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Oliver Boyd-Barrett discusses the train wreck that Trump’s Ukraine peace negotiations have become. Is the US grand strategy to leave Europe fighting Russia, bleeding both US rivals, while the US turns its attention to China…and perhaps gets dragged into an Israeli war on Iran? And if the Ukraine war won’t end quickly in the promised Trump truce, how will it end?

Oliver Boyd-Barrett is emeritus professor of Bowling Green State University, Ohio and of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (California), and has taught at other universities in several countries. His most recent book is Russiagate Revisited: Aftermath of a Hoax.

Excerpt from the interview:

The prospects for peace in my view, Kevin, don't look particularly hopeful despite Trump's efforts to engage two peace envoys to bring about a settlement of the conflict. They include General Kellogg, whose ideas are the principal ideas that inform the latest formal US peace proposal to Ukraine and to Russia to consider, and which were due to be discussed in Paris this week. But the discussion never really occurred because even before we got there, Zelensky was saying that Ukraine could never accept one of the core principal features of the Kellogg designed US peace proposal, which had to do with US recognition of Crimea as belonging to Russia. Zelenskyy categorically refused even to consider this.

What planet is Zelenskyy living on?

So again, Zelensky does seem to have shot himself in the foot, because many analysts were expecting that although Zelensky was unlikely to feel comfortable with any or very much of the Kellogg peace plan, he would nonetheless pretend to play along with it just for long enough to keep the United States in the game, sending weapons and sharing intelligence with Ukraine, and to keep the United States in NATO and in Europe. All of these things that could would quite likely have followed by Zelensky pretending to agree with the peace plan. But then, of course, with the help of the Europeans, who are as equally uncomfortable with Kellogg as Zelensky is, they would later upset the whole thing, and we'd be back to war, in the hope—the vain hope, I should say, by Zelensky and by his European sycophants—sorry, supporters—that eventually they could actually win a war with Russia, so long as Ukraine somehow contrives to find a way to find a space that's long enough for it to rearm, that is to say, to accept from Europe up to 800 billion dollars.

$800 billion seems to be a figure that's canvassed widely by people like Ursula von der Leyen and by the soon to be Chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz, as the kind of figure that they're aiming for with respect to a rearmament of Germany and or of Europe. And this would be also the source of funding for Ukraine. And the magnificent ending of this terrible narrative of the war between Ukraine and Russia in Ukraine's favor is all total and utter rubbish in my view, Kevin.

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Richie Allen began yesterday’s interview by apologizing: “I misunderstood something you said to me during the programme and I erroneously accused you because I thought that you'd advocated violence against people, Jews or otherwise, and you hadn't done anything like that.”

I thanked him and said:

I mean, to me, it seems that the real problem is not so much Islamic terrorism or anti-Semitism or anything like that. It seems to me the problem is that those who actually should be using force to defend those children from being murdered are not doing so. So here I am “advocating violence,” but, you know, it is a completely crazy situation.

And there is a sense in which Jewish institutions, certainly not individuals, but Jewish institutions and organized Jewry and organized Jewish power bear a very strong responsibility for this. Earlier today, I was preparing for this week's False Flag Weekly News broadcast, and I looked at The New York Times obituary of Pope Francis—I had sort of skimmed a bunch of mainstream obituaries of Pope Francis— and I saw that my impressions were correct. In the 8,045 word obituary of Pope Francis in the New York Times, whose lead author is an individual whose surname is Horowitz, there were exactly zero mentions of the word Gaza, zero mentions of the word genocide, and zero mentions of the word Palestine.

The obituary covers the entire life of Mr. Bergoglio going back to his days in Argentina, every other issue that he ever touched on, and completely avoids the fact that for more than a year, the Pope was on the phone to Gaza every single day, that he called for an investigation and prosecution of the apparent genocide of Gaza, that the last speech that he made was a heartfelt plea to end that genocide. All of this was completely blacked out by Western mainstream media, or somewhere between completely blacked out and mostly blacked out.

Western mainstream media is in the hands of Jews who got to that position by dominating. banking and finance in the West. They use their money to buy up the propaganda media and use it to support this ongoing, nearly century old genocide of Palestine. It is unconscionable. And Jews, organized Jewry are responsible for this genocide. And we need to be able to say that.

We'll come back to that in a minute now, the media. I'm fascinated by what you said there, but I want to ask, pick up on a couple of points there. What exactly did the Pope say about what has been happening in Gaza for the last 18 months or so? Did he specifically use the term genocide? Because I'm wondering. I'd like to give credit to the Pope for stepping up and using terms like genocide. But as far as I can understand, he's used terms like death and destruction and deplorable humanitarian situation. but I don't think there was any real criticism of the Israeli government or even its prime minister, Netanyahu, or am I wrong?

