The Peace Press — Saturday, October 24, 2026 edition
“A Framework for Peace in Ukraine
This proposed settlement — designed to help end a conflict that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and carries a continuing risk of confrontation — addresses the causes of the war rather than only its symptoms.”
“The settlement in Ukraine should also begin the repair of European security as a whole. NATO and Russia would agree on a moratorium on ground-launched intermediate-range missiles in Europe, refrain from deploying nuclear weapons in any additional state, and restore the NATO-Russia Council. Normal diplomatic relations would be restored on both sides. The parties would convene the first summit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe since 2010 to entrust the OSCE with monitoring the settlement, verifying arms limits, and overseeing the provisions on rights.”
https://original.antiwar.com/jeffrey_sachs/2026/10/21/a-framework-for-peace-in-ukraine/
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“Given the vitriol gushing out of corporate media over the purchase of about two weeks’ worth of Russian diesel fuel, we just might be watching the beginning of the endgame in Ukraine.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/10/23/patrick-lawrence-trump-the-rrrrussians/
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“Toilet Treachery: Desperate to Escalate, Europe Stoops to Absurd Accusations Against Russia
“As Europe’s daily warnings about an impending Russian attack on the quivering continent grow louder each day, it is the Europeans themselves that continue to posture toward war, accusing Russia of the most sensational absurdities imaginable.
European tabloids and politicians alike have essentially merged into one multi-headed hydra, spewing its excrescence of propaganda at every turn. Some of the latest claims would be difficult for even children to believe.”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/toilet-treachery-desperate-to-escalate
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“In case you are ever tempted to feel sorry for Trumpy — now might be the time. We are referring, of course, to the current shrill crescendo of attacks from the mainstream media and UniParty pols upon Trump over his spat with Zelensky and his sensible decision to ixnay the barking idiocy of the Lindsay O. Graham Sanctioning Russia And Iran Act of 2026.
For crying out loud. On the (very) rare occasion when Trump gets something right — that is, on the urgent need for Washington to cut loose of the no-count cesspool of corruption in Kiev — the aforementioned chorus hoovers up the tired (and groundless) old canard about Putin allegedly having salacious pictures of the Donald with his pants off.
So we sincerely ask: Is it not possible that there is a damn good reason why Trump is stumbling around attempting to disengage from the Washington-made disaster in Ukraine?
Is it also not conceivable that the pathetic crooks in Kiev should be severed from the US arms and treasury pipeline forthwith? After all, these are the good folks who steal their allies in Europe and Washington blind and who are so desperately hanging on by a thread in their misbegotten war against Russia that they are gang-pressing 60-years olds right off the streets of their crumbling cities into paddy wagons in order to do what?”
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“The wars in Ukraine and Iran are directly responsible for much of the inflation. They are, however, a consequence of the concentration of wealth, not a separate factor. Billionaires make money from war. They make money from weapons and from lending to governments. They make money from military and security contracts. The make money from high hydrocarbon prices, They make money from asset-value fluctuations between hot war and negotiation. Billionaires drive war.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/10/21/craig-murray-france-has-never-been-richer/
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“Curious What Canada’s PM Considers Threat to ‘Peace’
“An eight-week US bombing campaign of Yemen last year killed at least 224 civilians as part of an effort to enable Israel’s genocide and last month the Trump administration gave the Jewish supremacist state $2.8 billion worth of mostly 2,000-pound bombs.
Over 40 days at the start of the year the US launched 10,000 strikes on Iran. In one attack, 120 schoolgirls were killed.
Carney has either supported or ignored all of that violence. But the prime minister responded to the US president announcing a plan to purchase Russian diesel as a threat to “peace”.
In a statement released after speaking to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday the PMO posted, “The leaders discussed the new agreement between the United States and Russia to supply millions of tonnes of diesel to the United States. The Prime Minister was clear: this agreement is in direct opposition to the efforts of Ukraine, Canada, and our allies to create peace and stability in Europe.””
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“Zelensky’s strength is being undermined on four fronts: overall domestic support, support from his party, financial support from Europe, and a collapsing relationship with President Donald Trump.
Polls show that Ukrainians, who wanted Zelensky to lead them through the war, no longer want him to lead them after the war. Indeed, having fed Ukrainians with fantastical promises of pushing Russia out of all Ukrainian lands and being welcomed into NATO, and having depended on a cooperative relationship with Ukrainian ultranationalists who oppose a compromise peace with Moscow, Zelensky may have put himself into a position where his presidency cannot survive the war. Polling shows a collapse of domestic support for Zelensky, suggesting that he would lose by a wide margin in the next election.”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/prepping-a-postmortem-for-zelenskys-presidency/
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“Slouching toward Kaliningrad, NATO dismisses a nuclear threat
As it encroaches on the western Russian enclave on the Baltic Sea, the alliance continues to underestimate Moscow’s red lines.”
