I spoke recently to Stanislav Krapivnik, who served 11 years in the US army, and now (long back) in Russia does repeated trips to frontlines in support of Russian soldiers and speaks out very strongly in defence of Russia against the long-planned US/NATO war on Russia. In our first--but not last--conversation I asked Stas about his background serving as an Officer in the US military, returning to Russia when he realized the US had its targets on Russia. "...all of the other (US military) exercises were against Russia. There were decision matrixes made up of bios of different Russian generals, so that when you run the scenarios...they have a matrix of how that they think a certain Russian General will act. ...I stumbled across a folder that had a (very detailed) file write-up on every single Russian general...I decided to cancel my career path, because I'm not going to go to war against my own people. In 2010, when I came back I told people this war is coming…” * “I get asked, ‘How far are we going to go?’ My answer is, ‘We’re going to go as far as it takes to get to some people that decide they don’t want to shoot at us. If that’s Kiev, great. If that’s Warsaw, Paris, London, that’s how far we’re going to go. Because we have no choice…people are going to be targeted. When they’re shelling us from the other side, what option do you have except to destroy them and make sure they can’t keep shelling.” Follow Stas: -His Russian Telegram channel: https://t.me/stastydaiobratno -His English Telegram channel: https://t.me/staswasthereenglish2 -His VK: Stanislav Krapivnik

"I had 18 documented cases of children that came in with gunshots to the head, neck, abdomen, chest" Dr. Mimi Syed is an American emergency doctor who has twice worked in Gaza during the ongoing Israeli genocide of Gaza: she spent four weeks each in the Gaza Strip in August and in December 2024. She spoke to me about her child patients, many of whom were shot in the head or chest by the Israeli army; about Israel's preventing doctors from bringing aid or vital medical equipment with them into Gaza, hindering doctors’ ability to save Palestinian lives; about the (preventable) malnutrition and starvation she saw amongst Palestinian civilians, as well as the preventable water and sanitation-related diseases contributing to “indirect deaths” in Gaza. Follow her: On Instagram: drmimier On X: https://x.com/Memers1st Related Links: [over 80% of my patients were children ] https://x.com/Memers1st/status/1939417407296270396 [Mira whom I treated when I was in Gaza who had a bullet lodged in her head. When I showed the CT image to the world, I was accused of fabricating it. https://x.com/Memers1st/status/1940278942604398678 ] [Against all odds, she is ok but is now being starved due to the blockade. Her story was featured on Al Jazeera Fault Lines “kids under fire”. I recommend any tax paying American watch this film.] ~5 min, Mira shown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-0zrQZWwDE https://x.com/Memers1st/status/1940443774850891902 Ala’a Wafi is a 9-year-old girl I treated during my last trip to Gaza. Her skull was blown off by shrapnel. Against all odds, she survived, but there are thousands like her who didn’t. This is not self-defense. This is who we treated in Gaza: children. https://x.com/Memers1st/status/1940664281798005142 https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/humanitarian-aid-deathtraps-the-israeli-american-horrifying-new-face-of-israels-gaza-genocide/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/its-a-ceasefirejust-not-on-the-beach-not-in-your-home/ Fishers & farmers gunned down by Israeli army https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/ [After the Israeli occupation destroyed his boat, fisherman Mohammed Habib invents a fishing boat from pieces of cork extracted from damaged refrigerator doors, to sail and fish to secure a living.] https://x.com/ferozwala/status/1894662219121746298 Israeli long-created sanitation crisis https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/attack-on-water-brings-sanitation-crisis/

