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This is a repost of my episode on MintPress News. Subscribe  @MintPressNews  for more content like this! Today we are joined by Major General Dennis Laich, US Army Retired - who had a distinguished 35-year career in the Army Reserve. The last 14 of those years were spent in various command positions; most recently as commander of the 94th Regional Readiness Command in Ft. Devens, MA. Laich holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Lafayette College, and Master’s degrees from West Virginia University and St. Francis College in business administration and labor relations. He completed post-graduate studies at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and is a graduate of the Army War College. Areas of Expertise * All Volunteer Force (AVF) demographics & tradeoffs * Conscription & national military service * Senior-level military leadership & General Officer Experience * Army Reserve & National Guard force structure & operations * Iraq wars: Persian Gulf to present This episode is on how we cannot solve the recruiting crisis.

Acclaimed Journalist Anthony Loewenstein joins us to discuss the general process of how Israel designs, tests and exports the technology of Apartheid and occupation around the globe. Links: https://www.instagram.com/antloewenstein@antloewenstein https://twitter.com/antloewenstein https://www.youtube.com/user/antonyloewenstein https://www.amazon.com/Palestine-Laboratory-Exports-Technology-Occupation/dp/183976208X #israelpalestineconflict #ceasefire #decolonize #antiimperialism #globalaffairs #foreignaffairs #humanrights #endwar #veteran #veteransforpeace #militaryindustrialcomplex #elbit #warjournalism #idf #merchantsofdeath #humanrightswatch #savethechildren #ccr #icj #icc #warcrimes #amnestyinternational

A rare repost episode from our show "State of Play" On MintPress News

Subscribe to  @MintPressNews  for more videos and content like this!In this episode of State of Play on @MintPressNews  we are going to be talking about how serious this

Russia/Nato/US/Ukraine situation is, and incorporate a lot of cloak and dagger drama - leaked intelligence, NATO stay-behind operations, nuclear brinksmanship, and how the Biden Administration will be remembered as one of the most reckless, violent, and foolhardy administration’s in US history. However, if you think Trump’s Administration will be any better - less violent, less foolhardy - You’ve got another thing coming.

Here is the referenced GRAYZONE article:https://thegrayzone.com/2024/11/16/uk-plot-keep-ukraine-fighting/

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The ghost wars for regional influence in the Gulf and the Levant between Israel and the US, Russia and Iran, continue but the long-established status quo has changed. In this episode of Operational Breakdown, we look at Iran's telegraphed yet effective and measured response to Israel's bombing of its Consulate in Damascus. We also talk about the logic of Deterrance, which is an important pillar of geo-political analysis. #israelpalestineconflict #ceasefire #decolonize #antiimperialism #globalaffairs #foreignaffairs #humanrights #israelhamaswar #counterterrorism #militaryindustrialcomplex #militaryintelligence #militaryintervention #uspolitics #bidenvstrump #independentjournalism #militaryhistory #veteran #veteransforpeace

Check us out on Patreon for exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/c/ColonialOutcasts Here is my interview on State of Play for Mint Press News - we discuss how these ongoing Israeli military operations in Gaza, The West Bank, and Southern Lebanon do not constitute the waging of War with former Special Forces operator and Green Beret, Alan Shebaro, who has recently returned from the occupied West Bank.

It is clear that the tactics employed by the IDF are not meant to defeat resistance forces, since the resistance will never cease to exist. This “war,” has been from the start an opportunity to seize land, displace people, destroy infrastructure, all under the political cover of the United States and its western allies.

The failure to implement moral consistency when it comes to foreign policy and the blithe disregard for the rules-based-order will have long-term ramifications for the United States and Israel. The world is a less safe place after a year of unmitigated violence. All of those who apologize for the genocide and use the conduct of US and coalition forces during the “Global War on Terror” to justify the actions of the IDF now are being intellectually dishonest.

This is not a war. Join us tonight for a conversation between two US special operations veterans about the conduct of Israeli Forces, their failure to achieve tactical and operational objectives, and what this headless violence means for the conduct of modern warfare going forward.

This is a repost of my interview with Ghadi Francis and Batool Subeiti - follow  @MintPressNews  for more content like this!

Many out there are confused by the sudden Ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon, given that one of Hezbollah’s initial early operational imperatives was to not relent its military pressure on Israel until a ceasefire was reached in Gaza.

That prospect, one of a ceasefire, seems more unlikely now, though some hold out hope that this ceasefire in Lebanon will snowball into others throughout the region. With the IDF on the brink, low on munitions and manpower, why relent now?

On this Episode we discuss the anti-Netanyahu Protests in Tel-Aviv, the dissonance of the colonizing mentality, and the "allyship" of Liberals. We again get into to the self-serving narrative of Neoliberals as an expression of supremacy in the latter third of the episode. You know, because it's almost election season and this is an extremely important topic. We are joined by Jenan Matari - Palestinian storyteller, content creator, and activist. Jenan's Social: https://www.instagram.com/jenanmatari/

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World War Three happen yet? We think we'll make it to Halloween at least, so that's fun.

Is the ceasefire in Lebanon a strategic blunder for the Axis? Who benefits more from breathing room to rearm and replenish? Also Trump is coming into office. Join us tonight for a deep dive into this developing story.

Sign and support Mahmoud here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/demand-the-immediate-release-of-columbia-student-pro-palestine-advocate-mahmoud-khalil-from-dhs-detentionFollow Nerdeen here for updates: https://x.com/NerdeenKiswaniThis episode is about the disappearing and potential deportation of Mahmoud Khalil - Palestinian activist detained by ICE over Columbia University protests. President Trump has likened him to a terrorist sympathizer for saying such direct quotes as ““As a Palestinian student, I believe that the liberation of the Palestinian people and the Jewish people are intertwined and go hand-by-hand and you cannot achieve one without the other.” He told CNN last spring. We’re going to be talking to Nerdeen Kiswani - Palestinian-American activist and organizer. She is a co-founder and chair of Within Our Lifetime, a pro-Palestinian activist group in New York City, and Marie Adele - third year student at Barnard/Columbia and activist for Palestine who know Mahmoud personally. We’re also going to be doing a know your rights call to action at the end of this because they’re trying to make the 1st amendment - fungible.

