IT WOULDN’T HURT THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA, INCLUDING THE ABC (AUSTRALIA) TO EXPRESS ALTERNATIVE POINTS OF VIEWS WHICH PRESENTLY ARE PLACED IN THE DISINFORMATION FOLDER.

It has to be said that the official information from the American Empire is mostly cleverly manipulated DISINFORMATION. 

We know for example that the war on SADDAM was a set up — a war based on deliberate falsehoods MANUFACTURED by the regime of George W Bush. PRESENTLY, the conflict in Ukraine has been polished by the American Empire as an UNPROVOKED aggression by Russia when we know this is untrue. The American PROVOCATIONS, including the lies of NATO (formed after WW2), against RUSSIA go back at least as far as 1917.

the other PRESENT major conflict, that in the Middle-East between the Palestinians and ISRAEL, did not start on October 7th, 2023 as claimed by many legacy media, but has its modern origins in the creation of the state of ISRAHELL and, prior to this, in the Renaissance’s wars of religions. Thus other points of views, expressing the complex nature of HISTORY need to defeat the official narrative of the EMPIRE. These points of views are available by listening to other journalists and EXPERTS such as:

 

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PEPE ESCOBAR: Pepe Escobar (born 1954) is a Brazilian journalist and geopolitical analyst.[1][2] His column "The Roving Eye" for Asia Times regularly discusses the multi-national "competition for dominance over the Middle East and Central Asia.” He has reported from Afghanistan and Pakistan, writing about Osama bin Laden before 9/11 and interviewing Afghan leader Ahmad Shah Massoud.

Escobar's concept of "Pipelineistan" refers to the network of oil and gas pipelines in crucial geopolitical regions, especially Central Asia. He suggests that Western actions in these areas are largely driven by a desire to reduce dependence on Russian energy and OPEC. This theory has faced criticism, particularly regarding its application to conflicts like the Syrian Civil War. Escobar's REALITY work has been scrutinized for its appearance in outlets identified by the U.S. State Department as part of Russia's disinformation network, such as RT and Sputnik News, raising questions about the potential propagation of Russian INFORMATION.

 

NIMA ALKHORSHID: Dialogue Works. a distinguished researcher at Universidade Federal de Itajubá, specializes in the field of Civil Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Engineering Geology. His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Geosynthetic Encased Column: comparison between numerical and experimental results

Consolidation of soft clay foundation improved by geosynthetic-reinforced granular columns: Numerical evaluation

Large scale tests on geotextile-encased stone columns

 

RACHEL BLEVINS: Rachel Blevins is an American media personality working at RT (Russian Today America) News headquarters as a news correspondent. Before joining the RT news channel, Rachel worked at ‘The Free Thought Project’ as a writer and an editor.

 

GEORGE GALLOWAY: George Galloway (born 16 August 1954) is a British politician, broadcaster, and writer. He has been leader of the Workers Party of Britain since he founded it in 2019, and was a former leader of the Respect Party. Until 2003, he was a member of the Labour Party. From 1987 to 2010, from 2012 to 2015 and briefly in 2024 Galloway served as Member of Parliament (MP) for five constituencies.

 

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Andrew Peter Napolitano (born June 6, 1950) is an American former jurist and syndicated columnist whose work appears in numerous publications, including The Washington Times and Reason. Napolitano served as a New Jersey Superior Court judge from 1987 to 1995. He also served as a visiting professor at Widener University Delaware Law School, Seton Hall University School of Law, and Brooklyn Law School. He is a libertarian and has gained prominence in part due to his criticism of the administrations of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. Beginning in 1997, he became an analyst for Fox News, commenting on legal news and trials. He has written nine books on legal and political subjects.

 

PROFESSOR JOHN MERSHEIMER: John Joseph Mearsheimer (born December 14, 1947) is an American political scientist and international relations scholar. He is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.

Mearsheimer is best known for developing the theory of offensive realism, which describes the interaction between great powers as being primarily driven by the rational desire to achieve regional hegemony in an anarchic international system. In accordance with his theory, Mearsheimer believes that China's growing power will likely bring it into conflict with the United States.

In his 2007 book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, Mearsheimer argues that the Israel lobby wields disproportionate influence over U.S. foreign policy. His more recent work focuses on relations between the United States and China and the West's involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

 

LARRY JOHNSON: Larry C. Johnson is an American blogger, political commentator and former analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency. He is the co-owner and CEO of Business Exposure Reduction Group (BERG) Associates, LLC, and the co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).

 

RAY MCGOVERN: Raymond McGovern (born August 25, 1939) is an American political activist and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. McGovern was a CIA analyst from 1963 to 1990, and in the 1980s chaired National Intelligence Estimates and participated in preparing the President's Daily Brief. He received the Intelligence Commendation Medal at his retirement, returning it in 2006 to protest the CIA's involvement in torture. McGovern's post-retirement work includes commenting for RT and Sputnik News, among other outlets, on intelligence and foreign policy issues. In 2003 he co-founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).

 

 

PROFESSOR WOLFF: Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, New York City.

 

MARK SLEBODA: Geopolitical analyst Mark Sleboda reacts from Moscow on the news that Avdeevka is collapsing as Russia moves to liberate the key city from Ukrainian forces. Sleboda breaks this down in the context of the overall battlefield situation in Ukraine.

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Graduating in December 2010 from MSc Taught Programme in International Relations Theory with specialties in Security Studies, Russian and Eurasian Foreign/Security/and Domestic Policy, and the international relations of climate change.

Richmond the American International University in London

London, UK September 2007- May 2009. Completed a BA (Hons) in International Relations with a minor in Political Science in May of 2009. GPA 3.5 (Upper 2:1).

Moscow State University (MGU)

Moscow, Russia – 2 years of course work in International Relations from 2005 – 2007.

Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Moscow, Russia – Preparatory Faculty (Russian Language and Culture), 2004.

George Washington University, Old Dominion University, Central Texas College

Attended courses towards a degree in International Relations at various US universities during off-duty hours while working in the military from 1995-1999.

Naval Nuclear Prototype Training Unit - Charleston, South Carolina, 1995.

Naval Nuclear Power School (Reactor Operator) - Orlando, Florida, 1995.

Naval Nuclear Field “A” School (Electronics Technician) - Orlando, Florida, 1994

WORK EXPERIENCE

January 2002-December 2006 - Teacher of English and Business Management, Tom’s House, Moscow, the

Russian Federation

Taught English and business management to employees of various corporations in Moscow, Russia. Corporations taught

at include Gazprom, Rusal, Boeing, Reckitt Benckiser, Proctor & Gamble, and IPSOS.

August 1999-September 2001 - Electro-Mechanical Technician, Analog Devices Incorporated of Woburn,

Massachusetts

Served as an engineering technician in electronics, electrical, and mechanical field for equipment used in the manufacturing of semiconductors. Other duties included shift incident commander of site Emergency Response Team responsible for entire industrial facility.

July 1993-July 1999 - Electronics Technician/Reactor Operator, US Navy

Served aboard the Navy vessel USS South Carolina (CGN-37), a nuclear powered cruiser, as a non-commissioned officer in the electronics/electrical field. Achieved rank of petty officer second class (E-5) and received numerous awards and citations including two letters of commendation for superior performance in supervision and electronics repair, as well as being selected by Chief Engineer as operator for two consecutive Operational Reactor Safeguards Examinations (ORSE). Collateral duties included ship Voting Officer, career counselor, damage control petty officer, quality assurance inspector, running/anchoring ship site TV station, editor/writer of Fleet newspaper.

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS/POLITICAL SCIENCE EXPERIENCE AND ACTIVITIES

Chairman of US Democrats Abroad Russia (2003-2006) – worked with US embassy for voter registration and

information campaign for US citizens (Volunteer).

Voter Registration Campaign in coordination with US Democrats Abroad UK for 2008 Primary and Presidential

Election (Volunteer).

Volunteer for British MP George Galloway’s London Assembly campaign in 2008.

Delegate at Model UN Conferences in Russia and UK, winning 8 best delegate awards including Oxford and

Cambridge also involving military and climate change scenarios at crisis committees.

