by
Phillip
Todd
We conclude our interview with guest is Jack Hanick who recently completed the development of a state of the art
television network in Moscow, built without government funding. Its
evening news program broadcasts to 65 million homes in Russia across
eight time zones. Previously Jack was a TV director, where he won the
New York Emmy in 1994 for best director. His biography of Desmond
Tutu also won a New York Emmy. He is considered an American expert on
Russia. (Additional comments by John Pilger.)
PT
– You spoke of the media and it's willingness to carry story after
story of so-called Russian aggression towards it neighbors - are not
the elitists, who own the western media, deliberately pushing the
world towards war?
JH -
We are moving closer and closer to a real war. Republicans and
Democrats talk tough on foreign policy towards Russia. When all
politicians are in agreement, there is no discussion of alternative
approaches. Any alternative to complete isolation of Russia and a
NATO build up on Russia’s borders is a
sign
of weakness. Any alternative to this military build up is criticized
as “appeasement,” likened to the failed foreign policy of British
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain toward Nazi Germany between 1937
and 1938.
JP
- The most effective propaganda is found not in the Sun or on
Fox News - but beneath a liberal halo. When the New York Times
published claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction,
its fake evidence was believed, because it wasn't Fox News; it was
the New York Times.
The
same is true of the Washington Post and the Guardian, both of which
have played a critical role in conditioning their readers to accept a
new and dangerous cold war. All three liberal newspapers have
misrepresented events in Ukraine as a malign act by Russia - when, in
fact, the fascist led coup in Ukraine was the work of the United
States, aided by Germany and NATO.
PT
– Sanctions are continuously being applied to Russia to bring down
the government. Do they think intimidation and isolation will
accomplish this without another European war?
JH -
A war with Russia cannot be won economically. Russia has oil and an
abundance of natural resources. It occupies the largest landmass in
the world. It is growing in its ability to replace goods restricted
from the west. The US flexing its military muscle will not solve the
problems.
JP
- This inversion of reality is so pervasive that Washington's
military encirclement and intimidation of Russia is not contentious.
It's not even news, but suppressed behind a smear and scare campaign
of the kind I grew up with during the first cold war.
Once
again, the evil empire is coming to get us, led by another Stalin or,
perversely, a new Hitler. Name your demon and let rip.
JH - Sanctions
are driving Russia away from the West and toward China. Chinese
tourism in Russia is at record levels.
PT
–Is a European war inevitable?
JH -
This time the war will not be “over there.” The Russian bombers
flying off the California coast on July 4 clearly demonstrate this
point. Russians understand that the US has not fought a war on its
soil since the civil war. If new hostilities start, Russia will not
let the war be a proxy war where the US supplies weapons and advisers
and lets others do the “boots on the ground” combat. Russia will
take the war to the US. Imagine if Canada suddenly aligned itself
with Russia or China. The US would surely see that as a threat on its
border and act decisively.
JP
- "If you wonder," wrote Robert Parry, "how the
world could stumble into WWIII – much
as it did into WWI a century ago - all you need to do is look at the
madness that has enveloped virtually the entire US political/media
structure over Ukraine where a false narrative of white hats
versus black hats took hold early and has proved impervious to facts
or reason."
PT
– The truth is that continuing along this path could truly become a
world war in all hemispheres of the globe.
JH
- War is not the answer but too often in history becomes the only
solution when two sides refuse to see the other’s point of
view. Understanding the Russian side and taking their arguments
seriously can help prevent serious consequences.
PT
– That would be the case for most rational people but it seems that
the political elite have dollar signs in their eyes without regard
for the consiquences to humanity. Thank you both for your insight
into the continuing build up of these winds of war.
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