Jason Higgins / IG higginsj_director_i_p_c Check Us Out on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ColonialOutcasts What does Palestine, Hurricane Helene, and rednecks have to do with each other? They all relate to elite panic and the empire’s desire to keep everybody in desperation, suppression, oppression and in separation of each other’s struggle. This episode aspires to merge heartland America with the global war against genocide, neocolonialism, racism and empire. Jason Higgins, a prepper, patriot, constitutionalist and relief effort volunteer from Louisiana expresses his deep ponderings on the suffering of the Palestinians under Israel’s tyrannical boot, relates it to the struggle of Americans under D.C.’s fascist boot, describes his experience in helping with the relief efforts in the hardest hit areas of Appalachia, the incompetence of the federal government when it comes to anything but war, Federal personnel confiscating aid and supplies from volunteers seeking to help isolated families, and the odd presence of security contractors seemingly out of place in a disaster zone. We also discuss the need for transcultural solidarity in the fight for liberation as the ultimate weapon in spooking the elites to panic harder. Instagram instagram.com/colonialoutcasts Spotify open.spotify.com/show/1o0MF5fJM6Wjdhm0vjx4To?si=2cfdf86fa5a3491b X twitter.com/gregjstoker TikTok tiktok.com/@greg.j.stoker #hurricanehelene #rednecks #country #war #election #America #military #veterans #constitution #Patriots #liberty

We are going to be talking about music, revolutionary ideology, the precarious position of empire within the context of this Dark American Experiment, and whatever else we feel like talking about.

Because I am Joined today by Immortal Technique - rapper and activist who you, if you are into rap and have any sort of robust left-wing politics, probably know about. This is a long one. Join Us!

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This weekend, according to the NYT - Israel Rescues Four hostages in a hostage in military operation - This is a fact, it’s in the active voice and the hostages are numbered. Then “Gaza officials Say Scores are killed.” Which is presented as hearsay, in the passive voice and they victims are not numbered. This is pretty egregious. The role of corporate and partisan media in the United States is not to inform but to manufacture consent for the whims of the ruling and political class. IT’s becoming apparent that we are some of the most heavily propagandized people on Earth. The easiest way to see that is to note how many think we're the good guys. I argue that The Hostage Rescue Operation conducted early Saturday morning will have far-reaching unintended consequences.

It's 2025 and Imperialism will now turn localize in the American continent and turn in on its own citizens, boomerang style. Today we are gonna be talking about oligarchy, Corporate liberal media enabling far-right politics, and the potential resurrection of the global war on terror in this new American Dark age. Gonna be fun!

This is our second interview with Dr. Altalla, surgeon at the last fully functional hospital in Gaza, Al-Aqsa, which suffered an airstrike yesterday from the Israeli regime in their courtyard, killing 5+ and maiming others. This was recorded weeks ago following the massacre at Al-Mawasi, the victims from which Dr. Altalla treated. So some of the information is dated but the overall value of the information concerning the medical situation in Gaza is beyond relevant. The internet connection was very spotty at best and required hours of editing to make it viewable. Dr. Altalla also has to be mindful of potential drone strikes on his location as the Israeli regime actively hunts medical staff to further terrorize their resilient people of Gaza. We discuss the dire shortage of medical supplies, the impending Polio pandemic poised to sweep the population of Gaza, the improvisation and bravery by medical staff to make due with what little resources they have to save lives, and some positive moments in the midst of this hell. A teaching assistant at The Faculty of Medicine at Al Azhar University in Cairo and a medical director of Al Amal Health Center. Dr. Altalla wakes up every day to manage the critical task as surgeon for the Surgery Department of Al Aqsa Hospital. Dr. Altalla had the misfortune of witnessing one of the worst surges of patients as a result of the Al Nussiret Massacre which resulted in 270 + murdered and over 700 severely injured. In defiance of the nightmarish and unsafe conditions weaponized to drive medical staff out of Gaza, Dr. Altalla refuses to evacuate until there is a permanent ceasefire. Dr. Altalla is trying to raise money for his Master’s in the UK. You can support Dr. Altalla through his Gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-dr-mohammeds-medical-mission-in-gaza?utm_campaign=p_cp+fundraiser-sidebar&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer IG: https://www.instagram.com/dr.mohammed_altalla?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== #doctors #nurses #medical #hospital #paramedics #medicine #crises #disaster

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The central question I want to answer with this Episode was posited by Emma Vigeland of the Majority report - Struggling to see a path forward for pro-Palestine activism under Trump.” Suffering and repression will worsen.We’re going to get to that, but in a round-about way. We’re going to get to but talking about the Piers Morgan/Dan Bilzerian interview that you may have seen go viral.

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Check us out on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ColonialOutcasts Neutralizing a shooter that gets off eight shots, kills a spectator, injures two more and hits a Former President in the head isn’t a win. There were egregious failures in coverage and protocol within law enforcement and the Secret Service at the Trump Rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.  It should have been impossible for the 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks to gain access to a rooftop 400 feet from the podium and set up a sniper position in the most obvious vantage point imaginable. 

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The Press is already calling it Signalgate, harkening back to the infamous political scandal in 1972 under the Nixon administration. On Monday, March 24th the Atlantic broke the story that journalist Jeffery Goldberg had been added to a signal group chat with US national security leaders discussing impending war plans for aerial combat missions against Houthi leadership in Mid March of this year. Classified information was discussed on an open-source civilian messaging application. While Signal is used by military leaders around the world, according to Signal’s CEO, it is against the PEntagon’s operational security protocols. Using a Signal chat to share highly classified information and accidentally including a reporter on the discussion could raise the possibility of violations of federal laws such as the Espionage Act.It can be a crime to mishandle, misuse or abuse classified information, though it is unclear whether such provisions might have been breached in this case. However, the salient point here is that they were using an app with disappearing messages, a feature not available on secure governmental messaging systems where accountability is a priority. Join us tonight on State of Play to do a deep dive into this budding scandal, and what it means for both the administration and for Yemen.

Repost from my  @MintPressNews  episode. Last time I will b e dual posting, so follow us there if interested! Following its new attacks on Syria, Israel’s leaders and much of its media tout the creation of a new Middle East. Is this possible? Israel and the collective West have had little success in controlling the region. Join us Tonight on State of Play to discuss the volatile dynamics of Syria and the infeasibility of a messianic “Greater Israel.”

