Come and See, and Prevent World War III.

Screenshot from the film: “Come and See”

By Jerry Alatalo | March 12, 2024

“We must say what everybody knows but does not venture to say. We must say that by whatever name men may call murder – murder always remains murder. . . . They will cease to see the service of their country, the heroism of war, military glory, and patriotism, and will see what exists: the naked, criminal business of murder!” – LEO TOLSTOY (1828-1910) Address to the Swedish Government Congress Peace Conference, 1909

Given growing concerns of escalating war since the Russian government’s initiation of its “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine in February 2022, we’ve thought hard about ways of contributing to efforts at negotiating a peaceful end to the war before the situation becomes unmanageable. 

Whether sharing the powerhouse 1985 anti-war film “Come and See” – brought to the cinema by Russian Director Elem Klimov – and the late, great movie critic Roger Ebert (1942-2013) 1985 review of the film will make a good difference in the name of peace in March 2024, or the message misses the mark, remains to be seen.  

Most reviewers of the film place it among the top anti-war films ever made, with some confident enough in their views to conclude that “Come and See” deserves recognition as the single most important anti-war film ever produced. In a sane world, anti-war films such as this would be made far more often, rising above the competition in every annual Academy Awards ceremony – until the message is finally received, and war becomes extinct, a thing of the far distant past which students of history can only look back upon in disbelief and horror. 

Given the unprecedented seriousness of the current disappointing situation on Earth with respect to the potential for World War III, we anticipated no objection to the exercise of artistic license; that the owner(s) of RogerEbert.com wouldn’t need to be asked for any copyright permission, and would, if asked, gladly encourage the public to share the late Mr. Ebert’s review of a film which can help increase understanding of the past and present root cause(s) of each war. 

With that said, we have borrowed Roger Ebert’s review of “Come and See” and share it here (in italics):

Review by Roger Ebert (1942-2013) of “Come And See”, the 1985 anti-war film by Russian Director Elem Klimov.
It’s said that you can’t make an effective anti-war film because war by its nature is exciting, and the end of the film belongs to the survivors. No one would ever make the mistake of saying that about Elem Klimov’s “Come and See.” This 1985 film from Russia is one of the most devastating films ever about anything, and in it, the survivors must envy the dead.
The film begins with an ambiguous scene, as a man calls out commands to invisible others on a beach. Who is he? Who is he calling to? Why is he fed up with them?

It’s revealed that he’s calling out to children who have concealed themselves among the reeds. They are playing games of war, and digging in the sand for weapons concealed or lost during some earlier conflict.

We meet them. Florya, perhaps 14, lives nearby with his family. It is 1943, Hitler’s troops are invading the Soviet republic of Byelorussia, and Florya (Aleksey Kravchenko) dreams of becoming a heroic partisan and defending his homeland. He wants to leave home and volunteer. His family forbids him. But as events unfold, he leaves, is accepted in a fighting unit, forced to change his newer shoes with a veteran’s worn-out ones and is taken under the wing of these battle-weary foot soldiers.

He is still young. He seems younger than his years in early scenes, and much, much older in later ones. At first he is eager to do a good job; posted as a sentry, told to fire on anyone who doesn’t know the password, he challenges a girl scarcely older than he is. He does not shoot her; indeed, he never shoots anybody. They grow friendly. Glasha (Olga Mironova), innocent and warm, dreams of her future. Florya is not articulate and may be mentally slow, but he is touched.

The film follows him for its entire length, sometimes pausing to look aside at details of horror. He doesn’t see everything. In particular, there’s a scene where he and the girl, separated from the army unit, return to his family farm, where he expects a warm welcome. There is nobody there, furniture is upturned, but it seems they’ve just left. A pot of soup is still warm. He suddenly becomes convinced he knows where they’re gone, and pulls her to run with him to an island in a marshland. Then she sees a sight that he doesn’t.

Such a departure from his point of view doesn’t let us off easy. All he sees is horror, and all he doesn’t see is horror, too. Later Florya finds himself in a village as Nazi occupiers arrive. There is a sustained sequence as they methodically round up all the villagers and lock them into a barn. The images evoke the Holocaust. As he’s shoved in as part of the seething crowd, Florya’s eyes never leave the windows high above the floor. By now his only instinct in life has become to escape death. Parents and children, old people and infants, are all packed in. The Nazis call for any able-bodied men to come out. The fathers stay with their families.