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/kaliningrad-nato-russia/
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“‘The Social Reckoning’ Is Deep State, Pro Censorship Propaganda
Censoring “Misinformation” Is Code For Gatekeeping Establishment Narratives.”
“There is a new film out titled The Social Reckoning written and directed by Aaron Sorkin promoted as a semi sequel to 2010 film The Social Network.
The film in reality, seems more to be deep state propaganda pushing for more censorship of counter establishment narratives on social media platforms.
The narrative of the film seems to be a push for Facebook to reinstate official “fact-checking programs” with the Wikipedia summary noting that “Closing titles reveal that Facebook eliminated its fact-checking programs, the company changed its name to Meta in October 2021, and 43% of Americans continue to receive their news from Facebook.””
https://the307.substack.com/p/the-social-reckoning-is-deep-state
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“Report: US Troops and Diplomats Evacuating Posts Across the Middle East
Sources told NBC News that a similar drawdown happened before the US and Israel attacked Iran in February”
The US military has been scaling back its presence at bases across the Middle East, and the US has ordered staff reductions at multiple diplomatic posts in the region, NBC News reported Wednesday, amid growing signs that the US and Israel may be preparing to launch another attack on Iran.”
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“The Iran War’s One Benefit
The scale of American defeat may — finally — force a foreign policy reckoning in Washington.”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-iran-wars-one-benefit/
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“Was the MOU meant to be trashed?
Evidence now suggests at a minimum, the Trump admin used the June agreement to stall and weaken Iran’s leverage with really no intent on carrying it out.”
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/mou-trump-iran/
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“The Unintended Consequences of the Iran War
The war has validated Iran’s worst impulses and further strained the U.S.-Israel relationship.”
https://jstreetdotorg.substack.com/p/the-unintended-consequences-of-the
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“What Is Another Round of Bombing in Iran Actually Going to Achieve?
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result.”
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“Trump’s Iranian Body Count Grows on Its Own While He Ignores What Israel Has Done in Gaza
Donald Trump has discovered a remarkable statistical phenomenon. In Iran, the dead multiply on their own, unassisted, between speeches. You don’t need a morgue, a name, a death certificate or a human rights group. You need a microphone and a rally.
Let me walk you through it, because the trend line is breathtaking.”
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Yes, and to end the war in Ukraine, the US must begin to understand the Russian perspective too because it matters greatly.
“To End the Iran War, the US Must Understand Tehran’s Perspective
Trump and US war planners misread Tehran’s perception of the war. Iran is not on the verge of collapse; on the contrary, its leaders are now committed to match escalation with escalation until securing a negotiated settlement based on mutual concessions.”
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/how-to-end-iran-war
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“Riyadh Says Its Oil System Is Intact. The Numbers Say Otherwise.
Earlier this month, Aramco’s chief executive, Amin Nasser, assured the markets that “our system is intact” and that Saudi Arabia could restore its full 12 million barrels a day of capacity within days. It is a comforting message, and Washington, European capitals and oil traders have every reason to want to believe it. It is not true.”
https://sonar21.com/riyadh-says-its-oil-system-is-intact-the-numbers-say-otherwise/
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“Good news, everyone. The war is over, at least in the United Arab Emirates. That is the only conclusion you could draw from this month’s headlines.
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Then Karl Miller sent me his October 22 assessment of the UAE’s oil and gas system, and spoiled the party. The Emirates have indeed recovered their crude exports. What they have not recovered is everything else. The gas business is still limping, the petrochemical plants are starving for feedstock, and the fuel reserves that are supposed to carry the country through the next attack have been drained to about a third of their prewar level.”
https://sonar21.com/record-oil-empty-tanks-the-uaes-miracle-recovery/
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“Conventionally, the Houthis have been characterized as regional proxies of Iran. Recent developments suggest this perspective understates their autonomy. The group increasingly operates as an independent actor, playing Washington and Riyadh against one another. On the geopolitical chessboard of the Middle East, it is increasingly clear that the Houthis are no pawns.”
https://www.wrmea.org/other/the-houthis-are-no-pawns.html
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“The US should stay out of Saudi Arabia’s war
WATCH: Annelle Sheline tells Always at War why another foray against the Houthis would only exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in Yemen.”
