The Memory Hole Regurgitates Unpalatable Truths About NATO’s Eastward Crawl
From Out of The Memory Hole: NATO’s Eastward Crawl One Inch at a Time
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Declassified: Yugoslavia’s ‘Propaganda Value’ for British Spies
Declassified files shed fascinating light on how during the Cold War, Yugoslavia was a subject of intense cloak-and-dagger interest to British intelligence propagandists within Information Research Department (IRD).
Declassified: Yugoslavia’s ‘Propaganda Value’ for British Spies
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[06-2023] Journalist Randy Credico Has Been Placed on Ukrainian Terrorist “Kill-List” via CIA Project Website
Advisers are suggesting Randy Credico to lie low—keep out of sight—because too many journalists, activists, academics and dissidents placed on this hit-list coincidentally wind up dead, sometimes only days after being listed. Once killed, the Ukrainian word for “LIQUIDATED” is plastered across their pictures in big red letters—as in the listing (below) of Russian journalist Darya Dugina, who was blown up by a car bomb.
Journalist Randy Credico Has Been Placed on Ukrainian Terrorist “Kill-List” via CIA Project Website
The “October Surprise”: Throwing History Off Course
The “October surprise” worked its way into the political jargon in 1980 to describe the Carter administration’s efforts to obtain the release of 52 American hostages in Iran. President Jimmy Carter didn’t know, however, that his opponent’s campaign was planning its own “October surprise”—to elect Ronald Reagan by ensuring that the hostages would be held until after the election.
The “October Surprise”: Throwing History Off Course
NYT Catches Up to Parry But Still Falls Short on October Surprise
No matter how much evidence Robert Parry produced over the years poking holes in the official story, the establishment media declined to re-examine the case or treat it seriously, writes Nat Parry.
NYT Catches Up to Parry But Still Falls Short on October Surprise
Previously:
A Four-Decade Secret: One Man’s Story of Sabotaging Carter’s Re-election
What About the Unprovoked U.S. Aggression Against Iraq?
Referring to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an editorial in Saturday’s Washington Post exclaims that Ukraine’s “struggle is also a crucible for Europe and an assault against the most basic precept on which the Western system rests: the impermissibility of unprovoked wars of aggression.”
In a follow-up editorial today, the Post calls for an international tribunal to try Vladimir Putin and his “henchmen” for waging a “war of aggression” against Ukraine. The Post quotes the Nuremberg tribunal: “To initiate a war of aggression … is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”
What About the Unprovoked U.S. Aggression Against Iraq?
Scott Ritter Interview: How Donbass Joining Russia Just Turned the Tables on Ukraine
“Do you know who endorses revenge?” he says, “Azov endorses revenge. So the Donetsk people will have to look themselves in the mirror and say ‘do we really want to become that which we hate, or are we better than that?’ And its hard to be better than that when so many bad things have happened to you. But again, if they want to become part of Russia, they’re going to have to behave as Russians.”
Scott Ritter on the prisoner exchange, which included four leaders of Azov Battalion.
I didn’t see a tribunal, as revenge, but as justice. Revenge would’ve been executing them, on the spot, or worse!
Video via Deborah Armstrong
The US Played Gorbachev for a Fool
Interview with Lawrence Wilkerson
Retired US army colonel Lawrence Wilkerson touches on a number of hot topics, from a potential war between Lebanon and “Israel”, the dwindling Israeli military capabilities, to Biden’s Middle East doctrine, all the while casting doubt on Trump’s re-election.
Former chief of staff to US Secretary of State Colin Powell: Best case scenario for “Israel” in future war with Hezbollah would be a stalemate
Video via Al Mayadeen English
Lavrov says West seeks to use Gorbachev’s name for its geopolitical purposes
Lavrov says West seeks to use Gorbachev’s name for its geopolitical purposes
Lavrov also pointed out that those who spoke about relations with Gorbachev include former US Secretary of State James Baker.
“Baker said of Gorbachev: ‘I thought he was an honest negotiator and I could count on his word.’ That’s an amazing revelation. Because we were counting on Baker’s word as well. By we I mean the leadership of the Soviet Union. About the non-expansion of NATO to the east, among other things. They cheated us brazenly,” Lavrov said.
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James Baker: Gorbachev will be remembered as ‘giant’ who steered his nation toward democracy
In a statement published through his eponymous Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, Baker applauded Gorbachev’s role in ending the 40-year Cold War between Russia and the U.S., referring to him as an “honest broker” who stood by his word despite experiencing pressure from Moscow.
NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard
Washington D.C., December 12, 2017 – U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s famous “not one inch eastward” assurance about NATO expansion in his meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on February 9, 1990, was part of a cascade of assurances about Soviet security given by Western leaders to Gorbachev and other Soviet officials throughout the process of German unification in 1990 and on into 1991, according to declassified U.S., Soviet, German, British and French documents posted today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University
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