@aristodemos | Jan 9 2025 16:37 utc: Don’t let up, Aristodemos. Keep banging that drum!
For the bar: I thought I read that Donald Trump posted commentary about, excerpts from, or a link to the recent dialog between Tucker Carlson and Jeffrey Sachs which was a very strongly, directly worded Deep State – Zionist – Neocon bombshell. Not surprising to MoA readers, but this material is now making it into the core of the Alt-Media realm, and the vid on Youtube had 91K views.
Can anyone provide a link or further confirmation of this? And … am I referencing the right Carlson-Sachs interview (apparently there were two of them)?
Thanks!

Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | Jan 9 2025 17:18 utc | 3

Destruction and atrocities continue in Gaza.
General Joseph Aoun is elected president of Lebanon, Amal and Hezballah voting for him in second round. He is considered US backed and aims for state monopoly of arms in Lebanon. Still no clear picture of what has occurred regarding ‘ceasefire’ and now this vote.
Centcom bombs Yemen arms depot, Yemen says its army is 800,000 strong, Iran holds exercises in coming days, newer weaponry being unveiled also.
“On 25 March 2019, then-President of the United States Donald Trump proclaimed U.S. recognition of the Golan Heights as a part of the State of Israel, making it the first country to do so” … “UK told him to” /s … “Israel” known to have advanced to Beqaasem, is occupying Mt. Hermon and was last seen creeping past Quneitra in the below video (because UK said they could /s /s etc.).
https://t.me/SEPAHCYBERY/107842
[O/T Tip to Karlof re Krainer :
If you want to blame countries, go by what any country actually does. There is plenty to work with without speculating on “whose idea it was”. Eg. Boris offered Lewinsky , but the final decision was Ukrainian. E.g. Trump dislikes Yuhu but loves “Israel”, but US sending weapons to “Israel” is US responsibility. Very low and counterproductive, or just weak, to try to excuse US by blaming UK , though you might get away with excusing Russia by doing same (and overlooking US activity).
All nations are busy influencing each other, busy exchanging influences, in one way or another.
That western public is unresponsive to straight facts and reported realities is a whole other kettle of fish.]
Repeating the set of local Palestine links….
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/youseffares19?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/Sohaibpress?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/SEPAHCYBERY?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/gazanewsnow2021?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/GazaNewsNow?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/NewsPs0?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en

Posted by: Ornot | Jan 9 2025 17:28 utc | 5

“All nations are busy influencing each other, busy exchanging influences, in one way or another.”
Posted by: Ornot | Jan 9 2025 17:28 utc | 5
Yes, all countries are meddlesome.
Yet on the global Animal Farm, some countries are far more meddlesome than others.
The remnants of every empire are eventually reduced to a cultural virus, which is all that’s left of the British Empire. It’s arguably dead, yet simultaneously extremely virulent.

Posted by: Roger Erickson | Jan 9 2025 18:24 utc | 7

The awfulness of the UK’s hypocrisy, racism and double standards. The awful fires in California are getting special programs made about them as well as extended coverage on every news bulletin. The BBC, ITV and Channle 4.
But of the man-made horror of Gaza and other places in occupied Palestine-nothing! Not a fucking word.

Posted by: Vragtes | Jan 9 2025 19:10 utc | 9

Vragtes (9).
Agreed most folk around the globe don’t give a toss about fires in the USA – yet the Corporate Controlled Media especially in the UK – repeatedly reports on the fires – as you say they give the atrocities committed by the Zionists a pass.
I couldn’t give a monkey’s about rich Yanks going up in smoke.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 9 2025 19:19 utc | 11

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 9 2025 19:29 utc | 12 “Read between the lines”
Hezbollah weakened enough that they wanted to be seen to go along with the majority? Aoun had 71 votes out of 128 to win in the first round? Hezbollah then threw in with him?
“The 60-year-old pledged to work during his six-year term to ensure that the Lebanese state had “the exclusive right to bear arms”.

Posted by: Ed4 | Jan 9 2025 19:36 utc | 13

Max Blumenthal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k11eX27dLws
“More lies on Syria.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 9 2025 19:53 utc | 15

Posted by: Ed4 | Jan 9 2025 19:36 utc | 13 Apparently Aoun needed 86 votes to win. 71 in the first round was not enough.

Posted by: Ed4 | Jan 9 2025 20:11 utc | 17

I have no good news to share unfortunately.
The moves on Syria by the Zionists are worrying.
There’s speculation that the Immoral Genocidal Force might be attempting to bypass and flanking Hezb’Allah defensive positions in South Labenon and invading from Syria.
I am hopeful that Hezb’Allah is baiting the IGF and setting up a trap. Expiration of the “Ceasefire” agreement will reveal all.
I wonder if the Greater Israel Project will clash with the Neo Ottoman expansion?