Lawyer and journalist Dimitri Lascaris spoke to me about Iran's retaliation to Israel's latest unprovoked strikes on Iran, noting that the forceful display of strength we've seen from Iran in the last few days are not even using Iran's most powerful missiles. The West has buttressed Israel with air defence systems, yet Iran has decisively struck numerous important strategic and military sites in Israel. Dimitri warns that Israel cannot withstand these retaliatory attacks on a prolonged basis, and could resort to the use of its nuclear weapons, or the US launching a full blown war on Iran. “Either of those outcomes would be existentially dangerous for humanity.” “I just don't see how this doesn't end with the United States becoming fully engaged in this war, and I think that this has been the objective all along. Trump, cognizant of the fact that most Americans don't want a war with Iran, is going to wait until Israel has suffered enough damage that he can say with a straight face that, 'the very existence of the Zionist entity is at risk. And now we Americans...we have no alternative but to come to Israel's defence in its hour of desperate need.' That's the narrative that we're going to hear.” Contrary to the notion that Israel is coercing the US into involvement, Dimitri emphasizes: “Israel does exactly what the Anglo-American Empire wants it to do.” He goes back to the founding of Israel, “this was all about setting up a massive western military base in the heart of this region to dominate it for decades to come. What they're seeing now is their control of the region is slipping away...Israel is doing exactly what the West wants it to. And the last state standing in this project to dominate West Asia is Iran. They want to destroy Iran. That's the objective, it's not Iran's nuclear program.” The West's intent to destroy Iran is not new. Dimitri refers to the 2009 Brookings Institution's “Which Path to Persia? Options for a New American Strategy toward Iran” which details plans to attack Iran. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_iran_strategy.pdf Dimitri also gives personal insights on Tehran from his recent visit there, observations which would surprise anyone indoctrinated (by Western and Zionist rhetoric) into thinking the worst about Iran and Iranian society. Follow Dimitri: On X: https://x.com/dimitrilascaris On Substack: https://reason2resist.substack.com/ On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@reason2resist His bio: Dimitri Lascaris is an award-winning lawyer and journalist based in Montreal, Canada and Kalamata, Greece. After graduating from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in the 1990s, Dimitri started his legal career at the Wall Street law firm Sullivan & Cromwell. In 2004, he returned to Canada from the United States. Since then, he has prosecuted dozens of securities fraud class actions against major Canadian and multinational corporations and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for defrauded investors. Dimitri was named by Canadian Lawyer Magazine as one of the 25 most influential lawyers in Canada, and by Canadian Business Magazine as one of the 50 most influential persons in Canadian business. For ten years, while practising law, Dimitri served as a Board Member and Correspondent of The Real News Network in Baltimore, Maryland. He is now a freelance journalist whose reporting focuses on Western government criminality. Related Links: “preemptive” strikes on Iran https://x.com/dimitrilascaris/status/1933340065842728966 The attack sites include: – Tel Aviv: Multiple sites hit, including a sensitive strategic building and several residential towers. – Haifa: Power station struck by hypersonic missiles, major electricity and oil infrastructure, the Bazan Chemicals Complex (200,000 barrels/day), and the Haifa refinery (10 million tons/year). --Negev: Nevatim airbase and other installations under severe censorship. – Galilee: Israeli army camp targeted. https://x.com/TheCradleMedia/status/1934494081373114423 The Haifa oil refinery reports that its power plant, which provides steam and electricity, sustained major damage in the wake of Iranian missile strikes, along with other parts of the facility. As a result, all refinery activities and affiliated companies have been fully shut down. https://x.com/TheCradleMedia/status/1934708423901266157 After Playing With Fire, Israel Is Getting Burnt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eNPmrNNYSk https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-16/ty-article/.premium/israel-prohibits-airlines-from-letting-israeli-citizens-leave-the-country/00000197-7854-d3ff-a7bf-7cd4b67d0000 At this stage, the departure of Israelis abroad will not be approved https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001512981

