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P. GREANVILLE—Legendary director Oliver Stone (Platoon, Wall Street, JFK, Born on the 4th of July, Salvador, and the indispensable series of interviews with Vladimir Putin) has just released the first volume of his memoirs, Chasing the Light (reviewed here). This video presents a wide-ranging interview with Red Lines host Anya Parampil. Self-effacing for a man of such stature as artist and political activist, Stone touches on many things rarely or ever discussed by the mainstream media: the barbarism of US imperial wars; the training of death squads and support for terrorists; the refuge given to war criminals on American soil after their collaborationist regimes have been finally overthrown at immense cost to patriotic populations.

CALEB MAUPIN—Biden, warns Caleb Maupin, represents a real and acute threat to dissident freedom of speech. Under Biden the empire will redouble its efforts to “clean” the Internet of anti-imperialist voices, probably via right criminalization of dissident speech and actual jail sentences. What Trump offers is not much different or better, as both candidates represent only the 2 wings of a divided ruling class whose interests and desires are 100% in conflict with the wishes and needs of the 99%. In sum, both represent the specter of actual tyranny, something which is also being seen across the EU, with similar cultural and ideological justifications. 

KEN LESLIE—The fracturing and occupation of the post-Soviet space that began in 1991 is almost complete. More or less willingly, the former Warsaw pact and buffer states of Eastern Europe joined the criminal alliance that is NATO and over the last 30 years gradually prepared for the coming war against Russia. When did it all begin?

ERIC ZUESSE—The U.N., in the vision of its initiator, who was the anti-imperialist Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was intended to be an actually functioning international democracy composed of independent nations which would be interrelating on the basis of international laws that would concern only international relations, and not at all intranational relations or “domestic policies” (including all internal state matters). The basic idea was that each nation’s internal policies would continue to be determined strictly by that given nation’s own constitution and laws. FDR entertained no fantasy of having the U.N. become involved in the internal affairs of its constituent nations (such as it now routinely does).

ED CURTIN—Trump, Biden, Pence, Harris, and their clownish sidekicks, Pompeo, Michelle Obama, et al., are performing daily under the umbrella’s shadowy protection. For The Umbrella People run a three-ring circus, and although their clowns pop out of separate tiny cars and, acting like enemies, squirt each other with water hoses to the audience’s delight, raucous laughter, and serious attentiveness, they are all part of the same show, working for the same bosses.  Sadly, many people think this circus is the real world and that the clowns are not allied pimps serving the interests of their masters, but are real enemies.