Member of Chatham House, premier International Relations think-tank.

Intermediate-level Russian language skills.

Member of RUSI, the Royal United Services Institute.

Volunteer for Green Party of England and Wales – research and administration in press office for autumn National

Green Party Conference 2009.

Participant in the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen – in an NGO capacity

Participant in EU-Russia Security Dialogue Conference at LSE with Javier Solana in March 2010 – as rapporteur…

 

 

ROGER WATERS (PINK FLOYD): George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English musician and singer-songwriter. In 1965, he co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd as the bassist. Following the departure of the songwriter, Syd Barrett, in 1968, Waters became Pink Floyd's lyricist, co-lead vocalist and conceptual leader until his departure in 1985.

Pink Floyd achieved international success with the concept albums The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977), The Wall (1979), and The Final Cut (1983). By the early 1980s, they had become one of the most acclaimed and commercially successful groups in popular music. Amid creative differences, Waters left in 1985 and began a legal dispute over the use of the band's name and material. They settled out of court in 1987. Waters's solo work includes the studio albums The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (1984), Radio K.A.O.S. (1987), Amused to Death (1992), and Is This the Life We Really Want? (2017). In 2005, he released Ça Ira, an opera translated from Étienne and Nadine Roda-Gils' libretto about the French Revolution.

Waters incorporates political themes in his work and is a prominent supporter of Palestine in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. He has called for the removal of the Israeli West Bank Barrier, supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, and describes Israel's treatment of Palestinians as apartheid. Some of his comments, such as his likening of Israel to Nazi Germany, and elements of his live shows, drew accusations of antisemitism, which Waters dismissed as a conflation of anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism.

 

 MORE TO COME....

 

 

 

 

AND MANY OTHER SOURCES, INCLUDING RT AND SPUTNIK.

 

OTHER INDIVIDUALS INCLUDE:

 

COLONEL DOUGLAS MCGREGOR: Douglas Abbott Macgregor (born January 4, 1947) is an American retired colonel, government official, author, consultant, and political commentator.

Macgregor was a leader in an early tank battle in the Gulf War and was a top planner in the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. His 1997 book Breaking the Phalanx argued for radical reforms inside the United States Army.

After leaving the military in 2004, Macgregor became more politically active. In 2020, president Donald Trump proposed him as the U.S. ambassador to Germany, but the U.S. Senate blocked the nomination. On November 11, 2020, a Pentagon spokesperson announced that Macgregor had been hired to serve as senior advisor to the acting secretary of defense, a post he held for NEARLY three months. Trump also appointed him to the board of the U.S. Military Academy, but the appointment was terminated by president Joe Biden in 2021. Macgregor has contributed to Fox News and has appeared on the Russian state-funded channel RT. His commentary has been noted for disparaging Ukraine.

 

SCOTT RITTER: Scott Ritter is a former Marine intelligence officer who served in the former Soviet Union, implementing arms control agreements, and on the staff of General Norman Schwartzkopf during the Gulf War, where he played a critical role in the hunt for Iraqi SCUD missiles. From 1991 until 1998, Mr. Ritter served as a Chief Inspector for the United Nations in Iraq, leading the search for Iraq’s proscribed weapons of mass destruction. Mr. Ritter was a vocal critic of the American decision to go to war with Iraq. His new book, Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika: Arms Control and the End of the Soviet Union, is his ninth.

 

KAREN KWIATKOWSKI: Karen U. Kwiatkowski, née Unger, (born September 24, 1960) is an American activist and commentator. She is a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel whose assignments included duties as a Pentagon desk officer and a variety of roles for the National Security Agency.

Since retiring, she has become a noted critic of the U.S. government's involvement in Iraq. Kwiatkowski is primarily known for her insider essays which denounce a corrupting political influence on the course of military intelligence leading up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. In 2012, she challenged incumbent Bob Goodlatte, in the Republican primary for Virginia's 6th congressional district seat in the United States House of Representatives and garnered 34% of the Republican vote on a constitutional and limited government platform. As of 2024, she is a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.

While in the Air Force, she wrote two books about U.S. policy towards Africa: African Crisis Response Initiative: Past Present and Future (US Army Peacekeeping Institute, 2000) and Expeditionary Air Operations in Africa: Challenges and Solutions (Air University Press, 2001). She contributed to Ron Paul: A Life of Ideas, (Variant Press, 2008) and Why Liberty: Personal Journeys Toward Peace and Freedom, (Cobden Press, 2010). She has been featured in a number of documentaries, including "Why We Fight" in 2005. She has written for LewRockwell.com since 2003.

 

LARRY WILKERSON: Col. (ret.) Lawrence Wilkerson's last positions in government were as Secretary of State Colin Powell's Chief of Staff (2002-05), Associate Director of the State Department's Policy Planning staff under the directorship of Ambassador Richard N. Haass, and member of that staff responsible for East Asia and the Pacific, political-military and legislative affairs (2001-02).

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Before serving at the State Department, Wilkerson served 31 years in the U.S. Army. During that time, he was a member of the faculty of the U.S. Naval War College (1987 to 1989), Special Assistant to General Powell when he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989-93), and Director and Deputy Director of the U.S. Marine Corps War College at Quantico, Virginia (1993-97). Wilkerson retired in 1997 and began work as an advisor to General Powell. He has also taught national security affairs at the George Washington University.

 

 

PEARLS AND IRRITATIONS: John Menadue has had a senior professional career in the media, public service and airlines.

He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 1985 for public service. In 1997, he received the Japanese Imperial Award, The Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure (Kun-itto Zuiho-sho), the highest honour awarded to foreigners who are not head of state or head of government. The award was for services to the Australia-Japan relationship, particularly the establishment of the working holiday program between the two countries. In 2003, John was awarded the Centenary Medal ‘for service to Australian society through public service leadership’.

In 2009, John received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Adelaide in recognition of his significant and lifelong contribution to Australian society as a Public Servant, Diplomat, Critical Thinker, Board Director, Advisor and Public Commentator.

John Menadue was born in South Australia in 1935. He graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1956 as a Bachelor of Economics.

From 1960 to 1967 he was Private Secretary to Gough Whitlam, Leader of the Opposition. He then moved into the private sector for seven years as General Manager, News Limited, Sydney, publisher of ‘The Australian’.

John Menadue was head of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet from 1974 to 1976 and closely involved in the dismissal events of November 11, 1975. He worked for Prime Ministers Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser.

From 1977-1980 he was Australian Ambassador to Japan.

John returned to Australia in 1980 to take up the position of Head, Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs where he was active with Malcolm Fraser and Ian Macphee in the settlement of large numbers of Indo Chinese refugees in Australia.

He was appointed Head of the Department of Trade in December 1983.

From 1986-1989 John was Chief Executive Officer of Qantas.

Later John was a Director of Telstra from December 1994 to October 1996 and Chairman of the Australia Japan Foundation from 1991 to 1998.

He chaired the NSW Health Council which reported to the NSW Minister for Health in March 2000 on changes to health services in NSW. He also chaired the SA Generational Health Review which reported to the SA Minister for Human Services in May 2003.

John chaired fundraising and volunteered for many years at the Matthew Hostel for homeless men.

As a Patron of the Asylum Seekers’ Centre in Sydney, he is active in refugee advocacy.

John launched his influential public policy journal Pearls and Irritations at johnmenadue.com in January 2013. There are now more than 22,000 subscribers.

John has four children and a foster daughter from his first marriage to Cynthia. He married Susie, who has two children, in 1986. Together they have fifteen grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

In October 1999, John published his autobiography ‘Things you learn along the way’.

In 2024, John published a collection of his articles from Pearls and Irritations over the last 20 years.He has included personal accounts and recollections from the decades he spent in the public and private sector at pivotal moments in Australian history.

 

ALEKSANDR DUGIN: The Fourth Political Theory is a book by the Russian philosopher and political analyst Aleksandr Dugin, first published in 2009. In the book, Dugin states that he is claiming the foundations for an entirely new political ideology, the fourth political theory, which integrates and supersedes liberal democracy, Marxism, and fascism. In this theory, the main subject of politics is not individualism, class struggle, or nation, but rather Dasein (existence itself).

