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✉️ The FBI raid on my home raises existential questions about a free press in America today.

〰️I am being accused by my government of being an unregistered agent of Russia.

〰️The FBI cites my relationship with RT and Sputnik as evidence of this.

〰️I am a contributor to both outlets, just like I am with many others.

At the end of each article published by RT, there is the following disclaimer:

“The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.”

I often contribute articles to Consortium News. At the end of each article there is the following disclaimer:

“The views expressed are solely those of the author and may or may not reflect those of Consortium News.”

It is the lot of the freelance journalist to have their work labeled in such a manner. It means we are not a staff writer, we are not part of the team…that we don’t take our direction from the publisher.

This doesn’t mean we don’t operate under a modicum of editorial control and influence—we do.

But we are, at the end of the day, our own bosses.

This is the critical nuance that the FBI appears to have overlooked in pursuing this matter.

I hope that, in the end, reason will prevail.

〰️It is essential for a free press comprised of independent journalists to survive.

〰️It is essential for free speech.

〰️It is essential for democracy.

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✉️ WAR IS A RACKET
Randy Credico Live on the Fly

With Scott Ritter, Ray McGovern, Larry Johnson & Matthew Hoh.

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✉️ IT'S IRAN'S MOVE AND WHAT HAPPENS NEXT COULD BE NUCLEAR WAR
Interview for Redacted

Topics discussed:

▫️Situation in the region;
▫️Consequences of a possible attack;
▫️Deployment of US ships off the coast of Israel;
▫️Iran's Operation True Promise.

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✉️ NOTHING WILL SAVE UKRAINE. REGARDLESS OF WHETHER HARRIS OR TRUMP WINS THE ELECTION
Interview for Gegenpol

Topics discussed:

▫️Diplomatic relations between the US and Russia;
▫️The role of Germany in European security;
▫️It is absurd to suggest that Harris is planning military action in Ukraine;
▫️F16;
▫️Japan should be at the forefront of international efforts to ban nuclear weapons.

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⁣✉️ IN SEARCH OF ENEMIES
Clinton, Trump, and the future of NATO

A flash from the past: my assessment of NATO circa 2016. Two things: this article establishes my journalistic credentials pre-2022, and demonstrates that my skepticism about NATO predates the SMO.

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⁣✉️ BUMBLING TOWARD A NEW COLD WAR WITH RUSSIA

Another blast from the past. It was articles like this that prompted the Department of Justice to use FARA as a tool to suppress journalism critical of US policy.

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✉️ ASK THE INSPECTOR EP.183 Highlight

▫️ What Caused the FBI Raid on Scott Ritter?

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✉️ ASK THE INSPECTOR EP.183 Highlight

▫️ The FBI Raid

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✉️ The Russian government has consistently referred to its ongoing military conflict with Ukraine as a “Special Military Operation” (SMO) and not a war.

The SMO is a self-limiting conflict, with Russia’s military and political actions confined to the four corners of the stated objectives.

Russia has long warned about the dangers of escalation when it came to the SMO.

Russia had focused on resolving the problem of anti-Russian Ukrainian ultra-nationalism linked to the Nazi-era ideology of Stepan Bandera, resulting in a conflict which could be localized.

Ukraine, at the behest of and in close coordination with NATO, has launched an invasion of Russia in the Kursk region.

There is no other way to define this aggression.

Russia has not made the SMO an existential conflict.

The NATO-facilitated invasion of Russia by Ukraine has succeeded in making it so.

At this juncture Russia would have every right to transform the SMO into a full-scale war with Ukraine and, by extension, its supporters.

Russia would likely try to keep such a war contained to the defeat of Ukraine, with all that would entail.

How NATO responds to the physical and political destruction of Ukraine will be critical in determining how a Russian-Ukraine war ends.

If NATO becomes directly involved in the fighting, then there is a huge risk of a direct clash between Russian and NATO forces.

Which means there is a risk of nuclear war.

The NATO-facilitated invasion of Russia by Ukraine is one of the most dangerous developments in the SMO to date.

The possibility of this conflict careening out of control is very high.

And the complacency of the West in the face of this danger is alarming.

Ignorance breeds irrationality.

And irrationality never serves the cause of solving complex problems.

There has never been a more important time than now for the people of the West to be fully informed on all matters pertaining to Russia, especially those that impact its relationship with the West.

🔵For the past three years, I have made facilitating processes that contribute to informing audiences in the US and around the World about the Russian reality my prime mission.

And today the US government is seeking to criminalize this mission.

We are on the cusp of a conflict between the West and Russia which could be existential in nature not only for the American and Russian people, but all of humanity.

There has never been a more important time than now to seek to empower people with fact-based information about Russia so that ongoing events might be judged based upon Russian reality, and not Western fiction.

I will continue with mission.

Because preventing a nuclear war is the single most important issue of our time.

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✉️ FBI RAIDS ARE PART AND PARCEL OF US GOV’T’S LARGER PROJECT OF INTIMIDATION

[FBI] talk a lot about my relationship with Sputnik… The US government is clearly unhappy with my message, unhappy with the impact that I'm having, and nervous that they can't control me.

I think that this raid, this search warrant, this ongoing investigation is part and parcel of a larger project of intimidation that unfortunately will continue, I believe, for the near future.

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🐣 The FBI has accused me of behaving as a foreign agent operating in violation of the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA). They focused on an article I published on my Substack on February 28, 2023. They claim I was directed by Russia to publish this article.

This is absurd. I did meet with Russian officials at the Russian Embassy on February 20, where I briefed them on travel I was planning conducting in Russia in the coming months. The purpose of this briefing was to make sure the Russian government did not misconstrue my trip as a cover for espionage—I was, after all, a former intelligence officer with a history of work in the former Soviet Union.

I also spoke in depth about the importance of this trip as a means to empower myself with the knowledge and information necessary to combat the problem of Russophobia in America today.

I informed the Russian officials that I planned on addressing Russophobia in my writing and talks.

The FBI is under the impression that, in pursuing this topic, I was somehow being directed and/or controlled by the Russian government.

I would direct their, and the broader audience, direction to an article I published in Consortium News on February 14, 2023–six days before the Russian Embassy meeting.

Read my admonitions about the dangers of Russophobia as it relates to the possibility of nuclear war. CLICK HERE to read the article.

And decide for yourself whether my feelings came from the heart of a patriotic American concerned about the direction the country he loves was taking, or an agent of the Russian government, acting on their instructions to unduly influence the minds of an unwitting American public.

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🐣 This is an article I wrote shortly after attending the Defender of the Fatherland Day celebration at the Russian Embassy on February 23.

Again, judge for yourself: American patriot, or controlled Russian agent?

CLICK HERE to read the article.

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⁣✉️ ASK THE INSPECTOR EP. 184

Live Stream Scheduled for August 13, 2024 at 3:00pm ET

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✉️ ISRAEL'S ENTIRE FUTURE HANGS IN THE BALANCE. RUSSIA WIPING OUT UKRAINE'S ARMY
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ASK THE INSPECTOR EP. 184

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⁣✉️ THE MURDER OF OTHERS

The U.S. has had a moral obligation to commemorate Nagasaki, but this year the U.S. refused to mark its murder of innocent Japanese by defending its murder of innocent Palestinians.

On June 18, 1945, President Harry Truman, who had taken over the presidency in April 1945 following the death of Franklin Roosevelt, convened a meeting in the White House cabinet room of his top military and diplomatic advisers to discuss the endgame strategy for defeating Japan.

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