This is a video article for the most part. First up, I do a five-minute rant on the current effort of Western intelligence to carry out a color revolution in Georgia under the guise of promoting freedom and democracy. Bullshit!! Georgia’s legislature passed a new law that mirrors the U.S. Foreign Agent Registration Act (aka FARA). The Georgian law will require Non-Governmental Organizations receiving foreign funds to report those. Good Lord!! Can’t have that. It might expose CIA and MI-6 operations designed to install a government in Georgia that will bend the knee to the West.
I am always honored to be invited to appear on The Duran with Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris. They were the first one I stumbled upon at the start of the SMO who talked intelligently about the political and military dynamics. I was fortunate to come to their attention and have appeared several times since March of 2022. We discussed the situation in Ukraine and Israel/Palestine. With respect to Ukraine, I explain the significance of the 12 CIA bases that the New York Times claims are scattered throughout Ukraine.
I agree what you say about ‘The Duran’. I have followed them almost on a daily basis since the days of the Syrian War when they were also one of the few making balanced assessments of the war. In those days they were joined for a time with Peter Lavelle (Cross Talk) – not sure what happened to that alliance. They fell out, no idea why, but Lavelle certainly likes the sound of his own voice rather too much. Of course I have followed you also for years as you used to write for Colonel Lang who came across to me always as a very likable individual, but after you departed from his site, he seems (in my opinion) to have descended into excessive forms of US exceptionalism – perhaps he was always that way inclined. I often wonder what so many of us would do without sane and informed people like yourself, Judge Napolitano, Aaron Mate, The Duran and a host of others speaking a truth one so often one does not get from the legacy media. It is alot of research work on your part doing all this and very much appreciated.
Pat was a victim of the Covid vaccine. He suffered a brain injury because of it and he changed in personality, temperament and judgment. A sad ending.
I had a falling out with Pat Lang long before Covid. I once quoted my mother to the effect that “Military Intelligence is to intelligence as Military Music is to music.” He got angry and accused me of mocking him. I replied by asking him what he had against Military Music. He didn’t get the joke and banned me from his blog. Whatever . . .
I prefer to remember Pat as he was before the onset of his final health issues, I suspected the covid vaccine might have played a role at the time,
competence at the top has been declining in the West for some time, but the difference in competence between the East and the West has become starker than ever,
Israel was reputedly the most vaccinated country of all, now they’ve all gone crazy and are doing things that surely aren’t in their best long term interest, one can only speculate whether the vaccine contributed to this already evident trend,
both Russia and China developed their own vaccines that used a more traditional attenuated virus vaccination technique,
I wonder if we’ll look back at a later date and consider the mRNA vaccine to have been an ‘own goal’ and another nail in the West’s coffin.
I declined the vaccine at the time, it didn’t pass my sniff test, I wanted to see what happened first,
I really think I dodged a bullet with that decision, I don’t regret it, even though I wasn’t entirely sure it was the best decision at the time.
Hi Matt,
“both Russia and China developed their own vaccines that used a more traditional attenuated virus vaccination technique,
I wonder if we’ll look back at a later date and consider the mRNA vaccine to have been an ‘own goal’ and another nail in the West’s coffin.”
Non-mRNA vaccines also exist in the West eg Novavax (recombinant DNA, same tech as Hep B vax and many others). mRNA was what most people in the West had as Pfizer & Moderna were quick to market so had first-mover advantage.
My employer insisted I have the then-available vaccine, in my case that was Pfizer. Fortunately, I don’t seem to have had any adverse consequences (so far).
The largely-ignored increase in all-cause mortality since Covid likely is multifactorial but vaccine adverse effects may well be in the mix.
Best wishes.
Not only that they didn’t mandate people had to take it. I think they did in one place for the over 60’s and the Chinese were not happy. I took the vaccine even though I didn’t want it otherwise I could not travel or work. I’m not sure what damage has been done. Isn’t it good to live in the free west?
Oh So glad you were on the Duran they are excellent & you certainly offer expertise others do not. Have not seen their report today. Looking forward to doing so. YES they are great !
For me it’s the Duran first thing in the morning followed by Judge Nap and guests during the day then Sonar and comments in the evening.