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Happy 4th of July. All empires fall. We are joined today by professor Butch Ware. What this episode is about is in the Title. Let's go! Follow Professor Butch Ware on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/butchware/

Ex-Israeli Soldier discusses militant Zionism and the dehumanization of the self, which allows for the atrocities that we are seeing on the ground. We also rag on Liberals on this one again. One of my favorite past-times. Thanks to Yuval Manns for coming on. Links below: https://www.instagram.com/yuvalmanns/ https://yuvalman.com/ #israelpalestineconflict #ceasefire #decolonize #antiimperialism #globalaffairs #foreignaffairs #humanrights #israelhamaswar #counterterrorism #militaryindustrialcomplex #militaryintelligence #militaryintervention #uspolitics #bidenvstrump #independentjournalism #militaryhistory #veteran #veteransforpeace #israelpalestineconflict

A quick appraisal of the potential Rafah Clearance/Catastrophe that will be coming in the next days. There is evidence that Egypt will try and create a "Buffer Zone" for displaced Palestinians. This is a rough cut, but the information is there.

Hello and welcome to or welcome back to Colonial Outcasts, the anti-imperialist pod cast that has released way too many episodes this week. Sorry, don’t want to go the way of Star Trek in the 90’s and give y’all franchise fatigue, but I’ve just been getting too many questions about what the International Criminal Court arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, actually means.

Tonight we are joined by Dr. Assal Rad, scholar of Middle East History, she works on research and writing related to US Foreign policy issues, the Middle East and contemporary Iran. He writing can bee seen in Newsweek, the National Interest, the Independent, Foreign Policy and more. She has appeared as a commentator on the BBC, CNN, NPR. She completed a PHD in history from the University of California Irvine in 2018 and is the Author of State of Resistance: Politics, Culture, and Identity in Modern Iran. Join us for a in depth conversation.you can follow Assal here:https://x.com/AssalRad

Continuation of a discursive and chaotic marathon of academic discourse with the Doc and an anonymous guest who requested to remain mostly as an occasional interactive listener . We invited a personal friend of Mark - Palestinian American Muslim mom, Rashy, who is incidentally also a student of O'Mara's lives. Recorded on Sunday, March 24th during the holy month of Ramadan, the Jewish holiday of Purim and Palm Sunday, 3 holidays of the 3 Abrahamic faiths. We didn't cover nearly the amount of territory as we intended, so this was more of an unstructured approach to the topic that leads us down some detours in sociology, human psychology, and personal experiences. https://www.youtube.com/@OfficeHourswiththeMadProfessor Also follow him on all of his social media outlets: https://twitter.com/LiamOMaraIV https://www.instagram.com/liamomaraiv https://www.tiktok.com/@liamomaraiv #ceasefire #netanyahu #uspolitics #middleeast #middleeastnews #palestina #foreignaffairs #history #globalaffairs #militaryhistory #levantine #mediacriticism #antiimperialism #decolonize #humanrights #israelpalestineconflict #israelhamaswar #politicaldiscussion #militaryindustrialcomplex

So Netanyahu and his cabinet appear to have decided, or at least to be strongly entertaining the idea that they will attack Southern Lebanon. We are talking about an actual invasion with the presumed objective, if they have any defined objectives, of pushing Hezbollah back to the Litani River.

What could possibly go wrong? In short, just about everything imaginable. In this episode we take this from a broader geopolitical standpoint which examines the challenge to US staying power in the context of the War in Ukraine, and the escalation over Taiwan.

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Michael Schirtzer, Comedian and co-host of the Palestine Pod, discusses Zionism and Anti-Semitism within the context of Palestine. We believe this is an important issue so we can consider this episode part 1 of 2 on this topic. The Palestine Pod: https://www.youtube.com/@ThePalestinePod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michael_schirtzer?igsh=eXhybTF0MXA4NDFx

A continuation of what turned into an unexpected cross interview, we dive into personal stories from Palestine, the often-sour relationship between American Jews and Israelis, racism among Israeli Jews, the horrors that Palestinians face, the inevitable demise of the Israeli apartheid, Wally's genius strategy suggestions in bolstering the economic power of Palestinians in the West Bank and the light of hope awaiting the future of Palestine. Support Wally and all of his endeavors by checking out the links below:@wallyrashid https://www.instagram.com/wallyrashid/https://www.tiktok.com/@wallyrashidhttps://woodlandpulse.com/https://www.change.org/p/urgent-action-now-dismantle-extremist-israeli-yitzhar-settlement?utm_medium=custom_url&utm_source=share_petition&recruited_by_id=56479fb0-bd2d-11e4-a87f-91a1465d8f8a @wallyrashid #westbank #ceasefire #netanyahu #uspolitics #middleeast #middleeastnews #palestina #foreignaffairs #history #globalaffairs #militaryhistory #levantine #mediacriticism #antiimperialism #decolonize #humanrights #israelpalestineconflict #israelhamaswar #politicaldiscussion #militaryindustrialcomplex @matheuskriwat

Most American conservatives support Israel but are completely unaware of Israel establishing Epstein's empire, their cultivation of corruption with our politicians, their alliance with and monopoly over the main stream media and Hollywood, their involvement in supplying tyrannical regimes (including our own) with surveillance technology, their psyop of manipulating the American church culture to believe that Israelis are the "ancient Israelites", and their cooperation with big multinational corporations in subverting the American economy. Patriotic Palestinian-American activist and entrepreneur, Wally Rashid, returns as guest to discuss why being pro-Israel is the opposite of the "America First" philosophy, why the conservative right in the US is a vital ally in our fight to free America from Israeli sabotage of our constitutional rights, and how we can educate the right-wing grassroots demographic in Israel's involvement with all of the corruption that is destroying America. Artwork by @rickyisolation https://www.instagram.com/rickyisolation/Wally's links: @wallyrashid https://www.instagram.com/wallyrashid/ https://www.tiktok.com/@wallyrashid https://woodlandpulse.com/ https://www.change.org/p/urgent-action-now-dismantle-extremist-israeli-yitzhar-settlement?utm_medium=custom_url&utm_source=share_petition&recruited_by_id=56479fb0-bd2d-11e4-a87f-91a1465d8f8a @wallyrashid #patriot #USA #israel #Jesus #2A #conservative #republican #americafirst #verterans #army #USMC #USAF #Navy #constitution #libertarian #china #uspolitics #corruption #terrorism #church #business #tactical #2ndamendment #thebible #redneck #country #freedom

