For our purposes at CCI, the Biden administration’s recent escalation of the war in Ukraine is enormously disturbing. With the greenlight given to the Zelensky government to use US-supplied long-range missiles against Russian territory, President Putin has announced that as far as Russia is concerned, the West, especially the United States, has declared war on Russia. Our friends in Russia tell us this new reality spread across the country immediately following Mr. Putin’s speeches of November 21 and 22. A good friend in Sergiev Posad tells us she and her colleagues at work discuss the strain of anticipating a missile strike on Moscow, a mere 70 kilometers away, constantly. She also tells us that church attendance is way up with parents now insisting their children attend – something quite unusual in recent years.

The fact that officials in our government insist we are not at war with Russia is irrelevant to the Russians when American made and American guided weapons fall on Russian cities. One must ask: how many Americans appreciate this situation – that ‘reality’ for Russian citizens is not whatever comes out of the mouths of American officials? ‘Reality’ for Russians is what is physically ‘real’, a matter of what happens on their soil.

--- CCI (Center for Citizen Initiatives) newsletter, 2024-12-03

#Russia #UnitedStatesRulingClass #war

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Biden authorize Ukraine to use US-supplied long-range missiles for deeper strikes inside Russia? Why this decision may lead the world to the abyss

https://www.pressenza.com/2024/11/biden-authorize-ukraine-to-use-us-supplied-long-range-missiles-for-deeper-strikes-inside-russia-why-this-decision-may-lead-the-world-to-the-abyss/

#UnitedStatesRulingClass #Ukraine #Russia #geopolitics #war

Biden authorize Ukraine to use US-supplied long-range missiles for deeper strikes inside Russia? Why this decision may lead the world to the abyss

We live in a dangerous time. The old idea that there could be a winner in today’s war between Russia and the West is a fantasy of the West, according to

‘We are sleepwalking into a major war with Russia.’ Glenn Diesen on authorising ATACMS in Russia

https://youtu.be/Cr0iLVzZE_I?si=6449XqkqeKSyGW3G

#GlennDiesen #UnitedStatesRulingClass #Russia #geopolitics #war

UN's Guterres calls to avoid escalation amid reports of US greenlighting strikes at Russia

https://tass.com/world/1874287

#Russia #UnitedStatesRulingClass #war #geopolitics

UN’s Guterres calls to avoid escalation amid reports of US greenlighting strikes at Russia

The White House declined to confirm that permission for such strikes had been granted

Glenn Diesen in conversation with the former CIA Director of Russia analysis

Glenn Diesen:

[...] if you try to explain the policies of the opponent it's said "well now you're legitimizing their view" and everything is seemingly these days about shaping narratives to construct a favorable reality if you will, and becomes very difficult to do any analysis I noticed.

George Bebee:

Yes there's been a lot of narrative management if you want to call it that, going on in the west, there's a policing of public discourse that's meant to rule out certain things, and it began happening even before the Russian invasion, but it was quite clearly intensified afterwards. [...] I would imagine that if I were to go back and and look at Western media coverage of the invasion just from a content analysis point of view that word "unprovoked" would be very, very frequent in this use in front of invasion anybody that suggested that there may have been some element of provocation that affected Russian decisions on all of this of course was immediately anathematized you know. [...] And that actually obscures our ability to understand what's going on it doesn't enhance it unfortunately.

Source 24.10.2024

#ShapingNarratives #NarrativeManagement #NarrativeControl #ConstructingReality #ManufacturingConsent #Russia #Ukraine #UnitedStatesRulingClass

Why would they [the ruling class] put you afloat?
If you're afloat, then you can't work for me.
If you are afloat, you can't fill my prisons.
If you are educated, how can I get you to fight my wars?

--- UnholyRome

#UnholyRome #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesRulingClass #poverty #war #education #prison #work #WageSlavery

This is HUGE.

#Lebanese Foreign Minister confirms Hizbullah agreed to a ceasefire and the Leb government informed the US, who said Israel also accepted.

Then Israel killed Sayed Hasan #Nasrallah.

That is US diplomacy.
That is Israeli lies.

Source: https://x.com/KarimMakdisi/status/1841598715985105028

#UnitedStatesRulingClass #Lebanon

The media in the United States is the most dangerous institution in all of human history

--- Marshall Rosenberg

#MassMedia #ManufacturingConsent #MarshallRosenberg #UnitedStatesRulingClass

September 1964, Malcolm X was in Gaza, for two days. And what's interesting is that he immediately, immediately, identified what Israel was, he immediately identified it as a colonial outpost of the United States. It used to be a British tool and now it's an American tool.

