Thursday, February 13, 2025

OMNI SOVIET/RUSSOPHOBIA (and Socialismphobia) ANTHOLOGY #6, FEBRUARY 13, 2025

 

 

 

OMNI

SOVIET/RUSSOPHOBIA (and Socialismphobia) ANTHOLOGY #6,

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

COMPILED BY DICK BENNETT FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE, JUSTICE, AND ECOLOGY

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What’s at Stake:   When Trump and Secretary Hegseth yesterday announced Trump’s decision to accept Putin’s terms for an end of the Ukraine War, I was completing this Anthology.   OMNI had published 6 anthologies offering 75 articles that increase evidence of Soviet/Russophobia as a central pathology dominating US culture and an impetus for many US wars.  In addition, most of the anthologies on US wars describe animosity toward the USSR/Russia, including the 34 anthologies on all aspects of the Ukraine War.   Ukraine War anthologies nos. 32-34 contain 66 articles.  I asked: Why is this major national dysfunction not the subject of a dozen major books and by hundreds of conferences and panels?  These anthologies are the answer.

     Yesterday on PBS Newshour February 12 Secretary Pete Hegseth      announced acceptance of Russia’s annexation of four Ukrainian provinces or oblasts ( Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson provinces), and Crimea, and denial of NATO membership to Ukraine.  This is a laudable advance for peace, both in the cessation of mass killing and physical destruction, and in the decrease of threat of nuclear war. I expect the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to turn back its Doomsday Clock.  But the pathology will continue and all the conflicts of imperial competition.

 

CONTENTS: US RUSSOPHOBIC FOREIGN POLICY

Reuters.  “Trump says he discussed ending Ukraine war with Russia’s Putin.”
Andrew Day.  “Pete Hegseth Says No NATO Membership for Ukraine.”

 

Dick Bennett.  Soviet/Russophobia and Jesus’ Teachings about Enemies.

Steve Batterson.  The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis: McCarthyism, Communism, and the Myth of Academic Freedom. 

James W. Carden.   “The Real Meaning of the Fight Over Tulsi Gabbard.”   
Christopher Caldwell.   
“Everyone Wants to Seize Russia’s Money.”
Katrina vanden Heuvel.   “How Neocons, Neolibs, and their Media Collude for War.”  
James W. Carden.   “Legendary US Diplomat Pans Latest NATO Money Grab.” 
Dee Knight.   A Realistic Path to Peace.
Jeremy Kuzmarov.  Tamara Cofman Wittes , “Coordinator For Sanctions From Hell. . . .’”  
Doug Bandow. “U.S. Officials Believe That ‘We’ Are at War With Russia.”
Branko Marcetic.  “How the War in Ukraine Has Been a Major Contributor to Global Inflation. “

William Astore. “The Trillion-Dollar Blob.” 

George Paulson.  Pathological Hatred of Communism and Russia by the Democratic Party.

The Simone Weil Center’s Symposium on ‘Containment 2.0’.”  Gordon Hahn.
Caitlin A. Johnstone.   Imagine if Russia or China did the things Israel is doing in Gaza.” 

Pavan Kulkarni.  Why Niger declared U.S. Military presence in its territory illegal.” 
EL PAIS English.   “NATO Personnel Already in Ukraine. . . .
John Mearsheimer.  “ Ukraine’s Dangerous Last Gasp.” 
Andrew Cockburn.   “Our Real National Security Budget (With Winslow Wheeler).”
Davis Winkle.  Expanding NATO
John Westmoreland.  
Lenin’s ‘Last Testament’: The pro phetic last words of a Marxist for our times.”



TEXTS

 

UKRAINE WAR ENDING

Reuters.  “Trump says he discussed ending Ukraine war with Russia’s Putin.”  ACURA (Feb 12, 2025). 
 U.S. President Donald Trump said he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday about starting negotiations immediately to end the war in Ukraine. “We have also agreed to have our respective teams start negotiations immediately, and we will begin by calling President Zelenskiy, of Ukraine, to inform him of […]   
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Andrew Day.  “Pete Hegseth Says No NATO Membership for Ukraine.”  ACURA (Feb 12, 2025).
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that the Trump administration does not support NATO membership for Ukraine. Hegseth’s comments came during a meeting in Brussels on Ukrainian security.   Read in browser »

 

 

TEXTS COMPILED PRIOR TO REVERSAL OF US POLICY TOWARD UKRAINE

Christianity, War, Enemies, Ukraine War, Jesus’s Ethics

Does Christianity give us guidance?   