 

JOHN KIRIAKOU: John Chris Kiriakou (born August 9, 1964) is an American author, journalist and former intelligence officer. Kiriakou is a columnist with Reader Supported News and co-host of Political Misfits on Sputnik Radio.

He was an analyst and case officer for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and a consultant for ABC News. He was the first U.S. government official to confirm in December 2007 that waterboarding was used to interrogate al-Qaeda prisoners, which he described as torture. Kiriakou is a founding member of the organization Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.

In 2012, Kiriakou became the only CIA officer to be convicted for exposing the CIA's enhanced interrogation program, having passed classified information to a reporter. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 30 months in prison.

 

 

JEREMY KUZMAROV: an author of four books on U.S. foreign policy and social critic. He hopes that people will read his writings and learn something from them and that they can help them to broaden their worldview, and raise awareness about various societal issues and injustices.

Kuzmarov has taught at numerous universities and colleges in the field of U.S. history and foreign relations. He has undertaken extensive specialized research on the following topics:

—  Covert dimensions of U.S. foreign policy
—  The War on Drugs
—  U.S. policing and prisons and the internationalization of U.S. criminal justice
—  U.S. airpower and its human cost
—  American military base networks
—  The false manipulations of the public in selling American wars, among other topics.

Kuzmarov has contributed to many progressive publications like The Progressive Magazine, Counterpunch, the LA Progressive, the Huffington Post, Z Magazine, Z Net and has appeared in various media outlets, including on radio and television programs.  He is also a contributor to a peace website, developed by historian Roger Peace, that provides comprehensive overviews of major U.S. wars and assesses them from a just war perspective. Kuzmarov has been active in local peace groups, and is a board member of the Tulsa Peace fellowship, a friend of the Asia-Pacific Journal, and on the Steering committee for Historians for Peace and Democracy. He is also part of a network, headquartered at the University of Exeter, that studies colonial history and counterinsurgencies in comparative perspective.

 

MONTHLY REVIEW began publication in New York City in May 1949. The first issue featured the lead article “Why Socialism?” by Albert Einstein. From the beginning, Monthly Review spoke for a critical but spirited socialism, independent of any political organization. In an era of Cold War repression, the magazine published pioneering analyses of political economy, imperialism, and Third World struggles, drawing on the rich legacy of Marxist thought without being bound to any narrow view or party line. The McCarthy-led inquisition targeted MR‘s original editors, Paul Sweezy and Leo Huberman, who fought back successfully. Against these odds, the magazine’s readership and influence grew steadily, and in 1952, Monthly Review Press published its first title, I. F. Stone’s Hidden History of the Korean War.

In the subsequent 1960s upsurge against capitalism, imperialism, and inequality, MR played a global role. A generation of activists received no small part of their education as subscribers to the magazine and readers of Monthly Review Press books. In the decades since, with the rise of neoliberalism and successive capitalist crises, MR has kept its commitment both to radical critique and to the building of a just economy and society.

For a more detailed look at MR‘s history, interested readers may consult this essay, published in 1999 for the magazine’s fiftieth anniversary.

In its nearly seventy-year history, MR has had only six editors. The original editors were economist Paul M. Sweezy and journalist and historian Leo Huberman. After Huberman’s death in 1968, Harry Magdoff joined Sweezy as coeditor, and together they led the magazine for the next three decades. Ellen Meiksins Wood served as editor from 1997 to 2000, when John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney took over primary editorial duties. Founding editor Paul M. Sweezy died in 2004, and Harry Magdoff in 2006.

TODAY — Under the current editorial committee, led by John Bellamy Foster, the magazine continues its long tradition of analyzing what is new together with the equally vital task of seeing the longer process. That tradition, as summarized by Paul Sweezy, is to see “the present as history.” In 2006, MR began a daily web magazine, MRzine, which in 2017 was migrated to a new project, MR Online, a forum for collaboration and communication between radical activists, writers, and scholars around the world.

Revenues from subscriptions and book sales have always fallen short of the demands on MR‘s resources. The contributions and gifts of a global community of several thousand people sustain MR. Today the magazine makes all new articles available for free online, and MR Online attracts a substantial and growing readership. If you have found our website of value, please consider subscribing to the magazine or, better yet, becoming an Associate.

 

MEGYN KELLY: Megyn Marie Kelly (born November 18, 1970) is an American commentator and media personality. She hosts a talk show and podcast, The Megyn Kelly Show, that airs live daily on the Triumph channel on SiriusXM. She was a talk show host at Fox News from 2004 to 2017 and a host and correspondent with NBC News from 2017 to 2018. She is also active in posting to her Instagram page and YouTube channel.

During her time at Fox News, Kelly hosted America Live and, before that, co-hosted America's Newsroom with Bill Hemmer. From 2007 to 2012, the two reporters hosted Fox News Channel's New Year's Eve specials. Kelly also hosted The Kelly File from October 2013 to January 2017. In 2014, she was included in the TIME list of the 100 most influential people.

 

HISTORY LEGENDS: Alexandre Robert, the visionary behind “History Legends”, is renowned for his unique approach to narrating history. His innovative use of vivid storytelling and engaging reenactments draws in audiences, offering them a unique perspective on historical events. Alexandre’s ability to transport audiences back in time not only educates but also sparks curiosity, revealing the relevance of past events in our current society. His compelling portrayals serve as a testament to his passion for history, illuminating the past in a way that is both entertaining and inspiring.

Robert’s “History Legends” has become a significant platform for history enthusiasts, educators, and students alike. Recently he has covered the Ukraine War with Historical analysis. His attention to detail, combined with his ability to weave together historical facts into engaging narratives, has made “History Legends” a trusted source for learning. Alexandre Robert is more than a storyteller; he’s a time traveler who brings history to life, encouraging others to delve deeper into our shared past. His dedication to his craft inspires others to appreciate the importance of history and its role in shaping the future.

Illuminating the Past, Inspiring the Present. Don’t miss out on Alexandre’s latest updates and exciting content – subscribe to his social media accounts today for an insider’s view into our vibrant community!

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

 

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JULIAN ASSANGE:

WikiLeaks is a multi-national media organization and associated library. It was founded by its publisher Julian Assange in 2006.

WikiLeaks specializes in the analysis and publication of large datasets of censored or otherwise restricted official materials involving war, spying and corruption. It has so far published more than 10 million documents and associated analyses.

“WikiLeaks is a giant library of the world's most persecuted documents. We give asylum to these documents, we analyze them, we promote them and we obtain more.” - Julian Assange, Der Spiegel Interview

WikiLeaks has contractual relationships and secure communications paths to more than 100 major media organizations from around the world. This gives WikiLeaks sources negotiating power, impact and technical protections that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to achieve.

Although no organization can hope to have a perfect record forever, thus far WikiLeaks has a perfect in document authentication and resistance to all censorship attempts.

WikiLeaks, its publisher and its journalists have won many awards, including:

The Economist New Media Award (2008)

The Amnesty New Media Award (2009)

TIME Magazine Person of the Year, People's Choice (highest global vote) (2010)

The Sam Adams Award for Integrity (2010)

The National Union of Journalists Journalist of the Year (Hrafnsson) (2011)

The Sydney Peace Foundation Gold Medal (2011)

The Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism (2011)

The Blanquerna Award for Best Communicator (2011)

The Walkley Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism (2011)

The Voltaire Award for Free Speech (2011)

The International Piero Passetti Journalism Prize of the National Union of Italian Journalists (2011)

The Jose Couso Press Freedom Award (2011)

The Privacy International Hero of Privacy (2012)

The Global Exchange Human Rights People's Choice Award (2013)

The Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts (2013)

The Brazillian Press Association Human Rights Award (2013)

The Kazakstan Union of Journalists Top Prize (2014)

 

As well as nominations for the UN Mandela Prize (2015) and nominations in six consecutive years for the Nobel Peace Prize (2010-2015)

WikiLeaks is entirely funded by its publisher, its publication sales and the general public.

WikiLeaks has more than one hundred other staff accross the Americas, Africa, Eurasia and the Asia Pacific.

