Vladimir Putin’s regime must be toppled for Ukraine to win the war, the tyrant’s former chief adviser warned.

Andrei Illarionov said the Russian leader, 71, has had his sights set on Ukraine since the early days of his presidency - and he will never give up, The Sun reports.

Putin was made prime minister of Russia 25 years ago - and months later, he became president.

In the two decades of Putin’s reign, the tyrant has cemented his iron-fist rule, built allies in the Middle East and China, annexed Crimea and launched all-out war on Ukraine.

And in 2020, crafty Vlad changed Russia’s law to let him to remain in the number one job for two more terms.

Even the Washington Post isn’t buying Vice President Kamala Harris’ plan to slap socialist price controls on groceries.

The longtime, left-leaning broadsheet — owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos — published a scathing editorial ripping the Democratic presidential nominee for claiming price gouging is causing inflation and, rather than offer a legit plan to fix it, offering only “populist gimmicks.”

The Global Majority is fully aware that the genocidals in Tel Aviv are trying as hard as they can to provoke an apocalyptic war – with full US military support, of course.  

Contrast that combative mindset with 2,500 years of Persian diplomacy. Iran’s acting Foreign Minister, Ali Bagheri Kani, has recently remarked how Tehran is trying hard to prevent “the Israeli regime’s ‘dream’ of triggering an all-out regional war.”

BY Pepe Escobar

Do you remember the infamous “Summers Memo” from 12 December 1991? Larry Summers, Chief Economist for the World Bank, wrote that, “a given amount of health impairing pollution should be done in the country with the lowest cost, which will be the country with the lowest wages. I think the economic logic behind dumping a wad of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that. … I’ve always thought that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly UNDER-polluted, their air quality is probably vastly inefficiently low compared to Los Angeles or Mexico City.”

WHAT FOLLOWS IS A STUDY IN WESTERN MEDIA DESIGNED TO INFLUENCE THE POPULATIONS WITHIN OTHER COUNTRIES, WHICH ARE NOT "WESTERNISED" YET BY CHOICE OR DUE TO CULTURAL TRADITIONS. IN OTHER WORDS, THIS IS A STUDY OF WESTERN PROPAGANDA. OTHER COUNTRIES INDULGE IN PROPAGANDA AGAINST WESTERN CULTURE, BUT THIS IS NOT AS STRUCTURED NOR AS POWERFUL BY ANY MEASURES TO WHAT THE AMERICANS, THE ENGLISH AND THE GERMANS ARE DOING. CHINA IS DOING IT SOMEWHAT IN ITS OWN STYLE, NOT BY ENFORCING ITS CULTURE, BUT BY FOSTERING THE LOCAL DESIRES FOR ECONOMIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL IMPROVEMENTS. HERE ARE A FEW CASES:

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The execution of a search warrant on my residence by the F.B.I. on Aug. 7 was not my first run-in with America’s premier law enforcement agency. 

In the 1990s, when I was working as chief weapons inspector for the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) — set up by the U.N. Security Council to disarm Iraq as part of the ceasefire that ended the 1991 Gulf War — the F.B.I.’s National Security Division undertook an investigation premised on the working theory that I was committing espionage on behalf of the State of Israel. 

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders praised the economic agenda outlined Friday by Democratic nominee Kamala Harris as "an important step forward in making our country a fairer and more just society."

While acknowledging that the vice president's slate of proposals does not go as far as he "would like," Sanders said it is "an economic agenda that begins to speak to the needs of working families and takes on the unprecedented corporate greed that is taking place throughout America."

BY Jake Johnson

The running mates of former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are coming under greater scrutiny as the presidential election heats up. 

Will America elect its first woman president? More specifically, will it elect someone even more different from all precedent and elect a mixed-race woman president?

Jim Messina says Kamala Harris ‘‘has had the best month in modern American political history’’. And Messina has experienced a few very good ones. He worked on getting Barack Obama elected in 2008 and masterminded his successful 2012 re-election.

PETER HARTCHER

US President Joe Biden has said that he supports Venezuela holding a new round of elections, as a number of countries have rejected the results of the latest vote in the South American nation. Caracas, in response, has accused him of intervening in Venezuela’s internal affairs. 

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro officially won the country’s presidential election last month, securing a third term in office. However, while countries such as Russia, China and Caracas’ regional allies have congratulated the incumbent on his victory, the Venezuelan opposition, most Latin American states and the G7 nations have refused to recognize the results, expressing “serious concerns” about the integrity of the electoral process.

[NOTE — YouTube has banned Judge Napolitano for one week. Bastards!! You can follow him at BitChute. Please spread the word.]

Queue up Auld Lang Syne, I think we are seeing signs that Ukraine’s not-so comedic genius is going to hit the skids. One of my loyal readers and supporters (Dave, you know who you are) flagged last night’s Wall Street Journal article for me — A Drunken Evening, a Rented Yacht: The Real Story of the Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage. You know you are dealing with real “professionals” when you have a group that is mixing a booze blast with high explosives (allegedly).

Israel’s token rape arrests, more cunningly, are part of a strategy to fend off genocide and war-crimes charges. Israel has become adept at narrative, repeating mantras about its unsurpassed morality. One lie embedded deep in the lattice of lies that is Israel is that, contrary to most criminal enterprises and individuals, a spectacular democracy like Israel has the absolute ability to investigate itself ~ilana.

Take Australian taxpayers’ money, ship it overseas and build groundbreaking capabilities for foreign corporations to export around the world, all at the expense of Australian innovation and jobs. Rex Patrick reports on the quantum betrayal.

On April 30 this year, almost exactly a year after the Albanese Labor Government released its National Quantum Strategy “to grow the quantum industry in Australia,” Industry Minister Ed Husic announced we were shipping just short of a billion taxpayer dollars to a US Company, Palo Alto based PsiQuantum, to build a fault-tolerant quantum computer in Brisbane.

What will it take to give whistleblowers the kind of protection they deserve? When will women like Roxanne Mysko be saved from “a pile-on by rich white men?” Andrew Gardiner reports.

Australia’s weak whistleblower protection laws claimed another victim this morning, when Adelaide grandmother and former truck safety compliance officer Roxanne Mysko turned herself in to police in Adelaide’s north. That followed an arrest warrant yesterday issued by the South Australian Supreme Court.

I keep seeing liberal commentators like George Takei trying to frame Kamala Harris as the best candidate to bring peace to the middle east, despite her coming directly out of the administration which has been lighting the region on fire with its insane warmongering.

So let’s be clear here: Peace is not on the ballot in November. Americans are voting for Red War or Blue War. That’s it. Those are the choices.

• CAITLIN JOHNSTONE