Jeffery Sachs and Scott Ritter: The Pathway to Peace
Channel: Ed Mays
Date: 2022-10-20

This program features a talk by Jeffrey Sachs presented by Brooklyn for Peace titled The Pathway to a Negotiated Peace in Ukraine given October 6, 2022. The talk lasts about 35 minutes. After that we broadcast the remainder of Joe Lombardo’s interview with Scott Ritter presented by UNAC- The United National Antiwar Coalition recorded September 30, 2022.

Sachs talks about why he thinks the crisis in Ukraine is really a reckless US proxy war on Russia perpetrated by a small handful of people at the top of the US power structure (neocons) and why he believes it has little chance of success and a big chance of triggering nuclear war. This is why he believes it necessary for active intervention by organized popular resistance to demand Congress stop the war. See also: https://www.other-news.info/ukraine-is-the-latest-neocon-disaster/?fbclid=IwAR3oNGoLNlEixPyvnyn-TRSRcTkSimdZ30zjMz6qI1sYahXVeppe7RAYr7o

Then, in the remaining portion of the interview with Scott Ritter, the discussion turns to the information war. Lombardo asks about Ritter being labeled an “information terrorist” and targeted for assassination along with a number of other journalists and whistleblowers on the Ukrainian hit list- Mirotvorets. Ritter commented that this wasn't his "first rodeo" and hearkened back to when he was exposing that the United Nations weapons inspection team he ran found no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. He was targeted by the US government. Ritter said that he fully knew what it's like when "truth has been deemed to be the enemy". 

Professor Jeffrey Sachs is a world-renowned economics professor, bestselling author, innovative educator, and global leader in sustainable development.

He is widely recognized for bold and effective strategies to address complex challenges including the escape from extreme poverty, the global battle against human-induced climate change, international debt and financial crises, national economic reforms, and the control of pandemic and epidemic diseases.

Sachs serves as the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he holds the rank of University Professor. Sachs held the position of Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University from 2002 to 2016. He is President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Chair of the Lancet COVID-19 Commission, Co-Chair of the UN Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition, Commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development, Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah Honorary Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Development at Sunway University, academician of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences at the Vatican, and an SDG Advocate for UN Secretary-General António Guterres. From 2001-18, Sachs served as Special Advisor to UN Secretaries-General Kofi Annan (2001-7), Ban Ki-moon (2008-16), and António Guterres (2017-18). 

Sachs has authored and edited numerous books, including three New York Times bestsellers: The End of Poverty (2005), Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet (2008), and The Price of Civilization (2011). Sachs was the co-recipient of the 2015 Blue Planet Prize, the leading global prize for environmental leadership. Read his full bio. https://www.jeffsachs.org/

Scott Ritter is an author and pundit and a former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer and United Nations weapons inspector. He served as a junior military analyst during Operation Desert Storm and then as a member of the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) overseeing the disarmament of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq from 1991 to 1998, from which he resigned in protest and became a critic of United States foreign policy in the Middle East. Prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Ritter stated that Iraq possessed no significant weapons of mass destruction (WMD) capabilities. He became a popular anti-war figure and talk show commentator as a result of his stance.

Thanks to Brooklyn for Peace (brooklynpeace.org) and The United National Antiwar Coalition (unacpeace.org)

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