attack/
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“The United States of America, unlike any other nation, maintains a massive network of foreign military bases around the world.

How was this created and how is it continued? Some of these physical installations are on land occupied as spoils of war. Most are maintained through collaborations with governments, many of them brutal and oppressive governments benefiting from the bases’ presence. In many cases, human beings were displaced to make room for these military installations, often depriving people of farmland, adding huge amounts of pollution to local water systems and the air, and existing as an unwelcome presence.”

https://worldbeyondwar.org/no-bases/
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“In May 2013 I resigned from PEN America over the appointment of former State Department official Suzanne Nossel. A decade later, PEN America has become a propaganda arm of the state.”

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/03/26/chris-hedges-pen-america-self-destructs/
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“Six senior House Democrats sent a letter to President Biden on Saturday urging him to invoke US foreign assistance laws to suspend military aid to Israel due to the country’s starvation blockade on Gaza

“Given the catastrophic and devolving humanitarian situation in Gaza, we urge you to enforce the Humanitarian Aid Corridor Act (Section 620I of the Foreign Assistance Act) and, as required by that law, make clear to the Israeli government that so long as Israel continues to restrict the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza, the continued provision of US security assistance to Israel would constitute a violation of existing US law and must be restricted,” the letter reads.

Section 620I of the Foreign Assistance Act says that no assistance shall be given “to any country when it is made known to the President that the government of such country prohibits or otherwise restricts, directly or indirectly, the transport or delivery of United States humanitarian assistance.””

https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/24/house-democrats-tell-biden-to-enforce-us-law-and-suspend-military-aid-to-israel/
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“Consortium News was in Port Botany in Sydney, Australia on Sunday to capture these images of police aggressively arresting protestors who were trying to block export of military aid to Israel.”

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/03/24/watch-nabbed-stopping-military-shipment-to-israel/
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“I voted NO on the appropriations bill that the Senate passed last night. While hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children face starvation in Gaza, this bill actually prohibits funding to UNWRA, the key United Nations aid agency delivering life-saving humanitarian support. This will only intensify the already horrific situation in Gaza. This bill also provides another $3.3 billion in U.S. military aid for Netanyahu’s right-wing government to continue this barbaric war. The Netanyahu government should not receive another penny from U.S. taxpayers.

The bill passed the Senate in a 74–24 vote at 2:03AM Saturday morning following hours of intense negotiations.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-the-netanyahu-gov-t-should-not-receive-another-penny-from-us
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Arguing that everything Israel does is justified as defense is as legitimate as saying that everything the Nazis did in the Warsaw Ghetto were examples of justified German defense. Nonsense!!!! Nonsense to both examples!!!!

“Starving a million innocent people to death by halting and slowing U.S. humanitarian assistance is a massive, deliberate choice.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/ocasio-cortez-famine-gaza
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“Doctors depict the unspeakable effect of Gaza genocide. I recall Camus, Merton, Berrigan, urging us to “do the right thing.” Airman Aaron Bushnell decided self-immolation was the right thing for him to choose, and challenged those who choose to do nothing.”

https://raymcgovern.com/2024/03/24/the-unspeakable-effect-of-the-gaza-genocide/
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Keep moving in this direction President Biden and maybe you will have a chance in November. Tell the Israel-first wealthy donor class to go pound stand and instead pressure Israel to stop acting like a bunch of freaking Nazis by slaughtering masses of innocent civilians including children. Next, maybe we can pressure the Apartheid-Oppressor racist, militarized pseudo-Fascist State of Israel to help establish a Palestinian State alongside Israel.
Keep working to stop an ensuing genocide by starvation.

“The first resolution calling for a ceasefire was passed at the U.N. Security Council after months of trying when the United States on Monday abstained rather than issue another veto.”

To everyone else in the world: Boycott, divest and sanction until the Israeli economy screams and many people are deeply financially hurt. Tough love.
Stop the massacre now or begin paying a steep price for it. You will learn to obey international law or you will pay an enormous cost for not doing so.
Get it?