I caught up with Stephen Kinzer recently, discussing US media misreporting on Gaza, Syria, Russia. "The media reporting on Gaza is completely one-sided. If 10s of 1000s of Israelis had been killed—if 10 Israelis had been killed in the last week—you'd be reading about it on the front pages. Hundreds of people dying in a single weekend is not considered newsworthy, because the perpetrators are our allies. There's only one point of view that's politically acceptable in mainstream America, and that is that Israel can do no wrong. This is one that hasn't changed with the change of administration. Trump is very much in the thrall of the Israeli lobby—he's gotten so much money from them." * "The story of what has happened in Syria since the regime-change is a great example of how the United States, and the American press, views the world. You don't start by asking yourself: 'Where is something bad happening? Where is something good happening?' You start out by saying: 'Is this a government that our government supports? Or a government that we don't like?' If it's a government that we don't like, every time somebody stubs a toe or gets hit on the head, it'll be a front page story. Whereas if it's a government that we're trying to support, you just ignore the stories... The most interesting thing about the story as I see it from the United States is not the way that it's being misreported, just the way that it's completely absent from out press. You wouldn't even know that it's happening. If this had been happening in Iran at even 1/10th the level, it would be on the front page of every newspaper and there would be videos, and everyone would be screaming about about what a horrible regime it is. The complete lack of coverage of massacres going on now in Syria is a great, or horrible, example of how the American press feels that it has to play a role in promoting American foreign policy. Maybe it would even lead us to think: 'It was better under Assad' or "Maybe it wasn't such a great idea to overthrow Assad.' If this had been happening one year ago, you can be sure it would've been in every American newspaper because it would have proven what we were supposed to believe about Assad. Whereas if it appears now, it would prove something that we're not supposed to believe about the 'government' that's in power these days." Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning author and foreign correspondent. See his bio and work here: http://stephenkinzer.com Follow him on X: @stephenkinzer Our previous conversation: https://odysee.com/@EvaKareneBartlett:9/stephen-kinzer-on-the-demise-of-western:1 Related Links: Mariupol clips https://t.me/Reality_Theories/19319 https://t.me/Reality_Theories/19428 https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/return-to-russia-crimeans-tell-the-real-story-of-the-2014-referendum-and-their-lives-since/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/08/06/ukraine-bombed-a-donetsk-hotel-full-of-journalists-heres-what-it-felt-like-to-be-inside-at-the-time/ *Sectarian massacres committed by terrorists in Syria in the early years of the war on Syria https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/deconstructing-the-nato-narrative-on-syria/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2018/06/03/syrian-civilians-from-ground-zero-expose-chemical-hoax/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2018/06/11/torture-starvation-executions-eastern-ghouta-civilians-talk-of-life-under-terrorist-rule/

Maria Zakharova sits down with Eva Bartlett. Zakharova weighs in on Syria, Crimea, the Moscow protests and more. ** -Eva Bartlett: In a simple meeting room at the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry building, Maria Zakharova gave me a generous hour of her time in a conversation peppered with bemused laughter at Western allegations about Russia and clear frustration at the West’s incessant vilification of all things Russia. I traveled to Moscow in August, where to my delight I had the opportunity to interview Zakharova. Given that Russia is the focus of obsessive and largely negative Western media reporting, and also the country’s role in eliminating the proliferation of terrorist groups that once controlled large swaths of Syria, I wanted to ask Zakharova for her take on a variety of topics related to both Russia and Syria. In our wide-ranging discussion, Zakharova spoke of the U.S. sanctions regime against Russia and of the Western interference in Russian domestic issues — such as the protests seen in Moscow in July and August. On Syria, she addressed the issue of exploitation of children in propaganda against Syria and Russia — notably Omran Daqneesh, a child whose image was splashed across newspapers and screens worldwide in 2016, incriminating Russia and Syria in an airstrike that was later proven to have never happened. An official apology from one of the most adamant perpetrators of that narrative, CNN’s Christian Amanpour, also never happened. One cannot discuss the war in Syria and related propaganda without addressing the massively-funded White Helmets. In discussing the group, Zakharova gave examples of its role in fomenting support for Western military intervention, including in pushing responsibility on the Syrian government for the alleged but unproven and, by most honest accounts, staged chemical attack in Douma, eastern Ghouta, in 2018. Footage of the attack included video starring the White Helmets and another exploited Syrian boy, Hassan Diab, whose testimony of the events ran in stark contrast to the allegations against the Syrian government that were being circulated in the Western media. Zakharova also addressed the inconsistencies around the Skripal case, the historic importance of Crimea’s referendum, and the U.K. “media freedom” conference of July 2019, where cases of imprisoned journalists like Julian Assange and Kirill Vyshinsky were notably not part of the conference program. My Related: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/09/13/mintpress-sits-down-with-russias-foreign-ministry-spokesperson-maria-zakharova/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/11/02/accused-of-treason-and-imprisoned-without-trial-journalist-kirill-vyshinsky-recounts-his-harrowing-time-in-a-ukrainian-prison/

