Reality with Bruce de Torres
Reality with Bruce de Torres 27 Martin Sieff
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Reality with Bruce de Torres 27 Martin Sieff
Martin Sieff is a senior fellow at the American University in Moscow (AUM) and, formerly, Adjunct Professor of Transnational Threats at Bay Atlantic University; Chief Foreign Correspondent for The Washington Times; Managing Editor, International Affairs, for United Press International, and UPI's chief news analyst for 10 years.
He has written nine books, including CYCLES OF CHANGE, a political history of the United States from Thomas Jefferson to Barack Obama. He has received three Pulitzer Prize nominations for International Reporting, and his Rising Tide Foundation seminars can be seen on YouTube (channel: Rise Tide Foundation).
We discuss:
The national security state we’ve been since World War II (with JFK’s presidency a brief shining moment of sanity and relief).
America’s provocation of Russia from the 1990s to today: economic subversion, NATO expansion, the 2014 coup in Ukraine, and our commitment to confrontation, including the chance of nuclear war.
After WW2 we had a tiger by the tail. The Soviet Union, whom we empowered to defeat Nazi Germany, was deemed a threat by factions who convinced President Truman to create a national security state.
President Eisenhower put a psychopath in charge of the CIA in 1953: Allen Dulles. The agency killed “possibly thousands” of people who got in their way, including perhaps well-known and respected reporter Dorothy Kilgallen in 1965 because she was questioning the Warren Commission-LBJ-Allen Dulles-J. Edgar Hoover version of who killed JFK.
The traumas of race riots and the Vietnam War in the 1960s ended the illusion that the US could do no wrong.
LBJ did enormous evil and enormous good as well. The Civil Rights Act. Medicare and Medicaid. But he sucked us into Vietnam and was deeply implicated in JFK’s assassination and was corrupt as hell in Texas politics. Nothing new. We’re not allowed to debate the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Martin, an American, wrote for a foreign publication that questioned the 2020 results. He and other highly credentialed American writers were visited by the FBI and told that, under the Magnitsky Act, if they wrote again for those publications, they would be fined $100,000.
The Magnitsky Act was meant to prosecute organized crime or others threatening national security. (It “authorizes the U.S. government to sanction those foreign government officials worldwide that are human rights offenders, freeze their assets, and ban them from entering the U.S.” -Wikipedia) But the Administration is abusing it to silence whomever it chooses.
The Biden Administration is dangerously outraging Russia. We might have war before the 2024 election. Our provocation of Russia began with Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter’s National Security Advisor, who shaped the foreign policy of a number of presidents. He hated communism like poison and was a genocidal, hate-filled, racist Polish aristocrat against Russia.
We must avoid the prime danger: thermo-nuclear war.
REALITY WITH BRUCE DE TORRES
Livestreaming on Facebook.com/brucedetorres2.
See schedule at brucedetorres.com.
NOW ON RUMBLE AND THE USUAL PODCAST PLATFORMS
Reality with Bruce de Torres 27 Martin Sieff
Martin Sieff is a senior fellow at the American University in Moscow (AUM) and, formerly, Adjunct Professor of Transnational Threats at Bay Atlantic University; Chief Foreign Correspondent for The Washington Times; Managing Editor, International Affairs, for United Press International, and UPI's chief news analyst for 10 years.
He has written nine books, including CYCLES OF CHANGE, a political history of the United States from Thomas Jefferson to Barack Obama. He has received three Pulitzer Prize nominations for International Reporting, and his Rising Tide Foundation seminars can be seen on YouTube (channel: Rise Tide Foundation).
We discuss:
The national security state we’ve been since World War II (with JFK’s presidency a brief shining moment of sanity and relief).
America’s provocation of Russia from the 1990s to today: economic subversion, NATO expansion, the 2014 coup in Ukraine, and our commitment to confrontation, including the chance of nuclear war.
After WW2 we had a tiger by the tail. The Soviet Union, whom we empowered to defeat Nazi Germany, was deemed a threat by factions who convinced President Truman to create a national security state.
President Eisenhower put a psychopath in charge of the CIA in 1953: Allen Dulles. The agency killed “possibly thousands” of people who got in their way, including perhaps well-known and respected reporter Dorothy Kilgallen in 1965 because she was questioning the Warren Commission-LBJ-Allen Dulles-J. Edgar Hoover version of who killed JFK.
The traumas of race riots and the Vietnam War in the 1960s ended the illusion that the US could do no wrong.
LBJ did enormous evil and enormous good as well. The Civil Rights Act. Medicare and Medicaid. But he sucked us into Vietnam and was deeply implicated in JFK’s assassination and was corrupt as hell in Texas politics. Nothing new. We’re not allowed to debate the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Martin, an American, wrote for a foreign publication that questioned the 2020 results. He and other highly credentialed American writers were visited by the FBI and told that, under the Magnitsky Act, if they wrote again for those publications, they would be fined $100,000.
The Magnitsky Act was meant to prosecute organized crime or others threatening national security. (It “authorizes the U.S. government to sanction those foreign government officials worldwide that are human rights offenders, freeze their assets, and ban them from entering the U.S.” -Wikipedia) But the Administration is abusing it to silence whomever it chooses.
The Biden Administration is dangerously outraging Russia. We might have war before the 2024 election. Our provocation of Russia began with Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter’s National Security Advisor, who shaped the foreign policy of a number of presidents. He hated communism like poison and was a genocidal, hate-filled, racist Polish aristocrat against Russia.
We must avoid the prime danger: thermo-nuclear war.
REALITY WITH BRUCE DE TORRES
Livestreaming on Facebook.com/brucedetorres2.
See schedule at brucedetorres.com.