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About Scott Ritter

Scott Ritter is a former U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer who served in the former Soviet Union implementing arms control treaties, in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm and in Iraq overseeing the disarmament of WMD. His most recent book is Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika, published by Clarity Press.
  • A ROCKS ALBM (painted orange) mounted on an Israeli F-16I fighter

    The Israeli intelligence leaks

    Originally published: Scott Ritter Extra on October 23, 2024 (more by Scott Ritter Extra)

    An ugly glimpse into a dark future.

  • Launch of a Trident missile

    Scott Ritter: Life, preempted

    Originally published: Scott Ritter Extra on September 25, 2024 (more by Scott Ritter Extra)

    Policymakers in both the U.S. and Europe are undertaking increasingly brazen acts of escalation in Ukraine designed to bring Russia to the breaking point.

  • Alexei Navalny under arrest

    The tragic death of a traitor (Part One: Origins)

    Originally published: Dissident Voice on February 24, 2024 (more by Dissident Voice)  |

    Alexei Navalny, a Russian political opposition figure whose popularity in the West far exceeded his support in Russia, died while incarcerated in a Russian prison. He was serving a combined 30-and-a-half-year sentence for fraud and political extremism, charges that Navalny and his supporters claim were little more than trumped up accusations designed to silence a […]

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    Originally published: Scott Ritter Extra on July 13, 2023 (more by Scott Ritter Extra)

    A Scott Ritter Investigation: Agent Zelensky

  • Tank

    Ukrainian counteroffensive’s second week ends in failure

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on June 17, 2023 (more by Internationalist 360°)

    First and foremost, the counteroffensive gambit has failed.

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    Why Britain’s Uranium ammo decision a big deal

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on March 24, 2023 (more by Internationalist 360°)

    The United Kingdom Ministry of Defense announced that it would be sending anti-tank ammunition for the Challenger 2 tanks being delivered to Ukraine that contain depleted uranium.

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    A Lexicon for disaster

    Originally published: Consortium News on December 19, 2022 (more by Consortium News)  |

    Russia seeks arms control agreements to prevent dangerous escalation. But the U.S. seeks only unilateral advantage. This risks all out conflict unless this changes.

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    Merkel reveals West’s duplicity

    Originally published: Consortium News on December 5, 2022 (more by Consortium News)  |

    War, it seems, was the only option Russia’s opponents had ever considered.

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    Over 10,000 people died in transit to Spain in 2024 alone.[1] On June 2022, the border fence of Melilla, one of two Spanish enclaves in Morocco, was witness to a massacre that killed or disappeared over a hundred African migrants.[2]  A recent BBC investigation revealed that Greek border guards systematically repeal immigrants already on Greek […]

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