Florya scrambles out a window and watches as the Nazis burn down the barn, its locked double doors heaving from the desperation inside. This is a horrifying scene, avoiding facile cutaways and simply standing back and regarding.
This incident, and the story of the boy himself, are based on fact. Many Russian films have depicted the horror of Nazism, because Hitler was a safe target and a convenient stand-in for political allegory closer to home. This film is much more than an allegory. I have rarely seen a film more ruthless in its depiction of human evil.

The principal Nazi monster in the film, S.S. Major Sturmbannfuhrer, is a suave, heartless beast not a million miles distant from Tarantino’s Col. Hans Landa. He toys with an unpleasant little simian pet that clings to his neck. He is almost studious in his murderous commands. His detachment embodies power, which is the thing Florya never for a moment possesses throughout the movie. It is possible that Florya survives because he is so manifestly powerless. To look at him is to see a mind reeling from shock. One would like to think the depiction of the Nazis is exaggerated, but no. The final title card says, “The Nazis burned down 628 Byelorussian villages together with all the people in them.”

It strains credulity to imagine Florya surviving all the horrors that he witnesses, but there was a real Florya, and Klimov’s script was written with Ales Adamovich; Klimov told Ron Holloway in a 1986 interview, “Adamovich was the same age as the hero in the film. He and his family fought with the partisans and witnessed the genocide perpetrated by the Nazis on Belarussian soil.” Klimov added that his film was shot in Byelorussia (now known as Belarus) near where the events took place, and that he used no professional actors.

The film depicts brutality and is occasionally very realistic, but there’s an overlay of muted nightmarish exaggeration. The swamp that Florya and Glasha wade through, for example, has a thick gelatinous top layer that seems like a living, malevolent skin. There’s a sequence in which Florya becomes involved with some cows who will become food for starving troops. He and the cow are in a field obscured by a thick fog when machine-gun fire breaks out — from where, he cannot tell.

The eventual death of the beast is told in a series of images that mirror the inexorable shutting down of life. The cow’s life was doomed one way or another, but these suggest how utterly incomprehensible death is to the cow. The nightmare intensifies after Florya is too near an artillery bombardment and is deafened. The sound becomes muted, and there is a faint ringing, which makes the reality of sound frustratingly out of reach for him.

Is it true that audiences demand some kind of release or catharsis? That we cannot accept a film that leaves us with no hope? That we struggle to find uplift in the mire of malevolence? There’s a curious scene here in a wood, the sun falling down through the leaves, when the soundtrack, which has been grim and mournful, suddenly breaks free into Mozart. And what does this signify? A fantasy, I believe, and not Florya’s, who has probably never heard such music. The Mozart descends into the film like a deus ex machina, to lift us from its despair. We can accept it if we want, but it changes nothing. It is like an ironic taunt.

I must not describe the famous sequence at the end. It must unfold as a surprise for you. It pretends to roll back history. You will see how. It is unutterably depressing, because history can never undo itself, and is with us forever.

I learn from IMDb.com that the film’s title, seemingly so straightforward, has a bleak context. It comes from the Book of Revelation: “And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, ‘Come and see.’ And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the Earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the Earth.”

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If the reader believes the information in this post has the potential to slow and/or prevent the catastrophic outbreak of World War III, we would humbly and sincerely ask the information becomes share widely. Thank you. 

Peace.

WARNING: The film contains excessive violence, both physical and psychological. The content should be shared with/seen by mature audiences only.  

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Patrick Lawrence Delivers a Profoundly Important Message.

Article reposted from ConsortiumNews.com by Jerry Alatalo | April 19, 2025

 

Wikipedia: Polemic is contentious rhetoric intended to support a specific position by forthright claims and to undermine the opposing position. The practice of such argumentation is called polemics, which are seen in arguments on controversial topics. A person who writes polemics, or speaks polemically, is called a polemicist.

Some might categorize Patrick Lawrence as a polemicist; others may describe what he’s put to print here in “Late-Imperial Maladies” as simple human common sense.

