The stakes are way too high, the crimes too horrendous, to remain complacent about a status quo that virtually guarantees the cancelation of humanity's future.
Max Blumenthal & Miko Peled : Where is the War in Gaza Going?
Armed with unique first-hand knowledge of the history of Zionism, Palestine, Israeli politics, Gaza, Hamas, the Israeli lobby, and congressional cravenness, Max Blumenthal and Miko Peled will explore the ongoing post-October 7th war in Gaza: Hamas, genocide, war crimes, the probable end game, the successes or failures of the IDF, the fate of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a one-state solution, a two-state solution, or indeterminate upheaval, the role and co-belligerency of the United States in the Israeli government’s freely confessed eagerness to exterminate Palestinians, the responsibility of American citizens for Israel’s war crimes, and the likely spread of the war to the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran risking nuclear exchanges. Max and Miko will unveil the massive de facto censorship that has rendered Palestinian viewpoints virtually inaudible in the establishment media amidst the daily thunder of Israeli propaganda.
The editor-in-chief of The Grayzone, Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and the author of several books, including best-selling Republican Gomorrah, Goliath: Life & Loathing in Greater Israel, The Fifty-One-Day War, and The Management of Savagery. A third-generation Israeli and an American citizen,
Miko Peled is an author, writer, speaker, and human rights activist living in the United States. He is considered by many to be one of the clearest voices calling for justice in Palestine, support of the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) and the creation of a single democracy with equal rights in all of historic Palestine. In his memoir, The General’s Son, Journey of an Israeli in Palestine, Miko writes powerfully about how his human rights activism led him to reject Zionism.
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“Not Wanting” A Wider Middle East War, the U.S. Has Started One
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The Biden and Sunak Show. Pomp and circumstance, and the constant flattery of the kept media cannot erase the fact these two men are imperial butchers. They belong before a Nuremberg tribunal.
You have to hand it to the U.S. and its henchmen for brazenness. In order to protect their client state Israel and its genocide in Gaza, the U.S., together with the UK, have in one week launched air and sea attacks on the Houthis in Yemen five times, referring to it as “self-defense” in their Orwellian lingo. The ostensible reason being Yemen’s refusal to allow ships bound for Israel, which is committing genocide in Gaza, to enter the Red Sea, while permitting other ships to pass freely.
To any impartial observer, the Houthis should be lauded. Yet, while the International Court of Justice considers the South African charge of genocide against Israel that is supported by overwhelming evidence, the U.S. and its allies have instigated a wider war throughout the Middle East while claiming they do not want such a war. These settler colonial states want genocide and a much wider war because they have been set back on their heels by those they have mocked, provoked, and attacked – notably the Palestinians, Syrians, and Russians, among others.
While the criminalization of international law does not bode well for the ICJ’s upcoming ruling or its ability to stop Israeli’s genocide in Gaza, Michel Chossudovsky, of Global Research, as is his wont, has offered a superb analysis and suggestion for those who oppose such crimes: that Principle IV of the Nuremberg Charter – “The fact that a person [e.g. Israeli, U.S. soldiers, pilots] acted pursuant to order of his [her] Government or of a superior does not relieve him [her] from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him.” – should be used to supplement the South African charges and appeal directly to the moral consciences of those asked to carry out acts of genocide. He writes:
Let us call upon Israeli and American soldiers and pilots “to abandon the battlefield”, as an act of refusal to participate in a criminal undertaking against the People of Gaza.
South Africa’s legal procedure at the ICJ should be endorsed Worldwide. While itcannot be relied upon to put a rapid end to the genocide, it provides support and legitimacy to the “Disobey Unlawful Orders, Abandon the Battlefield” campaign under Nuremberg Charter Principle IV.
The Zionist project for a Greater Israel is doomed to fail, but as it does, desperate men like Biden and Netanyahu are intent on launching desperate acts of war. Exactly when and how this expanded war will blaze across the headlines is the question.
