THE JIMMY DORE SHOW—Vice President Kamala Harris recently revealed that the Biden administration had made the determination that Russian President Vladimir Putin has committed “crimes against humanity.” Harris offered no specific evidence to back up her claim, nor did she note that the U.S., along with any number of our allies, has been guilty of countless war crimes that have gone unpunished. Guest host Aaron Maté and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger speak with retired U.S. Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor about precisely why the administration would be pushing this line at this point in the war.
BRITISH/ EU/ NATO COMPLICITY
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Russian Gains, US Gears Up for Crimea Escalation, US Proxies Strike China/Pakistan in Train Bombing
2 minutes readA wide-ranging insightful discussion of the developing flashpoints in the global war between Russia and her allies and the Anglo-American empire and its numerous vassals, the so-called “Freedom-loving West”, what Moscow and China are now calling “the collective West”.
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NewsGuard Forced a Site to Remove All My Articles Because of References to Nazism in Ukraine
18 minutes readERIC ZUESSE—ewsGuard, a news-site rating organization, which was founded and is run by the neoconservative journalist Steven Brill, is trusted enough by some online readers so that when NewsGuard threatened to downgrade a certain news-site’s rating at NewsGuard unless the site removed all my articles, the site removed all my articles.
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An engrossing chat with Garland Nixon on the Neocon project, as this malignant cabal of deeply-embedded US policy shapers might finally recede from the centers of power. The cause, notes Garland, is that reality cannot be denied with impunity. At the end of the day artillery rounds are always more persuasive than mere tweets; propaganda eventually cannot win wars, it can’t assure victories in the battleground against a disciplined, highly capable and extremely well-armed and motivated enemy.
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JAMES DiEugenio—Although the first local inquiry by British colonial authorities blamed the crash on pilot error, there have always been suspicions of foul play. A number of witnesses saw a large fireball explode in the sky around the airport. Before he died, the sole survivor, Harold Julien, said the plane was in flames before it crashed. More than one witness said they had seen a smaller plane behind and above the Albertina. But in spite of these observations, the U.N.’s inquiry was inconclusive.