By Joe Lauria
on Capitol Hill, Washington
Special to Consortium News

Scott Ritter, the former U.S. Marine counterintelligence officer and chief U.N. weapons inspector joined forces with Medea Benjamin and Code Pink to lobby members of the U.S. Hose of Representatives to urgently act to head off what could be impending nuclear war with Russia. 

Ritter laid out the immediate peril the world faces, which is being dangerously ignored by most of the U.S. government and establishment media. That's because U.S. intelligence services have foolishly concluded that Russia is bluffing, Ritter argued.

He told Congress members and their staffs Thursday on a day-long venture in the labyrinth of House office buildings on Capitol Hill that based on his conversations with Russian officials the U.S. could take no chances.