Last night Israel launched its response to Iran, and as anticipated, in the words of National Security Minister Ben Gvir “It was Weak.” Israel and the collective West’s non-0existent response to Iran, as well as Iran’s master class deterrence policy, clearly exhibits the historic proportions of the global re-alignment of power that is occurring. After Decades of of provoking Iran via copious assassinations against key members of it military and scientific communities, Iran’s calculated response on the 14th of April marks the rising power of the BRICS Bloc, and the slow but inevitable demise of Western hegemony. Once Again, the role of China and Russia in this historical shift cannot be understated. 2024 shall be the year that defines our collective futures. Thanks Elina for writing this awesome description. And to better understand the dynamics of that future, join us on Colonial Outcasts to discuss what is BRICS, China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and how these are influencing Iran’s deterrence policy and the West’s floundering with this Mumbai to Europe New Silk Road project that’s supposedly supposed to run through Gaza. Elina's Social Media Page: https://www.instagram.com/p/C58rAMSNwmx/ #israelpalestineconflict #ceasefire #decolonize #antiimperialism #globalaffairs #foreignaffairs #humanrights #israelhamaswar #counterterrorism #militaryindustrialcomplex #militaryintelligence #militaryintervention #uspolitics #bidenvstrump #independentjournalism #militaryhistory #veteran #veteransforpeace#brics #bricssummit #beltandroadinitiative #beltandroad

Weaponized starvation, bombing safe zones, the destruction of infrastructure including hospitals, libraries, schools… Using white phosphorous on people… sound familiar? In this episode we draw parallels between the genocide of the Tamil People in Sri-Lanka, which Israel was also involved in, and the current catastrophe in Gaza. So to guide us through this sad chapter in modern history, we have Dushyanthi Satchi - a licensed clinical psychotherapist and policy analyst. She has a Masters in both clinical work and international policy from Columbia University. She specializes in Gender-based violence, including Intimate partner violence, sex trafficking and honor killings. She is American from NY, and of Sri Lankan Tamil descent. She has been on CNN, NPR, and Oprah Daily. She currently has a clinical practice in NY and LA. You can find here here:   / dushyanthi_satchi  

Make politics your entire personality.

I told y’all the new format would be one geopolitical episode, one social commentary episode, and a possible breaking news episode every week. This is the social commentary one and it is about making politics your entire personality in the face of fascism. To that end we are joined by Davidson Boswell, activist and stand up Comedian coming to us from New York City. We actually met at a breakthrough News panel in Manhattan last year and I’ve been wanting to make this happen. I love your commentary, you also rant into your phone while walking, so solidarity for the old walk-and-talk West-wing Aaron Srokin screenwriting technique, thanks so much for coming on.

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We will be discussing how Israel and the Mossad, excuse me - the Mob-ssad - have been spying on the international criminal court and threatening South African Ministers, but not in a sophisticated spy-agency James Bond villain type way. I’d say it was a mob way, like “I’ll make the South African Foreign Minister an offer she can’t refuse.” But according to these articles by the Guardian, Local Call, and +972 - the publications that broke this story - I’d say that Israeli conduct would actually be an insult to the mob.

Cops, war, the climate crisis, capitalism...

Basically here’s the scoop: The general public still hasn’t grasped the climate crisis that is now upon us and we are nearing the brink of complete societal collapse is certain areas of the country, perhaps even the whole country within the next years - hopefully its at least ten because I am still trying to enjoy my thirties and have enough time for a midlife crisis in my early 40’s but it’s coming…

Anyways, you can follow Mea Here:https://www.instagram.com/spacebunnynews1/Check out

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An emergency episode with Dr. Altalla of the al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza who returns to provide a brief update on the latest influx of casualties as the result of Trump’s continuation of Biden’s blank check policy to supply Israel the tools it needs to “finish the job”. In the past 24 hours an estimated 400+ civilians have been slaughtered along with hundreds more injured.

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So what happened on Friday? Well, THE ICJ RULING CONFIRMS WHAT PALESTINIANS HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR 57 YEARS: Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal, a form of apartheid, and must end, says the U.N.’s high court at The Hague. While this is hopeful, bear in mind that the ruling does little to immediately change the lived reality for Palestinians.

This episode was structured off of the article "Imperialism in Crisis: Gaza, Trade Wars and Trump's Geopolitical Mayhem" by Elina Xenophontos, joining us tonight from London, England.

An unstable West Asia security situation has global ramifications and this talk about a voluntary mass exodus of Palestinians from Gaza is unworkable, stilly, and as detached from reality as anything else the United States has done in the Levant over the past 20 years. Why is this scheme doomed to fail: well, we are going to do a whole geopolitical and economic round-up from “the periphery to the metropole." Lets get into it...

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https://www.patreon.com/ColonialOutcasts So, The Pentagon has warned Israel against any "miscalculation" along its northern border with Lebanon, as fighting between the Israel Defense Forces and Hezbollah militia continues and Israeli leaders threaten to launch a full-scale cross-frontier incursion. But what what is the word on the street in Southern Lebanon? What is not being communicated by the Legacy Media? To answer those questions we have brought on two Lebanese dudes to talk about it. Here are their socials: Assad, Host of Habibi House Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@UCkJOwGuxa0QnZJYXp9bziVQ https://www.instagram.com/habibihousepodcast/ Mr. Dizaster: https://www.instagram.com/mrdizaster/

This video's release was delayed over the weekend due to security reasons. Reporting from Gaza, Afeef Nessouli - a freelance journalist and host of “With Afeef Nessouli” on Patreon. He is also an adjunct professor for Parsons School of Design. He has previously worked for Spotify, The Daily Show and The Wall Street Journal. He focuses on queer and Arab stories. Afeef lived through the 2006 Lebanon war and went to prison in Beirut for covering Palestine. You can find his work on social media at https://www.instagram.com/afeefness/

Seven days ago the Ukrainian Army (AFU) initiated a surprise counter-offensive into the Russian region of Kursk along the northern border of Ukraine and initially captured over 350 square kilometers of territory, in what is the largest regional gain since the Kharkiv offensive nearly two years ago.  It's going to be a blunder. The AFU is incredibly unlikely to achieve any of their strategic goals...