No, he actually did. He said..,here's the quote. All you have to do is Google “Pope Francis genocide.” Pope Francis said, quote, “according to some experts, what is happening in Gaza has the characteristics of a genocide. It should be carefully investigated to determine whether it fits into the technical definition formulated by jurists and international bodies.” So that was the statement that made headlines. And that was actually covered by The Guardian.

But it's... Mainly, it's been largely buried. And he made many, many other kinds of statements, all couched, of course, in caring about all people on all sides of the conflict and wanting the horrible suffering and death to end, but making it clear that he understood who's doing the vast majority of the killing and maiming.

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In the podcast posted above, retired physics teacher David Chandler of the International Center for 9/11 Justice and Scientists for 9/11 Truth discusses his recent paper "The Descent and Tilting of the North Tower Antenna.” Read the interview transcript by clicking “transcript” above the video image at my Substack.

Almost twenty years after I was witch-hunted out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison by members of the Wisconsin Republican Party due to my claims that 9/11 was a false flag and the World Trade Center was demolished with explosives, Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson has finally noticed I was right. Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth reports:

For the first time, a sitting U.S. senator has publicly endorsed the position that World Trade Center Building 7 was brought down in a controlled demolition on September 11, 2001.

In a bombshell interview, Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) told podcaster Benny Johnson that he became convinced that the government account of what brought the WTC towers down is false after talking with former congressman Curt Weldon and after watching the 9/11 documentary Calling Out Bravo-7.

Johnson was explicit, sounding a lot like I did in 2006:

He mentioned the molten steel under the towers and questioned why evidence was quickly removed from the site.

“Who ordered the removal and the destruction of all that evidence, totally contrary to any other firefighter investigating procedures? Who ordered that? Who was in charge? I think there’s some basic information. Where’s all the documentation for the NIST investigation?

“There are a host of questions I will be asking, quite honestly, now that my eyes have been opened up.”

Johnson says he’ll work with Weldon to expose the truth, which has been kept from the world.

“What actually happened on 9/11?” the senator asked. “What do we know, and what was covered up? My guess is that there is a whole lot that has been covered up in terms of what the American government knows about 9/11.”

Johnson is not the first US senator from Wisconsin whose “eyes have been opened up” to the 9/11 false flag. I brought the matter up several times between 2004 and 2006 with Johnson’s predecessor, then-Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI), whose best friend, Sen. Paul Wellstone, was murdered in a rigged plane crash in 2002 to nip his 9/11 truth efforts in the bud. Feingold pointedly did not disagree with my assertions about 9/11 and thanked me for giving him David Ray Griffin’s books. Another senator and friend of Feingold and Wellstone, Barbara Boxer (D-CA), told a senior staff member “you don’t know how right you are” in asserting that Wellstone was murdered to protect the 9/11 coverup. As I reported in May 2010:

Scholar-activist Four Arrows, co-author of American Assassination: The Strange Death of Senator Paul Wellstone, today revealed for the first time a reported conversation in which U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) confirmed that the Wellstone plane crash was an assassination, not an accident.

As Four Arrows recounted on today’s edition of The Kevin Barrett Show (beginning somewhere around the 20 minute mark): a trusted friend of his, during a conversation with Sen. Boxer, was surprised when the Senator asked “are you a friend of Four Arrows?” The friend said yes. Boxer said “tell him he doesn’t know how right he is. (The Wellstone assassination) was meant as a warning to all of us.” Sen. Boxer went on to say that if asked, she would deny the statement.

Sen. Boxer, who other sources report has confidentially admitted that she knows 9/11 was an inside job, has publicly confirmed that she does not trust the 9/11 Commission version of events, specifically the official narrative of the alleged 9/11 hijackers. The following exchange took place between Senator Boxer and myself on Wisconsin Public Radio’s program “Conversations with Kathleen Dunn” on December 5th, 2005 (click here for archive — note that the text below is a summary, not a transcript):

“Barrett: Senator Boxer, I’d like to thank you and Senator Feingold for hanging in there after 9/11…(Boxer: “You’re welcome.”) Now as you may know, Congressman Kurt Weldon has been screaming from the rooftops that we need a new 9/11 Able Danger investigation focusing on what US intelligence agencies knew about Mohammad Atta and when they knew it. Newsweek and other mainstream publications have written that Mohammad Atta was trained at the Foreign Officer’s school Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. And Daniel Hopsicker’s book Welcome to Terrorland makes it clear that Hoffman Aviation in Venice Florida, where the so-called hijackers trained, was actually a CIA drug import facility—it was a flight school in name only. Now Lt. Colonel Anthony Shaffer has blown the whistle—he says he and his colleagues in military intelligence identified Atta as a terrorist in 2000, but they were gagged and ordered to “forget they had ever heard of Atta.” Are you among the 245 senators and representatives who have signed Congressman Weldon’s letter demanding a Congressional investigation into what US authorities knew about Atta prior to the 9/11 attacks?

