THE NEW ATLAS—Brian and Angelo are cautious regarding recent events in the Middle East. They believe the US Hegemon (with Israel’s conscious or objective assist) may be playing intricate and highly devious games to detonate a regionwide conflagration. Hamas, for one thing, may have been chosen by Israel and the US to play a divisive role among Palestinian factions, while maintaining the image of a fanatical anti-Israeli threat, eventually even allowing Oct. 7 attacks to permit Israel and the US to flatten Gaza, and provoke Iran and other members of the anti-Zionist/imperialist alliance to step in, thereby justifying, again a reasonable “response” that would destroy Iran and the forces resisting Western hegemony. In that sense, Oct 7 would be analogous to 9/11, a pretext to launch a vast imperialist campaign.
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BILLY BOB—The inculcated conceptualization of autonomous terrorist groups existing and violently pursuing their radical agendas while the West tirelessly works to track them and protect innocent people (you know, the basic understanding of “terrorism” as spread by Hollywood and the State Department on a daily basis) is absolutely false and entirely detached from objective reality. Terrorism is the tool of the elites. Those that the West calls “terrorists” but do not actually control (like Hezbollah, the IRGC, and the Houthis) of course are not terrorists at all. They are popular groups that resist Western imperialism and who fight against Western backed terrorists (like AL Qaeda and IS).
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EDITOR—A high point of the episode is a discussion about climate change. Chris Black is extremely pessimistic, believing that the assertion that climate change is a hoax needs to be reexamined carefully. The idea this is a hoax has become popular, of all places, notes Black, among the world’s left, and progressive statesmen, which may be a huge miscalculation. Leaders around the world keep talking about this issue but do little, with Russia and China doing the most, but still not enough, and the West doing the least, or next to nothing. We are at a point where a few more degrees may spell the death of all life on this planet due to the collapse of agriculture and plant life in general, says Black.
Ben Toth replies that a Russian scientist recently advised Putin that humanity had a “Window” of about 10,000 years to solve this problem. This may be wildly optimistic. In Siberia the problem may be extreme, as permafrost (thought to be “eternal”) is now melting away at ever faster rates, in the process releasing methane.
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ERIC ZUESSE—Much of the hypocrisy regarding the conflict in Gaza is based upon Israel and other U.S. colonies, falsely alleging that the conflict in Gaza began when Gazans invaded Israel on October 7th, when, in fact, it actually began back in 1948 when Israel was founded by fascist Jews (called “Zionists”) stealing the land from, and slaughtering, non-Jews, so as to clear the land in order to bring in Jews from the Christian European countries that had been slaughtering Jews and that didn’t want Jews. So: Zionists in Palestine slaughtered not the nazi European Christians who had slaughtered Jews, but instead slaughtered the native residents of Palestine — and the U.S.-and-‘allied’ countries support what Israel is doing (partly in order to redirect the blame for the Holocaust onto Muslims, though Muslims had had nothing to do with it).
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DR WILMER LEON—During his speech in the Senate, Schumer specifically called out the phrase ” from the river to the sea,” saying it alarms Jewish people to hear it used. This phrase is not a call for extermination, it is a call for freedom and equality among all inhabitants of the region. When does the sensitivities of Jewish people outweigh the genocide of Palestinians? This differs from the first Zionist claims of ‘a land without a people for a people without a land’ which ignores and/or denies the very existence of the people that are indigenous to the area.
