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Death of Syria

 What is clearly a joint US-Israeli plan to remake the Mideast map is now well underway. Changes will be seismic. The Biden administration, by now almost totally controlled by pro-Israel neocons, is making its final major moves by loosing a Parthian shaft into the heart of the Mideast. Syria – or what’s left of it – was divided up into zones - a third of the country with all its oil and gas fields is under the control of US military forces. Revenues from this oil and gas accounted for half of Syria’s income and paid its armed forces. Deprived of pay and munitions, the Syrian armed forces faded away, leaving the roads to Damascus open to Islamist forces, branded ‘terrorists’ by the west. Israel collaborated closely. In two days alone its powerful air forces launched 480 attacks against Syrian military and strategic targets, including Syria’s tiny navy on the coast and major air bases. Israeli forces occupied a UN-sanctioned demilitarized zone on its northern border with Syria. While western media and politicians waxed euphoric over the fall of former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, there was amnesia about the history of Syria’s nasty dictatorship.

Will Leonard Live? Was The 2024 Election Bought By Musk? What Next In Syria?

TATANKA BRICCA updates the attempt to free LEONARD PELTIER to open GREEP Zoom #202, asking us to contact the White House.

We then explore “Catch 2024” with STEPHEN SPOONAMORE and the possibility that Elon Musk bought this year’s election.

The legendary CLINT CURTIS introduces his movement to get the 2024 ballots counted.

JOHN BRAKEY follows with his report from Arizona & digital imaging insights.

We dive further into the electoral madness with RAY LUTZ.

ELEANOR LECAIN calls out the Democrats for the traditional lack of interest in election protection.

LYNN FEINERMAN raises the issue of Opus Dei and its dark fight against democracy.

PAUL STOKES, DANIELA GIOSEFFI, MELISSA HALL join in with critical comments.

ADAM THUNDERFACE adds more to the campaign to free Leonard Peltier.

The chaos in the Middle East is then addressed by CHARLOTTE DENNETT & DAVID SALTMAN.

We also address the brilliant recent piece on war by LUCIAN TRUSCOTT IV.

…and we will see you again next week for our final session of the tragic year 2024.

 

Our Right To Sing -- and Create the Future

You may not have noticed this. The world “celebrated” International Human Rights Day the other day, even as wars across the planet continued, bombs fell, children died. What if “freedom from war” were a human right?

I don’t ask this to be cynical, but rather to expand the reach of what should be a global day of connection and collective inner reflection. International Human Rights Day is Dec. 10. It’s an annual honoring of the day in 1948 when the newly formed United Nations, in the wake of World War II, adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which publicly recognizes “the inherent dignity and . . . equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family.”

Ohio SB 297 is an anti-free speech law that should be rejected

I strongly oppose SB 297 and ask our lawmakers to reject it. The bill is a repressive measure as it restricts our free speech.  SB 297 trumps the First Amendment right of the US Constitution.SB 297 falsely conflates legitimate criticism of Israel with antisemitism.SB 297 would criminalize individuals for daring to criticize Israeli crimes.SB 297 is being introduced at a time when the Israeli army is committing genocide, ethnic cleansing, and using starvation as a weapon against Palestinians, which are all recognized as war crimes and crimes against humanity.  While Israel is telling Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank to leave, surrender, or die,SB 297 is telling Palestinian advocates in the US, "Stay out of it. Keep your mouth shut or else!" Still, people in America are free to say:God does not exist.There is no such thing as Palestine, and Palestinians never existed.Calling President Biden every name in the book.Referring to President Putin as Hitler.Mocking the Prophet Mohammad pbuh (peace be upon him)Insulting over 2 billion Muslims.Calling Jesus (pbuh) a bastard and His Mother superior, Mariam, a whore, and no one will give a rat.

The Best of Substack -Today.

The Best of Substack -Today.

Today is a great example of why everyone who is interested in current affairs should be using substack to gather information. I could write this everyday, but for today:

Ken Klippenstein has published Luigi Mangione's manifesto. The mainstream media in the American Empire is funded via advertising revenue by the health care industry, so it should be no surprise that they are burying Luigi's manifesto. Ken asked the MSM for comment. “I queried the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and NBC to at least give them a chance to make their case for withholding the Luigi Mangione manifesto. They didn't even respond! “

Ken also published the UHC talking points to it's employees. And for your entertainment, the comments on his this are fun reading. No MSM hand wringing about how terrible we should feel when a psychopath is murdered. Instead, what does Luigi have to say?

The manifesto is partially reprinted below.

Insurgents Killing Chinese Upgrading A Hammerhead-Shaped Port

BANGKOK, Thailand -- China's joint, three-week, anti-terrorism exercise in Pakistan on November 20-December 11 was to help defend Beijing's $70 billion Belt and Road Initiative projects against deadly anti-Chinese insurgents in Baluchistan province.

Under threat is the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) which includes upgrading Pakistan's north-south roads and Karakoram Highway, to link Kashgar in China's landlocked Xinjiang province directly to Pakistan's hammerhead-shaped peninsula and port of Gwadar in Baluchistan on the Arabian Sea, close to the Persian Gulf.

The CPEC is also expanding Gwadar's deep-water port, so large Chinese vessels will have a much shorter route for shipping petroleum from the Persian Gulf to oil-hungry China.

Currently, oil-laden ships bound for China depart the Middle East through the Persian Gulf into the Arabian Sea and then route south around India toward Singapore.

To reach China's east coast ports, those ships must pass through the congested Malacca Strait, where U.S.-backed Singapore monitors its narrow waters.

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