“Senator Boxer: That isn’t what the 9/11 Commission Report said—but that doesn’t mean it isn’t true. I haven’t seen Congressman Weldon’s letter yet, but…we need to pursue the truth about 9/11 wherever it leads. The truth should be the only priority. And we need the truth. My main focus now, though, is to end the war in Iraq.”

According to Four Arrows, Sen. Boxer and other high-visibility people know that if they cross certain lines, they and/or their families will be assassinated.

I salute Ron Johnson for having the courage to take on an issue that can get senate-level people killed. And while I don’t agree with Johnson’s positions on many issues, I am glad I knocked on doors for a day to help get him re-elected in 2022. Like Dennis Kucinich, who recently appeared on my podcast to voice his anguish about the US-backed Gaza genocide, Johnson has enough courage and integrity to break taboos and speak important truths. But can he organize a Senate investigation with the power to subpoena witnesses and compel testimony? The stakes couldn’t be higher: Against the chance of getting Wellstoned, an opportunity to make history and become a genuine national hero for the ages.

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Muslim political science professor Salim Mansur and Catholic philosophy professor Peter Simpson discuss what appears to be the ongoing demise of political liberalism.

Alexander Dugin, among others, has been celebrating the Trump regime’s cartoonish antics as proof that liberalism is on its proverbial deathbead. Is liberalism really dying? And if so, is that a good thing? Are neoconservatives, who have done so much to torpedo liberalism, even worse than liberals? Is there a better alternative? If so, might it be found in the great religious traditions?

Salim Mansur is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. He is a former columnist for the London Free Press and the Toronto Sun, and has contributed to various publications including National Review, the Middle East Forum and Frontpagemag.

Peter Simpson is a Professor Emeritus of Classics, Philosophy, and Medieval Studies at City University of New York. He is the author of “Theocracy’s Challenge” and Political Illiberalism, among other works.

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Today is Easter Sunday. Two days ago, on Good Friday, I had a very interesting conversation with Dennis Kucinich, the former Cleveland mayor and Ohio Congressman who ran for president twice, managed RFK Jr.’s presidential campaign through late 2023, and recently published an eloquent Good Friday article on “The Passion of Palestine”.

State Department whistleblower and author J. Michael Springmann and I discussed Kucinich’s article on the special Easter Weekend edition of False Flag Weekly News. You can listen to or watch FFWN above. Below is a transcript of my Easter Weekend 2025 conversation with Dennis Kucinich.

Kevin Barrett Interviews Denis Kucinich on “The Passion of Palestine”

Welcome to the Truth Jihad podcast. I'm Kevin Barrett bringing on the most important voices I can find in the world telling it like it is way outside of the mainstream. And sometimes I find people who've been inside of the mainstream who are willing to tell the truth about these issues that most people aren't. And one of them is Congressman Dennis Kucinich. He has been inside the U.S. political system as the youngest mayor of Cleveland, Ohio in its history in the late 1970s when I was an undergraduate in college, and he wasn't much older than I was. Then on to the pre and post 9/11 era, when Dennis Kucinich, along with Cynthia McKinney, was one of the handful of truth speakers in our Congress. And he's still calling it the way he sees it and is one of the most eloquent voices out of the United States. although he's still in the United States, unlike me. He just published a terrific piece called “The Cross and the Pieta, The Passion of Palestine,” an Easter message that everybody should attend to. So, hey, happy Easter, Denis Kucinich, and congratulations on continuing to do this ethically commendable work.

Kevin, thank you. Thank you for reaching out and inviting me to be on your podcast. I wrote that piece as part of my weekly Substack writings because of the sense of anguish that I feel—and as I have written, I know I'm not the only one—absolute anguish that I feel about this murderous attack on the people of Gaza. Last night... There was a bombing attack on a small tent city in Kan Yunus. And six children were burned to death, including three sisters. It's hard to even comprehend the kind of violence that is going on right now. And it's even much more difficult as an American to know that our tax dollars have paid for the bombs, the planes, the missiles, the drones, the rifles, the bullets, the intel, the AI. It's really a production that's made in America. And it's absolutely soul-shattering to consider that this is happening in this day and age, 2025, and that America is making it happen

With bipartisan support, it seems. It went on under Genocide Joe, and it's just as bad, if not worse, under Trump. What in the world has happened to the United States that allows it to do this?