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/yemen-houthis-trump/
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“Majority of Swing State Voters Say Stop Sending US Bombs to Israel
“Politicians who prioritize winning over catering to the fringe demands from AIPAC should take note.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/swing-state-voters-israel-aid
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“Resisting uprooting in the West Bank
Israeli settlers are blocking, assaulting, and robbing Palestinian olive harvesters. For some 100,000 families in the West Bank who rely on the harvest for income, this season may decide whether the olive harvest survives at all.”
Are settlers in the West Bank acting like military proxies to the IDF? Are they basically terrorists? They certainly act with impunity. that much we know. So if Iran is attacked by the US and Israel, should it possibly target the homes of settlers and their families in the West Bank with incessant missile barrages? I wonder how many of the settlers would remain living beyond the Green Line if the nation of Iran subjected them to incessant, massive missile barrages, killing tens thousands of them, since the settlers would seem to be a legitimate military target of sorts, since they essentially act as a militia-proxy of the IDF. Typically, I believe in nonviolence, including nonviolent accountability, but with some people, particularly fanatics, sometimes violent accountability is all that works. If violent accountability can seriously inhibit the terrorist actions of the settlers, I say that’s a good thing even if tens of thousands of them are killed in the process.
https://mondoweiss.net/2026/10/resisting-uprooting-in-the-west-bank/
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“‘Palestinians Face Far Worse Consequences Every Day,’ Says Brad Lander After Release From IDF Custody
“These detentions by the IDF are one more attempt to undermine Palestinians’ right to harvest their olive groves, travel on their roads, and live in their homes,” said the US congressional candidate.”
“Several dozen rabbis and participants harvesting olives with me are still in detention,” Lander, who is Jewish, wrote on social media. “They should all be released immediately. To be clear: Palestinians face far worse consequences every day. These detentions by the IDF are one more attempt to undermine Palestinians’ right to harvest their olive groves, travel on their roads, and live in their homes.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/brad-lander-arrested-idf
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“Earlier today, Israeli forces detained Rabbi Jill Jacobs, congressional candidate Brad Lander and nearly 100 other protective presence activists — people who traveled to the West Bank to put their bodies between Palestinian farmers and the settler terrorists who routinely physically attack them, set fire to their homes and destroy their harvests.
This comes on the heels of settler terrorists attacking a Washington Post journalist and a group of European diplomats — not to mention that they, with the tacit approval of the Israeli government, have long targeted Palestinian families, burning their homes and destroying their livelihoods.”
https://act.jstreet.org/sign/20261021-stop-settler-terrorism-100?t=9&akid=384975%2E212204%2EpwY0wY
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“He was detained in the West Bank. She was fired from Hillel.
Activist Sam Stein and Rabbi Nikki Golomb on who belongs in the Jewish community.”
“We talked about what Hillel should offer students navigating complicated relationships with Israel and Zionism, and what happens when ideological litmus tests determine who belongs in Jewish communal spaces.”
https://jstreetdotorg.substack.com/p/he-was-detained-in-the-west-bank
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“NJN Condemns Detention of American Rabbis and Volunteers Harvesting Olives in the West Bank
“New Jewish Narrative is outraged by the Israeli military’s detention today of at least 33 American citizens, including Brad Lander, the Democratic nominee for New York’s 10th Congressional District, and Rabbi Jill Jacobs, CEO of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights. They were in the West Bank with the Protect the Harvest coalition, of which NJN is a member, helping Palestinian farmers harvest olives near the village of Nahalin, outside Bethlehem. They are now being taken to a police station for processing.”
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“A Former Settler Now Stands Between Settlers and Palestinians
Aharon Dardik on Israeli abuse of Palestinians during the olive harvest.”
“Our guest is Aharon Dardik. Aharon is an Israeli-American ex-settler, and conscientious objector to the Israeli military. While at Columbia University, he was a nonviolent activist. Earlier this week he was detained by Israeli forces while doing protective presence for West Bank Palestinians during olive harvest.”
https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/aharon-dardik-2026
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“‘Act of Collective Punishment’: Netanyahu Condemned Over ‘Full Lockdown’ of Occupied West Bank
The reaction to a shooting incident in Hebron, said one Palestinian critic, “represents an alarming escalation in Israel’s policies of forced displacement and a flagrant violation of international law and the fundamental rights of the Palestinian people.””
https://www.commondreams.org/news/hebron-shooting
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“Israel Has Its Pretext for Total War on West Bank
After two Israeli soldiers were killed in Hebron four days before the election, Netanyahu threatened a new war, as CN predicted yesterday, reports Joe Lauria.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/10/23/israel-has-its-pretext-for-total-war-on-west-bank/
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“Israeli Occupation Forces Ramp Up Ethnic Cleansing in West Bank After Palestinian Resistance Attack
“What we saw today was an attempt to copy the illegal practices used in Gaza, in the heart of the West Bank,” said one Israeli lawyer. “They want to wipe out entire areas exactly as they did in Gaza.””
https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-collective-punishment-hebron
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“CAIR Demands U.S. Firm Halt Shipment of Electroshock Weapons to Israel for Use in Torture Against Palestinian Detainees.”
