SCOTT RITTER—Western governments, analysts, and pundits have loudly proclaimed that the men who carried out the attack on the Crocus City Hall had nothing whatsoever to do with Ukraine, and instead have collectively embraced a narrative that paints the men as members of the Islamic State-Khorasan (ISIS-K). ISIS is an off-shoot of Al-Qaeda-Iraq (AQI) which emerged in 2013 when core AQI members relocated to Syria. In 2014 ISIS declared itself to be a caliphate and began a series of operations which saw it take control on a third of Syria and a quarter of Iraq before being driven back and ultimately defeated by a coalition which included Iraq, the United States and Iran.
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IMPERIALIST SICKNESS
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RICHARD MEDHURST—Hezbollah is gradually expanding its operations. Its missiles and rockets are beginning to zero in on more targets of importance in Israel, and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, which remains a piece of Syrian territory. The probable upcoming presidency of uber Zionist Donald Trump will NOT fix the situation with the Israelis and may very well aggravate it. Trump and his in-laws, the Kushners, a notorious Zionist-American clan, will likely put US soldiers on the ground to further assist Israel in its battles with the anti-Zionist/imperialist alliance and Hamas itself. How that will play with Trump’s “antiwar” image in many quarters is still anybody’s guess.
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MIKO PELED—As the world is trying to come to terms with the catastrophic results of the creation of Israel, the actual executioners, those charged with committing the crimes, are hard at work to show themselves as heroic, caring, friendly and humane. The Israeli military public relations campaign on the different social media platforms is sickening. Young men just back from committing heinous crimes are asked by a young military reporter, “What is the first thing you will do when you get home?”
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EDITOR—Touchy issues of sex, gender, LGBQT politics, direction of the military, etc., are discussed with Gen. Anthony Tata (Ret.). Note that Gen. Tata is apparently deeply disliked by the Deep State. This is reflected in a highly inflammatory and tendentious Wikipedia page, a reliable barometer of what the hidden establishment thinks of public figures. Tata, unfortunately, like many senior members of the US military and countless people of right-wing/conservative persuasion, is unfortunately poisoned by the (unofficial) religion of America, hatred of communism, a doctrine he, like many others in the same tribe, knows practically nothing about, except the caricaturesque indoctrination all Americans receive in schools, media and other opinion-shaping institutions. Thus he, like Trump, et al can call capitalist/imperialists like Obama, “a communist”. Or, believe, like Trump has declared, that Putin would have never invaded Ukraine on his watch out of fear of American retaliation. Which is patently ridiculous, besides showing massive ignorance about the basic realities of international affairs. Fortunately, Jimmy Dore dispenses straightforward correctives to all this nonsense, while schooling the general and the audience about the essential facts.
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EDITOR—Jon Elmer provides military analysis of the latest developments on the ground. The fiercest battles remain around the central Gazan enclaves of Al-Zaytoun (Olives) neighborhood of Gaza City. The hunters became the hunted. It should be noted that the Israelis rely on the most advanced weapons available to Western armies, including detection techniques, whereas Palestinians are confined to using homemade weapons manufactured in underground hideaways.