VANESSA BEELEY—Five senior IRGC military advisors were assassinated in the centre of Damascus on Saturday 20th January. The strike by a reported 4 missiles completely destroyed a four storey building in Western Villas, one the most secure areas of central Damascus. The blast was close to the UN offices and a number of embassies, including South Africa and Venezuela. Here is my short interview with RT.
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BILLY BOB—Episode 49 of Blowback: Exposing Imperial Decline: John Steppling and Ian Kummer join the roundtable to discuss the biggest news of the past few days, starting with today’s ruling at the ICJ. Other topics include, understanding the Zionist mindset, the downing of the Russian IL-76 (carrying scores of Ukrainian prisoners), and the domestic political situation in the US.
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EDITOR—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.
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JOHN PILGER—In McCarthy’s time, there were bolt holes of truth. Mavericks welcomed then are heretics now; an underground of journalism exists (such as this site) in a landscape of mendacious conformity. Dissenting journalists have been defenestrated from the “mainstream” (as the great editor David Bowman wrote); the media’s task is to invert the truth and support the illusions of democracy, including a “free press”.
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SIMPLICIUS—Suffering from standard artillery shell hunger, Ukraine has asymmetrically invested into small, cheap drone production—and it’s paying off for them, as Russia is struggling to develop a consistent counter against them. Sure, Russia itself outproduces Ukraine in raw FPVs, but the issue is, since it’s Russia that is now on the offensive, the situation favors Ukraine. Russian forces have to go out in the open to attack, creating a target-rich environment for the AFU. The Ukrainians on the other hand are all bunkered up and no longer assault, so despite having a positive FPV ratio, Russia doesn’t have as many easy or open targets to hit.