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“Ovadia’s lawyers say DHS is acting unlawfully.
“This is a peaceful protest being dressed up as a crime to punish speech the (Trump) administration doesn’t like. Federal judges have called out DHS and ICE again and again for breaking the law. We are calling them out now, and we trust that a judge in this case will too. Justice is coming.”
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“The Brutality of One
Memoir · Abdullah Hany Daher
In Gaza, the 1,111th day of Israel’s genocide reflects the blunt fact of endurance.”
https://jewishcurrents.org/the-brutality-of-one
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“Israel Threatens Total War on the West Bank
Palestinian forces have not responded to rising settler violence, but the Netanyahu government has still been stoking tensions with the PA ahead of the Oct. 27 Israeli elections, Mohammed Altaj reports. “
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/10/22/israel-threatens-total-war-on-the-west-bank/
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“Will Israel Finally Pay a Price?
Sanctions on Israel must be enforced, writes Ramzy Baroud. Boycotts must impose an economic cost. International law cannot simply be invoked; it must have consequences.”
“Let’s start with the good news. The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights has added 61 companies to its database of businesses involved in activities linked to illegal Israeli settlements, expanding the list from 158 to 214 companies.
Why is this good news? Because it further illustrates a degree of seriousness within the international community to move its position on Israel from the realm of language to that of action.
Yet more good news: five previously listed companies were removed after the office determined that their involvement in the relevant activities had ended.
This matters because it suggests that the mechanism can work: sustained scrutiny can influence corporate behavior and supporting Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine can carry a price.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/10/22/will-israel-finally-pay-a-price/
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“Power & Pushback: Judge rejects Trump sanctions on rights groups assisting ICC
Federal judge blocks ICC-related sanctions, press groups defend BreakThrough News, Mahmoud Khalil heads to the Supreme Court, and more in this week’s news tracking the rise and repression of the Palestine movement.”
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“From the traumatic dispossession and ethnic cleansing of the Nakba (the Catastrophe) in 1948, to the ongoing genocide and ecocide of Gaza, and military occupation of the West Bank, every Palestinian family has experienced violent loss.”
https://original.antiwar.com/reza_behnam/2026/10/22/shadow-at-the-door-death-and-dying-in-palestine/
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“Israel demolishes home of Lebanese journalist whose viral film exposed pager attack
The occupying Israeli army targeted a prominent Lebanese journalist when they pillaged and demolished his painstakingly-constructed family home located outside Israel’s so-called “buffer zone” in southern Lebanon. Was it retaliation for his widely-viewed documentary on Israel’s notorious pager attacks?”
https://thegrayzone.com/2026/10/23/israel-demolish-journalist-home/
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““The U.S. government has observed the power of hip hop culture as a vehicle for expression, protest, and a political voice for young people,” Professor Sujatha Fernandes, a sociologist at the University of Sydney and the author of the book, Close to the Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation, told MintPress News.
“Groups like the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and USAID earlier consistently chose Black cultural expressions from jazz to hip hop as a way of infiltrating those societies and trying to promote regime change,” she added. “
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/10/22/cia-recruited-rappers-for-regime-change/
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“The U.S. Constitution was ratified to create and to restrain the government. It established boundaries beyond which the government may not venture, even when it invokes national security, public order, economic necessity, emergency or the will of a popular majority. Its purpose is not to make government more powerful but to keep the government off the people’s backs.
By that measure, the American Constitution is a failure. Formally, the document physically survives, its ceremonies continue, and politicians swear their oaths to abide it. Yet functionally, the government it was designed to restrain has accumulated vast and totalitarian powers that its authors would never recognize.
Power grows, concentrates and perpetuates itself, while liberty contracts. Every emergency supplies a justification for new authority. Every temporary restriction threatens to become permanent. Every president discovers powers that his predecessors claimed but that the Constitution never authorized. And every generation is told that the latest surrender of freedom is necessary to preserve freedom itself.”
https://original.antiwar.com/andrew-p-napolitano/2026/10/22/our-failed-constitution/
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“Donald Trump is a one-man horror show. Call him “annihilation man” for threatening to exterminate nearly 93 million Iranians for the crime of defying his will (and that of Israel and Netanyahu).”
https://bracingviews.substack.com/p/trump-a-one-man-horror-show
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“Americans Should Reject All State-Sanctioned Murder, Live-Streamed or Not
Last year, the US was 1 of only 17 countries to record an official execution.”