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/03/25/watch-us-abstains-on-un-ceasefire-resoluton/
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“This resolution must be implemented,” said U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres. “Failure would be unforgivable.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/u-n-cease-fire-resolution
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“The U.N. Human Rights Council’s advance, unedited report calls for an immediate arms embargo on Israel and international protection for Palestinians in the occupied territories, among other recommendations.”

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/03/25/draft-un-report-calls-for-arms-embargo-on-israel/
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“Despite weaknesses and false U.S. claims that the resolution is nonbinding, it demands an end to the bombing and a massive influx of humanitarian aid. And that means the possibility of saving lives.”

“The resolution demanded an immediate ceasefire leading to a lasting and sustainable ceasefire, the release of all hostages, and compliance with international law in treatment of all those detained. The Council also demanded “the lifting of all barriers to the provision of humanitarian assistance at scale,” reminding the world of the need for massive expansion of that aid and for protection of Palestinian civilians across the entire Gaza Strip.”

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/un-security-council-ceasefire-resolution-gaza
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“The campaign to end the genocide in Gaza has begun to affect electoral politics. I was among Massachusetts voters who entered the Democratic primary this month to vote for a slate of uncommitted delegates. In doing so, I joined about 9% of those voting in the state’s Democratic primary; we sought to send a message to President Joe Biden about the need for a cease-fire to end the ongoing genocide in Gaza.”

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/change-us-foreign-domestic-policy
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Interesting how some ultra-pro-Israel types want to censor everything. Please some remind me of the differences between censorship-minded people and garden-variety fascist punk scumbags? I seem to have forgotten any differences between them…..

“This is the full video of the event I did on March 21 at Princeton University with Professor Finkelstein on the genocide in Gaza. The live stream feed was cut, apparently by Zionists in the hall.”

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/professor-norman-finkelstein-and
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“Israel has put in place a complex system of laws, policies, and regulations that fundamentally curtail the rights and freedoms of nearly every Palestinian and Arab in Gaza, the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem, and even among its own citizens”

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/from-the-river-to-the-sea-explained
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“The Israeli military has subverted basic principles of international humanitarian law, which makes a key distinction between combatants and noncombatants.”

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/treating-palestinians-hamas-genocide
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“Amnesty International welcomes the new report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, which concludes there are “reasonable grounds to believe the threshold indicating Israel’s commission of genocide is met”. “

https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/un-special-rapporteur-report-on-gaza-provides-crucial-evidence-that-must-spur-international-action-to-prevent-genocide
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“I helped with airlifts in Afghanistan, aid to the Ukrainian front, and building roads in Rwanda. None of it prepared me for the challenges of Gaza.”

https://theintercept.com/2024/03/23/biden-israel-gaza-aid-ethnic-cleansing/
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“By preventing UNRWA to fulfill its mandate in Gaza, the clock will tick faster toward famine and many more will die of hunger, dehydration, and lack of shelter,” UNRWA’s commissioner-general said.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-unrwa-northern-gaza
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“If political leaders in the United States saw Palestinians as equal human beings, they would tell the Israelis to stop bombing.”

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/gaza-civilians-human-rights
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“Last Friday, I addressed the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Below is the video of my statement, along with a transcript. My friend Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi also provided an Arabic translation of my comments. As an aside, Aymenn is one of the best Middle Eastern and geo-political analysts I know. You can follow him on his substack, Aymenn’s Monstrous Publications.

If you are interested in my immediate feelings on speaking to the UN Security Council — a mix of gratitude, anger and despondency — you can listen to my interview from that afternoon with Randy Credico, Reggie Johnson and Ray McGovern on NYC’s WBAI radio.”
~Matthew Hoh

https://original.antiwar.com/Matthew_Hoh/2024/03/25/an-escalatory-game-for-fools-and-madmen/
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“Biden supporters keep trying to spin his genocidal actions as some kind of aberration in his otherwise lovely behavior due to highly unusual circumstances, as though he hasn’t been a bloodthirsty warmonger AND an extreme pro-Israel hawk his entire fucking political career.