Posted by: Suresh | Jan 9 2025 20:58 utc | 19

@Posted by: librul | Jan 9 2025 20:59 utc | 20
July 2006 and not June 2006.

Posted by: librul | Jan 9 2025 21:02 utc | 21

I saw the actual post on TruthSocial. It’s a lie. . . .
Posted by: They Call Me Mister | Jan 9 2025 17:24 utc | 4
==============
Not sure what is labeled “a lie” here.
Nima Alkhorshid (Dialogue Works) showed the video clip of Sachs trashing Netanyahu shown by Trump on Truth Social in his interview with Alex Krainer yesterday. It didn’t look to me like an interview setup, but not sure.
Maybe airing this clip is why Net decided to give the Inauguration a pass??? Someone might take it into his or her head to make a citizen’s arrest????

Posted by: Jane | Jan 9 2025 21:31 utc | 23

so much for the ICC
as we’ve known now for years, the European nations have no balls and have become mostly mere lapdogs & puppets of the US-centralized Empire. shame on them, especially Poland, the UK< Germany, France and Greece https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/netanyahu-to-attend-auschwitz-event-in-poland-despite-icc-wa
Netanyahu to attend Auschwitz event in Poland despite ICC warrant
In November 2024, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his former Security Minister Yoav Gallant over war crimes in Gaza and crimes against humanity.
Poland has confirmed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will attend the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, despite an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced that his government would provide Netanyahu with security during his visit…..
…..Despite the warrant being issued, several countries have expressed reluctance to enforce the ICC’s decision.
France has suggested that Netanyahu may enjoy immunity from the ICC’s arrest warrants due to his status as a sitting head of government. This position indicates a reluctance to detain him should he enter French territory…..
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1525784342080913410
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
#US (former) Assistant Sec of State David Schenker admitted that he was behind downgraded #Lebanon’s level among financial international institutions, lower credit rating and crippling the economy to blame #Hezbollah, but we failed to turn the population against it.
We knew.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jan 9 2025 22:02 utc | 25

On Russia and the end of Syria:
David Miller
@Tracking_Power
Producer @PDeclassified
| Editor http://Powerbase.info Sacked by
@BristolUni at behest of Zionist movement. Linktree:https://linktr.ee/tracking_power
A summary here of the bombshell revelations made by Bashar’s media adviser Kamel Saqr during an interview on the Mazeej podcast a couple of days ago.
In sum, Bashar and Syria were sold out by Putin, who cut a side deal with Turkey to ensure Russia’s interests would be protected in a future ISIS-run, colonised and fractured Syria. Iranian policymakers were left blindsided and without either the time or the air support to help protect Syria’s sovereignty against the ISIS hordes and their Turkish backers. The Zionist strategy of constant airstrikes on Syria over several years, with Russian complicity and without a response from the Resistance, created the opportunities the Zionists needed. The US, Turkey and the GCC all worked with this Zionist strategy to ensure an ISIS takeover.
Akbar Ganji (on X)
Causes of the collapse of the Syrian government-Russia first
The revelation of Sardar Behrouz, one of the top commanders of the Revolutionary Guard Corps in Syria:
Russia was one of the main factors in the collapse of Syria and Assad.
Russia turns off radar so Israel can attack intelligence headquarters
Russia deceived Assad and betrayed Iran
All Russian actions after October 7 were to ensure Israel’s interests
Full news and all the source links: http://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-8th-january-2025

Posted by: JB | Jan 9 2025 23:01 utc | 27

Latest from Seymour Hersch (Excerpts)
.”.We’re killing civilians who are then counted as terrorists.” If one perimeter defense unit has 150 kills, “the next unit aims for 200.” (Quoted former IDF officer)
Gaza has become a killing field—that is the view of a well-informed Israeli veteran who was an enthusiastic supporter of the initial Israeli response to the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023. He believes that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the mastermind of the all-out retaliatory bombing and ground attack there, is now a contemporary Colonel Kurtz, the psychotic killer of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, the famed Vietnam War movie of 1979 based on Joseph Conrad’s 1899 novella Heart of Darkness.
What began as a retaliatory war by the internationally revered Israel Defense Forces against a disciplined Hamas guerilla force turned into the systematic starvation of a society whose civilian survivors—men, women, and children—are the victims of an Israeli military whose combat units are often led by the second generation of Israeli settlers. These officers, increasingly prominent as the war in Gaza goes on, are religious zealot majors and lieutenant colonels who believe it is their calling to shoot and kill any Palestinian who moves, whether combatant or civilian.

