“Indeed, we still do not have enough of the latest weapons, but the arms industry, the country’s defence industry is making strides, and I am sure that the defence industry will, without a doubt, fulfil its goals. The production of modern types of weapons is going at a fast pace.”
V.V. Putin,
June 9, 2023 18:00
……………
That was the President Of Russia being delightfully vague/ambiguous to ‘help’ NATO decide whether to introduce some Mission Creep into the scheduled activities of Operation Air Defense 23.

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jun 11 2023 15:19 utc | 3

thanks b and to the informative posters who grace this place…
here is an article from yesterday – john helmer..
LOSING THE WAR — WHAT COMES NEXT ON THE BATTLEFIELD, AND THE POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES

Posted by: james | Jun 11 2023 15:35 utc | 5

It is clear that a huge economic war between China and the U.S.A. is approaching. This year so far, the import from China to the U.S.A. has crumbled. That is the result of draconian sanctions.

Posted by: SG | Jun 11 2023 16:07 utc | 7

“In 1990 the Club of Rome published a book, The First Global Revolution, which lays out what is now repeated regularly by people like Klaus Schwab: That the world and human society is in dire need of repair, and that governments are not up to the task for a variety of reasons: “There is need to bring many partners into the process — business and industry, research institutions, scientists, NGOs and private organisations — so that the widest available experience and skill is available. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill.” From To Agenda 2030 and Beyond

Posted by: kana | Jun 11 2023 16:54 utc | 9

@Posted by: james | Jun 11 2023 16:39 utc | 9
The role of the BBC has always been as state propagandist, I remember the 1980s Miners Strike from when I was still living in England. The state went far beyond legality in fighting it, with police stopping miners hundreds of miles away from pickets and turning them back and state benefits being cut off from miners families. Some of the mining towns were subject to a police occupation and at Orgreave we had a police riot that the BBC covered up by reversing the timelines on the tape, making it look like the miners attacked the police when it was the police who mounted an unprovoked attack and horse charge on the miners. When the BBC got a bit out of line on Iraq, pointing out the lack of real evidence and the “sexed up” dossier they were thoroughly smacked down by the establishment.
The history of the BBC and its Miners strike role: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tPNPTFfKog
The Battle of Orgreave Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ncrWxnxLjg
This was the pivotal moment for British capitalism after its party survived the depression it created in the early 1980s due to the winning of the Falklands War, the smashing of the working class vanguard union that had brought down the Conservative government in the early 1970s. Once they smashed the miners (aided by the idiot miners who got played in the Nottinghamshire mines who later lost their jobs anyway, and traitors/cowards across the rest of the union movement) they could smash/intimidate the rest of the British union movement.
After the strike they went out of their way to close even the most productive of the British mines, bankrupt the miners union and then the “dash for gas” in the 1990s that made the UK dependent on natural gas – now imported as North Sea production wanes. From the Thatcher revolution we got the working class hating and rich yacht and media owner loving Blair and now his heir Starmer (the “champagne socialists”). Thatcher once stated that Blair was her greatest achievement, neutering the Labour Party as a threat to the Uk establishment.
The Battle of Orgreave will never get the inquiry that Hillsborough got, with it very obvious that the mass police cover up of Orgreave provided the blue print for the cover up after the Hillsborough disaster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULZoaR1AxBE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1auPzjDVuM

Posted by: Roger | Jun 11 2023 17:27 utc | 11

Thanks b, and james and others.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jun 11 2023 17:30 utc | 13

@Posted by: ThusspakeZarathustra | Jun 11 2023 17:28 utc | 12
Its the Guardian who were subjected to a state beating in the early 2010s and are now a cowered PTSD-suffering propagandist outlet of the British establishment, why would you expect anything but such drivel?

Posted by: Roger | Jun 11 2023 17:36 utc | 15

…
Lol maybe but not every other car manufacturer is really a massive data gathering operation pretending to be about cars.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jun 11 2023 17:33 utc | 14
LOL maybe. But if you think you own your cellphone, or that it’s protecting your privacy from AmeriKKKa’s NSA or Google, then your Tesla is the least of your worries 🙂

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jun 11 2023 18:04 utc | 17

Elon fanbois are seriously annoying.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tesla-autopilot-data-scope

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jun 11 2023 18:08 utc | 19

Autopilot deaths calls into question so many ethical concerns regarding autonomous cars that Musk’s Tesla imo should be sued to his eyeballs.
Autopilot should only be a government tech where it would take 15-20 years to roll out using massive test courses.
Much like rolling out experimental vaccines, you can see the profit motive here writ large with absolutely no accountability.
Imagine your child was a slain party due to a faulty tesla. My god…can you imagine the lives destroyed.
There is also the issue of tptb propping up Musl as a kind of neo-Ford, minus the inconvenient truths about Ford’s worldview regarding Jewry. No, Musk mau be a POS but he’s our POS and the useful quisslings out there need another sheep dog to keep them in the western somnambulent fold.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Jun 11 2023 18:53 utc | 21

Thanks Roger and Bevin.
Know what you mean about Tisdall. I skip any of his articles. But this one from the Peter person came via the “Observer”.
First time i heard of him. Now i know.

Posted by: ThusspakeZarathustra | Jun 11 2023 18:56 utc | 23

Left a few replies to regulars over in the previous most recent Not-Ukraine O/T. Can copy-paste them here if needed.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jun 11 2023 19:06 utc | 25

Chinese envoy Li Hui, who visited Ukraine, Russia and someother European capitals, talked about his peace mission and impression recently:
– Neither Ukraine nor Russia closes the door for negotiations.
– To stop the war, save life and achieve peace, it is needed to stop pouring weapons to the battle ground. Otherwise, it only escalates the tension and the situation will get out control.
– China insists on ceasefire and peace negotiation, no matter how difficult and how big the difference (between Ukraine and Russia) is. China would do everything for a peaceful settlement.

