John Pilger on depleted uranium from Iraq to Ukraine, with Phil Miller

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  • Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
  • Watch veteran investigative journalist John Pilger talk about the impact of depleted uranium weapons on the people of Iraq and its likely consequences for Ukraine.
    John was speaking with Declassified UK's chief reporter Phil Miller, who exposed Britain's plan to send the toxic ammo to Ukraine.
    The talk was hosted by Consortium News. Watch the full talk on their channel: • DU in UKRAINE - John P...
    Read more about depleted uranium on our website: declassifieduk...

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  • @tommyboy7391
    @tommyboy7391 Год назад +331

    John Pilger a true journalist.

    • @mikelynch5153
      @mikelynch5153 Год назад

      Its a shame the true journalist are a dying breed

    • @dcocz3908
      @dcocz3908 Год назад +12

      sick western hedgemony needs toppling. hopefully they will over do it at some point and the people everywhere will revolt, i'm with you

    • @hawkbartril3016
      @hawkbartril3016 Год назад +1

      Poisoning prime agricultural land is such a crime that only a bigoted piece of trash could of permitted

    • @GlobalDrifter1000
      @GlobalDrifter1000 Год назад +1

      The. Scabacious shull of his shows brain damage.

    • @terencefield3204
      @terencefield3204 Год назад +1

      Oh bilge.

  • @LCFC72
    @LCFC72 Год назад +263

    John Pilger is a great journalist and human being.
    Unlike many his integrity and honesty have never faulted.

    • @raykirkham5357
      @raykirkham5357 Год назад +3

      David Gamble; But it has been suppressed. He mentions that in this video.

    • @mikemines2931
      @mikemines2931 Год назад

      I'll believe you when I see him tearing into the CCP or Putin with such persistent fervour.

    • @terencefield3204
      @terencefield3204 Год назад

      More bilge

  • @basfinnis
    @basfinnis Год назад +181

    A great man. Cancelled in the UK media.

    • @musicandfilms9956
      @musicandfilms9956 Год назад

      @@soulinexile ... which reaches everyone in the UK and around the world. Probably only 0.1% of the UK population would know who Mr Pilger is, or what depleted uranium weapons have done. Very effective censorship.

    • @sigmasix3719
      @sigmasix3719 Год назад

      Western main stream media is a CIA /MI6 asset

    • @freedom4639
      @freedom4639 Год назад +13

      UK has no media

    • @LabRat6619
      @LabRat6619 Год назад

      Every truth is crushed in UK media. Its just a government mouthpiece.

    • @stopgotdamndeletingmycomme8642
      @stopgotdamndeletingmycomme8642 Год назад +7

      @@freedom4639 only the ministry of truth

  • @anthonypierce7134
    @anthonypierce7134 Год назад +57

    The hypocracy exhibited by the UK AND US is absolutely deplorable - in the name of justice and democracy - disgusting.

  • @maggieadams8600
    @maggieadams8600 Год назад +182

    What I can't help thinking is that the wind and rain will scatter this depleted uranium far and wide, so it might come back to haunt us all, although it's already haunting my mind that it's ever happened at all! I'm sick of the sadistic people that profit from the suffering of others and pretend they're doing it because they care about human rights.

    • @DreamteamCarlo
      @DreamteamCarlo Год назад +7

      It's already depleted, so I think wind and rain scattering the uranium far and wide is not the main problem.
      It seems like most of the casualties are people, or rather 'beings', in close proximity to the materials.

    • @onanysundrymule3144
      @onanysundrymule3144 Год назад +14

      Absolutely Maggie. We are already seeing here the long term effects of sending depleted morality to the house of commons and the house of Lords. One can only shriek at the hideous mutations of humanity that have now emerged from within those institutions this past year. DAMN Labour, damn the Tories, Guy fawkes clearly was one of the good guys.

    • @bencherdent1696
      @bencherdent1696 Год назад +2

      @@onanysundrymule3144 its akin to the boston tea party.

    • @davidharris2147
      @davidharris2147 Год назад +27

      @Carlo Slats Do you really know what depleted uranium is? Natural uranium is made up of primarily two isotopes. U-238 which comprises around 97% and U-235 which comprises around 3%. Depleted uranium is over 99% of U-238. It is what's left over after most of the U-235 has been removed. U-235 is fissile when it captures low energy neutrons. It is used in nuclear reactors. U-238 will split if it captures high energy neutrons or if it captures a low energy neutron, it will be converted to plutonium-239 which is also fissile with low energy neutrons.
      Uranium has low energy radioactivity. It gives off alpha particles as it slowly converts to lead. Outside of the body, those alpha particles are not deadly. They are stopped by the outer layer of dead skin cells. However, when it is inhaled, it is extremely deadly. Nothing in nature is as ionizing as an alpha particle. That particle can pull electrons off of fluorine. It is nothing to scoff at.
      Inside of the body, uranium is deadly. When the stuff is heated up it turns to dust. The dust gets widely distributed.
      There is NO reason to use depleted uranium. Tungsten rounds cost more than does depleted uranium. But unlike uranium, tungsten is not radioactive.
      Western Ukraine is now radioactive with uranium dust after that explosion. All due to the UK government.
      Some of the greatest soil in the world is now contaminated.
      And you are likely highly unethical saying depleted uranium is not dangerous.

