“Shifting Sands” stands a testament to the power of truth telling in the face of conflict mongering.

The similarities between what happened to me on June 3, and what transpired some 21 1/2 years ago, are disconcerting.

Then, the FBI carried out a concerted effort to prevent me from making a documentary movie, “Shifting Sands”, about the flawed case for war being promulgated by the US government. They threatened me with arrest, they engaged in acts of physical intimidation, and—when this didn’t work—they played a role in manufacturing a case designed to destroy my personal character in the eyes of the general public.

The 2001 incidents were a warning shot across the bow for me to begin toeing the line. When I refused to do so, releasing my documentary film and actively speaking out against the US case for war with Iraq, the FBI then arranged to have the information about the 2001 incidents leaked to the press in an effort to destroy my credibility on the eve of a February 2003 trip I was planning to take to Iraq, together with a high-profile international delegation, that was designed to prevent a war between the US and the government of Saddam Hussein.

Today, the Biden administration has ordered my passport seized as I was boarding a flight that would take me to Russia and the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum.

The goal was to prevent me from speaking out against U.S. policy, and to block my plans to make a new documentary film designed to counter state-sponsored Russophobia with fact-based truth.

The U.S. government failed back then, and they will fail again.

“Shifting Sands” stands a testament to the power of truth telling in the face of conflict mongering.

Enjoy the film. @Scott Ritter