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  1. “Mr. Credico: At any rate, I strongly urge that this should come to an end. We must end the march of folly before the march of folly ends us. Let me conclude with the words of President Lula da Silva of Brazil, who said recently that the United States must stop promoting war and start talking about peace. He is right, and most of the world agrees with that. The only way to do that is to end arms shipments to Ukraine.”

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  2. “Do we have Coleman stoves, Carrier air conditioners or television sets? There is no product that benefits the American people there. I said, “How could he use and exploit the tragedy in Gaza to push and hustle for more weapons for Ukraine?””

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  3. “And then the other day, I saw President Biden on television, ostensibly there to talk about the attacks in Israel and the genocide that is taking place in Gaza. That is supposedly why he was there, but he spent only about 30 seconds talking about the matter and used it as a vehicle to hustle the American people into shelling out more money to send more weapons to Ukraine so that they can kill more civilians, just as they have done in Donetsk and in Mariupol. He used that situation, saying that it was going to create jobs. Well, what kind of jobs are we creating here with the money they are asking us to give them? What kind of jobs are they? He said that they are going to create a lot of jobs there. What kind of jobs? What kind of products are they? Toasters? How does it benefit us? Do we have incubators? Do we have sneakers?”

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  4. “She had relatives and friends who were killed during the liberation of Mariupol and prior by Azov forces that were very brutal throughout that period of time. But they are staying. They are rebuilding. They are not going anywhere. They ended up being at the Azovstal, with Azov Battalion troops firing missiles willy-nilly into civilian-populated areas. I must say, by the way, that driving to Mariupol, at 90 miles an hour, with this Russian driver in his armoured vehicle, there were these petal mines on both sides. They had not yet been defused, but they were all over the place. They are definitely targeting civilians in Donbas. That is what I saw. I saw a lot more while I was there.”

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  5. “That is one of the reasons why I stand up against it and against the acceleration. What do you want next, army tactical missile systems? It is bad enough with these HIMARS missiles. They were targeting civilians, and that was it. And I was scared. And they stayed. Then I went to Mariupol. Down there, I saw all the damage done. It looked like Dresden. I walked down Nicholas Street, which was totally levelled, including a building that had been bombed by Azov fanatics, or Azov militants. They bombed a 200-unit apartment building. From there, I walked through the rubble and found this little spot, a little oasis — this makeshift little café run by two teenage women, one who I got to know, by the name of Valery.”

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  6. ““How on Earth are you able to do this?” And they said, “this is our land. I am staying here; you can kill me”. And everybody said the same thing: “They do not care about us. They are hitting civilian targets to terrorize us and get us out of here to take our land and our resources. They do not care about us at all.” And this happened the whole time that I was there, including when I was on my way back to New York City, on Easter Sunday at 5.30 in the morning. They did the same thing. Ukrainian forces, 8 or 9 kilometres away, shelled a Russian Orthodox Church — the biggest one there — at 5.30 in the morning, killing some early worshippers. And then 30 or 40 minutes later, they did it again and killed more people. That is what we are doing with those HIMARS missiles.”

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  7. “The second day I was there, there was an open-air market, similar to what we have. The same HIMARS missiles hit an open-air market, just like the one at Union Square, down the street over here. It was the kind of market, in which women were putting out flowers for the upcoming Easter Sunday at the Russian Orthodox Church. They hit that. And then 20 minutes later — I was there; I reported on it — I saw the HIMARS missile slam into the market and into the back of the market. I got there a couple of hours later, but it was a civilian target that they hit with United States missiles — HIMARS missiles. They did that. I spoke to the women up front with their flowers. They were elderly women. A lot of people were killed. And I said, “how do you do this?” They were putting the flowers back together again.”

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  8. “Mr. Credico: Alright, I will do so. I will say that I went down to Donbas. I went by train to Rostov and then by armoured vehicle to Mariupol, Donetsk. I arrived, and this is the point here about what I saw when I was down there. The very first day I was down there, in Donetsk, what did I see? I saw a university that was shelled with a United States Lockheed Martin high-mobility artillery rocket system (HIMARS) missile. That was the first day I was there, and this happened all week. This is their modus operandi. They hit the university, and then emergency medical services personnel show up to tend to the wounded and carry out the dead. And then 20 minutes later, the same place is shelled again to inflict maximum damage on the people who were there helping. That was the very first day.”

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  9. “They also taught us how to put on a tourniquet if somebody lost the leg, and where to put it on the elbow and the knee, so as to not cut off circulation. So this was an awful lot to absorb for me. Then they started talking about red zones, green zones and yellow zones and the difference between them and all of that. And I have to tell you something, I said “I am not going; this is too much for me; I am not going to go”. But I told the guys, I am leaving. Goodbye, guys. Let us say goodbye —”

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  10. “I hooked up with a couple of French journalists and a Russian half-journalist and translator, and we went on to Donbas. But before we went, I had to take a one-day crash course in first aid. And it was very scary because the first thing they teach you is to be careful when you get to Donbas and Mariupol in Donetsk — be careful not to walk on the grass. Do not walk on the grass because the grass was inundated with what are called “petal”, or “butterfly” mines, which are totally banned. I had read prior to my visit that several people had been maimed, including children. A 15-year-old kid had been killed. So that was the first thing — the petal mines. That got into my head — do not walk on the grass. Of course, I did walk on the grass when I got over there, because I am so absent-minded.”