    • @DreamteamCarlo
      @DreamteamCarlo Год назад +3

      @@davidharris2147 Thank you for your detailed answer. You are clearly very knowledgeable on this topic, but I think you misinterpreted my comment or I didn't make myself clear. I think it is evil and also stupid to send any kind of nuclear weapons, depleted or not. It was specifically the 'wide and far' part of the original comment I was responding to.
      Please allow me to ask you more specifically: Is the range in both time and space in which health risks of many kinds can be experienced, significantly lower for let's say 10 depleted uranium shells as opposed to let's say 1 Hiroshima sized nuke?
      My simple mind thinks that with a smaller explosion, smaller quantity of uranium, no mushroom cloud type effects instantly distributing dust over large distances, etc. the nuclear materials and terrible effects would remain more localised. Just thinking basic math here, Smaller Quantity = Smaller Footprint.
      If I am wrong about this, I would appreciate it if you can take the time to elaborate on the why and how. In layman's terms please... ;)

  • @josephloudon1728
    @josephloudon1728 Год назад +226

    The British government should be charged with war crimes for supplying DU shells

    • @philltaylor8442
      @philltaylor8442 Год назад

      What like TONY BLAIR was PUNISHED! for an ELEGEL AND UNWANTED WAR TOWARDS IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN AND THE REST OF THE MIDDLE ESTEN COUNTRY'S! THIS INDIAN PRIME MINISTER WILL BE PROBABLY KNIGHTED BY KING CHARLES OR THE QUEEN !.

    • @allansmith3837
      @allansmith3837 Год назад +36

      Yes you're right but I would add the British cabinet should be put on trial and if found guilty should go to jail

    • @markkierznowski6121
      @markkierznowski6121 Год назад

      Agreed but the West does evil because it knows no one can bring them to account.

    • @djonfonsteen6331
      @djonfonsteen6331 Год назад

      These comments are the reason rhey invest in NSOs pegasus monitoring systems. The reason for shaddow banning comments. Its called Nazism controlled by (edit. Paranoid) "victims".

    • @shaughnfourie304
      @shaughnfourie304 Год назад +10

      I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU FROM FRANCE

  • @tonymockeridge338
    @tonymockeridge338 8 месяцев назад +9

    This is why I will miss John Pilger so much. Over 40 years I've read, watched and listened to his work, and learned so much from it. Where others fear to tread, he strode.

  • @balkanleopard9728
    @balkanleopard9728 Год назад +127

    I worked in Iraq. There are still depleted uranium no-go areas there. Children are still being born in Southern Iraq with consequential birth defects. Depleted uranium was used by NATO against Serbia in 1999 leading a consequential up-tick in cancers. US / NATO / UK use of depleted uranium weapons amounts to war crimes - but it will never be reported as such in the West. But truth will out. Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

    • @markkierznowski6121
      @markkierznowski6121 Год назад

      And 000s of children still being born in Vietnam with cancers and deformities thanks to American chemical warmongering.

    • @shaughnfourie304
      @shaughnfourie304 Год назад +9

      I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU FROM FRANCE

    • @annoloki
      @annoloki Год назад

      Yep. That's clearly the goal here. Where territory cannot be regained, it will be poisoned. For decades to come, children will be punished simply for being born Russian.

    • @junktex
      @junktex Год назад +1

      Butb the UK and US say it aint so.

    • @junktex
      @junktex Год назад +10

      The US and Britain need to be held accountable.

  • @michaelgnit8476
    @michaelgnit8476 Год назад +159

    So how this isn't a war crime is beyond me. The US and Britain need to be held accountable.

    • @richardscathouse
      @richardscathouse Год назад +1

      If only America could be held accountable for their crimes 😢💀💀💀💀
      From giving plage-flea-ridden blankets to Indians to atom bombing a surrendered Japan to the vicious chemical warfare used in Korea and Vietnam to recent years indiscriminate use of Depleated Uranuim in Serbia, Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan. America needs to be made to pay.☠️

    • @michaelgnit8476
      @michaelgnit8476 Год назад +5

      @@richardscathouse Sad but true.

    • @ColtraneTaylor
      @ColtraneTaylor Год назад

      By you and your friends? Who?

    • @michaelgnit8476
      @michaelgnit8476 Год назад

      @@ColtraneTaylor So they can be criminal countries and do as they please? Russia and China say otherwise and that's why we're close to a world war. And Russia is at war with NATO in case you haven't noticed.

    • @annoloki
      @annoloki Год назад +12

      "Crime" means "against the rules decided by the powerful". That's all. So, you're talking about the actions of the powerful. Why would they make rules against the things they want to do?

  • @pacoshuman7642
    @pacoshuman7642 Год назад +130

    Thank you John...its really hard to listen to what the U.S. did to Iraq or Afghanistan or Syria...the list is endless. Just hard to listen to the pain, and its constant, that U.S. lives for.

    • @mviking39
      @mviking39 Год назад +9

      Try being a citizen. It’s exhausting living in 1984

    • @sylviam6535
      @sylviam6535 Год назад +8

      They are still at it all over the world.

    • @sylviam6535
      @sylviam6535 Год назад

      @@mviking39 - I have been saying for a while now that the US establishment is just as toxic to their own citizens as they are to everyone else.

    • @toniilievski3934
      @toniilievski3934 Год назад

      It was created exactly for this , same as Australia , if the conflict rise up with China u will see the true face of Australia :S What west has done and doing to the 90% of the world is so sad , and its always 1 man to blame and all is forgoten soon after ...

  • @brendanryan1852
    @brendanryan1852 Год назад +45

    The pure unadulterated evil of sending this DU to Ukraine is criminality of the highest degree.

    • @bm4751
      @bm4751 Год назад

      All the PMs of Britain are war criminals, and probably most US as well, but maybe some are actual just puppets.

