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Good evening. It's Monday, July 10. Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern, exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube.
Tonight, the U.S. proxy war in Ukraine continues to escalate, still with no end in sight. With Ukraine and the U.S. now facing a serious shortage in artillery – not just Ukraine, but the U.S. – the Biden administration announced that it would furnish Kyiv with cluster bombs, a notorious weapon that kills civilians at a high rate, including children – especially children – for years after their use, for years after the conflict is over and is thus banned by more than 100 countries, including almost all of the U.S.'s Western European NATO allies. Last year, when reports surfaced that both Russia and Ukraine were using cluster bombs on the battlefield, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki accused Russia, but not Ukraine, of course, of committing what she called a “war crime” simply as a result of their use.
The multipronged cost to the U.S. from this war continues to escalate as well. As we have often reported, much of the world is exploiting the U.S. fixation in Ukraine to create confederations against American power, often to the benefit principally of China. While the war in Ukraine is seen in American corporate media and the establishment wings of both parties – and in Washington generally – as a noble crusade to defend democracy because everyone knows the U.S. government always wages war not for its own interests, but for the benevolent and selfless goal of delivering freedom to the peoples of the world. Much of the world views this war as little more than a naked attempt by the U.S. NATO not to save Ukraine, but to sacrifice Ukraine at the altar of the U.S. geopolitical goal of weakening Russia. The use by the U.S. of this despised and widely banned weapon will only exacerbate this cost. All of this has led even steadfast supporters of the Biden administration and its war policy in Ukraine to object to U.S. actions for the first time. That includes the New York Times editorial board and numerous Democratic House members. But that will likely matter little: Biden is being cheered on in his use of cluster munitions by the standard range of DC warmongers – from John Bolton to Lindsey Graham – and it is hard to remember the last time the bipartisan class of endless war advocates has lost any debate in Washington. As a result, this war is likely to grind on, with the U.S. continuously doing exactly that which it vowed it would never do because doing so would be too dangerous and escalatory. That's exactly how mission creep and escalation in wars always happen, and we are seeing it repeat itself yet again.
Then: last week, one of the world's most popular podcasters, Jordan Peterson, interviewed RFK, Jr., a Democratic presidential candidate polling at 20%. The interview was published on the YouTube channel of the Daily Wire, one of the most-watched right-wing independent media platforms in the world. But shortly thereafter, Google, the owner of YouTube, casually announced that it was banning the interview, not removing parts of it, but banning the entire interview from its platform. This type of censorship by corporate giants banning an interview with a leading presidential candidate conducted by one of the world's most popular interviewers, Jordan Peterson, would have once been controversial, If even unthinkable. It would have provoked outrage and indignation, especially in left-liberal circles. But these days, barely anyone bats an eye. It didn't even make the news, really. That corporate tech giants dictate the limits of our political debates are now expected and normalized. In fact, would have been more surprising if Google had permitted this interview to be heard. Nonetheless, despite how customary this now is, it's worth reflecting on how extreme this censorship has become and it's particularly worth taking note of exactly who is and who is not the targets of this corporate censorship, because in those decisions lies significant insight about who is genuinely a threat to establishment power and who is perceived as harmless by establishment centers of power.
And then in breaking news that emerged just shortly before we went on the air tonight, the House Judiciary Committee released an extraordinary new report. It reveals that the FBI worked in tandem with Ukrainian intelligence agencies to pressure and even order Big Tech companies to remove content and postings about the war in Ukraine, including content posted by U.S. citizens and even some American journalists. The Judiciary Committee acquired these emails to Big Tech from the FBI as part of its ongoing investigation into the weaponization of the FBI and other powers of the U.S. security state for nakedly political ends.
Think about what this means. American citizens are funding the war in Ukraine endlessly, tens of billions of dollars, while at the same time, the Ukrainian government demands that our free speech be limited by working with the FBI to have Big Tech remove and suppress dissent about the war that we as American citizens are funding. We'll show you the details of this new report.
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