Stay Free - Russel Brand - Here's the News: Dissecting The Truth Behind the Legacy Media’s Narrative on Ukraine

The New York Times have now admitted that there are CIA bases inside Ukraine, and have been for the last 10 years. And they ve been waging a shadow war on Russia from within Ukraine. And essentially, deep state interests have been in control of Ukraine for the past 10 years, which is old since that 2014 coup, which we ve been talking about in independent media, but they ve not been covering in legacy media. And that s before we talk about NATO s role in exacerbating these conditions, and the escalation of conflicts between Russia and Ukraine. The Russian military has begun a brutal assault on the people of Ukraine, without provocation, without justification. It s a war that could not be called an unprovoked attack, it s a provoked attack. And we ll get into looking at why the legacy media have changed their tune right now, on the fact that we can t trust them anymore, and why we should never trust them again. This is an attack on their image, and it s an attack at the point where we don t know what we can trust anymore, because we don't have to trust them any more. Remember, we're too powerful now to be controlled by the establishment, and we can do our best to make the truth our own voice. Remember, you can support our work by clicking on the link in the description and joining us where we do additional content and we do things like interview Ram Paul, and post questions to Ram Paul directly and you can participate in this conversation with us, and you get a chance to be part of the conversation. Stay free, Wanderers! Stay Free, and Enjoy the episode. - Russell Brand - . Thank you, Awakening Wanderers? , & and And We really appreciate you, our listeners are delivering a podcast every single day, and want to bring you bring you more content that elevates our consciousness together? - We re delivering a detailed breakdown of current topics that the mainstream media should be covering? , and we re bringing you more than that single day! - And that way we re delivering the truth, right here, every single single day. Stay Free with us - The Wanderers - What do you think you need to know about the truth and the rest of the truth? ? - That s a podcast delivered by the Enlightened Manifestation? - The Awakening Wanderer Podcast? - - Sam Harris,

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00:00:42.000 No, here's the fucking news! 0.99

00:00:51.000 Hello there you Awakening Wanderers! 0.99

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00:01:15.000 Slowing the truth down as much as possible so that by the time the truth arrives You've already got the funding for the wars you needed it for.

00:01:21.000 What we're talking about is the New York Times have now admitted, acknowledged that there are CIA bases inside Ukraine and have been for the last 10 years.

00:01:29.000 And they've been waging a shadow war on Russia from within Ukraine.

00:01:34.000 And essentially, deep state interests have been in control of Ukraine for the last 10 years, which is old since that 2014 coup, which we've been talking about in independent media, but they've not been talking about in legacy media.

00:01:44.000 And that's before we talk about NATO's role in exacerbating these conditions and the escalation of conflicts between Russia and Ukraine.

00:01:51.000 So why are the New York Times telling us now that there are CIA bases in Ukraine and probably biolabs and all the sorts of things that we've been discussing in these spaces for a while and were of course called conspiracy theorists for discussing?

00:02:05.000 It's evidently true.

00:02:06.000 So what's the agenda of the legacy media?

00:02:08.000 Is it as simple as ensuring that funding can continue?

00:02:12.000 And is it clear now that the legacy media are starting to acknowledge that you cannot completely suppress truth?

00:02:18.000 You can employ agencies like Logically AI.

00:02:20.000 You can have government agencies using proxies to crush dissent and censor.

00:02:24.000 But ultimately, and this is actually pretty good and exciting news, we're too powerful now to be controlled.

00:02:30.000 I don't mean we, just me and literally you.

00:02:32.000 I mean the people that occupy these spaces, all of your various resources that you use to formulate your understanding of reality so that you are not subject to the reality that Google and Google AI and the establishment would have you live with him.

00:02:44.000 Because remember, it's not that long ago that they told you pretty repetitively and with absolute determination that this was an unprovoked war.

00:02:53.000 But because of their odd, peculiar amnesia of our times, you may have forgotten that, but they did do that.

00:02:59.000 Have a look.

00:03:00.000 The Russian military has begun a brutal assault on the people of Ukraine.

00:03:04.000 without provocation, without justification.

