Let me start with the important and sad news marking the passing of Daniel Ellsberg. Dan leaves a legacy of greatness. He was kind, generous and moral. His decision to expose the massive lies told to the American public to justify the war in Vietnam changed his life and set an important benchmark regarding freedom of the press. Sadly, Dan’s death today coincides with a court decision in the U.K. that green lights the extradition of Julian Assange, another whistleblower who exposed U.S. lies about the war in Iraq and other national security issues.
You may not like Assange and you may object to his methods, but the core issue is that Assange is a journalist, albeit unconventional, and must not be held liable for publishing material that embarrassed the U.S. national security establishment. His only remaining hope is that his case will make it to the Supreme Court and that the nine Justices will rely on the Ellsberg precedent that upheld the right of the press to publish information the U.S. Government wanted to keep secret.
The Judge and I also discuss General Milley’s remarks this week at the press conference in Brussels following the meeting of the Ukrainian Defense Contact Group and why I believe, along with others, that Milley is guilty of criminal conduct. Milley’s facilitation of a pseudo-military training program for Ukraine is akin to a bartender who continues to serve liquor to a visibly intoxicated customer and then hands the key to that drunk soul so that he can drive himself home. The bartender knows that a plastered client behind the wheel of an automobile represents a clear and present danger to the public. If the intoxicated driver kills someone by running a stoplight or T-boning a family van, that bartender shares criminal responsible for those deaths.
Milley and the rest of the NATO chiefs are giving the Ukrainians the means to commit suicide by offering superficial, inadequate training. They are supplying Ukraine with weapons and vehicles and are exhorting the Ukrainians to carry out military operations that the NATO leaders know have no chance of success.
Well, it’s not 1971 anymore. Has the rot gone too deep? Guess we’ll find out, but I don’t share your optimism at the guys and girls in black dresses across Constitution Ave from the Dirksen senate office building in DC.
miley has admitted to worse treasonous crimes in print. See watergate woodwork and costa’s “Peril.”
Intersting timez…
The good news is the conservatives on SCOTUS have probably evolved enough to uphold the Ellsberg case with Assange, but getting there and the ordeal Assange will have to go through between being taken into custody at JFK and the SCOTUS ruling will test his sanity. If Milley were facing some kind of international military tribunal, his counterparts globally would find him incompetent or negligent. However, because this is war time and this country’s defense establishment is all-in in Ukraine, objectivity on whether or not Milley’s training sham is reasonable or prudent will not come under review. I am going out on a limb to suggest that Nuland and the CNAS, formerly PNAC, cronies are dictating Pentagon and US military and foreign policy. When everything is said and done, America will have allocated $1 Trillion to the Ukraine rathole before it stops. PNAC, CNAS, and the neocons are responsible for America pissing away $4 Trillion on regime change fantasies and Trotskyite jihadism abroad so far this century. We need the legal equivalent of an icepick to stop this madness…before our country becomes Buenos Aires del Norte!
M2:
I share your sentiment but am more pessimistic. This country is already a banana republic. They control the courts. The legal equivalent of an icepick has as much chance as you or me winning in a rigged casino. Let it fail. All of it.
Assange did not kill himself…..
Any forensic psychiatrists out there? It would be interesting to read a professional opinion on Nuland and her obsession with carnage through administrative abuse. Fascinating creature, she took it upon herself to learn Russian and now speaks it fluently, also made a bee line for Odessa after college graduation, although the alibi for that was working at some summer camp but why would a killer like her want to look after children. There had to be more to it.
Milley is just a political animal and a coward who will do anything for money, Austin the same, the other Pentagon fat cats as well. Hired guns. Have cash will provoke. They are all slapped around by Nuland and do as she orders. What do they care about who gets killed, they will get their cut of the loot and skip town for fancier climes, then it’s somebody else’s problem. Then there’s Blinken, an amateur fop by any standard but reliably owned. Sullivan and the other dunce whose name escapes me, all holding jobs far beyond their clearly limited intellects. They don’t even know how to read and research, just move people and populations on a checkerboard for fun and games with no repercussions. They are too stupid for chess, that is why they created a mess that they cannot manage because they do not understand it owing to their personal and professional myopia, and which is now spiraling out of all control.
