Aug. 3—Former UN weapons inspector in Iraq Scott Ritter hit New York Sen. Chuck Schumer’s support for Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation extremely hard in a commentary published by Consortium News today. In the process of doing so, Ritter prominently featured LaRouche candidate Diane Sare, Schumer’s opponent in this November’s election in New York and whose name is among those on the Kiev regime’s hit list. Ritter is also named on the Kiev hit list.

Aug. 3—House Speaker Nancy Pelosi left Taiwan today, less than 48 hours after arriving, leaving strategic wreckage in her wake in the all-important U.S.-China relationship, wreckage that may hasten the world’s rush towards thermonuclear war. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov captured the stark reality, in response to a journalist’s question regarding the U.S. motive behind Pelosi’s trip:

The growing recognition that the Unipolar world order is collapsing provides an opportunity to break away to a new era of cooperation for development.