00:03:07.000 On Russia's unprovoked and unjustified attack on Ukraine.

00:03:10.000 The prayers of the entire world are with the people of Ukraine tonight

00:03:13.000 as they suffer an unprovoked and unjustified attack.

00:03:17.000 Imagine if those announcements, just the ones you've heard already included,

00:03:22.000 We do have CIA bases within Ukraine and have been waging on a shadow war.

00:03:26.000 And as you know, NATO have been provoking Russia for years by inviting Ukraine to join NATO since 2008.

00:03:34.000 Knowing that that's a red line for Putin.

00:03:36.000 That can no longer be called an unprovoked attack.

00:03:38.000 It's a provoked attack!

00:03:39.000 It's still terrible for the people of Ukraine.

00:03:41.000 I'm aware and I pray that Ukrainian people are watching this and I pray that they're safe.

00:03:44.000 Obviously not within Ukraine, I'm assuming.

00:03:46.000 You know, elsewhere as refugees due to this terrible war that could be prevented because I bet you wouldn't be so willing to spend your tax dollars funding the perpetuation of a war that is provoked rather than unprovoked.

00:03:57.000 We'll get into looking at why the legacy media have changed their tune right now.

00:04:00.000 But for this moment, we can double down on the fact that we can't trust them.

00:04:04.000 We could never trust them.

00:04:05.000 Why would you ever trust them?

00:04:06.000 What do you think they are about?

00:04:08.000 Let's have a look.

00:04:08.000 Russia commenced its full-scale, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

00:04:13.000 President Putin has launched a horrific, unprovoked attack on their country.

00:04:18.000 That image, so full of pointlessness and lies, is essentially an artwork at this point.

00:04:23.000 These masks don't work.

00:04:25.000 We know they don't work.

00:04:26.000 This war is completely Completely illegitimate.

00:04:29.000 I shouldn't even really be Prime Minister.

00:04:30.000 I'm pretending to be all nice and I'm evoking emergency air.

00:04:33.000 I mean the whole thing.

00:04:33.000 You could literally go to Broadway in New York City and watch a show and be hit with more truth than watching the news.

00:04:41.000 We are united in condemning the Kremlin's unprovoked aggression.

00:04:46.000 And he also actually knows because that's Jens Stoltenberg from NATO who's directly been in contact with Putin and going, so what will you do if we, yeah that would be a war with it. 1.00

00:04:54.000 Fuck them. 1.00

00:04:55.000 No justification apart from the fact that he is a warmonger that wanted to build an empire. 1.00

00:05:02.000 You can't call someone a warmonger when you've done what that man is purported to have done with a piggy.

00:05:07.000 Putin is the aggressor.

00:05:11.000 Putin chose this war.

00:05:13.000 I'm really looking forward to seeing the sign language lady have to sort of retract all of that complete lie. 1.00

00:05:19.000 Biden.

00:05:21.000 Okay, let's get into some analysis of why the New York Times have chosen this moment to seed a different story.

00:05:27.000 And by my reckoning, this is comparable to the recent study on coronavirus that does indeed reveal, oh yeah, there are adverse injuries.

00:05:35.000 Oh, there are peculiar cerebral conditions.

00:05:37.000 Oh, we should have perhaps looked at whether or not we need to vaccinate this community or that community. 0.89

00:05:42.000 All stuff that could have been discussed years ago.

00:05:44.000 Curiously, Before they made all the money.

00:05:46.000 It's very interesting that the most censored events in history are the most lied about events in history.

00:05:52.000 And they're not being lied about by conspiracy theorists, they're being lied about by the establishment and their legacy media attack dogs.

00:05:58.000 Let's get into this story.

00:06:00.000 In the past two years, nearly every reference in the US media to the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine by Russia has been preceded with an obligatory word, unprovoked.

00:06:08.000 The public was told that this was a war without cause, that Ukraine was blameless and that the invasion was to be explained entirely in terms of the intentions and psychology of one man, Russian President Vladimir Putin.