Posted by: Zismo | Jan 9 2025 23:26 utc | 29

@24 Jane (and in part @7 Roger Erickson)
It is misleading, Jane.
The point I am making is that the only form of public accountability we are ever likely to encounter is of government. Most nations have failsafes, they have obligatory forms of transparency that register government reasoning and decision.
That US and UK governments act independently, outside of law or constitution, for unknown interests, is close to celebrated nowadays as a feature.
If we try to look for the scandal or corruption that has taken place that has lead to that, we will not find an understandable picture, and even the most obvious wrongs still have to pass before courts which are influenced by the same outside interests as well as government, for any kind of publicly acceptable kind of resolution. This is just not feasible. The rest just stays as gossip, it gets nowhere. People forget and move onto next piece of conversation. Even a poor reputation delivered as verdict from the public has little to do with talk but is more based on just not liking ‘the direction’ certain politicians or figures have taken anything.
To put it yet another way. We are to think a clique of elite, via deep state or establishment are directing (take your pick of UK, US etc.) .
100 %, but we will not know who they are, whether bankers, military, from which country even . I guarantee you you will not figure it out, even a ‘revelation’ would in fact be scraps, possibly even invented.
The idea that UK (country = government) is directing US ? Please. We have influence, political influence, but not command.
So why the goose chase ?
Blaming UK is for US audience, it is an old suit. Blaming UK is for those who (still, and fairly) resent the past British empire. Blaming UK is for Russia because elements of Russia and UK (and EU) hate each other deeply.
I don’t exempt UK at all, as you should know, but some perspective and responsibility to this all.
Over the last fifty or so years, where has UK been ‘more active than it should’ ? In the middle-east, almost entirely. Always as a lesser partner with US (as have various other european countries). Just recently Ukraine.
What the US has actually done is a take over of various UK interests in the middle east (and US+UK have taken over various French see a comment above). In some cases UK handed them to US, in others participated. UK still plays along in certain ways, but the might is from the US. Only a mere fraction of the conflict in this period could have occurred without US involvement. Gaza not at all. That involvement is not given, it is not for UK or by UK, that is pure US enterptise and that ideas were passed through London or spoken of in some embassy or highlevel club does not make UK responsible. At most it is participant, but not decider on these matters.
Canuck likes the London theory, as do various others. The city, masonry, royalty etc. It all exists, is influential but it has not the kind of say imagined. Karlof has looked into elements of US government, and as a reply to US activity that will be much closer to the truth I think. Ultimately, it is the US government in existence that is accountable for US actions though, and after that the US as a whole.
Your government.
Saying Chuck did some psychotronic whispering in Presis ear around the pool doesn’t cut it. You have a house and senate no ? You have a general public in extremis, no ?
But no …it was all because of UK
:-/

Posted by: Ornot | Jan 9 2025 23:41 utc | 31

Posted by: Ornot | Jan 9 2025 23:41 utc | 31
Each country in the GloboCap -or whatever you want to call it- financial empire is merely a tool, each capable of serving different interests or functions in the system.
https://www.democracynow.org/2006/2/15/self_described_economic_hit_man_john (perkins)
Militaries are the mafioso enforcer arm(s). The US has the bigger military, into which the UK’s and Europe’s (and others) are integrated – along with the globe spanning surveillance networks.
Banking is handled through “off-shore” (meaning simply “another country with different banking rules that are more lax in certain ways than “home”) institutions within the various countries like the US and UK (and all of the latter’s former colonial island outposts).
The US (and UK, France, etc.) governments and central banks have become tools of, rather than the controllers of, the global financial elite through a complex system that includes balance of payments – as much better fleshed out by Michael Hudson in his books. with dollar hegemony being settled on and then extended to vassals and enemies alike.
https://michael-hudson.com/2023/11/the-dumb-luck-of-dollar-hegemony/
Also stumbled on this the other day. Interesting stuff, not necessarily germane to the question of ‘who rules the world’…
https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2018/08/11/the-life-and-times-of-michael-hudson-from-trotskys-godson-to-modern-monetary-theory/

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 10 2025 0:58 utc | 33

Maybe airing this clip is why Net decided to give the Inauguration a pass??? Someone might take it into his or her head to make a citizen’s arrest????
Posted by: Jane | Jan 9 2025 21:31 utc | 23
####
Has anyone actually SEEN Netanyahu in public since his surgery?
I may have missed it, but I haven’t. If not, then — as I’ve been saying — it’s time to demand PROOF OF LIFE.
Where is he?
Is he sentient?
Did he survive his surgery/ undergeound bunker hospital stay?