  • @grahamkerr2803
    @grahamkerr2803 Год назад +119

    John is a bright light in a very dark world, all through his journalistic career he stuck to his principles under the greatest of pressure from the 🐍.

    • @shaughnfourie304
      @shaughnfourie304 Год назад +4

      I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU FROM FRANCE

    • @teresawilcox8737
      @teresawilcox8737 Год назад

      Absolutely amazing we have so many good journalists against this carnage yet the politicians and the media support the slaughter it causes.

  • @richardclegg7846
    @richardclegg7846 Год назад +79

    Putin nails it again. Good for him. Stock pile them in parliament next time, Guy .

    • @musicandfilms9956
      @musicandfilms9956 Год назад

      Let's not make the mistake of regarding the reactionary, LGBT+ hating Vladimir Putin as anyone worth praising. He is the enemy of the Russian working class, and his invasion is nationalistic and an attempt to bolster support from the Russian oligarchs who keep him in power.

  • @colinrash56
    @colinrash56 Год назад +48

    John Pilger, the epitome of journalist & documentarian..
    5+ decades of exposing the brutalies of empire, a 4th copy of his 1991 book 'Distant Voices' maintains a prominent place on my bookshelf(as the other 3 copies never returned)
    ..Truly an oracle of the history of the 20th Century who was there, on the ground, as he recorded it.
    His 2016 doco 'The Coming War On China' is a must view for all who wish to understand the past & current events in the Pacific.
    Without doubt one of the greatest journalists of our time
    Respect, NZ

    • @hairlessape5107
      @hairlessape5107 Год назад +7

      Will have to look for 'The Coming War on China', thank you.

  • @ianwoodywoodwoof345
    @ianwoodywoodwoof345 Год назад +28

    I was disgusted at the announcement by the UK MOD of sending depleted Uranium shells to Ukraine. I still am! The evidence of it causing birth defects, cancers and toxic environmental damage is there for all to see. The merchants of death are despicable!

    • @nikolamilicevic1040
      @nikolamilicevic1040 Год назад

      e evidence of it causing birth defects, cancers and toxic environmental damage is there for all to see.
      theri puppet people of albanians on kosovo whcih as bobmed by depleted uranium ammo deny it cause any defects.in fact this is used as proof in propaganda ammo is ok.

  • @MrVrucina
    @MrVrucina Год назад +126

    John Pilger is a Legend!

    • @michaelkatz275
      @michaelkatz275 Год назад +1

      A legend as a propagandist for Russia.

    • @eugeneoreilly9356
      @eugeneoreilly9356 Год назад +1

      Russian propaganda?same as American propaganda?😁😹

  • @cosac6
    @cosac6 Год назад +48

    Thank you John for bringing it in to the open. I can see the pain in you face talking about it, you know to much, no peace.

  • @dbec5224
    @dbec5224 Год назад +42

    Probrably the only true journalist we have left, sadly google is strangling traffic to this link.

    • @musicandfilms9956
      @musicandfilms9956 Год назад

      Odd, then, that my RUclips stream brought this to my attention.

    • @markkierznowski6121
      @markkierznowski6121 Год назад +3

      Google algos ensure only approved content reaches the public. Genuine enquiries need to access page 2million of wherever.

  • @calanmacleod3948
    @calanmacleod3948 Год назад +42

    The evil empire and their quislings committing war crimes, while pretending to be virtuous.

  • @truthaboveall7988
    @truthaboveall7988 Год назад +40

    It’s so hard when u know true history- I believe many Americans can’t bring themselves to accept or acknowledge just how dark a karma we really have it’s just too depressing

  • @ahmednur75
    @ahmednur75 Год назад +61

    John pilger is a champion of human rights and Great journalist LEGEND

  • @winniewotsit4452
    @winniewotsit4452 Год назад +56

    Thank you - good debate with proper journalists. The irony of a UK government, hot on their green agenda yet willing to wreak environmental havoc in Ukraine.

    • @beesplaining1882
      @beesplaining1882 Год назад +2

      Environmental havoc and health catastrophe affecting mainly civilians.

  • @robbieelliot9491
    @robbieelliot9491 Год назад +25

    Dr Douglas Rokke, a former US Army nuclear health physicist and was formerly the Pentagon's health expert on DU, wrote the book on how to clean it up. He spoke out its use, came to Australia in 2003 warning how radioactive it is. He was dying of cancer himself. He showed us photos of DU having blown up tanks, everything covered in white powder which was radioactive, with the dead looking like white cripsy critters. His team also ended up sick and dying. He was able to measure dangerous levels of radioactivity. I even vudeoed his talk. He didnt expect to be allowed out of the USA after his visit. He had a conscience... was trying to get the word out about the harm this would cause the people, as well as soldiers. Kids, ppl, soldiers climbed over them to get photos, selfies, not expecting the USA would have been so immoral and inhuman left the country poisoned and radioactive.... wven poison its own. UK and USA leaders that authorise this are evil people. They know. Dr Rokke helped my red pilling. We already knew the Niger cannisters were not WMD. We were also following John Pilger back then. Thank you for speaking out and your work.

    • @jondurr
      @jondurr Год назад +1

      A US Army, nuclear health physicist, should have known better and used his PPE

    • @robbieelliot9491
      @robbieelliot9491 Год назад +2

      @@jondurr what makes you think they didn't? They were all military personnel .. Iraq 1 ... I don't think soldiers were aware of the danger... like now, they still don't like to admit it. From memory, he was surprised how radioactive when he got there and that soldiers had been climbing over them for pics. Maybe look him up.