00:06:19.000 Of course, that's why there was so much hysteria about the now famous Tucker Carlson interview, because then you can watch him with your own eyes and you can make your own evaluations about Russian propaganda.

00:06:28.000 Versus US propaganda and you can make decisions about your own tax dollars and your own family and your own military and your own community and your own nation, but they don't want you making any of those calculations.

00:06:38.000 However, on the weekend of the second anniversary of the war, the New York Times has published a lengthy article revealing that the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, 2022 was instigated by a systematic and widespread campaign of military intelligence aggression by the United States.

00:06:53.000 The article details long-standing Central Intelligence Agency, CIA of course, operations in Ukraine, in which the agency sponsored and built up the Ukrainian Military Intelligence Agency, HER, using it as a weapon of spying, assassinations and other provocations directed against Russia for more than a decade.

00:07:10.000 Why are the New York Times writing this piece now?

00:07:13.000 Why are the New York Times, which are a mouthpiece and an amplifier of the establishment agenda, choosing This moment to reveal that the CIA did indeed have bases and assets and engaging provocative activity inside Ukraine, which means that it can't any longer be referred to as an unprovoked attack.

00:07:28.000 A provoked attack doesn't mean that, you know, that the Kremlin is Disneyland and that Putin's a great guy or that Ukrainian people aren't being brutalized.

00:07:35.000 It just means that we have to have an adult conversation rather than propaganda.

00:07:38.000 The Times writes, Towards the end of 2021, according to a senior European official, Mr Putin was weighing whether to launch his full-scale invasion when he met with the head of one of Russia's main spy services, who told him that the CIA together with Britain's MI6 were controlling Ukraine and turning it into a beachhead for operations against Moscow.

00:07:57.000 Does that make sense to you, the idea that British and American intelligence agencies essentially had control of Ukraine?

00:08:03.000 Does that sort of Does that ring a bell of truth somewhere in your belly?

00:08:06.000 Or do you think that Zelensky is some sort of military genius cum activist campaigner who is Churchill-like leading the charge against Russia, the indefatigable yet evil enemy? 0.86

00:08:17.000 Or do you reckon that what happens is countries like the United States and the UK puppet various nations in order to either win resource or strategic global wars to fulfil an agenda where it wouldn't be popular to go to face-to-face good old-fashioned gloves-off wars with Russia and China And much like the wars that took place in Vietnam and Korea and Afghanistan and basically all of all the wars that have happened since the end of the Second World War, proxy conflicts are being fought for military-industrial complex reasons or strategic reasons and we're just given a narrative up front that stops us going, how do we benefit from this?

00:08:48.000 Who's funding this stuff?

00:08:49.000 Am I paying for this war?

00:08:50.000 Is this unwinnable?

00:08:52.000 Hey, ain't they a nuclear superpower?

00:08:54.000 So that those questions are all sort of lost in the miasma of total lies, the New York Times et al.

00:08:59.000 propagandize us with images of brutality and suffering in Ukraine, which we should of course be aware of and doing everything we can to prevent, so that they could just get on and get a bunch of funding for Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Boeing.

00:09:10.000 The Times report demonstrates that this Russian intelligence assessment was absolutely true. 0.92

00:09:15.000 For more than a decade, dating back to 2014, the CIA was building up training and arming Ukrainian intelligence and paramilitary forces that were engaging in assassinations and other provocations against pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine, against Russian forces in Crimea, and across the border into Russia itself.

00:09:32.000 Huh, so that's sort of like there's been a war going on for ages anyway and all that's really happened is they've just reframed what's happening and increased funding.

00:09:42.000 In a critical passage, the Times writes, as the partnership deepened after 2016, the Ukrainians became impatient with what they considered Washington's undue caution and began staging assassinations and other lethal operations which violated the terms the White House thought the Ukrainians had agreed to.

00:09:57.000 Infuriated, officials in Washington threatened to cut off support.

00:10:01.000 But they never did.

00:10:02.000 In other words, the Ukrainian paramilitary forces, armed, funded and led by the United States and NATO, were systematically assassinating forces supporting closer relations with Russia.