October 2019: In November 2018, I became aware of the case of Kirill Vyshinsky, a Ukrainian-Russian journalist and editor imprisoned in Ukraine without trial since May 2018, accused of high treason. Soon after, I interviewed Vyshinsky via email. He described his arrest and the accusations against him as politically-motivated, “an attempt by the Ukrainian authorities to bolster the declining popularity of [then] President [Petro] Poroshenko in this election year.” Vyshinsky noted that his arrest was advancing the incessant anti-Russian hysteria now prevalent among Ukrainian authorities, as he holds dual Ukrainian and Russian citizenship. He noted that the charges against him, which pertain to a number of articles he published in 2014 (none of them authored by Vyshinsky), became of interest to Ukrainian authorities and intelligence services four years after they were published. To Vyshinsky, this supports the notion that neither the articles nor their editor were a security threat to Ukraine, instead, he says, they were a political card to be played. In early 2019, I traveled to Kiev to interview Vyshinsky’s defense lawyer Andriy Domansky about the logistic obstacles of his client’s case. Domansky viewed the Vyshinsky case as politically motivated and expressed concern that he could himself become a target of Ukraine’s secret service for his role in defending his client, an innocent man. Domansky told me at the time, The Vyshinsky case is key in demonstrating the presence of political persecution of journalists in Ukraine. As a legal expert, I believe justice is still possible in Ukraine and I will do everything possible to prove Kirill Vyshinsky’s innocence.” To the surprise of those following the case against Vyshinsky, in late August 2019 he was released with little fanfare after serving more than 400 days in a Ukrainian prison but still faces all of the charges brought against him by the Ukrainian government and is “obliged to appear in court or give testimony to investigators if they deemed it necessary.” By early September, Kirill Vyshinsky was on a plane to Moscow. Despite never being tried or officially convicted, he found himself the subject of a prisoner exchange between the Russian and Ukrainian governments. I interviewed Vyshinsky in Moscow in late September. He told me about his harrowing ordeal, the Ukrainian detention system, other persecuted journalists, and what lies ahead for him. He also touched on the inhumane conditions he experienced in Ukrainian prisons. He noted that a pretrial detention center as we know it in Western nations is a very different entity in Ukraine and that Ukrainian prisons were so over-crowded that it was common for inmates to sleep in three shifts in order to allow enough standing room for inmates crammed into a cell. Ukrainian prisons like a “concentration camp” Aleksey Zhuravko, a Ukrainian deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of V and VI convocations recently published photos taken inside of an Odessa pretrial detention center showing utterly unsanitary and appalling conditions. Zhuravko noted, “I am shocked at what was seen. It is a concentration camp. It is a hotbed of diseases.” Another Ukrainian journalist, Pavel Volkov, was subjected to the same types of accusations lobbed against Vyshinsky. Volkov spent over a year in the same pretrial detention center as Vyshinsky. He was arrested on September 27, 2017, after Ukrainian authorities carried out searches of his wife and mother’s apartments without the presence of his lawyer and with what he says, was a false witness. Volkov spent more than a year in a pretrial detention center on charges of “infringing on territorial integrity with a group of people” and “miscellaneous accessory to terrorism.” On March 27, 2019, he was fully acquitted by a Ukrainian court. Volkov shared his thoughts on the persecution of journalists in Ukraine, saying: The leaders of the 2014 Euromaidan movement, who subsequently occupied the largest positions in the country’s leadership, repeatedly stated that collaborators from World War II who participated in the mass extermination of Jews, Russians, and Poles are true heroes in Ukraine, and that the Russian and Russian-speaking population of Ukraine are inferior people who need to be either forcibly re-educated or destroyed. They also believe that anyone who wants peace with the Russian Federation, and who believes that the Russian language (the native language for over sixty percent of Ukraine’s population) should be the second state language, is the enemy of Ukraine. These notions formed the basis of the new criminal law, designed to persecute politicians, public figures, journalists, and ordinary citizens who disagree with the above. Since 2014, security services have arrested hundreds of people on charges of state treason; infringing on the territorial integrity of Ukraine; and assisting terrorism for criticizing the current government in the streets or on the Internet. People have been in prison for years without a conviction. And these are not only the journalists included in the ‘Vyshinsky list’. Activists from Odessa, Sergey Dolzhenkov and Evgeny Mefedov, have spent more than five years in jail just for laying flowers at a memorial to the liberators of Nikolaev [Ukrainian city] from Nazi invaders. Sergeyev and Gorban, taxi drivers, have spent two and a half years in a pretrial detention center because they transported pensioners from Donetsk to Ukraine-controlled territory so that they could receive their legal pension. The entrepreneur Andrey Tatarintsev has spent two years in prison for providing humanitarian assistance to a children’s hospital in the territory of the Lugansk region not controlled by Ukraine. Farmer Nikolay Butrimenko received eight years of imprisonment for paying tax to the Donetsk People’s Republic for his land located in that territory. The 85-year-old scientist and engineer Mekhti Logunov was given twelve years because he agreed to build a waste recycling plant with Russian investors. The list is endless. People often incriminate themselves while being tortured or under the threat of their relatives being punished, and such confessions are accepted by the courts, despite the fact that lawyers initiate criminal proceedings against the security services involved in the torture. These cases are not being investigated. The only mitigation that has happened in this direction after the change of government was the abolition of the provision of the Criminal Procedure Code stating that no other measure of restraint other than detention can be applied to persons suspected of committing crimes against the state. This allowed some defendants to leave prison on bail, but not a single politically-motivated case has yet been closed. Moreover, arrests are ongoing. The only acquittal to date from the so-called journalistic cases on freedom of speech is mine. However, it is still being contested by the prosecutor’s office in the Supreme Court. Ninety-nine percent of the media continue to call all these people ‘terrorists’, ‘separatists’, and ‘enemies of the people’, even though almost none of them have yet received a verdict in court.” Volkov’s words lay bare the true nature of the allegations made against Kirill Vyshinsky as well as the countless other journalists and citizens of Ukraine that have fallen victim to the heavy hand of Ukrainian authorities. https://www.mintpressnews.com/interview-journalist-kirill-vyshinsky-ukrainian-prison/262498/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/11/02/accused-of-treason-and-imprisoned-without-trial-journalist-kirill-vyshinsky-recounts-his-harrowing-time-in-a-ukrainian-prison/

