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    Stood about 30 secs of Cornel-DN! Did he mention 2014 US-UKR coup, Minsk, Putin's 03/2022 peace move Archived Message

    Posted by Jim_Carlucci on June 12, 2023, 5:17 am, in reply to "The latest disappointment: Cornel West."

    ..heard him condemn Putin for invading - but whilst he did point the blame at the existential threat to Russia posed by NATO expansion he failed to compare this to the US War Machine's long history of "brutal" wars, interference, coups, drone wars, global torture programs, extraordinary rendition, imposition of "brutal" deadly sanctions on countries thousands of miles from its own borders etc etc.

    And like most truth-tellers who DO compare and contrast Putin's UKR invasion/SMO with Iraq 2003, Cornel failed to point out that the neocons' brutal shock & awe invasion of Iraq was based on a transparent pack of media-fed lies and BS claims - ie. that Saddam had WMD and links to the 9/11 attacks and to Al Qaeda.

    Compare that to Putin's non-Shock & Awe invasion which was NOT based on lies - on the contrary it was grossly misrepresented and condemned thanks to the media's well-practised use of lies and truth-omission/suppression.

    Nah - I far prefer listening to calm, cool, collected and clinical Prof Jeremy Sachs and Ray NcGovern than the pulpit-theatrical Cornel West - and Sachs/McGovern are or have also both been closely involved in shaping and influencing US foreign policy at the highest levels of governnent - unlike Cornel West and most geopolitical commentators.

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