Articles by Scott Ritter
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Iran’s Bomb Is Real–and It’s Here
Scott Ritter | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
20 Oct 2024 – For months now, the world has focused on the danger of nuclear war between the United States and Russia. But Iran and Israel could beat them to it.
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A Farewell to Truth
Scott Ritter | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
16 Aug 2024 – The F.B.I. agents did more than seize my personal electronics when they searched my home on Aug. 7, the author writes. They stole the truth.
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The Murder of Others
Scott Ritter | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
13 Aug 2024 – The U.S. has had a moral obligation to commemorate Nagasaki, but this year the U.S. refused to mark its murder of innocent Japanese by defending its murder of innocent Palestinians.
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The US Is Caught in a Dilemma with Niger
Scott Ritter | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
15 Aug 2023 – Washington can’t sever relations with the post-coup government lest it lose the basis for its military presence in the African country.
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Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
28 Jul 2023 – The dysfunction of the Atlantic military alliance over Ukrainian membership was just the most public manifestation of the debacle that was the Vilnius summit.
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Agent Zelensky
Scott Ritter Extra - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
17 Jul 2023 – Volodymyr Zelensky’s rise to power represents a manipulation of world opinion, a social psychological engineering. An ordinary comedian who came to power because he promised a long-awaited peace, who then dragged his fellow citizens into a bloody war, a massacre. How he accumulated his vast wealth.
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NATO Summit, a Theater of the Absurd
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
10 Jul 2023 – The unfulfilled goals and objectives from last year’s meeting in Madrid loom over the Atlantic military alliance. When the membership meets in Vilnius this week, normalizing failure might best describe the most that can be accomplished.
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How a Tour of Russia Showed Me That Propaganda Perverts Reality in the Minds of US Citizens
Scott Ritter | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
‘Waging Peace’: My month-long tour of the country was an eye-opening experience, and so was the hostility that met me back home in the US.
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Syria Comes in from the Cold
Scott Ritter | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
24 Apr 2023 – After the Chinese-brokered rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, another diplomatic coup is unfolding in the Middle East. This one is orchestrated by the Russians.
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G7 vs BRICS — Off to the Races
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
22 Mar 2023 – BRICS Surpasses G7 in PPP-Adjusted Global GDP – An economist digging below the surface of an IMF report found something that should shock the Western bloc out of any false confidence in its unsurpassed global economic clout.
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Germany Risks Forgetting Its History
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
31 Jan 2023 – Two days before Holocaust Remembrance Day last week, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, under heavy pressure from Washington, announced that Germany would send 14 Leopard tanks to Ukraine breaking the self-imposed constraints on the military’s role in German foreign policy in place since the end of WWII.
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Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
24 Jan 2023 – The West’s recent approval of more military assistance for Kiev risks nuclear nightmare, fails Ukrainian expectations, and rebukes the WWII history enshrined in a prominent Soviet war memorial in Berlin. Today the White House decided that it would send about 30 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, a political cover for Germany that decided to ship 14 Leopard 2 tanks to Kiev.
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Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
12 Oct 2022 – Intent, motive and means: People serving life sentences in U.S. prisons have been convicted on weaker grounds than the circumstantial evidence against Washington for the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines.
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Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
22 Sep 2022 – “A permanent member of the UNSC invaded its neighbor, attempted to erase a sovereign state from the map,” Biden said. “Russia has shamelessly violated the core tenets of the UN Charter.” History, however, is a harsh mistress, where facts become inconvenient to perception; through the prism of historical fact, the narrative being promulgated by Biden becomes flipped.
→ read full articleGetting It Wrong on Ukraine
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
1 Sep 2022 – Bill Arkin and his employers at Newsweek seem to be content with serving as the Defense Intelligence Agency’s stenographers, putting out stories which have not, and will not, stand the test of time. Arkin is a prisoner of his sources, a problem that pervades Western reporting on the conflict in Ukraine.
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NATO Has Completed Its Post-Cold War Transformation from Europe’s Guard Dog into Anglo America’s Attack Dog
Scott Ritter | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
30 Jun 2022 – From an ostensible defensive alliance, NATO has grown into an aggressor designed to promote ‘rules’ dictated by the U.S.