Posted by: Sticker | Jan 10 2025 2:24 utc | 35

Poland To Let Netanyahu Visit Auschwitz
https://www.rt.com/news/610648-poland-netanyahu-auschwitz/
“Warsaw will allow the trip although it is bound by treaty to arrest the Israeli PM if he sets foot on Polish soil.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Jan 10 2025 2:49 utc | 37

JB
Indeed i wonder why Pepe makes such a fuss of the coming signature of a bilateral defense agreement between Russia and Iran. They had one since 2013 about Syria and we saw the results.

Posted by: Minaa | Jan 10 2025 4:41 utc | 39

The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill to impose sanctions on International Criminal Court officials following the arrest warrant against Netanyahu the ICC has issued.
Middle East spectator
Trump heralds the exponential insanity . Invasions of other nations renaming the gulf of Mexico brain parts. Elon and his madness. The crazy train is full steam

Posted by: Hankster | Jan 10 2025 6:18 utc | 41

The Russians sure seem to be bending over backwards and doing somersaults in 5D to absolve themselves of any blame in Syria and for giving Syria and Lebanon over to Israel. Here is Dmitry Orlov saying everything from Assad and Syrians are pussies to Syria never actually existed and whatnot, like Assyria never existed in BC already, long before Russia ever existed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udFjokFBCCI&t=270s
Notice how it was Iran which supposedly stopped supplying oil to Syria in 2023 (no reasons given) which led to the collapse of Syria in 2024, like Russia could not supply oil to Syria.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyria
The Aramaic language started in Assyria, Jesus spoke Aramaic. The New Testament was written in Greek and Aramaic, yet here is Dmitry saying that Syria never existed. Dmitry’s brains worked better when he had a beard.
I couldn’t even watch the whole Nima interview.

Posted by: gT | Jan 10 2025 7:21 utc | 43

Deaths from Israeli attacks in Gaza undercounted by 41 percent, study finds
The Lancet medical journal estimates the actual number of deaths in the first nine months of war is much higher than the official toll.
An official Palestinian tally of deaths in Israel’s war in Gaza likely undercounted the toll by 41 percent in the first nine months of the conflict as the Gaza Strip’s healthcare infrastructure unravelled, according to a study.
The peer-reviewed statistical analysis published in The Lancet journal on Thursday was conducted by academics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Yale University and other institutions.
Using a statistical method called capture-recapture analysis, the researchers sought to assess the death toll from Israel’s air and ground campaign in Gaza between October 2023 and the end of June 2024.
Up to June 30 last year, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Hamas-run Gaza reported a death toll of 37,877 in the war.
However, the new peer-reviewed study used data from the ministry, an online survey and social media obituaries to estimate that there were between 55,298 and 78,525 deaths from traumatic injuries in Gaza by that time.
The study’s best death toll estimate was 64,260, which would mean the Health Ministry had underreported the number of deaths to that point by 41 percent.
The study estimated that 59.1 percent of those killed were women, children and people over the age of 65. It did not provide an estimate of Palestinian fighters among the dead.
That toll represented 2.9 percent of Gaza’s pre-war population, “or approximately one in 35 inhabitants,” the study said.
The toll was only for deaths from traumatic injuries, so did not include deaths from a lack of healthcare or food, or the thousands of missing believed to be buried under rubble.
MORE…
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/10/deaths-from-israeli-attacks-in-gaza-undercounted-by-41-percent-study-finds

Posted by: Menz | Jan 10 2025 10:01 utc | 45

Itay Epshtain
@EpshtainItay
·
Jan 9
Replying to
@EpshtainItay
BREAKING: Israel’s Netanyahu orders Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth to launch a major offensive in the occupied West Bank. The replication of egregious tactics employed in Gaza to the West Bank would lead to similar atrocities.
https://x.com/EpshtainItay/status/1877057409878806682

Posted by: Menz | Jan 10 2025 10:05 utc | 47

What happened to all the think tanks promoting the use of technology for democracy? Is Turkey providing the new rulers of Syria with all the reports of communications by members of the minorities who feel under threat or are actually threatened?

Posted by: Minaa | Jan 10 2025 10:18 utc | 49

https://southfront.press/new-syrian-challenges-for-erdogan/
Interesting short article about dissent between Turkey and it’s proxy. As everybody foresaw, the fighting over the spoils begins.
The pipeline mentioned in the article will probably remain a pipedream for the forseeable future. Too instable environment for such an investment. Especially if once again they plan to cut out Turkey.