With each passing day, it becomes more and more evident that Israel/U.S.A. and their allies do want a wider war. Iran is their special focus, with Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen targets on the way. Anyone who supports the genocide in Gaza, explicitly or through silence, bears responsibility for the conflagration to come. There are no excuses.
And the facts show that it is axiomatic that waging war has been the modus operandi of the U.S./Israeli alliance for a long time. Just as in early 2003 when the Bush administration said they were looking for a peaceful solution to their fake charges against Saddam Hussein with his alleged “weapons of mass destruction,” the Biden administration is lying, as the Bush administration lied about September 11, 2001 to launch its ongoing war on terror, starting in Afghanistan. Without an expanded war, President Biden – aka the Democrats, since he will most probably not be the candidate – and his psychopathic partner Benjamin Netanyahu, will not survive. It is bi-partisan war-mongering, of course, internationally and intramurally, since both U.S. political parties are controlled by the Israel Lobby and billionaire class that owns Congress and the “defense” industry that thrives on never-ending war to such an extent that even the notable independent candidate for the presidency, Robert Kennedy, Jr., who is running as an anti-war candidate, fully supports Israel which is tantamount to supporting Biden’s expanding war policy.
Biden and Netanyahu, who are always claiming after the fact that they were surprised by events or were fed bad advice by their underlings, are dumb scorpions. They are stupid but deadly. And many people in the West, while perhaps decent people in their personal lives, are living in a fantasy world of “sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity,” in MLK, Jr.’s words, as the growing threat of a world war increases and insouciance reigns.
Neither the Israeli nor American government can allow themselves to be humiliated, U.S./NATO by the Russians in Ukraine and the Israelis by the Palestinians. Like cornered criminals with lethal weapons, they will kill as many as they can on their way down, taking their revenge on the weakest first.
Their “mistakes” are always well intentioned. They stumble into wars through faulty intelligence. They drop the ball because of bureaucratic mix-ups. They miscalculate the perfidy of the moneyed elites whom allegedly they oppose while pocketing their cash and ushering them into the national coffers out of necessity since they are too big to fail. They never see the storm coming, even as they create it. Their incompetence or the perfidy of their enemies is the retort to all those “nut cases” who conjure up conspiracy theories or plain facts to explain their actions or lack thereof. They are innocent. Always innocent. And they can’t understand why those they have long abused reach a point when they will no longer impetrate for mercy but will fight fiercely for their freedom.
All signs point to a major war on the horizon. Both the U.S.A. and Israel have been shown to be rogue states with no desire to negotiate a peaceful world. Believing in high-tech weapons and massive firepower, neither has learned the hard lesson that anti-colonial wars have historically been won by those with far less weapons but with a passionate desire to throw off the chains of their oppressors. Vietnam is the text-book case, and there are many others. Failure to learn is the name of their game.
The Zionist project for a Greater Israel is doomed to fail, but as it does, desperate men like Biden and Netanyahu are intent on launching desperate acts of war. Exactly when and how this expanded war will blaze across the headlines is the question. It has started, but I think it prudent to expect a black swan event sometime this year when all hell will break loose. The genocide in Gaza is the first step, and the U.S./Israel, “not wanting” a wider war, have already started one.
(For an excellent history lesson on the Zionist oppression of Palestinians and the current genocide, listen to Max Blumenthal’s and Miko Peled’s impassioned talk – “Where is the War in Gaza Going? – delivered from the heart of darkness, Washington D.C. Two Jewish men who know the difference between Zionism and Judaism and whose consciences are aflame with justice for the oppressed Palestinians.)
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Now the "collective West's" indecent lies and stunning lack of elementary honesty are placing the planet on the edge of a nuclear cataclysm.
While far too many Americans still have no clue what's going on. —PG
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Friends, unfortunate developments have required me to take my digital security more seriously, so I will be trialing some paid-only articles, particularly ones revolving around more ‘sensitive’ or provocative subject matter—while the regular SITREPs will remain open/free. As to what the mentioned developments are, I am planning to cover that in a detailed writeup soon—hopefully in the next few days—so stay tuned.