The WikiLeaks Files (Verso, Sep 2015)

WikiLeaks legal team is lead by judge Baltasar Garzón in Europe and in the United States, Michael Ratner, president emeritus of Center for Constitutional Rights.

WikiLeaks ongoing legal cases are best described in this UN report (2015) from the Center for Constitutional Rights

Julian Assange's ongoing detention without charge is best described here: https://justice4assange.com/3-Years-in-Embassy.html

“This great library built from the courage and sweat of many has had a five-year confrontation with a powerpower without losing a single “book”. At the same time, these “books” have educated many, and in some cases, in a literal sense, let the innocent go free.” - Julian Assange, Der Spiegel Interview

WikiLeaks is cited in more than 28 thousands academic papers and US court filings

Formal UN documents

European Court of Human Rights

UK courts

Follow our official accounts @wikileaks, @wltaskforce, @communitywl and @wikileaksshop.

 

DAVE DE CAMP: ANTIWAR.COM. Randolph Bourne, a notable American journalist, social critic, and political activist of the early 20th century, courageously opposed U.S. intervention in World War I. Read Jeff Riggenbach's biography of Bourne.

The Randolph Bourne Institute (RBI) seeks to honor Bourne's memory by promoting a noninterventionist foreign policy for the United States as the best way of fostering a peaceful, more prosperous world.

A nonprofit, tax-exempt, educational organization founded in 2001, the RBI centers its efforts around four major projects: a Web site, Antiwar.com; a fellows program for writers and researchers; a speakers program; and a student intern and campus outreach program. Every RBI project is designed for maximum inclusiveness, in the hope of enabling people from all points on the political spectrum – libertarian, left, right, and center – to join together on the vital issue of opposing war.

The Antiwar.com Web site, launched in December 1995, is the Institute's main project and the preeminent noninterventionist site on the Internet. It provides hourly coverage of breaking news, along with informed analysis of major world conflicts (with particular attention to the U.S. role in those conflicts) – something the establishment media utterly fails to offer. Toward this end, Antiwar.com relies on existing news sources as well as on its own columnists and reporters, many of whom file from within the various conflict areas covered on the site. Antiwar.com's target audience includes members of the media, college students, and other concerned individuals and organizations. Antiwar.com has been a project of the RBI for twenty-three years and has grown steadily in that time, as has its following – whether measured by numbers of readers or by the site's demonstrated ability to affect the type and tenor of public debate about noninterventionism. Antiwar.com's growing influence has been analyzed and discussed on such national TV news programs as the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, in such magazines as Mother Jones, The Atlantic, The Nation, and in such popular alternative weeklies as the New York Press and the SF (San Francisco) Bay Guardian.

The RBI fellows program provides support for authors and researchers interested in the topic of nonintervention. Currently, the RBI boasts two particularly distinguished fellows. The editorial director of Antiwar.com, Justin Raimondo, is also a senior fellow of the Randolph Bourne Institute. Raimondo's writings include Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement (1993, reprinted 2008); Into the Bosnian Quagmire: The Case Against U.S. Intervention in the Balkans (1996); An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard (2000); The Terror Enigma: 9/11 and the Israeli Connection (2003); and numerous articles for newspapers and magazines, including the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, The American Conservative, and Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. Another RBI senior fellow is prominent journalist Jeff Riggenbach, author of In Praise of Decadence (1998), Why American History Is Not What They Say: An Introduction to Revisionism (2009), and hundreds of articles in publications as diverse as USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, Reason, and Inquiry.

The RBI speakers program has arranged for our fellows, our columnists, our staff members, and others to make informative and insightful presentations, primarily on U.S. interventionism, on college campuses and in other venues. We are actively seeking to expand in this area and to schedule more events in the future. If our readers have suggestions, we welcome them.

A student intern/campus outreach program was initiated in the summer of 2002, when the RBI's first two student interns worked on setting up the RBI campus outreach program and fielding assignments related to Antiwar.com, the RBI library project, and a series of face-to-face meetings between students and local experts on U.S. foreign policy (e.g., Hoover Institution scholars and Stanford and UC Berkeley students). We hope to expand the intern program to year-round in the near future.

 

DOCTOR DOCTOROW:

Gilbert Doctorow is an independent political analyst based in Brussels. He chose this third career of 'public intellectual' after finishing up a 25 year career as corporate executive and outside consultant to multinational corporations doing business in Russia and Eastern Europe which culminated in the position of Managing Director, Russia during the years 1995-2000. He has publishied his memoirs of his 25 years of doing business in and around the Soviet Union/Russia, 1975 - 2000. Memoirs of a Russianist, Volume I: From the Ground Up was published on 10 November 2020. Volume II: Russia in the Roaring 1990s was released in February 2021. A Russian language edition in a single 780 page volume was published by Liki Rossii in St Petersburg in November 2021: Россия в бурные 1990е: Дневники, воспоминания, документы.

Information and disinformation

If the two-minute interview I had with Iran’s Press TV at noon Central European Time today is re-posted on the internet then, you will be able to hear my hearty approval of Scott Ritter’s one-paragraph comments on the latest developments in the United States’ war on RT which he has just disseminated.

Washington’s efforts to destroy RT’s ability to distribute its programs in the United States have been of long duration. What is changing now that makes this newsworthy is the decision by Mark Zuckerberg, the substantial owner and director of Meta, CEO of its Facebook and other platforms counting many millions of subscribers, to ban RT and several other Russian news purveyors from Meta’s global network.

Scott Ritter rightly denounced this U.S. government-inspired attack on RT as a war not on the Russian broadcaster but on the American people, whom it seeks to deprive of the right to decide for itself whom it watches, whom it listens to without U.S. government interference.  The intent of the latest decision by Meta, which bends to the policy dictated to it by Capitol Hill, is to cancel our freedoms. I said and repeat here: bravo to Scott Ritter for an eloquent and pithy statement.

So much for the ‘information’ aspect of this brief note.  Now let us move to ‘disinformation’ by the very same Scott Ritter within the past 24 hours:  namely what he is saying on ‘Judging Freedom’ and other authoritative internet channels about how we all narrowly escaped death this past weekend, because “back channel” communications from top Russian intelligence officials to their counterparts in Washington delivered a threatening and substantive message that scared the receiving party down its socks and led them to impose on Biden and Blinken to end all talk of allowing Kiev to send US and NATO long range missiles into the heartland of Russia.

I call this ‘disinformation’ because apart from Ritter, I have not seen or heard any credible accounts in major media, Russian as well as Western, even hinting that such a backchannel exists and was used. The last time we heard about a stern message being delivered by the Kremlin to Washington was several months ago when Russian Defense Minister Belousov picked up a telephone and called his American counterpart Secretary of Defense Austin to persuade the Americans to back down on the latest threat they were then making to Russian security.  Note that the intelligence services were never mentioned in that connection.  Nor does it make much sense now, given that the subject at hand – use of ATACMS and Storm Shadow missiles – would fall within the competence of the Pentagon, not the CIA, whose specialty is political assassinations and regime change.

However, the issue of who made and who received the phone call this time is not the main point in my objection. Rather, what I find incredible is the very notion that Putin, through his subordinates, would, as Scott Ritter is saying, read off a list of targets for immediate destruction by Russian hypersonic missiles like the Mach-20 Avangard and that this demonstration of advanced preparation for the Doomsday scenario and readiness to execute it would shake the Americans down to their socks.

Vladimir Putin is not given to drastic shifts in tone and intent such as Ritter is describing.  And there is absolutely no reason for him to risk everything on one throw of the dice, to risk a U.S. preemptive strike at once now that the scenario against them had been so neatly laid out.

First of all, even if permission were given by Washington for the British to send their Storm Shadows on their way to the Russian heartland under the flimsy cover of Ukrainian fingers on the button, where are the jets to carry those missiles aloft and fire them towards Russia from somewhere very close to the line of confrontation?  And if jets were taking off from Moldova or Romania for this purpose, the Russians could with full legal justification attack those same jets on the ground at the airports that harbor them whether in NATO or not – doing all of this without triggering any WWIII. 

