{"id":91201,"date":"2022-09-09T20:15:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T00:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=91201"},"modified":"2022-09-09T20:15:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T00:15:55","slug":"eir-sept-7-press-briefing-ukraine-blacklist-targets-from-the-u-s-and-abroad-speak-out-demand-congressional-un-action-to-shut-down-kiev-kill-list-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/blog\/2022\/09\/09\/eir-sept-7-press-briefing-ukraine-blacklist-targets-from-the-u-s-and-abroad-speak-out-demand-congressional-un-action-to-shut-down-kiev-kill-list-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"EIR Sept. 7 Press Briefing \u2014 Ukraine Blacklist Targets from the U.S. and Abroad Speak Out; Demand Congressional, UN Action to Shut Down Kiev \u2018Kill-List\u2019 Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sept. 9\u2014The international press conference Sept. 7 hosted (online) by&nbsp;<em>Executive Intelligence Review<\/em>&nbsp;gathered a powerful group of former military and intelligence professionals, political leaders and candidates, journalists and peace advocates from the U.S. and other countries, documenting the criminal and evil \u201chit list\u201d compiled by the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), founded March, 2021) and the \u201ckill list\u201d compiled by the Myrotvorets (Peacemaker, founded in 2014) website in Ukraine. They demanded these operations be shut down, and that all U.S. funding be immediately stopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The five opening speakers\u2014whose remarks are summarized below, and many of the other participants in the event, are on the Kiev CCD list, and several are on the Peacemaker death list as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2.5-hour event, with in-depth exchanges, was action-oriented. Several of the speakers are among the 16 CCD-targetted Americans, who contacted Congress in August, to move against the murder threat and assault on free speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New initiatives came from the meeting. There is a proposal to find Constitutional attorneys to take legal action to force U.S. agencies to desist their funding and collaborating with the Kiev kill list threats to Americans and citizens of other nations. There are rights of free speech, association and other fundamentals involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a proposal to take this deadly scandal to the international community, through the mission offices in New York of every member nation of the United Nations, whose General Assembly convenes Sept. 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>EIR <\/em>will follow up its Sept. 2 report with more investigative reports in the coming days, and other media are planning publicity. It is notable that within 12 hours of the <em>EIR<\/em> event, the Washington Post ran an apologetic article for the occurrence of hit list targets and killings in Ukraine, chalking it up the excesses of war, and simply lying that it was strictly limited to Ukraine. (\u201cUkrainian Hit Squads Target Russian Occupiers and Collaborators,\u201d Sept. 8).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shut Down the Ukrainian Hit List Targeting Americans and International Voices of Opposition\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RO9oD5uw0yg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Opening Speakers<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Col Richard Black (ret.)<\/strong>, a former Marine officer and the head of Criminal Law Division for the Army, as well as a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates and Senate, described his patriotism and extensive military experience, but insisted on his absolute opposition to the U.S. proxy war with Russia in Ukraine, which \u201crisks triggering a global nuclear war.\u201d The CCD, which has accused him and 70 other prominent international citizens as \u201cwar criminals\u201d and \u201cinformation terrorists,\u201d had a parallel operation at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in the U.S., the Disinformation Governance Board, whose director was the \u201coutrageous narcissist Nina Jankowicz,\u201d so outrageous that the popular outcry against her forced the closing of the Board, at least officially. But it is continuing the operation by running the CCD in Ukraine, he said, with representatives of the U.S. government co-sponsoring CCD events.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Col. Black reported that it is unlawful for the U.S. government to fund other institutions, foreign or domestic, to do things which are illegal for them to do themselves. Congress, he said, must stop all funding to the CCD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Scott Ritter<\/strong>, a former Marine intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector in the Soviet Union and in Iraq, described his exposure of the lie that Iraq has Weapons of Mass Destruction: \u201cIf they had listened, we could have prevented that terrible war and those that followed, killing millions of Americans and civilians of the Mideast.\u201d Now, being called a \u201cRussian propagandist\u201d by an organization sponsored by our government, \u201chas a chilling effect. If you disagree, debate me, but don\u2019t sentence me. Don\u2019t mark me for death for telling the truth.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ritter galvanized the discussion saying: \u201cWe need a constitutional lawyer to take a hard look at the First Amendment issues that are accrued when Congress funds an appropriation bill that empowers a foreign entity to do that which is prohibited by Congress! Namely, the suppression of free speech! We also need to focus on terrorism laws, and is Congress complicit with political terrorism? These are important issues, and I believe if we frame them right and we target the right people, we can actually get a federal judge\u2014and I can tell you right now, in the State of New York, they exist! We can say, the justice system doesn\u2019t work. It works here in New York! And if I, as a New York citizen filed an injunction in a federal court in the State of New York, they will freeze the funding! If it\u2019s a legally sound injunction.