In a moment of candor in March 2022, Joe Biden revealed why the U.S. needed the Russian invasion to launch its three-pronged, pre-meditated war on Russia, writes Joe Lauria.
Year 4: Why the US Needed Russia to Invade
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Year 4: Why Russia Invaded
HOW IT HAPPENED: Russia says it has no intentions of controlling Ukraine and its military operation is only to ‘demilitarize’ and ‘de-Nazify’ Ukraine 30 years after the U.S. pushed Russia too far, wrote Joe Lauria on Feb. 24, 2022.
WATCH: The World This Week – w/Ray McGovern
Former C.I.A. Russia analyst Ray McGovern joins Episode 5 of The World This Week to discuss the war in Ukraine and the Middle East. Watch the replay.
Caity Johnstone: Turning the Epstein Story into Russiagate
At least part of the mainstream media is admitting that Jeffrey Epstein was a spy gathering kompromat. They just have the wrong country he was serving.
Jonathan Cook: Cheerleading Aggression Against Iran
Corporate media doesn’t represent humanity’s interests. It promotes the interests of billionaires and their hangers-on, who make huge profits from a war machine in constant need of excuses to kill.
Consortium News’ Suit Against NewsGuard & the USG
A U.S. federal judge dismissed Consortium News’ action, calling CN “contrarian” and saying it resorted to a “Hail Mary pass.” CN then settled legal fees with NewsGuard.
Jeffrey Sachs: Two Centuries of Russophobia & Rejection of Peace
While other powers are presumed to have legitimate security interests that must be balanced and accommodated, Russia’s interests are presumed illegitimate. Russophobia functions less as a sentiment than as a systemic distortion — one that repeatedly undermines Europe’s own security.
RAY McGOVERN: Trump Ukraine Plan AOA (Alive on Arrival)
Yury Ushakov, Putin’s man on Ukraine, said there’s no firm plan for Ukraine yet and some American ideas are acceptable to Russia, some not. But the plan is not dead.
Europa Ante Novum Bellum (Europe Before the New War)
Whose interests are served by predictions of a third general European war in little more than a century? The answer is clear: politicians who have led Europe into this nearly hopeless situation, says Uros Lipuscek.
Ignoring JFK’s Warning on Russia
A history of U.S. bullying — from a broken promise not to expand NATO to deceit over Minsk — shows that U.S. leaders since the Cold War’s end have ignored J.F.K.’s dire warning not to humiliate a nuclear power.