Well, I think this is a metastatic colonial mindset that no longer looks at consequences. that only looks at what you can do as a result of this inflated sense of power that really is a leftover from another era, but people can't shake it. And, you know, this is why America has 800 bases around the world, that somehow it's our God-given right to control the affairs of the world. Well, it's not. The world has changed. The world is interdependent, it's interconnected. The things that happen in one place affect the whole world, and the things that are happening in Palestine right now, in Gaza, and in the West Bank, are moving people around the world.

And, you know, there's a question of just basic morality, what the poet Wordsworth called those primal human sympathies. Can't we understand that we're licensing the destruction of other human beings who have hopes and dreams and love their families, who try to eke out living under very difficult circumstances in Gaza, and yet their homes are blown up, they move to the streets, they live in tent cities, the tents are blown up. They're attacked by drones from the air. This is insane. You want to think it's some kind of a dystopian novel or a movie about a dystopian novel, but it's actually happening. And that's why I wrote about it. I'm beset by this. And I'm sure, as I said, Kevin, I'm not the only one. I know people are feeling feeling it around the world.

Yeah, here in Morocco they certainly are. It's actually kind of under the surface—it's a pressure cooker that's building up. Morocco's been a US-friendly country for a long time and maybe it'll stay that way forever, or maybe it won't. The Global South is really wondering what's gotten into the United States.

Your article compares this suffering (of Palestinians) to the suffering of Jesus. It occurs to me that the people of Palestine today are the descendants of the family of Jesus—that is the relatives of Jesus in (ancient) Palestine, those same people are still there. They may have changed religions once or twice, but obviously the European Zionists, to the extent that they would be descended from the people of Palestine, would be a lot less so than the Palestinians. When you write that the Palestinians are basically being crucified, yes, and this is Jesus' family's descendants that are being crucified. And there's a religious dimension to this, and American Christians seem to be kind of oblivious, or many of them at least. To what do you attribute this when the Christians in Palestine, of course, are screaming from the rooftops?

Well, there's always a danger when matters of state are conflated with religion. And you're right. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. He was referred to as Jesus of Nazareth. This is the Holy Land that he walked. This is where he performed his miracles. Years ago, my wife and I were in where Christ performed the miracle of changing water into wine. And we saw a building that was flattened where dozens of women and children sought refuge in the basement and they were all killed. And we were among the first to arrive after it happened. People knew I was an American congressman. And what they said is, look, we want peace. We don't hate Israel. We don't hate anyone. We want to live in peace. As they just... rifled through the debris to look for anything that remained as a token of their loved ones. By the way, from that trip I took back a a casing of the massive bomb that was dropped on it. It was of course made in the USA. I brought it back. And I have it to this day as a reminder of the inhumanity which my own nation visits on people.

I wrote this because this is Passion Week for those Christians who are observant. Today is the Last Supper, and then tomorrow is Good Friday, the Crucifixion, and Easter Sunday, the Resurrection. Well, we need to... to move our time frame focus on to what is happening in Gaza at this very moment and then bring in the historic narrative of the suffering of Jesus and how that suffering continues through the people that God has created and and placed in Gaza, in the West Bank, in Palestine.

Do you think that American Christians are misled by the aspects of their religion that include passages of Yahweh or God ordering genocide in the Old Testament?

Well, those of us who grew up in a Christian faith—I happen to be a Catholic—know that we moved from the Old Testament to the New Testament (which) was basically based on love and not on destruction, that there was a change in consciousness that Christ's appearance helped to bring: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Love your neighbor as yourself. The life of Christ is all about compassion and healing and transformation. It still is out there as a lesson for all of us, whatever our faith, or whether we have no faith.

It's a lesson...that when you reflect upon what's happening in this moment, as you and I speak, people are being killed. Why? What's this all about? The idea that there's some kind of manifest destiny at work in the Middle East for one nation, really? That a country that started this idea of manifest destiny to rule a country from coast to coast and beyond, somehow we still have this... this impulse towards control and destruction. It's not right. And that's why I wrote the piece. That's why I called it out. These things go beyond politics. The question is, who are we as human beings? Do we have a heart? Do we believe in a soul? Do we believe that... that there is some kind of divine justice if there's not justice in this world? Because if you connect with any of those things, you have to be horrified at what's going on.

