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Video: Journalist Hammers State Department Spokesman Over Russian Lies

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In a testy exchange that’s garnered a great deal of attention, State Department spokesman Ned Price was confronted by reporter Matt Lee over Price’s repeated repetition of allegations of planned misdeeds on the part of Vladimir Putin’s Russia in possible preparation for an invasion of Ukraine but without providing any evidence to back up his dubious claims. Jimmy and comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the unusual pushback from a reporter against the official narrative about Russia and Ukraine.

Comment: Above is a Sterling Example of CIA lies. Just a bunch of chester the molestors who rape children in their secret Mind Control evil projects. Now these criminals want to get us into WW3 with Russia and China. Dis-Gusting pieces of shit.

Ron Wieczorek

Fte7S0b1rpo5uacrty 3n act4o r5l:2f5 2AM6  · UNITED STATESU.S. Motion To Stop Ukraine Escalation to WarFeb. 2 (EIRNS)—More than 100 U.S. national and regional organizations released a joint statement yesterday urging U.S. President Biden “to end the U.S. role in escalating the extremely dangerous tensions with Russia over Ukraine,” calling it “gravely irresponsible for the President to participate in brinkmanship between two nations, which possess 90% of the world’s nuclear weapons.”Today a high-level virtual news conference including former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Jack F. Matlock, Jr.; Katrina vanden Heuvel, President of the American Committee for U.S.-Russia Accord; and Martin Fleck, representing Physicians for Social Responsibility, took place at noon and lasting for two hours.Organizations which signed the statement included Physicians for Social Responsibility, RootsAction.org, Code Pink, Just Foreign Policy, Peace Action, Veterans for Peace, Our Revolution, MADRE, Progressive Democrats of America, American Committee for U.S.-Russia Accord, Pax Christi, USA, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Center for Citizen Initiatives, and the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security. Code Pink and RootsAction.org coordinated outreach for the statement.The statement opens: “As organizations representing millions of people in the United States, we call upon President Biden to end the U.S. role in escalating the extremely dangerous tensions with Russia over Ukraine. It is gravely irresponsible for the president to participate in brinkmanship between two nations that possess 90% of the world’s nuclear weapons.”The statement concludes: “While both sides are to blame for causing this crisis, its roots are entangled in the failure of the U.S. government to live up to its promise made in 1990 by then-Secretary of State James Baker that NATO would expand not ‘one inch to the East.’ Since 1999, NATO has expanded to include numerous countries, including some that border Russia. Rather than dismissing out of hand the Russian government’s current insistence on a written guarantee that Ukraine will not become part of NATO, the U.S. government should agree to a long-term moratorium on any NATO expansion.” (https://www.codepink.org/over_100_us_orgs_call_for_de…)An online forum this morning held by the American Committee on East-West Accord (ACURA) took place which featured the last U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Jack F. Matlock, Jr. (1987-1991), moderated by ACURA president Katrina vanden Heuvel, with comments from representatives of Physicians for Social Responsibility. Medea Benjamin of Code Pink announced rallies and protests around the U.S. on Saturday, Feb. 3. [agg]Former CIA Staffer Paul Pillar: The U.S. Must Work With The Countries in the Region to Save AfghanistanFeb. 2 (EIRNS)—Paul Pillar, who served in the intelligence community for 28 years, including as CIA chief of analytic units at the CIA covering portions of the Near East, the Persian Gulf, and South Asia, and in his last position as National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia, published an article on Jan. 28 in the National Interest titled, “Bad Guys Can Do Good in Afghanistan.” He describes how the U.S. and Iran worked closely together to root out the terrorists and drug lords in Afghanistan after 9/11, but that “ended when George W. Bush, as part of rhetorical preparation for a war in Iraq, shortly afterward declared an ‘axis of evil’ and the total shunning of Iran became U.S. policy.”“The United States needs to look beyond such sentiments and realize that greater involvement and influence by an adversary in such a place [as Afghanistan] is not necessarily bad and can advance objectives that the United States shares.“The regime most directly involved is, of course, the one that now rules Afghanistan itself—namely, the Taliban. There still are good reasons to loathe many of the Taliban’s policies and practices…. But like it or not, the Taliban won the Afghan civil war. For the foreseeable future, achievement of anything approaching peace and stability in Afghanistan will mean the Taliban consolidating their victory and overcoming any remaining pockets of resistance.” He says the Taliban does not want terrorists to set up camp again, but “the circumstance that would most incline the Taliban to reconstruct such an alliance would be renewed civil warfare in which the Taliban once again felt the need for such assistance.”He then reviews the roles of Pakistan, China, the Central Asian countries, that all want peace and stability in Afghanistan, concluding: “U.S. policy post-withdrawal can and should demonstrate how U.S. engagement can be substantial without being military. Cooperatively working on Afghan matters with the concerned neighbors, along the lines of the U.S.-Iranian cooperation two decades ago, where interests run parallel will serve the interests of all the governments involved as well as of the beleaguered Afghan people.” (https://nationalinterest.org/…/bad-guys-can-do-good…) [mob]Ray McGovern Suggests CIA Chief Burns Advise Biden of Today’s Strategic RealityFeb. 