Friday, 27 December 2024 — NetPol
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Christmas time seems to have resulted in peak craziness during the covid era. If we want to save Christmas future we need to look at Christmas past.
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Monday, 23 December 2024 — Al Mayadeen English

Yemen’s rockets that struck “Israel” have cast a shadow over Tel Aviv and its security establishments, Israeli newspaper Maariv stated on Monday, relaying the occupation’s military and security apparatus’ growing concerns regarding Yemeni threats.
Maariv reported the military and security establishment has acknowledged that the Yemeni threat is highly complicated, saying “Yemen is not an ordinary enemy.”
Among the complications are the thousands of kilometers that separate “Israel” and Yemen, the newspaper stated, adding that the YAF are dispersed across the country and are present in areas not defined on the map.
By Victor Grossman (Posted Dec 22, 2024)
It’s reached that time again, a time to look forward but also, for an old geezer like me to look backward. Being 96 for a while yet (until March), I can permit myself some retrospection (while noting that those two digits, if only reversed and embodied, might well have been greatly preferable. Wot-the-hell, while I can still enjoy each new spring and fall and even a snowy winter (if I ever see one again), why shouldn’t I review the many happenings I observed or was part of the worst of them, luckily, from a distance. (But if you’ve read my “Crossing the River” or “A Socialist Defector” you can skip all that follows.)

Susana Khalil
Source: Exclusive for Al Mayadeen
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The author claims that the agenda of this sinister Eurocentric shadow of two States must be released from the agenda, Israeli colonialism does not want two States, not a single State, wants the end of the Palestinian native people.
by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR
Islamist rebels of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham light a fire to keep warm as they guard the abandoned Iranian Embassy in Damascus, December 13, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin, during his Results of the Year annual marathon yearender interactive televised discussion with the Russian public and the media in Moscow on December 19, spoke at some length on the recent developments in Syria.
Friday, 20 December 2024 — Global South
Did Israel and the United States win the Syria war? What about NATO member Turkey? Were Iran and the Axis of Resistance defeated? Political economist Radhika Desai discusses with Mohammad Marandi, a professor at the University of Tehran.

I’ve obtained a copy of suspected killer Luigi Mangione’s manifesto — the real one, not the forgery circulating online. Major media outlets are also in possession of the document but have refused to publish it and not even articulated a reason why. My queries to The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN and NBC to explain their rationale for withholding the manifesto, while gladly quoting from it selectively, have not been answered.
Now read Luigi’s Manifesto:
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Pepe Escobar & Scott Ritter rip the mask off the huge escalations NATO is undertaking against Russia and the multipolar world which threaten to spark the outbreak of ww3 like at no other moment in recent history. Pepe Escobar joins on the first half of the program to discuss the bombshell revelations of Putin’s media day press conference and Scott joins in the second to address how Russia plans a big retaliation for NATO-Ukraine crossing its red line via direct decapitation strikes in Moscow plus much more!
Thursday, 19 December 2024 —

Tehran and Moscow harbor no illusions – and are preparing accordingly. The war on BRICS is just getting started.
Syria as we knew it is being eviscerated in real time – in geographic, cultural, economic and military terms – by an appalling confluence of mercenary Rent-a-Jihadi mobs and psychopathological genocidals praying at the altar of Eretz Israel.
Houmam al-Sayed (Syria), Namle, 2012.
Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
One of the most stunning events of the past few months has been the fall of Damascus. This fall had initially been expected over a decade ago, when rebel armies funded by Qatar, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the United States crowded around the edges of Syria and threatened then President Bashar al-Assad’s government. These armies, backed by rich and powerful countries, were comprised of a range of actors, including:
The collapse of the Syrian government in mid-December 2024 represents a pivotal moment for U.S. geopolitical strategies in the Middle East and beyond.
Islamists take over Syria as Western media launders the barbaric reputation of HTS.
It may be no surprise that the “mainstream” corporate news media have turned into advertising agencies for US government policy. But it still surprises that what the CIA called a compatible left – those on the left it deemed compatible with maintaining imperialist rule – celebrates another US successful “regime change,” this time, Syria.

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Daniel Penny’s acquittal was not surprising, and neither is Mayor Eric Adams’ defense of Penny and law enforcement power being used against Black people.
There are more than 50 people in prison for protest and resistance this winter. As more and more people are jailed for protest, a letter, card or email from you can show someone that they are not alone.

How is it possible that the western-supported jihadists in control of Damascus have a chief who is on a wanted list in the U.S. for being a terrorist?

There are a number of ways that this conflict can now go, all of which will involve resistance to the Zionist regime’s endeavours on every front.
While the recent series of events in occupied Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon have been broadly interpreted as the “defeat” of the regional Resistance, the current situation now presents the opportunity for a re-imagining of the struggle for liberation.