So yes, I object mightily. I object as a private citizen, as I objected as a member of Congress, as a presidential candidate, saying these wars have to stop. We have to stop spending the treasure of our nation to keep piling bodies on bodies on bodies. It’s now a trillion-dollar budget item when we have people who do not have adequate housing in our own nation. People are ill-fed, ill-clothed. We're in an economic period of slump right now in America. And to ignore all that and to proceed with this punishing murderous attack on some of the poorest people on the planet who have zero ability to defend themselves. is not just indefensible, is not just a violation of every international law and treaty in existence, but it actually cries out to the high heavens. And so I'm just one voice. yelling into that void, if you will. And in the meantime, hopefully my words will cast some light on the conditions under which the people of Gaza are desperately trying to survive.

Well, your very eloquent article on the Cross and the Pieta, the Passion of Palestine, if it had been written and published by a foreign graduate student with a green card, with an American wife and an American baby, would probably put that student in danger of being deported to a gulag. What are your thoughts about this destruction of free speech for the purpose of protecting genocide perpetrators?

Congress shall make no law regarding an establishment of religion or an abridgment of the rights of a free press or free speech. I mean, that's the sentiments of our First Amendment. The attack on free speech is part of the licensing of a genocide. To tell people, well, you can't speak up. And I mean, look, the constitution and the laws of the country have been very clear that people who are green card holders are afforded the same constitutional privileges. As a matter of fact, there's been case law suggesting that people who are in this country are entitled to constitutional protections. But we've suddenly created a second class and third class citizens who if you disagree with the government's policies, they will ship you out of the country, even send you to a concentration camp in El Salvador. This is back to the days of rendition during the Iraq war. What do I think about it? I think that America has to change. that we have to set aside this impulse for empire, that we need to come home, that we need to stop subsidizing wars around the world and start looking at the practical aspirations of our own people for peaceful communities, for decent housing, for education, for healthcare, food on the table, be able to support families, a decent wage. These are all practical aspirations that people have, and have a right to have, in what professes to resemble a democracy or republic, depending on who you talk to. America must change. The world's changing around us. Look at the economic blocks that are formed with like Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and other nations coming in. You look at the defense treaties that have been signed between Russia and Iran of late, of the relationship between Iran and China, and you understand the danger of the U.S. proceeding with these threats of attacking Iran's nuclear infrastructure.

America must change. There's a madness running through our government these days and a disconnect between cause and effect, this idea that we can do anything to anybody and without consequence. No, that's not the way the world works. I believe there is such a thing as karma. What you do at some point comes back to you. And America's building up a lot of karma here in Gaza with the destruction of the Palestinian people.

Well, it's really a religious war. I won't go into the long version of it, but I've done a lot of research on how Zionism is an outgrowth of Jewish millenarian messianic thought (holding that) in the end times, there will be a Greater Israel, and the world will be ruled by God's chosen people from a rebuilt temple, and everything will be great, at least for the chosen people. Maybe not everybody else. So that's that narrative. And then, of course, we have the Christian and Muslim narratives that we expect Jesus to return and set things right. So there's a sort of a messianic end times flavor to this religious war that's led to this crucifixion of the Palestinians that you wrote about. And I wonder if the freedom of religion clause is also in danger along with the freedom of speech clause when we start revoking people's rights because they're on the wrong side of this (religious dispute). Chuck Schumer told AIPAC that “the problem with the Palestinians is that they don't accept the Torah. And the Torah gives us Jews the right to that land.” And then the millenarians say the right to everything.

I'm not a theologian and neither is Senator Schumer. But those who are familiar with Torah, and I have a passing familiarity, know that it, the Torah, doesn't license the killing that's going on right now. I mean, anybody can appropriate any religion for any purpose.

There was a song about fifty years ago called One Tinned Soldier that had lyrics something like this: “Go ahead and hurt your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend, do it in the name of heaven. You can justify it in the end.”

I subscribe to not some distant version of Christ appearing in the plain of Megiddo and we're all, or the elect, will suddenly be lifted up and everyone else has a problem. But in my religious education, we saw Christ not as some distant figure or maybe a figure that will appear in the future, but as a living being, part of our lives now, and that we're an extension of. And that this spiritual teaching—it's up to us to try to bring it to life every day. And, you know, it doesn't get much more complicated than the Ten Commandments. I mean, thou shalt not kill. There's... All of the moral teachings that all of us have had, whatever our religion, since we're growing up, everything's being set aside, not everything, but some are setting aside basic moral principles right now in a pursuit of a political agenda. One must not confuse Christianity with a more millennialist approach that's tied to the power of America. Nor should anyone confuse Judaism with this version of Zionism which is being used to legitimize slaughter.