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Diane Sare<\/strong>, an independent candidate for the U.S. Senate from the State of New York, said that the principles of the nation are under assault. \u201cThe most patriotic thing to do is to stop the perversion of our founding fathers\u2019 principles which have left us on the side of the Nazis.\u201d She thanked Scott Ritter for his letter to Senator Schumer, her opponent in the November election, who is implementing a \u201croundabout way of targeting his opponent\u201d\u2014namely herself\u2014by funding the CCD in Ukraine and setting her up for possible physical attack.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sare ridiculed the U.S. and European representatives claiming to defend \u201cdemocracy\u201d in Ukraine, where 13 opposition parties have been banned, Russian-language newspapers shut down, trade unions stripped of their rights, and anyone voting in a referendum is threatened with 13 years in prison.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She particularly cited the ugly irony of a Canadian official who said: \u201cCanada understands the threat of propaganda to the freedom of speech!\u201d Sare added, \u201cIt is astonishing, that 77 years after defeating the Nazis, people don\u2019t find a problem with siding with Nazis today. Why has the U.S. refused to vote in the UN to condemn the revival of Nazism?\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ray McGovern<\/strong>, former CIA officer and cofounder of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS),&nbsp;noted the hypocrisy of the sudden and total denunciation and sanctioning of Russia by the Obama Administration after that Administration had run the 2014 coup, overthrowing the elected government, and inserting puppet officials with extensive Nazi supporters, then blaming Russia for \u201cannexing Crimea without provocation.\u201d He quoted Vladimir Putin\u2019s response: \u201cAmericans appear to conduct experiments with people and nations as if they were rats, without understanding what they were doing.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mantra today that the Russian military operation in Ukraine was \u201cunprovoked,\u201d McGovern said, brings to mind a quote by Will Rogers: \u201cThe problem is not what people know\u2014it\u2019s what people know that ain\u2019t so.\u201d He then quoted the George Bush gaffe in Texas recently when he denounced the fact that: \u201cOne man, on his own, launched a brutal, destructive war in Iraq\u2014I mean, Ukraine!\u201d He took note that Bush was never tried for his open support for genocidal wars based on lies, or for his promotion of torture. Asked why the Schiller Institute was singled out on the CCD hit list, he replied: \u201cWhere is any other unfettered discussion of the truth in the Ukraine\/Russia war? It doesn\u2019t exist!\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Helga Zepp-LaRouche<\/strong>, the founder of the Schiller Institute, who is number two on the CCD hit list announced July 14, as well as being on the Myrotvorets \u201ckill list,\u201d said that the Schiller Institute conferences, 31 of whose speakers were placed on the hit list, were not about Ukraine per se, but about how to avoid World War III, calling for a new architecture for global security and development for all nations. She stressed that political assassinations were always aimed at those challenging empire, which is true about the Schiller Institute today. The fact that the neo-liberal system is bankrupt, with economies in the West in hyper-inflationary free fall, while famine is sweeping the Global South, can only be resolved by the U.S., Russia, China, and others sitting down together rather than going to war. The West must join the new paradigm being forged by the BRICS, the SCO, and others, not try to destroy them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Zepp-LaRouche said that after the assassination of JFK, a deep pessimism took over the U.S., nearly as severe as in Germany, which is a \u201ccolony of the Empire.\u201d If the U.S. would return to being the Beacon of Hope and Temple of Liberty of its best traditions, the world would admire it once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She closed the <em>EIR<\/em>&nbsp;press conference praising all who had participated in this powerful call to arms, to non-violent direct action, contributing substantially to the exposure of the approved \u201cnarrative\u201d by Western governments and media, which has covered for this overtly fascist censorship and threats to free speech and the personal safety of leading Americans and international figures. She called for wide distribution of the event, to expand momentum for the creation of a new security and development architecture for mankind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The five opening speakers were joined by journalists and other individuals also were on the Ukrainian \u201ckill list\u201d as well as a former analyst from the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Among other speakers were Sonja van den Ende, a Dutch journalist, Alessia Ruggieri, a trade unionist from Italy, and Dragana Trifkovic, the head of the Center for Geostrategic Studies in Serbia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mira Terada, <\/strong>the head of the human rights organization Foundation To Battle Injustice, based in Moscow, addressed a question and a proposal for joint action to Helga Zepp-LaRouche. Terada\u2019s personal data were also published by the Myrotvorets database as a result of her efforts to get it shut down as a terrorist organization. Her Foundation, she said, \u201cheld two press conferences in Moscow, the main purpose of which was to attract the attention of world community to the illegal publication of personal data of underage children and of journalists\u201d by Myrotvorets. There are 326 children and minors named on that death list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She continued, \u201cMoreover the human rights defenders of the Foundation To Battle Injustice have transferred the collected materials