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Ukraine, US Foreign Policy ‘Sovereignty Busting’ Methods & Iraq War Crimes

Sovereignty is the state of being free from the control or power of another. US citizens are profoundly ignorant of the extent that the sovereignty of other nations are routinely violated as a matter of policy, not aberration, by US foreign policy. We explore the methods used therein to undermine said sovereignty, in service of profiteering for big business interests at the direct and inverse impoverishing of majority populations in the countries we intervene in. As a result of this profound ignorance of the means and methods of US foreign policy we are easily manipulated into believing Ukraine sovereignty was violated by Russia rather than the United States long before the 2/24/22 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

In the limited time we have available tonight BLID shares the profile in two historical examples of how we, through our toolbox of US foreign policy techniques, are masters at ‘sovereignty busting’ and how its success is intimately connected to the public relations framing of such interventions by weaponizing the news to reframe these illegal interventions as ‘democracy building’.

You will see how the Guatemala coup in 1954 revealed the complicity between how big business owns and ultimately dictates US government policy through its incestuous relationship with those that occupy and run our government. The 1973 Chilean coup lessons are unveiled and reveal how US techniques of penetrating nearly every sector of civil society by US CIA driven monies and interest subverted Chilean sovereignty.

We show how the Ukraine subversion was executed by the evolution and influences of US government agencies and agents such as USAID and the NED.

The second half of the show features guest Alan Pogue, esteemed photo documentarist and Viet Nam medic and veteran. We juxtapose his eye witnessed US targeting of Iraq water and electrical grids during his four visits to Iraq in the lead up to the US invasion, versus the accusation that Russia is targeting civilians as a matter of policy as we speak.

Don’t Be Late! Pgatos [email protected] 3/21/2022

Celebrating IWD: The Lives they Save & the Wealth they create for Others

International Women’s Day is celebrated on Bringing Light Into Darkness (BLID) as homage is paid to women for the oppression, they face in the world well into the 21st century. While wealth inequality & the wealth of colonial powers got a jump start through slavery, today wealth inequality has found surrogate sources to exploit. On IWD we recognize the oppression of women today that help line the pockets of the wealthy. Did you know that as of 2019, the world’s 2,153 billionaires, had more wealth than 4.6 billion people. Where does such wealth & wealth inequality come from?

According to the pre-pandemic January 2020 Oxfam report the bottom of the economy, women and girls, especially the disenfranchised, are putting in 12.5 billion hours every day of care work for free, and countless more hours for poverty wages. Oxfam calculated that this unpaid work labor of women, adds value to the economy of at least $10.8 trillion annually. Tending to others, cooking, cleaning, and fetching water and firewood are essential daily tasks for the well-being of societies, communities and the functioning of the economy that save untold lives.

Special guests, Austin, Texas duo Kristin Davidson and Carolyn Phillips of Hardened & Tempered join BLID to share how their professional life experiences serving the human condition in Oncology caregiving and in Law legally representing the indigent has shaped the messaging of their music. These fascinating talents join TexChromosome’s founder and KOOP Community Council (CC) member PJ Pullus on BLID to share their fascinating insights & will be featured at KOOP’s CC & Texchromosome Grateful to Get Back weekend event celebrating non-profit work done on behalf of the underserved.

Check out this show and come on out to the Peace House Farm at 709 Emerald Wood Drive Austin TX this March 18-19th reconnecting event. For more information go to https://facebook.com/peacehousefarm . TeXchromosome, Magnolia Roads & the KOOP CC are teaming with Peace House Farm to present "Grateful to Get Back”, Music & Art Festival, a 2-day, 2 -stage outdoor showcase event in South Austin on March 18th & 19th. All are welcome! KOOP 's CC will be conducting "The Gratitude Tree" Inviting local non-profits to table, network, & share information about their quarantine successes, silver linings and insights. Please join KOOP Radio & enjoy a day of reconnection, original art & music. https://facebook.com/peacehousefarm

Don’t Be Late! Pgatos [email protected] 3/14/2022

Celebrating IWD: The Lives they Save & the Wealth they create for Others

International Women’s Day is celebrated on Bringing Light Into Darkness (BLID) as homage is paid to women for the oppression, they face in the world well into the 21st century. While wealth inequality & the wealth of colonial powers got a jump start through slavery, today wealth inequality has found surrogate sources to exploit. On IWD we recognize the oppression of women today that help line the pockets of the wealthy. Did you know that as of 2019, the world’s 2,153 billionaires, had more wealth than 4.6 billion people. Where does such wealth & wealth inequality come from?