And by the way, in Israel right now, there are enough people in Israel, both inside the government and outside the government, who are raising issues, questions about the practice of the government. And why isn't this war over? And is it being prolonged for political purposes? And is this just all a power grab aimed at keeping one person in office? There are people in Israel... who are very concerned about this path that is being pursued in their name, just as there are people in the United States, like myself, who are concerned about the path of destruction that is occurring in our name. So I write about it, Kevin, and I'll continue to write about it.

And again, during this period of Holy Week, Let's just hope that somehow that we can follow the lessons that are in our religious teachings and try to awaken the conscience of a nation to set aside violence, to fulfill that biblical injunction of... turning swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks. We must not be in a position where we're forever tied to this wheel of violence and death. So I'm going to continue to write, to speak out, and try to show not just my fellow Americans but people everywhere that there's another path, that we can take and that we must consciously choose another path if we are to survive.

Amen. So last question and hardest. Is there a way that ideals that you're espousing can effectively somehow be channeled into American politics in a way that will make a big difference or even a radical transformation? And specifically, I wrote in RFK Jr. for president in 2020. And so when he announced (for 2024) I was overjoyed. I thought yeah, maybe he could do it. He comes with his background and some of his views. And you became his campaign manager. And then I lost faith in him, probably, I assume, for part of the same reason that you did, which is that he seems to have a very strange relationship with Rabbi Smuley and genocidal Zionist ideology. And so I'm wondering, one, it's not going to be him. So who will it be? How could it happen? How soon could it happen? And number two, do you have any insight into why a man whose father was murdered by the same people who murdered his uncle—and they killed his father using a hypnotized Palestinian patsy, which tells us pretty much who did it—why does he take the view of Zionism that he does?

Well, you know, let me say this, that Israel does not have a stronger supporter than Robert F. Kennedy Jr. That's number one. And I'm not going to get into theories about assassinations, but I will tell you that his family has suffered grievously from the loss of his father, his uncle, and the tragedies that have befallen the Kennedy family across the board. He is my friend. Like we all have, we take leave to disagree with our friends. Even on matters of grave importance, that can happen.

As far as who, how do you change the American political system? Is it about just one person? I'm not sure of that. I do think, though, that the inability of the United States to meet the economic needs of its people, the fumbling that's gone on with tariffs and the scrambling in the stock market, the bond market, and the maldistribution of the wealth, even in this new round of tax cuts that'll accelerate the wealth even quicker and faster upwards. These are all things that are eroding the what we used to call the American dream. And America's ready for a restoration of that dream. Will it come soon? Well, I can tell you that even with the tremendous victory that the president had in his last election, you can go back to 1928… Herbert Hoover swept the victory in 1928, a massive Republican Congress followed. Then in 1932, everything flipped. Franklin Roosevelt came with a program of economic reform and brought in a Democratic Congress as well.

Of course, America's politics have changed. It's very difficult to establish a great difference between the two parties, especially since Supreme Court cases like Citizens United and Buckley v. Vallejo have enabled corporations to be people. People aren't even people anymore, apparently, but corporations are, and they give any kind of money they want to buy and sell politicians. But even with that, Americans, I think, still have somewhere embedded in our awareness of the potential for the forming of a more perfect union. That's part of our inheritance. Can things change? Of course they can. But we must be mindful that the abuses of power that are going on right now in our name are making it ever more difficult for America to keep its promise to our own people here at home, and to have the credibility around the world as a nation among nations instead of a nation that's trying to impose its will on other nations.

So thank you so much, Kevin. And if people are interested, they can go to Dennis Kucinich at Substack and read my columns, and you can get a free subscription. You don't have to pay. If you don't have the money, just sign up for free, and you'll receive our weekly columns that are written by myself. And my wife occasionally will write a column. She, by the way, is...brilliant expert on agroecology and has written some very important pieces that are published on the Kucinich Report. So, Kevin, thank you. And if I get to Morocco, I'll stop by and say hi.

You know, we have a guest bedroom for you here near the best beach in Africa anytime you want. Thank you, Dennis Kucinich, Congressman, and, you know, the last eloquent and honest voices in American politics. Keep up the great work and God bless you. Happy Easter.

Thank you so much. Happy Easter.

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Lawyer, philosophy teacher and author Sterling Harwood discusses three alleged aerial conspiracies: 9/11 (obviously a conspiracy), the disappearance of Malaysian airliner MH-370 (very likely a conspiracy) and the 2025 Potomac helicopter-vs.-jet crash (???)

Sterling emailed me: “I’ve been reading David Ray Griffin’s 9/11 Unmasked: An International Review Panel Investigation. …I’m more familiar with 9/11 & with MH-370 but I’m learning more and more how suspicious the DC crash was.”