Whether Mr. Lawrence meets the definition of polemicist or man of simple human common sense, or any one of the many human character trait descriptions sandwiched in between polemicist and man of common sense, it is safe to say one thing with absolute certainty:

Mr. Lawrence’s message here is one of profound, paramount importance for every man, woman and child on Earth.

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Patrick Lawrence: Late-Imperial Maladies

The worst part of living this distance from reality — or maybe the best part — is the knowledge, even if it is only subliminal, that we cannot go on like this.

Gaza Will Be Free, 14th Street NW, Washington, D.C., Nov. 8, 2023. (Mike Maguire, Flickr, CC BY 2.0)

By Patrick Lawrence
Special to Consortium News

I am sick of reading that the Israelis’ genocidal murder spree in Gaza is justified as a matter of self-defense. 

I am sick of reading nothing at all in corporate media, while reading daily in independent media, about the Israelis’ genocidal murder spree in the West Bank. 

I am sick of reading nothing in mainstream media about the Zionists’ plan to construct a version of Eretz Israel, Greater Israel, that never existed.

I am sick of reading about Zionist settlers in the Occupied Territories without any mention that they are all criminals. 

I am sick of being told that Hamas is “a terrorist organization,” ditto Hezbollah, when these are no more or less than liberation fronts. 

I am sick of reading that Hamas tortures hostages and the phony accounts of mistreatment coming from those Hamas has released. 

I am sick of seeing no photographs in Western media of the scarred and three-quarters starved Palestinian hostages Israel lets out of its jails in exchange for decently treated Israeli hostages. 

 

I am sick of America’s silence — in government, in the press — as Israeli settlers and occupation forces shoot American citizens of Palestinian background — two of them, in recent days, children and one of whom died. 

I am sick of Western media’s silence as the Israeli military targets, hunts down, and murders hundreds of non–Western journalists reporting from Gaza.  

I am sick of The New York Times’ incessantly repeated sentence, “The Gaza Health Ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants.”

I am sick of reading that the Zionists’ military will investigate its own war crimes and crimes against humanity. 

I am sick of people such as Sheryl Sandberg still pretending that The New York Times’ infamous takeout alleging Hamas’s sexual misconduct on Oct. 7, 2023, has not been thoroughly exposed as systematic Israeli propaganda. 

I am sick, for that matter, of seeing Jeffrey Gettleman’s byline in the Times, as if this out-and-out punk did not decisively discredit himself as well as his Zionist-supervised newspaper when he reproduced Israel’s fabrications in his “Screams Without Words” “report” in December 2023.  

I am sick of hearing that anti–Semitism is rampant in America because it is “anti–Semitic” to object to the criminal conduct of a nation that has earned no right to exist. I am sick, I may as well add, of walking around being told I am an anti–Semite by this preposterous definition.  

I am tired of reading that bombing Yemen is a justifiable act when the Houthis and the South Africans, they alone, act according to international law when they attack the Zionist terror state in the courts and on the seas.  

I am sick of being told the jihadist murderer who seized control in Damascus last year is acceptable because he wears a suit when he has to and is not Bashar al–Assad. 

Syria’s President Ahmad Al-Sharaa, formerly known as Al-Jolani,greeting European Commissioner Hadja Lahbib in Syria on Jan. 17. (European Union, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0)

I am sick of the incessant use of the word “unprovoked” when Western media describe the Russian military intervention in Ukraine. 

I am sick of hearing that Moscow’s stated intent to de–Nazify Ukraine has no legitimacy because there are no Nazis in Ukraine.

I am sick of the suggestion that I am to take Volodymyr Zelensky to be anything more than a puppet of Washington and a rampant crook beholden to the Nazis who do not exist in Ukraine. 

I am sick of listening to Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, tell me that Russian President Vladimir Putin is nothing more than a tyrant intent on reconstructing the Czarist empire when, statesman to stateswoman, she is unworthy of carrying Putin’s attaché case.  

I am sick of listening to American and European officials state with phony gravity that Russia intends to invade the whole of Western Europe.

