DEBORAH ARMSTRONG—Few things in our world are so horrifying as human trafficking. It’s a worldwide scourge, and according to some reports, Ukraine is one of the worst hot spots for the abduction/kidnapping of people for use in the sex trade or for illegal organ harvest. Even the US State Department admits that “The Government of Ukraine does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking” though it claims that Kiev is “making significant efforts to do so.” Wikipedia even states that “Ukraine is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked transnationally for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor,” though it does not delve into the terrifying world of black-market organ harvesting.
WASHINGTON’S VASSALS
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West flooding Ukraine with arms—to no avail.
6 minutes readBRIAN BERLETIC—Despite the relatively large size of the package compared with the last several months of aid, the weapons and ammunition fall far short of replacing even Ukraine’s losses let alone granting Ukraine the ability to match or over power Russian forces. Ukraine will likely use many of these systems to patch up elite units within its deteriorating brigades. Germany and France are also sending armored vehicles, the Mauder infantry fighting vehicle and the AMX-10 RC respectively. This is likely paving the way to send additional heavy weapons like main battle tanks.
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Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy
6 minutes readSara Flounders joins us from Jersey City, New Jersey to discuss her work as editor of the newly published anthology, ‘Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy.’ The book is an analysis of unilateral coercive measures, sanctions, which devastate millions of people around the world. Sanctions are a favorite Western imperialist weapon, used widely behind a thick curtain of exceptionalist disinformation.
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Why the “greatest threat to world peace” needs to be isolated, and abandoned by Europe
15 minutes readERIC ZUESSE—Right now, and ever since 1945, virtually all of the nations that now are in NATO have been controlled by and from Washington DC. Japan and South Korea also are. All of those nations will be targets of Russian &/or Chinese nuclear weapons unless becoming neutral (or even switching to be against the U.S. Government) before that time comes. Recently, the U.S. Government has been doing everything it can in order to control those vassal-nations even more than it already does. None of its vassal-nations has any credible shred of national sovereignty remaining.
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CAUGHT! Dem Congressman (Adam Schiff) DEMANDED Twitter Ban Journalists! w/Matt Taibbi
5 minutes readDuring the Trump impeachment proceedings, Democratic Congressman and Chair of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff talked a good game about “American values” and the like, but when he decided he didn’t like certain journalists and tried to get them banned from social media outlets, well, maybe that whole “freedom of the press” thing wasn’t quite so important after all. In the latest Twitter Files dump, journalist Matt Taibbi reveals the efforts Schiff made to silence journalists who were a bit too “oppositional.” Guest host Aaron Maté and Taibbi discuss the journalists targeted by Schiff and how Twitter responded to the demands.