I replied: “Peter Myers already solved the MH-370 mystery once. But YouTube nuked my channel and erased the video, which had accumulated 81,075 views. So here it is on Rumble.” (Sterling says “solved” is too strong a word…)

But was the 2025 Potomac air collision really that suspicious? And what really happened with those 9/11 planes? Tune in to hear Sterling’s case.

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Dennis Kucinich served 16 years in Congress (1997-2013) and ran for president twice (2004 and 2008). His Good Friday message is headined: “The Cross and the Pieta. The Passion of Palestine: In every parent cradling a lifeless child, we see the Pieta. In every bombed home, a new Golgotha. Gaza suffers an unending Good Friday.”

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Kevin, thank you for reaching out and inviting me to be on your podcast. And we, you know, I wrote that piece as part of my weekly Substack writings, because of the sense of anguish that I feel—and as I have written, I know I’m not the only one—the absolute anguish that I feel about this murderous attack on the people of Gaza.

Last night…There was a bombing attack on a small tent city in Khan Yunus. And six children were burned to death, including three sisters. It’s hard to even comprehend the kind of violence that is going on right now. And it’s even much more difficult as an American to know that our tax dollars have paid for the bombs, the planes, the missiles, the drones, the rifles, the bullets, the intel, the AI… It’s really a production that’s made in America.

And it’s absolutely soul-shattering to consider that this is happening in this day and age, 2025, and that America is making it happen.

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I've had my differences with Noam Chomsky. But when he and Ed Herman argued that Western information industries (starting with media and academia) are propaganda factories that “manufacture consent,” he was right on the money.

Today we travel to Asia for an insider’s view of the academic branch of the consent manufacturing industry. Dr. Thorsten Pattberg earned his doctorate at Peking University, has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Tokyo, and has written extensively on what he calls the “East-West Dichotomy.” In this interview he reflects on his experiences watching Western academia crank out anti-China-propaganda sausages, among other unwholesome mind-meals.

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And I became so interested in that because obviously I was part of this expert community. And how they're doing it is fascinating. We just mentioned Google and all this. They go into China from the Western perspective and they censor all the Chinese. They don't want anybody who says anything positive about China to get a platform on Google, to be preferred or featured or whatever. And the same happened to you, obviously, with Islamic topics, right?

So what they're doing is they're coming to China, they're focusing on all the negative views and they're trying to find dissidents against China, pro-Western dissidents, and they boost them like nothing. It's amazing. They get tickets to America. They get lecture tours through Europe. I mean, it’s amazing! If you're a Chinese dissident, criticize your own government and you're picked by Western powers, right? You have a good life.

I was at Peking University. They picked out this economic professor. I don't want to name his name. And they picked him as a new dissident. He was not a good professor or anything, but he was a rabble rouser. Always caused trouble. The Chinese students didn't like him. But “they” picked him and he suddenly got all the media attention in the West. And we got nothing. How they do it, this is amazing.

Money and media.

Yeah, they're attacking Chinese leader non-stop, right? And they downplay any positive China achievement. And they incite hatred, of course, between the various Chinese ethnic groups. I went to Xinjiang, everything was okay there. I came back and I heard horror stories that they're enslaving the Muslim population there. There's always a way to criticize this, but it's not at all like they do it, “prison camps and genocide against the Muslims.” It's totally ridiculous.

So Xinjiang, it doesn't look like Gaza?

No, absolutely not. In Beijing we have the biggest Muslim district in Asia outside Muslim countries, Islamic countries. So there are 200,000 Muslims there with the biggest mosque in East Asia. And many of my student colleagues were Islamic. Some of them from Xinjiang. We had a halal food. Every university in China has a halal cafeteria for food for the students. You can only dream of this situation in Europe, where it was a new idea 10 years ago. They started it in China. They always had it. They're very multicultural in China, actually. So that (“Uighur genocide” propaganda) was obviously false information about China. But it went on and on. They did it with purpose.

The Western press soldiers were in some common groups and you can hear them (saying) what do we do to rabble rouse? What's the worst that can happen? They're all agents, okay? They register as foreign agents in China. So the worst thing that can happen to them is that they're kicked out of China. But this is a good thing in their eyes. If they become super dissidents that China kicked out of China, they're going to Washington DC and they become big scholars, giving talks and lectures and winning Asian Studies awards.

Many of them did that. They went on to become very prominent scholars in the West. What did they do? Produce fake news about China.

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Troy Keith Preston discusses “Why We Must Move Left On Immigration: The Emerging Zionist Dictatorship is Weaponizing Anti-Immigration as an Instrument of Political Repression.” Troy Keith Preston is author of The Tyranny of the Politically Correct: Totalitarianism in the Postmodern Age.

