Michael Boldin covers the latest threats, sanctions and lies when it comes to Venezuela, China, Yemen along with Obama's drone wars. Plus a reminder from George Washington on foreign policy.
In this episode, Boldin talks about the US empire ramping things up against 3 countries: Yemen, Iran and Russia. Plus it’s Friday, so ignorant comments of the week!
"The whole thing shows you that wars can be caused by groups that you and I are not aware exist and that strings are being pulled by people behind the scenes. And wars can be avoided, I think, by honesty and transparency."
"Over time, attaining financial wealth became an absolute prerequisite for wielding geopolitical power and influence. The old military variety appears almost feeble standing next to the contemporary Financial Arms Race."
"Some on the left believe we need a military coup to save our democracy."
"Roughly 15,000 Boers are ready to leave their country and begin a new life in Russia."
"It seems that we may need to be reminded every generation or so of the perils of foreign military intervention and the simple truth asserted by General Graves."
"More than 50 years later, President Trump is getting excoriated for doing what Kennedy did — rejecting the admonitions of the U.S. deep state and reaching out to Russia in a spirit of peace and friendship."
"It was the single greatest blow to the War Party since it turned Imperial Washington into a colossal menace bent on global hegemony when the Soviet Union slithered off the pages of history in 1991."
"The FBI recommended that all owners of consumer-grade routers, switches, and network-attached storage devices reboot their devices. While the advice likely disrupted VPNFilter’s advance and bought infected users time, it may also have created the mistaken belief that rebooting alone was enough to fully remove VPNFilter from infected devices."