    In the Bible, Matthew 5:44, Jesus says, "Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you."    The full verse reads: "You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven".   The verse is also found in Luke 6:27-28, which says, "But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you". 

    In regard to the one hundred years of US enmity against the Soviet Union, now Russia, one thing never mentioned by US officials or the corporate media or the military-industrial complex-- is Jesus’ injunction to “love your enemies.”    And US leaders and their corporate media largely skip over the questions of whether Putin is our enemy, or what might Jesus say in response to the long history of US hatred toward the Russkies?   Or is demonizing Russians a US pathology and such allegations are the construction of Russophobes, capitalist anti-communist fanatics, war-mongers, and opportunistic war profiteers?    
Here is a partial record of my Google search.

Jesus loved the people we hate. 

He Gets Us  https://hegetsus.com › articles › love-your-enemies

Who is "we"? It's each of us. It's you. It's me. All of us. What would the world look like if we each followed Jesus' teaching to love our enemies?
15 Bible Verses About Loving Your Enemies 

ABWE https://abwe.org › Blog  Aug 25, 2021 — As Christians, we're called to love our enemies. One way to express that love is by praying for those who persecute you (Matthew 5:44).
Jesus loves Putin

Catholic365.com   https://www.catholic365.com › article › jesus-loves-putin

Apr 1, 2022 — As a result, the teachings of Jesus do apply to us and we are told by Jesus to love our enemies. The enemy of Ukraine is our enemy. Putin is, ...
Opinion: Trying to Respond Christ-like to Putin 
  Kyiv Post  https://www.kyivpost.com › World  
May 14, 2023 — As a disciple of Jesus Christ, however, my master's marching orders are extremely clear: “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you ...
Putin in the hands of an Angry God - Pursuing God's Thoughts

WordPress.com  https://thinkinghisthoughts.wordpress.com › 2022/02/26  

Feb 26, 2022 — However, the command to Christians to “love your enemies” tell us what Christians are to do as God's people. That is, there are certain aspects ...
War comes to the Ukraine: Why not pray for Vladimir Putin?
VirtueOnline  https://virtueonline.org › war-comes-ukraine-why-not-p... 
  Feb 25, 2022 — So Christ Himself commands us to love and pray for our enemies. Vladimir Putin is certainly an enemy, therefore he needs our heartfelt prayer.  
What Does Loving Your Enemies Look Like in a War?

relevantmagazine.com   https://relevantmagazine.com › current › world › what-...  

Mar 8, 2022 — Love Your EnemiesLove your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. ​Matthew 5:44 is a counterintuitive teaching from Jesus. Instead of ...
A prayer for Russian President Putin

Catholic365.com    https://www.catholic365.com › article › a-prayer-for-russ...

Mar 28, 2022 — Lord Jesus, you urged your disciples to not just love your neighbor or those who love you back, but to love your enemy. You urged and taught ...
How to pray for Vladimir Putin

Baptist News Global    https://baptistnews.com › article › how-to-pray-for-vlad...  

Mar 1, 2022 — The Gospel text states: “But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” Two questions come to mind: What does love ...
Franklin Graham's tweet about praying for Putin isn't ...

Standing for Freedom Center   https://www.standingforfreedom.com › 2022/02 › fran...

Feb 23, 2022 — Jesus said in Matthew 5:44-45, “But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father ...

 

HISTORICAL BACKGROUNDS: MCCARTHYISM, USA 1950S
Steve Batterson.  The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis: McCarthyism, Communism, and the Myth of Academic Freedom.  Monthly Review P, 2024. 

With a Foreword by Ellen Schrecker

Exposes the destruction of academic careers—and the complicity of educational institutions—in McCarthy’s America.