Of course, this problem of a launch vehicle does not relate to ATACMS, which is a ground-to-ground missile. But the talks of British PM Starmer with Biden were said to be limited only to the British missiles, since Biden & Co. had in advance emphatically ruled out use of American missiles so as not to come between the Russian cross-hairs.

Still more, knowing Putin’s behavior in the past at moments of crisis in the relationship with the United States, I believe his first instinct would be to address the American people directly about his intentions and the reasons for them, rather than to confine the discussion to ‘back channels’ with the likes of Burns or Sullivan.

Ritter speaks about the decision in Washington to suspend any decision on long-range missiles as a big humiliation for Joe Biden and says this explains the President’s outburst in answer to a reporter’s question, saying that he does not think at all about Vladimir Putin. I have not seen any word in mainstream U.S. media suggesting that there was a humiliating climbdown. When Biden’s mental state is widely considered in the U.S. as a national humiliation, there is not much to say about any given decision by this senile creature.

I have in the past several days freely admitted that my ‘end is nigh’ remarks with respect to the risks of giving unrestricted rights to Kiev on the missiles, were exaggerated. But then I was measuring the countdown to Doomsday in weeks, in the worst scenario, not in hours or minutes as Scott Ritter has done.

We are not out of the woods yet, to be sure.  And the task before all ‘warriors for peace’ is not to celebrate our surviving this past weekend but to continue to spread the word in the broadest possible public arenas that our governments are pursuing utterly ignorant and reckless policies.  We need more street demonstrations and fewer popping of corks.

©Gilbert Doctorow, 2024

Translation below into German (Andreas Mylaeus)

Information und Desinformation

Wenn das zweiminütige Interview, das ich heute um 12:00 Uhr mitteleuropäischer Zeit mit dem iranischen Press TV geführt habe, im Internet erneut veröffentlicht wird, können Sie meine uneingeschränkte Zustimmung zu Scott Ritters Ein-Absatz-Kommentar zu den neuesten Entwicklungen im Krieg der Vereinigten Staaten gegen RT hören, den er gerade verbreitet hat.

Washington bemüht sich schon seit Langem, RT daran zu hindern, seine Programme in den Vereinigten Staaten zu verbreiten. Was sich jetzt ändert und diese Nachricht berichtenswert macht, ist die Entscheidung von Mark Zuckerberg, dem Haupteigentümer und Geschäftsführer von Meta, CEO von Facebook und anderen Plattformen mit vielen Millionen Abonnenten, RT und mehrere andere russische Nachrichtenanbieter aus dem globalen Netzwerk von Meta zu verbannen.

Scott Ritter verurteilte diesen von der US-Regierung inspirierten Angriff auf RT zu Recht als einen Krieg nicht gegen den russischen Sender, sondern gegen das amerikanische Volk, dem das Recht genommen werden soll, selbst zu entscheiden, wen es sieht und wem es zuhört, ohne Einmischung der US-Regierung. Die Absicht der jüngsten Entscheidung von Meta, die sich der von Capitol Hill diktierten Politik beugt, ist es, unsere Freiheiten aufzuheben. Ich sage und wiederhole hier: Bravo an Scott Ritter für eine eloquente und prägnante Aussage.

So viel zum „Informations“-Aspekt dieser kurzen Notiz. Kommen wir nun zur „Desinformation“ durch denselben Scott Ritter innerhalb der letzten 24 Stunden: nämlich zu dem, was er auf „Judging Freedom“ und anderen maßgeblichen Internetkanälen darüber sagt, dass wir alle am vergangenen Wochenende nur knapp dem Tod entkommen sind, weil „Back-Channel“- von hochrangigen russischen Geheimdienstmitarbeitern an ihre Kollegen in Washington eine Drohbotschaft übermittelt wurde, die die Empfänger in Angst und Schrecken versetzte und sie dazu veranlasste, Biden und Blinken zu drängen, jegliche Gespräche über die Erlaubnis an Kiew, Langstreckenraketen der USA und der NATO ins Kernland Russlands zu schicken, zu beenden.

Ich nenne dies „Desinformation“, denn abgesehen von Ritter habe ich in den großen Medien, sowohl in russischen als auch in westlichen, keine glaubwürdigen Berichte gesehen oder gehört, die auch nur andeuten, dass es einen solchen inoffiziellen Kanal gibt und dass er genutzt wurde. Das letzte Mal, dass wir von einer strengen Botschaft hörten, die der Kreml an Washington gerichtet hat, war vor einigen Monaten, als der russische Verteidigungsminister Belousov zum Telefon griff und seinen amerikanischen Amtskollegen, Verteidigungsminister Austin, anrief, um die Amerikaner davon zu überzeugen, von der jüngsten Drohung, die sie damals gegen die russische Sicherheit ausgesprochen hatten, abzurücken. Beachten Sie, dass die Geheimdienste in diesem Zusammenhang nie erwähnt wurden. Es ergibt auch jetzt nicht viel Sinn, da das eigentliche Thema – der Einsatz von ATACMS- und Storm-Shadow-Raketen – in die Zuständigkeit des Pentagons und nicht der CIA fällt, deren Spezialgebiet politische Attentate und Regimewechsel sind.

Die Frage, wer den Anruf getätigt und wer ihn entgegengenommen hat, ist jedoch nicht der Hauptgrund für meinen Einwand. Was ich vielmehr unglaublich finde, ist die bloße Vorstellung, dass Putin, durch seine Untergebenen, wie Scott Ritter sagt, eine Liste von Zielen für die sofortige Zerstörung durch russische Hyperschall-Raketen wie die Mach-20 Avangard verlesen würde und dass diese Demonstration fortgeschrittener Vorbereitung auf das Doomsday-Szenario und die Bereitschaft, es auszuführen, die Amerikaner bis ins Mark erschüttern würde.

Wladimir Putin neigt nicht zu solch drastischen Änderungen in Ton und Absicht, wie sie Ritter beschreibt. Und es gibt absolut keinen Grund für ihn, alles auf eine Karte zu setzen und einen Präventivschlag der USA zu riskieren, jetzt, wo das Szenario gegen sie so klar auf dem Tisch liegt.

Zunächst einmal, selbst wenn Washington den Briten die Erlaubnis erteilen würde, ihre Storm Shadows unter dem fadenscheinigen Vorwand ukrainischer Finger am Abzug auf den Weg ins russische Kernland zu schicken, wo sind dann die Jets, die diese Raketen in die Luft befördern und sie von einem Ort in unmittelbarer Nähe der Konfrontationslinie aus auf Russland abfeuern? Und wenn zu diesem Zweck Flugzeuge von Moldawien oder Rumänien aus starten würden, könnten die Russen diese Flugzeuge mit voller rechtlicher Begründung am Boden auf den Flughäfen angreifen, die sie beherbergen, unabhängig davon, ob sie der NATO angehören oder nicht – und all dies tun, ohne einen Dritten Weltkrieg auszulösen.

Natürlich bezieht sich dieses Problem einer Trägerrakete nicht auf ATACMS, bei dem es sich um eine Boden-Boden-Rakete handelt. Aber die Gespräche des britischen Premierministers Starmer mit Biden sollen sich nur auf die britischen Raketen beschränkt haben, da Biden & Co. den Einsatz amerikanischer Raketen im Voraus nachdrücklich ausgeschlossen hatten, um nicht ins Fadenkreuz der Russen zu geraten.

Wenn man Putins Verhalten in der Vergangenheit in Krisenzeiten in den Beziehungen zu den Vereinigten Staaten kennt, glaube ich außerdem, dass sein erster Instinkt darin bestehen würde, das amerikanische Volk direkt über seine Absichten und die Gründe dafür zu informieren, anstatt die Diskussion auf „Schleichwege“ mit Leuten wie Burns oder Sullivan zu beschränken.

Ritter spricht über die Entscheidung in Washington, jegliche Entscheidung über Langstreckenraketen auszusetzen, als eine große Demütigung für Joe Biden und sagt, dies erkläre den Wutausbruch des Präsidenten als Antwort auf die Frage eines Reporters, dass er überhaupt nicht an Wladimir Putin denke. Ich habe in den Mainstream-Medien der USA kein Wort darüber gelesen, dass es einen demütigenden Rückzieher gegeben hat. Wenn Bidens Geisteszustand in den USA weithin als nationale Demütigung angesehen wird, gibt es nicht viel zu sagen über eine Entscheidung dieses senilen Wesens.