Don’t babble at me about how bad and wrong it is for Palestinians to use violence unless you can offer me a coherent plan for what they should do instead.”

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/things-that-have-been-discredited
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“To conflate the conduct that we are witnessing with any sense of rule of law, or Western values, is a pollution of the dignity of both those institutions. And above all, it validates mass murder. The escalation of extra-judicial killings from targets such as Hani Abed, who was suspected of killing two Israeli soldiers, or Yayha Ayasha, a Hamas bomb maker, now includes basically anyone in Gaza and the territories that Israel labels “Free Fire Zones,” locations that permit them to kill anyone they wish.

It is unlikely that anyone in the Israeli government has sat down and had a conference discussing the purity of anyone allowed to live and others condemned to die. Instead, the masters of asymmetric warfare, limited not just to Israel but including the world over, have decided that any male can be killed and called “insurgent,” “terrorist,” “combatant,” or “suspect.” An entire population can be exterminated over time if it is called an “embargo,” or “sanctions.””

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/collateral-murder-2-0/
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“Nothing can justify a genocide. And nothing can justify providing weaponry and support for those conducting a genocide.

Nevertheless, the US Senate on February 13 passed a bill that provides billions for Israel’s slaughter of tens of thousands of Palestinians. It authorizes $14 billion dollars in military aid for Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza. And it passed the Senate on February 13 by a vote of 70 to 29. Of those opposing this heinous bill, whose names can be found here, 26 were Republican; only three were not. One of that tiny trio, Senator Merkley commented, “I cannot vote to send more bombs and shells to Israel when they are using them in an indiscriminate manner against Palestinian civilians.” His stance is to be applauded although the term “indiscriminate” is not simply the understatement of the century but blatantly euphemistic since Israel’s bombardments are carefully targeted.”

“The 191 Democrat signatures (out of 213 in the House) on the nefarious Discharge Petition is yet another body blow to the idea that the Democrat Party is a party of peace. But what about the Democratic Party’s Progressive Caucus? Among their goals they list: “Ending our forever wars, cutting the bloated Pentagon budget, and prioritizing diplomacy.”

There are about 96 voting House members in the Progressive Caucus and 74 of these have signed on to the Discharge Petition! Only 22 members of the Progressive Caucus, a distinct minority, have not signed the pro-genocide, prowar Petition. We should encourage these 22 to stick to their position; without them the Discharge Petition may gather enough support to pass.”

https://original.antiwar.com/john-v-walsh/2024/03/25/end-the-gaza-genocide-by-stopping-the-congressional-discharge-petition/
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“The case of Gaza may be extreme in its brutality and the sheer speed of the slaughter, but it underscores the need to thoroughly rethink both the purpose of and funding for America’s foreign and military policies.”

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/war-spending-what-good-for
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“Last week, Variety reported that “more than 1,000 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s ‘The Zone of Interest’ Oscar speech.” The angry letter is a tight script for a real-life drama of defending Israel as it continues to methodically kill civilians no less precious than the signers’ own loved ones.

A few ethical words from Glazer while accepting his award provoked outrage. He spoke of wanting to refute “Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation, which has led to conflict for so many innocent people,” and he followed with a vital question: “Whether the victims of October the 7th in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza, all the victims of this dehumanization, how do we resist?

Those words were too much for the letter’s signers, who included many of Hollywood’s powerful producers, directors and agents.”

https://original.antiwar.com/solomon/2024/03/25/close-up-of-death-culture-1000-in-entertainment-biz-proclaim-support-for-gaza-slaughter/
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Well, as long as it is legal, right? I mean everything the Nazis did was legal too. But does legal make it right? Hardly.

“Palestinian American author and political analyst Yousef Munayyer called the U.S. assessment “absolutely scandalous.””