Thanks, DC. Thanks for nothing.
Daniel Ellsberg barely got a mention today in the news. One of our best.
One of the reason freedom of speech has lasted this long.
Good analogy, Mr Larry.
USA + the West has fed Ukrainians with shots after shots of intoxicating promises of victory, promises that the West will stand by them all the way, promises to their leaders that they will be taken care of, and all they need to do is to drive through the Russian village. And USA + the West even provided the car (equipment) too, to the intoxicated drunk, all in the hope that as the drunk crashes as they know he would, he will kill a few Russians along the way.
Our leaders are depraved.
About:
“The NATO leaders (mainly USA & UK) are giving Ukrainians the means to commit suicide …”
In my younger years, a few decades, such and much less tragic misuses of other people made me extremely sad and quite angry.
Later and now, after awakening, it is quite different.
This part of Ukrainians (whether completely uneducated or highly educated), who allow themselves to be misused like this, or rather like to do evil deliberately (all of them are not misused), are not like this for nothing.
The biggest and most genocidal war criminals (USA & GB) also are not like that for nothing.
GB have attacked 117 countries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO59mrGEHeo
USA Regime Killed 20-30 Million people
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-has-killed-more-than-20-million-people-in-37-victim-nations-since-world-war-ii/5492051
(8000 murdered Bosniaks in Srebrenica (no women & children among them) UN courts qualified as genocide)
The two mentioned types of these beings cannot be otherwise, because they are given to do (more or less) consciously the most evil and most destructive.
But this in no way excuses their colossal wickedness, and should be condemned by all decent inhabitants of the earth.
The only Good thing in this and many other similar catastrophes is that a small minority of the conscious world inhabitants understands that they do not live in the “paradise” together with good souls, but with the most deviant beings in the universe.
This planet and all its inhabitants are destined/ doomed to destruction (which will come soon) since their creation according to all criteria (scientific and religious).
These catastrophes are necessary because only through them the mentioned minority of Good Souls can become a little more awake and stop looking for the Good among the majority of the Earth’s inhabitants (because it does not exist there), but where it exists and could be found.
We will, of course, first, soon ERADICATE all evil monsters WORLDWIDE.
I agree with you.But arent we all sinners?
Some may think that “Good” ukrainians people were able to flee outside ukraine before being drafted into the meat grinder .
Some are reporting that some european folks and some americans as well are starting to migrate into russia: will all the europeans who are staying in their country be held responsible for whatever escalation have to come?
is that a looser mindset or acknowledging for our past sins or atoning for it?
karma is a bitch…
“GB have attacked 117 countries”.
They justified that to themselves and to their peers by the doctrine of discovery (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_doctrine#cite_note-1) “..which authorized various European powers to conquer the lands of non-Christians.” This was a religious edit of the Pope. The justification for the rule based world order and all the wars that have been fought by the West is based on the fundamental assertion that those approved by the Pope may dispose off the “others” in furtherance of their own interests. Now that this idea has taken root over so many centuries, their adherents must either change their life-long beliefs (which is very difficult) or otherwise end their life. They have chosen to end their life. Let us allow them to exercise their free will and kill themselves and others like-minded. The sad part is that this also kills decent people. Putin, Kadyrov, Wagner are doing their best to these losses to a minimum
Ukraine is an example of eugenics: Slav burns Slav and Western identities send arms to keep the fire alight.
Pretty simple analysis that is obvious without a bunch of big words or experts droning on and on. Thanks for breaking it down in simple terms. Best analysis in a year and a half.
Maybe CCP will return the favor to comrade Milley and give him a heads up before taking Taiwan. (honk!)
BTW-After Taiwan it is the former USA.
There will be a barter. Assang=Gershkovitc?
Not even a sex change would make Gershkovitch valuable enough for that. Assange needs to be publicly punished in order to prevent others from doing similar things.
And it’s only going to get worse from here, with Petr Pavel having been given permission by his overlords to “test the waters” re: concentration camps in the West. This is classical psychological nudge technique in action, a supposedly (and initially, genuinely) controversial thought given public airing to slowly acclimate the polities of the Western countries to the ideological notion of the lesser other. Any dissidence from the one-party, one-mind collective will, in a time shorter than you imagine, make you a target of the State and a nominee for concentration camp residence. From there the indentured servitude, disappearances, and deaths will irrevocably rise; the “great cleansing” will be underway.