  • @AA-69
    @AA-69 Год назад +28

    you have my upmost RESPECT John 😘🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @johnblack6161
    @johnblack6161 Год назад +16

    It should be a war crime using that shit

  • @jonathon5411
    @jonathon5411 Год назад +40

    I think russia banned the use of DU in 2014

    • @GG-kf8ox
      @GG-kf8ox Год назад +1

      Lol😅😅

    • @jonathon5411
      @jonathon5411 Год назад +6

      @@GG-kf8ox I thinking banning DU is a good thing not a laughing matter

  • @desmondfaria4095
    @desmondfaria4095 Год назад +9

    This brilliant man JP, has always spoken truth, and a pleasure to listen to.

  • @hairlessape5107
    @hairlessape5107 Год назад +11

    Haven't heard of Declassified UK before. John Pilger interview, thumbs up immediately. Thank you.

  • @YTC518
    @YTC518 Год назад +5

    Mr Pilger you are so right about everything you speak of. Love your work and honesty. You are a wonderful journalist. Thank you for what you do. God bless you and yours.👍👍🙏🙏🙏

  • @musamusashi
    @musamusashi Год назад +7

    Pilger is one of the few living exemplars of a species facing extinction: truthful and honest journalists.

    • @nikolamilicevic1040
      @nikolamilicevic1040 Год назад

      lot of such journalists in east.western media has beern tellign lies for empire for cenutires.history and ogin off westenre imperiliasts are too horrible tio report for them.

  • @djape1977
    @djape1977 Год назад +61

    Russians are using magnesium and termite as incendiary ammunition, not white phosphorus.
    It is not illegal by international law, unlike white phosphorus used by UK and US in Iraq and Syria

    • @musicandfilms9956
      @musicandfilms9956 Год назад

      Termites? Hmmm... genetically engineered by evil Russian scientists to eat only Ukrainian wood? I know, you meant thermite.

    • @davidharris2147
      @davidharris2147 Год назад +7

      @djape1977 Well, would you rather be hit by burning magnesium or thermite rather than white phosphorus? I don't think that one is better than another.
      I would much rather face rounds of white phosphorus than DU rounds. Magnesium and thermite are also far better than DU rounds.
      If the US did not favor these rounds they would have been made illegal.

    • @djonfonsteen6331
      @djonfonsteen6331 Год назад +3

      All are manufactured and invested in by rats. Those rats that monitor these comments. Say hello to the NSO. Hello Pegasus. 😂❤ love you

    • @djape1977
      @djape1977 Год назад +6

      @@davidharris2147 I don't know why phosphorus is illegal and magnesium is not and I don't care to learn really. I'm sure both are highly unpleasant. However there is a distinction of one being illegal and other not.
      In fact, from my highschool chemistry i do know that magnesium is not toxic while phosphorus is. So that's probably why one is illegal and other not.

  • @bungledandbotched1771
    @bungledandbotched1771 Год назад +40

    If the Ternopil explosion was the DU munitions then a quarter of a million people just became radioactive, nice gift.

    • @boggisthecat
      @boggisthecat Год назад +11

      Big spike in radiation nearby after that explosion. Had to be the DU. May have also been the tanks that got hit, which would be on par for this fiasco.

    • @adelarsen9776
      @adelarsen9776 Год назад

      @@boggisthecat Yes. Double background gamma radiation. UK was warned so many times and even the BBC reported that Russia warned the UK MOD.
      Project Ukraine is all about money laundering and dirty work of UK/USA.

    • @joannaszulc2694
      @joannaszulc2694 Год назад +2

      Polska 🇵🇱 też !!
      300 km Rzeszów

    • @bungledandbotched1771
      @bungledandbotched1771 Год назад +1

      @@joannaszulc2694 I feel ashamed that my country have been so irresponsible.

    • @jamesglass4842
      @jamesglass4842 Год назад

      @@boggisthecat Double the background levels of Gamma radiological readings.

  • @peterilcken8865
    @peterilcken8865 Год назад +4

    🇳🇱 Holland . Thank your Mr Pilger for who you are 🧡 🌻🌿🍀 🙏

  • @mosspatchouli631
    @mosspatchouli631 Год назад +11

    Thank you for all you do. You my friend are a real journalist in my opinion. Take care and stay safe.

  • @08Stella
    @08Stella Год назад +2

    So good to see him!! Mr. Pilger, we miss your channel still.... every single documentary is a Masterpiece. We respect and love you dearly. Your work is on my IG. What a great example for all, xx..

  • @Nowun_Toospecial
    @Nowun_Toospecial Год назад +19

    Why does it seem as though it's only Australian born journalists asking and answering the hard questions?
    Aussie Aussie Aussie.....

    • @djonfonsteen6331
      @djonfonsteen6331 Год назад +2

      Because Australia is run by serious rats. 5 👀s are watching you, me, everyone. Say hello to Pegasus everyone.

    • @balkanleopard9728
      @balkanleopard9728 Год назад +3

      John is a hero - and has been so since his reporting on the American war in Vietnam.

    • @charlietwotimes
      @charlietwotimes Год назад

      Too bad the Australian govt has its face firmly planted so far up the United States' arse then isn't it?

  • @vaska1999
    @vaska1999 Год назад +15

    NATO used DU in Serbia, too. A bunch of Italian servicemen stationed in Kosovo got so ill from exposure to it, an Italian court ruled in their favour a few years ago. Serbia's cancer rates have shot up astronomically since the 1999 bombing and are now by far the highest in Europe.