Welcome to Colonial Outcasts. This a ceasefire-related episode. It is currently Sunday June 2nd. Things are going to move fast so we’re going to keep it short-ish and jump right in. Elina Xenophontos, regular political analyst calling in from Cyprus, is here with us today. We’re going to talk about the Biden ceasefire proposal, Obama’s passive-voiced endorsement of said proposal, Netanyahu’s seeming rejection of said proposal, and now soft-floated watercolor talk that the Israeli government might actually accept it. At 6:30 am Central Daylight Time NBC published that “An aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had agreed to the framework for President Joe Biden’s plan to bring an end to the war in Gaza, though he said it was “not a good deal.” Biden announced Friday that Israel had proposed a three-part plan that would ultimately lead to a complete cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, as well as the release of all hostages who have been held there for the last eight months. It’s “time for this war to end,” Biden said. It wasn’t a plan that Israel proposed, but we’ll get into that.

Basically, a bunch of f@scist football/soccer hooligans went to a match in a foreign city (specifically Amsterdam in the Netherlands), destroyed property, assaulted a taxi driver, sang chants riddled with anti-arab hate speech, disrupted a pre-match moment of silence for the victims of the recent flood in Valencia, Spain in which over 200 people died… and then got their ass beat after the game by the local population so they called in the Army. Check out Mike's Podcast at:    / @thepalestinepod   Follow Mike on Instagram:   / michael_schirtzer  

Because of July’s busy schedule at Colonial Outcasts, we are only now releasing a month-old episode with Wally Rashid, Palestinian American, entrepreneur and social media influencer. Recorded on July 11th, Wally relays the continuing horrors on his family village of Burin as well as other West Bank villages. The violent pogroms which took place on the 4th of July as Americans enjoyed their celebration of false independence are just an example of many that have defined reality for Palestinians struggling to endure under the brutal occupation. As the violent Israeli settlements, fueled by cultish belief systems of religious supremacy and blood lust against the inhabitants of West Bank villages rooted in the landscape for thousands of years, Wally has been working within the United States political structure to get these settlements sanctioned. We discuss the complexity of this work that Wally has taken on as well as the experience of his family’s village during these violent raid by former IDF settlers. Wally also discusses the value of long-term strategies through US politics and finding political avenues outside the box of ideology. While Wally and Mark hold different opinions regarding political strategy and direction, the urgency for any and all avenues in the fight for Palestine’s liberation from the everyday horrors of genocide, settler violence and ethnic cleansing is what drives the comradery within the movement as exemplified with Wally’s critical voice being platformed a third time on Colonial Outcasts.

Another discursive and chaotic marathon of academic discourse with the Doc and an anonymous guest who requested to remain mostly as an occasional interactive listener . We invited a personal friend of Mark - Palestinian American Muslim mom, Rashy, who is incidentally also a student of O'Mara's lives. Recorded on Sunday, March 24th during the holy month of Ramadan, the Jewish holiday of Purim and Palm Sunday, 3 holidays of the 3 Abrahamic faiths. We didn't cover nearly the amount of territory as we intended, so this was more of an unstructured approach to the topic that leads us down some detours in sociology, human psychology, and personal experiences. Follow Dr. O'Mara on his channel for more in-depth education on everything anthropology and history: https://www.youtube.com/@OfficeHourswiththeMadProfessor Also follow him on all of his social media outlets: https://twitter.com/LiamOMaraIV https://www.instagram.com/liamomaraiv https://www.tiktok.com/@liamomaraiv #ceasefire #netanyahu #uspolitics #middleeast #middleeastnews #palestina #foreignaffairs #history #globalaffairs #militaryhistory #levantine #mediacriticism #antiimperialism #decolonize #humanrights #israelpalestineconflict #israelhamaswar #politicaldiscussion #militaryindustrialcomplex

Welcome to Colonial Outcasts for an impromptu Ceasefire episode. We may repost segments of this to MintPress News but for right now we are going to dive right in because there is a lot to talk about. What is this ceasefire? Is it viable? Why is it happening now? I know a lot of people are confused right now, and we also need to talk about how this ties into the Lebanese presidential elections, and the US Iran policy under the Trump administration, to that end we are joined by Batool Subeiti, energy engineer and political analyst based out of London UK. You can follow Batool here: https://x.com/_batsub  / batoolsubeiti  

Hello and welcome to or welcome back to Colonial Outcasts, the anti-imperialist podcast where we generally discuss the dirty work our governments are doing overseas. However, today we are bringing it back to the homefront, Imperial Boomerang style, to talk about this stupid drone media frenzy and how the real threat isn’t an Independence Day-esque Alien invasion, but our own government.

In this new episode of Colonial Outcasts we to map out, and draw connections in a very basic way between two conflicts (Gaza/Ukraine) and a potential armed flashpoint (Taiwan), because, as people have begun to realize since October 7th, it’s all connected, man. Not in a conspiracy sort of way, but in a very run-of-the-mill Imperialist way - the most basic definition of which is the wikipedia one, which for our purposes is more than acceptable. Imperialism is the practice, theory or attitude of maintaining or extending power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power and soft power. Imperialism focuses on establishing or maintaining hegemony and a more or less formal empire. Think of Hard power as military force and proxy wars, and soft power as diplomatic and economic pressure like treaties, sanctions etc. So, the US/Europe is fighting a proxy war in Ukraine in order to weaken Russia, which has spectacularly backfired. We are funding a disastrous campaign of genocide in Gaza which is Isolating both Israel and by extension the United States from the international community, and now the US is stoking tensions with China over Taiwan, which could turn into a military flashpoint. We are seeing an Empire in decline. It seems like US politicians still believe that America has the same staying power and power projection that we had in the early 90’s. But the working class is being depleted, rising levels of non-living wages and poverty are pervasive. We can’t afford another conflict, but the question is - can the American People people be deceived into fighting another war? #warinukraine #warinukraine2024 #taiwannews #chinataiwan #chinataiwanconflict #israelpalestinenewsupdates #israelhamaswar #militaryindustrialcomplex #icj #antiimperialism #decolonize #ceasefire #uspolitics #globalaffairs #foreignaffairs #humanrights #breakingnews #internationalnews #warzoneclips #veteran #politicalnews #palestina #politics #political #internationalrelations #internationallaw #colonialoutcasts #counterterrorism #globalsecurity

This is generally a Patreon-only video that we put out every Friday, to take a break from the horrors. If you like it, you can access this content and similar for only 5 bucks a month - articles, our discord, live Q&As and other subversive material.

