🚨EXPOSED: The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) - a Pentagon-funded disinformation factory
The "non-profit" Institute for the Study of War (ISW) launders defense contractor cash into war-justifying disinformation, journalist and founder of Crowdsource the Truth Jason Goodman tells Sputnik, commenting on ISW's Ukraine conflict coverage.
What does ISW say?
🔸 Reporting Ukrainian weakness is just Russian "disinformation"
🔸 Hit Russia harder and surge military production. Why? Because Russia seeks to "destroy NATO"
Who funds ISW?
🔸 Weapons-maker General Dynamics
🔸 Defense tech firm Avantus (now QinetiQ)
🔸 Global defense & intel contractor CACI International and many others
The Kagan dynasty: Architects of forever wars
🔸 ISW was founded in 2007 by Kimberly Kagan, the wife of neocon scholar Frederick W. Kagan, a co-author of ISW bellicose reports.
🔸 His brother is Robert Kagan, advocate of US militarism and spouse of Victoria Nuland - the architect of the Ukraine crisis.
ISW's focus on Ukraine is hardly surprising given the Nuland-Kagan family's role in the Ukraine 2014 coup.
ISW’s "analysis" whitewashes this history, framing every Russian response as "unprovoked aggression" while ignoring a decade of NATO expansion, political meddling, and arming of Ukraine, according to the pundit.
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The "non-profit" Institute for the Study of War (ISW) launders defense contractor cash into war-justifying disinformation, journalist and founder of Crowdsource the Truth Jason Goodman tells Sputnik, commenting on ISW's Ukraine conflict coverage.
What does ISW say?
Who funds ISW?
"[ISW] collected over $9 million in revenue [in 2023] alone — nearly all of it from undisclosed donors — and paid [founder] Kimberly Kagan herself over a quarter million dollars to peddle war escalation narratives under the banner of 'trusted analysis'," Goodman says.
The Kagan dynasty: Architects of forever wars
ISW's focus on Ukraine is hardly surprising given the Nuland-Kagan family's role in the Ukraine 2014 coup.
"Nuland’s fingerprints are all over the Ukraine crisis. She didn't just observe the Maidan uprising — she orchestrated it," Goodman stresses.
ISW’s "analysis" whitewashes this history, framing every Russian response as "unprovoked aggression" while ignoring a decade of NATO expansion, political meddling, and arming of Ukraine, according to the pundit.
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🚨 US Court of Appeals reinstates Trump's tariffs – order
A federal appeals court ruled to lift the temporary halt to the tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump.
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A federal appeals court ruled to lift the temporary halt to the tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump.
💬 "It is ordered that: ... The request for an immediate administrative stay is granted to the extent that the judgments and the permanent injunctions entered by the Court of International Trade in these cases are temporarily stayed until further notice while this court considers the motions papers," the appeals court said in an order.
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🚨🇷🇸 Serbian defense firms keep supplying ammunition to Ukraine despite Belgrade’s declared neutrality — Russian Foreign Intel Here are the details of Serbian ammunition supply scheme to Ukraine: ▪️ Fake end-user certificates and intermediary countries…
🇷🇸🇷🇺 Vucic, Putin discussed reports of Serbian arms supply to Ukraine on May 9 — Serbian President
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday that his conversation with Putin included reports of Serbian arms shipments to Ukraine.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Intelligence reported that Serbian arms manufacturers had sent hundreds of thousands of artillery and MLRS shells, plus a million small arms rounds, to Ukraine — despite Belgrade’s declared neutrality.
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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday that his conversation with Putin included reports of Serbian arms shipments to Ukraine.
💬 “I would not disclose the details of our conversation. Here, we have formed a working group together with our Russian partners to establish the facts,” Vucic said.
💬 “I will give instructions that, where there is suspicion of abuse in connection with the end user and the shipment of weapons to the front, and this is confirmed, such contracts should not be implemented, as I have already done in relation to the Yugoimport SDPR company, with which the contracts were the largest,” he added.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Intelligence reported that Serbian arms manufacturers had sent hundreds of thousands of artillery and MLRS shells, plus a million small arms rounds, to Ukraine — despite Belgrade’s declared neutrality.
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The Ansar Allah movement announced that it had launched a hypersonic ballistic missile at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport.
According to a military spokesman, the strike forced millions of Israelis into shelters and temporarily halted air traffic at the airport.
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💬 “Ukraine coming into NATO is not on the table,” US special envoy Keith Kellogg casually crushed Zelensky’s dreams.
💬 “That's a security concern for them,” Kellogg acknowledged.
Apparently, it only took three years of a NATO's proxy war for Washington’s warmongers to admit that Russia might have a point.