Alon and I had an informal conversation yesterday which I think listeners will find very informative. -His father was born in Palestine, "before the catastrophic, disastrous, establishment of Israel." -He became disillusioned with Israel, what it stands for, what is Zionism, and what Western culture and colonialism really are and really stand for. -Zionism has become, "the most hated ideology on the planet, only survives by unending US support. When an ideology embraces an insane agenda, it is going to crumble, its unsustainable. Zionism is unsustainable. Israel is now in a situation where it can't survive without US support. Israel and Zionism are fiercely hated the world over." -The political opposition to Western colonialism is growing daily. -More people questioning the story of Israel: "there is a limit to how much you can mass murder children & cover it up with stories that you're only able to tell because you control the media." -Only hope for Syria lies in the decolonization of the middle east from Western forces. -"People remember the Iraq war, the assassination of Gaddafi, the chaos that the West unleashed on Africa and on Arab countries over the past generation, what it is doing in Gaza and in Syria. Western colonialism is reaching the end of its days, humanity is woken up to this. It is in a frenzy now, trying to set fire wherever they can, trying to create a huge war." -"The people in Gaza who are being massacred by Israel, most of them are refugees from Palestine, that Israel pushed into Gaza in 1948. Those people who lived in Gaza were being occupied, murdered, and humiliated by people who just came to Israel 10, 20 years ago from Europe and other places, and took their land, took their homes, and then came after them in the refugee camps in Gaza." Follow him: https://alonmizrahi.substack.com/about https://x.com/alon_mizrahi https://linktr.ee/AMizrahi My Related Links: https://opt2007.wordpress.com/category/my-entries-from-occupied-palestine-apr-dec-2007/ https://opt2007.wordpress.com/category/bilin/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2018/06/27/welcome-to-hadar-a-village-under-siege-by-al-qaeda-and-israeli-forces-alike/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/syria/syria-my-published-articles-from-and-on-syria-2014-2022/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/observations-from-occupied-palestine-in-gaza/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/updates-and-excerpts/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/on-board-the-dignity-en-route-to-besieged-gaza/

