John Rachel of the Peace Dividend Project interviews Scott Ritter
Dec 5, 2022
John Rachel of the Peace Dividend Project interviews Scott Ritter, peace activist, expert on weapons inspection, non-proliferation, treaty compliance. https://peacedividend.us
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. Scott knows better than any of us how merciless and ruthless the warmongering establishment can be in punishing truth-tellers . . . those individuals with the integrity and courage to expose and stand up to the lies we citizens of our rogue empire are bombarded with to enlist our support for needless wars and military aggression. Yet, he remains steadfast and true to his values. Scott is a true patriot and a real national treasure.
JOHN RACHEL has a B. A. in Philosophy, has traveled extensively, is a songwriter, music producer, neo-Marxist and a bipolar humanist. He has written eight novels and three political non-fiction books. His most recent polemic is "The Peace Dividend: The Most Controversial Proposal in the History of the World." His political articles have appeared at OpEdNews, Russia Insider, Greanville Post, and other alternative media outlets. Currently in development is a new novel set in Japan and another in Africa. You can follow his adventures and developing world view at: http://jdrachel.com. "Scribo ergo sum." Print this article [bws_pdfprint display=’print’]
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3 comments
KUDOS TO MR RITTER AND THE INTERVIEWER!
I’ll know that the US media (and much of the vassal “West”) has finally decided to serve the people when we see people like Scott Ritter —a truthteller—on our screens and mainstream print media, instead of the endless parade of overpaid professional disinformers, prostituted think-tankers, and the rest of that SELF-REINFORCING nefarious crowd, some of them in uniform. Thank you sincerely for this conversation. Badly needed.
This is an excellent interview, and hats off to John Rachel for giving Scott Ritter the forum to bring these issues to the fore. It should be noted that Ray McGovern has likewise identified the ‘Blob’ as the “MICIMATT”, the military, industrial congressional intelligence media academic think tank complex.
As a mere speck on the political landscape, I’ve been saying for years that the first line of national defense is a healthy population, followed by a well educated population capable of critical thinking. “But the real owners, they don’t want that”–George Carlin.
So it’s very important that more and more people like Ritter, Ray McGovern and others like them, survivors of ‘the Blob’, to make the case. It’s sad but apparent that what the Left has been saying for decades–which is what Scott alludes to–socializing not the weapons complex but reordering ‘public investment’ into ‘the Public’. What a concept. This doesn’t take a lot of intelligence. It takes sanity, which in the United States is in very short supply. And has been since the American Exceptionalist delusion got its start—from the very beginning.
Great as usual Scott!