to the United Nations through the First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Dmitry Polyanskiy, and to the UN Children\u2019s Fund minister. I was happy to see today Sonja van den Ende on this video. She was talking about the press conference that took place yesterday and was arranged by my Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u201cI would also like to inform you that just yesterday the Foundation To Battle Injustice submitted documents to the Federal Security Service of Russia to investigate the activities of the Myrotvorets website and recognize those involved in the creation of this resource as a terrorist organization. We have prepared, also, an open letter to the UN that has been signed by many journalists and we came to the conclusion that the database of the Ukrainian nationalist resource contained the personal data of at least 341 journalists from 31 countries of the world. We ask all participants and viewers of today\u2019s press conference to sign it. I will send it any mail to the organizers of the conference, with the open letter. And as the head of the Foundation To Battle Injustice, I\u2019m convinced that only through the joint efforts of human rights organizations, law enforcement agencies and international intergovernmental organizations, is it possible to achieve a concrete blocking of the Myrotvorets resource and complete deletion of person data collected and posted illegally.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI have a proposal to sign the petition, to sign an open letter that I will email to the Schiller Institute. Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bradley Blankenship<\/strong>, who writes for Xinhua and RT, described himself as \u201cthe youngest person on the list\u201d at the event, adding that he has been attacked for what he writes in several parts of the world\u2014in Syria, in Ecuador, and now in the Czech Republic, where he has been summoned to the Interior Ministry. He said he has become so disillusioned by the situation in his native U.S., that \u201cI don\u2019t feel like a patriot any longer.\u201d He pointed out, however, that \u201c70,000 people marched against the government\u2019s anti-Russia policies in Prague last week.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jens J\u00f8rgen Nielsen<\/strong>, a former Moscow correspondent for the major Danish daily&nbsp;<em>Politiken<\/em>, and author of several books about Russia, is one of three Danes on the hit list. He reported that a courageous member of Denmark\u2019s Parliament challenged the Foreign Minister to denounce the CCD, threatening attack on his right to free speech, but the Foreign Minister refused to do so. Instead, the Foreign Minister just spoke of the necessity for victory over Putin. \u201cThis is a scary thing,\u201d Nielsen said. \u201cOur rights are apparently not inalienable, as we believed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Geoff Young<\/strong>, who won the Democratic primary as the candidate for U.S. Congress in Kentucky\u2019s 6th district, said Ukraine had not been a democracy since 2014 when the CIA, State Department and Pentagon overthrew the elected government, placing their puppets in power. That government proceeded to bombard their own citizens who had rejected the foreign coup, killing over 10,000 citizens in the Donbas, \u201cthree times more than the deaths on 9\/11.\u201d He said that if elected, he would correct the impeachment laws so that presidents would be impeached not for trivial things such as political burglaries, sexual picadilloes and false charges as foreign agents, but for the genocidal and illegal wars, such of those waged by George Bush, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>David Pyne<\/strong>, Deputy Director of National Operations for the EMP Task Force on National and Homeland Security, a private grouping, said that he earned a place on the hit list by, first, offering a means to avoid war before the February Russian move into Ukraine, requiring simply a U.S. pledge that Ukraine would not join NATO; and, after the war started, proposing an agreement similar to the Minsk accord. \u201cMy intention was to save the world from a nuclear holocaust,\u201d he added, and blasted Boris Johnson and Joe Biden for sabotaging the peace negotiations in April. He offered his thanks and support to&nbsp;<em>EIR<\/em> for leading this campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kirk Wiebe<\/strong> is a former National Security Agency expert who exposed the NSA sabotage of systems which could have targeted terrorists and prevented the 9\/11 disaster. The system, he said, has instead been used for mass surveillance of Americans and others. Wiebe emphasized that \u201cwe are all under attack,\u201d and that there \u201cmust be no spectators, but a full-court press\u201d working with the Schiller Institute to counter \u201cthis cabal of fascists.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new <em>EIR<\/em> Investigative Reports: \u201cKiev\u2019s \u2018Info Terrorist\u2019 List: \u2018Global NATO\u2019 Orders a Hit on Advocates of Peace;\u2019\u201d and \u201cUkraine\u2019s Deahtlist Database: myrotvorets.center\u201d are available in <em>EIR<\/em>, Volume 49, Number 34, September 2, 2022 on line at <a href=\"https:\/\/larouchepub.com\/eiw\/public\/2022\/eirv49n34-20220902\/index.html\">https:\/\/larouchepub.com\/eiw\/public\/2022\/eirv49n34-20220902\/index.html<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 9\u2014The international press conference Sept. 7 hosted (online) by&nbsp;Executive Intelligence Review&nbsp;gathered a powerful group of former military and intelligence professionals, political leaders and candidates, journalists and peace advocates from the U.S. and other countries, documenting the criminal and evil \u201chit list\u201d compiled by the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), founded March, 2021) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":91203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-91201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91213,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91201\/revisions\/91213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}