“The Biden administration on Monday said that Israel’s use of U.S.-supplied weapons in a war that’s killed and maimed more than 114,000 Palestinians complies with international law, a conclusion that flies in the face of multiple court rulings that Israel is plausibly committing genocide in Gaza and the assessments of legal and human rights experts around the world.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-international-law
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“Doctors depict the unspeakable effect of Gaza genocide. I recall Camus, Merton, Berrigan, urging us to “do the right thing.” Airman Aaron Bushnell decided self-immolation was the right thing for him to choose, and challenged those who choose to do nothing.”

https://raymcgovern.com/2024/03/24/the-unspeakable-effect-of-the-gaza-genocide/
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“The book Gaza Writes Back is a collection of short stories from twenty young Gazans. Although published in 2013, the book is highly relevant today. The stories reveal how the last five months is the culmination of a process which has been going on for decades.”

https://original.antiwar.com/Rick_Sterling/2024/03/26/gazans-tell-what-its-like-to-live-under-israeli-occupation/
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“The State Department’s position makes a mockery of U.S. law and assurances provided to Congress,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders.”

“Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday said the U.S. State Department’s determination that Israel is not violating international law with its assault on the Gaza Strip is “absurd on its face,” pointing to the mass death, destruction, and starvation that Israeli forces have inflicted on the territory’s population over the past six months.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-israel-international-law
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“The special relationship does not benefit Washington and is endangering U.S. interests across the globe.”

“While intelligence‐​sharing may have some strategic value, the past five months of war in Gaza have made clear the numerous negative effects of the relationship, namely how Washington’s emphatic embrace of Israel has undermined its strategic position in the Middle East while damaging its global image. The war has starkly highlighted the underlying failures of U.S. Middle East policy.

It’s past time for a fundamental reevaluation of the U.S.-Israel relationship.”

https://www.cato.org/commentary/israel-strategic-liability-united-states#
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“UN experts on human rights stated Israel was committing genocide in Gaza. The statement comes as the nearly six-month-long Israeli onslaught in Gaza has killed at least 32,000 people and has put over a million Palestinians on the brink of famine.

Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied territories, said she assesses that the Israeli crimes in Gaza amount to genocide. Albanese explained the “threshold indicating the commission of the crime of genocide . . . has been met.” She said the assessment means there should be an arms embargo on Israel.”

https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/un-expert-says-israel-committing-genocide-in-gaza/
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“The U.S. experience in the Middle East is a classic study of political and military miscalculation leading to strategic failure. President Joe Biden’s political support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which is being sorely tested, and his military support for Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), which is making the United States complicit in Israel’s genocidal campaign, is the latest and worst example of U.S. miscalculation. Overall, the exercise of U.S. military power in the Middle East, designed to gain strategic advantage, has backfired. It has led to disarray in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, and has opened diplomatic opportunities for Russia and China.”

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/27/the-united-states-and-the-middle-east-the-politics-of-miscalculation/
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“The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement works to end international support for Israel’s oppression of Palestinians and pressure Israel to comply with international law.”

https://bdsmovement.net/
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“With almost 90% of the expected votes counted in Minnesota, 19% of Democrats marked their ballots “uncommitted” to show their opposition to Biden’s backing for Israel’s attacks against Hamas in Gaza.

The “uncommitted” vote was also on the Democratic ballot in six other Super Tuesday states — Alabama, Colorado, Iowa, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Tennessee.

Support in those states ranged from 3.9% in Iowa to 12.7% in North Carolina, with more than 85% of the votes counted in each of those states, according to Edison Research.

