The notion that nuclear war should be fought over who is mayor of Lugansk has so little public support that Russophobia is being assiduously stoked by Western governments and the E.U. itself.
Craig Murray: Nonsense Drones & Novichok
Category: Russia
WATCH: TWTW – ‘Europe’s Ticking Bomb’
Germany continues drive to war with Russia with Leipzig drone scare while Zelensky threatens Russian civilian airspace. And will Trump take offer to save face in Iran? With Scott Ritter and Patrick Baab. Sunday 9am EDT.
VIPS MEMO: Dangerous Talk of Putin’s ‘Loss’ in Ukraine
VIPS tells President Trump that once apprised of the reality on the ground (and in the air) by his intelligence advisors, he might choose to do what is in his power to end the disaster in Ukraine.
WATCH: CN Live! — ‘A Life of Intelligence’
Ex-C.I.A. analyst Ray McGovern turned 87 Tuesday. From his Bronx days, to Fordham, the U.S. Army and C.I.A., McGovern grew close to power, then became one of its fiercest critics. Watch the replay!
A Nuclear-Sanity Appeal to Pope Leo XIV
In an open letter, signatories from around the world call on the pope to organize an emergency international summit to address questions of peace and nuclear disarmament.
WATCH: TWTW — Neo-Israelites vs. Neo-Ottomans
Tensions soar between Tel Aviv and Ankara over their designs on Syria; would Trump nuke Iran? And the killing goes on in Ukraine and Gaza. Ray McGovern, Scott Ritter, 8pm Tonite.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Landlord Diplomacy
You read here and there that Kushner and Witkoff’s undertakings with Moscow and Tehran reflect a diplomatic “style.” On we go to the normalization of stupidity and hubris as merely a new form of statecraft.
WATCH: TWTW — ‘A Fraying Empire’
An empire is as good as its military and the U.S. military is in crisis: running out of ammunition; Middle East bases destroyed; volunteers exhausted. Ann Wright, Ray McGovern. 8 pm Tonite.
WATCH: TWTW — ‘Avoiding Nuclear Extinction’
On the 81st anniversary of the Nagasaki bombing today, we ask how we can avoid nuclear holocaust. Plus overreaction to U.S. socialism and Trump’s trap in Iran. Scott Ritter, Rick Wolff, 8 p.m. EDT Tonite.
HIROSHIMA 81: SCOTT RITTER — Let It Remind Us
By allowing the U.S. nuclear posture to shift away from deterrence toward warfighting, all we guarantee is that eventually there will be a warfighting scenario that uses nuclear weapons. And then we all die.