Yes Brian, you are correct but you should recall that newly elected US president Biden stated explicitly that he intended to back Ukraine's "recuperation" of Crimea. That set the stage for this entire confrontation.

Creator of the ultra-viral Zeitgeist Trilogy and author of 'The New Human Rights Movement' Peter Joseph joins Abby on her brand new podcast. 

Join DOSED with Abby Martin LIVE every week, only on Callin: https://www.callin.com/show/dosed-with-abby-martin-wHrqlcQkiX

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Peter Joseph on Abby Martin's New Podcast DOSED

Abby Martin and Mike Prysner talk about the persecution of Julian Assange, Biden's failed Summit of the Americas and the recent burst of uniquely American mass shootings. 

Find all episodes of DOSED, as well as join us live and call-in every week, here: https://linktr.ee/dosedshow

DOSED with Abby Martin

Assange, Biden’s Failed Summit & American Narcissism

The Ukraine war is escalating—dramatically. Russian President Putin & U.S. President Biden both made major and dramatic speeches in the last day, after a successful and U.S.-backed Ukrainian counter-offensive earlier in the week. What did Putin and Biden reveal in their addresses and where is this headed?

Brian is joined by Eugene Puryear, the host of the BreakThrough News podcast The Punch Out, co-host of the BT live video show The Freedom Side, and a writer, including the article “Should we really blame NATO for the Ukraine war?”: https://www.liberationnews.org/should-we-really-blame-nato-for-the-ukraine-war/

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Ukraine War Escalates—And Nuclear War Threats Grow

A sociological analysis of capitalist criminality and the imperial US deep state, based on the concepts of the "higher immorality" and "crackpot realism," introduced by scholar C. Wright Mills in his book "The Power Elite."

This is PART 9 of the Empire and the Deep State series Multipolarista editor Ben Norton is co-hosting with historian Aaron Good and producer Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast.

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

You can support American Exception at https://patreon.com/americanexception

'Higher immorality' of US ruling class: Criminality of capitalist elites (with historian Aaron Good)

Jeffrey Sachs joins The Grayzone's Aaron Maté and Max Blumenthal to discuss escalating nuclear rhetoric in Ukraine proxy war, the bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines, and why a diplomatic off-ramp is more urgent than ever. Sachs also addresses the investigation into the origins of Covid-19. 

Guest: Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He has also served as chair of the Lancet COVID-19 commission.

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Aaron Mate on Substack: https://mate.substack.com/

Jeffrey Sachs: end Ukraine proxy war or face "armageddon"

Russia hit Kyiv with missile strikes yesterday, in response to the attack that damaged the bridge to Crimea. The war in Ukraine is escalating—and the United States is cheering.

Esther Iverem talks with Brian about the accelerating state of the war.

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Ukraine War Gets Bigger: Russian Missile Strikes in Retaliation for Terrorist Attacks

Russia has been hit by multiple major attacks, including sabotage in their Nordstream energy pipelines and the explosion on the Crimean Bridge. The bridge is a vital supply route to and from the peninsula with military supplies. Russia responded with missiles hitting Kiev. As NATO and Europe send further weapons and technology, the war is quickly escalating. Where is it going?

Brian is joined by Eugene Puryear, the host of the BreakThrough News podcast The Punch Out and co-host of the BT live video show The Freedom Side, which you can watch on the BreakThrough News YouTube channel, Thursdays 3–5pm ET.

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Crimea Attack, Pipeline Sabotage, Kiev Bombing, Endless NATO Weapons: Ukraine War Widens

Independent researcher Moss Robeson documented how the vociferously pro-Ukraine, anti-Russia troll operation NAFO was founded by a Hitler-admiring anti-Semite. He discusses the campaign's far-right roots, and also how the fascist LaRouche cult has tried to disrupt the anti-war movement.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hG5XLThOpQY

Read Robeson's report on the Nazi origins of NAFO: https://mossrobeson.medium.com/ukes-kooks-spooks-nafo-735b66e48508

Check out Robeson's article "LaRouche’s ‘Ukrainian Nazi’ Legacy": https://mossrobeson.medium.com/larouches-ukrainian-nazi-legacy-7ab93aea3ea7

Robeson's "Bandera Lobby Blog": https://banderalobby.substack.com

NAFO troll operation founded by literal Nazi: Researcher exposes far-right Ukrainian networks

Brazil-based journalist Brian Mier discusses the importance of Lula da Silva's victory in Brazil's October 30 presidential election against far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. Lula has vowed to strengthen Latin American regional integration and expand the BRICS system, while fighting poverty and hunger at home.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HuDWw5l-yoU

Follow Brian at https://twitter.com/BrianMteleSUR

Check out Brasil Wire at https://brasilwire.com

Lula wins Brazil election: Game-changer for BRICS and Latin America

The history of how Wall Street capitalists helped to create the US national security state under the Harry S. Truman administration, as Washington built its post-World War II empire.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IOviqBC3o-0 

This is PART 12 of the Empire and the Deep State series I am co-hosting with historian Aaron Good and producer Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast.

PLAYLIST with past episodes in the series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL

How Wall Street gave birth to the CIA and US national security state (with historian Aaron Good)

Historian Aaron Good explains how the Western Big Oil corporations that dominated the global crude industry, known as the "Seven Sisters," had significant influence in the government of US President Dwight Eisenhower and inspired the CIA's first ever coup, the 1953 putsch against Iran's elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kv9n4q7IM64

This is PART 14 of the Empire and the Deep State series Multipolarista editor Ben Norton is co-hosting with Aaron Good and producer Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast.

PLAYLIST with past episodes in the series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL

You can support American Exception at https://patreon.com/americanexception

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