On this week’s Global Research News Hour, we focus on the growing friction between the United States and Russia over the fate of Ukraine with three great guests;
In our first half hour, commentator and columnist Scott Ritter expresses his thoughts about NATO’s inability to thwart the Russians and opens up a possible face saver for all forces involved.
In our second half hour, commentator Paul Craig Roberts opens up about the West’s involvement in the popular movement that overthrew President Yanukovych and about the choice by Crimeans to actually rejoin the Russian Federation. Finally in our second half hour, we will hear from a journalist, activist and observer actually living in Kiev named Dmitriy Kovalevich about the racist groups that sprung up after the Maidan and how all politics, journalism and policing in Ukraine has been affected for the worse.

Countdown to Apocalypse Part 2: A Dark Future for Ukraine

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The US and UK are ramping up threats to Russia over Ukraine by sending more weapons, vowing more sanctions, and lodging evidence-free claims of a Russian plot to install a pro-Kremlin leader. But comments by Germany's navy chief that Russia "deserves respect" -- leading to his resignation -- underscore that not everyone is on board with Washington and London's war fever. Scholar and author Richard Sakwa discusses the latest in the Ukraine crisis. 

Guest: Richard Sakwa. Professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent. His books include “Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands” and his latest, “Deception: Russiagate and the New Cold War.”

US and UK escalate Russia war fever, but NATO splits over Ukraine emerge

After meeting in Beijing, China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin released a lengthy joint statement clarifying the ideological divisions of the new cold war: Eurasian calls for multipolarity, cooperation, sovereignty, and “redistribution of power in the world” against US unipolar hegemony and interventionism.

Read more here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/02/07/china-russia-multipolar-historic-meeting

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=c0JaOHa0qOM

China and Russia declare 'new era' of multipolarity, challenging US interventionism

Alexandra Marshall gives us an update on how The Great Reset is faring in Australia, where it is struggling to keep its narrative alive as people are increasingly refusing to follow health orders. The biggest problem Covid has revealed is the shift in Western democracies to embracing collectivist thought. Australia is on the verge of passing the WEF's Digital ID legislation which is an extension of the Covid surveillance system and is digital fascism. Russia and China are not pets of the WEF and are happy to let Klaus & Co. destroy the West with their program. China is determined to be the world's superpower, meanwhile Russia wants to let Beijing fight the West to weaken both. Well-meaning conservatives misunderstand what Putin's Russia actually is. She's hopeful we can recover from the damage done by Davos.

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Show Notes
The greater good - or a grander evil? https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/02/the-greater-good-or-a-grander-evil
Did Australia buy tanks to protect Taiwan? https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/01/did-australia-buy-tanks-to-protect-taiwan
Russia is empire-building while Australia sleeps https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/01/russia-is-empire-building-while-australia-sleeps

Websites
Elly Melly https://ellymelly.home.blog
Spectator Australia https://www.spectator.com.au
Twitter https://twitter.com/ellymelly
Good Sauce https://goodsauce.news/author/alexandra-marshall
The Vegas Take https://www.thevegastake.com
Penthouse https://www.penthouse.com.au

About Alexandra Marshall
Alexandra Marshall (@ellymelly on social media) is the host of "Curtain Call", a Good Sauce show exploring the leading personalities in the culture war. She writes on liberty, philosophy and geopolitics. You can find her on Twitter or read her articles over at her blog.

Elly is also an AI database designer for the retail industry, contributor to multiple online journals and a Young Ambassador with Australians for Constitutional Monarchy.

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Alexandra Marshall: Russia & China Are Happy to Let Davos Destroy the West #264

Hard-hitting investigative journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva discusses her groundbreaking work uncovering diplomatically protected international arms traffic from Western governments to terrorists as well as her discovery of Pentagon-funded bio-laboratories scattered throughout Eurasia. She learned how the whole of Eastern Europe was involved in a network for arming terrorists with weapons paid for by the USA, UAE, and Saudi Arabia, all under diplomatic cover. She visited numerous bio-labs and found they were located in residential areas where people subsequently complained of pollution, death, and disease. She even interrogated Robert Kadlec. The Pentagon funded 11 bio-labs in Ukraine and has been seeking the DNA and blood samples specifically of Russian nationals. We discuss media censorship and the latest development in Europe where questioning the narrative now can land you in jail.

