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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 […]

  • Ukraine

    A Scott Ritter Investigation: Agent Zelensky (Part 1)

    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.

  • Why Britain’s Uranium Ammo Decision a Big Deal

    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.

  • Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev signing the INF Treaty in the East Room at the White House in 1987. (Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons)

    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.

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin with then German Chancellor Angela Merkel on May 10, 2015, at the Kremlin. (Russian Government)

    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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Money on the Left Episodes

  • Democracy Needs Public Media w/ Victor Pickard
    Scott Ritter

    Victor Pickard returns to Money on the Left six years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. Pickard is C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and Co-Director at the Media, […]

  • Public Employment & Training from the Great Society to the “End of Welfare as We Know It”
    Scott Ritter

    This month, Scott Ferguson speaks with Mario Rendina about the politics of public employment and training in the United States as they shifted over the course of the late 20th century. Rendina brings over thirty years of hands-on experience working within municipal government in Tampa Bay, Florida—specifically within Hillsborough County. Grounded in his extensive career […]

  • The Public Banking Institute
    Scott Ritter

    In this episode, we speak with Walt McRee (President) and Peter Winslow (Vice President) of the Public Banking Institute (PBI) about their past and ongoing advocacy for public banking. Founded in 2011 by author Ellen Brown and a core collective of advocates, PBI aims to break the monopoly of Wall Street’s private banking system by […]

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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