I am sick of reading that China “claims Taiwan” as if the island is not historically Chinese territory. And I am sick of hearing that China could “invade” Taiwan, its own territory, at any moment.

I am sick of watching ignoramuses (ignorami?) such as Pam Bondi, Kash Patel and Kristi Noem — U.S. attorney general, F.B.I. director and secretary of homeland security — act as if they are serious human beings properly assigned to some of America’s highest offices. This is to leave unmentioned the frightening primitive who employs these people and his crypto-fascist aide de camp. 

Alas, readers, there is so much to be sick of in the world at the hands of those who purport to lead the Western half of it. I have not the time and my esteemed editors would not give me the space to offer a complete list. 

But we must record our sicknesses, all of them — our maladies, our fatigue, our shared nausea, our unrelenting tsouris [Editor’s note: Definition of “tsouris” Another variant of tsooris, indicating troubles or problems.] as we make our ways through our days. Let us remind each other of them whenever occasions arise, for our sicknesses are the beginning of our objections and our objections, best outcome, the beginning of action. 

If I had to describe in a brief phrase the burden of being alive in the third decade of the 21st century I would say it derives from the distance those who run the Western world have taken us from reality. 

Think of those items on my (very partial) list of sicknesses. Each one is a painful reminder that we in the West have lost our moorings and, indeed, our humanity and reason — each one an expression of the state of unreality imposed upon us.  

This thing we call reality is full of suffering, as the Buddhists will remind us whenever we ask them, and we always speak of it in these terms. “Get real!” we insist to one another, as if this is a bitter undertaking we would rather avoid. But don’t we realize, when reality is taken away from us, how what is ever difficult is equally ever to be celebrated?

Politicians on either side of the international date line, West and East, are no strangers to lying and misrepresentation. There are no angels in high places in the world as we have made it, no philosopher kings (which, I come reluctantly to wonder, may be our best way out of the chaos of our time). But it is only as empires end, if I read history correctly, that societies enter into what Hannah Arendt used to call “an Alice-in–Wonderland atmosphere.” 

The worst part of living this distance from reality — or maybe the best part — is the knowledge, even if it is only subliminal, that we cannot go on like this. The American imperium, which is the author of all our vaporous conceits, cannot go on indefinitely pretending about Israel’s innocence, and who the Russians are, and the evil intent of Chinese, and all the rest.

This is not only impossible to imagine: It is by definition impossible plain and simple. It is impossible according to the laws of history. 

I come now to the true burden of all our maladies. Our Sandbergs and Zelenskys and Gettlemans and von der Leyens: These, a few of the clowns populating our time. They are what D.H. Lawrence used to call “T.I.P.s,” temporarily important people. But they serve to remind us that to live again in any kind of better world we must make it ourselves. 

Patrick Lawrence, a correspondent abroad for many years, chiefly for the International Herald Tribune, is a columnist, essayist, lecturer and author, most recently of Journalists and Their Shadows, available from Clarity Press or via Amazon.  Other books include Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century. His Twitter account, @thefloutist, has been permanently censored.

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Dennis Kucinich and Kevin Barrett Share an Easter Message.

by Jerry Alatalo | April 18, 2025

Being a longtime follower of Dr. Kevin Barrett’s False Flag Weekly News and an equally longtime supporter of the views held by Dennis Kucinich made sharing the recent discussion between the two men what the kids these days call a no-brainer. 

Those who watch and listen will likely share the same feeling of encouragement experienced upon witnessing well-known public figures engage in a rare, honest, sober talk about the state of the world; particularly encouraging – when the vast majority of such world affairs discussions these days feature participants whose agendas include anything but engagement in discourse with a maximum dosage of rarely illustrated mature wisdom, honesty and sobriety.

Mr. Kucinich referenced a song from the 1960s titled “One Tin Soldier” to emphasize a point during the discussion. Wikipedia: One Tin Soldier is a 1960s anti-war song written by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter. It was recorded by various artists, including The Original Caste, Coven, and Skeeter Davis, and featured in the film Billy Jack.

That reference prompted in me the memory of Pink Floyd’s social commentary song, “On the Turning Away”, whereupon I commented and contributed with the song’s powerful lyrics:

“Mr. Kucinich referenced the song ‘One Tin Soldier’ to emphasize his point. The Pink Floyd song, ‘On the Turning Away’, carries the same powerful message and remains relevant today.