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Show Notes
Documents expose US biological experiments on allied soldiers in Ukraine and Georgia http://dilyana.bg/documents-expose-us-biological-experiments-on-allied-soldiers-in-ukraine-and-georgia
The Pentagon Bio-weapons http://dilyana.bg/the-pentagon-bio-weapons
Arms traffickers under diplomatic cover supply Syrian terrorists http://dilyana.bg/diplomatic-cover-for-international-arms-traffickers
Journalist discovers Bulgarian weapons in Al Qaeda warehouse in Syria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66_zbFrC3wQ

Websites
Dilyana.bg http://dilyana.bg
Arms Watch https://armswatch.com
Twitter https://twitter.com/dgaytandzhieva

About Dilyana Gaytandzhieva
Dilyana Gaytandzhieva is a Bulgarian journalist and Middle East correspondent. Over the last two years she has published a series of reports on weapons supplies to terrorists in Syria and Iraq. In December of 2016 while reporting on the battle of Aleppo she discovered and filmed underground warehouses full of heavy weapons with Bulgaria as their country of origin. They were used by Al Nusra Front (the Al Qaeda affiliate in Syria which is designated as a terrorist organization by the UN). Diplomatic documents which were leaked to her revealed that these weapons were just a small part of a covert international weapons shipment network via 350 diplomatic flights for armament of terrorists in the Middle East and Africa. It was organized by USSOCOM, Saudi Arabia, and UAE. Recently she obtained new secret documents implicating governments and arms dealers in arms trafficking to war zones and decided to launch an independent investigative journalism platform Arms Watch. She is very thankful to all volunteers and insiders who put their lives at risk to save other people's lives. Join Arms Watch and help save lives!

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Dilyana Gaytandzhieva: Why is the Pentagon Funding Bio-Labs in Ukraine & Around Eurasia? #268

This week on the Global Research News Hour, more than a week into the massive carnage and destruction that has reigned down on much of the former Soviet country, we will be making available to listeners the voices of analysts and peace groups in the United kingdom, the United States and Canada who depart from the narrow and they claim false package that provokes audiences to more hawkish positions on behalf of the completely innocent and naïve Ukrainian government.
In our first half hour writer and geopolitical historian Dr Leon Tressell introduces some context to the violence missing from standard accounts. He is followed by Bruce Gagnon of  the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. Who addresses the US’s documented agenda for Russia via Ukraine. Finally, Tamara Lorincz, member of Voices of Women For Peace talks about Canada’s complicity in the war through NATO and what the country could be doing instead to de-escalate tension and strive for Peace.

The Start of World War III Part 1: Things you don’t know about Russia and Ukraine

Dr. Paolo Urio discusses the roots of American Empire, how the U.S. has always been an 'aristocratic republic,' and how since inception it has used bully and provocation tactics, planning to conquer both the northern and southern continent, which demonstrates the essence of U.S. foreign policy. Washington lacks the capacity to read the intentions of the other side and how America's position in the international system has long since declined. BRICS and initiatives like Belt & Road will soon surpass American dominance and be able to attract other countries seeking to escape U.S. Empire. Dr. Urio suggests that historically China never wanted to conquer the world. In the new multipolar world, the U.S. will not go away, but it will need to change the way it manages its international relations.

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Show Notes
George Galloway: Prof Paolo Urio explains why America fears China https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWUOV_7R3co

Websites
AMERICA AND THE CHINA THREAT: From The End of History to the End of Empire https://www.claritypress.com/product/america-and-the-china-threat-from-the-end-of-history-to-the-end-of-empire
ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paolo-Urio
Academia https://unige.academia.edu/PaoloUrio
Europe-China Management Improvement Foundation http://www.ecmi.ch

About Paolo Urio
PAOLO URIO holds an MA in international relations and a PhD in social and economic sciences from the University of Geneva, where he directed the Masters in Public Management program and managed a training program for senior Chinese public officials on behalf of the Swiss government, that gave him access to Party’s officials, universities and Party schools. He has published several books on China’s reforms and its relations with the West, including China Reclaims World Power Status (Routledge) and China 1949–2019: From Poverty to World Power (Springer).

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Paolo Urio: American Empire Needs to Adjust to New Multipolar World #269

Johnny Vedmore discusses the CIA roots of the World Economic Forum which began at a Harvard "International Seminar". It's focus was to bring Europe and America into supranational union and was originally called the European Management Forum. He believes nuclear war planners like Herman Kahn concluded it would never come to Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) and instead, the threat of thermonuclear war was used to scare populations into advancing elite agendas. He discusses their plan of subverting democracy by training only a certain group in society as potential leaders. Schwab then made the pivot toward the Green Agenda thanks to the Club of Rome. He believes WEF is reaching its maximum level of expansion before its inevitable collapse because you cannot make everyone a globalist.