    • @casparwijn
      @casparwijn Год назад +2

      A Serbian friend of mine was stationed in a South Serbian army base during his military service shortly after 99... he and more than 300 of his army mates got the same cancer... my friend lived to tell the story. Most of his mates died :-(

    • @balkanleopard9728
      @balkanleopard9728 Год назад +1

      I have direct experience of DU in Iraq and Serbia. You are absolutely correct about the uptick in cancer rates in Serbia, I've seen it amongst friends, but I don't know of any impartial studies to give real teeth to this discussion. All the anecdotal evidence says that DU is potentially very dangerous. In light of this the shipment of DU to Ukraine is shameful - but pretty par for the course.

  • @gizzardwizard1
    @gizzardwizard1 Год назад +10

    What has happened that we have no drive to be outraged and protest anymore. We're so divided and complacent as a nation, it feels hopeless.

    • @richardscathouse
      @richardscathouse Год назад

      That was always the plan

    • @ColtraneTaylor
      @ColtraneTaylor Год назад

      We? Don't worry, no one is looking to Brits for guidance let alone help. BRICS and others are working on it. I don't like China though.

  • @dabay200
    @dabay200 Год назад +3

    Pilger is one of the best journalists and he is absolutely correct.

  • @p.a.andrews7772
    @p.a.andrews7772 Год назад +35

    How dare the British get involved with the USA !

    • @calicocat8213
      @calicocat8213 Год назад

      Seriously or tongue in cheek? How the United States have been conducting themselves is largely due to British influence, you know, the Perfidious Albion. Never heard the term "Anglo-American"?

    • @gerhardheydrich3146
      @gerhardheydrich3146 Год назад

      Because they are a de-facto State of the USA and do their masters bidding like a good little dog.

  • @kentauree
    @kentauree Год назад +20

    War should be illegal.

    • @lordcharfield4529
      @lordcharfield4529 Год назад +10

      Absolutely!

    • @richardcashley5856
      @richardcashley5856 Год назад

      War Is illegal if it's not the west waging it !!

    • @djonfonsteen6331
      @djonfonsteen6331 Год назад

      Then we would have to arrest all those that have invested in the MIC. Good idea. Great in fact.

    • @margaretfarrell5137
      @margaretfarrell5137 Год назад +3

      You are right. War is a crime.

    • @jprej5836
      @jprej5836 Год назад

      Agree but the hegemonic, greedy war mongers will never allow war to be banned😢

  • @schrodingerscat1863
    @schrodingerscat1863 Год назад +16

    Considering a huge cache of DU shells has just been blown up in the middle of a city filled with civilians there will be a very clear effect from this poison. The size of the explosion would have reduced much of it to small fragments and spread it all over that area.

    • @fireflyrobert
      @fireflyrobert Год назад

      I'm no expert but another channel was saying the shells have to get to 1,400 degrees K to disperse which happens when they hit a tank (say) but when they get blown up in the manner we saw the temps don't reach 1,400 degrees C. Now go easy on me if I've got the theory wrong but this was how I understood this. Of course the Russians now this hence they are happy to destroy the shells by missiles etc.

    • @schrodingerscat1863
      @schrodingerscat1863 Год назад +2

      @@fireflyrobert 1,400 degrees is to melt it and then turn it into a finely divided powder, this explosion wouldn't have done that to the majority of it, most of it will have simply been blasted apart by the explosion and bits of it will be all over the place.

    • @jamesglass4842
      @jamesglass4842 Год назад

      Background Gamma radiation readings have doubled and risen further. I have heard this.

    • @dottester3039
      @dottester3039 Год назад +2

      Oh wait. Green T shirted president just happened to be out of town.

  • @tiffanyjones14
    @tiffanyjones14 Год назад +2

    As an OIF/OEF veteran i feel the need to vouch for this gentleman. He's telling a true and accurate story that I'm so ashamed to be a part of...bless you Sabbi for sharing a story that my clearances would never allow. My heart still breaks all these years later. I'm so sorry Iraq

  • @mosspatchouli631
    @mosspatchouli631 Год назад +7

    Biological Weapons, Neuro Weapons, Chemical Weapons, Nuclear Weapons. All these weapons should be banned . And all the Makers / Users of these Weapons should be Jailed or Worse.

  • @williamparry9314
    @williamparry9314 Год назад +8

    Greed and power, mans inhumanity to man, will be our downfall as a species.

  • @onepom63
    @onepom63 Год назад +5

    My favorite journalist John Pilger..

  • @patriciakimworsley9315
    @patriciakimworsley9315 Год назад +9

    People need to check out the photographs of poor babies born to women exposed to this, its horrific!

    • @annoloki
      @annoloki Год назад

      Yep. That's the point. The shells are to be used against territory inhabited by Russians who refuse to concede to the demands of the ultra nationalists: "DON'T BE RUSSIAN!". Children will be punished for decades to come for the crime of being born Russian.

  • @rayft1422
    @rayft1422 Год назад +5

    When you think your country can't get any lower. Yet, they still manage to

  • @galileo_rs
    @galileo_rs Год назад +12

    The title should be from Yugoslavia to Ukraine. The Ukraine situation just got complicated, a few days ago an ammo storage was blown up and apparently it housed DU ammo, radiation levels in the are have gone up. The cause of the issue is simple: money. DU penetrators are cheaper than Tungsten ones and it provides a convenient way to "recycle" used up Uranium. Russia did have DU ammo but they phased out to Tungsten after Yugoslavia and Iraq. Their whole military doctrine is oriented towards wars on their borders and it makes no sense to poison your own neighbourhood.