We’ve seen this before, and in fact at one time fought against it as an existential threat. My grandfather lost his life in service to that mission. How one cannot ally oneself with the Russian Federation and the rest of the civilized world in this renewed fight is beyond my comprehension. The barbaric West must be disabled and shorn of its power and its innocent citizens freed from the reign of what Kadyrov so aptly called the shaitans before it’s too late.
There are 2.5 million ex Russians in the USA, in what can be an insular Community.
https://en.as.com/en/2022/03/12/latest_news/1647040714_380248.html
They are mostly hard working, rich and successful and count themselves as Americans.
Trying to put them in concentration camps will not end well.
Not only that… If the elite think that these ExPats, flyover country Americans, and legitimately awake Americans won’t take up arms to fight this, they’re in for a rude awakening. Just my opinion.
Tru dat!
Is it still OK to go on Twitter (and CNN for that matter) and advocate for killing Russians but not OK to go on Twitter or CNN and advocate for killing those advocating the killing?
It’s difficult to keep up with the totalitarian state. That is, of course the point. Or one of them.
What exactly is Czech President Pavel proposing?
Treating Russians the same way USA treated Japanese in WWII.
Thanks Mad Cow
https://odysee.com/@IrinaBoykoCrutcher:5/Czech:0b
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans
USA was at war with Japan back in the day, and EU is not at war with Russia, yet.
“USA was at war with Japan ” That doesn’t make it legal or moral. They were also at war with Germany and Italy (and others in the Axis) however citizens with forebears in those countries wern’t locked up.
And in the case of Italians they used the war to further entrench their organised crime structures.
I didn’t claim anything is legal/moral/whatever. Legality and morality are malleable things, especially in times of war. USA had no legal or moral problems with slavery back in the day. Right now they have no legal or moral problems with all the nasty things their beloved Banderites are doing. Concentration camps are misdemeanor from their point of view.
The US regime are guilty of capital crimes against humanity
Any government collaborating with the US needs its government overturned
Julian Assange is not a citizen of the US is not responsible for the illegal acts of its government
The government and system of the US however is beholden to international laws and the laws of humanity
No matter if the break all international treaties they have ever signed
They are still accountable to them
The US junta will be be dragged before a court soon enough and it will be the gallows for all of them , if they are not all already dead to face the highest court.
Kudos for another excellent post. I do agree with your points, but I think that the Ukranians bore the crimes of STUPIDITY!
The Great African Historian, Ali Mazrui, told us that Geography is the Mother of History.
That explains why Geopolitics matter greatly. It might not be kind, but there is a price to pay when you provoke your neighbour, especially one with the muscle to make a mincemeat of you.
How did the Ukranians buy into the stupid hagiography sold to them by the Anglo-Saxons that the people with whom they have lived for hundreds of years, and with whom they share many cultural traits including language are sub-zoological freaks?
I am not remotely close to being a military strategist, but simple common sense tells me that one must be a supreme fool to believe that paltry Ukraine (in population, resources, etc) will succeed where the Mighty Werhmacht (the mightiest force in its time).
“How did the Ukranians buy into the stupid hagiography sold to them by the Anglo-Saxons that the people with whom they have lived for hundreds of years, and with whom they share many cultural traits including language are sub-zoological freaks?”
It did not appear over night, but was cultivated for centuries. It’s an ongoing effort to make Slavs kill each other, for the benefit of the Western Europe (aka. divide and conquer, aka. Balkanization). Catholization was essential part of it. Other forms of “westernization” followed. Ideology can make people believe in very dumb things, and act on them. Convertites are most eager to destroy the thing that they were yesterday, in order to prove themselves.
“I am not remotely close to being a military strategist, but simple common sense tells me that one must be a supreme fool to believe that paltry Ukraine (in population, resources, etc) will succeed where the Mighty Werhmacht (the mightiest force in its time).”
They believed that the mighty NATO (a sequel to the Mighty Werhmacht) will come to their rescue. They still do. They also believe that USA/EU will forgive them their debts, and rebuild them after they win the war (Zelensky mentioned last year that one trillion dollars would be needed). Brainwashed people can believe very dumb things, and act on them.
