March 16, 2022: "DIANA JOHNSTONE: For Washington, War Never Ends"

"The torture of Julian #Assange is the truth beneath the tsunami of jingoism and lies engulfing us. This outstanding piece adds the truth of history." [John Pilger, Twitter]

Excerpt:

"For Russian leaders, their military “operation” is intended to prevent the Western invasion they fear. They still want to negotiate Ukrainian neutrality. For the Americans, whose strategist Zbigniew Brzezinski boasted of having lured the Russians into the Afghanistan trap (giving them “their Vietnam”), this is a psychological victory in their endless war. The Western world is united as never before in hating Putin. Propaganda and censorship surpass even World War levels. The Russians surely want this “operation” to end soon, as it is costly to them in many ways. The Americans rejected any effort to prevent it, did everything to provoke it, and will extract whatever advantages they can from its continuation.

Today Volodymyr Zelensky implored the U.S. Congress to give Ukraine more military aid. The aid will keep the war going. Anthony Blinken told NPR that the United States is responding by “denying Russia the technology it needs to modernize its country, to modernize key industries: defense and aerospace, its high-tech sector, energy exploration.”

The American war aim is not to spare Ukraine, but to ruin Russia. That takes time.

The danger is that the Russians won’t be able to end this war, and the Americans will do all they can to keep it going."

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/03/16/diana-johnstone-for-washington-war-never-ends/

This event is happening tomorrow in London, 1pm, Parliament Square

A free press is essential to proper working of a democratic society - but we see every day how free expression is under serious threat in UK

https://dontextraditeassange.com/events/free-assange-human-chain-oct-8/ #Assange #RaiseTheVolume