00:10:11.000 Ukraine have their own autonomy, they have their own dignity and of course they have their own sovereignty.

00:10:17.000 The fact that they have their own attitude to their relationship with Russia and the fact that they took advantage of an opportunity to escalate tensions knowing they were backed by a military superpower is hardly surprising but it It is concerning because it's led to this conflict, but I suppose ultimately the United States elite have an agenda to drain and destabilise Russia.

00:10:36.000 And don't you imagine that the increasing hostility in the South Pacific are about draining and destabilising China?

00:10:41.000 And isn't it becoming increasingly clear that the country of America is one thing, you, you people, your culture, your country, your beliefs, your values, your Christianity, your tolerance of other religions, all of that stuff is there, down here.

00:10:52.000 And then over here are this set of interests controlling To some degree or another, both political parties and ensuring that they can maintain the forever wars that are their lifeblood but sadly the death of literally every other territory in the world and a good many of your own citizens if this mentality continues for much longer.

00:11:08.000 The newspaper's account begins with the maiden coup of February 2014 when right-wing and neo-Nazi forces backed by the US and European Union overthrew a pro-Russian president and installed a pro-imperialist regime headed by the billionaire Petro Poroshenko.

00:11:25.000 In a way, there could have been an entirely different trajectory, couldn't there?

00:11:28.000 There could have been sort of an easier, if still somewhat tense, relationship between Russia and Ukraine that didn't really involve the United States, and therefore didn't require siloing of weapons that were now no longer needed in Afghanistan into this new territory.

00:11:42.000 A new paradigm was possible, and it seems like it was prevented. 0.95

00:11:45.000 Furthermore, neo-Nazi and right-wing, I mean, if our culture is defining itself by one thing, it's its opposition to, oh, these bloody right-wing fascists.

00:11:53.000 There's barely a mainstream media news program ends about some new person being called a neo-Nazi or a right-wing fascist when it comes to actual people who come out and tell you, do you know who I am?

00:12:02.000 Please, tell us.

00:12:04.000 I'm a neo-Nazi.

00:12:05.000 I'm a new one.

00:12:06.000 Now, can I have some money to go to war against other people?

00:12:08.000 Yes, you can, because we don't care about anything except our own agenda.

00:12:12.000 And yet we will talk about how much we hate Nazis when it's someone like off the news who wears a tie who's basically a Christian who doesn't think about race that much because they live in America and they're American.

00:12:22.000 This coup was the culmination of two decades of imperialist inroads into the former Soviet bloc with the expansion of NATO to include virtually all of Eastern Europe in violation of pledges made to the leaders of the former Soviet Union.

00:12:33.000 The Times is silent on this earlier history as well as on the role of the CIA in the maiden events.

00:12:39.000 Why are they silent on those important facts?

00:12:42.000 Maiden set the stage for a massive escalation of the CIA intervention as detailed in the Times Report.

00:12:47.000 The intelligence agency played a central role in fueling conflict between Ukraine and Russia, first as a low-level war against pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, then as a full-scale war after the Russian invasion in February 2022.

00:13:00.000 Three US administrations were involved, first Obama, then Trump, now Biden.

00:13:04.000 I'm sure you know by now that what I suppose that indicates is that whoever you vote for when it comes to significant issues like perpetuating forever wars you don't really have the right to vote.

00:13:15.000 That's why independent candidates like Robert Kennedy who say they will end these wars and I pray they mean by that all of these wars ought to be taken very seriously.

00:13:23.000 According to the Times' account, CIA operations included not only widespread spying, but assisting direct provocations like the assassination of pro-Russian politicians in eastern Ukraine and paramilitary attacks on Russian forces in Crimea.

00:13:35.000 The Times reported that a Ukrainian unit, the 5th Directorate, was tasked with conducting assassinations, including one in 2016.

00:13:41.000 in 2016. The Times writes, "A mysterious explosion in the Russian-occupied city of

00:13:45.000 Donetsk in eastern Ukraine ripped through an elevator carrying a senior Russian separatist

00:13:50.000 commander named Arsen Pavlov, known by his nom de guerre, Motorola." What?