A cynic could say that it’s evolution at work. Dumb people are removing themselves for the human gene pool. A lot of Darwin Award winners there. Gene pool of Europe at the end of this century will be nothing like it was on its beginning.
“How did the Ukranians buy into the stupid hagiography sold to them by the Anglo-Saxons that the people with whom they have lived for hundreds of years, and with whom they share many cultural traits including language are sub-zoological freaks?”
In the same way that the mindless masses were told a DARPA engineered injection would boost their immune system and protect them from a corona virus (influenza. Mass propaganda and lack of critical thought along with thinking as a herd (of sheep).
” Dumb people are removing themselves for the human gene pool.”
See above.
I think the western Ukrainians feel no kinship for the ethnic Russian Ukrainians in the east.
The truth is that Ukraine’s manipulators think that they and the Russians alike are the same set of sub zoological freaks, the proof to them being the ease with which Ukrainians are conned, and reason why they are sent to the meat grinder in droves.
What we are watching is CRT in action, Eastern Slav version, in which a people is divided and taught to hate themselves and each other because of “ancestral sins”.
Some Ukrainians are khazarian jews.
The processes described here by Larry are not limited to the military sphere.
As noted by Scott Ritter on the Duran the other day….
https://rokfin.com/stream/35525/The-next-wave-of-the-counteroffensive-wScott-Ritter-Live
….and Bernard at MoA the other week….
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/06/the-ukrainian-military-is-in-bad-shape.html#more
…..everything is being done in silos. The left hand does not give a FF about what the right hand is doing (and vice versa); there is no organisational integration; and everyone is simply doing their own thing. Resulting in outcomes which are less rather than more than the sum of the parts.
And you don’t have to have any military background to recognise that this is exactly the same process you experience every day where ever you happen to work anywhere in the West. Simply because it is the only acceptable operating paradigm in every organisational sphere at every level.
As described here:
https://www.harrowell.org.uk/blog/2018/01/31/in-the-eternal-inferno-fiends-torment-ronald-coase-with-the-fate-of-his-ideas/
Doesn’t matter what skills you are talking about the endemic TINA (There Is No Alternative) Doctrine of the West dictates that the only legitimate skill is ‘management’ and that you can pick anyone out from the bus stop or supermarket queues, give them minimum instruction and CBT (Computer Based Training) and they can magically do to the same standard what it used to take years of practice and experience to carry out from day one.
It took a minimum five years to become fully proficient in the job I used to do before I retired. Now people are expected to be up to speed after a few weeks. And you could pick people at random from off the street who would tell you the same thing about their job. To see the same numpty process applied in the military is no surprise. Which is why experienced people with expertise are managed out of every system to be replaced by copers (to cope means to manage) who don’t have clue from the very top right down to the very bottom.
Its why experts in Russian Studies, for example, were not wanted by by the CIA, State Department and other agencies. The entire West is now run by people who think they can create their own reality to suit their convenience. And whatever sphere you encounter anyone who deviates from The Official Narrative (TON) is treated as an ‘Outsider’ to be stripped of all agency.
Even to the extent of a Company CEO telling the world he does not want customers or people buying from his chain of DIY stores who disagree with him on a particular matter:
https://twitter.com/JournalistJill/status/1669394862154690561
As Larry among others observes, this does not work. Its not effective. It has no efficacy – whether its the military or any any other sphere of activity. Yet it is a process which the numpties presently running the West insist is the only acceptable way for not only themselves but for the rest of the planet. One they are seeking to impose by force.
Ultimately, this is what 85% of the worlds population outside the West, along with a significant proportion within the West who are stuck with it, are opposing.
And the smart money ain’t on the numpties.
” experts in Russian Studies”
Since time is laterally dynamic there are no experts, although some worry about the lack of expertise in hope of its attainment, both illustrated in Dave Hansell says 17 June 2023 at 06:24 and in ring-a-ring-a-roses-a-pocket-full-of-poses-atishoo-atishoo-we-all-fall-down.
“… have no chance of success.”