I spoke with Ted Walter, International Center for 9/11 Justice, on why now, 23 years on, speaking about 9/11 is important. Excerpt: "I would encourage people to look at 9/11 as a possible opportunity to expose the true nature of the national security state, of the war machine. It's about becoming more educated so that it's harder for the powers that be to carry out future deceptions. People who dedicated their careers or spend much of their free time battling Western imperialism, battling the war machine, refuse to look at 9/11—which I think is the foundation of the current war machine. At 23 years, I think its time that people who have avoided it in the past, either for career-oriented reasons or because they themselves have fallen prey to the propaganda of the war machine that they are dedicated to taking down. Whatever it may be, now is the time to finally look critically at 9/11. If we don't understand 9/11, we really don't understand the world we live in." Related Links: https://ic911.org/ten-reasons/ on the “Hannibal Directive” https://x.com/Truth_InMedia/status/1810675316261838968 https://x.com/DoubleDownNews/status/1832855065092075676 https://x.com/RichardGage_911/status/1843157368479346912 https://electronicintifada.net/tags/hannibal-directive https://ic911.org/journal/articles/the-instantaneous-free-fall-of-world-trade-center-building-7-and-nists-attempt-to-hide-it/ 23 years later, you owe it to yourself to finally trust your eyes https://x.com/ic911justice/status/1833873999945781520 Perhaps these first responders can help you see what is actually going on here https://x.com/ic911justice/status/1858595704249446897 Peace, War and 9/11 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28757454/ https://www.ae911truth.org/evidence/technical-articles/articles-by-ae911truth/696-how-36-reporters-brought-us-the-twin-towers-explosive-demolition

This is a must-listen interview for those who think Russia “invaded Ukraine without reason”, and those who believe the West's propaganda about Russia “failing” in its objectives, and many other lies put out by Washington and parroted by Western corporate media. Former Swiss intelligence, Jacques Baud, on the Ukraine-NATO history that forced Russia to start its Special Military Operation in February 2022. He is the author of numerous books, including: “The Russian Art of War: How the West Led Ukraine to Defeat”and “Operation Z: The Hidden Truth of the War in Ukraine Revealed”.

Dr. Assal Rad, Middle East Historian & author, breaks down the manifold tactics media use to dehumanize Palestinians and Lebanese (among many others) and whitewash Israel when it bombs, starves and commits acts of terrorism against them. Follow her: https://x.com/AssalRad Related Links: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2024/07/24/the-uncounted-hundreds-of-thousands-of-palestinians-in-gaza-being-killed-by-israel/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2024/03/11/israel-is-now-killing-palestinians-in-gaza-by-starvation-media-downplaying-this-are-complicit-in-these-preventable-deaths/

Tarik is an author, a historian and an expert on international politics. He has a BA in Modern History from Oxford University, an MSc in International History from the LSE, and a PhD in History from Princeton University. Follow him at: https://substack.com/@tarikcyrilamar https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/tarik-cyril-amar/ https://x.com/TarikCyrilAmar