Only time the TV is on is if the little ones want to watch Bluey. Will also check out Tucker on X and the Gray Zone, Redacted and Jimmy Dore plus the Due Dissonance boys and Glenn Greenwald.
MSM is dead to me.
I like to listen to Alexander Mercouris at 1.25X on my drive/commute. Appreciate how thorough he is, particularly reading the official readouts, which often differ from MSM reports (lies). He also raises important analysis points that I do not hear elsewhere.
I listen at x2 in order to speed up his excruciatingly longwinded talks.
One and a half tops – ‘just saying’!
x1 for me. I’m a bit slow I guess. My stepdaughter – x2.
My stepdaughter . . I just put the phone on mute & go “yeah” every now & then . . . workin’ so far
I listen to him twice. Once while sleeping and once to catch up the rest in the morning while making and eating breakfast and the morning commute.
He actually cured my insomnia. I discovered I get sleepy in bed while listening to something interesting without having to listen to fast paced talking.
So I ensure I hear the video including the advts without forwarding.
He helps me sleep too. Those long-nature sound videos don’t even work but listening to Mercouris does. Otherwise, I need the time during the day to listen to him carefully or play it while I am working.
Ditto X2 for me. Though I like to tune in every day.
I subscribed to your email, but the link to confirm is not working in my Outlook 2010 program. Please confirm me, Mr Johnson
If you can see the URL of the link as text in the email message, just copy that (be sure to get it all) and paste that into the address bar on your web browser.
PS- Outlook sucks. Just sayin’. (I had to use it in a work setting in the past, and god, I hated it so.)
Ever use Lotus Notes???
You should be good. Let me know if you have any problems.
For the last 70 years, it seems that the US reverts to the same strategy that it used to fight the last war it lost. And then it distracts itself with meaningless activities. On the geopolitical chessboard, what is interesting is that the US seems oblivious to the fact that similar type color revolutions can be used against US allies. It also seems that the US can cause Russia to have to clean up, but at some time each action will lessen and eventually fruitless attempts will fade away. As soon as, if Ukraine capitulates…off the news cycle it will go. Right now, of note, Iran is probably assessing it’s neighbors in West Asia and determining how much they ‘leaned’ toward Israel and each leader of a country in that neighborhood is assessing how cohesive is their rule. Antagonisms have a way of being riled up anywhere. Bahrain, Jordan, Egypt….etc?
The US has been “losing” wars since at least the Korean War… so it may make more sense to invert the question. What did the US, with ZATO in tow, accomplish with its military and regime change activities? Those attacked countries were still thrown into destruction and chaos, but came away thinking they had “won”. In most cases they were happy to be allowed back into the US$ Reserve Currency System, with only the most steadfastly non-cooperative kept out. See North Korea.
But as Russia found out, the US$ System demands fealty and an open door for the carpetbagger Oligarchs to take control and strip the place bare. The “rebuilding” promise (see Blackrock in Ukraine) was the Trojan Horse.
Alexander M. asks why “none of what the US/ZATO, Israel and Ukraine do makes any sense”. It makes perfect sense if the objective is to set the stage for the Oligarchs to move in. Like Hudson shows in The Collapse of Antiquity, the incoming tyrants would grant a few crumbs to the small landowners to get their support… until the tyrants became the new Oligarchy or the former Oligarchy took back power.
And who has been playing this game for over 250 years? The Rothschilds, with their Cousinhood and now WEF/Davos/Bilderburg corporate minions planted in key positions worldwide. Heck, Lynn de Rothschild is best buddies with Hillary Clinton. Schwab openly bragged the WEF had “penetrated” 50% of the Trudeau gov’t in Canada.
Even sacrificing their pet Israel project is not too high a price to pay to help cause so much international chaos that the Great Reset is seen as a viable option by politicians, corporates and populations worldwide. They’ll graciously take away all your problems (and forgive all that sovereign debt), the only cost is “you will own nothing”. In a world they have manipulated to destruction. But “you will be happy”.
Go ahead, call this a “conspiracy theory”… but think about what the Rothshcilds controlling Canada has done. What a pipeline into Bribe’em’s addled brain Lynn de R has.