According to the pre-pandemic January 2020 Oxfam report the bottom of the economy, women and girls, especially the disenfranchised, are putting in 12.5 billion hours every day of care work for free, and countless more hours for poverty wages. Oxfam calculated that this unpaid work labor of women, adds value to the economy of at least $10.8 trillion annually. Tending to others, cooking, cleaning, and fetching water and firewood are essential daily tasks for the well-being of societies, communities and the functioning of the economy that save untold lives.

Special guests, Austin, Texas duo Kristin Davidson and Carolyn Phillips of Hardened & Tempered join BLID to share how their professional life experiences serving the human condition in Oncology caregiving and in Law legally representing the indigent has shaped the messaging of their music. These fascinating talents join TexChromosome’s founder and KOOP Community Council (CC) member PJ Pullus on BLID to share their fascinating insights & will be featured at KOOP’s CC & Texchromosome Grateful to Get Back weekend event celebrating non-profit work done on behalf of the underserved.

Check out this show and come on out to the Peace House Farm at 709 Emerald Wood Drive Austin TX this March 18-19th reconnecting event. For more information go to https://facebook.com/peacehousefarm . TeXchromosome, Magnolia Roads & the KOOP CC are teaming with Peace House Farm to present "Grateful to Get Back”, Music & Art Festival, a 2-day, 2 -stage outdoor showcase event in South Austin on March 18th & 19th. All are welcome! KOOP 's CC will be conducting "The Gratitude Tree" Inviting local non-profits to table, network, & share information about their quarantine successes, silver linings and insights. Please join KOOP Radio & enjoy a day of reconnection, original art & music. https://facebook.com/peacehousefarm

Don’t Be Late! Pgatos [email protected] 3/14/2022

Uniformly Demonizing & Hating Putin Distracts us from Important Questions of Who Provoked Who? & What Motivated Russia to Invade Ukraine?

Scott Ritter former Marine intelligence officer who served in the former Soviet Union, implementing arms control agreements, and served as a Chief Inspector for the United Nations in Iraq and famously warned Iraq had no

Ds returns to Bringing Light Into Darkness along with author and activist Dee Knight to discuss and answer the following questions.

Is NATO a purely defensive organization or an offensive one? Does NATO pose a threat to Russia? Does Russia have reasonable national security concerns based on US led NATO behavior? If so, do those concerns and the red lines Russia put forward have merit in international law? Have US authorities been aware for some time of Russia’s concerns, or have they just become apparent recently? Is Putin a rational actor? Putin has warned that a direct attack on Russia will lead to horrible consequences to any potential aggressor. What does he mean? Does that include anyone who tries to interfere in the Russian Ukraine invasion operation? What does he perceive would constitute an existential threat to Russia? What percentage of Russian conventional forces have been committed to the Ukraine invasion? What is Russia’s nuclear weapons use posture? Hungry, Poland and Romania have ‘defensive strike missile systems’ that are called Mark 41 Aegis Systems, are they interchangeable with offensive strike systems and does Russia have a valid national security concern that they are so close to their border? Are we/NATO deploying potential nuclear missile systems that can hit Moscow in five minutes flight time? What is the military situation and the kill ratio Russian Army vs Ukraine Army losses one week into the invasion as of 3.3.22?

Were there increased attacks on the predominantly Russian speaking areas of the Donbass that the Russians were responding to through their own troop movements to the border areas? Were the Russians responding to NATO and Ukraine Army provocations? Or was the Russian invasion without provocation as was uniformly reported by our MSM? Did the Organization for Security Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) paint Russia or the Ukraine government forces as the aggressor in Eastern Ukraine in the lead up to the Russian 2/24/22 invasion? Has the most significant military actions since the invasion been consistent with the Russian desire to protect the Donbass regions and other predominantly Russian speaking areas in the south and southeast. or to take all of Ukraine? Has the Russian or the US actions pointed more or less towards seeking a peaceful resolution to the conflict?

