EDITOR—Lira holds forth on the origins of Ukraine’s astonishing corruption, and the deep-seated emotional motivations for Nuland’s hatred of Russia, which Lira traces back to injuries and persecution inflicted on her great-grandfather during Russian pogroms in Bessarabia almost 150 years ago, forcing his son’s emigration to America. This emotional scar, shared by many Jews in the US establishment (Blinken, and the Kagans and the rest of the neoconservatives, for example) may explain, to some extent, their deeply-held Russophobia. Victoria Nuland, says Lira, is not a nice person. She’s a suckup to those above her and a mean tyrant to those with less power. Meanwhile, as one of the key people in charge of “the Ukraine project”, she oversees the colossal grift taking place in that country by all kinds of US and Western business and political figures, much of it huge money-laundering operations, theft and illegal use of state assets, etc.
DEEP STATE
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EDITOR—The panel discusses the retirement of Victoria Nuland, one of the vilest warmongering Neocons to ever occupy a position of power inside the State Dept. and the National Security fraternity; a war criminal (like the rest of the top foreign policy machine of this country), of unusual single-mindedness in the prosecution of her projects, a trait that spelled wholesale social dislocation, destruction and death in many countries around the globe, especially in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. The roundtable wonders what might have prompted this sudden departure, and whether this might be traced to the political and strategic crisis facing the Biden administration, or some skeletons in Nuland’s closet, a good probability considering the corruption drowning Ukraine and the depth of her involvement in that country.
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EDITOR—Garland and Joti Brar unmask the largely hidden face of the ruling elite, a tiny, obscenely rich segment of humanity that uses a “Mandarin class” (corporate execs, politicians, military figures, media flunkies, etc.) to run the world for them.
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—In case you haven’t been following the story, back in December the Times published an article titled “‘Screams Without Words’: How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7” which was riddled with glaring plot holes that were exposed by research from outlets like The Grayzone, Electronic Intifada, and Mondoweiss. Later it came out with the help of an anonymous Twitter account named zei_squirrel that one of the three authors of the New York Times piece — Anat Schwartz — is a genocide-supporting Israeli intelligence veteran who had never worked in journalism before, and that another author of the piece — a food writer named Adam Sella — is her partner’s nephew.
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JULIAN ASSANGE JUDGE PREVIOUSLY ACTED FOR MI6
20 minutes readEDITOR—Johnson was appointed by the Attorney General to be a “special advocate” in around 2007, Declassified understands. These are specially vetted barristers who act for the purpose of hearing secret evidence in a closed court.
Special advocates “must undergo and obtain Developed Vetting (the highest level of HM Government security clearance) prior to their appointment”, government guidance states. Developed Vetting is required for individuals having “frequent and uncontrolled access to TOP SECRET assets or require any access to TOP SECRET codeword material”.
In 2016, Johnson acted as a special advocate in the case of Abdel Hakim Belhaj, a Libyan national who accused the UK government and MI6 of participating in kidnapping him and his pregnant wife, Fatima Bouchar. The UK government later apologised for its actions that contributed to Belhaj and Bouchar’s rendition, detention and torture.