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Just like we had the war on drugs, we had the war on terrorism, now we've got the war on immigration…. There's really no way to have mass deportations…that would not be logistically possible…you hear a lot of people talking about how there nare tens of millions of illegal immigrants in the United States at present. OK, 20, 30 million people. Well, to deport that many people would be a large scale military operation. And maybe we'll get a military dictatorship that actually attempts that at some point. Who knows? But there's no way that you could have mass deportations on that scale using normal law enforcement methods.

But what is happening is that when immigration has been is being used as a (build-the-police-state) operation. And we saw that with this recent incident with the deportation of alleged gang members to this maximum security gulag in a banana republic in Central America. First of all, we don't know who these people really were. They claim these were all members of some Venezuela gang. They haven't listed any names they haven't explained why exactly these people were suspected of being members of some illegal criminal organization. Instead we’re just supposed to take the government's word for it well they just rounded up a bunch of people and shipped them off to a third world gulag. Maybe they were gang members. Maybe they weren't. The evidence has come out that at least some of them were people who were just caught up in a sweep. There's some evidence some of them were not even illegal immigrants. But the evidence that they were members of this Venezuelan gang seems that's been presented as dubious.

Sort of the way the taxi drivers in Pakistan got sent to Guantanamo.

Yeah, exactly. It's an exact repeat of what happened with Guantanamo. where they were just rounding up people in Pakistan and Afghanistan and sending them off to Guantanamo. There was one fellow who was in Guantanamo for years who was mentally disabled. I mean, the guy wasn't even neurologically capable of being part of some kind of terrorist organization. He was just some dude that unfortunately got swept up. And that seems to be a repeat of what's going on right now with this war on immigration. Sipot, this facility in El Salvador, is really just a new Guantanamo.

So that's one thing that's being done with immigration. And then parallel to that, anti-immigration sentiment is being weaponized to repress critics of Zionism. If we look at these people who've been arrested and deported, we see college students who are in the United States legally on a legal student visa who have not been charged with any actual crime or even violating visa conditions other than simply opposing the policies of the government of Israel. And Marco Rubio, our Secretary of State, who's a longtime neocon, a friend of the Kristol family and other leading neocons and a longtime operative for AIPAC, Marco Rubio comes out and says, “these people were counter to the foreign policy objectives of the United States,” meaning that criticizing U.S. foreign policy as grounds for deportation. Even though in the United States we have the First Amendment, which supposedly protects freedom of political speech and which courts, legal scholars and case law has determined over and over again that these Constitutional rights apply to all people who are under the jurisdiction of the United States: It's not just native foreign citizens. It's not just natural-class citizens. If you're in the United States, the basic Constitutional rights apply to everyone, even illegal immigrants. Even illegal immigrants are supposed to be given due process if they're charged with immigration violations.

So we see that people are simply being rounded up off the street by men in masks. We saw this one fellow, he was a student who I believe was arrested in a dorm, a Columbia student. There's another young woman we saw being arrested by masked supposed federal agents or whoever they were. And these people are being sent off to Louisiana. Why are they being sent to Louisiana? In legal terms, that's what's called judge shopping. Often they will try to file a case in a jurisdiction where they think they're going to get a sympathetic judge. And that's what the State Department is doing now. They're judge shopping. They're shipping off these people that are viewed as enemies of Zionism to jurisdictions where they think they're going to get the most sympathetic immigration judges.

So why do they want to do this? Because they want to criminalize criticism of Zionism, of Israel, of Israeli influence in the United States, of the organized Zionist lobby in the United States, of Jewish power in the United States. They want to make any criticism of any of this or even pointing out its existence into a de facto criminal offense.

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First hour: On-scene reporter Brett Redmayne-Titley discusses his new review of the Oscar-winning film No Other Country—whose co-director Hamda Ballal was brutalized and kidnapped by Zionists: “After hearing the outrageous but too-well-expected attempted assassination by Israeli settlers of 2025 Oscar-winning Co-Director of No Other Land,Hamdan Ballal, my resolve was unhindered by the distribution blackout when, as promised, within 24 hours I entered the Reading Cinema to watch it in tribute.”

We also discuss the looming American intifada: Will college campuses soon explode with anti-genocide protests?

Brett Redmayne-Titley is the author of THERE! On-Scene Reporting from a World Gone Mad.: From Ukraine to Moldova, Erdogan’s Turkey to Hizbullah’s Lebanon, the US Police Killing of Evan Quik and Further Down the Rabbit Hole of Media Lies.

Watch No Other Country (aka No Other Land) free on Bitchute.

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