Dear CCI Friends and Colleagues,
Amid so much bad news about events going on in our world today, there was recently one very positive happening – the Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal’s appearance before the United Nations Security Council.
It’s not that Max had good news to deliver – quite the contrary. But the fact that he was invited to speak frankly, honestly, and publicly on subjects of grave importance to our country which our mainstream, legacy media outlets choose to ignore, is significant. We can only hope it comes to represent a shift in our national consciousness.
A video and the transcript of his talk are below. If you have already seen it, please consider taking the time for a second look. It is truly that inspiring.
We look forward to hearing your thoughts.
The Center for Citizen Initiatives
Max Blumenthal at the UN
June 29, 2023
The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal addressed the UN Security Council on the role of US military aid to Ukraine in escalating the conflict with Russia and the real motives behind Washington’s support for Kiev’s proxy war.
A full transcript of Blumenthal’s address is below.
By Max Blumenthal / THE GRAYZONE
Thank you to Wyatt Reed, Alex Rubinstein and Anya Parampil for helping me prepare this presentation. Wyatt has first hand experience with the subject as a journalist whose hotel in Donetsk was targeted with a US-made howitzer by the Ukrainian military in October 2022. He was 100 meters away when the strike hit, and was nearly killed.
My friend, the civil rights activist Randy Credico, is also here with me today. He was in Donetsk more recently, and was able to witness regular HIMARS attacks by the Ukrainian military on civilian targets.
I’m here not only as a journalist with over 20 years of experience covering politics and conflict on several continents, but as an American dragooned by my own government into funding a proxy war that has become a threat to regional and international stability at the expense of the welfare of my fellow countrymen and women.
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FMI: Max Blumenthal Addresses UN Security Council