And that’s just the teasers. Mark Carney sits on the Steering Committee of The Council for Inclusive Capitalism… Lynn de R’s personal project. Mark? he’s just former governor of the Bank of Canada, then the Bank of England, and is still an adviser to Trudeau. Still only a teaser.
And for any newcomers, Walter Rothschild and the Zionist Movement wrote and vetted the Balfour Declaration, which was the basis for UN Resolution 181 creating Israel.
Ya, nothing to see here, the Rothschilds are not the Oligarchs you’re looking for. At least that’s what bonbon wants you to think.
I also want to raise the alarm on the Solomon Islands. This tiny country is now in US crosshairs as it has chosen to do business with China. Expect a coup, assassination or riots there in near future.
Poor Solomonites, they were happily ensconced in the stone age until very recently. Always some elite to sell you out to the highest bidder.
Assuming you are right re Georgia, one can only say ‘these guys’ are *relentless* in their goal of lousing up everyone and anything.
With the demise of the uS dollar and self harm (given away / sold off weapons hence the ability to defend itself), oil reserve going glug, glug, glug, is this a last hurrah of a failing state / country? Then there is the example to the World of judicial impartiallity!
With fatty newland gone, I thought the uS would calm down – but no. A Merica still meddling in the affairs of others with imagined impunity. The uS has poked the Bear and is spoiling to whack the Dragon. To use a Larrystyle song example, Jethro Tull – the river is full of crocodile nasties . . . I thank you for dinner.
Like the I Zrael genociders, uS is acting as an errant school kid, looking to be bent over and given a good caning. Sooner rather than later.
At this point, the problem is that there is no deterrence to US color change meddling. Once other countries begin meddling (for real, as in weapons, not Democrat wet dreams) internally within the US, deterrence may become established, hopefully leading to a US retrenchment in terms of searching abroad for monsters to slay. See current Middle East events with Iran, which may be able to establish deterrence (it now has the wherewithal) against Israel.
My SWAG, though, is I see it all burning in typical end-of-empire style.
Someone here pointed to a 2012 analysis by M Greer
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2012-11-21/in-the-twilight-of-empires/
highly recommend. Especially the discussion on the religious fanatics who settled Israel after clearing it of people, the “Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem,” which collapsed in 1187 with all the religious fanatics mopped up over the following century.
Ta for the comment. I just hope that the male, military age monsters flooding into A Merica are not the trigger to concentrate on Home troubles rather than poking its nose into other countries’ perceived troubles.
It’s amazing how relentless the neocons are. It seems like every time you turn around they are fomenting another coup or color revoultion.
I always assume that British Intelligence is bought and paid for by the US. A sort of black site operation to allow US Intelligence to get around any inconvenient US legislation, not that they seem to care much about any such legalities or oversite.
These people have bought about untold death, misery and destitution to millions of people so that they can continue to exercise raw unfettered power, power that does not seem to be in the interest of American or any other citizen of the planet.
Nuremburg 2.0 please.
Early on, in the Duran conversation, you noted “today, there is no pragmatism”.
Now, there isn’t even a grasp of reality, never mind being practical and sensible dealing with it.
American “pragmatism” got us to where we are.
German ex-Chancellor Merkel’s many years in power are best described as “Durchwursteln” – roughly muddling through.
For the durchwurstler (muddling through the sausage maker), always leads to a meat grinder in small steps.
Minsk wurde durchgewurstelt.
American “pragmatism” is also baloney, it leads inevitably to the very same meat grinder.
Now Ukraine is being durchgewurstelt – ironic as ex-Ambasador Melnyk insulted Chancellor Scholz as being a sorry leberwurst!
Pragmatism is the Sleep of Reason of great artist Goya – it always breeds monsters :
It looks like the world wants no more pragmatism, baloney, nor durchwursteln – and that is why Pres- Putin, Lavrov, Xi are shining with reason. And why Iran is using Reason.
You said in the Duran that Iran was following the “rules-based order”.
i don’t think this is correct. To the contrary, RU, CN, IR appear to follow international law to the T. This will give them the option to prosecute the persons responsible and have iron-clad cases. As Lavrov said, “I don’t care about the west, I care about international law “.
