Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The official narrative promoted by the entire western political/media class is that Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in February of this year solely because he is evil and hates freedom. He wants to conquer as much of Europe as possible because he cannot stand free democracies, because he is another Adolf Hitler.
Thank you Caitlin. Every day that goes by now, more and more people I speak to have questions about their/u.s. support of Ukraine. I refer them to your writing for unbiased information and thoughtful questions. I owe you, we all owe you our thanks and gratitude : )
Yes, great post. The evil deeds being done in our names as citizens of the United States must cease. For those of us who survive all this it will be a major task to prevent it from recurring. I will never ever take at face value the pronouncements of anyone contemplating a professional political role. Think we need to presume they are professional liars and manipulators first and only support someone who has managed to convince us beyond a reasonable doubt.
In October 1962, at age 19, I slept next to the planes with the Paratroopers of the famed 82nd Airborne Division. We were waiting to jump into Havana in what would have been WWIII, if not for President Kennedy.
Russia had placed missiles in Cuba. Kennedy had mobilized our military to remove those missiles while he was in daily contact with the Russians, negotiating a way to Peace.
I am 80 now. Still grateful for president Kennedy’s love for our troops; grateful that he loved us enough to resolve the rush to WWIII by agreeing to remove U.S. missiles aimed at Russia from Turkey if the Russians took their missiles out of Cuba. Which they did.
I voted for President Biden, thinking he might have graduated from his warmongering past to discover a bit of JFK’s heroism for peace. How wrong I was!
Russia, like the United States has a human right to be free from NATO (U.S.) missiles. Most foreign affairs experts agreed. Most foreign affairs experts predicted for decades that if NATO expanded to threaten Russia, we’d be in WWIII. Biden understood that. But Biden does not care. Biden is surrounded by warmongers and fascists from the project for A New American Century, who deliberately led us into this war.
Now the bright spot is Zelensky’s peace offer to insure Ukrainians and Russians that Ukraine will no longer threaten Russia. The U.S. needs to promote this peace.
But on Saturday, Biden’s Secretary of State Tony Blinken, was in Israel trying to drum up more arms from the Israelis and our friends in Saudi Arabia (the folks who did 9/11 and bomb Yemen every day) for the war fighters in Ukraine.
There are many reporters now writing and saying that Biden, Victoria Nuland, and PNAC do not want peace. Biden says his sanctions will damage us all. Biden says we must accept decades more war.
I wonder…..who are these people? They attack us at home by cutting our wages, pensions and close plants. They ship our jobs to slaves in this constant domestic war on workers. And then, they take the domestic war on workers abroad with bullets, bombs and lies. This is their foreign policy.
I wonder….who are these people? Most of them seem to have never had a real job. Most couldn’t care less for working stiffs and our troops. Most of them are somehow the multi-millionaire Elite who are too proud to fight. And thus, the humble do the fighting. We do not need decades of more war. We need a new Peace Movement. We need a new Solidarity Movement. We need Good Jobs for All. We need a raise. We need to get along so our kids can live happy lives in happy communities.
Everywhere.
God bless Dorothy Day, Cesar Chavez, Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy!
Good article! Yes, we must uphold western democratic values like free speech and a free press with Censorship and Theft. PayPal has reinstated fines for misinformation.
How can anyone in their right mind believe the fraud Squad is "progressive"? These grifters would be like centre-right politicians (at least) in any other country.
They (and Sanders) might be "leftists" in the US, but this only means that the Overton Window there shifted so radically to the far right that nobody with a modicum of common sense can have a voice.
Alas, here in Europe is the same. Millions of idiots lobotomized by the corporate media. World War I propaganda all over again.
I was always skeptical--even when I was young--but the thing that really killed my faith in PMSNBC, the Clinton News Network, and Faux was their full-throated endorsement of:
* Vaccines
* Masks
* Crushing free speech and all dissent
* Their refusal except for Tucker Carlson to question Basement Joe's "81,000,000 votes"
and then their blatant, evil refusal to accurately portray why Russia invaded Ukraine. Russia only said about 3,000 times since 1991 that they wanted to be friends, and not have NATO on their border. We promised them we wouldn't let it go east of Germany. Germany reuniting was with Gorbachev's permission, btw. Gorbachev had a handshake deal with the Americans.
Well, here we are today: on the verge of nuclear death, and with all faith in the mainstream narratives, and in our elections, absolutely blown to atoms.
I'll just reiterate what I've been saying since April--that it's Britain that is the #1 provocateur of this conflict. And what do we have today? The Russian MOD accuses the Royal Navy of bombing the Nordstream pipeline. Note that they're not accusing America, they're accusing Britain. Now we'll get the usual big brains saying that the Brits are helpless lapdogs of the US empire and have no agency. What a pile of rubbish.