Posted by: lulu | Jun 11 2023 19:32 utc | 27

RE: the “Navalny” propaganda puff-piece film. I actually left a review for it after suffering through 3/4ths of it back in March on HBO. The review was quietly flushed/disappeared without notification to me. Here it is from the original email receipt that was generated at the time.

Let me start off by saying something that should be unnecessary but for the state of near totalitarian narrative management and information control that has been in place since Russia invaded Ukraine last year, and which has ramped up in the collective **democratic West** since the election of 2016, but also in a more subtle manner extending back to 2008 and then 2014, the years of the Russian military action in Georgia and the Maidan coup d’etat in Ukraine, respectively – then there is the Skripal affair. But since it has to be said I AM NOT A RUSSIAN, I’m not a **Putin sympathizer** and I’m not a paid troll or employee of a **troll farm** – see my review history for all the proof of that you need.
As far as the film **Navalny** goes I’ll give it one major compliment It was very well written and produced. It spins a very compelling tale and is visually engaging to watch.
As far as the criticisms, they center on the lack of balance and omission of critical information that is inconvenient to the story the film is telling. Let me enumerate them quickly.
1. It is far from conclusive what substance was allegedly given to Navalny, and the testing process was subject to criticism from those who follow geopolitics and clandestine affairs, especially related to the **great powers** (US, UK, Russia and China for this purpose) and their respective adversaries. By this I mean that there are other sides to the story, conflicting accounts from witnesses, a broken (and opaque) chain of custody for the evidence, and some disputed findings. None of them are addressed in the film except in a broad brush dismissal of anything that might countervail the **official** narrative as ‘Russian propaganda.’
2. Navalny got his start in Russian politics on the erstwhile **left** but was quickly booted from his associations for his white supremacist, nazi-like views. Since then he moved ever further to the right and became a straight up far right Russian ultra-nationalist far to the right of Vladimir Putin. He was expelled from the liberal Yabloko opposition party for colluding with the Russian neo-Nazi movement. Navalny is a arch nationalist who wants **Russia for the Russians** excluding all other ethnic groups. In 2013 he publicly endorsed a race riot against Russians of Chechen heritage.
His most commonly stated views align more with Alexandr Dugin (the guy whose daughter was just killed last year) than Vladimir Putin and If you want proof of this, I encourage you to use the Russian website Yandex.com to search for the many instances where Navalny has made openly racist statements and incitements to racial and political violence – on video. There are too many examples to name here. You’ll need to use Google translate or find videos with English subtitles. In an interview with the Guardian Navalny confirmed those views
Several years ago, Navalny released a number of disturbing videos, including one in which he is dressed as a dentist, complaining that tooth cavities ruin healthy teeth, as clips of migrant workers are shown. In another video, he speaks out in favor of relaxing gun controls, in a monologue that appears to compare migrants to cockroaches.
The interviewer says **I ask him if he regrets those videos now, and he’s unapologetic. He sees it as a strength that he can speak to both liberals and nationalists. But comparing migrants to cockroaches? **That was artistic license,** he says. So there’s nothing at all from those videos or that period that he regrets? **No,** he says again, firmly.
This, of course, was papered over in the film.
3. As detailed in the film, Navalny decided to run as the opposition candidate to Putin in I think 2017 during which time he came out with a couple of campaign videos espousing some VERY REASONABLE anti-corruption policies and, dare I say, socialist-left leaning ideas for the common people in the Russian Federation. Whether he was being genuine is anyone’s guess, but given everything he did before and after that, one should probably assume he would have reverted to his far-right roots should he have won the presidency of Russia.
4. Navalny is very unpopular in Russia and this is borne out by multiple independent and anonymous polls. For example, not long ago (2017), polls were conducted on the street protests – some of which were led by Navalny and his cohort. Public opinion was mostly in favor of the right to protest against Putin and various policies of his in the streets, but the public mostly held unfavorable views of the Navalny-associated protests. In another poll related to the mayoral race of Moscow, Navalny scored a meager 4% among voters who said they would definitely vote for him and another 10% who said **maybe yes.**
Don’t get me wrong, once the Kremlin recognized him as a potential political threat, they took many actions, some of which were likely illegal and put out a ton of anti-Navalny messaging. But in subsequent polls before the 2018 Russian presidential election, his popularity had nosedived to 4%. So he’s not this widely loved put upon opposition figure that poses a real threat to Putin’s power and he’s not a nice guy with typical Western liberal values, despite the one campaign I mentioned in which he claimed to be.
5. Finally and in building on the previous points, the ‘western’ media also try to connect the ‘poisoning’ of Navalny to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. That makes no sense at all. Navalny is no danger to Putin and is actually useful for him as he keeps other ‘liberals’ busy opposing the far-right (that is people and parties far to the right of Putin).
During years leading up to the incident which this movie centers on, Navalny made some enemies by uncovering corruption cases. His latest one was about the local governor of Tomsk. It was also the reason why he was on the flight. That is a far more logical suspect in his alleged poisoning than the Kremlin or Putin, which will be hard for most Westerners to swallow given the non-stop unverified stories of Putin poisoning person after person (again, including the Skripals).
Only the anti-corruption activities (which I think of as very positive, BTW) were depicted in the film **Navalny.**
On this basis I have to say I cannot recommend this movie unless you're very bored and/or you like digesting fictions on the evils of Russia and Vladimir Putin. The story told is compelling, but it is largely hogwash.
3/10 for technical merit.
Summary: Pure Propaganda

For whatever reason certain characters like ” were replaced with **.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jun 11 2023 20:06 utc | 29

