JIMMY DORE SHOW—According to former GOP House Representative and staunch libertarian Ron Paul, elements within the United States government have for years been plotting how to overthrow the current Russian regime. The recent terror attacks, he says, were likely an outgrowth of those elements feeling that they needed to act before Ukraine capitulates and concedes defeat to Russia. Jimmy and Due Dissidence host Keaton Weiss discuss the sociopathic strain that leads U.S. Deep State officials to believe they have the right to brazenly control other nations.
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JESSICA BUXBAUM—Facts For Peace’s mission falls in line with the United States’ vast Israel lobby. American journalist and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, Norman Solomon, explained the lobby’s current tactics since Israel’s war began. “The Israel lobby extends far beyond literal lobbyists on Capitol Hill,” Solomon told MintPress. Israel-can-do-no-wrong defenders have been in ongoing damage-control mode since October, and part of that effort is focused on smearing principled supporters of human rights like Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush.”
Facts For Peace appears part of these damage-control efforts with its own media blitz. “The lobby’s influence is inclusive of, and perhaps mainly composed of, ferocious media offensives – now denying that Israel is engaged in the mass murder of civilians in Gaza and slandering the movement that demands an immediate and permanent ceasefire,” Solomon said.
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JIMMY DORE SHOW—In surveying the situation in Israel following the Hamas attacks of last weekend, former weapons inspector Scott Ritter suggests that the conflict cannot possibly end unless and until one of the opposing parties loses a decisive military defeat and gives up. And there’s no defeat overwhelming enough to cause the Palestinians to give up, he says, so the big loser long term has to be Israel. Jimmy, The Convo Couch’s Craig Jardula and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss Ritter’s assessment as well as his evaluation of the internal conflicts roiling the Israeli political and military establishments.
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GONZALO LIRA says some things that just about everyone knows but never utters, that many Jews in the West are rabidly Russophobic. This presents a huge problem for the peace of the world, given the role played by Israel in the Middle East and world politics, and their over-representation in media, politics and the professions.
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ALEX RUBINSTEIN—Iran and Russia have “consistently allege[d]” that unmarked helicopters were flying into regions of Afghanistan where ISIS had a foothold. But as Javad Zarif pointed out in March 2018, “this time, it wasn’t unmarked helicopters. They were American helicopters, taking Daesh out of Haska prison. Where did they take them? Now, we don’t know where they took them, but we see the outcome. We see more and more violence in Pakistan, more and more violence in Afghanistan, taking a sectarian flavor.”
As the US government propaganda outlet Voice of America wrote at the time in 2018, “the terrorist group uses Nangarhar as its main base to launch attacks elsewhere in Afghanistan.” This is the same province the US struck with an unmanned drone the day following the attack on the airport.