It's like being on point for the last so many years has just exponentially leveled up in many ways. Like there has been a great culling of common sense, principles, and very basic empathy over the last 10 years. I used to see myself as leftist through and through. The anti war left seemed consistent and very committed to their ideals from the Afghanistan war up until occupy, all the antiwar people I knew seemed bulletproof in their consistency. Then Trump happened and its like the madness never ended and possibly never will. Its as if the constant MSNBC Russiagate brain pounding followed by the COVID ultra-authoritarianism for the public good made many people I once respected irrational permanently. How much of it is illusory bot farm narrative manipulation, paid/blackmailed influencers, I suspect this is mostly how that happened. Now I see Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, and a tiny handful of semi popular , definitely not MSM journalists such as Matt Taibbi, Eva Bartlett, Glen Greenwald, and Aaron Mate as the only people allowed to say sensible obvious things, and ask questions (like real journalists) that once would have been automatic on national news (probably not since the 1970s tho)? Former CIA applicant Tucker Carlson, unbelievable. Glad it's said anywhere to be honest. The older I get the more I realize I don't have all the answers, and the more I'm open to something new, some way of thinking that makes me different from the thinking that caused this schism. We can't fix all problems with hammers. Every problem is not a nail.
What happened in Ukraine is what the US has done to many other countries. A country with some ethnic divisions that found a way to keep things more or less stable, until the US got involved. Support of opposing factions to the present regime, then forced removal of its leader, regime change, then all hell breaks loose as one ethnic group is empowered and attacks other groups. Ukraine is just the latest US casualty. And yet most Americans are dumb enough to think that Russia attacked Ukraine for the hell of it, and the country that caused this mess can actually fix the mess because of our amazing wonderfulness.
I've faced enough of these pro-war trolls and they are tiresome. Thanks for spelling everything out so "clearly," Caitlin, so we can come to see the errors of our ways. *wink, wink, nudge, nudge*
The Consortium Imposing the Growing Censorship Regime -- and Our New Live, Prime-Time Rumble Program – Glenn Greenwald - Oct. 28, 2022
We are launching a new live, one-hour, prime-time news broadcast. Armed with cable-sized budgets, it will be part of a network that Russell Brand has already debuted.
Thank you Caitlin. Every day that goes by now, more and more people I speak to have questions about their/u.s. support of Ukraine. I refer them to your writing for unbiased information and thoughtful questions. I owe you, we all owe you our thanks and gratitude : )
As empires decline, they lash out like wounded animals.
Yes, great post. The evil deeds being done in our names as citizens of the United States must cease. For those of us who survive all this it will be a major task to prevent it from recurring. I will never ever take at face value the pronouncements of anyone contemplating a professional political role. Think we need to presume they are professional liars and manipulators first and only support someone who has managed to convince us beyond a reasonable doubt.
3/31/2022
To The Editor:
In October 1962, at age 19, I slept next to the planes with the Paratroopers of the famed 82nd Airborne Division. We were waiting to jump into Havana in what would have been WWIII, if not for President Kennedy.
Russia had placed missiles in Cuba. Kennedy had mobilized our military to remove those missiles while he was in daily contact with the Russians, negotiating a way to Peace.
I am 80 now. Still grateful for president Kennedy’s love for our troops; grateful that he loved us enough to resolve the rush to WWIII by agreeing to remove U.S. missiles aimed at Russia from Turkey if the Russians took their missiles out of Cuba. Which they did.
I voted for President Biden, thinking he might have graduated from his warmongering past to discover a bit of JFK’s heroism for peace. How wrong I was!
Russia, like the United States has a human right to be free from NATO (U.S.) missiles. Most foreign affairs experts agreed. Most foreign affairs experts predicted for decades that if NATO expanded to threaten Russia, we’d be in WWIII. Biden understood that. But Biden does not care. Biden is surrounded by warmongers and fascists from the project for A New American Century, who deliberately led us into this war.
Now the bright spot is Zelensky’s peace offer to insure Ukrainians and Russians that Ukraine will no longer threaten Russia. The U.S. needs to promote this peace.
But on Saturday, Biden’s Secretary of State Tony Blinken, was in Israel trying to drum up more arms from the Israelis and our friends in Saudi Arabia (the folks who did 9/11 and bomb Yemen every day) for the war fighters in Ukraine.
There are many reporters now writing and saying that Biden, Victoria Nuland, and PNAC do not want peace. Biden says his sanctions will damage us all. Biden says we must accept decades more war.
I wonder…..who are these people? They attack us at home by cutting our wages, pensions and close plants. They ship our jobs to slaves in this constant domestic war on workers. And then, they take the domestic war on workers abroad with bullets, bombs and lies. This is their foreign policy.