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/us-state-sanctioned-killings
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The Duran on Russia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi0-9fk4jAI
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The Duran on various topics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDuCbUl2E90
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The Duran on Iran war:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnFZauimx_E
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Brian Berletic on Iran:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpIJVHFuClw
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Judge Andrew Napolitano with Professor Glenn Diesen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5WI034ZQqE
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Judge Andrew Napolitano with former CIA Analyst Phil Giraldi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A20ZOALVFA
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Judge Andrew Napolitano with Pepe Escobar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkqu3QMXfLE
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Judge Andrew Napolitano with the Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_yKuaT5JHE
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Judge Andrew Napolitano with former Army Colonel and former Chief of Staff of Secretary of State Lawrence Wilkerson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS05vbV_poA
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Judge Andrew Napolitano with former Army Colonel Douglas MacGregor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c57G5TQeUMk
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Judge Andrew Napolitano with Professor Jeffrey Sachs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XH1E98jtnc
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Judge Andrew Napolitano with INTEL Roundtable w/ former CIA Analyst Larry Johnson and John Kiriakou:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yv1uiUtXjo
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University of Chicago Professor John J. Mearsheimer on aircraft carriers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFcCJtCE4Ig&t=5s
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University of Chicago Professor John J. Mearsheimer on the 3 war trap:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MXCz1p-3Y0&t=6s
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Ron Paul Liberty Report on Pete Hegseth:
https://www.youtube.com/live/TEen8hrVhq8?is=mCFLEUTemiiwGbw6
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Ron Paul Liberty Report on Iran:
https://www.youtube.com/live/7ODzm6tPB1k?is=eRcwH-G-552sVbdx
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Former Army Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis with former Army Colonel Douglas MacGregor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwubJV6CqA0&t=20s
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Former Army Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis with Brian McGlinchey:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95r4AJs5DjM
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Former Army Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis with Nasr Al-Deen Amer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6z0XyJ5n8s
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Former Army Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis with Dr. Ulrike Guerot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVkzBwZXtDk
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Former Army Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis with Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E2tYmAvFPA
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Former Army Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis with Professor Richard Sakwa:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kAi-KUVwuc
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Former Army Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis with Danny Haiphong:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcU0Gy2499o
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Former Army Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis with Alastair Crooke:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzZZATocups
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Former Army Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis with Russian Dmitry Polyanski:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3QXa9DTT8w
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Former Army Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis with Nima Alkorshid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W-uW2JSReQ&t=5s
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Former Marine Corps Major and Intelligence Officer and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter on Europe:
https://scottritter.substack.com/p/ritters-rant-107-the-chickens-come
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Former Marine Corps Major and Intelligence Officer and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter on Russia:
https://scottritter.substack.com/p/eye-of-the-storm
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Former Marine Corps Major and Intelligence Officer and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter on the Space Race:
https://scottritter.substack.com/p/the-space-race-heats-up
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Former British diplomat, realist, moderate, centrist Ian Proud on Jacques Baud:
https://thepeacemonger.substack.com/p/a-european-sanctioned-by-europe-supported
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Former British diplomat, realist, moderate, centrist Ian Proud on Russia:
https://thepeacemonger.substack.com/p/irretrievable-losses-why-the-russia
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Jim Webb on various war issues with Scott Ritter — — -in it Scott Ritter offers his keen insight and opinions on many topics including how he thinks Army paratroopers are not terribly good at combat — — — -but you know, we paratroopers used to tell a joke about jarhead Marines too — — — here it is: ‘How are Marines like bananas? Well, they start out green, they soon turn yellow and they die in bunches’…. so <wink><wink>….back at ya, Scotty!!!!! LOL!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSpu1g6eeFU
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Jim Webb with former Army Colonel Douglas MacGregor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXIYRoMYdQ4