The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis tells the true tale of a mathematician who found himself taking an involuntary break from chalking equations to sit opposite a row of self-righteous anti-Communist congressmen at the height of the McCarthy era. Courageously asserting the First Amendment to confront a system rapidly descending into fascism, Davis testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). He became one of a small number of left wingers who served time for contempt of Congress.

In this fascinating and disturbing narrative, author Steve Batterson takes a deep dive into extant archival records generated by the FBI, HUAC, the University of Michigan, and repositories holding the papers of former Supreme Court justices. He looks at the plights of six faculty and graduate students. . . .Batterson exposes the ways that McCarthy’s righteous emissaries relied on all kinds of institutions in 1950s America—from Hollywood studios to universities—to sabotage the careers of anyone with a trace of “Red.”
What people are saying about The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis:

     The challenges Chandler faced in the 1950s have returned with a vengeance in the form of red state governors and legislators seeking to police what is taught and thought in universities and to punish those teachers whose ideas are at variance with a reactionary political agenda. We are now experiencing what many are calling a new McCarthyism. It’s a tribute to Steve Batterson’s book that we can raise these questions about the politics of jurisprudence and the vagaries and contingencies of the law. His detailed inquiry in The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis provides the historical insight that I associate with the best accounts of this kind: motives are complex, power a critical variable, timing an unpredictable factor, and rational argument not necessarily a winning strategy. This is a case study with resonance well beyond the specificities of the case. It is an important and worthwhile read.  Joan Scott, author of Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom

     Carefully done…and good reading as well.
Stephen Smale, UC-Berkeley mathematician, Fields Medalist (Nobel Prize for Mathematics)

     Steve Batterson’s compelling biography of Chandler Davis reveals a true American hero. His book, relying on primary sources, including intimate interviews, reveals the other side of the shameful McCarthy period, as a progressive thinker stood for his First Amendment rights, refusing to take the Fifth, and was punished for it. Chandler Davis’ coolness under fire and his exemplary life, unmarred by bitterness and full of hope and grace, is a revelation for us all.  Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History, University of Michigan

     At a moment when conservative forces are once more taking a sledgehammer to academic freedom, Steve Batterson tells the story of the intrepid and far-sighted H. Chandler Davis as it needs to be told. Calmly unpicking the tenacious fallacies used to rationalize the anticommunist purge of the 1950s, he provides a deeply researched and compulsively readable biography that is note-perfect for our time and full of surprising historical details.  Alan Wald, H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan, and author of American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War

                                                                                             

James W. Carden.   “The Real Meaning of the Fight Over Tulsi Gabbard.”  ACURA (American Committee for US-Russia Accord) (Feb 04, 2025). 
Leading the charge against Gabbard on the Senate Intelligence Committee is ranking member Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia who, like his counterpart Adam Schiff (then serving as chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence), spent four years lying to the American people about Donald Trump’s alleged connections to the Kremlin.  Read in browser »                                                                               

Anything Goes in Thwarting Demons?
 Christopher Caldwell.    “Everyone Wants to Seize Russia’s Money. It’s a Terrible Idea.  ACURA  (Apr 10, 2024).   
The Republican House speaker, Mike Johnson, has brought a glimmer of hope to  supporters of the Ukrainian war effort. He suggested to Fox News on March 31 that he would try to rally his divided party behind the so-called REPO Act. That piece of legislation would allow President Biden, working with European allies, to seize Russian […]
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Who Started This War?  Who Sustains It?
VIDEO The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel.   “How Neocons, Neolibs, and their Media Collude for War.”  ACURA (Apr 08, 2024).
This is the first part of a discussion between Katrina vanden Heuvel and Neutrality Studies’ Pascal Lottaz. For a quarter of a century, vanden Heuvel was the editor in chief of the progressive magazine The Nation; she is currently The Nation’s publisher and editorial director, a widely read columnist as well as president of ACURA. […]
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James W. Carden.   “Legendary US Diplomat Pans Latest NATO Money Grab.”  ACURA (April 8, 2024).
Critics, such as the legendary American diplomat Chas Freeman say that the plan is simply a case of throwing good money—in this case, borrowed money—after bad.  Freeman sees this as a case of NATO clutching at straws, after all, as he tells Responsible Statecraft, “NATO has run out of Ukrainians to sacrifice on the battlefield […]