@Posted by: james | Jun 11 2023 19:03 utc | 24
Neoliberalism was really facilitated in the US in the 1970s by Carter in the last two years of his presidency (he was the one who appointed Volcker), and James Callaghan the UK Labour Party leader plus his detestable chancellor Healey from 1976-1979 (they used an IMF intervention they really did not need as an excuse to go neoliberal, which caused the “winter of discontent” of 1979 that got Thatcher in). The Labour right-wing have always been class traitors, it didn’t just start with Blair. Same with the MacDonald government in the 1930s in the UK.
The Winter of Discontent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYWsUXQrLYw
Tony Benn, true socialist who was blocked by the Labour eight-wingers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_o2tsp-E2I
Trudeau even did his little bit by ending the practise of the Bank of Canada funding large amounts of government spending, as they had done since the 1930s Great Depression, turning government “deficits” once again into interest bearing assets for the rich and the banks. Let’s remember that it was really the Democrat Clinton who brought in full scale neoliberalism in the US, and the Liberals under Chretien who crushed federal spending transfers and did not reverse NAFTA or the GST as promised. What Chretien should have done is fire the Canada Central Banker who was strangling the economy with ridiculously high interest rates (doing well for his class in crushing the working class, once that was done lower interest rates were fine).
Reagan, Thatcher and Mulroney brought full on neoliberalism in, but they needed class traitors to help them get into power and get the ball rolling, and then other class traitors to maintain and develop it (Clinton, Blair, Chretien).
Using the Bank of Canada the way the Chinese use their state banks, for economic development rather than QE that just drives up financial assets and house prices, aided by the removal of any quantitative controls on bank mortgage lending.
https://www.chroniclejournal.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/how-the-bank-of-canada-was-robbed-of-its-purpose/article_924a2116-c93a-11e6-878b-afca58175239.html
https://watershedsentinel.ca/articles/bank-canada-lawsuit/

Posted by: Roger | Jun 11 2023 20:08 utc | 31

@Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jun 11 2023 20:07 utc | 30
Sad that the IMDB comments show that the Navalny propaganda pic is doing its job, showing a view of Russia that is utterly delinked from reality to those that do not have the knowledge to know that it is horseshit. It may even win an academy award!

Posted by: Roger | Jun 11 2023 20:24 utc | 33

Say what you will about Elon Musk, if you are a capitalism fan boy (that includes the “woke” kind who fixate on racism, misogyny, and “transphobia” as the world’s biggest problems), Musk is the only thing going for you right now. There is literally nobody else providing any direction for capitalism whatsoever. The only other thing being pursued with any vigor in the West is “Diversity, Inclusivity, and Equity”. DIE. As with Gen Z being the last generation of western culture, the label “DIE” is likewise oddly appropriate and prophetic.
I think Musk realizes that western culture is at its end, which is why he would prefer to spend his last days in an aluminum can on Mars rather than watch western society’s death throes from close up. We may be able to somehow avoid nuclear Armageddon, but the West dying with a whimper will be a whole lot worse than most people can imagine as well.

Posted by: William Gruff | Jun 11 2023 20:46 utc | 35

Posted by: William Gruff | Jun 11 2023 20:46 utc | 35
Muskrat got “woke” himself but in the manner of finally realizin’ that all the money comes from grifting off the government. So like Bozos, he started contracting with the feds and lobbying for all sorts of tax writeoffs and subsidies.
Woke/Rainbow Capitalism, as you point out, is their desperation play and comes with the added benefit of keeping the working class pissed off and paranoid about their kids being turned into hermaphrodites.
And to add to your last point, IMO the nukes won’t fly and the AI Terminator drones/bots won’t be turned loose on us rabble UNTIL the Muskrat billionaires have established luxury colonies in orbit or on Mars. Because as soon as they know they and their offspring can survive a nuclear war, they probably won’t push us quite to that point. Once they have built sustainable colonies, they will likely have found that space, the last frontier, is capable of providing all the raw materials like metals and semiconductors they’ll ever need.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jun 11 2023 20:58 utc | 37

ThusspakeZarathustra @ 12, Roger @ 13:
I hear that Fraudian regular Nick Cohen has disappeared from that newspaper’s “hallowed” columns under a large cloud of complaints of sexual harassment of younger, junior women journalists working there. All these complaints were either ignored or suppressed by chief editor Katherine Viner, until recently.
The Fraudian looks seedier than ever, with its hypocrisy about championing the rights of victims and other marginalised groups now exposed by its own sexual harassment scandal.
I was reading Tony Greenstein’s blog on this scandal.

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Jun 11 2023 21:02 utc | 39

Now that Boris Johnson has resigned from Parliament in a supposed fit of pique against his fellow back-stabbing psychopath kleptocrats in the Tories, I suppose he will now spend the northern summer on holidays with his missus and brood (and perhaps add another baby to it next year) and perhaps make another unexpected visit or two to Kiev to summon up support from Zelensky for his (Johnson’s) candidacy for NATO secretary-general in September when that job goes vacant. Anyone like to agree or disagree with me?

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Jun 11 2023 21:10 utc | 41

Some other recent items not on b’s list barflies could’ve easily missed:
“‘Give War a Chance’ – A ‘War That Even Pacifists Can Get Behind’”–Alastair Crooke.
“The Hegemon Will Go Full Hybrid War Against BRICS+”–Pepe Escobar.
“The ‘Fourth Turning’ that will Define our Century”–Alastair Crooke.
“Buying US Debt Subsidizes Imperialism”–Michael Hudson.
Michael Hudson interviewed by Dimitri Simes for Sputnik‘s “New Rules” Podcast–“In this week’s episode of the New Rules podcast, host Dimitri Simes Jr. speaks with economist Michael Hudson about the Biden administration’s ‘class war’ against working Americans, why US reindustrialization efforts are unlikely to succeed, the real purpose of sanctions, and de-dollarization.”
“ATLANTIC COUNCIL MEMBERS RE-DEFINE CRAZY WITH RESPECT TO UKRAINE”–Larry Johnson.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jun 11 2023 21:23 utc | 43

Hudson’s latest interview referred to here is very interesting.
He states that dedollarization and deindustrialism will lead to a constricting combination of lower wages and inflation leading to a further polarization of wealth.
The only way out of this is revolution made more difficult by police states.
Enter Russia exposing massive levels of western corruption with the clout to not only expose but possibly bring to justice. Interesting.

