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Official Text of Speech by Vladimir Putin – September 30, 2022: Signing of treaties on accession of Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics and Zaporozhye and Kherson regions to Russia

[ What follows is the text of the speech President Vladimir Putin, as published in English at the official website of Russia’s Kremlin. The speech is reproduced here exactly as posted. ] A ceremony for signing the treaties on the accession of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Lugansk People’s Republic, the Zaporozhye Region and the Kherson Region to the Russian Federation took place…

Norman Solomon Interview: An Objective Look at U.S. Foreign Policy

Q. We hear a lot of terms and acronyms bandied about. ‘Deep State’ … ‘MIC’ … ‘FIRE sector’ … ‘ruling elite’ … ‘oligarchy’ … ‘neocons’. Who actually defines and sets America’s geopolitical priorities and determines our foreign policy? Not “officially”. Not constitutionally. But de facto. NS: Setting the boundaries of dominant…

Col. Larry Wilkerson Interview: An Objective Look at U.S. Foreign Policy

Events continue to unfold at a quickening pace. Facing an alarming escalation in tensions around the world, we asked Colonel Larry Wilkerson for his current thoughts. We focus here on the realities of the international power struggle unfolding in real time, specifically addressing the role of the U.S. in the…

Paul Craig Roberts Interview: An Objective Look at U.S. Foreign Policy

Events continue to unfold at a quickening pace. Facing an alarming escalation in tensions around the world, we asked Paul Craig Roberts for his current thoughts. We focus here on the realities of the international power struggle unfolding in real time, specifically addressing the role of the U.S. in the…

Bruce Gagnon Interview: An Objective Look at U.S. Foreign Policy

Events continue to unfold at a quickening pace. Facing an alarming escalation in tensions around the world, we asked Bruce Gagnon for his most current thoughts. We focus on the realities of the international power struggle unfolding in real time, specifically addressing the role of the U.S. in the tensions…

Joe Lombardo Interview: An Objective Look at U.S. Foreign Policy

Events continue to unfold at a quickening pace. Facing an alarming escalation in tensions around the world, we asked Joe Lombardo for his most current thoughts. We focus here on the realities of the international power struggle unfolding in real time, specifically addressing the role of the U.S. in the…

Scott Ritter: The US keeps reneging on arms control agreements, so why should Russia trust Joe Biden’s latest overtures?

This week, in an address to the Tenth Review Conference for the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons – which had convened at the United Nations Headquarters in New York – US President Joe Biden made a forceful appeal to Russia regarding the need to resume arms control talks. “Today,” Biden…

Philip Giraldi: The All-American Lie Factory

There are some things that I believe to be true about the anarchy that purports to be US foreign policy. First, and most important, I do not believe that any voter cast a ballot for Joe Biden because he or she wanted him to relentlessly pursue a needless conflict with…

Caitlin Johnstone: The Phoniest, Most PR-Intensive War Of All Time

Now, I know what you’re thinking: how is Zelensky making time for a Vogue photoshoot amidst his busy schedule of PR appearances for other major western institutions? I mean this is after all the same Volodymyr Zelensky who has been so busy making video appearances for the Grammy Awards, the Cannes Film…

Caitlin Johnstone: We’ve Been Lied To Our Whole Lives About Everything That Matters

Caitlin Johnstone in a word is brilliant. She is a smart, courageous, articulate journalist, an original and inspiring thinker, always speaking truth to power and confronting the ruling elite with their treacherous, sinister, destructive, homicidal, suicidal policies and behavior. This article [re-printed from her website] gets to the core of…