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Dee Knight (editor).   A Realistic Path to Peace: From Genocide to Global War and How We Can Stop It.  
Praise:Radhika Desai Director, Geopolitical Economy Research Group; Convenor, International Manifesto Group.  “This book of excellent essays analyses the current U.S. drive to war, against Russia and beyond. Knight exposes its roots and points to the only path to peace: opposition to the U.S. war machine.
Carlos Martinez, Editor, Invent the Future.  “Essential reading: a passionate plea for peace, and a call for unity and bold action against imperialism.”

About the Author
During the years of the U.S. war against Vietnam, Dee Knight was an editor of Amex-Canada, the newsletter of American exiles and expatriates who went to Canada in resistance to that war. He lived in Toronto, Canada, from 1968 to 1974. Amex-Canada helped organize American war resisters and their allies, including antiwar veterans, to sustain the resistance. In 1973 Knight helped to launch the National Council for Universal Unconditional Amnesty, which waged a campaign to end government repression of war resisters and active-duty U.S. soldiers.   Read More Frequently Ask Questions

New 2024 edition’s theme and new chapters include:
“Shock and Awe: Then and Now.”  Compares U.S. wars in Iraq, Syria, Libya with the official hysterical and self-righteous condemnation of Russian actions.

“The Long Road Ahead: The U.S. Is Snatching War from the Jaws of Peace.”  Explains how the U.S. has prevented peace, accuses Russia of ‘war crimes’ while brushing its own real war crimes under a rug, and calls for reviving an antiwar movement on a new basis.

Does China’s Rise Really Threaten the U.S.? says “fake news” is brainwashing the U.S. public to accept a new Cold War with China – to counter China’s Belt and Road Initiative and punish China for “human rights violations.” Details U.S. “pivot to Asia” with military buildup and new aggressive alliances. Cites polls that people don’t want war, more people see the U.S. as a threat to democracy than either China or Russia, and a Harvard study that 90%+ of the Chinese people like their government. Quotes Bernie Sanders on “relentless fearmongering about China.”

“’Yankees Go Home!’ Asians Say” describes a recent surge of protests against U.S. military bases in Okinawa and South Korea. The article includes an explanation that “the U.S. state of permanent war in Asia and the Pacific today is… the inevitable product of a centuries-long project of U.S. hegemony in the Pacific.”

“Joe Biden’s Saber-Rattling.”  U.S. threats against China over Taiwan, and U.S. justifications for war against Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yugoslavia, and Korea.

Also “What America will and will not do in Ukraine,” and Scott Ritter’s defense of Russia’s special military operation, with support from Ellen Taylor.

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“Coordinator For Sanctions From Hell Appointed to Head Spook Agency that Supports Color Revolutions” By Jeremy Kuzmarov .   Covert Actions Magazine ( March 8, 2024). 

Tamara Cofman Wittes [Source: ned.org]