Uniformly Demonizing & Hating Putin Distracts us from Important Questions of Who Provoked Who? & What Motivated Russia to Invade Ukraine?

Scott Ritter former Marine intelligence officer who served in the former Soviet Union, implementing arms control agreements, and served as a Chief Inspector for the United Nations in Iraq and famously warned Iraq had no

Ds returns to Bringing Light Into Darkness along with author and activist Dee Knight to discuss and answer the following questions.

Is NATO a purely defensive organization or an offensive one? Does NATO pose a threat to Russia? Does Russia have reasonable national security concerns based on US led NATO behavior? If so, do those concerns and the red lines Russia put forward have merit in international law? Have US authorities been aware for some time of Russia’s concerns, or have they just become apparent recently? Is Putin a rational actor? Putin has warned that a direct attack on Russia will lead to horrible consequences to any potential aggressor. What does he mean? Does that include anyone who tries to interfere in the Russian Ukraine invasion operation? What does he perceive would constitute an existential threat to Russia? What percentage of Russian conventional forces have been committed to the Ukraine invasion? What is Russia’s nuclear weapons use posture? Hungry, Poland and Romania have ‘defensive strike missile systems’ that are called Mark 41 Aegis Systems, are they interchangeable with offensive strike systems and does Russia have a valid national security concern that they are so close to their border? Are we/NATO deploying potential nuclear missile systems that can hit Moscow in five minutes flight time? What is the military situation and the kill ratio Russian Army vs Ukraine Army losses one week into the invasion as of 3.3.22?

Were there increased attacks on the predominantly Russian speaking areas of the Donbass that the Russians were responding to through their own troop movements to the border areas? Were the Russians responding to NATO and Ukraine Army provocations? Or was the Russian invasion without provocation as was uniformly reported by our MSM? Did the Organization for Security Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) paint Russia or the Ukraine government forces as the aggressor in Eastern Ukraine in the lead up to the Russian 2/24/22 invasion? Has the most significant military actions since the invasion been consistent with the Russian desire to protect the Donbass regions and other predominantly Russian speaking areas in the south and southeast. or to take all of Ukraine? Has the Russian or the US actions pointed more or less towards seeking a peaceful resolution to the conflict?

Mbrshp Drive Show: Ukraine -US Alliance with Neo Nazis - Never Again?

The shocking truth of the untold story of how ‘Never Again’ is a lie.

We replay portions of 5/17/2021 interview with far right expert Leo Golinken. The mainstream media has minimized and basically denied the Russian claims of the neo nazi reemergence and positioning within post coup Ukraine. This show includes detail the post coup make up of some eight Neo Nazi cabinet positions that we put into power as a result of our February 2014 enabled coup in Ukraine. The show also details the WWII history of the Bandera Nazi sympathizers and how Ukraine has emerged today in the 2 st century as the hub for the world neo Nazi far right interests, all under the tutelage of US protection as we have enabled rather than confronted far right militias such as the Azov militia that were leading the assault on the eastern separatist response to the coup.

The shallow and hollow denials of these truths is also reviewed and examined

2/28/22

Mbrshp Drive Show: Ukraine -US Alliance with Neo Nazis - Never Again?

The shocking truth of the untold story of how ‘Never Again’ is a lie.

We replay portions of 5/17/2021 interview with far right expert Leo Golinken. The mainstream media has minimized and basically denied the Russian claims of the neo nazi reemergence and positioning within post coup Ukraine. This show includes detail the post coup make up of some eight Neo Nazi cabinet positions that we put into power as a result of our February 2014 enabled coup in Ukraine. The show also details the WWII history of the Bandera Nazi sympathizers and how Ukraine has emerged today in the 2 st century as the hub for the world neo Nazi far right interests, all under the tutelage of US protection as we have enabled rather than confronted far right militias such as the Azov militia that were leading the assault on the eastern separatist response to the coup.