Posted by: Hamburger | Jan 10 2025 13:04 utc | 51

@ Hamburger | Jan 10 2025 13:04 utc | 51
The article, while useful, is unsatisfactory, as it fails to address the headchoppers’ — oops, I guess I should now say “government’s” — remarkable degree of compliance with Zionazi interests.

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 10 2025 13:32 utc | 53

https://en.mehrnews.com/news/226714/Scores-killed-as-US-Turkish-proxies-clash-in-northern-Syria
These are all just small ephemeral instances in the wider conflict and there is no telling which way things will develop, but tensions are palpable.
The twists and turns of this saga will likely continue for a while. Julani received sanctions relief for his compliance. But Turkey holds very good cards, that is why Blinken already tries to appease Erdogan vis a vis hte YPG. Will it suffice? Not likely!

Posted by: Hamburger | Jan 10 2025 13:45 utc | 55

I didn’t remember who nicknamed Blinken “Netanyahoo lawyer” but that’s a pinpoint accurate description of one of the Sec Of States jobs.
Posted by: Savonarole | Jan 10 2025 14:14 utc | 56
“Nutsandyahoo’s Giuliani”?
Though not directly palestine, syria is very much a relevant regional issue.
Turkey seems to be ruffling its feathers
https://tass.com/world/1897681
Russia acts wisely by not interfering in Syria’s transfer of power — Turkish top diplomat
Moscow “did not intervene during the fall of Damascus” and “the revolutionary forces eventually ensured the secure withdrawal of Russian troops and did not attack their bases,” Hakan Fidan said
ISTANBUL, January 10. /TASS/. Russia’s policy during the transition of power in Syria is measured, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said in an interview with media outlets in Istanbul.
“Russia has made its decisions. As we can see, the country finally came to the conclusion that supporting [former Syrian President] Bashar Assad is no longer advantageous for it or for the region. Russia might have been convinced of this for a long time. There were some escalations after Aleppo was captured, I assume. Russia had the military capability to respond, and could have used it – but decided not to. We stayed in close contact on this issue. I will be honest, Russia acted as a calculated player,” Fidan told TASS.
Moscow “did not intervene during the fall of Damascus” and “the revolutionary forces eventually ensured the secure withdrawal of Russian troops and did not attack their bases,” Fidan added.
Regarding the prospects of the presence of Russian military bases in Syria, the Turkish foreign minister recalled that earlier the head of the new Syrian administration, Ahmed al-Sharaa, had already made it clear that the fate of the bases would be decided during negotiations. “I think this issue will be resolved depending on the negotiation process that the new Syrian administration will have with Russia. We will later know what the agreements will be like. What we have already seen is that Russian planes and ships have mostly reduced their presence in Syria,” Fidan said.

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 10 2025 14:29 utc | 57

@33 Tom-Q
I answered you on Open Thread @123
@27 JB thanks for UK Column link – two days ago was reported and missed that from where I tend to read.

Posted by: Ornot | Jan 10 2025 15:14 utc | 59

Some time ago they used the term target (or something close) and considered a win because it stopped an attack
This time they are mentioning HIT
https://tass.com/world/1897747
“Houthis hit US Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier using missiles, drones
Earlier, it was reported that the US had targeted underground facilities of the Houthis in the Amran Province, located in the northwest of Yemen, along with the movement’s positions in the Saada Province
DOHA, January 10. /TASS/. Houthis from the Ansar Allah movement have hit the US aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and its escort ships in the Red Sea with missiles and drones, spokesman for the group’s armed forces Yahya Saree said.
Over the past 48 hours, the armed forces have carried out several military operations, with the most significant being the attack on the US aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and several accompanying warships in the northern Red Sea, using multiple cruise missiles and drones,” Saree said in a speech broadcast by the Houthi-run Al Masirah TV channel. According to him, the operation’s objective was successfully accomplished..”

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 10 2025 16:02 utc | 61

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jan 10 2025 3:10 utc | 38
Posted by: Minaa | Jan 10 2025 4:41 utc | 39
Posted by: Newbie | Jan 10 2025 14:29 utc | 57 Fidan interview
Ornot | Jan 10 2025 15:14 utc | 59
Thank you for your attention to the Russia-Syria issue I posted.
I think the cited statements about Russia’s involvement in handing Syria over to Al Qaeda are important and should be borne in mind, but I also think that they should be taken with a grain of salt.
We are not in a position to accept, or believe, any account for now because we can not assess the reliability and credibility of those making claims about what exactly happened, how it happened and what Russia really did.
The goings-on around Syria are very fluid with many competing interests at play, including laying blame where it is not due.
I’m not saying that Russia is not at fault regarding Syria. It very well may be and I would not be the least bit surprised that the statements I posted are correct. But even if they are, that is not the whole picture. So many elements are missing that it is impossible to come to any conclusions.
In my view it is necessary to closely watch developments with open and critical mind, and to keep expanding our knowledge in order to avoid being misled. There will be more clarity over time, so patience and attention are best.