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Show Notes
Dr. Klaus Schwab or: How the CFR Taught Me to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb https://unlimitedhangout.com/2022/03/investigative-reports/dr-klaus-schwab-or-how-the-cfr-taught-me-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bomb

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Fungi Monkey https://www.fungimonkey.com
Twitter https://twitter.com/JohnnyVedmore
Unlimited Hangout https://unlimitedhangout.com

About Johnny Vedmore
Johnny Vedmore is a completely independent investigative journalist and musician from Cardiff, Wales. His work aims to expose the powerful people who are overlooked by other journalists and bring new information to his readers. If you require help, or have a tip for Johnny, then get in touch via johnnyvedmore.com or by reaching out to johnnyvedmore@gmail.com

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Johnny Vedmore: Is WEF a CIA-backed Creation with Goal of World Government? #275

Professor Emeritus David Hendrickson discusses the Ukraine crisis, the unleashing of Weapons of Financial Destruction (WFDs) by Washington, and the coming economic war. He likens what is coming to the spread of coronavirus around the world. The West wants not only to strangle Russia, but also not allow other states (e.g. China, Iran) to avoid future such sanctions on them. The U.S.-China relationship is where it will get hot and heavy, Beijing has extraordinary market power, and has become Moscow's 'permanent ally'. He does agree that American Empire is declining, but posits that the power it has to 'take a lickin' and keep on tickin'' is great. He doesn't think the Ukraine conflict will escalate and sees parallels to the invasion of Iraq. He also discusses censorship and why he hates both the right and the left.

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Show Notes
The People Will Split the Baby https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-people-will-split-the-baby
We Have Yet to See the Full Economic Costs of War With Russia https://nationalinterest.org/feature/we-have-yet-see-full-economic-costs-war-russia-201191
Weapons of Financial Destruction and the New World Disorder https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/weapons-of-financial-destruction-and-the-new-world-disorder

Websites
Website https://davidhendrickson.org
Twitter https://twitter.com/dhendrickson50
Books https://davidhendrickson.org/books
John Quincy Adams Society https://jqas.org

About David Hendrickson
David C. Hendrickson is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Colorado College, where he taught from 1983 to 2020. He may be reached at dhendrickson@coloradocollege.edu.

Hendrickson was chair of the Political Science department in 2000-2003 and 2017-2018. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science in 1982 from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Hendrickson is the author of eight books, including Republic in Peril: American Empire and the Liberal Tradition (Oxford, 2018), Union, Nation, or Empire: The American Debate over International Relations, 1789-1941 (University Press of Kansas, 2009) and Peace Pact: The Lost World of the American Founding (University Press of Kansas, 2003).

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David Hendrickson: Weapons of Financial Destruction (WFDs) Unleashed on Russia, China, & Iran #276

This week, on the Global Research News Hour, with the imminent shortage of world supplies of fossil fuels due to sanctions against Russia which includes its energy exports, we take a close look at how economies and even whole societies in the US and Europe could be disrupted by sudden price increases and even shortages of this vital resource. IN our first half hour, we speak to Earth Scientist David Hughes about his latest study on the Shale reality in the US and what it suggests about the future of natural gas supplies to Europe to replace Russian shortages. Then we get hold of the author of the book The Long emergency James Howard Kunstler to talk more broadly about the immediate reality of peak oil and gas, and how it would play out in our lives. He also touches on COVID19 and the compromised presidency of Joe Biden

Suddenly, Peak Oil and Gas! The Cataclysmic Result of Sanctions against Russia

It's impossible to overstate how completely blanketed by propaganda distortion the Ukraine war is. US spooks saying they're leaking disinfo to the press, Ukrainian war propaganda, the blackout on Ukrainian losses, the uncritical media acceptance of allegations against Russia, etc. This war is a propaganda campaign wrapped in a psyop.

Reading by Tim Foley

A Propaganda Campaign Wrapped In A Psyop

The Geopolitics & Empire Podcast conducts interviews with prominent international experts on a wide-range of topics.

Past guests have included diplomats, government officials, whistleblowers, soldiers, spies, economists, academics, scientists, wealthy investors, dissidents, journalists, and musicians.

The broadcast seeks to gain insight from guests who come from the left, right, and beyond. It should go without saying that the host does not always agree with beliefs espoused by podcast invitees, but maintains an open mind, and believes it important to respectfully listen to a multitude of voices and let listeners come to their own conclusions.

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Johnny Vedmore: Is WEF a CIA-backed Creation with Goal of World Government? #275

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