A handful of unions have called for an “uncommitted” vote by its members, something unheard of in past presidential elections. In Washington state, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) 3000 posted on its website:”

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/27/uncommitted-is-the-antiwar-movement-breaking-into-mainstream-u-s-politics/
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“I think the Islamic terrorism claim is a red herring and designed to shift attention away from the other indicators that some in the West, at a minimum, had foreknowledge of this attack. How else to explain the March 7 warning by US Embassy Moscow for American citizens to steer clear of event, such as concerts? And then, as I wrote yesterday, the US State Department was quick to issue a claim exonerating Ukraine for any role in the attack. The fires were still raging at the Crocus facility. That means only one thing — the State Department had intelligence indicating who carried out the attack. But the U.S. apparently did not share that with its Russian counterparts. That lapse alone is simply going to stoke more suspicion in Moscow about Western involvement.”

https://sonar21.com/moscow-terror-attack-rogue-ukrainian-op-or-western-backed/
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“The circumstantial evidence revealed so far certainly supports the claim that this was a Ukrainian operation poorly disguised as an ISIS-K attack and that the United States was clued in on what was expected to happen. Despite the “War Porn” nature of these videos, I think there is some benefit from posting them.”

https://sonar21.com/russia-goes-medieval-on-alleged-takij-terrorists-with-more-circumstantial-evidence-pointing-to-ukraine-and-western-culpability/
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“Terror in Moscow — Doubtful it’s ISIS-K”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxZxFfe6tbU
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Who is behind the Moscow Terror Attack with Garland Nixon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHOu7Foj4KQ
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“Joe Biden Is Now Targeting 82-Year-Old Veterans”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAyfk3-wWOo
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“London’s High Court will rule on Tuesday whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can appeal his extradition to the United States, where he would face trial for exposing US war crimes.”

https://news.antiwar.com/2024/03/25/uk-court-to-decide-if-julian-assange-can-appeal-extradition/
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“Julian Assange has been handed a reprieve in his fight against extradition to the US after two judgesruled that the WikiLeaks founder could take his case to an appeal hearing but only if the UK and US are unable to provide the court with suitable assurances.”

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/mar/26/julian-assange-granted-permission-to-appeal-against-extradition-to-us
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“While granting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a limited appeal against extradition, the US government was encouraged by the UK High Court to submit “assurances” that could prevent further proceedings.”

https://thedissenter.org/assange-extradition-delayed-uk-high-court-limited-appeal/
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“The High Court on Tuesday rejected five Assange grounds for a new appeal, agreeing he had only three legitimate arguments but that the U.S. could nullify them with new “assurances,” reports Joe Lauria.”

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/03/26/assanges-fate-awaits-us-assurances/
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“”The Biden administration should take the opportunity to drop this dangerous case once and for all,” said the executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/uk-high-court-assange-extradition
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“The U.S. has had years to clarify its intention to give Assange a fair trial but refuses to do so, writes Jonathan Cook. The real goal is to keep him endlessly locked up.”

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/03/26/assanges-reprieve-is-another-lie/
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“British courts for five years have dragged out Julian Assange’s show trial. He continues to be denied due process as his physical and mental health deteriorates. This is the point.”

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-crucifixion-of-julian-assange-314
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“Assange Wins Very Partial Victory in UK Court, w/ Stella Assange. New Film Shows Mass Israeli Extremism, w/ Journalist Jeremy Loffredo | SYSTEM UPDATE #248”

https://rumble.com/v4lpfq3-system-update-show-248.html
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“Absurdly, the court determined that Assange’s lawyers may not argue against extradition on matters as self-evidently critical as the fact that the CIA plotted to assassinate him, or on the basis that he is being politically persecuted for the crime of inconvenient journalism.”

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-empire-slowly-suffocates-assange
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“A former New Zealand prime minister says Washington is the likely culprit behind a signals intelligence system that, according to a report, existed for nearly a decade without the government knowing.”

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/03/25/secret-us-intel-operation-in-new-zealand-exposed/
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“Biden has not only failed to close the Guantánamo Bay prison but has upgraded it, financing a $4 million courtroom for secret military hearings even though lawyers argued that the end of the war in Afghanistan invalidated the legal basis for keeping Guantánamo Bay open.

In June, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, a law professor at the University of Minnesota and at Queens University in Belfast, issued a 23-page report which concluded that inmates at Guantánamo had been subjected to “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment” that “may meet the legal threshold of torture.””

