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Dec 13 2024 
A Syrian Scorecard: Key Factions and Their Backers
This was initially drawn up by Two Majors and I edited extensively.
The factions are beginning to fight. There is also a resistance standing up in Syria. It is early days but this is all to be expected.
1. Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)
– Background: HTS, formerly al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, has emerged as the dominant force in northwestern… Continue reading
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Dec 12 2024 
A Birds-Eye view into the few days of war in Syria
The Fall of Bashar as seen by a SAA officer from the Fourth Division This part of the story has not been heard anywhere. Harrowing. pic.twitter.com/GxQas8AsAh— ₦₳V𝚜𝚝é𝚟𝚊 🇷🇺 ᴢ (@Navsteva) December 11, 2024
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Dec 12 2024 
Nima and Dmitry Orlov: The Collapse of the Arab World
Dmitry Orlov has some different ideas. He says Syria and other countries in the region are not countries. They are only old 6th century tribal societies. Fake countries, not political establishments. In his view Egypt is the only country there. All that happened in Syria, is that Assad left, having taken 6… Continue reading
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Dec 12 2024 
Death of a nation: Black Flags, massacres, land grabs as vultures feed on the carcass of Syria
Will the collective West rise to defend the remaining Syrian Christians when the Black Flags come to purge them?
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
The standard modus operandi of the Hegemon is always Divide and Rule. Cornered by the inexorable rise of the multi-nodal (italics mine) reality, they saw an opening for an… Continue reading
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Dec 12 2024 
How the US nabs and jails people simply because …
Extraordinary Arrests and Renditions:
We’ve just heard from Maria Zakharova that Russians are arrested in US friendly jurisdictions, thrown in jail, extradited to the US and with made-up charges and jailed for many years. This has reached a crescendo and not only for the Russians.
I’m posting this interview for a few reasons and to prove Maria… Continue reading
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Dec 12 2024 
Susan Abulhawa interview with Afshin Rattanzi: The real situation in Gaza
A few days ago, we posted a speech by Susan Abulhawa. This is an interview with Afshin Rattanzi from Going Underground on RT. Susan speaks about the real situation in Gaza.
Susan is a Palestinian American writer, human rights activist and animal rights advocate.She is the author of several books, and the… Continue reading
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Dec 12 2024 
Daily Chronicles
We are in the throes of One War, an Omniwar, a new Full Spectrum Dominance from a falling empire, with one objective : the weaponization of everything. When an empire falls, one cannot make agreement with it. A different figurehead is but a temporary phenomenon as the operations and philosophy of empire is systemic.
Daily Chronicles… Continue reading
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Dec 11 2024 
Why did Assad say No?
Alastair Crooke and Chris Hedges. Many of the remaining questions are answered.
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Dec 11 2024 
Imam Khamenei’s Full Speech of 11 Dec 2024: Syrian Issue
Iman Khamenei’s speech was not televised live. Via Enemywatch
In a meeting with thousands of people from different walks of life, held on December 11, 2024, in the Imam Khomeini Hussainiyah, Imam Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, spoke about recent developments in the region.
The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, in a meeting… Continue reading
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Dec 11 2024
Pepe Escobar with Nima
Very serious conversation with Nima – scorpions and deep darkness – vultures feeding.
Fade to black.
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Dec 11 2024 
Ukraine strikes Russia with US-made ATACMS missiles
MOSCOW, December 11. /TASS/. Russia will retaliate to Ukraine’s ATACMS missile attack on the Taganrog military airfield, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.
The Kiev regime delivered a strike by six US-made ATACMS long-range ballistic missiles at the military airfield in Taganrog in southern Russia on the morning of December 11. Two of the missiles… Continue reading
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Dec 11 2024 
Romania – Coup d’État, Instigated by the European Union?
Europe is ever faster on a course of self-destruction
By Peter Koenig
Europe is on a fast, very fast descent into darkness, followed by disappearance. Europe, especially the European Union (EU), is a Washington construct. To be sure, the EU never was a European idea. That is a different story. But is a fact.
Presidential elections were held in Romaniaon… Continue reading
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Dec 11 2024 
Did Syria fall to a Rent-a-Jihadi mob?
Why did Bashar al-Assad allow his government in Damascus to be toppled? The 13-year-old Libya-style intervention in Syria has ended in defeat for the resistance. And I mean the whole of the resistance. For Europe of course there will be unexpected consequences with tens of thousands of new refugees already on the march, while the… Continue reading
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Dec 10 2024 
Director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service Sergey Naryshkin: interview to ‘Razvedchik’ (‘Intelligence Officer’) news magazine
❓ Question: Late last year, the Razvedchik (Intelligence Officer) magazine published your article about international development trends in the outgoing year 2024. To what extent have your forecasts come true, and what are the nascent new trends? What can Russia and the international community fear and hope for next year?
💬 Sergey Naryshkin: The main forecast… Continue reading