Posted by: financial matters | Jun 11 2023 22:10 utc | 45

A very refreshing break from war porn and other troubles is provided by the combination of first reading this article, “Docking completed on Shenzhen-Zhongshan Bridge undersea tunnel” followed by watching this outstanding video about the bridge/tunnel’s construction. The video is just one of many provided by RT’s Documentary Channel, and you can get to see what else is available from the above link. The narration’s in English with subtitled translations. If you want to see modernity, watch this video. Personally, I can’t conceive of the Outlaw US Empire doing anything of that sort today, although it did once upon a time in the past.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jun 11 2023 22:25 utc | 47

Kit Klarenberg writes at mintpressnews.com on the Pentagon “Influence and Perception Management Office”. This report details the background and activities of this extra legal pentagon operation and the enormous reach it exercises across the planet.
Below is a snippet that may be coincidental to the forthcoming NATO December23 operation somewhere in europe:

Fittingly too, in December 2022, independent journalist Jack Murphy published an investigation alleging the CIA was “using a European NATO ally’s spy service to conduct a covert sabotage campaign inside Russia under the agency’s direction,” in which JSOC was a key player. The Command purportedly supports these operations “with targeting information from intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms, such as drones, that can see and hear deep into Russia.”

It is a worthwhile read. Just goto mintpressnews.com and you will find a basket of goodies.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jun 11 2023 22:49 utc | 49

Tom_Q_Collins #20:58 utc | 37

Once they have built sustainable [space] colonies, they will likely have found that space, the last frontier, is capable of providing all the raw materials like metals and semiconductors they’ll ever need.

I think that scenario is flawed. All the mineral deposits that may or may not exist still have to be mined. On earth this mining is conducted on a large scale, requires enormous energy inputs but most of all the furnaces and processes accompanying refineries requires oxygen, and in enormous volumes. Earth seems to be the only planet so endowed.
Trashing the earth and its biosphere would turn off the oxygen pump in the forests.
IMO the next century might see some mining on the moon for exotics not readily available on earth. But mainly the resource most sought after is the thirst for knowledge and the development of technology to search that far.
The elite just want to dominate and accumulate as they are likely aware of the oxygen equation and the equations applicable to other exotic gases like neon etc.
The WW3 scenario is nonsense when it is conjured as a deliberate malign ploy. An accidental outcome ? perhaps.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jun 11 2023 23:26 utc | 51

news report.. .
WASHINGTON, June 9 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to China next week for long-delayed talks aimed at stabilizing tense relations, and a U.S. official said he is expected to be there on June 18.
We recall the last high-level meeting of the two countries.
from wikipedia–

The United States–China talks in Alaska, also referred to as the Alaska talks[1] or the Anchorage meetings,[2] were a series of meetings between representatives of China and the United States to discuss a range of issues affecting their relations. The talks took place in three rounds during a two-day period between March 18 and 19 of 2021.
. . .Following the first day of the talks, both sides publicly denounced each other to the media. After the second day, some agreements were made, and the talks were called constructive, as well as substantive.
. . .The conference ended on the second day without any joint statements. The Americans agreed to continue to uphold the one-China principle,[18] whilst also stating that the issue of Taiwan was one that the American government was “fundamentally at odds”[18] with the Chinese government. However, both sides agreed on the value of using the talks as an opportunity to hear and better understand each other’s issues[13] and to continue cooperation on issues related to climate change.[3] . .here

Actually the US on Taiwan is fundamentally at odds with itself. It is a published US statement that the US does not support Taiwan independence, yet it provides military support to the island to support its independence from China.
We oppose any unilateral changes to the status quo from either side; we do not support Taiwan independence; and we expect cross-Strait differences to be resolved by peaceful means. . . .here

Posted by: Don Bacon | Jun 11 2023 23:37 utc | 53

Posted by: S.P. Korolev | Jun 11 2023 22:19 utc | 46
I was just reading about LENRs/cold fusion the other day at a rather conspiratorial Substack page that the author has dedicated to his own perceived persecution and the persecution of people who were supposedly surpassing unity (i.e. violating the 2nd law of thermodynamics). For the life of me I cannot find it, but the guy has post after post about how governments and billionaires have suppressed inventors and scientists that either succeeded in achieving perpetual energy creating devices or were on the verge of “beyond unity.” Some regular barflys might be familiar with one of his favorite topics, the Canadian inventor (and crackpot?) named John Hutchison. Kinda off topic, I guess, but when I was reading his musings I was reminded of Steorn, the Irish startup from back in 2005/2006 that promised perpetual energy products called Orbo…ANY DAY NOW! They had failed demonstration after failed demonstration, but it was fun to follow for a while before the whole thing petered out and the company founders went broke and lost all their investors’ money.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jun 11 2023 23:55 utc | 55

Finally located the video interview between Judge Napolitano and Alastair Crooke from 6 June where some important news and views dealing with Europe are expressed. For example, Crooke tells us about a very important news item that was published by Die Welt that Germany is now majority immigrant–German’s are a minority within Germany–that will have major political repercussions. IMO, 25 minuets of time well spent.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jun 12 2023 0:26 utc | 57

@ Roger | Jun 11 2023 23:36 utc | 52
i think the concept of total collapse was that orlov guys viewpoint as well.. thanks..
—– uncle tungsten and karlof1.. thanks for the suggestions.

