Poking the Bear

After so many military blunders, NATO and the neo-cons’ credibility is in tatters. Yet their unhinged rhetoric continues and is supported by a doting corporate media. Vladimir Putin recently commented that the “citizens of Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia have seen how peaceful NATO is.” So whilst these decimated countries try to rebuild, is it time for us to question the narrative fed to us by so-called Western humanitarians? Ross Ashcroft is joined by analyst and former Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter, and foreign policy analyst and media critic Michael Averko to discuss the Ukraine crisis.