--- Hudhayfah Ahmad, in a roundtable with RBN

#MalcolmX #Gaza #Palestine #colonialism #UnitedStatesRulingClass

I just returned from the Anti-Fascist Congress in Venezuela. Upon my return to the U.S., I was held in Customs for 4 hours and my phone was seized. Most of my photos/videos of the Congress are on the phone. I will share those when I can. My means of communication are limited.

--- Dan Kovalik, on x/twitter

#DanKovalik #NarrativeControl #UnitedStatesRulingClass #UnitedStates

US aggression against RT is declaration of information war – Zakharova

https://rumble.com/v5ewmyq-us-aggression-against-rt-is-declaration-of-information-war-zakharova.html

#RT #RussiaToday #UnitedStatesRulingClass #UnitedStates #InformationWar #Zakharova

No responsibility for the multinationals that produced “Agent Orange” used in Vietnam

https://www.pressenza.com/2024/08/biological-weapons-no-responsibility-for-the-multinationals-that-produced-agent-orange-used-in-vietnam/

Today it is estimated that at least 3 million Vietnamese have been exposed to dioxin, some experts even speak of 4.5 million inhabitants, of whom 150,000 children have been affected.

After sufficient studies conducted on dioxin, researchers have discovered that after 40 years the harmful effects are still present, since the land is still contaminated by the substance and today there are many children born in Vietnam who present malformations and genetic diseases.

(Image by Wikimedia Commons)

#AgentOrange #Vietnam #UnitedStatesRulingClass #TranToNga

Lyndon Johnson Told The Nation

https://youtu.be/Eg4qaZQ6QcQ?si=3syFbGCbxaS_xPac

#TomPaxton #music #folk #WarPropaganda #UnitedStatesRulingClass #Vietnam

If we train F-16 pilots in Poland [...] or train them in the Baltic states or whatever, they're legitimate targets. They are legitimate targets under the rules of war. That is to say they're training to go to Ukraine and drop bombs on shoot airplanes down whatever of Russia. So you're in your perfect right to go after that training facility, that logistics facility, or whatever. Now that pertains to all the countries, Germany, France, Poland, wherever there are people being trained, or equipment being readied, or refueled, or refurbished, or whatever, for the war in Ukraine. Russia has disregarded that to this point. But they are in their perfect right in terms of the rules of warfare to go after those facilities. And it would not be expanding the war to NATO, not in the strict sense of the law. They're going after facilities in those countries that are aiding and abetting the prosecution of war against them by the state of Ukraine. And that's legit.
[...]
We are just opening up Pandora's Box here, and Joe Biden and Jake Sullivan and Anthony Blinken are stupid men, they are stupid men, they are walking this country and vassal states like England and Europe into a war, a much bigger more dangerous war, a war that has every prospect eventually of leading to an exchange of nuclear weapons. This is just insanity. When I was talking to these mid-level bureaucrats today I thought I would probably get you know sort of a look of he's crazy on their face, at least some of them, no I got head nods, you know. They understand what this is about, they understand the difficulty and the danger, and they understand the lack of leadership the lack of coherent good leadership at the very top.

--- Col. Larry Wilkerson, in an interview on Dialogue Works

#LarryWilkerson #WorldWar3 #NuclearWar #NATO #UnitedStatesRulingClass #Russia

The state department - and this is no exaggeration George - has tried to kill me. It seeks to silence me through violence and intimidation. That's what they do with the Ukrainian government as their proxies. The state department funds it, organizes it, and approves everything they do. I've been listed as the the number one so-called Russian propagandist on this Myrotvorets hit list and on the center for countering disinformation. Having failed to either kill me, intimidate me, or silence me, they now have revoked my passport to prevent me from talking.

--- Scott Ritter, in an interview with George Galloway

#ScottRitter #UnitedStatesRulingClass #Russia #NarrativeControl #geopolitics

US govt is afraid of the truth – Scott Ritter

https://rumble.com/v4zilyt-us-govt-is-afraid-of-the-true-message-scott-ritter.html

#ScottRitter #UnitedStatesRulingClass #Russia

Scott Ritter dragged off plane, passport seized without explanation

https://rumble.com/v4zh1zz-rt-contributor-scott-ritter-dragged-off-plane-passport-seized-without-expla.html

#ScottRitter #UnitedStatesRulingClass #Russia

Scott Ritter: On My Way to Russia I Met Big Brother

https://www.youtube.com/live/lOsW84wYdzg?si=t1BV_jce5C1pcaGF

#ScottRitter #UnitedStatesRulingClass #Russia