GARLAND NIXON—Garland and Scott discuss the present strategic situation of the West regarding their misadventure in Ukraine (precisely as Russia continues its systematic advances and destruction of Ukraine’s entire electric grid, forcing the abandonment of even major cities (as we just saw in Kharkov), and the efforts by Israel to widen the war through reckless crimes and provocations to draw the US in (something the Americans have long had plans to do themselves in order to attack Iran, see this, which again begs the question of who’s leading who by the nose), while Germany and the US stand around posing as peacemakers as Macron talks French boots on the ground in Ukraine.
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JAY JANSON—After government attorneys argued the court has no standing to decide on what they say is a matter of foreign policy, the federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against Biden but implored his administration to reconsider its “unflagging support” for Israel’s war on Gaza.
U.S. Judge Found ‘U.S. Foreign Policy of Genocidal Bombing and Starvation Crime Unprosecuteable for the principle of Separation of Executive and Judicial Branches of Government. [Intercept, Feb. 1, 2024]So U.S. Genocide As Foreign Policy is ‘Above the Law?’
Starving a militarily occupied population is a crime against humanity as stipulated in the UN-adopted Nuremberg Principles of International Law first used to prosecute high officials of Nazi Germany,
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MICHAEL BRENNER—The stunning feature of the Palestine affair is the readiness of immoral government elites – indeed the near entirety of the political class – to give their implicit blessing to the atrocities and war crimes Israel has committed over the past five months, which is having profound repercussions on the West’s standing and influence globally.
At one moment, they speak proudly about the superiority of Western values while condemning the practices of other countries; at another, they lean over backwards to justify far greater humanitarian abuses, to provide the perpetrator with the arms to destroy to kill and to maim innocent civilians, and in the case of the United States, to extend diplomatic cover in the United Nations Security Council.
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KARL SANCHEZ—The nature of our situation as citizens of an Outlaw Empire is detailed in many books that discuss the nature of the political system but never go to its cause or how it became that way. That whole story is what I’ve been attempting to compile in my work as a historian over the decades, and I probably finally have enough material to write a major essay on the topic, although new facts are always being uncovered that further prove some facet of the whole story. The problem is to know when to stop compiling facts and start writing. And then there’re contemporary events that I continue to cover that take me away from that project. Writing a long essay is sort of like building a house: you need to make a blueprint to know how to proceed.
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MARK SLEBODA—Nearly 140 people were murdered in a horrific terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall in the Moscow region last week, with the Biden Admin immediately claiming Ukraine wasn’t responsible, and that it must have been the elusive group ISIS-K… International Relations and Security Analyst Mark Sleboda noted that ISIS-K has a history of being accused of being a CIA front, as it fights the same groups Washington is fighting—but never the U.S. Therefore, some have suggested the Russian government views ISIS-K as a “fig leaf of plausible deniability” in this attack, and a cover for Kiev. In his latest comments, Russian President Putin said they know the attack was carried out by radical Islamists, but now they want to know who orchestrated it, saying, “We know who carried out the attack. We want to know who ordered it.”
