What's happening in Russia: Putin's proposed constitutional changes explained
Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with Moscow-based international affairs analyst Mark Sleboda about Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent decision to propose several sweeping changes to the country's constitution. Sleboda provides an in depth analysis of the surprise proposal and discusses international media's response to the news, as well as the reaction of the Russian public. Anya also asks Sleboda about his work with controversial Russian political philosopher Aleksander Dugin.
The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the recent proclamation by ultra-hawkish German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock of the Green Party that her country is "at war with Russia" and its environmentalist Energy Minister Robert Habeck's role in presiding over the resurgence of the country's coal industry. Are the war crazed German Greens the most hypocritical party on the planet?
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Large corporations and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation took over the United Nations Food Systems Summit, abandoning small farmers on behalf of Big Ag companies and endangering food sovereignty.
Video by La Vía Campesina North America: https://viacampesina.org
and Camila Escalante: https://twitter.com/PrensaCamila
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Journalist Jeremy Loffredo joins The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal to discuss deals hashed out at the recent US-Africa Summit to open African nations up to heavy mining by US corporations seeking minerals necessary for electric vehicle and smartphone batteries. Loffredo discusses the prevalence of slave labor conditions in these mines, and the demand by US corporations for weakened labor regulations in nations like Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Pushback with Aaron Maté
Max Blumenthal explains how the US-backed proxy war in Syria helped create the al-Qaeda safe haven where US forces killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi; and how Trump, despite announcing a withdrawal, is continuing the proxy war by keeping US troops to steal Syria's oil.
Guest: Max Blumenthal, Editor of The Grayzone and author of "The Management of Savagery."
More reading at The Grayzone:
"By protecting Syria’s Idlib, the US created a safe haven for Baghdadi and ISIS" by Dan Cohen
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/10/29/by-protecting-idlib-the-us-created-a-safe-haven-for-baghdadi-and-isis/
"US troops are staying in Syria to ‘keep the oil’ – and have already killed hundreds over it" by Ben Norton
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/10/23/us-troops-staying-syria-oil/
"The US has backed 21 of the 28 ‘crazy’ militias leading Turkey’s brutal invasion of northern Syria" by Max Blumenthal
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/10/16/us-backed-crazy-militias-turkeys-invasion-syria/
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Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss South Africa's case against Israel under the Genocide Convention, the US-UK strikes on Yemen, and more.
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Returning to the United Nations, veteran German diplomat and former top UN official Hans von Sponeck calls for an end to the stonewalling of accountability for the OPCW's cover-up of its April 2018 Douma chemical weapons probe.
"The manner in which this serious controversy has been handled by OPCW management... has sought to cover up any serious questioning of the OPCW through stonewalling and unacceptable smear tactics," Sponeck says. "The Security Council can not be surprised that there is increasing public pressure for UN leadership to find an unbiased resolution of this troubling controversy."
Sponeck recently spearheaded a Statement of Concern about the Douma scandal, signed by notable global voices including five former OPCW officials. In his comments, Sponeck reveals that that the OPCW has refused to accept the letter, "return[ing] to the sender without comments – an unfortunate act of humiliation."
Sponeck is the former UN Assistant Secretary-General and UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq. He spent 32 years as a UN official, from 1958 to 2000, when he resigned in protest of the UN sanctions on Iraq.
Video: Hans von Sponeck, former UN Assistant Secretary-General and UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq. Speaking at an Arria-Formula Meeting of the United Nations Security Council, April 16 2021.
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Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, overthrown in a US-backed coup, said WikiLeaks publisher "Julian Assange is a symbol of freedom in the world today, tomorrow, and forever."
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The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal is joined by Katie Halper to watch and analyze Biden's American exceptionalist address painting "Maga Republicans" as an existential threat to the "soul of America."
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Pushback with Aaron Maté
The US assassination of Qasem Soleimani, a top Iranian military commander, is the culmination of three years of Trump administration war-mongering against Iran. Jamal Abdi, president of the National Iranian American Council, discusses Trump's radical neocon agenda in Iran and how Democratic votes for new sanctions against Tehran helped lay the groundwork for the current crisis.
Guest: Jamal Abdi, president of the National Iranian American Council.
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