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/03/19/twenty-two-years-after-it-was-created-guantanamo-bay-prison-remains-a-monstrosity/?mc_cid=7405c9c6ca&mc_eid=9e237689ac
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“Veterans For Peace national office has just posted this video by Quintin Casella and sponsored by Veterans For Peace:”

“It gives a good 12 minute overview of the current Cold War 2 on China, and connects it to the US drive to dominate the world.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTj2-QouT8A
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“Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech.”
~ First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

“When James Madison set about to draft the Bill of Rights — the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution — he was articulating what lawyers and philosophers and judges call “negative rights.” A positive right grants a privilege, like a driver’s license. A negative right restrains the government from interfering with a preexisting right. In order to emphasize his view that the freedom of speech preexisted the government, Madison insisted that the word “the” precede “freedom of speech” in the First Amendment.

If the freedom of speech preceded the government, where did it come from?

Speech is a natural right; it comes from our humanity. The framers of the Constitution and the ratifiers of the Bill of Rights understood and recognized this. Congress doesn’t grant the freedom of speech; rather it is prohibited absolutely from interfering with it. In the years following the ratification of the 14th Amendment, the courts began applying the restrictions in the First Amendment to the states and their municipalities and subdivisions.

Today, the First Amendment bars all government — federal, state and local — and all branches of government — legislative, executive and judicial — from interfering with the freedom of speech.”

https://original.antiwar.com/andrew-p-napolitano/2024/03/24/can-congress-ban-tiktok/
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“Last month, I revealed internal Twitter and Department of Homeland Security emails showing that the agency had successfully pressured the social media platform to censor the New York Times during the 2020 presidential election. The emails showed that the agency had targeted Reid Epstein, a Times political campaign journalist, who was reporting from Wisconsin and had observed a momentary pause in the vote count while a clerk ran off to collect more printer ink. “

https://www.leefang.com/p/new-york-times-backhandedly-acknowledges
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Frederick Douglass: “I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”
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“In the past, in the interest of building a broad-based movement united for peace and non-interventionism, I have allied with everyone and anyone who also expressed a genuine interest in peacemaking and non-interventionism. This includes past antiwar alliances with everyone from pinkos to proud boys and anyone in between — — both groups I have allied with in the past — -not because I agreed with their ideologies because I don’t agree with either of them — -I do not approve of racism or Marxism, but I united with each solely in the interest of unity for peace and non-interventionism as a national policy. Ideology is not the point, unity is the point. Anyone who doesn’t like that I choose unity over ideology can kiss my mother-loving, big, chubby gay-bear, fat ass. Anyone can talk the talk about unity, but the real principled test is: can you walk the walk? My boots were made for walking, girl !!! <finger-snap with attitude>

Unite, Left and Right against the wars!!!
Wage Peace and Persevere!!!”

-Eric E. Johansson, Veterans for Peace, California

(also, please understand that although I have united with extremist-idealist factions in the past in the interest of unity against war, I am much more of a middle-of-the-road-realist as I think the economic class system represents the civilizational natural order for our species, although the gap between rich and poor should probably be narrowed through aggressive taxation upon corporations and individual persons too. Also, I do not have one racist or hateful bone in my body as my Asian husband, who is of half-Filipino and half-Chinese descent can attest. I don’t hate immigrants; I married one. He, like my Swedish grandfather, emigrated to the United States legally through the legal immigration channels that every person seeking to emigrate to this country should pursue. All those who simply violate the law by jumping the border, thus opting for not following the legal channels to obtain entry into the U.S., should be promptly arrested and deported, and treated more harshly with every repeat offense. Why should the U.S. honor the wishes of those who desire to emigrate if their very first act of entering the country is to first break the law by circumventing the legal guidelines for officially emigrating? One standard for all. Rule of Law. That is not racist, it is respectful of the Rule of Law. Prior to meeting my husband, I was most definitely an equal-opportunity sex lover who gleefully had fabulous sex with members of every race, color and creed — — hundreds of them, mostly men but not exclusively. My husband and I love to watch RuPaul’s Drag Race TV show too. I also play on a fabulous softball team as the pitcher in the very diverse, accepting and welcoming San Francisco Gay Softball League. I share all of this only to illustrate that who I am willing to unite in common cause with, does not in any way represent who I am as a person. Widespread, mass unity against perpetual war, against Empire and against growing national security state oppression is essential to preserve our commonly shared liberty and peace. We are all in this together so let’s get past the immature, ideological bullshit, come together and unite in common cause for our shared future together.)