2 (EIRNS)—Writing in Antiwar.com yesterday (“China Gives Oomph to Russia’s ‘Nyet’ on NATO”), former CIA Russian analyst and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) Ray McGovern suggests CIA Director William Burns step forward as one of “the adults in the room” with the “moxie” to inform President Joe Biden of strategic reality: that Ukraine joining NATO has long been a red line for Russia. Whereas Russia was once unable to enforce its strategic concerns, today Russia is not only stronger, but has a strategic relationship with China that “exceeds any alliance in its closeness and effectiveness,” as President Xi Jinping describes it.McGovern pointed to the cable which then-Ambassador to Russia William Burns sent to Washington on Feb. 1, 2008, titled: “Nyet Means Nyet: Russia’s NATO Enlargement Redlines,” in which Burns reported Moscow’s warning way back then that NATO membership for Ukraine would cross its red line. The courage Burns displayed then to “tell it like it is” to superiors such as Cheney/Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, is needed today to inform Biden that Russia is entitled to its own “strategic policy considerations,” and it behooves the U.S. to respond with respect and speed to Putin’s proposals. To help Biden get the message, McGovern suggests that Burns, for one, ensure that Biden watch the one-minute video of the exceedingly warm public start to the Putin-Xi summit on Dec. 15, just as —“no coincidence,” McGovern notes—Russia delivered its proposed draft treaties to Washington and Brussels. (https://original.antiwar.com/…/china-gives-oomph-to…/) [ggs]Tucker Carlson Accused of Disrupting Republican and Congressional Unity for War on RussiaFeb. 2 (EIRNS)—As he did during the Russiagate psychosis, Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson, by stating some simple truths (actually half-truths), this time about the insanity of the current Anglo-American mobilization for war with Russia, has earned the wrath of the Congressional leadership of both parties.Carlson stated the simple fact: “No rational person could defend a war with Russia over Ukraine. Nobody thinks a war like that would make America safer or stronger or more prosperous.” He has repeated the warning every night for weeks, inviting others (like Tulsi Gabbard) on to his show to fill out the story. He called Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) “ignorant” and Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID) “a moron masquerading as a senator” and a “pompous neocon buffoon.”Of course, Carlson foolishly claims that China is the beneficiary of the war plans, and he rants against China in nearly every breath. He also leaves out the well-known fact that the Ukraine government is anything but the “free and democratic” state the war party claims, or the reality of the Nazi gangs of Stepan Bandera supporters who could spark such a war.Politico on Feb. 1 ran a puff piece for the war party titled: “GOP to Tucker Carlson: We’re the Decision-Makers on Ukraine, Not You.” They quote leading Republicans denouncing Carlson’s view and repeating the mantra about the Russia threat. “I don’t agree with those views,” Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said when asked about Carlson’s monologues, writes Politico. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), a member of the bipartisan group crafting legislation to sanction Moscow and support Kiev, dismissed Carlson’s criticisms: “He’s obviously not in a position of being responsible for those decisions. And we are. Putin is not the only one watching us in Ukraine. President Xi is watching us. And our allies around the world—obviously after Afghanistan—are doubting our credibility, our reliability.”Democrats who are just as war-crazy as the Republicans are also worried. Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ), a former top State Department official who just returned from a bipartisan delegation in Kiev to heat up war fever, told Politico: “At least some share of the Republican Party’s base is now at the very least confused about what’s happening between Russia and Ukraine, and at worst putting pressure on Republican elected officials to, in effect, take Russia’s side.” He said his office was receiving calls from people who “say they watch Tucker Carlson and are upset that we’re not siding with Russia in its threats to invade Ukraine, and who want me to support Russia’s ‘reasonable’ positions.”Politico quotes neocon Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID) openly admitting that such a war would destroy the U.S. economy: “The people who are saying that we shouldn’t be engaged in this at all are going to be singing a very different tune when they go to fill up their car with gas, if indeed there is an invasion by Russia.” Risch, of course, blames it on Putin, not on the sanctions which he and others are preparing, aimed at destroying the Russian economy. “This is going to have a devastating effect on the economy around the world when it comes to the price of gasoline.” Risch added, rather humorously if not so psychotic: “We side, always, with countries that are democracies,” in particular nations like Ukraine that (as they like to put it) want to align more closely with the West.Politico adds its own foolish two cents: “Many officials warn that if Putin takes Ukraine, he won’t stop there; he’ll continue to push into Eastern Europe and threaten NATO allies, whom the U.S. and other alliance members are treaty-bound to defend from a foreign attack.” [mob]Washington Open to New Round of Putin-Biden TalksFeb. 2 (EIRNS)—President Joe Biden is open to a new round of talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin according to comments by U.S. Department of State spokesman Ned Price at his daily press briefing on Feb. 1.Price, responding to a question about whether the Presidents would communicate, once Putin has conveyed his response to the U.S. response to Russia’s treaty proposals, said: “It really depends on where we are. You’ve heard repeatedly from President Biden, I believe most recently during his press conference last month now, that he and we remain open and amenable to another leader-level engagement between President Biden and President Putin. They’ve had an opportunity to speak on the phone. They have seen each other on screen within recent weeks. If we believe we’re at a moment where another leader-level engagement has the potential to move the ball forward when it comes to this diplomacy, that is certainly something we are open to and amenable to. But it will just depend on where we are after this next step.” (https://www.state.gov/…/department-press-briefing…/) [dea]