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Former British Commodore Steve Jermy on the declining West:
https://stevejermy.substack.com/p/the-west-is-losing-its-grip
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The Grayzone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxUJ8ZeoPcc
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Former Air Force Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski on Crosstalk:
https://karenkwiatkowski.substack.com/p/speaking-to-pete-lavelle-on-crosstalk
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Former Air Force Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski on the end of colonialism:
https://karenkwiatkowski.substack.com/p/colonialisms-death-knell
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Professor Glenn Diesen with Professor Richard Wolffe:
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/richard-wolff-imperial-decline-crisis
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Professor Glenn Diesen with former General Michael Flynn:
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/general-michael-flynn-zelensky-must
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Professor Glenn Diesen on academic freedom:
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/the-ongoing-cancellation-campaign
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Professor Glenn Diesen with Trita Parsi:
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/trita-parsi-israel-set-a-trap-for
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Professor Glenn Diesen with Michael Hudson:
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/michael-hudson-europe-falling-under
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Nima Alkhorshid with former Special Forces Green Beret Lt. Colonel Anthony Aguilar:
https://www.youtube.com/live/lTV_Ai4NbiU?is=LdLPS8v4IhxpHG0B
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Nima Alkhorshid with Patrick Henningsen:
https://www.youtube.com/live/YWZ2rfk15AA?is=v1UC-B-DIl9NbYXM
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Nima Alkhorshid with Matthew Hoh:
https://www.youtube.com/live/rl3WCoFuH8k?is=OmkCvhQZEhchurNl
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Nima Alkhorshid with economists Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff:
https://www.youtube.com/live/aTgKLEJTzgg?is=ti7X7YzhNSjlzJeP
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Nima Alkhorshid with attorney Robert Barnes:
https://www.youtube.com/live/JXec71s_9Rw?is=txO0siv1Qw6f9e1G
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Nima Alkhorshid with French journalist Elijah Magnier:
https://www.youtube.com/live/4oFTjhT6Px8?is=RdSUhS_Lht-Xf8oj
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Nima Alkhorshid with former Colonel Lawrence Wilkeron and Larry Johnson:
https://www.youtube.com/live/UVsFO0tftQc?is=3xrvgsRpB5JN0cNp
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Nima Alkhorshid with former US Ambassador Chas Freeman:
https://www.youtube.com/live/dmWvRuzsOp0?is=LJ2BoNoSLKr0ia65
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Nima Alkhorshid with former CIA Analyst Larry Johnson:
https://www.youtube.com/live/jrCEUWOSMIo?is=ptPzYRJ9LVa6DVQf
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George Galloway with Tucker Carlson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfSfXMEdvu8
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Conflict’s Forum with Alastair Crooke:
https://conflictsforum.substack.com/p/trumps-war-overreach-may-be-the-straw
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Conflict’s Forum with Alastair Crooke:
https://conflictsforum.substack.com/p/the-prospective-demise-of-saudi-arabia
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Conflict’s Forum with Alastair Crooke
https://conflictsforum.substack.com/p/us-dominance-is-over-the-dollar-sanctions
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Conflict’s Forum with Alastair Crooke
https://conflictsforum.substack.com/p/the-iran-war-and-the-terrible-power
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Danny Haiphong with economist Richard Wolff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ybuifnTYrw
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Garland Nixon with Larry Johnson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcnfMYTC4F0
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Garland Nixon with Jamarl Thomas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkMvrOrHk8o
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Jamarl Thomas on Russia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNcst59pJt0
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Jamarl Thomas with Sarah Bils:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTZ5a_a446g
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Rachel Blevins with Ethan Levins:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga0sl-1q_AQ
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Counter Currents with Ian Proud:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqfY4rIUyK8
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Frederick Douglass: “I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”
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“The best friend of a nation is he who the most faithfully rebukes her for her sins — and he her worst enemy who, under the specious and popular garb of patriotism seeks to excuse, palliate, and defend them.”
~Frederick Douglass in an 1846 letter
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“In the past, in the interest of building a broad-based movement united for peace and non-interventionism, I have allied with everyone and anyone who also expressed a genuine interest in peacemaking and non-interventionism. This includes past antiwar alliances with everyone from pinkos to proud boys and anyone in between — — both groups I have allied with in the past — -not because I agreed with their ideologies because I don’t agree with either of them — -I do not approve of racism or Marxism, but I united with each solely in the interest of unity for peace and non-interventionism as a national policy. Ideology is not the point, unity is the point. Anyone who doesn’t like that I choose unity over ideology can kiss my mother-loving, big, chubby gay-bear, fat ass. Anyone can talk the talk about unity, but the real principled test is: can you walk the walk? My boots were made for walking, girl !!! <finger-snap with attitude>
Unite, Left and Right against the wars!!!
Wage Peace and Persevere!!!”