Posted by: james | Jun 12 2023 0:49 utc | 59

Many links are great follow-ups to important topics, but this Anatol Lieven guy in Responsible Statecraft is a load of crap again.
Well it’s 80%-90% crap, I guess that puts him above the fray, one might think.
I would argue, that it might be the worse than the usual propaganda, because he tries to weasel Western truthisms into his oh so “neutral” analyses.
In the link above he pulls this “well we are not so innocent either” – shtick. Many accusations against Russia are just presented as fact. His justification for listening a bit to the evil Russians is that they have a somewhat understandable, quasi-primitive interest in exerting their influence over their neighbors. As if NATO and the West wouldn’t actually threaten the Russian state. As if the Ukrainians didn’t actually discriminate against all non-ukrainians and as if they didn’t just slowly murder their Russian minority over many years. As if the West wasn’t doing EXACTLY that to a much greater extent.
And I think it might try to warm the Western audiences to the idea that the West isn’t just the good guy, but still far better than the evil Russians. This is probably necessary now that it became apparent the Ukros won’t win and their frenzied and propagandized petit bourgeoisie citizen-dolts need to be prepared for the shift in the official narrative. Or maybe he mostly doesn’t want to die in a nuclear war, I guess that’s something. Otherwise it really is mostly just garbage.
His last article was on Kosovo btw. Again he tried to reduce the “good vs evil” part only to “maybe they are not evil, but simply more primitive than we are”. The presence of NATO troops is presented as a good thing for the region. As if the West hasn’t pushed for the violent dissolution of Yugoslavia and destabilization for more than two decades now.
It has crappy pieces like:

A more sensible approach draws upon law, but combines this with humanity, reality, enlightened U.S. and NATO self-interest, and sheer common sense.

If this guy is not a paid actor he is an educated idiot.

Posted by: Roland | Jun 12 2023 1:31 utc | 61

@ bevin | Jun 11 2023 15:25 utc | 4
You omitted the stunning crushing of OWS by the US Federal government in a single weekend.
As for the political infiltrations of “the Left” (any group even nominally posing some disadvantage to plutocracy), take for example the situation where a few real “Greens” form a embryonic Party in the US: It will be under intense “police” surveillance from the first, and its ranks rapidly filled with the Mob princes and princesses of the plutocratic elite and their hangers-on and wannabes, who will rapidly convert it to a typical “progressive” Party, with LGBTQ+, BLM and maybe even Me Too its primary concerns, and any actual ecological concerns relegated to a distant third or fourth place if that.

Posted by: John Kennard | Jun 12 2023 2:17 utc | 63

karlof1 # 0:26 utc | 57

IMO, 25 minuets of time well spent.

Thank you that was a goodie. Sad that it was so brief – another hour of penetrating analysis and history from Alastair Crooke would be an excellent investment. I really would appreciate his deep insight into the machinations of the UK in its hatred of Russia, how it was flogged, trounced and ejected once Putin consolidated his grip and how the EU – UK tensions evolved and are currently managed.
Thank you james. With luck and serendipity I may find some more links worthy of the time.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jun 12 2023 2:49 utc | 65

The British Intelligence Hand Behind the NED and Modern Color Revolutions
From: https://www.unz.com/article/the-british-intelligence-hand-behind-the-ned-and-modern-color-revolutions/
report from Matthew Ehret June 7th.
I haven’t check out all the links but the report is solid as is Matthew.

Contrary to popular opinion, the British Empire did not go away after WWII, nor did it hand over the “keys to the kingdom” to America. It didn’t even become America’s Junior Partner in a new Anglo-American special relationship. Contrary to popular belief, it stayed in the drivers’ seat.
The post WWII order was largely shaped by a British coup which didn’t take over America without a fight. Nests of Oxford-trained Rhodes Scholars, Fabians and other ideologues embedded within the American establishment had a lot of work ahead of them as they struggled to purge all nationalist impulses from the American intelligence community. While the most aggressive purging of patriotic Americans from the intelligence community occurred during the dissolution of the OSS and creation of CIA in 1947 and the Communist witch hunt that followed, there were other purges that were less well known.
As an organization which was beginning to take form which was to become known as the Trilateral Commission organized by Britain’s “hand in America” called the Council on Foreign Relations and international Bilderberg Group, another purge occurred in 1970 under the direction of James Schlesinger during his six month stint as CIA director. At that time 1000 top CIA officials deemed “unfit” were fired. This was followed nine years later as another 800 were fired under a list drafted by CIA “spymaster” Ted Shackley. Both Schlesinger and Shackley were high level Trilateral Commission members who took part in the group’s 1973 formation and fully took power of America during Jimmy Carter’s 1977-1981 presidency which unleashed a dystopian reorganization of American foreign and internal policy outlined in my previous report.

And much, much more.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jun 12 2023 3:08 utc | 67

Do read the rest. Cuba is as much a target here as China.
Posted by: karlof1 | Jun 11 2023 21:06 utc | 40
Yeah, my ‘puter opens to Yahoo’s homepage and I just saw that headline yesterday. Didn’t bother
to read but had the immediate thought of it being an effective two-fer for the Outlaws.
Also made me think of my HS biology Nat. Guard teacher who got called up and had to leave us
for a few weeks back during USSR/Cuba affair.
One more for the history repeats as farce pile, eh?
Thanks for your continued work/postings and focus on inter-galactic affairs.

Posted by: waynorinorway | Jun 12 2023 4:19 utc | 69

@ uncle tungsten | Jun 12 2023 2:49 utc | 65
ha ha! thanks to you.. you give me too many options to choose from, lol.. cheers..

