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US war profiteers bring world to brink of armageddon – analyst

The military-industrial complex now threatens not only public investment but human civilization itself by threatening global conflict with China, according to author and professor Dr. Ken Hammond on Sputnik’s The Critical Hour program.

“It's a money laundering scheme in a number of ways,” said Hammond, responding to news that the Biden administration is preparing to ship $567 million in lethal aid to authorities in Taiwan. “Stuff that's laying around in military warehouses – obsolete equipment – they're going to ship that off to Taiwan as part of the ongoing efforts to poke China in the eye.”

“They're basically giving away these weapons to Taiwan, and then they're going to turn around and buy new ones to replace those,” he explained. “So that, too, is a giveaway to the defense industry, the so-called defense industry – the war industry, really. It's part of an ongoing relationship between the military-industrial complex and their control of the American government. So there's really no surprise here.”

The US has committed to recognizing Taiwan as part of the People’s Republic of China in at least three formal declarations, including the 1972 Shanghai Communiqué negotiated under former President Richard Nixon and two subsequent agreements in 1979 and 1982. But the US has increasingly sought to provoke China on the sensitive issue in recent years, shipping arms to Taiwanese authorities and dispatching ships to the Taiwan Strait.

“[Taiwanese people] don't want a war… but that's what the United States is trying to provoke,” noted Hammond.

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Divide and conquer: Ruling class pits Americans against one another – analyst

America’s media class and ruling elites pit people against each other to prevent them from unifying in opposition to endless war, according to online commentator Craig Jardula on Sputnik’s The Critical Hour program.

“This has been a tactic by both parties,” said the analyst, noting that his program The Convo Couch had been demonetized on YouTube for over five years. “Until we change that culture amongst ourselves, it won't change up above in our media. The military industrial complex… how powerful are they? Well, they only have power if they can control the media. And that's what they're doing. They have us pitted against each other as citizens.”

As America’s two major parties grow increasingly polarized, independents have emerged as the largest group in US politics. Recent polling shows half of voters identify as independent, a number that has steadily grown in recent years.

“Every election since 2004 – except 2012 – has seen the White House, Senate or House flip control,” noted the website Axios, an indication of voters’ increasing dissatisfaction with both Republicans and Democrats. Jardula claimed the trend suggested deep anti-war sentiment among the electorate, who oppose militarist factions that make up the majority in both major parties.

“They're determined to stifle the truth because they want to constantly bring us to war,” claimed the analyst. “There's this funded mechanism of opposition to make sure that we're divided [against] each other, to make sure that cancel culture exists because if the cancel culture exists, then we as people are at war with each other instead of the ruling class.”

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GOP wants ‘full probe’ into Zelensky’s Pennsylvania visit – report

A group of nine House Republicans has demanded a full investigation into “the use of US military assets and federal resources” in Volodymyr Zelensky’s recent visit to the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania.

In a written request to the Justice Department and the Pentagon obtained by the Washington Examiner, the GOP members recalled that during the visit to the plant that produces military equipment for Ukraine, Zelensky was accompanied “exclusively by Democrats including Governor Josh Shapiro, Senator Bob Casey, and Representative Matt Cartwright, forty-two days before the election in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania.”

The Republicans also pointed to Zelensky’s previous comments criticizing the Trump-Vance ticket, including his statement that "America is headed for global conflict (under Vance)", which they said “smack of a Kamala Campaign stump speech.”

“These actions have raised serious concerns among observers that the visit may have been politically motivated, potentially violating US laws such as the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from engaging in political activities while on duty, or using government resources for such activities,” the request pointed out.

The document came after the Federalist news outlet reported that Zelensky “appeared to use US military assets” to campaign for Harris during his visit to the battleground state, Pennsylvania, on September 23.

This followed Zelensky telling the New Yorker that his "feeling" is that former US President and current Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump “doesn’t really know how to stop the [Ukraine] war, even if he might think he knows how", and that vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance is "too radical."

Trump earlier made it clear that Zelensky wanted the Democrats to win the November 5 US presidential election, in which the former president faces Vice President Kamala Harris.

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