For those in charge, success is when more Russians/Slavs die. For them this is working as intended. It’s a successful slaughterhouse.
no. success comes after Russia goes into turmoil due to a lot of casualties, and broken up.
Then the poor Russians could be given contaminated blankets to reduce their population to the red Indian levels.
Catholic poles and Galicians likely to be left alone since they would have sacrificed a few million already.
When the American and European Population realizes, that we are once again up against the same Fascist network as our Fathers and Grandfather’s fought against in WWI, WWII, and the Vietnam war,
They will see the connection between the NAZIs in Ukraine – The European Dynasties ruling the US, UK and EU behind the scene – The forever wars by the Empire – The lock downs – The restrictions on civil liberties – The attacks against free speech and whistle blowers – and the western RESET set in motion by restricting the use of fossil energy in a mad transition toward unreliable energy sources.
The Roman Empire (The West) is once more in a moral, economic and military collapse.
Long live independent states.
Spend 15 minutes reading a blog under any article about Putin or Russia on Yahoo and I think you will realize you are giving “the population” waaay too much credit. The ignorance and brainwashing are astounding. I doubt if many of those people will ever realize anything other than what the government or msm (but I’m being redundant) tells them.
Meantime we have quite a lot in the west who have concluded their grandfathers made a mistake and they should finish the job that the Nazis started in Russia.
Collectively the west is genocidal ever since pagan Rome fell and was replaced with the Joshua mentality.
A. Dane: “once more in a moral, economic and military collapse.”
– https://www.unz.com/mhudson/origins-of-debt-how-financial-oligarchies-in-greece-rome-shaped-our-world/?highlight=rich
– https://www.unz.com/lromanoff/the-richest-man-in-the-world/
– https://www.unz.com/mhudson/the-end-of-western-civilization/
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CtcI2JyO6rF/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Paul Kingsnorth argues – convincingly to me – that this is all about feeding the Machine.
https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/intermission-coming-up-laid-down
It’s time to start creating – and defending – the monasteries.
What’s to keep a thief from stealing the headrest?
“You may not like Assange.”
This is crazy talk. The single most moving and public spirited mission statement I have ever read. Go find it and change your mind.
Edit: wow, I went to look and it is well buried. I am sorry I am such a poor vessel for such grand ideas but to the best of my recollection (don’t call me Hillary.)
Evil has an advantage in the world of the just because they operate in secret. If through exposure to the people, evil can have it’s advantages taken away, and even turned to disadvantages, than the good and the just will thrive.
It is all fine and well to coble up stirring words for a mission statement, although rare in a world of wishy-washy, it is unusual to see any corporation actually live up to their mission statement. And from my experience, they mostly don’t even try. The mission statement was supposed to cover the part where you became convinced.
If you are damning Assange with faint praise it is because you are the establishment.
Fully agree, sounded out of tune…Lula
“exhorting the Ukrainians to carry out military operations that the NATO leaders know have no chance of success”
Since it is clear that NATO/Ukraine cannot win, and it is also clear that Biden & Co. cannot survive a defeat, what does this mean?
1.) Biden/NATO/Ukraine accept defeat and all that it implies
or
2.) Biden/NATO/Ukraine resort to nuclear war
I’m afraid the answer is clear.
It will be propagandized as started by Russia, but who will be left to care?
These people are insane. They are going to kill us all.
When wiki leak started, most here thought it would be like amnesty international :
A few attack on the west but basically a tool to bash the 3rd world.
I changed my mind about wiki leak later but i am not sure nowadays. what if Assange was to be a western tool but betrayed them because he found it easier to get whistle blowers from the west?
Maybe the 5 eyes consider him a traitor. explains their vitriol.
Or maybe they got angry with Snowden and are taking it out on Assange.
Really weird both the government and public has no sympathy for this guy though they (both govt and average westerner) prance around preaching about freedom of press.
Ellsberg is what Hofer called a true believer early on, married the Generals daughter/extended for the Suez Crisis, evidently bought in to the Theory of the Leisure Class(military/government sage). Obviously he had a difficult time compartmentalizing the activities which he was privy to, perhaps even the killing of Kennedy. Sunlight as sanitizer is how I’ll remember him, Drachma for his eyes:)
Kevin Gosztola wrote an excellent defense of Julian Assange in his book “Guilty of Journalism.” Much of the case against Assange is fabricated hyperbole.
