An open letter to Glenn Diesen:

Scott Ritter and whom you invite onto your programs

Glenn,

It is with sadness that I inform you that I will no longer accept interview invitations on your channel.

I just listened to the first 3 minutes of your latest chat with Scott Ritter, and since you did not warn him against vicious gutter attacks on me, knowing surely that he would do this following his other very recent podcasts, and particularly Ritter on Consortium News with Joe Lauria last week, I do not see that you are exercising the host’s obligation to set ground rules and prevent the channel being used for defamatory purposes.   When Ritter said that Doctorow was speaking the biggest piece of horse shit he has seen in his life, he crossed all red lines of civilized discourse and you did nothing about it.

Tant pis.  We all will be judged by the company we keep.

Gilbert D.

A word to the Community:

I understand that the Putin cheerleader cohort is greatly disturbed by any suggestion that Russia might be losing the war even if it is couched in the specific frame that I am applying: namely that Putin’s victory on the ground in further territorial conquest is in fact a Pyrrhic victory given the damage being done to Russian deterrence and sovereignty on the Russian homeland. And so some of my peers throw facts and reason to the wind in an ugly effort to stifle dissent in the Alternative Media.

As you will see when last night’s interview with Michael Farris (Coffee and a Mike) is posted, most likely later today, my understanding of the grave situation created by the intensifying Ukrainian (read NATO) drone attacks was validated by none other than the RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs during its 3-hour teleconference on Kherson oblast last Friday to which I was invited as a representative of Belgium. The Governor of Kherson and other authorities explained how and why the region has become nearly uninhabitable due to the drones. No electricity, no mine-free streets or sidewalks, real deprivation and fear for their lives. The same situation exists today in the Crimea which has been effectively cut off from mainland Russia.   If this is the smell of victory, what does Russian defeat look like?

I will use every possibility at my disposal to learn more about the accelerating NATO attacks via Ukraine and about what effect Russia’s reprisal strikes are having.

My apologies go out to those among you who wish to believe that we are all angels on the side of Good.  No, life is more complicated.

©Gilbert Doctorow, 2026

Published July 16, 2026