Posted by: JB | Jan 10 2025 17:48 utc | 63

Clock is ticking for the Blinken (biden) Administration to get a deal to free “Israeli” hostages held in Gaza.
Else credit will go to Bozo.

Posted by: librul | Jan 10 2025 18:57 utc | 65

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 10 2025 14:29 utc | 57 Fidan interview
In my view it is necessary to closely watch developments with open and critical mind, and to keep expanding our knowledge in order to avoid being misled. There will be more clarity over time, so patience and attention are best.
Posted by: JB | Jan 10 2025 17:48 utc | 63
I just posted a tass article and just added that turkey seemed to be prickling RF
Expanding knowledge.

Posted by: Newbie | Jan 10 2025 19:11 utc | 67

Dr. Ezzideen
@ezzingaza
Every day at the clinic, I am confronted with a heartbreaking truth that shakes me to my core. Many of the children who come for treatment are accompanied by adults -men or women- who look at me helplessly when I ask about the child’s medical history. Their answers are always the same, and they never get easier to hear:
“These children are not ours. They are the sons and daughters of siblings or relatives who are no longer here- because their parents were killed.”
The weight of this reality is unbearable, yet it is the daily life these children face. Each visit is a reminder of lives torn apart, families shattered, and childhoods forever stolen.
#SaveNorthGaza #GazaGenocide‌
Dr. Ezzideen
@ezzingaza
Every day at the clinic, I am confronted with a heartbreaking truth that shakes me to my core. Many of the children who come for treatment are accompanied by adults -men or women- who look at me helplessly when I ask about the child’s medical history. Their answers are always the same, and they never get easier to hear:
“These children are not ours. They are the sons and daughters of siblings or relatives who are no longer here- because their parents were killed.”
The weight of this reality is unbearable, yet it is the daily life these children face. Each visit is a reminder of lives torn apart, families shattered, and childhoods forever stolen.
#SaveNorthGaza #GazaGenocide‌
https://x.com/ezzingaza/status/1876755057506685281

Posted by: Menz | Jan 10 2025 20:06 utc | 69

Hussein
@EyesOnSouth1
No suit or neck tie can change the bloody and monstrous nature of Al Qaeda.
Quote
Middle East Observer
@ME_Observer_
·
4h
⚡️⭕️ Syria : Public lynching and killing of the former mayor of Dumar in the public square in Damascus.
https://x.com/EyesOnSouth1/status/1877749060737642515

Posted by: Menz | Jan 10 2025 20:08 utc | 71

Craig Murray reporting from Lebanon re: the Aoun “appointment”: Aoun was not actually an eligible candidate according to Lebanon’s constitution. Lebanon was however offered deal they could not refuse – appoint the western approved candidate or else.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2025/01/the-united-states-pet-general-appointed-president-of-lebanon/

Posted by: jayc | Jan 11 2025 0:03 utc | 73

I am of the opinion now, that both Russia and Iran knew they were being played by Assad.
There’s an assumption that Putin refused to protect Syria from Israeli airstrikes. This couldn’t be more wrong. Syria had ballistic missiles, a lot more than Hezb’Allah.
Had he retaliated everytime Israel struck, and as Iran wanted him to, a 4th front would have broken Israel.
Instead, intelligence was fed to Israel targeting Irainian and Hezb’Allah assets.
Erdogan being megalomaniac, might provide a better counter to the Greater Israel Project that Assad.
Without opening a 4th front, Syria was an unreliable partner to the Resistance. Russia’s options in Libya were better.
It should be obvious to most here, that Russia and Iran don’t have proxies but equal partners.
Mockingbird Media wants you to believe otherwise.

Posted by: Suresh | Jan 11 2025 1:36 utc | 75

Suresh 78
I believe your analysis is right.
But when you say Assad, behind Assad is French, Turkish, Iranian, British , Israeli and US colonial.powers.
You don’t play rugby by refusing to join the scrum. But at the end of the scrum somebody gets the ball, in this case Britain which maintains contact with the region through its two Nests of Spies in London Arab and Israeli.
Britain will shortly pass the ball to Greater Israel. In about two weeks time.
HTC eat your heart out. Not for the first time, Mosul. Or, as Kissinger explained. Some people confuse covert operations with social work. Nice knowing ya HTC. See ya next time.

