GARLAND NIXON—Garland, outclassing Columbo, quickly sorts out the logic behind the moves of the perpetrators of the Moscow concert massacre, arguing that, far from being ISIS, as loudly proclaimed by the Western media, they are probably connected to Ukraine’s military and security services, currently chiefly under the command of Kyrylo Budanov. “Their escape route pointed toward Ukraine,” notes Garland. “Most criminals, after committing their crimes, tend to go home.”
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EDITOR—A high point of the episode is a discussion about climate change. Chris Black is extremely pessimistic, believing that the assertion that climate change is a hoax needs to be reexamined carefully. The idea this is a hoax has become popular, of all places, notes Black, among the world’s left, and progressive statesmen, which may be a huge miscalculation. Leaders around the world keep talking about this issue but do little, with Russia and China doing the most, but still not enough, and the West doing the least, or next to nothing. We are at a point where a few more degrees may spell the death of all life on this planet due to the collapse of agriculture and plant life in general, says Black.
Ben Toth replies that a Russian scientist recently advised Putin that humanity had a “Window” of about 10,000 years to solve this problem. This may be wildly optimistic. In Siberia the problem may be extreme, as permafrost (thought to be “eternal”) is now melting away at ever faster rates, in the process releasing methane.
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JOE LAURIA—The issue at hand is the fundamental difference between imperialism and revanchism. Western critics purposely or ignorantly confuse the two to serve their interests.
Succinctly, the difference is this: imperialists take control of a country that does not want them there and resists. A revanchist wants to absorb former imperial lands where the population is largely the same ethnicity and welcomes the revanchist power to protect them from an outside threat.
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Billy Bob’s Dispatches: Dmitry Medvedev’s Unvarnished Truths. Disregard at your own peril.
10 minutes readDMITRY MEDVEDEV—To protect the territorial integrity of our country, ballistic and cruise missiles with special warheads will be used. This is based on our doctrinal military documents and is well known to everyone. And this is the very notorious Apocalypse. The end of everything. Therefore, Western politicians should tell their voters the bitter truth, and not treat them as brainless idiots.
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EDITOR—The panel discusses the outstanding aspects of Tucker Carlson’s Putin Interview, what it signifies in the context of US imperial propaganda in an age of challenges and decline, whether the format of the interview itself—one of unusual depth and length—will help or harm the ultimate aim of educating Westerners, especially Americans, about the realities of the world so that peace can be secured, warmongers defeated once and for all, and a nuclear war can be averted.