Since the outbreak of the Ukraine War, the Biden administration has applied sanctions on more than 15,000 Russian entities and individuals, marking Russia as among the most heavily sanctioned countries in history.  One analyst has likened the sanctions to the “economic carpet bombing of Russia,” and another to a “weapon of mass destruction.”   The pretext has repeatedly been fraudulent, with the Russian government accused of things there was no proof it had committed. The explicit goal, outlined in a Hudson Institute report, is to destroy Russia’s economy and “prepare for the dissolution of the Russian state.”  The lead U.S. State Department coordinator for the sanctions, Tamara Cofman Wittes, is highly intelligent, with a Ph.D. in political science from Georgetown University.[1] However, in her institutional role, she is a monster.    The sanctions have caused grave hardship for ordinary Russians, though have failed to bring down Russia’s economy or inspire civil unrest in the way that was planned.    [Source: sott.net]  Despite the policy failure, Cofman Wittes was recently appointed as the new head of the National Democratic Institute (NDI) effective March 15.  The NDI is largely funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a CIA offshoot founded in the 1980s to support political propaganda and opposition movements in countries targeted by the U.S. for regime change. The NDI is one of the NED’s four core institutes which purports to support democratization efforts and political parties worldwide that correlate roughly with the ideals of the Democratic Party.  Until her death in 2022, Madeleine Albright, a neo-conservative protégé of Zbigniew Brzezinski[2] who, as U.S. Secretary of State in the late 1990s championed the NATO war in the Balkans and sanctions against Iraq that killed half a million children, served as NDI Board Chair.   The NDI’s Board of Directors includes Michael McFaul, a Ukraine War hawk who, as an NDI consultant in the 1990s, supported Boris Yeltsin, an autocrat who stormed the parliament and sold off Russia’s assets at pennies to the dollar to predatory capitalists while acquiescing to NATO expansion in Eastern Europe.   [Source: youtube.com]Michael McFaul [Source: ndi.org]   The NDI Board also includes luminaries of the corporatist wing of the Democratic Party, like Stacey Abrams, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (AKA Wall Street’s think tank) and former Board member of the hawkish, CIA-linked Center for American Progress[3], and former DNC Chair Donna Brazile, a key purveyor of the Russia Gate hoax that helped mobilize public opinion in support of the new Cold War. . . .The NDI in fact has a long record of trying to sabotage socialist governments that strive to take control over their countries’ natural resources, equalize wealth and restrict foreign plundering. . . .


Doug Bandow. “U.S. Officials Believe That ‘We’ Are at War With Russia
.  ACURA (Mar 29, 2024).
Nothing Putin has said or done since suggests he is interested in European conquest. His military assaults, while lawless, have been limited to Georgia and Ukraine, and do not make him Hitler reincarnated. Even now President George W. Bush is responsible for far more civilian deaths.   
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Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, specializing in foreign policy and civil liberties. He worked as special assistant to President Ronald Reagan and editor of the political magazine Inquiry. He writes regularly for leading publications such as Fortune magazine, National Interest, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Times..          Read Full Bio 

 

Branko Marcetic.  “How the War in Ukraine Has Been a Major Contributor to Global Inflation. “ ACURA

(Dec 06, 2024).
There is a growing realization that voters’ dissatisfaction with inflation resulted in Donald Trump’s election victory last month. But almost no attention has been placed on one of the major contributors to this inflation: the war in Ukraine, and the decision to repeatedly reject negotiating its end.
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William Astore. “The Trillion-Dollar Blob.”  ACURA

(Dec 06, 2024).
America has a bellicose, bullying, immature leadership that thinks military might is the answer to everything, as reflected by U.S. Special Forces in 80+ countries and roughly 800 bases globally. That global presence is unsustainable. It is also folly.
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Pathological Hatred of Communism and Russia by the Democratic Party by George Paulson  3-28-24.

 

 

 