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It will be if insane if this totally reasonable interview gets taken down...

We are going to be focusing more on domestic issues today - your healthcare, your declining material conditions, and how both the democrats and republicans will come together to stamp down on any working class dissent.

To that end, we are joined by James from Comrade Workwear. He runs Comrade Workwear which recently got into hot water with nearly every major corporation and the NYPD for a deck of playing cards he designed in the wake of the assassination of Brian Thompson which featured the CEOs of prominent companies and information about their misdeeds. He runs comrade workwear and recently launched Means workwear with the means co-op.

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Check us out on Patreon for Exclusive Content: https://www.patreon.com/ColonialOutcasts This "Tactical Pause" is a Farce. We've looked at it since Saturday. I don’t want to get into too much politics in this Episode, because we feel that it’s time to revisit what is happening to civilians on the ground in Gaza. So we’ve invited Zeena Aqel back on to do just that. You may know her, she’s a prominent Palestinian activist and Journalist, you can check her out on Social media linked below, and has many contacts on the ground. Thanks so much for coming on. Follow Zeena on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/zeenaaqel/

What is soft power, digital diplomacy and how has the game of nations changed since October? Dr Jennifer A. Cassidy is a diplomatic scholar at the University of Oxford, where she lectures on Diplomacy and International Law, Digital Diplomacy, and Gender and Diplomacy. Her PhD (2017) from the University of Oxford focused on the emerging discipline of Digital Diplomacy, with a specific focus on the changing nature of digital diplomatic signalling and online strategic narratives during times of political crisis.

Check Us Out on Patreon:   / colonialoutcasts   and sorry for the bad internet today... What is the overall strategic situation in Palestine/Lebanon? On one hand, just like Gaza, Israel is spiraling into war in Lebanon without a strategy or clear goals, and even if they wanted to invade, they can’t. Second: The U.S. faces a strategic dilemma as Israel escalates attacks on Hezbollah, risking broader conflict. While Washington seeks to prevent war, its constrained by limited policy options, political timing, and Netanyahu's brinkmanship. In short this madness won’t end any time soon, but I don’t see it getting out of control.

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Hey y’all welcome to or welcome back to Colonial Outcasts the anti-imperialist podcast that will try, hopefully with a degree of success, to convince you that it is not Israel itself, or its affiliated political lobbying groups such as AIPAC, that control and inform US government policy. Say rather it is the Neoliberal Capitalist system, which the average American toils under without hope, that uses Israel as a convenient patsy to enact policy, fund wars, and foster interventionism that it was already going to do in the first place.

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If you want to see fascism, stick around… Germany is about to beat out the USA, but today we are talking about Trump's cabinet nominees and why the Democrats won't save you from them.

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Hello and elcome to Colonial Outcasts, the anti-imperialist podcast that needs a vacation, but is unlikely to get one. Today we are going to be doing a round table of the conflicts arising in the West Asia which I am calling the Global War on Terror 2.0 - and we’re doing 2.0 because 1.0 only lasted twenty years, killed millions from Afghanistan to Lybia, and accomplished pretty much nothing. AQ is still around, the Taliban are still around, there are open air slave markets in Lybia and the Islamic State ideaology has spread its way across Africa in the Sahel. And yes, all the while you got poorer, less educated, and we want more of that. 

Join us as we look at the violence of late-stage imperial power.

Today we are joined by Jason Green, retired Field-Grade Air Defense Artillery Officer to talk about the basics of air defense and why you should learn about it in order to not be manipulated by the media, and the war-mongering "Bomb Iran" politicians. The US is vulnerable in the Middle East and will not risk escalation. Let's get into it!

We are still seeing a problematic conflation of Jewishness and Zionism. We need to resist and challenge this at every turn because it only fuels Israeli militancy and lends credence to its claims of existential threat. The following exhaustive conversation strives for this nuance. Part 2: is all about the history and various forms of antisemitism and why it's vital to the liberation of Palestine to keep it out of the movement and foster cooperation between Jews and Palestinians to end this occupation and pursue freedom and justice for Palestine. Cheers! Follow Dr. O'Mara on his channel for more in-depth education on everything anthropology and history: https://www.youtube.com/@OfficeHourswiththeMadProfessor Also follow him on all of his social media outlets: https://twitter.com/LiamOMaraIV https://www.instagram.com/liamomaraiv https://www.tiktok.com/@liamomaraiv #ceasefire #netanyahu #uspolitics #middleeast #middleeastnews #palestina #foreignaffairs #history #globalaffairs #militaryhistory #levantine #mediacriticism #antiimperialism #decolonize #humanrights #israelpalestineconflict #israelhamaswar #politicaldiscussion #militaryindustrialcomplex

It is Monday, March 11th and a temporary aid port was announced by the Biden Administration in order to deliver humanitarian aid and bypass an increasingly uncontrollable Israel. Let's break it down!

In light of the genocide of the Palestinians and unrelenting horrific developments threatening the lives of millions via a larger regional conflict, we broke from tradition in setting a specific topic of discussion to allow a very free form, bro-dad conversation with a social media comrade, Pete, from the TikTok Live “glory days”. And by “glory days”, we mean a few months when cyber bullying Zionists was at its apex. No academic, geopolitical or refined analysis, just venting about the state of affairs and thinking out loud in typical East Coast/West Coast dad fashion. Pete hosts the TikTok live channel, Mindwarz, (@mindwarz) which he uses to bring in different perspectives and help those without an extensive knowledge base on Palestine understand the basic human elements surrounding the plight of Palestinians, the deception of world powers and the actions required of humanity as a whole to put an end to horror that is empire. This conversation, if nothing else, is a therapeutic ASMR session expressed in unfiltered dialogue on a range of topics including, but not limited to: the horror of the genocide, the hypocrisy of the west, “conspiracy theories”, Islam, Radical Islam, racism, solidarity with Palestine in the Latino community, anti-Semitism, revolution and every topic that will make a white liberal cringe. #jre #jreclips #politics #news #worldnews #uspolitics #war #veteran #latino #ww3 #wwiii #dads #war #podcast #apocalypse #america #4thofjuly #independenceday

Here is your regular military operation breakdown for the week of February 20th. This evening we discussed Israel's saber-rattling over a planned invasion of southern Lebanon in order to prosecute a ground war against Hezbollah. In short, the entire concept is tactically/operationally/strategically non-viable.