I spoke with Latin America correspondent for Press TV, Camila Escalante, about what she saw and heard on the ground in Caracas, Venezuela, before, during and after the recent Presidential Election. A well-travelled, longtime correspondent all over Latin America, Camila brings a deep understanding of the history of the country and region, and of the people. With ample experience in Venezuela in years prior, she speaks with first hand knowledge on the positive changes in the country, in spite of the brutal Western sanctions against the Venezuelan people. Follow Camilla at: X: camilapress Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CamilaPress My Related Links: -My Venezuela (2019) playlist: https://rumble.com/playlists/YCmDnKNOVWc -The US is manufacturing a crisis in Venezuela so that there is chaos and ‘needed’ intervention https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2019/03/31/us-is-manufacturing-a-crisis-in-venezuela-so-that-there-is-chaos-and-needed-intervention/

Steve Sweeney has reported from hot spots around the world, exposing Imperialist war crimes and attempts to interfere in and destabilize sovereign nations. He is Morning Star International Editor, founder of Media Workers for Palestine, and reports on global liberation movements, press freedom & resistance. Steve contacted me the other day to ask for a statement on Reporters Without Borders' (RSF) recent appeal to censor Russian media, on their premise that Russian media is "inciting hatred" and "condoning war crimes." He also contacted RSF with an excellent list of questions including why a (supposed) press freedom group is demanding that alternative media narratives are censored, could they give concrete examples regarding what they've accused Russian media of doing (no), and whether RSF would comment on journalists like me being put on Ukraine's kill list because of my reporting from on the ground in Donbass, where I've just returned incidentally. After a series of insightful exchanges, I asked Steve to please have a conversation with me about all of this. What a conversation it was! In our conversation, he details how RSF panicked and stalled replying, only to essentially give lengthy non-answers and flat out refuse to address some questions (including the one about me and Ukraine's kill list). A spoiler: Steve notes that RSF is not the neutral body it pretends to be, instead receiving obscene amounts of money from NED, Soros' Open Society, USAID, the Ford Foundation...a "rogue's gallery of the worst kind of regime change organizations." As RSF endeavours to shut down Russian media, I joined my Russian colleagues today in going to sites that were bombed by Ukraine yesterday in Gorlovka, killing one civilian & leaving two others in critical condition. This is the sort of crimes Ukraine has been perpetrating for over eight years, and its courageous journalists like my colleagues who have been putting their lives on the line to expose Ukraine's genocide of the Donbass people. RSF by whitewashing Ukraine's crimes is abetting in genocide. Follow Steve: https://twitter.com/SweeneySteve https://morningstaronline.co.uk/author/6182 https://english.almayadeen.net/authors/1493703/steve-sweeney **RELATED LINKS on this post: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/07/27/journalist-steve-sweeney-exposes-rsfs-call-for-censorship-of-russian-media-as-ukraine-bombs-donbass-civilians/

I recently spoke with Larry C Johnson, formerly with the CIA and the State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. Larry provided training to the US Military’s Special Operations community for 24 years. See his bio: https://sonar21.com/about-larry/ RELATED LINKS: *Larry on James Kuntsler's podcast https://kunstler.com/podcast/kunstlercast-358-a-conversation-about-ukraine-with-larry-c-johnson/ -The Military Situation In The Ukraine https://www.thepostil.com/the-military-situation-in-the-ukraine/ -Here’s what I found at the reported ‘mass grave’ near Mariupol https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/04/29/heres-what-i-found-at-the-reported-mass-grave-near-mariupol/ -Andrei Martyanov, Russian military expert https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/ -I’m on a ‘hit list’ Kiev allows to silence dissent & journalism. That’s all you need to know about Ukrainian ‘democracy’ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2021/06/12/im-on-a-hit-list-kiev-allows-to-silence-dissent-journalism-thats-all-you-need-to-know-about-ukrainian-democracy/ -The Red Line and the Rat Line Seymour M. Hersh on Obama, Erdoğan and the Syrian rebels https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/n08/seymour-m.-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line *Ghost of Kiev hoax https://kotaku.com/ghost-kyiv-russia-ukraine-invasion-viral-video-fake-pc-1848598266?utm_campaign=Kotaku&utm_content=1645893233&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_source=twitter *Bucha hoax https://waronfakes.com/bucha/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8moZ7S4voe4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hGmc4UGfWs https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/04/06/its-obvious-who-gains-from-bucha-massacre-but-there-hardly-any-media-left-to-say-it/ -Fallujah: The Hidden Massacre (US war crimes) https://documentaryheaven.com/fallujah-the-hidden-massacre/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3177876/ *Douma hoax https://www.rt.com/op-ed/429349-syrians-tell-terrorists-white-helmets/ https://twitter.com/johnpilger/status/1397901080864858114