-Eric E. Johansson, Veterans for Peace, California
(also, please understand that although I have united with extremist-idealist factions in the past in the interest of unity against war, I am much more of a middle-of-the-road-realist as I think the economic class system represents the civilizational natural order for our species, although the gap between rich and poor should probably be narrowed through aggressive taxation upon corporations and individual persons too. Also, I do not have one racist or hateful bone in my body as my Asian husband, who is of half-Filipino and half-Chinese descent can attest. I don’t hate immigrants; I married one. He, like my Swedish grandfather, emigrated to the United States legally through the legal immigration channels that every person seeking to emigrate to this country should pursue. The process of legally emigrating and becoming a citizen is a long and arduous process, as my husband or my late grandfather could attest, so to treat illegal immigrants in the same manner as we treat legal immigrants is patently unfair to legal immigrants. It is an unacceptable double standard on the Left. It is unfair. I strongly criticize those on the Left for that ridiculous, ill-thought, categorically unfair viewpoint. To those who say we should just let everyone into the nation, I say to you: Have you lost your mind? There must be vetting process to both protect national security and to protect wages of the working class. So all those who violate the law by simply jumping the border, thus opting for not following the legal channels to obtain entry into the U.S., should be promptly arrested and deported, and treated more harshly with every repeat offense. Why should the U.S. honor the wishes of those who desire to emigrate here if their very first act of entering the country is to first break the law by circumventing the legal guidelines for officially emigrating? No, that cannot be tolerated. One standard for all. Rule of Law. That is not racist, it is respectful of the Rule of Law. Prior to meeting my husband, I was most definitely an equal-opportunity sex lover who gleefully had fabulous sex with members of every race, color and creed — — hundreds of them, mostly men but not exclusively. My husband and I love to watch RuPaul’s Drag Race TV show too. I also play on a fabulous softball team as the pitcher in the very diverse, accepting and welcoming San Francisco Gay Softball League. I share all of this only to illustrate that who I am willing to unite in common cause with, does not in any way represent who I am as a person. Widespread, mass unity against perpetual war, against Empire and against growing national security state oppression is essential to preserve our commonly shared liberty and peace. We are all in this together so let’s get past the immature, ideological bullshit, come together and unite in common cause for our shared future together.)
Unite, Left and Right against the wars!!!
Unite, from pinkos to proud boys and everyone in between against the wars and against the Empire!! If peace is your priority, this should be no problem for you but if ideology is your priority, then the kind of unity I propose could be a problem for you. Drop the ideological bullshit and UNITE!!!
Wage Peace and Persevere!!!
https://www.unitedforpeace.org/
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“How could a weak, toothless central government that possessed no military largesse wage war or command a global Empire? It couldn’t, could it? Doesn’t having a smaller, more limited government also get us to a non-Imperialist, non-military interventionist place? Can people unite around non-interventionism alone? Just imagine for a moment the vast people power of a mass movement that could be harnessed by achieving a Left-Right loose alliance against war and Empire. Oh, the immense power it would wield.”
~Eric E. Johansson
(Is it arrogant to put my name next to some great people? Not really, they were just human beings and so am I, but please understand that I am actually much more middle-of-the-road because I find both sides (the more public services argument or the limited government argument) to both be legitimate arguments worthy of consideration and that is why I ask the question above because I think it is a question that more Progressives should ask. But as for myself, my inner stars shine brightly Progressive yet I still bear strong Libertarian stripes. This rather nationalist, flag-oriented reference may sound silly to some but it perfectly encapsulates how I see myself as a principled patriot realist doing my duty to my country and to our world.
Unite, Left and Right against the wars!!!
Wage Peace and Persevere!!!
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“Overgrown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.”
~George Washington
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“Of all the evils to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops every other. War is the patent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes. And armies, and debts, and taxes, are the known instruments for bringing the many under the dominion of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds are added to those of subduing the force of the people! No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”
~James Madison
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“It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.”
— Noam Chomsky
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Websites to help you stay informed:
https://honeste.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/websites-to-help-you-stay-informed/
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Daily news podcasts to help you stay informed:
Alexander Mercouris
https://www.youtube.com/c/AlexanderMercourisReal?app=desktop
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The Duran on YouTube with Alexander Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
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Brian Berletic at The New Atlas on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/c/thenewatlas
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Scott Ritter on Substack:
https://substack.com/profile/96369147-scott-ritter
https://www.scottritterextra.com/
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Danny Haiphong:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOxLhz6B_elvLflntSEfnzA
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Colonel Douglass MacGregor on Youtube:
(He has many meaningful, insightful, analytical things to say based on a deep understanding of military matters from his many years of experience in the military — — -but just prepare to dismiss a few of his other dog-whistle comments that he offers which he utters to appeal to a particular Conservative base — — just as the Liberals do to rally their base too — — -so just roll your eyeballs and ignore those few silly comments — — — because most of his analysis and insights and experiences are rich in detail, in fact-based analysis and said bluntly and directly.