Dick, I completely agree with the premise openly stated in the title of this [an article on the pathological hatred of communism and Russia].  We are, indeed, heading slow motion into World War III.  Sleepwalking into it, you might say.  In fact, it’s starting to remind me a bit of 1914 (especially if the Russians are able to connect the recent terror attack in Moscow with Ukrainian intelligence).  But reading through it, I can only conclude that the author is part of the problem, in my opinion.  The absolute unhinged Russophobia that now characterizes nearly the entire Democratic Party spectrum makes WWIII more likely.  Much of this irrational and ahistorical way of thinking is clearly a product of relentless Cold War propaganda which is deeply embedded in the political DNA of most Democrats; but another equally important component is the irrational and entirely unhinged reaction to the 2016 election.  I am, of course, referring to the entire Russiagate nonsense, which helped create a domestic political climate where even the idea of diplomacy with nuclear-armed Russia is absolutely out of the question.  The author references “Vlad” and the Russian threat to use nuclear weapons.  The glib and breezy demonization of Vladimir Putin—de rigour on the part of the vast majority of Democrats--does not make WWIII less likely.  It makes it more likely, because it makes even the concept of diplomacy impossible.  For the record, referring to Putin as “Vlad” is a cheap example of this.  Even during the worst days of the Cold War, we avoided this type of stupid, childish, personal insulting of the Soviet leadership.  At this point, there is nothing—I mean nothing—that liberal Democrats will not believe about Putin and Russia. Do you seriously think that this mindset makes a hot war between Russia and the USA less likely?  Does the Neo-McCarthyism promoted by the Democratic Party—smearing anyone who pushes back against the official narrative that poor little old Ukraine was just minding its own business when big bad Vlad and the evil Russians invaded out of the blue—make a war less likely?  As for Putin and nukes, the Russian doctrine regarding the use of nuclear weapons is not news.  Again, remind me, please, who walked out of various arms control agreements since the dissolution of the USSR?  Remind me, which country insists on its right to station nuclear weapons on the other’s border?  The truth is that the Democratic Party is a pro-war party.  It is a virulently Russophobic party.  And while our foreign policy is bipartisan, the Biden administration bears ultimate responsibility for the disaster unfolding in Ukraine. Actually, disaster is not the right word.  Catastrophe is probably better.  This war could have easily been avoided with even a tiny bit of diplomacy.  But any diplomacy was off the table, as our current Secretary of State made clear.  The Biden administration provoked this war, a war that nuclear-armed Russia considers to be existential, in the actual meaning of the word.  The Biden administration has miscalculated on a scale that has no comparison in all of American history.  This is the most criminally incompetent and reckless administration of my lifetime.  And that makes them, therefore, NOT the lesser of two evils.  We are going to need a lot of luck to avoid the very unimaginable.  Peace, George  

The Simone Weil Center’s Symposium on ‘Containment 2.0’.”  ACURA (Apr 01, 2024). 
In response to a March 6, 2024 article in Foreign Affairs titled “America’s New Twilight Struggle with Russia: To Prevail, Washington Must Revive Containment,” The Simone Weil Center will be publishing a series of responses from several Russia experts and foreign policy thinkers. The series begins with a contribution by Dr. Gordon Hahn.  
Read in browser »    Gordon M. Hahn is a researcher specializing in Islam and politics in Russia and Eurasia, international relations in Eurasia and terrorism in Eurasia. He is the author of several books and a number of research articles on Russia and the Caucasus Emirate.. Wikipedia

Caitlin A. Johnstone.   Imagine if Russia or China did the things Israel is doing in Gaza.”  Mronline.org (3-30-24).

It’s almost cliché at this point to say “imagine if Russia or China did this”, but such comparisons are important for retaining a sense of perspective on just how evil the western political-media class is being about Gaza right now.

Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog  on March 28, 2024 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog).    Human Rights, Inequality, State Repression, WarAmericas, Asia, China, Europe, Gaza, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Russia, United StatesNewswire

Imagine how the western political-media class would be acting if Russia or China was bombing and starving a walled-in population of two million, half of them children. Seriously, imagine it. Imagine the rage and vitriol. Imagine the nonstop media coverage.

When Russia invaded Ukraine, U.S. media coverage of that war exceeded the media coverage of all U.S. wars in the previous three decades. If Russia were deliberately and systematically exterminating civilians in Ukraine or anywhere else, the western media coverage of those war crimes would be many times more.

It’s almost cliché at this point to say “imagine if Russia or China did this”, but such comparisons are important for retaining a sense of perspective on just how evil the western political-media class is being about Gaza right now. We’re seeing articles come out in the mass media about starvation in Gaza which never once even mention the word “Israel”. Do you think that would be happening if this were being perpetrated by a government which defies the western empire? Of course not. . . .  MORE

 

Pavan Kulkarni.  Why Niger declared U.S. Military presence in its territory illegal.”  Editor.  mronline.org (3-23-24).

Niger declared the U.S. military deployment in its territory “illegal” on Saturday, March 16, after a U.S. delegation allegedly threatened “retaliation” against the largest country in West Africa for its ties with Russia and Iran.