Seems to me that they have concluded that they have to eradicate the source of the problem or else there are there are constant wars.
I have just joined this group.
I enjoyed your discussion with the two Alex’s. Alexander is much better when he is in a discussion with someone else. I find that I have to play his monologues at 1.25. I’m guessing that it was his training as a lawyer where he was paid by the minute that slows him down.
I follow The Duran on Locals.
What I really like is that I can happily recommend them to others because they tend not to antagonise in the way that some others that I agree with can.
Best wishes,
John Rothery (Tauranga)
Tauranga!
Not Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty?
I knew it well 60 years ago. My family took summer holidays in Omokoroa for years. Great Days now far removed in time and space.
All the best mate.
“The Duran” are among the best analysts. Unfortunately, I don’t speak enough English to follow their video conversations. I always have to rely on subtitles and transcripts.
Karl Sanchez summarizes other good analysts. Larry Johnson, among others.
https://karlof1.substack.com/p/a-few-comments-on-the-new-equation
The most powerful asset manager “Black Rock” is still invested in China with several trillion USD. … Now a little pause for thought. … What does this mean in essence if all our sensory organs are tortured with: “evil Russia” and “evil China”?
Second question: World peace will not come if the “US projects: Russia, China, Eurasia” are not successfully completed. Does the empire and its vassals have the industrial and technological power to subjugate Eurasia to its rule? I think not. Will the increasingly desperate empire then say: “I tried. It did not work. I accept my fate and now I will practice peace and fair cooperation with the world community?” That is not to be expected. Not even in the slightest.
So, what means will the empire resort to when everything so far has failed? A “real deadly pandemic” from the numerous bioweapons laboratories? Nuclear weapons? I am very worried.
The attempt at a color revolution in Georgia, Hungary, Serbia, …. . It’s always the same pattern. By now it’s standard: “Follow the money trail.”
They will fight to the end.
RU,CN,IR, BRICS are in damage control mode and give them time to bleed to death. Bio weapons tend to backfire because the Western population is much sicker and older than the rest of the world. Nukes require considerable effort and skill to get off, I think that is in short supply. I also think that the launching facilities will be the first hit, should it come to a big war.
the Color revolutions will be less and less effective, the rest of the world is wisening up.
oberplayed hand
This is how mentally and morally healthy people think. I have serious doubts that such people make the decisions in the empire and in the West.
The reason I mentioned Black Rock with reference to China was to point out that patriotism, nationality and citizenship have no meaning for the oligarchs. People are not people to these oligarchs. People are just numbers to them! The mental relationship of these individuals to people is non-existent.
“World peace will not come unless the “US Projects: Russia, China, Eurasia” are successfully completed. Do the empire and its vassals have the industrial and technological power to bring Eurasia under its rule? I think not.”
Of course, the empire will not be able to subjugate Eurasia, Russia and China. But even if this were possible, would this mean necessary and sufficient conditions for the onset of peace? Also no.
It is easy and quick to destroy, break, undermine. Creating and building is long and difficult. I would not mention banal truths if it did not seem to me that the progressive part of humanity is waiting for some easy and clear paths of development, justice and general prosperity and is waiting for a new Messiah.
I want to recall the sincere words from the Russian translation of the “Anthem of the International”:
“We will destroy the whole World of violence to the ground, and then
we will build our new World…”
The anthem was written in France in 1871 (text) and in 1888 (music), picked up in Russia in 1918 as the national anthem of the USSR (since 1922). Since then we have been building and building a new World, looking for ways and options, but we have not been able to destroy the World of violence. Everything happened exactly the opposite.
When Eugène Edine Pottier wrote that anthem in france in 1871, the USA was admired world wide for its industry and reconstruction. Advisors to Bismarck and the Czar, and Japan spread industrial physical economic development.
And then Colorado Governor published the Cosmopolitan Railway as the way to end once and for all the source of all trouble – the British Empire and the Mackinder-garten.
Today look at the World Landbridge, in progress. Everyone can see the flailing Empire thrashing in public.