    • @nikolamilicevic1040
      @nikolamilicevic1040 Год назад

      Russia didnt pahesed out but dont use them as they have no problem annihailating ukraniajn armore wihtout it.there is barely osme left lol
      In fact new depleted urnaium round 3VBM22/3BM59 (3BM59 "Svinets-1") entered service in 2016.

  • @andre0000000007
    @andre0000000007 Год назад +8

    brilliant!! i'm very happy to have found your channel. thank you.

  • @nemohalperin
    @nemohalperin Год назад +11

    More excellent analysis from Declassified. Thank you for all the work you do.

  • @georgekostaras
    @georgekostaras Год назад +10

    It's pretty clear at this point that Ukraine is going to end up just like Iraq

    • @richardscathouse
      @richardscathouse Год назад

      More like Afghanistan looks like

    • @eugeneoreilly9356
      @eugeneoreilly9356 Год назад

      I would agree with your statement,but would say,end up worse than Iraq.Its now just a superpower battlefield.

  • @fireflyrobert
    @fireflyrobert Год назад +13

    There is also an argument the use of DU should be classified as a war crime given they can result in birth defects etc

    • @richardscathouse
      @richardscathouse Год назад +1

      My understanding is that it was a war crime previous to the 1980s

    • @balkanleopard9728
      @balkanleopard9728 Год назад

      I personally know of two babies born with birth defects in areas where DU has been used. Is there a link? Who knows for sure, but I'd say it's immoral given all the anecdotal evidence.

  • @cerviche101
    @cerviche101 Год назад +7

    John Pilgers neutral stance on addressing the answer to questions really is admirable, honesty despite social discomforts.

  • @artistphilb
    @artistphilb Год назад +11

    Radiation aside the ICC article 8(2)(e)(xvii) lists the use of poisonous weapons as a war crime, Uranium is poisonous, Maybe the ICC should issue a warrant for Ben Wallace? Russia produced DU ammunition for it's tanks but has a moratorium on its use. The Challenger 3 tank and all smoothbore tank guns can fire DU rounds.

    • @jamesglass4842
      @jamesglass4842 Год назад

      The Challenger 2 and the Challenger 1 and Chieftain before them use three piece ammo, projectile, bag charge and a large brass filled igniter..forget the proper name. Because its separate projectiles and bag charge the British Heavy armour can’t fit the long rod kinetic ammunition made from Tungsten Carbide. Even though the older tanks used APDS Tungsten carbide rounds. Seemingly the long penetrators have better armour defeating properties. Sadly the DU is poisonous I know people who worked with it at A Magnox Atomic Power Station. The Political elite just lie all the time.

    • @nledaig
      @nledaig Год назад

      Ben The- Dunce-Wallace has been lobotomised and only does as his handlers dictate to him.

    • @artistphilb
      @artistphilb Год назад

      Probably should say that Challenger 2 tanks require a DU sabot round of special design as the rifling would otherwise give the fin stabilised darts detrimental spin, smooth bore guns are designed to use finned rounds

  • @Stella.J.000
    @Stella.J.000 7 месяцев назад +2

    Gosh he was always ON POINT.. Incredible insights, incredible human being!! Mr. Pilger, we miss you already, the world STILL need you massively. What a tragedy he departed, xx..

  • @peterreay1373
    @peterreay1373 Год назад +6

    Great discussion panel - with very discerning capacity - great to see and hear.

  • @junktex
    @junktex Год назад +4

    John Pilger,Sy Hersch,Julian Assange,Glenn Greenwald and Chris Hedges are the best

  • @grainster
    @grainster Год назад +6

    Yet western populations remain quiet on the issue, hold your governments accountable, you are by extension responsible for the actions of your elected officials.

    • @nikolamilicevic1040
      @nikolamilicevic1040 Год назад

      they wont ever do it cause their econmiues depend on pludnerign world and war crimes lol.tyhey have acted liek savages for centuries.

  • @MickeyMousehouse
    @MickeyMousehouse Год назад +4

    Imagine thinking you’re on the side of Good, fighting against Evil, believing in your government’s propaganda and using weapons that destroy the very fabric of life. Imagine waking up from that delusional nightmare. It’s No wonder we have skyrocketing numbers of suicide and ptsd in our military population.
    I feel like I’m in some dystopian nightmare. The only thing missing is Morgan freeman narrating it.
    I weep when I think of what future we are headed towards and what my children may face.

  • @afrozqazi8356
    @afrozqazi8356 Год назад +2

    Mr Pilger, I salute you sir.

  • @AbzScotland
    @AbzScotland Год назад +14

    First time in my life I'm ashamed to be British.

    • @musicandfilms9956
      @musicandfilms9956 Год назад +9

      Not a reader of history, then?

    • @khunmikeon858
      @khunmikeon858 Год назад +5

      What took you so long 😂 said the Irishman. But congrats finally on your revelation. 👏👏

    • @markbowden7238
      @markbowden7238 Год назад +1

      Let's hope you are five

    • @AbzScotland
      @AbzScotland Год назад

      Don't worry guys/gals all feelings are transient.🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @silentprayer4724
      @silentprayer4724 Год назад +2

      Better late than never !

  • @olegsavelyev690
    @olegsavelyev690 Год назад +3

    We need more people like John. God bless

  • @julieta203
    @julieta203 Год назад +4

    Imagine if even 1% of the current corporate media government stenographers had the talent and integrity of John Pilger. What a world that would be.

