ANDREI MARTYANOV—American operational experience in any war the US fought since Vietnam is absolutely worthless in application to real war in the so-called “peer-to-peer” environment. Some tactical tricks are for the consumption and discussion of armchair generals from mommy’s basement during school breaks. But that truism, evidently, is not known to Mr. Kelly.
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BRIAN BERLETIC—Protests in Georgia consist of US-backed opposition groups (literally waving US and EU flags) attempting to block a bill to increase transparency behind political groups to reduce foreign interference. – The US has already once overthrown Georgia’s government in 2003, according to the London Guardian. By 2008 after flooding Georgia with weapons and training its military, Georgia attacked Russia, according to a [much delayed] EU investigation. The US seeks to stir up trouble in Georgia again to “extend” Russia as explained in detail by the RAND Corporation’s 2019 paper, “Extending Russia.” – The US has pressured other nations attempting to pass bills to protect against foreign interference including recently Thailand.
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A spirited discussion about the recent antiwar effort Rage Against the War machine on Feb 19, widely boycotted by the corprate media and fake left, and reasons for its organisational difficulties, basicaly trying to unify people around single issue economic (class) objectives.
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PAUL EDWARDS—The Empire has managed to continue intact to date, dispensing sleazy, transparent lies and howling fabrications to its sadly hoodwinked, floundering, irascible people, without dissolving in its corrosive bile. This affirms that selling lies and deceptions is effective as national policy but we may be excused for wondering if it can sell rank absurdities quite as easily.
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ERIC ZUESSE—At the same time when News Guard was threatening Modern Diplomacy and perhaps forcing that site to reject all future submissions from me, the news-site, Consortium News, was likewise being threatened by Brill’s shills. On December 29th, Consortium News headlined “On the Influence of Neo-Nazism in Ukraine: A short history of neo-Nazism in Ukraine in response to NewsGuard’s charge that Consortium News published false content about its extent”. That, too, is an excellent example of censors killing truths and leaving only lies. However, mega-corporate America has a number of such ‘fact-checking’ truth-destroying organizations: New Guard is only one of them.