Posted by: james | Jun 12 2023 4:48 utc | 71

Sabby Sabs checks up on Kamala Harris SHADY Caribbean Trip
Invade Haiti!! and why not – its a USA elite thing to kick the poorest nation on earth around the ring – again and again and again :/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zElQ7en92pQ
some commenters point out:

Haiti being forced to pay some 30 billion dollars in reparations to France was completely criminal! Haiti has basically never had a chance and exploitation has been the norm for decades and decades!
9 hours ago (edited)
Not only did Haiti have to pay reparations to France, also, the United States would not recognize Haiti as a country and would not trade with Haiti unless they paid reparations to France. Citibank benefited from this.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jun 12 2023 5:16 utc | 73

@ Grieved | Jun 12 2023 4:28 utc | 70 who wrote
”
But I look for them every day, those perfect words to describe the enemy of humanity – the liar – and to cast it down.
”
My words may not be perfect but the words below I wrote to a local Google listserv in response to a thread about homelessness in our city

I tell people that humanity is going through a civilization war about public/private finance with the China/Russia axis on one side and the “West”, with the face of America, on the other.
The America I grew up in had the original motto of E Pluribus Unum (Out Of Many, One) which was changed in the early 1950’s to In God We Trust in order to fight “godless communism”. Unfortunately, the God that was given motto-hood is the God of Mammon that never forgives debts and maintains the inherited private finance oligarchy that sets the rules by how we live….its top down, not bottom up.
In the early 1970’s I participated in the “last attempt at” comprehensive public policy planning at the state level called the Washington 2000 project. Think tanks provide those services to the private side of our society exclusively now and social services are costs that the profit oriented folk want to see eliminated. We can argue all day about the balance of support society should provide and the consummate social responsibilities that go along with those benefits but unless/until control over finance is turned into a public utility (NOT to be given to the current set of mostly financialized puppets we call Congress critters), financial control to do things the public wants will not happen.
Back to our local situation. You are correct to point out that we are creating the situation we have by our humanity but not managing it well because of stovepipe funding, jurisdiction excuses and the lack of comprehensive planning/coordination…..its a feature, not a bug, of what the elite have made of America through the media brainwashing….sad.
I am just the piano player here folks….we tried to make a difference in the 1960’s, with the Occupy movement and now the rest of the world is standing up to the cult that runs the Western part of our world. I have been watching for 50+ years and never thought I would live to see what is happening in our world. Americans need to take their country back from the global private money mafia and maybe even change the motto back to the original.

This is a first for me to write such to a local medium and maybe it won’t be received well but we have to try, IMO
Best to you

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jun 12 2023 5:32 utc | 75

Grieved # 4:28 utc | 70

But I look for them every day, those perfect words to describe the enemy of humanity – the liar – and to cast it down.

Thank you for the words vichy press and that then inspired me to suggest quisling press as they encompass the concept of the treacherous lie or betrayal of any element of integrity to pursue their grasping pocketful of silver coin.
Indeed there is a massive turning away in these times and a desire for an honest voice as Fox news is now dealing with.
Here are some other voices of integrity:
Russia and China are WINNING and the Neocons Are Furious w/ Garland Nixon and Carl Zha
Twenty five minutes of delight hosted by Danny Haiphong.
Stay well brother.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jun 12 2023 6:24 utc | 77

playing whack-a-mole with the excess and spending big bucks on follow up cleaning as they move folks around.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Jun 12 2023 6:35 utc | 78
Thanks PH. That seems to be the story most everywhere, in the west US at least. Same as my friends report from Sacramento.
I follow Paul Kirk Haeder who lives over in Karlof1’s neighborhood and writes some at Dissident Voice. He’s worked the streets
in the Spokane and Portland areas and paints a pretty grim picture. I agree completely with your ‘God of Mammon’ pov.

Posted by: waynorinorway | Jun 12 2023 6:58 utc | 79

Chen Weihua DESTROYS US Propaganda on Ukraine, Taiwan, and the Rise of China
Danny Haiphong and Chen Weihua yarning on a street in Brussels 🙂 A good background to Blinkens blunder in the Orient stage 2.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jun 12 2023 7:15 utc | 81

Just in time to take our minds off the Fukushima radioactive waste water gurgling into the Pacific Ocean Oliver Stone releases a new movie extolling the virtues of and urgency for a nuclear power future.
Katie Halper and Aaron Mate speak with the nuke power advocate, Oliver Stone.
How about that.
We are being told that this disastrous industry is good for us from a team assembled in the USA who has drastically increased the CO2 output of Europe by refrigerating natural gas and then transporting it from the USA to Europe at immense CO2 cost than would be the case if they had continued with the Nord Stream pipeline.
This nuclear industry advocate representing one of the most poorly regulated nations on earth trying to whitewash serial nuclear industry disasters – especially the GE reactors constructed in its colony Japan.
Here Oliver Stone is telling us where our salvation lies from one of the most corrupt empires on this earth with a track record of failed industry regulation (C8 and Dupont for example) or the banking and financial sector or the fossil fuel industries or perhaps the Military Industrial Complex!!
It sure is a mountainous pile of graves that Oliver Stone has to descend to bring us his DU tablets of wisdom.
How far they fall.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jun 12 2023 8:30 utc | 83

Meanwhile, the whole US politicians and media propagandise the whole world: China is aggressive.

Posted by: lulu | Jun 12 2023 13:41 utc | 85

US allow S. Korean and Taiwan chip makers aintain and expand their existing prouduction in China.
If true, it is highly probable that Chinese local manufacturers have made a breakthrough.
US needs S. Korean and Taiwanese chip makers to lower the prices and dump their chips onto the market to drown the Chinese local manufacturers.
They have used the same tactics many times before killing many local manufacturers.