Posted by: Giyane | Jan 11 2025 4:53 utc | 77

John Weakest Genocide Ever 72
‘No wonder people have tuned out. There’s also the release the hostage thing that could solve the issue.’
All imprisoned Palestinians are hostages. Their release would have solved the issue, but the US and Empire2 UK Tories want West Asia because their Christian Religion needs sacrifice victims like the pagans before them . The West hates trade but loves war.
There is no ‘ solution ‘for the problem of Western Government Neopaganism, other than Islamic jihad against the Neopagan Western leaders, or a shift in Western society to Muslim values.
The citizens of the West now know that their leaders have reverted to Paganism.
Where can they turn to? To Green politics so that we have Lithium wars instead of oil wars?
There is nowhere for religious minded Westerners to turn to, except to the truth of Islam. Hannibal Doctrine?
Plenty of stone circyles around if that’s your idea. Hitler built some new ones for his Nazis to dance around.

Posted by: Giyane | Jan 11 2025 6:31 utc | 79

It was sickening to hear Anthony Blinken talk pompously on TV news about genocide in Sudan. So I enjoyed Charles Freeman’s sarcasm when he recounted on Nima’s ‘Dialogue Works,’ that,
“Blinking has declared there is a genocide in Sudan, so apparently people of color can commit genocide, but people of European descent cannot. This is a very interesting genetic phenomenon. China can commit genocide even when they’re not killing anybody in Xinjiang province, but Israelis can’t commit genocide because they’re part of West…”

Posted by: Lavieja | Jan 11 2025 10:21 utc | 81

https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1877759437936418951
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
The US is negotiating on behalf of Israel for a further 60-day extension of the cessation of hostilities with Lebanon, which Israel retains the right to violate with impunity whenever it sees fit.
https://x.com/BrunoLeipold/status/1877785819970150728
Bruno Leipold @BrunoLeipold
Frankfurt Univ cancels a conference titled “Talking about (the Silencing of) Palestine”. Can’t make this up.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jan 11 2025 14:46 utc | 83

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The Israeli military has expanded “clearing operations” northwest of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, new satellite imagery from the US-based defence think tanks the Institute for Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) shows.
A spokesperson for Gaza’s civil defence has told Al Jazeera that Israel aims to kill as many civilians and medical personnel as it can as it continues its devastating war.
The civil defence added that a number of bodies had disappeared as a result of melting due to the amount of explosives fired by the Israeli army.
– Al Jazeera live-blog
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And here is what the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza looks like today (it is still under bombardment):
The latest arial image of #Jabalia published by Israeli YnetNews today!
https://x.com/AbujomaaGaza/status/1878018610595053861
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Posted by: teri | Jan 11 2025 15:10 utc | 85

Re: survivor of the Rave Party
Who’s to say that he wasn’t one of those who implemented the Hannibal Directive and massacred beaucoup Israelis ?

Posted by: Exile | Jan 11 2025 18:22 utc | 87

More on Russia and Syria:
An interesting analysis, in most part. The main point – Russia has suffered strategic defeat in Syria.
Syria: CIA’s Operation Timber Sycamore Won
Excerpts:
Why did Syria fall so quickly into the hands of the terrorist group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)? There are several explanations, which focus on the enervating effects of sanctions, a demoralized military, poor coordination between the Syrians, Russians and Iranians, and internal corruption. None are satisfactory, because they completely ignore the efforts of the CIA, Israel, Turkey, and various Arab states. Then, President Putin stated that “all that is happening in Syria is not a defeat for Russia,” and that Russia had achieved its goal there, which was to prevent the establishment of a terrorist state. So, what is Syria now, since it is in the hands of the HTS, which is an offshoot of Al-Qaeda/ISIS, the very terrorists that Russia says it was trying to defeat. So, what “goal” did Russia really achieve?
Perhaps the “goal” that President Putin is talking about is the defeat of ISIS in the parts of Syria that belonged to Assad. Let us not forget that ISIS and Al-Qaeda were and are proxies of Washington. So, the defeat of these terrorists in Syria was supposedly also a defeat of the US and its various allies. But did that really happen?
If Assad was an important strategic ally, then what does his fall say about Russian reliability and Russian power? And if Iran is a rival that cannot cooperate but hinders, then what does that say about the greater Russian project of becoming an alternative pole to the West?
https://www.thepostil.com/syria-cia-s-operation-timber-sycamore-won/

Posted by: JB | Jan 11 2025 18:55 utc | 89

Posted by: librul | Jan 10 2025 19:05 utc | 66

“Hmm…remember when US hostages were held in Iran for hundreds of days
and then released immediately after Jimmy Carter was no longer President.
It is said that Reagan’s people were behind the timing of the release of
the hostages.”

