Rania Khalek, Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal discuss how the Trump administration’s execution of top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi PMF commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis was a huge gift to ISIS and al-Qaeda. These military leaders defeated the so-called Islamic State, which was empowered by the US and its allies.
ISIS/ISIL/DAESH
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PEPE ESCOBAR: US Kick Starts Raging ’20s Declaring War on Iran
33 minutes readPEPE ESCOBAR—There cannot be a more startling provocation against Iran — in a long list of sanctions and provocations — than what just happened in Baghdad. Iraq is now the preferred battleground of a proxy war against Iran that may now metastasize into hot war, with devastating consequences.
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Al-Baghdadi’s Death Won’t Change Much For Daesh*
14 minutes readANDREW KORYBKO—There have already been several false alarms over the years alleging his death through various circumstances, but this time it seems more credible than all that others that he really did bite the dust like it’s being reported. Should that be the case, then the US objectively deserves to be credited for killing him, notwithsanding the fact that they indirectly instrumentalized his organization by guiding it in the direction of their shared goals during the Hybrid War of Terror on Syria instead of sincerely fighting it the entire time like they publicly purported to be doing.
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GHASSAN KADI—I have reiterated in that era of the past that the ISIS ideology had deep roots in fundamentalist Islam, and I still have this view. I have professed many times that this fundamentalist doctrine had been in place long before Christopher Columbus set a foot on American soil and that we cannot blame the CIA, Israel, the UK, or the West in general for the creation of this ideology, and I am not retracting.