    • @nikolamilicevic1040
      @nikolamilicevic1040 Год назад

      world in such western emprie woudlnt parasite on rest of the world.hence you will hear onyy kernels of truith from several of guys in west.

  • @sharkamov
    @sharkamov Год назад +3

    *_HIDDEN_** history is always the key to the truth!* - John Pilger
    This profound axiom will go down in human history as the inner core of journalism and reporting!

  • @tancsun
    @tancsun Год назад +10

    Karma will find its way back to the perpetrators one day; can't wait.

    • @nikolamilicevic1040
      @nikolamilicevic1040 Год назад

      they have been invading kasrma for cneturies.stupdi relgious concepts wont change asnything but power of china and russia and irisng third world will

  • @thevanthatrocked
    @thevanthatrocked Год назад +4

    I worked at the steel company Hadeed in Jubail. We collected all the tanks from death road to try and melt down. I saw the holes made by depleated Uranium.

  • @Marty-hu7rw
    @Marty-hu7rw Год назад +3

    Thank you very much for this sad and very interesting article John Pilger.,thanks for bringing this to our attention ❤

  • @EkaterinaKokurina
    @EkaterinaKokurina Год назад +4

    This information is extremely valuable, thank you very much. Best wishes to your channel from Moscow ❤

  • @naradaian
    @naradaian Год назад +25

    The dust inside a tank firing U rounds is as dangerous as the dust from a disintegrated / impacted round ar any target. I think most of the Brit soldiers from Iraq were tankers. The us used it mostly in A10 'warthog' which I assume causes less exposure to pilots than when fired from US or UK tanks ...i assume the dust from firing inside tanks is impossible to get rid of....b note Its an assumption
    With regard to the locations - again the US fired from planes at 'targets of opportunity' ie willy nilly - the UK know precisely where the chieftains were. It used to be said that the Cambodia bombing campaign was planned specifically to use old bomb stock up so that the Pentagon could justify ordering brand new shiny bombs and kit - _ - thus it is highly likely that Britain will be happy to dump 'ancient' U rounds before expiry dates or legislation banning the use of DU rounds

    • @timsimpson9367
      @timsimpson9367 Год назад

      Chieftain Tanks??? Firing as main battle tanks??? It was Challenger Tanks, get your facts right. The Challenger used 3 types of ammo and it was mainly HESH rounds.

    • @jamesglass4842
      @jamesglass4842 Год назад

      Challenger 1 in the First Gulf War, Challenger 2 during the 2nd Gulf war. I know people who worked with DU in a now decommissioned Nuclear Power Station..and it’s not to be taken lightly. It is dangerous. You do not handle it with unprotected hands. I wonder how many X British Soldier who have Cancer from these ammunition’s?. The Politicians lie all the time.

  • @royalljenkins4205
    @royalljenkins4205 8 месяцев назад +3

    Rest In Peace John Pilger the best Journalist on Earth .

  • @koenig3593
    @koenig3593 Год назад +6

    I read his book Distant Voices in 1992. Sadly just as relevant today. Recommended read.

  • @luzandino2809
    @luzandino2809 Год назад +1

    You have all my respect and admiration. Thank you so much for your love to truth.

  • @stevejagger8602
    @stevejagger8602 Год назад +2

    In the mid 90’s I was working as a Freelance Broadcast Television Engineer for a short while for tv company in Battersea, London, UK.
    I worked alongside an Iraqi engineer, whose parents ran a children’s hospital in Baghdad. He told me how they struggled to care for sick children under the sanctions imposed by the west, and of the growing numbers of children they were caring for who were born with physical abnormalities from birth. He also said that the date palms along the Euphrates River were baring misshapen flowers and fruits post the 1990 invasion.

  • @colinbrigham8253
    @colinbrigham8253 Год назад +2

    Thank you 😊

  • @AK-cu8gw
    @AK-cu8gw Год назад +5

    Russia made sure they were blown up before it gets to the front line , U.K. money will spend .

  • @bm4751
    @bm4751 Год назад +4

    Warcrimes of the USA, thanks for documenting this

  • @stephencunningham6557
    @stephencunningham6557 Год назад +3

    The Anglo Saxon upper echelon cabal is one of the most venal enteties the planet has seen.

  • @FrancesSanchez-gw7lt
    @FrancesSanchez-gw7lt Год назад +6

    FYI WAGNER = EQUIVALENT TO RUSSIAN FOREIGN LEGION. THEY ARE ONLY AUTHORISED TO FIGHT FOR RUSSIA, WHEN OTHER GOVERNMENTS ASKED THEM FOR HELP. EG YOU CANNOT HIRE A WAGNER TO FIGHT SAY IN SUDAN FOR MONEY

  • @ChrisHalden007
    @ChrisHalden007 Год назад +2

    Great video. Thanks

  • @theo610
    @theo610 Год назад +18

    Amazing interview guys

  • @bryancarter9462
    @bryancarter9462 Год назад +4

    Not many good journalists like John pilger any more

  • @nevillemoodley5251
    @nevillemoodley5251 8 месяцев назад +1

    A man AMONGST men.🇿🇦✊

  • @lindsaybeadle2559
    @lindsaybeadle2559 Год назад +15

    Russia uses titianuim not depleted uranium just to put the record straight

    • @djape1977
      @djape1977 Год назад +3

      Pretty sure they actually use Tungsten ammo.
      Titanium wouldn't be very useful in ammo.