The shallow and hollow denials of these truths is also reviewed and examined

2/28/22

Guided & Thinking Critically by MLK: We Are all Born with Same Abilities but are They Nourished or Stunted?

We are all born with the same abilities at birth. But by race, are we provided with equal opportunity to the economic and psychological environment that nurtures those potentialities or are we subject to an environment that stunts those potentialities? In celebration of Black History Month at KOOP Radio and on the 57th Anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, Special Guest Dr Algernon Austin joins Bringing Light Into Darkness to discuss How Far Are We from Martin Luther King’s Dream of Equality of Opportunity and to recognize Dr King’s prioritizing of economic justice which he indistinguishably connected to his commitment to civil rights and ending racism.

Dr Algernon Austin is the Director for Race and Economic Justice at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and he has conducted research and writing on issues of race and racial inequality for over 20 years. His primary focus has been on the intersection of race and the economy.

How are we doing at providing equality of opportunity for children by race? We discuss and explain the findings of researchers at DiversityDataKids.org, and their work around their ‘Child Opportunity Index.’ Some 50 years after MLK’s death, they document that 67% of Black children live in ‘Very Low’ or ‘Low Opportunity’ neighborhoods while 65% of white children live in ‘Very High’ or ‘High Opportunity’ neighborhoods.

Please join us as Dr Austin leads us in a discussion explicating Dr King’s concern of the connection between race and class as we discuss the central issues connected to economic justice and the growing wealth inequality in our country that is decimating the middle class.

Guided & Thinking Critically by MLK: We Are all Born with Same Abilities but are They Nourished or Stunted?

We are all born with the same abilities at birth. But by race, are we provided with equal opportunity to the economic and psychological environment that nurtures those potentialities or are we subject to an environment that stunts those potentialities? In celebration of Black History Month at KOOP Radio and on the 57th Anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, Special Guest Dr Algernon Austin joins Bringing Light Into Darkness to discuss How Far Are We from Martin Luther King’s Dream of Equality of Opportunity and to recognize Dr King’s prioritizing of economic justice which he indistinguishably connected to his commitment to civil rights and ending racism.

Dr Algernon Austin is the Director for Race and Economic Justice at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and he has conducted research and writing on issues of race and racial inequality for over 20 years. His primary focus has been on the intersection of race and the economy.

How are we doing at providing equality of opportunity for children by race? We discuss and explain the findings of researchers at DiversityDataKids.org, and their work around their ‘Child Opportunity Index.’ Some 50 years after MLK’s death, they document that 67% of Black children live in ‘Very Low’ or ‘Low Opportunity’ neighborhoods while 65% of white children live in ‘Very High’ or ‘High Opportunity’ neighborhoods.

Please join us as Dr Austin leads us in a discussion explicating Dr King’s concern of the connection between race and class as we discuss the central issues connected to economic justice and the growing wealth inequality in our country that is decimating the middle class.

Bringing Light into the Geopolitical Context of the Ukraine Crisis & Do all Nations Have the Right to National Security?

The US borders areas are secure from foreign enemy and missile attacks. Is Russia an aggressor nation or does it seek the national security it feels it is losing? Investigative journalist Mike Whitney joins Bringing Light Into Darkness to reflect on his recent article What Putin Wants, and a number of other questions as well.

What is at play in the geopolitics of US NATO actions in Ukraine and the Russian response?

We hear the stated motivations of all the countries involved but are there other more likely motivations that make more sense when we examine the geopolitics and the behavior of all parties past and present?

Is our policy to deter or provoke Russia into an attack of Ukraine?

If ‘defensive’ missile systems in Poland and Romania are interchangeable with offensive nuclear armed missile systems should Russia be concerned?

Would bringing Ukraine into NATO violate any US signed agreements?

Do all countries have an inviolable right to seek national security as long as it does not endanger the national security of other countries?

What are the parameters and signatories of the Minsk Treaty and who is promoting and who is inhibiting the actualization of the Peace plan?

What type of rules-based order prioritizes the rights of some countries over others?

What country has routinely broken treaties and broken WTO rules through sanctioning of other countries that do not follow its lead.