Do you think that the shaky Empire will die soon? And won’t bury us under the rubble?
I don’t know whether the World that replaces the current one will be better. But I know what is good for you is good for us.
We left the stone age not because of lack of stones.
There will always be a maritime component, what China calls the Belt, while the Road-Rail moved ahead, the EAEU that Dr. Glazyev drives is huge!
Hey, stone is still big business!
“Now it’s standard: “Follow the money trail.”
Are you saying that the new order of “fair cooperation with the world community” will come when the dollar finally leaves the scene as a reserve currency? Or are additional conditions necessary to establish a new world order? If yes, then these necessary conditions have not yet been determined by anyone. Necessary conditions do not mean sufficient conditions.
You have raised an important point here. Injustice, arbitrariness, poverty and exploitation also exist in the BRICS+ and all over the world. In addition, “multipolarity” presupposes that no one interferes in the internal affairs of others. But there are also hostilities and intrigues within the BRICS+ and in the “Global South”. No, the problems of human civilization will not be solved. I think an empochal upheaval is happening at the moment and we will be lucky if we survive this process.
Physical economic development, is the necessary pre-condition for pursuit of peace.
Take the most troubled little corner of he World Landbridge – South West Asia. Set the scene for peace with the Oasis Plan – then peace will be (hard) work in progress.
“Progress is the myth of out time.” Joseph Campbell
The Negev thrived in antiquity through water harvest and storage. They would build on top of a cistern and funnel the cooler air through the house. They irrigated.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2023/5/15/recreating-a-palestinian-village-75-years-after-the-nakba
My take is that the American people have their cake from the spoils of empire (the dollar carry), which allows the oligarchs to not share their wealth with the common folk. Without these cash flows, either they redistribute their wealth for the sake of societal stability, or it leads to internal strife and collapse (and inability to maintain the empire). The last decade definitively showed the choice – the US lifespan is decreasing.
Once the core becomes wracked by internal strife, powerful new global actors will ensure it fragments into many small entities. I see the new countries of CalOrVada, Texas, Southlandia, etc. forming. Some will be very poor. DC probably returns to swampland.
My free SWAG.
I saw the fisticuffs in the Georgian parliament and the crowds gathered outside on Telegram, the only explanation was a vote on a FARA type bill, my immediate reaction was ‘who could object to that?’
then I thought ‘oh, the Gene Sharp colour revolution people!’
the neo-cons have quite a simple playbook,
propaganda that literally inverts reality accusing the ‘enemy’ of doing exactly what you’re doing,
colour revolutions instigated by NGO’s that are really GO’s, i.e. the funds are being channelled to them via cut offs,
using terrorist groups as proxies that are deniable, it’s been described as Operation Gladio 2.0 “The Next Generation”!
the thing is, all these approaches are becoming rather hackneyed, because more people understand them for what they are they’ve lost their impact,
I did think the BLM protests and subsequent riots in the US looked rather like a colour revolution being used on the domestic population instead of abroad,
it was amazing that right up until the BLM stuff kicked off masking and keeping your distance were the most important thing in the world, then suddenly it didn’t matter, as if protesters got a free pass,
everything in the US seems to be a PR stunt, the lawfare has no legal basis for success, but it’s profoundly disruptive,
the weird groups of identically dressed protesters with matching placards marching about seem to ‘glow’ they’re so obviously Feds or some contrived stunt,
those that openly profess to be Nazi’s, like that bonehead Mcclelland freak to all intents and purposes seem to be astro turf,
it’s all very bizarre, like a house of mirrors, very difficult to navigate.
Uncle Sam aims to install a Quisling in the Solomons.
Is US Plotting Electoral Coup in Solomon Islands?
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240409/is-us-plotting-electoral-coup-in-solomon-islands-1117758198.html
Larry, I can suggest two possible reasons for why the russians have “failed” to blow the Dnieper bridges:
Blowing up a big bridge takes lots of planning and explosives. Timing is tricky because you want to keep it open to support friendly troops and allow them to retreat, but if you wait too long the attackers may surprise you, perhaps disguised as retreating Ukes. The Russians have avoided dangerous airborne ops in this war, but if the Uke army collapses into a mass retreat, the Russians may try to grab a bridge.