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🤡🙏🏼 Kellogg BEGS Ukraine’s delegation to show up at Istanbul talks
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💬 “And I always caution them, don't say things like that, because if you don't show up, part of life is showing up. And you need to show you're serious,” US special envoy Keith Kellogg revealed — nursing Ukrainian toddlers masquerading as politicians, who apparently need reminders from Washington on how negotiations work.
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🥴 ‘A BIT STALLED’ – Bessent reveals what the US-China trade deal looks like
Just as Trump quietly walked back his toughest-ever tariffs on China — from 145% to 80% to 34% — his Treasury Secretary now admits the "greatest dealmaker" has talks “stalled.”
Bessent reassured Fox News that “the Chinese will come to the table when President Trump makes his preferences known.”
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Just as Trump quietly walked back his toughest-ever tariffs on China — from 145% to 80% to 34% — his Treasury Secretary now admits the "greatest dealmaker" has talks “stalled.”
Bessent reassured Fox News that “the Chinese will come to the table when President Trump makes his preferences known.”
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In total, over 70 people have been killed in Israeli raids on Gaza in the past 24 hours, Palestinian media reported.
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🇰🇵💥 Kim Jong-un observes artillery firing contest – reports
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un oversaw a firing contest among artillery sub-units of large combined units of the Korean People's Army (KPA) on May 29, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.
The event was part of intensive combat training under the Workers' Party of Korea’s (WPK) policy to build a powerful military force.
KCNA said the participating units demonstrated advanced artillery skills and high combat readiness. Kim praised their performance, noting that the KPA artillery force is becoming a “matchless combat rank” prepared for real warfare.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un oversaw a firing contest among artillery sub-units of large combined units of the Korean People's Army (KPA) on May 29, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.
The event was part of intensive combat training under the Workers' Party of Korea’s (WPK) policy to build a powerful military force.
KCNA said the participating units demonstrated advanced artillery skills and high combat readiness. Kim praised their performance, noting that the KPA artillery force is becoming a “matchless combat rank” prepared for real warfare.
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💬 “At some point, that gravy train might STOP… We’ll lose our position as the world’s reserve currency, and we’ll lose our ability to print dollars that people accept,” Sen. Ron Johnson told Tucker Carlson.
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🥴 No ‘brain drain,’ just ‘OPPORTUNITIES’ – Vance urges Americans to SHOW SOME TALENT
While elite researchers flee the US and universities warn of a brain drain, Vice President JD Vance offers a bold solution: just be talented.
Cracking down on foreign students? Not a loss, but an OPPORTUNITY — for untested American replacements to finally rise.
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While elite researchers flee the US and universities warn of a brain drain, Vice President JD Vance offers a bold solution: just be talented.
Cracking down on foreign students? Not a loss, but an OPPORTUNITY — for untested American replacements to finally rise.
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🤡🙏🏼 Kellogg BEGS Ukraine’s delegation to show up at Istanbul talks 💬 “And I always caution them, don't say things like that, because if you don't show up, part of life is showing up. And you need to show you're serious,” US special envoy Keith Kellogg revealed…
🇷🇺Russia hopes Ukraine will take Istanbul talks seriously – Foreign Ministry
He said that "the meeting of representatives of Russia and Ukraine held in Istanbul allowed them to agree on a number of practical steps for settlement."
On Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that the Russian delegation is ready to present the Ukrainian side with a memorandum on settlement during the second round of talks in Istanbul on June 2. At the same time, the Kremlin noted that Russia has not yet received a response from Ukraine to its proposal to hold talks in Istanbul on Monday.
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💬 "Russia is interested in a speedy settlement of the conflict in Ukraine. This was once again confirmed by [Russian] President [Vladimir] Putin, who on May 10 put forward an initiative to resume direct talks with Kiev, interrupted in the spring of 2022," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko said at the 10th International Conference "Russia and China: Cooperation in a New Era."
He said that "the meeting of representatives of Russia and Ukraine held in Istanbul allowed them to agree on a number of practical steps for settlement."
💬 "We hope that Kiev will take these negotiations seriously this time and take advantage of the opportunity to achieve a peaceful solution to the crisis," Rudenko said.
On Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that the Russian delegation is ready to present the Ukrainian side with a memorandum on settlement during the second round of talks in Istanbul on June 2. At the same time, the Kremlin noted that Russia has not yet received a response from Ukraine to its proposal to hold talks in Istanbul on Monday.
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💬 “And the German chancellor — and just think of it, Germany — talking about deep strikes inside Russia. What a good picture that is. Where have we come, 80 years after the end of World War II?” American economist and Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs told Judge Andrew Napolitano.
💬 “President Trump should stand up and be clear that he is absolutely against this recklessness in Europe and against this recklessness wherever it's coming from. Because it could get us all killed,” the analyst emphasized.
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