00:13:54.000 After the phones?

00:13:55.000 So in the end it was television that killed him?

00:13:58.000 Yep.

00:13:59.000 Very good that, yeah.

00:14:00.000 Have you got a battery for an Ericsson?

00:14:01.000 The CIA soon learned that the assassins were members of the Fifth Directorate, the spy group that received CIA training.

00:14:08.000 Ukraine's domestic intelligence agency had even handed out commemorative patches to those involved, each one stitched with the word LIFT, the British term for an elevator.

00:14:17.000 Oh, as long as you're all having fun, guys, now in this massive, expensive, mad war that you keep lying about and simplifying so you can keep funding it and people still going, oh, it's really terrible this is happening.

00:14:26.000 Here, have a patch with Lyft, because we blew out that person, didn't we, in an elevator.

00:14:29.000 That was a lot of fun.

00:14:30.000 You guys called it a Lyft?

00:14:31.000 We've got so much in common. 0.92

00:14:32.000 Why don't we sub-bomb some new countries? 0.94

00:14:34.000 Yeah. 0.92

00:14:35.000 OK, then, old chap.

00:14:36.000 Cheers.

00:14:36.000 The report describes another such operation.

00:14:39.000 A team of Ukrainian agents set up an unmanned shoulder-fired rocket launcher in a building in the occupied territories.

00:14:44.000 It was directly across from the office of a rebel commander named Mikhail Tolstik, better known as GV.

00:14:50.000 Using a remote trigger, they fired the launcher as soon as GV entered his office, killing him, according to US and Ukrainian officials.

00:14:56.000 It's quite provocative, isn't it?

00:14:58.000 It's not unprovoked.

00:14:59.000 Anything that happens after that, again, like Putin, illegal war, terrible, children dying, buildings destroyed, tragedy, devastation, it should stop as soon as possible.

00:15:08.000 But this is going to annoy someone like Putin, all of this, isn't it?

00:15:11.000 Since the outbreak of full-scale war, the Ukrainian Hurs extended these assassination operations to the whole territory of Russia. 0.57

00:15:17.000 Again, that's pretty provocative.

00:15:19.000 Including the killing of Darya Dugina, a leading pro-Putin polemicist in the Russian media and Russian government and military officials.

00:15:26.000 I mean, seems like designed to irritate him into a bellicose state, which it eventually did with the ongoing attempt to recruit Ukrainian to NATO. 0.70

00:15:36.000 The CIA found its Ukrainian allies very useful in collecting vast amounts of data on Russian military and intelligence activity, so much that the Hurt itself could not process it and had to forward the raw data to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia for analysis.

00:15:49.000 An earlier, less detailed report on this intelligence collaboration in the Washington Post cited a Ukrainian intelligence official's estimate that 250,000 to 300,000 Russian military intelligence messages were being collected each day.

00:16:02.000 So they were spying on Russia to an extraordinary degree.

00:16:07.000 More funding, more spying, more transgression, more provocation.

00:16:11.000 So again, we just watch the news, unprovoked, unprovoked.

00:16:13.000 Were you spying on us for ages?

00:16:15.000 Yeah.

00:16:15.000 Did you blow up a geezer who was really nice about us on the news?

00:16:18.000 Yeah.

00:16:18.000 Did you get a load of badges done celebrating the brutal assassination of someone with Lyft on it?

00:16:23.000 We did do that, yes.

00:16:24.000 We all thought it was jolly good fun back at the office, didn't we?

00:16:27.000 Yes, we did.

00:16:27.000 This data was not just related to Ukraine, but concerned Russian intelligence activity all over the world.

00:16:33.000 Long before the Russian invasion, the CIA was seeking to broaden its attack on Moscow.

00:16:37.000 The Times reports, The relationship with the Ukraine in her was so successful that the CIA wanted to replicate it with other European intelligence services that shared a focus in countering Russia.

00:16:47.000 So they wanted to establish it everywhere.

