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Monday, 03 July
03:32
US military veterans are telling family members not to enlist "IndyWatch Feed World"
The nation's recruiting crisis has reportedly deepened as current and former troops discourage their loved ones from joining The US military's recruiting woes have reportedly intensified as current and former troops increasingly advise their family members against enlistment, weakening a tradition of multi-generation service that has historically been the nation's primary source of new soldiers. Veterans have soured on recommending that loved ones follow in their footsteps in the face of a tight labor market and rising concerns over low pay, debilitating injuries, suicides, and indecisive wars, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The recruiting crisis also comes amid controversy over the Pentagon's prioritization of left-wing issues, such as transgenderism and critical race theory. The sudden end of the Afghanistan war in August 2021 added to the consternation of some current or former troops, such as US Navy veteran Catalina Gasper, the WSJ said. "We were left with the...
00:42
Weapons, costing billions to US taxpayers, used by Kiev regime to bombard civilians: Max Blumenthal to the UN Security Council "IndyWatch Feed World"
Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal speaks to the
UN Security Council, detailing huge financial corruption and
unsustainable rationale for supporting Ukraine war.
On Thursday 29 July Max Blumenthal, a writer for The Grayzone as a guest of Vassily Nebenzia, the Russian Ambassador to the United Nations, gave a 14 minute speech in which he deconstructed the lies of the United States and its allies about the Ukraine conflict. He explained how billions of dollars worth of weapons supplied to the Kiev regime are being used to bombard homes, schools, kindergartens, hospitals and other infrastructure in the Donetsk region.
The following, together with the full transcript, is from Why are we tempting nuclear annihilation? Watch Max Blumenthal address UN Security Council (29/6/23) | The Grayzone
We have published some excerpts citing an independent audit of US taxpayer funding below the video and of how US political figures rake in billions to their personal fortunes from this funding. Note that Australia is also funding this corruptly financed slaughter in Cabinet decisions made without consulting Australian taxpayers and citizens.
Excerpts from Grayzone's independent audit of US tax dollar allocation to Ukraine war
"The Grayzone published an independent audit of US tax dollar allocation to Ukraine throughout fiscal years 2022 and 2023. Our investigation was led by Heather Kaiser, a former military intelligence officer and veteran of US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
We found a $4.48 million payment from the US Social Security Admin to the Kiev government. We found $4.5 billion worth of payments from the United States Agency for International Development to pay off Ukraines sovereign debt, much of which is owned by the global investment firm BlackRock. That alone amounts to $30 taken from every single US citizen at a time when 4 in 10 Americans are unable to afford a $400 emergency.
We found tax dollars earmarked for Ukraine padding the budgets of a television station in Toronto, a pro-NATO think tank in Poland, and, believe it or not, rural farmers...
Sunday, 02 July
17:30
Meanwhile in Other News Ukraine Proxy War Is an Unmitigated Disaster for U.S./NATO "IndyWatch Feed War"
Strategic Culture.org June 30, 2023
The Ukraine proxy war against Russia can be increasingly seen as a disastrous defeat for the United States and NATO. That stunning outcome should be making world headlines. Instead, the Western media spin machine is in overdrive about a failed mutiny in Russia, which on an objective scale of important events is relatively minor compared with the colossal U.S./NATO scandal.
A month-long Ukrainian counteroffensive has failed to make any dent in Russias defenses despite billions of dollars and euros in weaponry funnelled to the Kiev regime by the NATO bloc. That is a veritably astounding calamity and scandal. The completely unnecessary death and destruction are obscene akin to World War One slaughtering by callous armchair generals and politicians.
Even Western officials and the corrupt money-grubbing Kiev regime are coyly admitting that the much-vaunted counteroffensive that had been hailed for months as an expected hammer blow against Russian forces is a failure. Thousands of Ukrainian soldiers as well as NATO special forces covertly on the ground have been killed. Hundreds of tanks and infantry vehicles have been pulverized by superior Russian firepower.
It is a slaughter and orgy of war racketeering that American and European political elites, along with their media servants, have endlessly promoted.
There will be hell to pay for the American and European rulers who have staked everything on their nefarious ambition for the strategic defeat of Russia (under the specious guise of defending democracy in a Nazi regime!)
The political consequences for U.S. President Joe Biden will make his Afghanistan withdrawal debacle in 2021 look like a picnic as presidential elections loom next year.
As for the European Union, whose leaders have slavishly followed Washingtons folly in Ukraine, the repercussions of economic and political chaos will fatally undermine this already teetering entity.
Ultimately, theres no getting away from the impending seismic geopolitical crisis, no matter how much the Western elitist mis-rulers twist and squirm to avoid accountability.
The tumult from the Prigozhin affair in Russia over the last week, which saw a mutiny attempt by the chief of the Wagner private military company, came at a convenient time for the U.S. and EU. It momentarily distracted from the unmitigated disaster that Washington and its NATO allies have created in Ukraine. But as the Prigozhin charade dissipates, the focus will rightly turn to the far bigger scandal of Western-led defeat in Ukraine.
Who will answer for the countless lives lost, the millions of displaced, and the American and European economies and livelihoods thrown into disarray? All of the Western so-called leaders, as well as the shameless war-propagandizing media outlets, are a rogues gallery that will face searing scrutiny...
08:50
Taliban Achieves What US Couldnt Do with Opium "IndyWatch Feed War"
The groups ban on poppy farming has reportedly slashed Afghanistans opioid production by 80% in one year. Taliban is bad like that, and the US is always good. Dont forget that. The Taliban has reportedly accomplished in one year what Americas war on drugs failed to pull off in five decades: eliminating the vast majority of Afghanistans Continue reading Taliban Achieves What US Couldnt Do with Opium
06:17
UK: Colonel 'forced out of Army' after stating 'men cannot be women' "IndyWatch Feed World"
Kelvin Wright says he had to resign following warning from junior officer that his views could be at odds with MoD transgender policy A colonel has claimed he was forced to quit the Army after he was criticised for stating that "men cannot be women". Dr Kelvin Wright, 54, had been a Reservist commanding officer with 14 years' unblemished service, including two tours in Afghanistan, before his "honour was attacked" with a transphobia complaint and an investigation he described as "hellish". In May, he shared a post on his private Facebook account from Fair Play for Women, a campaign group that works with governing bodies to preserve women's sport for those born female, which consisted of a quote from Helen Joyce, a feminist campaigner backed by the author JK Rowling. The quote, shared without any additional comment, said: "If women cannot stand in a public place and say 'men cannot be women', then we do not have women's rights at all." This prompted a junior officer to warn him that...