I am concerned that when Assange is extradited, he will be suicided in prison, and as with Jeffrey Epstein, any cameras that supposedly would be monitoring him will inexplicably malfunction during the time when the “suicide” occurs. The Bureaucratic (autocratic, totalitarian) State cannot take the risk that his case will make it to the Supreme Court and he might be freed. They need to make an example of him, to demonstrate what happens to investigative journalists who disclose embarrassing material. The rot goes that deep.
Excellent article and comments. Especially liked Hansell’s remarks and links. The question I ponder is how do you stop a generation from killing it’s mind, body and soul it’s biosphere and history in exchange for a fake satanic digital one? No matter how many times you win in HALO it will never articulate with the situation in Bahkmut, no matter how much weak inception and sacrafices to satan you make in your Ma’s basement! Kudo’s for Mr Johnson for providing a refreshing drink in this media desert. Brawndo is the favorite drink for the Idiocracy formerly known asThe West. D’ese fools be driving de shit show over de cliff, AND unfortunately we are wid dem!!, or we could jump off this crazy train and wait for them to show up at our stoop, when as Jo P say’s they will be in for a rude awakening
Thank you gentlemen. I have ZERO military training & when you played the video I heard preposterous bloviated nonsense for the dumbed down masses to ingest with their chips & beer. Enough – cut the military welfare crowd off at the knees. It’s over. No one wants war. And the US is broke. We’re sick of the war morons and their sidekick corporate welfare buddies.
Larry I agree with you about Milley..it is criminal..I’m not in the military but you don’t have to be ..it takes a bit of common sense to understand that those being trained to go into battle for Ukraine and the way Milley is describing the training is useless and is basically sending them, as everyone has been describing, into the”meat grinder”..by the way..I can’t stomach listening to Milley but when you have clips of his pressers I deal with it…
I wonder how long it will be for the USG government to offer citizenship to all the illegals who join the military… as the USG currently allows for LEGAL resident non-citizens who then get expedited citizenship.
Then I wonder what they will use them for.
1) To fight in-house to battle all those gun-wielding “white supremacists” ?
2) Or will they send them to Ukraine as cannon-fodder ?
3) OR, will they send the still-too-many Trump supporters in the military to Ukraine as cannon-fodder, and then replace them with the new illegals-turned-citizens back home ?
My guess is #3. Because Trump got well over 70% of the military vote when he was in office (closer to mid-to-upper 70s% I think). Since then, the military has force-vaxxed them, fired them, tranny-fied them, rainbowed them, etc. In other words, the USG has been trying to turn the military into Leftists.
But the current USG communists might still think there are too many Trump supporters in the military. So in communists’ eyes, what better way than to have them all sent to Ukraine to quicken the pace of the turnover ?
After all, the communists obviously feel the need to destroy the country in record time (the TRUE Operation Warp Speed). Why shouldn’t that also include changing over the entire military from Patriotic right-wingers to Leftists in record time ?
I do not put it past the evil-doers in power.
End of random thoughts. Thank you for tolerating. Oh yeah… and free Julian Assange.
Ellsberg was married to Patricia Marx, daughter of super rich toy maker Louis Marx, nicknamed “the Henry Ford of the toy industry.” Wikipedia claims that old Marx was “a strident anti-communist” who later regarded his son-in-law, Ellsberg as a traitor.
Oddly, his other daughter, Ellsberg’s sister-in-law, Barbara Marx Hubbard (who coyly preferred to be called just Barbara M. Hubbard) who happened to be the first woman to be nominated for the Vice Presidency of the United States in 1984, was a communist, co-chairing a few Soviet-American Citizen Summits, and later an enthusiastic advocate of trans-humanism, which made her a darling of the WEF.
As for Ellsberg himself, his career trajectory (the Rand Corp, the State Dept, the Institute for Policy Studies) makes the eruption of his epiphany that he Vietnam War was all wrong and must be stopped truly intriguing. Cynical minds may wonder if the motivation was noble feelings of love for peace or a calculus that it was time for the US blood and treasure to be spent elsewhere.
On thing is sure: this family had a diversified portfolio.