00:16:48.000 A bit like, I suppose, Russia's concern that Ukraine will join NATO, then other border countries will join NATO, then they'd have secret CIA spying bases in them where they would engage in provocative activity and spying missions in an attempt It seems to me, at least, to create one global government, ultimately, controlled by the interests that currently control the United States, the biggest economy and most powerful nation on Earth.

00:17:10.000 Replicate that everywhere.

00:17:12.000 And the only things that are powerful enough to prevent that at the moment are Russia and China. 0.99

00:17:15.000 So let's crack on and destroy them. 0.55

00:17:16.000 Is that basically what's happening? 0.98

00:17:17.000 The head of Russia House...

00:17:19.000 The CIA department overseeing operations against Russia organized a secret meeting at The Hague.

00:17:23.000 There, representatives from the CIA, Britain's MI6, the HUR, the Dutch service, a critical intelligence ally, and other agencies agreed to start pooling together more of their intelligence on Russia.

00:17:33.000 Again, provocation, provocation.

00:17:35.000 The result was a secret coalition against Russia and the Ukrainians were vital members of it.

00:17:40.000 All these activities occurred well before the Russian invasion of February 2022, not to mention the 2014 coup, and placing what sounds like a puppet government that was ultimately being controlled by deep state interests.

00:17:50.000 I don't know what provocation could be, if not that.

00:17:53.000 That's some of the most provocative stuff I've ever heard.

00:17:55.000 The outbreak of full-scale war led to even more direct CIA engagement in Ukraine.

00:17:59.000 CIA agents were the only Americans not covered by the initial evacuation of US government personnel from Ukraine, removing only to Western Ukraine.

00:18:08.000 They continually briefed the Ukrainians on Russian military plans, including precise details of operations as they were unfolding.

00:18:15.000 This is, just is, and has always been, a proxy war.

00:18:19.000 Nomination of Russia's invasion of Ukraine as the start date seems like the type of narrativisation that's favourable to the interest engaged in these years of provocation after sponsoring a coup and insisting that Ukraine join NATO.

00:18:35.000 Actions that seem designed to provoke Russia.

00:18:37.000 So when Russia invaded Ukraine, killing loads of Ukrainian people, causing all that decimation and destruction and all of that criminal and illegal activity, it's because of all of this stuff.

00:18:48.000 And because, temporarily, Ukrainian interests align with those interests, they're a convenient conduit for the expression of the power of the establishment.

00:18:56.000 And when they're no longer a convenient conduit, they will be pretty mercilessly dispatched, I'd guess.

00:19:01.000 According to the Times, within weeks the CIA had returned to Kiev and the agency sent in scores of new officers to help Ukrainians.

00:19:08.000 A senior US official said of the CIA's sizable presence, are they pulling triggers?

00:19:12.000 No.

00:19:13.000 Are they helping with targeting?

00:19:14.000 Absolutely.

00:19:15.000 Okay, so aim the gun there.

00:19:17.000 Now, are you able to pull that trigger yourself?

00:19:19.000 Well, I am in the military, so... Okay, well, pull it now and aim it there.

00:19:23.000 Well done, that's good.

00:19:24.000 Any assistance we can give you in this war we're not involved with, you just ask.

00:19:28.000 Could we have some more money?

00:19:29.000 Of course you can, yeah.

00:19:30.000 Some of the CIA officers were deployed to Ukrainian bases.

00:19:33.000 They reviewed lists of potential Russian targets that the Ukrainians were preparing to strike, comparing the information the Ukrainians had with the U.S.

00:19:40.000 intelligence to ensure that it was accurate.

00:19:42.000 In other words, the CIA was helping direct the war, making the U.S. 0.67

00:19:45.000 government a full participant, a co-belligerent in a war with nuclear-armed Russia, despite Biden's claim that the United States was only aiding Ukraine from afar.

00:19:54.000 And all of this without the American people having the slightest say in the matter.

00:19:57.000 Don't you sometimes forget that.