It's terrible that the world (The Collective West) values some lives over others, but we are waging an Information War to end the violence in Palestine and must use what levers we can. At this time, the family of the activist has requested privacy as they mourn their loss. Their wish to grieve in peace should be respected by all, as they navigate this tragic and difficult situation.

During the weekly demonstration in Beita, Palestine, on the morning of September 6th, 2024, the Israeli army intentionally shot and killed an international human rights activist with the International Solidarity Movement. The demonstration, which primarily involved men and children praying, was met with force from the Israeli army stationed on a hill.

The volunteer died shortly after being transported to a local hospital in Nablus.

Pro-Palestine student protests have flared up across the country in conjunction with campus and police crackdowns, with many students learning that their universities are essentially collegiate hedge funds. They demand divestment from Israel. The level of state violence they have endured at the hands of police has not been seen since the Vietnam Backlash. In this Episode we discuss the Imperial Boomerang, or the thesis that governments that develop repressive techniques to control colonial territories will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens. Our struggles are connected, keep pushing.

Check us out on Patreon for exclusive content:   / colonialoutcasts   We’re going to focus on the insane media gaslighting that is going on right now, by examining the reporting of the New York Times over the past 24 hours. It’s been disgraceful. They are literally now running Op-eds that say essentially that the hostages should not be recovered for the greater good. But first, lets talk about what happened to six hostages over the weekend…

I almost feel stupid talking about the idiocy of Signalgate.

We are going to be discussing the US Navy Vs. the Houthis, why the US strategy won’t work, and we’ll start with the massive Operational Security debacle that is called Signalgate, and what we can learn from it. Yes, Pete Hegseth our stalwart secretary of defense, is a complete idiot. We’re also going to be talking about how the US just deployed a wing of US stealth bombers to the Diego Garcia Airbase in the Indian Ocean - escalation or show of force?

"Whiteness” is being used as it always has been: to separate exploited working class white people from intersectional solidarity and serve as buffer between marginalized peoples and the Elites.

Today we are going to be talking about the new Trump administration and the driving force behind all their policies, its blitz of executive orders, the perverse need to control women’s bodies and their obsession with nativism - ie the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.

Now that American Nativism is extending to South Africa as President Trump Takes of the Cause of Elon Musk, child of South African Apartheid, who is upset that white Akfriaaners are being dispossessed of their lands (they’re really not) and threatens to cut funding to South Africa over an Issue that really has nothing to do with us. Just kidding, newsflash, Israel is involved.

Mother Jones Article: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/elon-musk-trump-white-genocide-south-africa-aid-white-land-removal-twitter-x/

Hello and welcome to a new year with Colonial Outcasts. It is 2025 and as I’ve been saying, if you loved 2024 you’re absolutely going to love 2025, and boy are we starting out with a bang. Literally. George Orwell’s 1984 warned of a future where big brother watches every move. Today, modern technology is making that vision a reality, and Oracle founder Larry Ellison - the world’s second richest person - sees a growing opportunity for his company to help authorities analyze realtime data from millions of surveillance cameras...

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Today we are going to talk about how while US foreign policy has not changed in any substantive way, America and its military and economic power projection definitely has. We look at the Vietnam Syndrome, and a general lack of war-like appetite amongst the younger generation of American citizens.

Hello and welcome to Colonial Outcasts and our spur of the moment breaking news Segment - Operational breakdown, where we look at IOF shenanigans from a military perspective.

Why are we doing this ad hoc episode? Well, the battle plan for the invasion of Lebanon invasion was just approved, and a never-before-seen IDF document surfaced last night with startling new details of Hamas' operational plans to invade Israel; The report outlines Hamas orders to take between 200-250 Israelis hostage.

We are still seeing a problematic conflation of Jewishness and Zionism. We need to resist and challenge this at every turn because it only fuels Israeli militancy and lends credence to its claims of existential threat. The following exhaustive conversation strives for this nuance. Part 1: is all about the history, factions, and various forms of Zionism. Cheers! Follow Dr. O'Mara on his channel for more in-depth education on everything anthropology and history: https://www.youtube.com/@OfficeHourswiththeMadProfessor Also follow him on all of his social media outlets: https://twitter.com/LiamOMaraIV https://www.instagram.com/liamomaraiv https://www.tiktok.com/@liamomaraiv #ceasefire #netanyahu #uspolitics #middleeast #middleeastnews #palestina #foreignaffairs #history #globalaffairs #militaryhistory #levantine #mediacriticism #antiimperialism #decolonize #humanrights #israelpalestineconflict #israelhamaswar #politicaldiscussion #militaryindustrialcomplex

Check us out on Patreon for exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/c/ColonialOutcasts As the global order becomes less stable and the apparatus of the State becomes further weaponized against its own people, we here at Colonial Outcasts believe in revolutionary unity and ideological pluralism. To that end, let's touch grass about Trump. Today we are going to be talking about the growing fear of President-Elect Trump “purging the military” and employing it on Immigrants, protestors, and anyone he doesn’t like. Is it actually going to happen and what does that mean going forward. We’re going to be focusing a lot on immigration on this one. Should be lively, convo’s with J Alfred usually force me out of my completely left-wing Anarchist echo-chamber, so strap in - we’re gonna start with the great liberal fear of Trump purging the military.

This Episode is more of an informal rant about the current manifestation of Liberalism around the Palestinian Genocide and how it is part of the same ideological system as white nationalism and supremacy. Seems radical, I know, but bear with us...

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Hello and welcome to colonial outcasts, an anti-imperialist podcast that presents a worldview that would make your uncle increasingly mad uncomfortable. This is an off the cuff episode responding to breaking news as the security situation in Southern Lebanon and Israel’s war with Hezbollah has evolved drastically.If you aren’t tracking yet, it seems that the IDF has made a ton of pagers explode, killing 3-8 individuals including a 10-year old girl, and wounding almost 3 thousand others.

Today we examine what this all means, and we are joined today by regular geo-political analyst Elina Xenophontos.