This article however is of such pressing matter I may consider making it public after a certain amount of time. But despite that I highly encourage all fence-sitters to go ahead and pull the trigger on a full paid subscription/membership to gain access to the many more indepth essays I have planned for what is shaping up to be a geopolitically explosive and unprecedented year.
It’s a long piece of which I will leave roughly 1/3 open, so free subscribers can read pretty much the central and most important exegesis. The larger portion after that will cover it in much finer detail, with more examples and implications for the future.
The drumbeats of war have grown louder. The past few weeks have seen a slew of highly coordinated and non-accidental warnings about a major European war looming on the horizon.
DailyMail’s map more succinctly breaks down the alleged “leaked plans” step by step:
Recall the following which spread like wildfire only a couple weeks ago:
How is it possible an army which was entirely destroyed can reconstitute itself so fast as to engulf all of Europe like a tidal wave? One quickly begins to see how such stereotyped ‘legends’ about Russia are born, that were so rampant during WWII and beyond.
You will also note that the precise date outlines above are meant specifically to activate the fear-response in readers: it gives the illusion of authority and expert confidence, since all the dates are so accurately indexed, that it must be a scientifically-plotted done deal. A cheap psychological parlor trick.
To get back to the timeline: they elaborate on each development. But the most important thing to keep in mind, is that we know such projections are always the telegraphed intentions of the chief antagonist itself, which is the US/NATO empire. So for every action they list, they are ominously telegraphing precisely what they themselves intend to begin agitating for.
For instance:
In July, the first covert, and later increasingly open attack by Russia on the West begins the scenario.
▶︎ Severity of cyber-attacks and other forms of hybrid warfare, mainly in the Baltic States, leading to new crises. Russia begins with the incitement of ethnic Russian minorities in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Just from the above we can see the open schema of the psychological operation. This week alone was rife with Western provocations in the Baltics, who are now openly persecuting ethnic Russians for every possible infraction. The biggest story of the week saw an 82 year old Russian man forcibly deported from Latvia:
Latvia forcibly deported 82-year-old Russian military pensioner Boris Katkov
By decision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, an elderly man, who had a wife, children and grandchildren in Latvia, was recognized as a threat to national security and sentenced to deportation from the country with an indefinite ban on return.
While Estonia saber-rattled and announced provocatively unfriendly measures as their own president openly condoned Ukraine striking targets in Russian territory:
[A STUDY IN CYNICISM]
You begin to understand how this works. The NATO war machine accuses Russia of something with which they themselves are already seeding the ground. They will continue pushing the escalations and provocations until Russia is forced to make even a small offhand warning—then they will pounce with a well-coordinated media blitz emblemizing Russia’s response as “proof” of hostility and major impending military action against the ‘Democratic’ Baltics.
The ‘leaked German report’ specifically outlines how Russia will begin “inciting ethnic Russians” in the Baltics: can you see how easily Russia’s defensive reaction to the ongoing provocations will be construed as “inciting” the ethnic population? Russia can release a mere statement warning ethnic Russians there to watch their backs and it will be immediately twisted and misconstrued as some type of subversive call or dogwhistle for an uprising.
Next, they comically predict that Russia will hold ‘threatening’ Zapad exercises in September 2024 in Belarus, which will be the final forewarning and staging operation before the ‘planned invasion of NATO’—except that Zapad is an annually recurring set of exercises which has already been auto-scheduled to happen later in the year. Another clear case of laughable spin to try and paint routine events as ‘dangerous provocations’.
So you see, they are playing the illusion of already predetermined events, some of which they themselves are catalyzing, and trying to sell them as ominous predictions. This is cheap hucksterism and warmongering of the highest order.