Reagan’s vice prez was Bush Sr. who was cia director in 1975 under our only unelected president. I’ve often wondered whether his chicanery extended to the malfunctioning helicopter that crashed, botching Carter’s rescue mission?
https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/george-h-w-bush-the-11th-director-of-central-intelligence/

Posted by: aye, myself & me | Jan 11 2025 21:09 utc | 91

Peter Cronau
@PeterCronau
The media chooses what you will be concerned about.
Another 74 children slaughtered in Gaza by US-backed Israel — while you were watching bushfires that killed 11 in America.
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Did you know that Israel killed at least 74 Palestinian children in Gaza in the first week of 2025? Instead of preventing more war crimes, Biden is signing off on $8 BILLION in weapons for Israel, and Trump is threatening the Palestinians with “Hell” over the remaining hostages.
https://x.com/PeterCronau/status/1878186629619466296

Posted by: Menz | Jan 11 2025 22:39 utc | 93

The Jewish Temple in Pasadena Ca burned down in the wild fires about LA. Many would say its divine Justice. I personally could extend my sympathies to them if they can bring themselves to condeming the atrocities being commited by Israel in the lands of Palestine rather than supporting them.

Posted by: Gee Eye Joe | Jan 11 2025 23:58 utc | 95

https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1878172032287813698
Middle East Observer @ME_Observer_
⚡️ Statement of the #Yemeni Armed Forces regarding the implementation of a military operation targeting the US aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman and a number of its warships with a number of cruise missiles and drones north of the Red Sea, forcing them to leave the theater of operations and flee to the far north of the Red Sea.
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/yemen-has-surprises-up-its-sleeve–gaza-support-ceaseless–e
Yemen has surprises up its sleeve, Gaza support ceaseless: Exclusive
Mohammed Ali al-Houthi discusses the Israeli genocide in Gaza, Yemen’s capabilities, the issue with Saudi Arabia, and the fate of the Axis of Resistance, in an exclusive interview with Al Mayadeen.
….Although international aggression on Yemen has intensified to obstruct its support for Palestine, al-Houthi stressed that “The American and British attacks will not affect our support operations for the people of Gaza, and the momentum and development will continue.”
In this context, al-Houthi dismissed requests calling for the halt of Yemeni operations, saying “To those advising us to stop our support operations, we say: Go and advise America and Britain to stop supporting the entity, and the battle will end.” He also revealed that the reduction in naval operations against ships associated with “Israel” stems solely from the avoidance of vessels from sailing through Yemen’s designated operational area in the Red and Arabian Seas…..
….Addressing threats made by US President-elect Donald Trump, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi affirmed that they are not feared in Yemen, adding that Trump “excels in rhetoric, and we have tested him. We know he cannot do anything.”…..

Posted by: michaelj72 | Jan 12 2025 2:27 utc | 97

Ornot 97
You don’t seem to grasp the complete dysfunctionality of the private lives of Western elites. BoJo and Cameron bonked eachothers’ partners. Some drunken female while I was at Oxford studying English, trying to get me interested in a bonk, said married men she knew regularly slept with her. Phew! Narrow escape.
To put it bluntly, Western elies living in this degraded, dog eat dog, moral jungle latch onto the pseudo religiosity of the eschatological tripe of religion , not because they have any faith, but as a diversion from the hellscape of their pornogrifised , miserable lives.
They don’t support Israel because of kompromat, which they couldn’t care less about, since they are simply recycling used goods all the time. Nor are they searching for Truth, which is the exact opposite of the devious mediocrity of their political humbug.
They are simply hanging their shattered egos on the ” shoogly peg ” to quote Craig Murray, of eshatological fantasy. Like Ukrainian Nazi Nationalism, Israeli Nazi Nationalism, and McCarthyist anti-socialism and Islamophobia.
Hating those who work for humanity seems to satisfy the scrapheap of their personal lives. If us humans feel intimidated by these pigs , and refuse to arm ourselves with tazers to herd them back into their stinky pens , we will be overrun by them. Of what are we afraid? Certainly not of God , who has commanded us to cage and disable these lunatics and oppressors.
In the Holy Qur’an, it is said that fighting is heinous, but fitna/ lawlessness is even more heinous.
These warmongers MUST be opposed.
Sanctioning the ICC refers.

Posted by: Giyane | Jan 12 2025 5:27 utc | 99