I wonder….who are these people? Most of them seem to have never had a real job. Most couldn’t care less for working stiffs and our troops. Most of them are somehow the multi-millionaire Elite who are too proud to fight. And thus, the humble do the fighting. We do not need decades of more war. We need a new Peace Movement. We need a new Solidarity Movement. We need Good Jobs for All. We need a raise. We need to get along so our kids can live happy lives in happy communities.
Everywhere.
God bless Dorothy Day, Cesar Chavez, Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy!
– Tom Laney, Mercedes, TX
Good article! Yes, we must uphold western democratic values like free speech and a free press with Censorship and Theft. PayPal has reinstated fines for misinformation.
How can anyone in their right mind believe the fraud Squad is "progressive"? These grifters would be like centre-right politicians (at least) in any other country.
They (and Sanders) might be "leftists" in the US, but this only means that the Overton Window there shifted so radically to the far right that nobody with a modicum of common sense can have a voice.
Alas, here in Europe is the same. Millions of idiots lobotomized by the corporate media. World War I propaganda all over again.
I was always skeptical--even when I was young--but the thing that really killed my faith in PMSNBC, the Clinton News Network, and Faux was their full-throated endorsement of:
* Vaccines
* Masks
* Crushing free speech and all dissent
* Their refusal except for Tucker Carlson to question Basement Joe's "81,000,000 votes"
and then their blatant, evil refusal to accurately portray why Russia invaded Ukraine. Russia only said about 3,000 times since 1991 that they wanted to be friends, and not have NATO on their border. We promised them we wouldn't let it go east of Germany. Germany reuniting was with Gorbachev's permission, btw. Gorbachev had a handshake deal with the Americans.
Well, here we are today: on the verge of nuclear death, and with all faith in the mainstream narratives, and in our elections, absolutely blown to atoms.
I'm thinking of moving! Trouble is no matter where I look to go besides China or Russia I see puppet governments paying homage to the Criminal Elite!
I recommend rt.com for actual news, Richard Medhurst for analysis. Of course bring your own brain too...
I'll just reiterate what I've been saying since April--that it's Britain that is the #1 provocateur of this conflict. And what do we have today? The Russian MOD accuses the Royal Navy of bombing the Nordstream pipeline. Note that they're not accusing America, they're accusing Britain. Now we'll get the usual big brains saying that the Brits are helpless lapdogs of the US empire and have no agency. What a pile of rubbish.
From PSYOP-UKRAINE-INVASION to PSYOP-MUSK:
https://2ndsmartestguyintheworld.substack.com/p/psyop-musk-and-the-x-everything-app
It's like being on point for the last so many years has just exponentially leveled up in many ways. Like there has been a great culling of common sense, principles, and very basic empathy over the last 10 years. I used to see myself as leftist through and through. The anti war left seemed consistent and very committed to their ideals from the Afghanistan war up until occupy, all the antiwar people I knew seemed bulletproof in their consistency. Then Trump happened and its like the madness never ended and possibly never will. Its as if the constant MSNBC Russiagate brain pounding followed by the COVID ultra-authoritarianism for the public good made many people I once respected irrational permanently. How much of it is illusory bot farm narrative manipulation, paid/blackmailed influencers, I suspect this is mostly how that happened. Now I see Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, and a tiny handful of semi popular , definitely not MSM journalists such as Matt Taibbi, Eva Bartlett, Glen Greenwald, and Aaron Mate as the only people allowed to say sensible obvious things, and ask questions (like real journalists) that once would have been automatic on national news (probably not since the 1970s tho)? Former CIA applicant Tucker Carlson, unbelievable. Glad it's said anywhere to be honest. The older I get the more I realize I don't have all the answers, and the more I'm open to something new, some way of thinking that makes me different from the thinking that caused this schism. We can't fix all problems with hammers. Every problem is not a nail.
What happened in Ukraine is what the US has done to many other countries. A country with some ethnic divisions that found a way to keep things more or less stable, until the US got involved. Support of opposing factions to the present regime, then forced removal of its leader, regime change, then all hell breaks loose as one ethnic group is empowered and attacks other groups. Ukraine is just the latest US casualty. And yet most Americans are dumb enough to think that Russia attacked Ukraine for the hell of it, and the country that caused this mess can actually fix the mess because of our amazing wonderfulness.
I've faced enough of these pro-war trolls and they are tiresome. Thanks for spelling everything out so "clearly," Caitlin, so we can come to see the errors of our ways. *wink, wink, nudge, nudge*
An EXTRAORDINARY good news !!
The Consortium Imposing the Growing Censorship Regime -- and Our New Live, Prime-Time Rumble Program – Glenn Greenwald - Oct. 28, 2022
We are launching a new live, one-hour, prime-time news broadcast. Armed with cable-sized budgets, it will be part of a network that Russell Brand has already debuted.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-consortium-imposing-the-growing
But ... Putin!