Ich habe in den letzten Tagen freimütig zugegeben, dass meine Bemerkungen über das „Ende ist nahe“ in Bezug auf die Risiken, Kiew uneingeschränkte Rechte an den Raketen zu gewähren, übertrieben waren. Aber damals habe ich den Countdown bis zum Jüngsten Tag in Wochen gemessen, im schlimmsten Fall, nicht in Stunden oder Minuten, wie Scott Ritter es getan hat.

Wir sind noch nicht über den Berg, das ist sicher. Und die Aufgabe aller „Krieger für den Frieden“ besteht nicht darin, unser Überleben am vergangenen Wochenende zu feiern, sondern weiterhin in möglichst breiten öffentlichen Bereichen zu verbreiten, dass unsere Regierungen eine völlig ignorante und rücksichtslose Politik verfolgen. Wir brauchen mehr Straßendemonstrationen und weniger Korkenknallen.

 

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Chris Hedges:

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He is the host of show The Chris Hedges Report.

He was a member of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for The New York Times coverage of global terrorism, and he received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. Hedges, who holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School, is the author of the bestsellers American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle and was a National Book Critics Circle finalist for his book War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He writes an online column for the website ScheerPost. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University and the University of Toronto.

 

Diana Johnstone:

Diana Johnstone (born 1934) is an American political writer based in Paris, France. She focuses principally on European politics and Western foreign policy.

Johnstone gained a BA in Russian Area Studies and a PhD in French Literature from the University of Minnesota.[1] She was active in the movement against the Vietnam War, organizing the first international contacts between American citizens and Vietnamese representatives. Most of Johnstone's adult life has been spent in France, Germany, and Italy.

Johnstone was European editor of the U.S. weekly In These Times from 1979 to 1990. She was press officer of the Green group in the European Parliament from 1990 to 1996. From 1996 to 2000, she was associated editor of the Paris quarterly Dialogue concerned with Balkan geopolitics.

 

Margaret Kimberley:

Margaret Kimberley is Executive Editor and Senior Columnist of Black Agenda Report and the current host of the Black Agenda Radio podcast, which is also heard on Pacifica stations WBAI in New York and WPFW in Washington. Her book, Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents was published in 2020 by Steerforth Press. Dr. Cornel West said, “Margaret Kimberley gives us an intellectual gem or prophetic fire about all the U.S. presidents and their deep roots in the vicious legacy of white supremacy and predatory capitalism. Such truths seem more than most Americans can bear, though we ignore her words at our own peril!”

On May 20, 2024 she briefed the United Nations Security Council as a civil society representative, speaking about weapons transfers to Ukraine as a threat to international peace and security. She is  a recipient of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromising Integrity in Journalism, and the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press' 2021 Women in Media Award. She is also a board member of Consortium News.

In addition, Margaret Kimberley has participated in international delegations to Nicaragua, where she was an election observer, and to Venezuela, Egypt, and China where she participated in bilateral meetings, and observed humanitarian efforts. 

 

Ms. Kimberley is a contributor to the anthologies "In Defense of Julian Assange," "Capitalism on a Ventilator: the Impact of COVID-19 on China and the U.S.," and "Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence." Her activism includes membership on the Administrative Committee of the United National Antiwar Coalition, the Coordinating Committee of Black Alliance for Peace, and the Board of Directors of the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation.

 

She has appeared in national and international media including CGTN, RT, Al Mayadeen, Deutsche Welle (DW), Al Jazeera English, and Sky News. 

Ms. Kimberley's work can be supported on Patreon, and can also be found on Youtube, Facebook, X @freedomrideblog, Instagram, Telegram, BlueSky and Linktree.

 

She is a graduate of Williams College and lives in New York City.

 

Garland Nixon:

Garland Nixon is a talk show host on WPFW, which is a talk and jazz music community radio station serving the greater Washington DC metropolitan area.

"News Views, with Garland Nixon" is broadcast each Friday from 6-7pm Eastern time on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington DC, and is streamed live on wpfwfm.org.[1]

Garland Nixon has made numerous appearances on national television as a Political Analyst.[2]

Garland Nixon's work centres on foreign policy with a predominant focus on anti-imperialist movements worldwide. He spent over 20 years in law enforcement and retired holding the rank of Major. He then went on to teach criminal justice for several years before settling on full-time journalism. He was a regular panellist on Fox News from 2010 through 2019 appearing on nearly every show on the National network along with weekly appearances on local Fox News programs in Philadelphia and New York. Garland is also an outspoken civil libertarian and 1st amendment advocate and currently serves on the National Board of Directors for the American Civil Liberties Union

 

Julie Bergman Sender:

Julie Bergman Sender has a unique mix of experience: as a Hollywood Studio Executive, as a producer of feature films and independent documentaries – including an Academy Award nominee – as well as creating groundbreaking and innovative content, social and viral campaigns online, on the air, on radio and on the ground.

Most recently she served as Executive Producer of Harmony, A New Way of Looking at Our World. Harmony, a film and primetime television special produced in collaboration with HRH The Prince of Wales (Prince Charles), aired on NBC as the cornerstone of the network’s Green Is Universal programming.

In addition to producing studio and feature films, Julie is Executive Producer of The Garden, which was nominated for an Academy Award for best feature documentary. And Harmony, which looks at solutions to the global environmental and economic crises, won a Cinema for Peace Green Award during the Berlin Film Festival – and is scheduled for release internationally in the fall of 2011. www.theharmonymovie.com

Julie also put together the unprecedented global partnerships for Harmony, including an alliance with TckTckTck.org, an international consortium of environmental and social groups with membership totaling in the tens of millions of members.

Julie and her husband Stuart Sender are partners in Balcony Films, Inc., a Los Angeles-based media production and consulting firm.  Balcony Films award-winning content and public service campaigns often feature well-known personalities actors and performers.

Julie has been invited by the U.S. State Department to travel to the Middle East and speak about the impact of women, technology, new media and storytelling at conferences in Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates. She also blogs for the Huffington Post.

 

John Pilger:

John Richard Pilger (/ˈpɪldʒər/; 9 October 1939 – 30 December 2023) was an Australian journalist, writer, scholar and documentary filmmaker.[1] From 1962, he was based mainly in Britain.[2][3][4] He was also a visiting professor at Cornell University in New York.[5]

Pilger was a critic of American, Australian, and British foreign policy, which he considered to be driven by an imperialist and colonialist agenda. He criticised his native country's treatment of Indigenous Australians. He first drew international attention for his reports on the Cambodian genocide.[6]

Pilger's career as a documentary film maker began with The Quiet Mutiny (1970), made during one of his visits to Vietnam, and continued with over 50 documentaries thereafter. Other works in this form include Year Zero (1979), about the aftermath of the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia, and Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy (1993). His many documentary films on indigenous Australians include The Secret Country (1985) and Utopia (2013). In the British print media, Pilger worked at the Daily Mirror from 1963 to 1986,[7] and wrote a regular column for the New Statesman magazine from 1991 to 2014.

Pilger won Britain's Journalist of the Year Award in 1967 and 1979.[8] His documentaries have gained awards in Britain and abroad,[7] including a BAFTA.

 

 

Daniel Ellsberg:

Daniel Ellsberg (April 7, 1931 – June 16, 2023) was an American political activist, economist, and United States militaryanalyst. While employed by the RAND Corporation, he precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other newspapers.

In January 1973, Ellsberg was charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 along with other charges of theft and conspiracy, carrying a maximum sentence of 115 years. Because of governmental misconduct and illegal evidence-gathering (committed by the same people who would later be involved in the Watergate scandal), and his defense by Leonard Boudin and Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson, Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. dismissed all charges against Ellsberg in May 1973.