00:19:58.000 Don't you sometimes forget that vital detail that America is men-a-bee, your country, was established on those principles. 0.66

00:20:04.000 And I really now see more clearly than ever Mike Benz, the expert in deep state activities analysis, that when people say we have to protect democracy, what they mean are a set of institutions that preserve oligarchical power rather than the electoral process by which ordinary people go, um, I think I'd like to Not being a nuclear apocalypse, because that kind of democracy isn't happening, is it?

00:20:25.000 The Times account also provides an inadvertent indictment of America's media, as it writes, the details of this intelligence partnership, many of which are being disclosed by the New York Times for the first time, have been a closely guarded secret for a decade.

00:20:39.000 It's written out like it's telling you.

00:20:40.000 Here's the inside scoop.

00:20:42.000 Taylor Swift's new beauty secrets are avocado on each of her cheeks. 0.93

00:20:47.000 It's not that, is it?

00:20:48.000 It's like, we've been using your money to provoke a nuclear superpower into a war, then we've been telling you that it was an unprovoked war. 0.52

00:20:55.000 Oh my god, no wonder she looks so young and fresh!

00:20:58.000 This is propaganda and lying, and no doubt the New York Times are only revealing this now because it's convenient to another agenda that we'll be revealing later in this brilliant article.

00:21:07.000 This admission means that these secrets were closely guarded by the Times itself.

00:21:11.000 So, all the time, hey listen, please don't tell people there have been no clinical trials on this product, just tell them that if they don't use this product, it's irresponsible and kills old people.

00:21:21.000 You got it boss!

00:21:22.000 As former editor Bill Keller once observed, freedom of the press means freedom not to publish, and that is a freedom we exercise with some regularity.

00:21:29.000 Particularly, we might add, when it comes to the crimes of US imperialism.

00:21:33.000 The Times article is not so much an exposure as a controlled release of information.

00:21:38.000 Yeah, that's what I figured.

00:21:39.000 We're starting to spot that now.

00:21:40.000 As independent media becomes more robust and yet more agile, they have to at points recognise, look, do you know what?

00:21:46.000 People can no longer be expected to believe this was an entirely unprovoked attack.

00:21:50.000 There's people going on Joe Rogan, there's Bobby Kennedy out there.

00:21:53.000 People are all the time saying, wait a minute, what about NATO?

00:21:55.000 What about that agreement between Gorbachev and Reagan?

00:21:57.000 Oh, well, let's just say whataboutism is a thing.

00:21:59.000 Yeah, we'll try that for a while.

00:22:00.000 You can't do whataboutism! 1.00

00:22:02.000 Just shut up, or you're helping Trump! 0.99

00:22:05.000 But in the end, we just found out too much. 0.99

00:22:07.000 Too much accumulative and aggregated information.

00:22:09.000 So, in order to, to a degree, keep a sliver of credibility, they're sort of acknowledging, okay, yeah, we provoked this war, and we've known about it for ages, and the Deep State's been inside Ukraine for ages.

00:22:20.000 But also, there's another agenda to do with getting Republicans to support the ongoing funding of this war, rather than withdrawing the funding.

00:22:28.000 And that's coming in a second.

00:22:30.000 The US newspaper Record reports that the two authors of the piece, Adam Entis and Michael Schwartz, conducted more than 200 interviews with current and former officials in Ukraine, elsewhere in Europe, and in the United States.

00:22:41.000 This activity could hardly have taken place without the knowledge, permission, and even encouragement of the CIA, as well as the Zelensky regime and Ukrainian intelligence.

00:22:49.000 As we've been saying for some time, the legacy media works in conjunction with the establishment and Deep State to maintain a particular In the meantime, a real journalist, Julian Assange, is awaiting the decision on his final appeal against extradition to the United States where he faces 175 years in prison or even a death sentence.

00:22:49.000 Wow.

00:23:15.000 The crime of Assange and WikiLeaks, which Assange founded, is that they did not obey the rules of bourgeois journalism and did not seek the permission of the military

00:23:24.000 intelligence authorities before publishing their revelations about US war crimes in

00:23:28.000 Iraq and Afghanistan, the efforts of the US State Department to subvert and

00:23:32.000 manipulate governments and the spying activities of the CIA and National Security

00:23:36.000 Agency.