Very refreshing indeed!! Bravo, Colonel !!!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFqPvxUg163ZEz1vyxhVDXw
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“Our Country Our Choice is more than just a people’s movement; it’s a media platform as well. My vision was straightforward: identify over 10 million like-minded Americans and create the most extensive group of American activists ever assembled. Our mission is to inform every American about the importance of choosing decision-makers who will put an end to the intentional sabotage of our beloved nation and start serving us, the American people.”
https://ourcountryourchoice.com/
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Andy Boreham
“China is a complicated place, and there is definitely a lot of content out there that I don’t think accurately or fairly represents this huge country of 1.4 billion.
https://www.youtube.com/c/reportsonchina/about
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Dong Sheng news on China:
https://dongshengnews.org/en/news-on-china/
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Garland Nixon:
https://www.youtube.com/@garlandn
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Seymour Hersh on Substack
Seymour Hersh
It’s worse than you think
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Chris Hedges on Substack:
The Chris Hedges Report
Covering US foreign policy, economic realities, and civil liberties in American society.
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Niko House on Rokfin
https://rokfin.com/Niko?content=NEW
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Caitlin Johnstone on Substack:
https://substack.com/profile/14779628-caitlin-johnstone
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Aaron Mate on Substack:
Aaron Mate
Reporting and analysis by award-winning independent journalist.
By Aaron Maté
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David Sacks:
https://twitter.com/DavidSacks
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Lee Fang on Substack:
Lee Fang
Investigations and observations about the public interest.
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Patrick Lawrence on Substack
https://thescrum.substack.com/
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Jeffrey Sachs:
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Former Army Colonel Daniel Davis:
https://www.youtube.com/@DanielDavisDeepDive/videos
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Breaking points with Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti
https://www.youtube.com/c/breakingpoints
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“But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.
She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all”
~John Quincy Adams
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/
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Lev Golinkin on YouTube:
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Matt Tabibi on Substack (Racket News):
Racket News
“We care if it’s true. We don’t care why.”
By Matt Taibbi
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Big Serge on Substack:
Big Serge Thought
Musings and Ponderings
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Simplicius on Substack:
Simplicius’s Garden of Knowledge
Conflict analysis, geopolitical commentary, with a side of culture & politics.
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Larry Johnson, former CIA Analyst at Sonar21:
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Ray McGovern, former CIA Analyst:
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Mark Sleboda:
https://substack.com/profile/38224488-mark-sleboda
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Richard Medhurst on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB1u_wJThc3_e5J4VVj7hQQ
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Nick Cruse of the Revolutionary Blackout Network:
https://www.youtube.com/@socialistmma8321/videos
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George Galloway on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@GeorgeGallowayOfficial
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Mikael Valtersson
~Former officer Swedish Armed Forces/Air Defence, former defence politician and chief of staff Sweden Democrats. Current political and military analyst.
https://twitter.com/MikaelValterss1?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
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Alex Reporterfy
https://www.youtube.com/c/reporterfymedia
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Although I typically shy away and generally distrust most, if not all, televised corporate media, I must admit that recently on foreign policy issues, Tucker Carlson of Fox has been tickling my fancy. Now that Fox has fired him, I encourage everyone to stop watching Fox altogether. But Tucker’s past range of guests included figures from the anti-Establishment Left and Right and many voices in between giving access and airtime to a wider audience which only helps spread our message of peace and justice to a broader audience more quickly so kudos to Tucker for that. It is good to see some of our anti-Establisment views find a venue in the public space even one decidedly more to the Right.
You can now find Tucker Carlson on Twitter, see link below. — — Great job Tucker, keep socking it to them. I hope you and your attorneys keep fighting like hell against the Establishment. I hope your attorneys fight to allow you to speak freely until at least the year 2025 and hopefully much longer than that too.
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson
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On Tucker’s eventual return, so kudos to him and to Elon Musk backing him:
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Glenn Greenwald on Rumble: (Listening to Glenn Greenwald is quite an enthralling experience. I can’t figure out what moves faster, his brain or his mouth as he delivers rich, detailed analysis replete with razor-sharp logic on topics of substance and depth, delivered with perfect spoken diction, colorful language and mesmerizing eloquence. I am left flabbergasted in sheer delight every time I listen to him speak. Utterly dazzling!!! And he is a fellow sister with a heritage in the tribe too which I also find endearing.
https://rumble.com/c/GGreenwald
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“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.”
~Walter Lippman
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“The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth … If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence. The theory of our Constitution is that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market . . . The First Amendment itself ensures the right to respond to speech we do not like, and for good reason. Freedom of speech and thought flows not from the beneficence of the state but from the inalienable rights of the person … Society has the right and civic duty to engage in open, dynamic, rational discourse.”
– U.S. Supreme Court decision, United States v. Alvarez, 567 U.S. 709, 724 (2012).
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