On the Turning Away, Song by Pink Floyd

On the turning away

From the pale and downtrodden

And the words they say

Which we won’t understand

Don’t accept that what’s happening

Is just a case of others’ suffering

Or you’ll find that you’re joining in

The turning away

It’s a sin that somehow

Light is changing to shadow

And casting its shroud

Over all we have known

Unaware how the ranks have grown

Driven on by a heart of stone

We could find that we’re all alone

In the dream of the proud

On the wings of the night

As the daytime is stirring

Where the speechless unite in a silent accord

Using words, you will find, are strange

Mesmerised as they light the flame

Feel the new wind of change

On the wings of the night

No more turning away

From the weak and the weary

No more turning away

From the coldness inside

Just a world that we all must share

It’s not enough just to stand and stare

Is it only a dream that there’ll be

No more turning away?”

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LyricsMeanings.com: “On the Turning Away” by Pink Floyd is a poignant and introspective song that delves into themes of empathy, social consciousness, and the human tendency to ignore the suffering of others. The central theme of the song revolves around the idea of people turning away from the plight of those who are downtrodden and marginalized in society.

Happy Easter. To everyone. Peace.

Who’s Next on Nazi 4th Reich Dictator Trump’s Kidnapping List?

Article cross-posted from PopularResistence.org by Jerry Alatalo | April 16, 2025

[Editor’s note: My apartment in Naperville, Illinois was searched by county sheriff deputies, in “No knock”/covert fashion enabled by Fascist legal provisions of the USA Patriot Act, due to my (innocent) purchase of John Perkins’ explosive bestselling (but never reviewed by corporate news organizations) book, “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” (published 2004). DuPage county is arguably the most conservative county in America. 

Comments made by sheriff deputies (customers), directed at me, in the retail uniform store where I worked at the time, included details about me which nobody but someone who searched my apartment could possibly know. I was single/lived alone, and, because my job entailed exhaustive personal interaction with a very large number of customers and phone contact with vendors, plus I worked considerable hours off-the-clock, I had come to cherish solitude off-the-job.

The most chilling and revealing comment or clue came one day from that same 500-man sheriff department’s man in charge of uniforms (Quartermaster), when he blurted out of nowhere into my face, without explanation, across the store counter, “You’ve got a target on your back!”  It was afterward when I determined my apartment was searched due to the controversial nature of Perkins’ book, and that “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” was likely included on a compilation of blacklisted books sitting inside law enforcement agencies (police and sheriff) across America.

I believe a good man, a high-ranking long-serving veteran deputy sheriff (a top management “White shirt” of the agency) in that sheriff’s department, was unfairly forced into early retirement, simply because he and I associated in a completely innocent, friendly manner. (I had brought my copy of the book to the store to [innocently] share/show and strongly recommend it to customers).

The thought never crossed my mind of the eventual frustrating consequences to come when innocently handing Perkins’ book to a fellow top (White shirt) member of the department with my request to “Please give this to Dave”. If by some chance you come to read these words, Dave, I never got the chance to talk with you to clarify/explain what happened to you and apologize.

That chilling personal experience and the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia drives me to share his shocking story, in hopes that growing awareness will succeed in preventing an on-the-ground reenactment or reemergence of Nazi 3rd Reich Gestapo crimes in America.

Here is my brief comment at Popular Resistance:

“Trump’s comments have raised alarms that all people in the US, not solely immigrants, could be targeted by the Trump administration to be sent to CECOT without due process.

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Nazi 4th Reich Gestapo (Secret State Police) tactics appear to be getting readied for expansion. Perhaps the U.S. Supreme Court will issue the Trump administration a preventive warning – before dissenters opposed to the Fascist policies of Dictator Trump become kidnapped en masse from streets, sidewalks, parks, beaches and homes all across America.”]

SALVADORAN PRESIDENT REFUSES TO RETURN WRONGFULLY DEPORTED MAN

• By People’s Dispatch.

• April 15, 2025
• Educate!

Above photo: Nayib Bukele meets with Trump in the Oval Office. The White House.