I spoke with prolific Canadian journalist and author Yves Engler about Canada's unconditional support to Israel, even, or especially, as Israel has slaughtered up to nearly 200, 000 Palestinians in Gaza (Lancet), or potentially double that number (Gilbert). Yves lays out Canada's long history of support to Israel, including during the ongoing Israeli genocide of Gaza, and including over 7 decades ago with Canadian pilots participating in the Zionists' ethnic cleansing of Palestine. He talks about Canada's arms to Israel, and providing components to the fighter planes which bomb Gaza now, and about the Canadians fighting in the Israeli army, and those being recruited by various charities and organizations in Canada. Important information you won't hear on legacy media. Yves is author of 13 books, and publishes at yvesengler.com & https://www.foreignpolicy.ca/articles?author=57f2952659cc6814c896c9fa He tweets at https://x.com/EnglerYves Some of his books: https://www.barakabooks.com/?post_type=dd-product&s=yves+engler My blog post with related links: https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2024/07/18/canadian-journalist-author-yves-enger-on-canadas-complity-in-israels-genocide-of-palestinians-in-gaza/

I spoke recently with Nick of Revolutionary Blackout Network on a variety of issues, including the on the ground community-building work he is involved in, supporting Palestine—especially Palestinian Resistance, and why average people have been conditioned to hate places like the DPRK (North Korea). A very interesting conversation, I'm grateful to Nick for his time. Follow him at: https://www.youtube.com/@revolutionaryblackout7315 https://www.revolutionaryblackoutnetwork.com/ https://x.com/SocialistMMA https://www.patreon.com/RevolutionaryBlackout Related Links: -The Palestinians’ inalienable right to resist. 22/06/2021, Louis Allday https://www.ebb-magazine.com/essays/the-palestinians-inalienable-right-to-resist n -Bilin & nonviolent resistance https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/06/16/protesters-take-rubber-bullets-to-head-and-stomach-at-bilin/ https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/07/19/good-ole-cnnenterprise/ https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/no-iof-love-for-bilin-non-violent-protesters/ https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/reflections-on-accountability/ -Bassem Abu Rahme, killed by Israeli army in Bil’in protest against the Wall https://opt2007.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/bassem-abu-rahme-killed-in-bilin-protest-against-the-wall-rest-peacefully/ -Great March of Return protests https://electronicintifada.net/tags/great-march-return -Deconstructing the NATO Narrative on Syria (regarding “nonviolent” “rebels” in Syria ) https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/deconstructing-the-nato-narrative-on-syria/ -My report from visit to the DPRK https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2017/10/28/photo-report-the-north-korea-neither-trump-nor-western-media-wants-the-world-to-see/ -We Went To North Korea To Get A Haircut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BO83Ig-E8E Interview With The Makers of “The Haircut (2017) A North Korean Adventure” https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2018/02/15/interview-with-the-makers-of-the-haircut-2017-a-north-korean-adventure/ https://ingaza.wordpress.com/photos-and-videos-zionist-massacre-of-gaza-2008-2009/

In Moscow I spoke with Jeff Monson, a world-acclaimed American mixed martial arts fighter and political activist. Jeff travelled to the Lugansk People's Republic in 2016, and has returned to the LPR and neighbouring Donetsk People's Republic nearly a dozen times since, speaking with every day people about their lives under Ukraine's war on the Donbass. We spoke about his experiences in the Donbass and how they directly contradicted media claims, as well as his opening of dozens of sports schools in Russia and now in Donetsk. Monson, together with RT journalist Donald Courter, collaboratively-produced the independently-funded documentary “8 Years Before”, on the suffering that the people of the Donbass under Ukraine's 8+ years of bombings. [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM0VYkL_UI4 ]