We discuss Dan Kovalik's new book, "The Plot to Scapegoat Russia: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Russia"; the cold war; the allegations against Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation; the Yeltsin years in Russia; Nicaragua and Colombia; Afghanistan; Yemen; US imperialism and endless war.

In this “big picture” interview, Michel Chossudovsky concentrates on the broader global crisis including North and South Korea; the 2001 Nuclear Posture Review overhauling US nuclear doctrine, tactical nukes reclassified as conventional; horrors of the Korean War; Korean reunification; sanctions and naval blockade of Qatar; Qatari and Iranian jointly owned natural gas fields the largest worldwide; pipelines; Turkey in Qatar; major realignments of the Middle East chessboard; NATO member Turkey purchases Russian S-300 Defense System; re-drawn map of Syria and “Free Kurdistan”; crosscutting coalitions; Russia; China; India and Pakistan join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization signaling a major geopolitical shift; destabilization of Venezuela; Venezuela has largest oil reserves worldwide; breakdown in relations between Cuba and Venezuela; the same foundations funding the opposition in Venezuela are funding intellectuals in Cuba; effects of dual currency systems.

Angela Merkel’s East German background; repeal of the Dublin refugee procedures; migration waves a planned destabilization effort; capacity swamping, manipulative political agitation; Mercy Corps and Nethope; Cisco Systems; cell phones; mobile phone charging stations on migration routes; George Soros’ Open Society; Central University of Budapest; 300,000 immigrants disappear upon entry into Germany; free speech under attack in Germany; media not reporting on migrants; police state measures in Europe; attack at German Christmas market; netbot tweets directing migration to Germany and Austria;

Role of NGOs; W2eu.info-Welcome To Europe; Sea Watch; humanitarian NGOs in war zones; UN’s Responsibility To Protect (R2P) of 2005; strategy of tension; Kelly Greenhill’s book, Weapons of Mass Migration; Antifa and the Black Block; thousands of SIM cards distributed by UN Refugee Agency; migrant waves now aimed at Italy and Spain; destabilization of Europe a US geopolitical strategy; weakening of the nation state; fake passports; American corporate pillage; Islamic attacks across Europe a pattern of known Western-manufactured terrorism; maintaining a split between Europe and Russia. 

Presentations from the Left-Out Forum panel "False Flags: Staged, Scripted Mass Psy-Op Events" in New York City June 4th, 2017.  This panel was one of four that was banned from the Left Forum.  Dave Lindorff’s analysis of the Tsarnaev brothers’ backpacks; the pressure cooker “bomb”; the backpacks of Craft International mercenaries at the Boston Marathon; martial law in Boston; GW Bush cheats during the 2004 presidential debate; Ole Dammegard’s “When Terror Struck Norway” analysis of the July 22, 2011 Oslo bombing and mass shooting of teenagers; what doesn’t happen during a false flag event; massive failures of equipment and personnel; failure to respond and stand-down; implosion rather than explosion; multiple shooters; use of crisis actors; crisis-solutions.com; NC-4; Norway’s intent to withdraw from the NATO bombing campaign of Libya; Norway’s support of Palestinians and boycott of Israel; production of media terror events by mobile terror group in order to instill fear and acceptance of a brutal global agenda.

India withdraws 86% of the value of all currency in circulation; USAID; Project Catalyst; Global Innovation Exchange; Better Than Cash Alliance; Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; UNICEF; UN Development Program; Mitre Corporation; the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FACTA); Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD); the larger global agenda of total control; ECB set up to favor Germany; Trade Czar Peter Navarro; US currency war aimed at destroying the Euro; US planned destruction of the Eurozone; glyphosate; fascism of EU bureaucracy in Brussels; assassination of Chairman of Deutsche Bank, Alfred Herrhausen; US emerging as the biggest tax haven in the world.