00:23:37.000 In short, he released information that was favourable to what you might call

00:23:41.000 the electorate or the citizens or the subjects or the people of nations like yours

00:23:45.000 and of mine in order that we might more discerningly regard our establishment,

00:23:50.000 including the legacy media who lies to us.

00:23:52.000 And what happens to people like that is what's happened to Julian Assange.

00:23:55.000 But there are other examples of how the establishment behaves if you act against their interests.

00:24:00.000 The exposure of a decade of CIA operations in Ukraine, clearly at the request of the agency itself, appears to be linked to the ongoing conflict within the US ruling elite over what policy to adopt in that war, in the wake of the debacle suffered by the Zelensky regime in last year's offensive, which gained little and suffered colossal losses.

00:24:18.000 Congressional Republicans have blocked further military and financial aid to Ukraine, effectively declaring that the US must cut its losses there and concentrate on the main enemy, China.

00:24:27.000 Concentrate on peace?

00:24:29.000 No.

00:24:29.000 Different enemy.

00:24:30.000 Wow.

00:24:30.000 So this isn't being done in order to, you know, all the news that's fit to print.

00:24:35.000 This is like all the propaganda that's fit to use to manipulate ongoing forever war so that we can keep the offices open and the lights on.

00:24:42.000 Although we convey mostly darkness.

00:24:44.000 This is the most important couple of paragraphs I think in the piece.

00:24:47.000 Have a listen to this, then you will understand exactly what's going on.

00:24:49.000 You can use this to argue with people who still believe propaganda.

00:24:53.000 Check it.

00:24:53.000 By reporting the virtual control of the Ukrainian regime by the US military intelligence apparatus, the Times is seeking to pressure the Republicans to support the war funding.

00:25:03.000 It is arguing that this money is not going to a foreign government, in a foreign war, thousands of miles from US borders, but to a subcontractor of American imperialism, waging an American war, in which US personnel are deeply and directly engaged.

00:25:18.000 Although some American service personnel are deeply engaged in opposing these wars,

00:25:23.000 as you remember from the sad self-immolation and death of Aaron Bushnell recently.

00:25:28.000 In so doing, the Times has revealed its own coverage of the Ukraine war over the past two years

00:25:33.000 to have been nothing more than war propaganda aimed at using a fraudulent narrative

00:25:39.000 to dragoon the American public to support a predatory, imperialist war of aggression

00:25:44.000 aimed at subjugating and dismantling Russia.

00:25:47.000 And the only way, I suppose, that you could argue that that's a good thing is if you saw yourself somehow as a subject and ally of this establishment, or at least your own destiny tied to their ongoing success.

00:25:58.000 In order to believe that, you would have to be in constant fear that both Russia and China have their own imperialist agenda.

00:26:04.000 And if they're not stopped, thwarted, attacked, drained, and covertly and insidiously dismantled, then you and your way of life will be under threat.

00:26:12.000 We learned so much from this.

00:26:13.000 We learned that the New York Times suppresses information when it wants to, that they support the agenda of the establishment, that they totally believe in lying and omitting information in order to ensure that the establishment agenda can be met even when it's a bloody war that's killing Ukrainian people and Russian people.

00:26:32.000 So you can assume that they might employ similar policies when it comes to the wars in the Middle East and the terrible and tragic deaths that are taking place there.

00:26:40.000 What this ultimately reveals Is that the legacy media is part of the establishment.

00:26:43.000 You can't trust anything you read or hear in the legacy media.

00:26:47.000 You can assume from the get-go that what they are doing is either trying to distract you, dumb you down, shut down any possible avenues that are challenging to establishment interest, and even if that extends to claiming that current wars were unprovoked, when the truth is they were anything but unprovoked.

00:27:04.000 And that's not to mitigate, undermine, or dilute the tragedy that Ukrainian people are experiencing.

00:27:08.000 It's just to point out In the meantime if you can stay free.

00:27:39.000 No.

Stay Free - Russel Brand - March 04, 2024

Here's the News: Dissecting The Truth Behind the Legacy Media’s Narrative on Ukraine

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