    • @bluenorsky4391
      @bluenorsky4391 Год назад

      Please can you explain what is the difference between the two?

    • @ronanrogers4127
      @ronanrogers4127 Год назад +6

      @@bluenorsky4391 tungsten is harder, and denser.

    • @djape1977
      @djape1977 Год назад +2

      @@ronanrogers4127 and not radioactive

    • @lindsaybeadle2559
      @lindsaybeadle2559 Год назад

      @@bluenorsky4391 they both go through steel like a knife through butter one is highly toxic ie depleted uranium the titanium is safe so to speak with no radiation fall out but titanium is much more expensive but one has morals the other pure evil regards lindsay

  • @davidcox9674
    @davidcox9674 Год назад +11

    Hopefully what I saw today is accurate. Russian missiles destroying a warehouse containing the tanks and depleted uranium shells.

  • @Michael-di5cl
    @Michael-di5cl Год назад +1

    ive grown up on johns reports,hes a great true full man.

  • @peterazlac1739
    @peterazlac1739 Год назад +5

    Putin did not move nuclear weapons into Belarus but rather because of the build-up of the Polish army with a stated objective of moving into Western Ukraine and establishing a Polish State from the Baltic to the Black Sea like existed 400 years ago but also the threat their large order of South Korena tanks, IFVs and HIMARS to Belarus where NATO has the stated aim of overthrowing its government.

    • @GG-kf8ox
      @GG-kf8ox Год назад

      Lol😅😅😅 ! Stay of the drugs

    • @urszula5189
      @urszula5189 Год назад

      ​@@GG-kf8ox tak idioto

    • @GG-kf8ox
      @GG-kf8ox Год назад

      @Urszula The Russia military will not exist in ukraine in the next few months ! The Western world hasn't even taken the gloves off yet ! What Russia doesn't understand is ukraine has 24 / 7 , eyes on everything that moves inside ukraine ! The best way out now for Russia is to put down the mad dog Putin 🐕 ! Before he can do any more damage to them .

    • @GG-kf8ox
      @GG-kf8ox Год назад

      @@urszula5189 f16 on the way !

    • @GG-kf8ox
      @GG-kf8ox Год назад +1

      @@urszula5189 The Russian military has No idea what has been flying in and out of Ukraine day and night ! Hope you understand the consequences of wageing this war against ukraine 🇺🇦 and its people who want nothing to do with Russian or mad dog 🐕 Putin ! Do the right thing for the Russian people and take him out !

  • @matt_cummins28
    @matt_cummins28 Год назад +1

    Absolutely fantastic analysis. Massive DCUK fan (thanks Phil), and John, in addition to being a journalistic hero, wrote the preface to a book by another pair of truth speakers (Edwards and Cromwell of Medialens) "Propaganda Blitz", which itself goes someway to explaining why we need folks like yourselves to fill in the huge gaps in what we (mostly don't) get told. Thanks very much to Consortium News for hosting.

  • @cakeofthepan2233
    @cakeofthepan2233 Год назад +1

    Phil.. although understated, was great…I’ll be watching you…John is always great.

  • @annesaunders3851
    @annesaunders3851 8 месяцев назад +5

    John Pilger R I P.
    ❤❤❤

  • @Hide_and_silk
    @Hide_and_silk Год назад +4

    Much of present day radiobiological knowledge comes from empirical studies of the effects of the bombing of Hiroshima (I know as I spent many hours in these lectures!) The only reason why radiobiogical studies have not been expanded to determine a definitive correlation between DU and carcinoma is because of the deliberate obstruction to such research by certain countries.

  • @Matt-vo1ge
    @Matt-vo1ge Год назад +2

    An actual journalist.

  • @Dragon3514-m9u
    @Dragon3514-m9u 11 месяцев назад +1

    Praise the truth tellers and bless 🙌 🙏 them all.

  • @ColtraneTaylor
    @ColtraneTaylor Год назад +1

    Respect to Phil Miller, a true investigative journalist.

  • @dstuart5612
    @dstuart5612 Год назад

    Fabulous gentlemen, thank you so much.

  • @Nikolay_Grigoryev
    @Nikolay_Grigoryev Год назад +3

    The Wagner group is not technically a mercenary group. They are the equivalent of the French foreign legion. They fight for Russian interests.

    • @nikolamilicevic1040
      @nikolamilicevic1040 Год назад

      now they asre.before war they were not part of russian armed forces nor were directly foudned. As least it was denied they are.Forerign legion was formally part of French army since foundation.

  • @stevebrennan2873
    @stevebrennan2873 Год назад +1

    Excellent presentation-
    add................
    The late war correspondent Robert Fisk in his book-"War on civilisation"outlined the horrific toll of cancer in Iraq children after the Gulf War instigated by the use of depleted uranium munitions.Also the refusal-due to "sanctions" to allow the supply the necessary medical supplies to provide relief-
    I tried reading the book twice but couldn't complete it as it was too disturbing

  • @FrancesSanchez-gw7lt
    @FrancesSanchez-gw7lt Год назад +4

    YES BEN WALLACE works for uk mic/usa , mot FOR THE UK PEOPLES/ they are not concerned for Ueaine either

  • @muckle8
    @muckle8 5 месяцев назад +1

    Such a shame John sadly expired , the world could use his honest integrity right now.

  • @peterelliott2914
    @peterelliott2914 Год назад +3

    It's not the act of a responsible leader to even contemplate using this stuff in your own country. I'd even have to say he's completely mad. Unless he doesn't regard the Donbass as part of Ukraine I guess.