Posted by: lulu | Jun 12 2023 14:23 utc | 87

Some more background on why the Guardian became such an establishment rag, the government beating that was delivered: How The Guardian Newspaper Became A Pro-War Garbage Rag.
And the UK government complains about freedom of the press in other countries, absolute hypocritical bullshit. Then of course, there is the jailing of the journalist Assange…

Posted by: Roger | Jun 12 2023 17:40 utc | 89

Some more background on why the Guardian became such an establishment rag, the government beating that was delivered: How The Guardian Newspaper Became A Pro-War Garbage Rag.
And the UK government complains about freedom of the press in other countries, absolute hypocritical bullshit. Then of course, there is the jailing of the journalist Assange…

Posted by: Roger | Jun 12 2023 17:42 utc | 91

Yesterday Russian Telegram channel Razgruzka Vagnera has published reactions of several Wagner commanders to Russian MoD’s order to integrate Wagner into the structure of the Russian Armed Forces. Needless to say, they are livid.
Paladin, Wagner commander, Hero of Russia (link):

I left back in 2004. At that time, Russia’s MoD has already began its fall. Corruption and ass-licking flourished everywhere, real combat commanders were massively pushed into the background and forced to quit.
In 2014, I left business and joined [Wagner]. Because there is only one Motherland. And I found a new family in the form of the Wagner PMC brotherhood, where everything is fair and just, where the most experienced and qualified adequate fighters and commanders have gathered. Where there are no prosecutors and no committee of soldiers’ mothers who turned the army into a kindergarten.
As a result, 19 years later, what do I see… I see the same thing, rotten to the ground, only in a new wrapper. The ears of Western states and corporations are sticking out everywhere. There is no crime that a capitalist would not commit. For a profit of 300%. And what awaits us in such a future???? Shoygu demands that we come under his banner… not fighting for the Motherland, not saving the Fatherland… but ending up in his power.
Show me at least one of his victories. This is a truth known to everyone since childhood. You copy those you hang out with. Therefore, his goal of “divide and conquer” is a pure betrayal of the Motherland. Because whoever goes under the banner of a weak and stupid leader will never win. And we have no choice, either victory or the country will cease to exist. The final enslavement by the West or the becoming the doormat of China is a very shitty prospect for the Russians, because we will not rest.

Salem, Wagner commander, Hero of Russia (famous for losing two legs and an arm during the assault in Bakhmut, where he alone was pitted against three tanks) (link):

We are defending the Motherland, and what prevents us from defending the Motherland is the state. Shoygu with his bureaucratism is exactly that: the state. I served 21 years in the army and I saw and felt personally how under Serdyukov, and later under the current Minister of Defense, the army was falling apart and was being plundered, and favorites, ass-lickers and fairy tellers were rising by leaps and bounds, people who never fought, in the rank of lieutenants, were becoming commanders of detachments, brigades. And the desire to subdue everyone directly as soon as possible is panic and convulsions of the Ministry during the counteroffensive of the AFU, and they also want to remove the dissatisfied and the best, because the people see everything, they see the strongest ones. And it is the people of the country who are one of the main components of the Motherland.

Koldun, Wagner commander, Hero of Russia (link):

In 2014, I resigned from the RuAF and was immediately accepted into our organization—Wagner PMC.
In Wagner PMC I had the opportunity to realize myself as a warrior, as a manager!!! Unlike under Russia’s MoD, where, starting with Serdyukov and his Order 400, which divided officers into worthy and unworthy, or worthy, but not very much so, with the same workload and work. The result of that order: the military comradeship destroyed, replaced with sycophancy!!!
And the “cherry” on the cake was Comrade Shoygu in the role of RF’s Minister of Defense, under whom, instead of critical thinking and unconventional approaches, the Armed Forces started valuing servility and sycophancy!!!! Under him, the concept of photo- and video reports, endless video conferences was introduced!! The optics became more important than the substance!!
Shoygu is the one who has no idea what military service, garrisons, field exits, all kinds of hardships and deprivations, which I can list for a long time, are!!! And finally, he has no idea what WAR is!!!
Shoigu is the man who instilled the People of Russia with a false sense of confidence in our valiant Red Army!!! With endless parades, beautiful uniforms and big salaries!
A person who attributed to himself what he had nothing to do with… but would like to!!! I’m talking about glorious victories over ISIS terrorists in Syria, namely: first Palmyra, second Palmyra, Akerbat, Deir er-Zor, Damascus!!! Although those in the know know exactly who played the main violin in those victories!!!
A man who did not learn anything from the conflicts in the Central African Republic, Libya, Mali!!!
After the defeat of Armenia by Azerbaijan, where the Armenian army was a carbon copy of the Russian army… nobody in Russia’s MoD learned anything!!!
And now, when trouble has come to our country… the country that gave birth to Aleksandr Nevskiy, Dmitriy Donskoy, Potyomkin, Aleksandr Suvorov, Kutuzov, a whole galaxy of Great Patriotic War commanders under the leadership of Comrade Stalin….. Shoygu again wants to rake in the coals with other people’s hands!!!
This man is not worthy that the faithful sons of their Fatherland, who are defending its interests in many conflicts, who passed trials by fire, water and vanity, who lost their comrades-in-arms not on paper, but in life… entered into a contract with a KNIGHT OF THE ORDER OF MALTA!!!
We say NO!!!!!

Aysmen, Wagner commander, Hero of Russia (link):

I left our valiant army in 2005, cancelled my contract, which I don’t regret for a moment. I got tired of the stupidity and incompetence of the commanders who received their positions and ranks by licking the asses of the higher command. I could not look at how the army was being plundered and the positions were being given not to those who deserved it, but to those who had a rougher tongue. Perhaps our government wants to make toy regiments out of the army!? An analogue of the children’s army for games and fun of uppity adults with the mental development of a 5-year-old child.
They seem to have forgotten, “Those who do not want to feed their own army will feed someone else’s.”
Here, in the ranks of Wagner PMC, I met worthy and militarily competent, honest patriots of our country who are ready to lay down their lives rather than become a coward and a traitor. These people will not give up even a meter of their native land, which their ancestors have been conquering for centuries.
It is an honor for me to fight in the ranks of this unit, which proved its effectiveness not in words, like Konashenkov, but in practice.

