Russian military and naval analyst, Andrei Martyanov, discusses the dangerous April standoff between Kiev and Moscow and its implications for US/Russian relations; Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky; new Russian weapons; US deployment to the Black Sea cancelled; Russia’s geopolitical, cultural and economic departure from the West; Russian Constitution; US goes to DEFCON 3; a coercion to peace; Russia discards Western payment systems; Russia’s view of the Ukraine; both Biden and Nuland involved in 2014 Ukrainian coup, both are back in power; alliance between Russia and China; scale of US deficiency v Russian firepower; US military nuclear-bias; crisis of financial predatory capitalism; global tectonic change taking place; Martyanov’s blog at smoothiex12.blogspot.com

Aired: April 21, 2021

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Crisis In the Ukraine - Andrei Martyanov, #433

This week’s instalment of the Global Research News Hour focuses on the last of four assassination deaths: Robert F. Kennedy. Not only is it the most visibly provable crime committed by someone other than Sirhan Sirhan, but the individual in question is facing a parole hearing at the end of August 2021.

The investigator who will be playing a role directing us through the 60s assassinations is a remarkable chronicler of every single one of these cases. He has even been referred to as the guru of the probers into the assassinations. His name is James DiEugenio.

The Assassinations Part 1: Robert F. Kennedy

This week’s instalment of the Global Research News Hour focuses on the first assassination death: John F. Kennedy. It takes during the same week that an explosive new documentary series is released! The release of JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass takes place also 30 years after the release of the blockbuster JFK and it is directed as well by film-maker Oliver Stone. 
The investigator who will be guiding us through the complexities of the case and cover-up is a remarkable researcher particularly of this case. He is also incidentally the screenwriter of JFK Revisited:  James DiEugenio.

The Assassinations Part 2: John F. Kennedy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=4XF7cJjjGjU

A Conversation With Catherine Austin Fitts - Money Finance Under Covid Tyranny

Two US veterans, Matthew Hoh and Daniel Sjursen, explain how the war in Afghanistan was lost, Afghans suffered, and military contractors profited -- all while the American public was kept in the dark.

Guests:

Danny Sjursen. Retired US Army officer, senior fellow at the Center for International Policy. He served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and later taught history at West Point. His latest book is "A True History of the United States." 

Matthew Hoh. Former Marine and State Department official who resigned in protest from his post in Afghanistan over U.S. policy in September 2009. Now a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy. 

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Anti-war veterans explain how US lost Afghanistan while leaders lied, profited

This week on the global research news hour, as we approach the 20th anniversary of the massive attacks believed to be the work of Al Qaeda terrorists, we will have a discussion on this program with the unique perspectives of two individuals who have challenged the official explanation in their own ways. In our first half hour, we talk to Matt Campbell, a British national whose brother was a victim and who is trying to get a new inquest into his death. Then in our second half hour, we’ll have a talk with journalist Lesley Hughes whose run for federal politics in 2008 was derailed by her advocating a truther position.

Investigating the truth of 9/11. Healing the Wound and Paying the Price

As the Biden administration continues to seek the extradition of Julian Assange, new details have emerged about the Trump administration's secret war against Assange and his organization, Wikileaks. Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News discusses his team's explosive reporting on the CIA plot to surveil, kidnap, and even kill Assange -- all overseen by Michael Pompeo. 

Isikoff and Aaron Maté also debate Russia's role in the Assange controversy, particularly the allegation that Russia stole Democratic Party emails in 2016 and gave them to Wikileaks.

Guest: Michael Isikoff, chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News. 

"Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA's secret war plans against WikiLeaks."
https://news.yahoo.com/kidnapping-assassination-and-a-london-shoot-out-inside-the-ci-as-secret-war-plans-against-wiki-leaks-090057786.html

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Inside the CIA plot to kidnap, kill Julian Assange

James Kunstler returns to Geopolitics & Empire for an update on the "long emergency" and how the neo-Jacobin program is faring. He believes we are in the midst of a mass hysteria with the question being how to battle our way out of it. At the bottom of it all is the fact that techno-industrial economies have lost their mojo and are crashing, threatening to push us into a technological surveillance state. The cycle of politicians being able to get away with anything needs to be broken and the latest indictment by John Durham may contain seeds of hope. A very ugly struggle may ensue, which can include military conflict. He believes enough people will resist and put an end to the tyranny, that the techno-dystopia won't succeed because of energy restraints, though we will wake up to a different world which will include the collapse and contraction of cities.

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Show Notes
“What Am I Doing?” He Asks https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/what-am-i-doing-he-asks
Let Us Count the Ways https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/let-us-count-the-ways
The Mark of the Beast https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-mark-of-the-beast
The Answer is the Coming Small-Town Revival https://www.theamericanconservative.com/urbs/the-answer-is-the-coming-small-town-revival

Websites
James Howard Kunstler https://kunstler.com
Clusterfuck Nation Blog https://kunstler.com/writings/clusterfuck-nation
KunstlerCast Podcast https://kunstler.com/writings/podcast
Books https://kunstler.com/writings/books
Twitter https://www.twitter.com/Jhkunstler

About James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler says he wrote The Geography of Nowhere, “Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work.”

Home From Nowhere was a continuation of that discussion with an emphasis on the remedies. 