Ellsberg was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 2006. He was also known for having formulated an important example in decision theory, the Ellsberg paradox; for his extensive studies on nuclear weapons and nuclear policy; and for voicing support for WikiLeaks, Chelsea Manning, and Edward Snowden. Ellsberg was awarded the 2018 Olof Palme Prize for his "profound humanism and exceptional moral courage".

 

Glenn Greenwald:

Two weeks ago, I wrote to you to inform you of several changes we had adopted with the primary purpose of creating more time for me to publish more written journalism and analysis, of the kind you have come to expect from my work at the Intercept and then at Substack. Launching our live nightly SYSTEM UPDATE program on Rumble has been very gratifying and a great success in terms of our ability to quickly build a large audience, but it left me with little time to work on the written journalism that I have always considered, and still do consider, to be the anchor of my work.

Those changes have indeed resulted in my having more time to write. We are happy to notify today of a new article we just published on a news story I regard as extremely important. Brazil, under its new government led President Lula da Silva, is poised to become the first nation in the democratic world to implement a law empowering the government to ban "fake news and disinformation," and to punish those it claims are guilty of authoring and disseminating such "false" ideas. 

As we report, the implications for this law are serious and extend far beyond Brazil. Brazil is being used as a test case by both the EU and various sectors in the U.S. to see how far states can go in seizing new powers to censors the internet in the name of stopping what the state decrees is "fake news and disinformation." 

The article is published here on our Locals platform. As was true for almost every article I wrote at Substack, it is free and publicly available to subscribers and non–subscribers alike. Your subscriptions is what enables us to make our journalism available to the widest possible audience, without having to hide it behind a paywall. There are exclusive benefits for Locals subscribers – including access to our twice-a-week interactive after-show, transcripts of each episode of our program in article form, and other community-based content – but we intend for my news articles and analysis to continue to be freely available to ensure the widest possible distribution and impact.

You can read the new article at this link.

 

Kim Iversen:

Kim Iversen is tell it like it is, no b.s. broadcaster with years of experience hosting daily shows across the
country on the FM dial. Known for her candid honesty, intelligence and uncanny ability to relate to people
from all backgrounds, audiences have tuned in to Kim's show night after night for thought provoking
insight and stimulating conversations.
Kim began her radio career as a newscaster on KDVS at the University of California-Davis. It was there
she fell in love with radio and decided to forgo a career in law to pursue a career in broadcasting. After an
internship at Sacramento's DND Kim was hired full time in the promotions department at sister station
alternative rock KWOD. Her potential as a broadcaster was quickly recognized and she was given an on
air slot of her own on KWOD as well as a morning drive time news slot on local Air America affiliate, KCTC.
As it turns out. Kim was a natural and went on to freelance for Cablevisions News 12 in New York Citv as
well as appearing as a VJ for Comcast's "Concert TV".
After a brief stint in television, Kim returned to radio for more talk time and creative freedom by moving to
co-host mornings on WAZY, a CHR station in Lafayette, IN. It was there she got the attention of radio
veteran Jack Taddeo who recognized her skills as a lead host and convinced her to host a show of her
own on CHR station WQQB in nearby Champaign, IL. It was there Kim was qiven the freedom to create a
completely new and exciting morning show targeted for women. Kim's popularity within that city
skvrocketed, and the attention she gained piqued the interest of several top executives at major radio
companies. Entercom Communications made the move to secure Kim and her show, as they moved to set
her up as a dailv broadcast in multiple cities coast to coast. Kim's nationwide success and the uniqueness
of Kim's keen ability to connect with women and men from all walks of life led her to be picked up by
United Stations Radio Networks where Kim gained further affiliates and popularity. "Your Time with Kim'
aired nightlv in over twentv cities including Minneapolis, Denver. Norfolk. Austin, Memphis and Portland
OR. The show focused primarily on women's interests from relationship topics to social issues and
featured an average of five guests per night and over 30 callers.
In earl 2013 Kim joined Premiere Radio Networks, syndicators of shows such as Steve Harvey, Rvan
Seacrest and Rush Limbaugh where she co-hosted "The Rendezvous with Simon and Kim". Similar to her
previous show, The Rendezvous focused on callers and relationship topics and was broadcast in over 20
markets including Chicago, Philadelphia, Seattle, Miami and Tampa.
As of 2017, Kim's strong desire to return to discussing social issues prompted her to leave the
Rendezvous to pursue an entirelv new and exciting venture: an on camera digital talk show focusing on
policies and how they affect people's lives. "Kim Out Loud" includes quests from all sides of the issues
and encourages viewer interaction throuah various social media platforms.
Kim has a long history of interest in policy and social issues. She proposed anti-deforestation legislation,
worked closely with legislators in passing the bill and spoke to committes in the Idaho State Government.
Kim went on to work for grassroots organization ARSAC- A Regional Solution to Airport Congestion which
worked to stop the expansion of LAX into a wildlife preserve. She served as a spokesperson for Stop Child
Trafficking Now which raises awareness and money to help victims of sex traffickina as well as havina
been a Big Sister in the Big Brothers Big Sisters Organization. Kim studied Philosophy with an emphasis in
Ethics at he Universitv of California-Davis.
Kim's ability to understand and connect with people from all walks of life comes from her unique
backaround. Born and raised in Idaho. Kim's mother is a Vietnamese refugee and her father is the son of a
small town farmer. Her parents divorced at the age of three and Kim's single father raised her in Boise
While her mother migrated to southern California where Kim often visited. Her mother being Buddhist and
her father being Catholic. Kim diverted her religious attention from both and ioined the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Dav Saints at the ade of 14 (she is no loner activel. Beina raised b her sinale dad. Kim had
unusual interests and hobbies. She became an accomplished Jazz drummer winning numerous awards.
accolades and college scholarships. In college Kim continued her studies of Jazz performance paving in a
number of big bands and jazz ensembles. Along with playing music, Kim enjoys snowboarding, crossfit and
spending time with her rescued animals

 

Jackson Hinkle:

In 2018, Jackson Hinkle was a political activist, campaigning for climate justice – and Bernie Sanders. Writing for his High School newspaper, he aimed “to provide factual information and new thoughts to the currently stigmatized scenes of local, national, and international politics”. 

In the six years since, he has been banned from WhatsApp, YouTube, Paypal, and Twitch for TELLING THE TRUTH and become one of the most viral users on X/Twitter. Or, as he sees it, he has been silenced by a “corrupt cabal of elite leadership who will do anything to silence independent voices”.

Hinkle recently pivoted to Twitter, banking on Elon Musk’s plan to make the site a bastion of “free speech”. He became the most viral man on the site, offering a premium subscription to those wanting to help him “DEFEAT THE ZIONIST LIES”.

Caitlin Johnstone:

Israel just turned thousands of Lebanese people into involuntary suicide bombers in the name of fighting terrorism.

At least nine people have been killed and thousands injured in an attack in Lebanon which reportedly involved pagers packed with explosives being remotely detonated around the country, often in civilian areas. An eight year-old girl is reportedly among the dead.

According to The New York Times, unnamed officials from the US and elsewhere are saying that Israel planted the explosive materials in the pagers before they reached Lebanon after Hezbollah ordered them from a Taiwanese manufacturer. 

The US is denying any foreknowledge of the attack, but that’s what they always do. We’re always asked to believe that the US never knew anything about attacks conducted by nations like Israel and Ukraine until they read about it in the news, and that their massive intelligence cartel and sprawling surveillance networks never pick up any information and exist for no reason.

...

The unprecedented nature and scale of this attack has raised a lot of concerns from a lot of directions. We all use electronic devices in our daily lives, and weaponizing them at mass scale is naturally going to scare people.

“If it were iPhones that were leaving the factory with explosives inside, the media would be a hell of a lot faster to cotton on to what a horrific precedent has been set today. Nothing can justify this. It’s a crime. A crime. And everyone in the world is less safe for it,” tweeted NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

“What Israel has just done is, via *any* method, reckless. They blew up countless numbers of people who were driving (meaning cars out of control), shopping (your children are in the stroller standing behind him in the checkout line), et cetera. Indistinguishable from terrorism,” Snowden also said.