With Trump’s Backing.

The Trump administration has admitted that Maryland worker Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported due to an “administrative error,” but has defied court orders to return him to his family

“Of course I’m not going to do it,” Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele told reporters when asked if he would return the wrongfully deported Maryland worker Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States. Bukele was surrounded by Trump administration officials and seated next to President Trump himself in the Oval Office, who smiled at the Central American leader in approval. Bukele claimed that returning the 27-year-old Maryland sheet metal worker would be akin to smuggling “a terrorist into the United States.” Neither the US or El Salvador’s governments have provided any evidence that Garcia participated in gang or criminal activity.

After Bukele’s response, Trump said of the assembled reporters, “They’d love to have a criminal released into our country. These are sick people.”

After being deported due to what the Trump administration admitted was an “administrative error,” Garcia was imprisoned without trial in El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), alongside over 200 other immigrants who were sent on Trump’s illegal deportation flights to the Central American country in defiance of a federal court order. CECOT is notorious for human rights abuses, and notably no inmate has ever been released from the prison since its opening in late January 2023. The government of El Salvador does not expect that CECOT prisoners will ever be released.

The Trump administration conceded that Garcia should not have been deported to El Salvador because of a 2019 decision by an immigration judge, which barred him from being sent there due to a potential threat to his life from gang violence. On April 10, the US Supreme Court unanimously found Garcia’s deportation to be illegal, rejecting the Trump administration’s claim that because they had no jurisdiction over El Salvador, the government could not bring him back to the United States. The Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to “facilitate” Garcia’s release. The administration has argued that this only requires it to adjust Garcia’s immigration status to readmit him into the US if El Salvador chooses to release him from CECOT.

As Bukele and Trump met in the oval office, Trump was shown on camera telling the Salvadoran President to prepare for deportations of “home-growns” next to prison camps like CECOT. “You gotta build about five more places. It’s not big enough,” Trump told the El Salvadorean leader. Trump’s comments have raised alarms that all people in the US, not solely immigrants, could be targeted by the Trump administration to be sent to CECOT without due process. (Bold emphasis added)

A wide array of forces have rallied for Garcia’s return to his family, including the union he was a part of as a sheet metal worker in the United States, the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART).

Des Moines, Seattle, Tampa, Newark, Houston…

Posted by Jerry Alatalo | April 12, 2025

I had contemplated sharing the discussion between host Zowe Smith and guest Sasha Latypova for a time, before listening to their discussion in its entirety for a 2nd time and deciding the information the two women provide rises to the level of important enough for people needing to hear it. 

What influenced my sharing decision was Ms. Smith and Ms. Latypova, early on, sharing a short video segment of a lecture by neuroscientist James Giordano, the man who arguably originated the terrifying term: “The Brain is the Battlefield of the Future”. James Giordano may have unwittingly described precisely what occurred to launch the so-called “COVID Pandemic”: A covert (secret) biological warfare operation, as the essential first phase of a far larger multi-phase covert operation spanning the entire Earth. 

Also influencing my decision to pull the trigger and share this important discussion was Sasha Latypova’s clear, sober spoken letter (shown at the conclusion of the talk) to now-U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., where she makes a strong case to RFK Jr. for repealing the hugely (incalculably) detrimental 2005 Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act).   

This is not to say that their discussion in between the shocking clip of James Giordano at the start and the thoroughly convincing letter to HHS Secretary RFK Jr. at the conclusion is of any lesser value. Their entire talk provides facts and details Americans should/need to know about.   

Here is my brief comment at Rumble.com: 

“It is scandalous to observe the inaction of law enforcement and elected politicians, – despite the publicly available immense body of compiled evidence proving COVID corruption, fraud and the premediated mass murder of millions worldwide.

“It is infuriating and equally scandalous, yet comes, sadly, as NO surprise, that neuro-warfare expert/neuroscientist James Giordano, medical industry veteran Sasha Latypova, medical patents expert David Martin, medical coding industry expert Zowe Smith and others have NOT yet been invited to testify in front of the United States Congress.”

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Zowe Smith’s website: ThrillKillMedicalCult.com

Sasha Latypova’s Substack: SashaLatypova.Substack.com