His next book in the series, The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition, published by Simon & Schuster / Free Press, is a look a wide-ranging look at cities here and abroad, an inquiry into what makes them great (or miserable), and in particular what America is going to do with it’s mutilated cities.

This was followed by The Long Emergency, published by the Atlantic Monthly Press in 2005, is about the challenges posed by the coming permanent global oil crisis, climate change, and other “converging catastrophes of the 21st Century.” This was followed in 2012 by Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation which detailed the misplaced expectations that technological rescue remedies would fix the problems detailed in The Long Emergency.

His 2008 novel, World Made By Hand, was a fictional depiction of the post-oil American future. It eventually became a four part series that included The Witch of Hebron, A History of the Future, and (forthcoming in June 2016), The Harrows of Spring.

Mr. Kunstler is also the author of eight other novels including The Halloween Ball, An Embarrassment of Richesand Maggie Darling, a Modern Romance. He has been a regular contributor to the New York Times Sunday Magazine and Op-Ed page, where he has written on environmental and economic issues.

He has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Dartmouth, Cornell, MIT, RPI, the University of Virginia and many other colleges, and he has appeared before many professional organizations such as the AIA , the APA., and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

James Kunstler: There Will Be Revolt Against the Neo-Jacobin Program, We'll See the End of This #230

This week on the global research News Hour, as the world gears up for the historic COP26 summit happening Oct 31 to Nov 12, we examine the negative sides of the elites and their non profit industrial complex and where the mechanisms put in place for decades will lead us in the age of COVID. For the bulk of the show, we are joined by the independent writer, journalist and environmental activist Cory Morningstar to describe the world’s fate in the face of the capitalist menace that continues its onslaught.

Promoting a New Tyranny under the Guise of Saving the Planet: A Conversation with Cory Morningstar

Dr. Piers Robinson returns to discuss being targeted by the MSM for accurately calling out truths surrounding Covid-19 from the beginning, analysis which has since proven to be right on the money. He believes the smear campaign tactic is greatly waning in efficacy and that more people are waking up. He gives an update on COVID9/11 including the propaganda, censorship, and how this event is being used for a very major political and economic restructuring towards Central Bank Digital Currency and total control over money. Vaccine Passports are sold as a moral imperative in order to get people onto the Digital ID which is the stepping stone to CBDCs and neo-feudal technocracy. You have to be profoundly naive to think this is just about a public health crisis. He sees people taking grassroots concerted action and hopes that the Great Reset begins to unravel, though admits the risk is clearly there that we could end up in a very bad place as in history past.

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Show Notes
Piers Robinson: Is Coronavirus the New 9/11? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIPGbxUQAjU
British academics sharing coronavirus conspiracy theories online https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/british-academics-sharing-coronavirus-conspiracy-theories-online-v8nn99zmv

Websites
Website https://piersrobinson.wordpress.com
Twitter https://twitter.com/PiersRobinson1
Organization for Propaganda Studies http://propagandastudies.ac.uk
Working Group on Syria, Propaganda, & Media http://syriapropagandamedia.org
Working Group on Propaganda & the 9/11 Global "War on Terror" https://propgwot.org

About Dr. Piers Robinson
Dr Piers Robinson is Co-Director of the Organisation for Propaganda Studies, convenor of the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media and Chief Editor of Speciality Section ‘Political Communication’ in Frontiers in Communication

Professor/Chair in Politics, Society and Political Journalism, University of Sheffield, 2016-2019.

Visiting Professor, University of Chester, 2013-2016.

Senior Lecturer in International Politics, University of Manchester, 2005-2015.

Lecturer in Political Communication, University of Liverpool, 1999-2005.

He researches communication, media and world politics, focusing on conflict and war. His work has been cited in publications such as ‘The Responsibility to Protect’, published by the ICISS, and he has received many invitations to lecture and advise on these topics. He has lectured at the NATO Defense College in Rome, given presentations/briefings at the University of Oxford to UK senior military commanders and diplomats and at St Cyer military academy in France. He has given public talks for Stop the War Coalition, Frome Stop the War and Media on Trial.

His current research focuses on organised persuasive communication (OPC) and contemporary propaganda. This research has been developed into a broader research agenda aimed at theorising and researching propaganda and he is currently working on a number of projects including research funding bids examining propaganda during the current Syrian conflict,  propaganda during the 9/11 ‘war on terror’, as well as conceptual papers and monographs on OPC and propaganda.

Piers is also active in cultivating a number of related activities aimed at engaging both the academic community and the public with the issue of deceptive and coercive OPC and contemporary propaganda. These include the recently established Organisation for Propaganda Studies, the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media  and the Working Group on Propaganda and the 9/11 Global ‘War on Terror’.

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Piers Robinson: You Have to be Profoundly Naive to Think This is Just About Public Health #233

This week on the Global Research News Hour, we are returning to the question of the COVID crisis as we examine the situation through an original and under appreciated  lens. For the bulk of the hour we talk to Dr. James Lyons-Weiler, the CEO of the Institute for Pure and Appled Knowledge who has conducted peer reviewed analysis  related to the COVID vaccine and is here to relate that it is far more dangerous to human health than most of the media is willing to broadcast.