What strikes me watching all this is how gratuitously creepy it is. Israel is so creepy. Everyone already sees them as rapey genocidal baby killers, and then they have to go and commit this weird terror attack in the creepiest way possible and freak everyone out, to no clear and meaningful strategic gain. They’re so creepy they can’t stop themselves from always choosing the creepiest course of action.

 

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Richie Medhurst:

Richard Medhurst is an independent journalist and political commentator born in Damascus, Syria. British citizen, fluent in English, Arabic, French and German. Medhurst hosts regular live broadcasts discussing history, US politics, international relations and the Middle East, rooted in an anti-imperialist viewpoint.

 

By Richard Medhurst

 

Muammar Gaddafi led his nation to become the wealthiest in all of Africa. A decade after his demise, it is riven by tribalism, terrorism and slavery, all because the West could not allow an Arab leader to succeed.

There was never really an ‘Arab Spring’ in Libya the way there was in Egypt or Tunisia. Protests were much smaller, and as time went on to show, the biggest players turned out to be extremist groups and foreign actors, each trying to get a slice of the country.

NATO’s bombing of Libya and support for rebels seeking to overthrow Gaddafi had little to do with wanting the country to prosper. Under the guise of ‘human rights’ and ‘democracy’, the Western military alliance helped murder one of the Arab world’s most prominent leaders in order to steal Libya’s resources and protect Western hegemony. Later on, as part of Operation Timber Sycamore, the CIA would find additional utility in Gaddafi’s ousting: funnelling Libya’s stockpiles of weapons and ammunition over to Syria to arm Al-Qaeda and other jihadist groups.

Seldom discussed in the news anymore, Libya has become a shadow of its former self, ravaged by 10 years of war and chaos. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and the other war criminals who orchestrated its destruction don’t want you to know how badly it’s doing.

From thriving nation to ‘failed state’

Known for his extravagance, Gaddafi boasted a security detail of female bodyguards, lavish outfits, and long, dramatic speeches. He also transformed Libya from one of the poorest countries on Earth into a rich, self-sufficient state, all while managing a tribal society in a country home to the largest oil reserves in Africa.

During his 42 years in power, he increased the country’s literacy rate from 25% to 88%. Libyans enjoyed free healthcare, free education, and a high standard of living. Basic necessities such as electricity and gas were cheap, and the country was guaranteed a strong social safety net and welfare programs.

Libya is 90% desert. Gaddafi sought to provide fresh water to all Libyans for consumption and agriculture – an endeavor in which he succeeded. He built the world’s largest irrigation project, the ‘Great Man-Made River’ in the 1980s. Boasting the world’s largest pipe network, it provides 70% of all the fresh water in Libya. Gaddafi called it the “Eighth Wonder of the World”. Costing over $25 billion, the project was entirely self-financed, without any loans or credits from foreign banks. Libya had grown to be a very wealthy country and had no external debt.

NATO bombed the Great Man-Made River in July 2011, destroying key civilian infrastructure: a war crime. 

The United Nations’ Human Development Index provides a summary measure of health, education and income. In 2010, Libya was ranked number one in Africa, and 53rd out of 189 countries and territories. Today, its ranking has sunk from 53rd to 105th worldwide.

After the NATO-backed ‘revolution’, Libya has none of these nice things anymore. There are constant power cuts. The healthcare system has collapsed. There is no infrastructure. The standard of living has plummeted, and after 10 years, Libya doesn’t even have a functioning central government.

In March this year, a government of national unity was formed, after a ceasefire brokered in October 2020. While it has largely held until now, and elections are scheduled for December, infighting persists, and whether anything comes of this process remains to be seen.

Instead of an abundance of water, gold and oil in a thriving country with great infrastructure, Libya now has open slave-trade markets. Smugglers and human traffickers take advantage of migrants and refugees passing through to Europe, selling them off into bondage. Rival tribes and political factions fight over oil and other precious resources, determined to seize power for themselves. Meanwhile, pockets of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), Al-Qaeda and other jihadist fighters lurk in the shadows, plaguing the war-torn country and its neighbors – groups who wouldn’t have dared establish a presence in Gaddafi’s Libya.

Once a prosperous nation, since his fall, it has been taken over by terrorists, opportunists and thieves, and has plunged into chaos. This is what has become of Libya these last 10 years. This is what NATO created. 

One of Gaddafi’s best speeches was in 2008 in Damascus, at a meeting of the Arab League. Rebuking the violent invasion of Iraq, he offered Arab leaders a stark reminder of what befell Saddam Hussein, whom the US once considered an ally against Iran.

“An entire Arab leadership was executed by hanging, yet we sit on the sidelines. Why? Any one of you might be next.”

Chuckling at his words, other Arab leaders would have done well to take heed of Gaddafi’s warning, for, indeed, the US would come for Syria and Libya next. And just three years later, Gaddafi himself would be brutally killed at the hands of NATO-backed rebels.

Anti-imperialist, pan-Arabist and pan-African: Why Gaddafi had to fall

The late Libyan leader supported independence and national liberation movements right across the world, including groups such as the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Irish Republican Army, the Black Panther Party, and many more. In the 1970s, he tried to merge Libya with Egypt and Syria to form a unified Arab state. In 2009, he proposed that African nations adopt a single currency: the gold dinar. The Libyan Central Bank, which was 100% state-owned, had reserves of 144 tons of gold that he intended to use for this purpose. Gaddafi proposed that African countries buy and sell their resources exclusively in this new pan-African currency. This would enable them to transition away from the US dollar and the Central Africa (CFA) franc – a colonial currency used in 14 countries and controlled entirely by France.

This was Gaddafi’s biggest sin. In wanting African nations to adopt a single currency, to control their own resources and have true independence, he posed a threat to Western monetary hegemony, so he had to go.

Western governments were well aware of this plan. A look at the emails of then-US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, show discussions around Gaddafi’s gold reserves and his plans for a single currency. It became clear to the West that African countries switching away from the US dollar or CFA franc, and controlling their own currency and monetary policy, would undermine American and French influence over Africa. It would weaken the Western monopoly over African resources and the international banking system, rendering neo-colonial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund less effective in manipulating developing nations. 

Not that we needed further confirmation; but written clearly in those emails was evidence that this plan to provide an alternative to the CFA franc “was one of the factors that influenced President Nicolas Sarkozy’s decision to commit France to the attack on Libya.”

Sarkozy decided to bomb Libya because he knew full well that West African and Central African countries abandoning the CFA franc would minimise France’s sphere of influence over its ‘former’ African colonies and fulfil its “desire to gain a greater share of Libya oil production” – that is, plunder Libya’s wealth.

Gaddafi foresaw this in 2011, when he said, “There is a conspiracy to control Libyan oil and to control Libyan land, to colonize Libya once again.”

All this is a stark reminder that NATO couldn’t care less about protestors and the ‘Arab Spring’. Claims of “respect for democracy” were merely a cover story to protect Western interests and steal Libya’s resources, leaving the country in chaos and crawling with terrorists, just like Iraq and Syria.

Nothing could be more emblematic of how evil the entire affair is, than Hillary Clinton literally jumping for joy on hearing of Gaddafi’s demise, after he was brutally sodomized, lynched and executed by NATO-backed rebels. “We came, we saw, he died,” she said. 

Killed for his success

Gaddafi was always a thorn in the side of Western colonial interests. His greatest ‘crime’ was wanting real independence, threatening US and French monetary hegemony, and the international banking system.

Now people look at Libya and label it a ‘failed state’, but Gaddafi’s Libya was not a failed state. It was Africa’s wealthiest and most prosperous nation – a thriving, flourishing state until the West deliberately destroyed it in 2011.

Apologists for Western imperialism love dismissing the achievements of other countries and labelling their leaders dictators, but the truth is, Libya was much better off under Gaddafi. It had oil, gold, water and resource independence.

History is littered with African, Arab and Latin leaders, killed by the United States, for daring to make their countries better and seeking to challenge Western hegemony. Gaddafi is no exception.

There is nothing the West hates more than an Arab leader who opposes imperialism, Zionism and wants his country, and other Arab and African countries, to be self-sufficient. That is why NATO murdered Gaddafi.

 

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