Originally published: Internationalist 360°  on March 19, 2024 by Pavan Kulkarni (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted Mar 22, 2024).   Empire, Imperialism, Inequality, WarAfrica, Americas, Niger, United StatesNewswireU.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM)

Only months after forcing its former colonizer France to withdraw its troops, Niger, West Africa’s largest country, has said the presence of U.S. troops is illegal. This could be a major blow to the U.S. military’s power-projection capacity in the region.   Niger declared the U.S. military deployment in its territory “illegal” on Saturday, March 16, after a U.S. delegation allegedly threatened “retaliation” against the largest country in West Africa for its ties with Russia and Iran. . . .  MORE

 

EL PAIS English.   “NATO personnel already in Ukraine for arms control, intelligence operations and military training.”  ACURA (Mar 22, 2024). 
Emmanuel Macron broke the taboo in February. NATO already assists Ukraine in virtually every possible aspect, from supplying weaponry and intelligence on Russian targets and the positions of enemy bombers to training thousands of Ukrainian troops in Europe. But until the French president suggested it, no one had dared to raise the question of Atlantic Alliance […]    Read in browser »

VIDEO: John Mearsheimer.  “ Ukraine’s Dangerous Last Gasp.”  ACURA (Mar 22, 2024).
Judge Andrew Napolitano and Professor John Mearsheimer take stock of the current situation in Ukraine.  
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Andrew Cockburn.   “Our Real National Security Budget (With Winslow Wheeler).”  ACURA (Mar 21, 2024). 
The Biden Administration has just published its proposed budget, generating copious commentary, much of it displaying a commensurate degree of misunderstanding, especially regarding our gargantuan national security spending.  To get at the truth of the matter, I consulted my friend Winslow Wheeler, who has been observing the insalubrious intricacies of the budget process over the past fifty years as a senior aide to Senators from both parties as well as a senior analyst for the General Accounting Office and directing the Center for Defense Information.

The defense budget just posted by the administration is being described as approaching a trillion dollars. Is that accurate?     No. It's actually a lot more than that. In fact it's beginning to inch up on $2 trillion. 
How so?   The problem is that when most people look at the defense budget, they don't count everything that we spend even for the Pentagon. But in addition to that, there are hundreds of billions of dollars outside of the Pentagon's budget that we spend for national security. Things like the nuclear weapons activities in the Department of Energy; that’s $37 billion$26 billion for retired military pensions and healthcare and $12 billion for the Selective Service, the National Defense Stockpile, and a strange and suspicious looking category for the international activities of the FBI in something called “Defense Related Activities. . . . .  MORE   
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EXPANDING NATO IN POLAND AND GERMANY
Davis Winkle.  “US Think Tank Says Station Troops in Poland.”  ACURA (Mar 21, 2024).    
The report’s author also recommended that the Air Force station an additional F-16 squadron in Germany; increase anti-submarine warfare capability and air defense forces; bolster stockpiles of prepositioned equipment and ammunition; and continue modernization, cyber, space and security cooperation efforts. 
Davis Winkie covers the Army for Military Times.  Read in browser »

 

Lenin’s ‘Last Testament’: The pro phetic last words of a Marxist for our times. “  Editor.  mronline.org (1-31-24).

The myth that Lenin led to Stalin is exposed by Lenin’s Last Testament which argues for more democracy and removing Stalin from power, writes John Westmoreland.

 

 

CONTENTS US RUSSOPHOBIA #5

New Cold War 2024

BIGOTRY V. SOVIET UNION/RUSSIA
Victor Grossman.  "Achtung! Die Russen kommen!"
Walter Hixson.  “The Myth of U.S. Exceptionalism.”
Sharon Rudahl.  A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson.

Reuters.  Germany’s two-year silence.

Diana Johnstone.  Russia not invited to D-Day Remembrance.
William Drew.  New Cold War
Russophobic Propaganda.
Katrina vanden Heuvel.  Biden’s old Cold warmaking foreign policies.

George Paulson.  New McCarthyism.  (Art Hobson, American Midnight by Adam Hochschild.) 
George Paulson.  Anti-Russia Victoria Nuland Resigning.
Dave DeCamp.  “Victoria Nuland, Notorious Russia Hawk, Resigning. . . .
Joe Lauria.  “Russian Imperialism?”

 

 

 

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SOVIET/RUSSOPHOBIA ANTHOLOGY #6

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