Unite, Left and Right against the wars!!!

Unite, from pinkos to proud boys and everyone in between against the wars and against the Empire!! If peace is your priority, this should be no problem for you but if ideology is your priority, then the kind of unity I propose could be a problem for you. Drop the ideological bullshit and UNITE!!!

Wage Peace and Persevere!!!

https://rageagainstwar.com/

https://www.unitedforpeace.org/

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“How could a weak, toothless central government that possessed no military largesse wage war or command a global Empire? It couldn’t, could it? Doesn’t having a smaller, more limited government also get us to a non-Imperialist, non-military interventionist place? Can people unite around non-interventionism alone? Just imagine for a moment the vast people power of a mass movement that could be harnessed by achieving a Left-Right loose alliance against war and Empire. Oh, the immense power it would wield.”
~Eric E. Johansson

(Is it arrogant to put my name next to some great people? Not really, they were just human beings and so am I, but please understand that I am actually much more middle-of-the-road because I find both sides (the more public services argument or the limited government argument) to both be legitimate arguments worthy of consideration and that is why I ask the question above because I think it is a question that more Progressives should ask. But as for myself, my inner stars shine brightly Progressive yet I still bear strong Libertarian stripes. This rather nationalist, flag-oriented reference may sound silly to some but it perfectly encapsulates how I see myself as a principled patriot realist doing my duty to my country and to our world.

Unite, Left and Right against the wars!!!
Wage Peace and Persevere!!!
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“Overgrown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.”
~George Washington
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“Of all the evils to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops every other. War is the patent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes. And armies, and debts, and taxes, are the known instruments for bringing the many under the dominion of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds are added to those of subduing the force of the people! No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”
~James Madison
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“It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.”
— Noam Chomsky
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https://honeste.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/websites-to-help-you-stay-informed/
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Daily news podcasts to help you stay informed:

Alexander Mercouris
https://www.youtube.com/c/AlexanderMercourisReal?app=desktop
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The Duran on YouTube with Alexander Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
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Brian Berletic at The New Atlas on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/c/thenewatlas
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Scott Ritter on Substack:

https://substack.com/profile/96369147-scott-ritter

https://www.scottritterextra.com/
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Danny Haiphong:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOxLhz6B_elvLflntSEfnzA
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Colonel Douglass MacGregor on Youtube:
(He has many meaningful, insightful, analytical things to say based on a deep understanding of military matters from his many years of experience in the military — — -but just prepare to dismiss a few of his other dog-whistle comments that he offers which he utters to appeal to a particular Conservative base — — just as the Liberals do to rally their base too — — -so just roll your eyeballs and ignore those few silly comments — — — because most of his analysis and insights and experiences are rich in detail, in fact-based analysis and said bluntly and directly.
Very refreshing indeed!! Bravo, Colonel !!!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFqPvxUg163ZEz1vyxhVDXw
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“Our Country Our Choice is more than just a people’s movement; it’s a media platform as well. My vision was straightforward: identify over 10 million like-minded Americans and create the most extensive group of American activists ever assembled. Our mission is to inform every American about the importance of choosing decision-makers who will put an end to the intentional sabotage of our beloved nation and start serving us, the American people.”

https://ourcountryourchoice.com/
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Andy Boreham

“China is a complicated place, and there is definitely a lot of content out there that I don’t think accurately or fairly represents this huge country of 1.4 billion.

