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I would love for Consortium News to have Chuck Ross of the Daily Caller on your Friday show. He was one of the first of the slightly more establishment journalists to investigate Russiagate, opening it up even wider with telling the story of George Papadopoulos, thereby exposing the entrapment schemes. He’s friendly with Aaron Mate.

Chuck knows *a lot*.

Dear Joe, how I appreciate the new Consortium News, have seen all so far and will always watch. Thank you so much.

I have a suggestion for guests: Janus Varoufakis, the incomparable Greek economist. If you’ve ever heard him speak, you know there’s so other economist who can compare.
Another would be Oksana Boyko of “World’s Apart” on RT from Moscow.

They are incredibly intelligent people. Thanks for your consideration

Did youtube give a reason for their refusal to live stream this program? If so, what did they say?

Re Italy:

1) One need not expend much energy to find analyses of the shamefully, hypocritcal, ANTI-democratic nature of the European Union. See, for example, Thomas Fazi, @ jacobinmag “dot” com, 23May2019. Another example seems to be the book (“Original Sins”) written by one of the commentators on the current video, Mr Spannaus.

2) The condescension (this time around) of the NY Times re Italy is an extension, or is it prodding?, of the attitude toward the Southern European countries not considered economically suitable members of the EU: Portugal, Italy, Greece & Spain, so cutely referred to as “PIGS” by their self-proclaimed economic and political superiors, Germany and France, or, more precisely the most powerful bankers therein.

The strategy has been much like that of the US toward Cuba: strangle the economy of another then ridicule the victim for having an economy that is barely breathing. (Of course, said economic health, or lack thereof, is always assessed according only to the parameters deemed relevant to the attempted economic murderer – i.e., yet more $$$$$ for the already insanely rich.)

Often the acronym is “PIIGS” to include Ireland the recipient of epic historic “condescension” from the third element of the Axis of Absolute Arrogance, the UK.

3) Mr Luria is one of the very few public commentators who understands THE CAUSE of the immigration “crisis” of Europe: refugees are fleeing the combination of, at least, economic wars, where there are not, yet, the frank military ones – all engineered by the USA. The arc surrounding Europe extends from the Baltics, through Ukraine, into Syria and Africa. Don’t forget that NATO, the US military in Europe, was among the “coalition of genocide” in Iraq and in Afghanistan.

4) From #3, above, and considering the US economic sanctions on Russia that has hurt not only it but its MANY European (including Italian) trading partners, one might just think that the US is treating Europe, in general, in the same way Northern Europe is treating Southern Europe.

5) Re #4, above, note that the recent abrogation of the INF (Intermediate Range Nuclear Missile) Treaty by His Hairness (aka “Trump”), has put a target on Europe for the benefit of that most vile RTP© (Rootin’ Tootin’ Putin). This, at least in those Eastern European countries in which the US has installed its own intermediate range missiles. But, of course, Eastern Europe is probably is held in even more contempt by the continent’s power structure than is Southern Europe and in more contempt by the US than Cuba.

6) After the Mar 2018 elections the 5-Star party had its first opportunity to form a coalition with the PD prior to the fateful one ultimately made with the LEGA its fulminating fascist Salvini. It is not clear which of 5-Star or the PD scuttled that opportunity. They only have the current opportunity after Salvini’s premature political ejaculation to insist on new elections as the constant media exposure (see “His Hairness $600 million free media coverage, 2016”) that ostensibly doubled the supreme bully’s poll numbers to close to the required 40% needed to form a government outright.

7) Please, Messers Moro and Spannaus, give us some insight into the crusade in Europe being waged by the Steve Bannon, the Hangnail of His Hairness (aka “Trump), especially in regard to Salvini and Italian politics.