Friends,

This National Interest article below “hits the nail on the head!”

Keep in mind it comes from a Republican publication that has begun posting reports that question excesses of another wing of the party and the Democratic party.

In any case, the publication is “speaking truth” in an environment where truth is hard to come by, regardless of party affiliation. Please take time to think seriously about “FEARISM.” It is the backdrop element in nearly every article written about Russia and international affairs today.

Fearism is preparing us psychologically to ignore common logic, prevents us from speaking out, makes us fear being different from the status quo … hoping somehow all will turn out okay.

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Hello CCI Friends,

Study the graphics below. What do they tell us? I wonder how much of America has an inkling of this reality. Whether they know or not, it is already changing the power balance of our world. Fortunately, none in this huge land mass are interested in fighting wars. However, they are interested in their own sovereignty and their fair share of trade across the world.

The leaders of China, India, and Russia are at this moment in the 19th Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

The eight member nations represent over one-half of the world’s population and approximately 80% of Eurasia’s landmass.  It is the primary security pillar of that enormous region.

This was sent to me from a highly knowledgeable friend and a long-time patriot of America…

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An American soldier and soldiers of the Bundeswehr, the German armed forces, walk next to an American D-Day memorial that stands on Omaha Beach in Normandy on the 75th anniversary of the Allied D-Day invasion last week. (Sean Gallup / Getty Images)

The Baltimore Sun
By Doug Mallouk
June 10, 2019

Has the current tide of hysteria against all things Russian risen to the point that European and American policymakers are now attempting an Orwellian rewrite of the history of World War II? This is no mere academic matter of misrepresenting the past but has life-and-death importance for the here and now.

The single most crucial factor in the defeat of Adolf Hitler in that great conflict was the willingness of the Allies, both East and West, to put aside enormous political and social differences for the greater good of ridding the planet of the pestilence of Nazism. The 75thanniversary of D-Day ceremony should have been a perfect opportunity to renew that spirit as well as, of course, honoring those brave souls who made the ultimate sacrifice in opening up the long-awaited Second Front against the German occupiers.

But instead, the planners of that event, with barely a peep of resistance from participating Western heads of state, chose to move in exactly the opposite direction. By making the outrageous decision to pointedly snub, to un-invite Russian President Vladimir Putin, the leader of the nation that did the most (by far) to crush the Wehrmacht, they dishonored no one so much as themselves.

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Friends,

The risks of turning our planet into an inferno increases by the day. Meanwhile leading newspapers and channels carry endless squabbles between Democrats and Republicans, 2020 candidates, anything but the “elephant in the room.”

Why are we Americans not reacting with alarm as we did in the 1980s when the first nuclear stand-off rocked our nation? Why is it that our doctors, mayors, business leaders, and religious dignitaries aren’t mobilizing to educate the American public on this devastating issue?

Are we walking toward Doomsday with placid disinterest––too immersed in consuming and petty issues to notice?

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CCI Friends,

Some of you began flooding me last week with a Daily Beast article (a publication I’ve never read). Apparently, the Beast identified three of us who purportedly gave contributions to Tulsi Gabbard for the 2020 election. Out of all of the millions who are interested in and may have contributed to this candidate, how could the Beast have come up with my name?

Then on May 22nd, Matt Taibbi, formerly an anti-Putin,”anti-Russia” writer in Moscow, came out in The Rolling Stone (another edgy outlet I’ve never followed), still with only three of us identified. Mentioning Professor Stephen Cohen is sensible, since he’s spoken truth about Russia for years and has met with Gabbard. But they must have searched hard to have chosen the other two of us. Undoubtedly, we’ve reached an all-time low in American journalism.

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