https://www.youtube.com/c/reportsonchina/about
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Dong Sheng news on China:

https://dongshengnews.org/en/news-on-china/
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Garland Nixon:

https://www.youtube.com/@garlandn
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Seymour Hersh on Substack

https://seymourhersh.substack.com/
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Chris Hedges on Substack:

https://chrishedges.substack.com/
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Niko House on Rokfin

https://rokfin.com/Niko?content=NEW
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Caitlin Johnstone on Substack:

https://substack.com/profile/14779628-caitlin-johnstone
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Aaron Mate on Substack:

https://mate.substack.com/
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David Sacks:

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks
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Lee Fang on Substack:

https://leefang.substack.com/
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Patrick Lawrence on Substack

https://thescrum.substack.com/
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Jeffrey Sachs:

https://www.jeffsachs.org/
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Former Army Colonel Daniel Davis:

https://www.youtube.com/@DanielDavisDeepDive/videos
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Breaking points with Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti

https://www.youtube.com/c/breakingpoints
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“But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.
She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all”
~John Quincy Adams

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/
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Lev Golinkin on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFhqe9nwfA4
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Matt Tabibi on Substack (Racket News):

https://www.racket.news/
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Big Serge on Substack:

https://bigserge.substack.com/
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Simplicius on Substack:

https://simplicius76.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=substack_profile
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Larry Johnson, former CIA Analyst at Sonar21:

https://sonar21.com/
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Ray McGovern, former CIA Analyst:

https://raymcgovern.com/
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Mark Sleboda:

https://substack.com/profile/38224488-mark-sleboda
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Richard Medhurst on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB1u_wJThc3_e5J4VVj7hQQ
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Nick Cruse of the Revolutionary Blackout Network:

https://www.youtube.com/@socialistmma8321/videos
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George Galloway on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/@GeorgeGallowayOfficial
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Mikael Valtersson
~Former officer Swedish Armed Forces/Air Defence, former defence politician and chief of staff Sweden Democrats. Current political and military analyst.

https://twitter.com/MikaelValterss1?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
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Alex Reporterfy

https://www.youtube.com/c/reporterfymedia
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Although I typically shy away and generally distrust most, if not all, televised corporate media, I must admit that recently on foreign policy issues, Tucker Carlson of Fox has been tickling my fancy. Now that Fox has fired him, I encourage everyone to stop watching Fox altogether. But Tucker’s past range of guests included figures from the anti-Establishment Left and Right and many voices in between giving access and airtime to a wider audience which only helps spread our message of peace and justice to a broader audience more quickly so kudos to Tucker for that. It is good to see some of our anti-Establisment views find a venue in the public space even one decidedly more to the Right.

You can now find Tucker Carlson on Twitter, see link below. — — Great job Tucker, keep socking it to them. I hope you and your attorneys keep fighting like hell against the Establishment. I hope your attorneys fight to allow you to speak freely until at least the year 2025 and hopefully much longer than that too.

https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson
https://tuckercarlson.com/
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On Tucker’s eventual return, so kudos to him and to Elon Musk backing him:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFxBWu5A114&feature=youtu.be
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Glenn Greenwald on Rumble: (Listening to Glenn Greenwald is quite an enthralling experience. I can’t figure out what moves faster, his brain or his mouth as he delivers rich, detailed analysis replete with razor-sharp logic on topics of substance and depth, delivered with perfect spoken diction, colorful language and mesmerizing eloquence. I am left flabbergasted in sheer delight every time I listen to him speak. Utterly dazzling!!! And he is a fellow sister with a heritage in the tribe too which I also find endearing.

https://rumble.com/c/GGreenwald
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“The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth … If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence. The theory of our Constitution is that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market . . . The First Amendment itself ensures the right to respond to speech we do not like, and for good reason. Freedom of speech and thought flows not from the beneficence of the state but from the inalienable rights of the person … Society has the right and civic duty to engage in open, dynamic, rational discourse.”

– United States v. Alvarez, 567 U.S. 709, 724 (2012).