ERIC ZUESSE—Today’s American Government is the post-9/11 U.S. Government, from George W. Bush on through to Joe Biden. Today’s Russian Government is the Russian Government since Vladimir Putin became Russia’s leader. During the Twentieth Century’s final day, 31 December 1999, Russia’s President Boris Yeltsin unexpectedly resigned and, according to the Constitution of Russia, Putin became Acting President of the Russian Federation.
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GARY OLSON—Finally, what McDonell avoids saying (or thinking?) in Quiet Street, is that those making decisions are doing so on behalf of the predator, capitalist-imperialist system. They are absolute moral monsters, psychopathic war criminals who — in a just world, would be standing in an international tribunal docket. So, on the one hand, while I welcomed McDonell’s seeming attempts at self-awareness, I also found them stunning in their naiveté.
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MARGARET KIMBERLEY—Ukrainian president Volodomyr Zelensky’s recent visits to the U.S. and Canada were replete with calls to never give up and to defeat Vladimir Putin and to give Ukraine an endless supply of weapons and money. The Canadians were so eager to impress that they revealed a truth they had been denying.
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THE JIMMY DORE SHOW—Rumors of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s switch from running for President as a Democrat to the Libertarian ticket have been swirling all week, and now RFK Jr. has confirmed it — sort of. Having established that Democrats will use whatever machinations their playbook will allow to screw him out of the nomination, RFK revealed that he will make a major announcement about his plans to reclaim our democracy on October 9th in Philadelphia.
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DANNY HAIPHONG—Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter discusses what he learned traveling to Russia and how reality on the ground completely contradicts the neocons’ narrative of Russia’s weakness, spelling doom for their agenda in Ukraine.