→ read full articlePhase Three in Ukraine
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
30 May 2022 – No amount of western military aid has been able to prevent Russia from achieving its military objective of liberating the entire territories of both Lugansk and Donetsk as Phase Three begins.
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Russia’s ‘Plan to Invade Ukraine’ Exists Only in the US and NATO Imagination
Scott Ritter | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
5 Dec 2021 – Ukraine has accused Russia of preparing to invade, triggering a crisis that will bring Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin together via a phone call. Someday international-relations students will scratch their collective heads, wondering what, if anything, was going through the minds of those responsible for the current crisis. In any other circumstance, this sort of narrative would be fodder for dark comedy.
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Peace Is Endangered Not by Chinese Military Expansion but by a Declining US Viewing It as an Existential Threat
Scott Ritter | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2020
2 Sep 2020 – A report from the US Department of Defense paints China as a rising military power capable of challenging America for global superiority. The reality is that the report is a product of Washington’s nervous psychological state.
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Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jul 2020
5 Jul 2020 – The story of the alleged “bounty scheme” grew up in the context of top U.S. brass blaming Russia for America’s defeat in Afghanistan. Research shows that 99% of Americans never have seen the material in this article. Understandable – it can be highly contagious and carries a high morbidity rate for those with pre-existing biases.
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Step to Nuclear Doomsday: US Puts Low-Yield Nukes on Submarines to Counter Made-up Russian ‘Strategy’
Scott Ritter – RT,
10 Feb 2020
5 Feb 2020 – The US has deployed “low-yield” nuclear missiles on submarines, saying it’s to discourage nuclear conflict with Russia. The move is based on a “Russian strategy” made up in Washington and will only bring mass annihilation closer.
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Scott Ritter – Truthdig,
4 Nov 2019
30 Oct 2019 – At a time when the credibility of the United States as either an unbiased actor or reliable ally lies in tatters, Russia has emerged as the one major power whose ability to serve as an honest broker between seemingly intractable opponents is unmatched. Like it or not, in Syria, the Russians saved us from ourselves.
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The Case against America’s Brand of ‘Ethical War’
Scott Ritter – Truthdig,
8 Jan 2018
According to Lakoff, physical structures within the brain, once activated by the use of coded and morally loaded language, determine an audience’s response to stimuli. Kilner’s “five flawed assumptions” are little more than a thinly disguised effort to frame a larger discussion on the morality of America’s wars: “Peace isn’t an option,” “resisting evil is good,” “just wars are fought to protect human rights,” “mixed motives are moral,” and “immoral incidents are distinct from immoral wars” all contain coded language.
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Scott Ritter – The Huffington Post,
17 Apr 2017
The other winner in this sorry story is ISIS, which took advantage of the American strike against Al Shayrat to launch a major offensive against Syrian government forces around the city of Palmyra. The breakdown in relations between Russia and the USA means that the kind of coordination that had been taking place in the fight against ISIS is a thing of the past, a fact that can only bode well for the fighters of ISIS. Meanwhile, responsibility for the chemical event in Khan Sheikhoun is still very much in question.
→ read full articleKEEPING IRAN HONEST
Scott Ritter,
28 Sep 2009
When Obama announced that "Iran is breaking rules that all nations must follow", he is technically and legally wrong. Iran’s secret nuclear plant will spark a new round of IAEA inspections and lead to a period of even greater transparency.It was very much a moment of high drama. Barack Obama, fresh from his history-making stint […]
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Scott Ritter,
14 Mar 2009
President Obama received a lesson in international gamesmanship last week, when his secret offer to trade the deployment of a controversial missile defense system in Eastern Europe for Russian assistance in getting Iran to back down from its nuclear program was publicly rebuffed. The lesson? You don’t get something for nothing, especially when the something […]
→ read full articleWITH IRAN, OBAMA NEEDS MORE CARROT, LESS STICK
Scott Ritter,
15 Nov 2008
As Iran heads toward a presidential election in the coming year, the United States—and the Obama administration—would achieve better and longer-lasting results by seeking solutions geared toward resolving the legitimate issues at play in the region, rather than creating short-term sound bites here at home. A clean break with the neoconservative policies of the Bush […]
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