I’m surprised more people haven’t seen this Dennis Kucinich clip yet. It deserves more attention. He basically is calling or all the things we want, as people of good will. The original source is Russia Today. It goes without saying that this interview was ignored by the US media.
highlights:
War in Afghanistan, Iraq, & threats against Iran totally unnecessary
We need to go back to Franklin Roosevelt, the New Deal, and build infrastructure to fix the economy
We need a new energy infrastructure – wind, solar, etc
We need to cooperate with Russia to disarm & develop the world
The Polish & Czech missiles are wrong & should be removed immediately
Georgia was clearly the aggressor in the South Ossetia/Abkhazia conflict
We have to stop Brzezinski and the policy of empire
Paulson’s bailout is a failure
I’ve included a transcript of Kucinich’s answers with some commentary and links to background info. (more…)
Russia’s powerful oligarchs have hundreds of billions of dollars in Western bank accounts. They would stand to lose a great deal in the event of a Cold War–style standoff that could conceivably result, at some stage, in the West’s freezing of such holdings.
Now I want to show some pictures here of when the french foreign minister was in Tiblisi here. Now he was supposed to arrive at an airport that was destroyed. Now, you can see that it isn’t destroyed. Mr. Saakashvili is enjoying himself immensely as you can see. This is wartime. Atrocities are being committed only a few hundred kilometers away but he’s enjoying himself. And here we go. Again, he’s looking up, “Oh, who are those people up in the sky?” Oh, here we go. Let’s just give it a look..
There you go. Well, there’s a man of great courage there. I mean, he’s protecting his country and countrymen. Okay, these are the kinds of pictures we’re getting from Georgia here. This is the true situation that’s going on here. I don’t think Mr. Saakashvili feels very safe in his own country. It doesn’t look so to me, at least.
I’m not trying to make too much light of that, okay? But I mean that is a realistic depiction of what’s going on.
L!FE: Saakashvili afraid of his own shadow
Saakashvili: Let’s move away. Let’s move away..
CNN: Saakashvili: I talk to McCain several times a day