So much good stuff around – especially Nima on Dialogue Works.
So why do the Duran do 2 hour shows? Like they are doing it for themselves and not the audience.
see my comment above. Watch at 1.25X or 1.5X. They are very thorough. I think it’s a British cultural aspect.
Yes Alexander and Alex are absolutely astonishing. Almost as good as Larry. They have a couple of blind spots.
From Texas To Israel, Here Is The Strange Alliance Between Zionist Christians And Rabbis To Unleash The Apocalypse
https://southfront.press/from-texas-to-israel-here-is-the-strange-alliance-between-zionist-christians-and-rabbis-to-unleash-the-apocalypse/
A tail of Red Heifers and the Third Temple of Solomon, smuggled as pets to Israel from TX.
Iran is for sure aware of the fanatics in charge in Israel.
And to add to the stew, Argentina’s Milei is into Apocalyptic beef :
https://southfront.press/javier-milei-plays-the-apocalypse-the-argentinian-president-wants-the-construction-of-the-third-temple-of-jerusalem/
Javier Milei Plays The Apocalypse: The Argentinian President Wants The Construction Of The Third Temple Of Jerusalem
There are THREE countries in the grip of fanatics, UKraine, Israel, Argentina,
not to mention D.C. or London.
Skullduggery rest upon uniform mass ignorance and the uniformity of ignorance is running out fast..
The masses will always be ignorant but when somewhere between 5-10% of the population buys into a critical perspective on the “Thing” what ever that thing may be this triggers a process by which the public grows increasing skeptical and restive as they become aware that fraud and deceit may at work.. When this trigger is pulled the public and they can no longer dismiss the possibility that what they told is deceptive propaganda designed to conceal what is actually true..
Looks like Georgia’s government has taken on the Oligarchy, not just NGO’s.
Mt. Kazbek , Georgia, is where Prometheus was chained, and tortured by Oligarch Zeus, as Putin mentioned at the nearby Socchi winter games.
When Zeus tortured Prometheus at Mt. Kazbek, it was to hear the secret of what would bring Zeus and the Olympians down. Prometheus never succumbed.
Zeus’s Golden Fleece is the Coat of Arms of nearby Kutaisi, also in Georgia today, a cult center. The Golden Fleece is hermetic cult knowledge.
h/t John Helmer
Israel is strategically extremely vulnerable, stuck on the edge of South West Asia.
Here are maps of infrastructure from
https://crml.eelabs.technion.ac.il/projects/model-of-israel-electricity-transmission-system/
And here is what must urgently be worked on – the Oasis Plan. Water being a key component.
What a privilege it is to have access to expert honest opinion. The COVID and Ukraine disaster has really opened my eyes to the world we live in. Though I suspect I’m only getting a little peek behind the curtains. I salute Larry, it must be hard to be an honest voice. I wonder if Larry thinks these kind of shenanigans are actually bad for the country. If not then one has to balance, as a patriot, honesty with best interest for the country.
The CIA/MI6 were successful. The 2 bills were withdrawn. https://mronline.org/2023/03/25/the-georgian-protests/
Seymour Hersh claims the Pentagon engineered a fake war in order to avoid a real one; that they allowed Iran to attack Israel.
Seriously I am waiting for Larry’s take on this article. This is a serious problem with left vs right myopia. It is a serious sickness in this country.
done.
The Duran, Garlan Nixon, Nima with Dialog Works, Pascal with Neutrality studies, The New Atlas, Danny Haiphong and all their interesting guests. Professors, former CIA, former military etc. Andrei Martyanov. Too many to mention. Larry you are high up on the list. A must read and listen to.
The United States already did a color revolution in Georgia in 2003 and turned that nation into a colony. I covered this in a short video:
https://youtu.be/qC-xLCgbThM?t=23
I haven’t followed recent events, but it seems the CIA lost some control. Georgia provides important natural gas pipeline access to NATO.
Did anyone read Seymour Hersh. Seriously, and Biden was in “agreement” with the “work around” the Pentagon was doing, behind his old senile back????
Yeah, I just bet.
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