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  11. “That was because once in Russia, from all that I had heard in the mainstream media, it was gloom and doom, and the Russian economy was dead. There would be long breadlines, soup kitchens and all of that, because of the economic sanctions imposed on Russia by the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States. I got there on 2 April and stayed five days in Moscow. While I was in Moscow, I did not see any signs whatsoever of economic decay. It was just the opposite. Store shelves were full. There were cars on the streets. There were so many cars, so much traffic that it looked like the Long Island Expressway during rush hour. That is how crowded it was. The bars were full; the restaurants were full. The bars were three deep. I thought: “I do not see anything here, so now I will go to Donbas”.”

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  12. “I went to the Station Manager and Programme Director, Linda Perry, and said, can I go over there and report for WBAI and get my own view? That was because there were no Western reporters in Donbas. I wanted to go to Donbas and find out what was going on. Nobody was there. They were all in Kyiv. And she said, yeah, here you go. So, I went. On my way to Russia, I spent two days in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. It was a lovely experience — wonderful people, a beautiful city — very hospitable — and great food, at a place called Gal. I ate at a place called Gal, because I thought it was going to be my last meal. I really did. I said this will be my last meal. I really thought I was going to die when I was over there. I thought it was going to be my last good meal.”

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  13. “Since 24 February 2022, the public has seen nothing but anti-Russian disinformation and distortions, Russophobia and anti-Russian mass hatred through the lens of the corporate media outlets. And the hysteria has gotten so bad that recently a performance of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7, the Leningrad Symphony, was cancelled at Lincoln Center. Imagine that: in New York City, they cancelled it. It has been a year and a half since 24 February 2022. After a year of seeing the same stuff — the same Russophobia on television and their slanted view — it was almost like the mainstream media were an echo chamber of the narrative being pumped out of Washington, D.C., from the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency, the White House and the State Department — I decided that I would go and find out for myself what was going on.”

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  14. “It is a free speech radio station, which has been around for 60 years. It takes absolutely no money from hedge funds, corporations or from the Government. It is completely listener supported, which makes it unique. It gives us a lot of freedom and latitude at the station to speak the truth. Right now, I am supposed to be there, as I have to show that starts at 3 p.m. and ends 5 p.m. at WBAI. But I am not there; I am here. However, they are broadcasting the entirety of this meeting. They will broadcast it for as long as it takes. My audience will hear not just me, but the Ukrainian Ambassador and everybody else on the speakers list. We do not engage in censorship at WBAI, which is a stark contrast to what people hear or see in the mainstream media.”

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  15. “Well, I will tell everybody who I am. I am Randy Credico. For many years, since I was 19, which is 50 years ago, a political satirist, voice impressionist and comedian, which is what I did. I appeared on a lot of television shows. I even appeared at the Smithsonian, a lot of nightclubs in Las Vegas and many other venues. I am also a civil rights activist. For 15 years, I was the Director of the prestigious William Moses Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice, during which time I received four awards including two from the heroic and saintly Argentine Madres de Plaza de Mayo Línea Fundadora. I am also the host of “Live on the Fly” on WBAI Radio and the Progressive Radio Network. WBAI is part of the Pacifica Network, and it reaches the entire tri-state community and area as far north as Kingston, New York. WBAI is a unique station.”

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  16. “There are a lot of people on this list, including Ray McGovern, who spoke here (see S/PV.9266), Roger Waters, who spoke here (see S/PV.9256) and Faina Savenkova, whom Council members may have seen a couple of weeks ago in a video. She is a 14-year-old who lives in Luhansk. That poor young woman came here, and she spoke against the escalation because some of her friends had been killed and disappeared where she lives. She writes fairy tales, and she is 14 years old. And it is not just her. There are hundreds of individuals, her age or younger, who are on this list. How low can you sink? I hope that somebody is listening in Washington, D.C. They have the clout to put an end to this list. My name is Randy Credico, and people are probably wondering: what gives him the right to be here? What kind of credentials does Randy Credico have?”

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  17. “Before I introduce myself, first of all, I want to say that I feel very safe and secure in this Chamber, inside this building. But once I have left this building, I will not feel so safe and secure. I will be in a state of panic, as I have been for five months, ever since my name was placed on this Ukrainian assassination list — the Myrotvorets assassination list, to which it was added in April after I returned from a trip to Donbas and Moscow. I am not the only person. By the way, I take the list very seriously. An article in The Washington Post this week documents 22 people on this list who, according to the latter, have been liquidated.”

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  18. “Mr. Credico: I have a speech that I wrote, but I have some eye issues with stigmas in spots. I will therefore have to do what I have done for 50 years as a public speaker, which is to extemporize and make it shorter. I can speak from the heart and thank everybody on the Security Council for giving me this opportunity to share my thoughts and my experience as it relates to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and the escalation and the potential of more arms going into Ukraine from the United States Government, which I strongly oppose. This morning, I saw a lot of women in Kyiv, who are mothers of conscripted Ukrainians on the street — I had not seen that before — asking for demobilization. That is picking up in Ukraine, and I think that it will to continue.”

    2023-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9457 (2023) · source