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The US has finally stopped pretending to be pro-peace: with China proposing a plan for a ceasefire, Secretary of War Antony Blinken announced that stopping the war is unacceptable. And when CodePink’s Medea Benjamin called for Blinken to act as a diplomat instead of a war hawk, she was dragged out of the room by security. The US does not want peace.
So to dig deeper into the US’s aggression, we asked Twitter superhero Michael Tracey to help us unearth more evidence of warmongering weapons-dealers calling themselves politicians.
What he found was a 2014 interview with Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, after a trip to Ukraine with best bud John McCain, unknowingly giving away the US’s entire efforts of regime change.
“With him being forthright about the decisive role that the United States played in ousting Yanukovych from power,” Tracey explains, noting that Murphy didn’t know this would become a hot topic. “He’s talking about it as though he’s recounting just an average day’s work that wouldn’t have any noteworthy political content.”
But he tells us why Murphy’s confession is so important: “If today somebody who was not a US senator uttered the same exact words that Murphy did in these clips to describe US conduct in 2014 in Kyiv, they would be accused of being a Russian propagandist.”
Watch the full interview with Michael Tracey on the state department-funded report that Russia is kidnapping Ukraine’s children, Ron Desantis pretending not to be a war hawk, and the House hearing on TikTok, where free speech and free market are only cool if the US gets to do it.
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0:00 Intro
0:50 The Four Food Groups of News
12:15 Michael Tracey interview
Wow! Here are two of the most hated journalists by the MSM on the same program! Thanks for your sanity.
The giant wooden penis sculpture wasn't such a terrible story, but that was in the pre-Aaron era.
Blinken is NO diplomat. He's totally owned by the death merchants. War is murder, in ALL cases. We're so effing doomed
How about retroactive abortion? Make room for reasonable, life loving humans.
thanks so much love you guys God bless you..
In case of a cease fire they are projecting on Russia exactly what NATO did with the Minsk Agreement. More time (8 years) to re-equip, retrain the Ukrainian army and restart operation at a time of the US government choosing.
I can't wait to see all your living warmongers on trial at the Hague!
United States of War. UGH!
Garland Nixon, Emil Cosman, The Duran, The New Atlas, Redacted.
Washington is out of control.
Such profane propaganda these people are spewing! It's not their kids dying every day, so why not keep that war-profit machine rolling? Disgusting and so transparent.
Den officiella USA 🇺🇸 har slutat lotsas – fredsförhandlingar är oacceptabla för USA 🇺🇸 , trots detta att Zelensky 🇺🇦 själv sade att han är öppen för att prata med Xi 🇨🇳 om detta.
Sorry, Michael, you've lost me. The history is the foundation of the present; if we aren't acquainted with it, we can't make sound decisions.
No war! Out with these warmongers who are going to get us all killed in WW3!!!
Didn't Trump and/or Obama take children away from their parents at OUR boarder, and put them in foster homes?
How many children have we still NOT reunited with their parents in the Trump child separation border policy debacle? Yet another reason to imprison Trump?
Actually US politicians are really idiots. They fall in to Putin trap big time . Russia has no interest to cease any fire . They will take the entire UKRAIN . Than they will stop US a bunch o ignorants and stupid politicians
I wud put a Cherry on top
I'm a peaceful old man, I've only felt the urge to excessively hurt someone a few times in my life.
Case in point: after seeing hundreds of thousands of men, women and children die of or on the verge of starvation, I heard a leader in Mogadishu say that: "We must stop the thousands of tons of food being sent to help from the rest of the world in the harbor to rot, because they could give a political advantage to our adversaries."
I'm feeling the same tingling sensation growing……
That’s the tactic they use. They’re projecting
Since when does America make decisions about Ukraine War?
Is this the US or Iran? 🤔
The US couldn't be in the ICC because its whole government would be arrested. 🤷
Stinkin' Blinken…… You're Fired!
Fabulous! The Europeans and Americans will have to go to Moscow to grovel to Putin. The USA and ICC are both such jokes. No mention of Zelensky's war crimes which are much more grievous and factual. The reality is, thanks to Biden's complete failure to lead, Russia is no longer interested in anything the west has to say since all they do is lie. BRICS will finish the petro dollar and America will, at best, be able to ask China for some help through the Belt and Road Initiative.
How nice of us to sacrifice Ukraine.
Lavrov is a smart guy. Blinken is in cognitive deficit. Almost as much as Ol Broccoli Brain
So USA is giving orders to a sovereign nation ? Whut da fuk ?
Russia is losing. Russia has conquests. Whut ?
What Angela Merkel said that Minsk accord was a way to buy time to Ukraine built militarily to attack Russia is the same tactic now the US officials are using to accuse Russia of buying time to wage another offensive under the name of ceasefire.
The Truth is treason in the empire of lies.
Why is killing your own developing child a sacred rite to the Left? This is insane. Contraception …. YES! Killing the child growing in your womb … NO!
Breaking Headline: Serial Pooper On Broadway!
Listening to the Neocons Lindsey Graham and Anthony Blinken makes me want to vomit. Sic Semper Tyrranis!
Define “durable solution” and is it unilaterally derived? To me, any capitalist will define solution as “my way or the highway”. No?
Blinken in translation is "pancake"…
Let’s count how many Americans who think Blinken and Kirby would make good friends with common interests! Not I.
When are we going to change the way states and populations are represented in Congress?
I’m not buying the penis amputation story. It sounds like National enquirer psyche pandering.
The Ukraine works with the ICC. The US just coaches and assists the Ukraine in prosecutions it deems acceptable.
Open source originated from software developers. It ensures software is secure and doesn’t contain back doors among other things. Diebold voting machines for example are not open source.
Isn’t Murphy getting it wrong now statistically predictable in a competitive environment? I’m astonished people are still not approaching public issues and politicians this way. Competition + public issue = death of the campaign promise.
Wyoming's new "let's murder women for killing zygotes" move gives the "Pro-Life" game away in an even more blatant way than the usual political views of Evangelicals. It's always been obvious that this movement has little problem with waging wars or concern for the well being of non- Christian or non- white children once they enter the world. Jews and Israel are sort of okay because they'll bring on Armageddon and then go to hell anyway. Lovely people.