Naturally, the next “step” they envision is for Russia to begin agitating at the Suwalki gap in Kaliningrad:
But Putin's main aim will be to attack a narrow strip of land known as the Suwalki Gap. Poland and Lithuania have fought for control of the area, but today it is part of Poland and is the only land border between mainland Europe and the Baltic States
But here’s the big kicker—beware the slightly wonky auto-translation of the BILD site:
Do you notice how all of these plans just happen to culminate at precisely the time of the 2024 US presidential election? Do you recall how Tucker Carlson declared his firm belief that the big “October Surprise” of 2024 will be war with Russia, and the subsequent cancellation of the election?
Alex Jones and others likewise posited the same thing:
Not that I take this seriously, but given the circumstances, those reports months ago were ‘interesting’ where Amazon’s Alexa answered that the War Powers Act would be invoked and the 2024 election would be cancelled.
Of course, it’s only obligatory that at this point some people will likewise bring up the infamous Deagal 2025 depopulation forecast report. I’ve stated previously I don’t much buy into that, but everything is duly noted.
What’s inarguable though is the timing of the new German/NATO projections for potential war by end of 2024 or early 2025 is extremely suspicious and clearly appears part of a plan to potentially cancel the elections. They will of course keep it fluid in order to gauge how things are developing by then. There’s no need for drastic lengths if, for instance, Trump is already ‘taken care of’ by that time, one way or another:
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BLOWBACK: Everything is in Motion
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1/16/2024 Episode 45 of Blowback: Exposing Imperial Decline with special guest Ian Kummer
Everything is in motion, 2024 is going to be a memorable year.
What is the US ruling class going to do with Joe Biden? Unlikely they'l let him play the president a full four more years. So what is being prepared, now that one pretense to democratic process after another—primaries, what candidates can run, free speech, etc.—are being simply deleted by a shadowy power? The panel makes fun of the media nonsense about Russian meddling in favor of Trump; they wonder how Putin managed to get Iowa to go overwhelmingly for Trump, while spending undetectably small sums. Same as during the 2016 campaign when no one could establish that Moscow itself had spent one dime to influence the vote in America (Moscow sees US elections for what they are, a bourgeois fraud; they apply Marxian analysis after all). All they could show, despite the insufferable noise, was that some private entities bought some space in Facebook, etc., for ALL candidates, investing the grand sum of about $5,000, an almost invisible amount in S electoral contests. The panel also reminds everyone that the European vassals' ruling cliques are terrified of a possible Trump victory. They fear a dismantlement of NATO and other catastrophes, despite the fact that Trump is not exactly a cogent or reliable thinker, put charitably.
The Transatlantic alliance—the US, the EU satrapies, Australia and New Zealand, etc.—fear Trump because they have to "sell" him what they regard as "obvious", such as the expansion of NATO, the continuing war on Russia and China, Iran, etc., and so on, whereas with a certifiable, semi-demented Neocon like Biden they have no problem getting him to endorse their schemes.
The panel also discusses Biden's (the Empire's) options in regard to the Israel/Palestine conflict. It's clear the Empire, and especially the Biden admin ·from the p.r. standpoint) has only bad options. If Biden allows Netanyahu to go on genociding the Palestinian people, while hypocritically pretending to be opposed, the reputational damage is enormous. If he orders him to stop, and freezes all financial and military support, he gets in serious trouble with the powerful Zionist lobby, and major factions of the US empire itself. Either way, it's clear that the US, the EU and Israel have suffered already a major defeat in their propaganda war, with possible lasting consequences, and, despite their arrogant moves to amplify the war, such as in Yemen or Iran, they may end up losing the war or dragging the whole world into a nuclear confrontation.
Lastly, South Africa's complaint against Israel for systematic genocide before the ICJ poses its own can of worms. For one thing, it's widely understood that the ICJ has long been a tool of the Empire. However, too much has happened, appearances need to be kept, and the ultimate outcome is as yet difficult to predict. Hence the title of this episode: Everything Is in Motion.
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Miko Peled • Max Blumenthal
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