Dikiy, Wagner commander, Hero of Russia (link):

Most commanders from the Ministry of Defense will agree with me that the leadership of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is a community of amateurs who not only cannot lead our army to victory, but are dishonoring it at every step. Therefore, I propose a similar document, only in reverse order. That Wagner PMC is ready to accept fighters from the Ministry of Defense into its ranks, on general, fraternal conditions. We are ready to continue fighting together, shoulder to shoulder, until the Victory of Great Russia.
As for Shoygu and his retinue. I propose not later than Jun  20 to pass a qualification exam in our field camps and additional training. As a result, after training and a test of trust, if someone ends up with the result of “crapped himself,” he surrenders his position, shoulder boards and undeservedly acquired awards. They also return their children from abroad and cancel their dual citizenship, and transfer their real estate abroad to a fund helping the relatives of those who died during the SMO.

Zombi, Wagner commander, Hero of Russia (link):

Having served in the RuAF for 15 years, I can state with accuracy: everyone went to PMCs in order to serve the Motherland. Not for rubles, not for apartments and benefits. We do not have these privileges. We left the army to escape the tyranny of the higher-ups, sycophancy and bullshitting that flourished in the army. In the army before the SMO, they served for material benefits, and even among the people they were called “mortgagors.” But when the SMO began, they started quitting en masse, because serving for an apartment is one thing, and dying for the Motherland is another. During the SMO, we interacted with the MoD, and the situation has not changed in any way—it looks depressing. The regimental commanders are in a hurry to report on the successes, exaggerating to the results. The battalion commanders are withdrawing from the conduct of combat, since they have no experience in waging war, they have no understanding of the situation, and it is Vanka the company commander and the Russian soldier who are fighting, thrown to death by their superiors without communication, without support, without help. So here’s the thing: we strongly disagree with going to death and dying stupidly. It’s easy to die, but to survive, to win, to return to your relatives—that’s something else!!!!! We want to benefit our Motherland with our actions, and with the transfer to the MoD everything will become the same as where we all left from. We are not mercenaries, we are PATRIOTS!!!!!

Pioner, Wagner commander, a participant of campaigns in Syria, Central Africa, Sudan, Mali and other countries, recipient of five Orders of Courage (link):

When issuing the order on volunteers, Shoygu’s goal was not to provide them with legal status, not to control the activities of military formations, but to deprive them of opportunities in equipping, supplying arms and ammo to Wagner PMC, despite the lack of human resources and combat-ready units at the front. He does not want what he considers a competitor, a competitor to his personal ambitions. The fear of losing the loot (the only way to put it) forces him, by using his official position, to solve personal goals, this can’t be explained in any other way. After this order, members of the Duma, former like-minded generals and henchmen of the Minister of Defense will try to “push through” a law on PMCs in order to recognize such military formations as illegal for good, followed by prosecution and the ensuing criminal cases. His official position and administrative resources will allow him to implement this entire mechanism to eliminate, first of all, the leadership of the Wagner PMC, which greatly hinders the “prosperity” of his clan, the Shoygu clan. One man declared himself the arbiter of the human fates of an entire country. He practically got out of control of the Supreme [Commander-in-Chief], everyone is afraid of Shoygu, because he has a monopoly on weapons and therefore on the lives of people and the Russian Federation as a whole.
Having once sworn allegiance to my people and the Fatherland, I am still ready to defend Russia with weapons in my hands both from external enemies and internal ones who are putting their own personal [desires] above the values of the citizens of the country and the state as a whole.

Posted by: S | Jun 12 2023 19:12 utc | 93

ZH has a posting up with the title
Fox Slaps Tucker Carlson With Cease & Desist Notice Over Twitter Show
The quote

Since Carlson’s ouster in April following Fox News’ $787 million defamation settlement with Dominion Voting Systems (which Carlson says a board member told him was part of the settlement), Carlson has accused Fox of fraud, accusing senior executives of reneging on promises made to him “intentionally and with reckless disregard for the truth.”
Carlson’s legal team have also argued that Fox broke their promise to him not to settle with Dominion “in a way which would indicate wrongdoing” on the part of the former host.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jun 12 2023 21:36 utc | 95

Roger #89, 90, 91, 92
:)) thrice was the spell uttered and cast out was the demon.
If only.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jun 12 2023 23:33 utc | 97

S | Jun 12 2023 19:12 utc | 93–
Those are rather curious testimonials. So, the Red Army was in great shape after the Yeltsin decade and Shoigu ruined it? I’d say the bureaucratic culture that existed when several of those cited quit in 2004 was most likely still unchanged from the Yeltsin Era, and the Soviet Era that came before. One must ask what they did to protect Russia from the devastation being wrought by Yeltsin and the Oligarchic Crew. Another question based on this description by Wikipedia:
“The Ministry of Defence is managed by a collegium chaired by the Defence Minister and including the deputy Defence Ministers, heads of Main Defence Ministry and General Staff Directorates, and the commanders of the Joint Strategic Commands/Military Districts, the three Services, and three branches, who together form the principal staff and advisory board of the Minister of Defence.” [My Emphasis]
“Collegium” suggests decisions being reached by consensus, not the diktat of one man as the testimonies imply. And why is Putin not mentioned by any of them? Isn’t he the ultimate decider? I wonder how well the testifiers would fare if faced with the same big issues in this war that no one before has ever had to face? I see a huge problem advancing through modern minefields given the new capability to lay mines via artillery. The assets needed to advance now become even more complex; and once you make headway, you must somehow prevent the area you just cleared from being resown with mines, which both sides are able to do. Some sort of canopy erected over the cleared area that sluffs the new incoming mines off to the side seems to be the only potential solution.
Anyway, those are some musings I have in response. Martyanov is constantly raging against those who’ve never fought this sort of war before, but he never mentions the fact that Russian’s haven’t fought this way before either–that this is a learning experience for all. Bureaucratic Culture seems to be universal. The same issues the West has also exist in Russia, and likely in China too given the reports about corruption I’ve read over the years.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jun 13 2023 0:04 utc | 99