DANNY HAIPHONG—Friend of the show and former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter returns to discuss the latest updates in the Ukraine conflict and where they are leading the world as the BRICS Summit convenes in South Africa.
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EDITORIAL—Donald Trump skipped the first debate to talk with Tucker Carlson. This simple move devastated the GOP presidential debate scheduled for the same day. The Fox News audience was simply pitiful, as those criminal clowns deserve.
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ERIC ZUESSE—The document, labeled “Secret,” includes an account of the meeting between State Department officials, including Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu, and Asad Majeed Khan, who at the time was Pakistan’s ambassador to the U.S.
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ERIC ZUESSE—”On the night of 18 August, the “international domain name registry” blocked southfront.org without any warning or explanation. Despite the fact that this organisation has been formally independent since 1998, it is actually controlled by the US Department of Commerce. What they have done is an unprecedented action in the history of modern information society. This is the American way of democracy, freedom of speech and the rule of law.”
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RYAN WHITTON—ne of the essential criteria for an advanced industrial society is access to a heavy forging press. Many are familiar with hydraulic presses crushing sweets and watermelons. Heavy forging presses are identical as a concept, but are the size of a 10-story building. Large hydraulic presses were initially demonstrated in 1646 by the French polymath Blaise Pascal. They were first incorporated into industrial processes by the English inventor Joseph Bramah in the late 18th century. Since then, these presses have grown to enormous proportions. Today, they are essential to the manufacture of big machines.