The ICC is a Western institution that has often been used to advance Western foreign policy objectives, such as the issuing of an arrest warrant against the President of Russia, premised on unsubstantiated and limited evidence. The impact of such a decision is thus politically emblematic as a Western institution, after 7 months of a genocide and the most gruesome war we have seen this century, has been coerced to issue arrest warrants against a key Western ally. The arrest warrant does three things: 1) It is a futile attempt to salvage the declining reputation of the Western "international rules-based order." 2) Undermines the current Israeli establishment. 3) Exhibits the mounting tensions between Israel and the U.S. The fact that an arrest warrant has now been issued against senior Israeli officials, alongside the ongoing ICJ trial, places all the more pressure on the U.S and its unwavering support for Israel. It further highlights the U.S's desire to get rid of Netanyahu and as such, to revamp Israel's image by placing a new "moderate" political regime in power. Cover art by: https://www.instagram.com/rickyisolation/ #icj #antiimperialism #decolonize #ceasefire #uspolitics #israelhamaswar #globalaffairs #foreignaffairs #humanrights #breakingnews #internationalnews #warzoneclips #veteran #politicalnews #palestina #politics #political #internationalrelations #internationallaw #colonialoutcasts #counterterrorism #globalsecurity

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By popular request we're bringing on Jon Elmer of Electronic Intifada to talk about the overall situation in the Palestine/Lebanon battle-space and how the IOF will not be able to maintain its operations forever.

Israel is also facing social and economic collapse, but we're still a ways from that.

You can follow Jon on X for regular resistance updates:

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We platform different voices and perspectives on this Podcast. This is a repost from the MintPress Show "State of Play." Hope you enjoy. It will be controversial...

No one predicted the rapid pace of events in the most recent iteration of the Syrian Civil war, beginning with the rapid advance of HTS and other forces from Idlib province into the to city of Aleppo, the unanticipated stand down orders given to the Syrian Army, and the rapid collapse and flight of Assad’s government. Rumors of backroom deals, internal corruption, and Western interference abound, so we may not have a clear picture for some time. What remains then is the potential fates of Syria and the Axis of Resistance.

The situation is balanced on a knife’s edge, and to help us unravel the complexities of this multi-faction, multi-ethnic socio-political development we are joined by Afeef Nessouli, journalist with years of experience, both in the UN and the Carter Institute, reporting on Syria

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Check us out on patreon for exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/ColonialOutcasts Today we are talking about the Haditha Massacre nearly 20 years later with a US Marine who was in sector during the aftermath of the massacre about the blowback that was still taking place two years later. This will be a two part series hopefully. Part one is context, part two will hopefully involve an interview with a Former Marine Judge Advocate General Lawyer who was involved tangentially in the cover-up. He actually texted me last night “Greg, I was involved in Haditha and know of the cover up. Those photos are burned into my memory.” So hopefully that will be part two, but no promises.

Check us out of Patreon for more of this content:   / colonialoutcasts  That bizarre pneumatic human mouth sound you just heard was President Elon Musk shouting with masculine elation while wielding a chain saw gifted to him anarcho-capitalist, officially libertarian, Argentine President Javier Milei in front a cheering sycophantic MAGA horde at the CPAC conference yesterday, February 20th. This is generally Patreon-only episode, but I didn't want to paywall this one...

With the illegal Israeli settlements expanding further in the West Bank, entrepreneur and Palestinian American activist, Wally Rashid gives us a horrifying glimpse into the the nightmare that Palestinian families face on a daily basis at the hands of the most violent and deranged Israeli settlers. Broken up into two parts, this episode also served as a dynamic mutual interview between Wally and Mark, and the impact which experiencing the West Bank first hand left on their lives as American men. Support Wally and all of his endeavors by checking out the links below: @wallyrashid https://www.instagram.com/wallyrashid/ https://www.tiktok.com/@wallyrashid https://woodlandpulse.com/ https://www.change.org/p/urgent-action-now-dismantle-extremist-israeli-yitzhar-settlement?utm_medium=custom_url&utm_source=share_petition&recruited_by_id=56479fb0-bd2d-11e4-a87f-91a1465d8f8a @wallyrashid #westbank #ceasefire #netanyahu #uspolitics #middleeast #middleeastnews #palestina #foreignaffairs #history #globalaffairs #militaryhistory #levantine #mediacriticism #antiimperialism #decolonize #humanrights #israelpalestineconflict #israelhamaswar #politicaldiscussion #militaryindustrialcomplex  @matheuskriwat 

Have you Ever Heard that Israel is the West’s greatest strategic ally in the Middle East? Well, we’re going to talk about how that is blazingly untrue and we’re going all the way back to 1947 to do it. Welcome to Colonial Outcasts, your semi-friendly neighborhood anti-Imperialist podcast, and hot-darn it! We just pulled some Top Secret documents from the depths of the national archives, declassified but still unseen, from 1947, in which the Joint Chiefs of Staff advised then president Harry Truman that partitioning Palestine and recognizing the state of Israel will screw US global interests over in the long run. And we wanted to highlight these memos, written by guys who your Dad would probably credit with winning World War II, in this episode because aren’t y’all absolutely sick of hearing ancient grey-haired politicians gas on about how Israel is America’s most important strategic ally in the Middle East? We are. Check us out on patreon for extra content!

I Won’t be recording from this crappy internet location again. Also get ready for run-on sentences.

Anyways, hello and welcome to Colonial Outcasts - the anti-Imperialist podcast that that your problematic Uncle will be increasingly confused by… because we are going in pretty deep on this one, discussing the European Union and the rise of fascism in the modern Era! We’re going to be bringing in Ukraine, potential trade wars with Europe, Frau Genocide, aka Ursula Van Der Leyen, more sanctions on Russia, the militarization of Europe… fun times… but we’re mostly going to be focusing on the great Leader of Europe - Germany… Germany because no one fascists like my people. Round three - here we go!

The thing I appreciated about the IOF is that they name their operations after their actual objectives: Operation Iron Wall = Operation increase apartheid.

Today we discuss the new West Bank operation and the Palestinian Authority, which is neither Palestinian nor an Authority. Also we mention tech oligarchs. Cheers!

We weren’t going to do an episode today. They take a lot of research and prep, but we felt that we couldn’t not do an episode because President Orange Blob (aka Donal Drumpf) has said some completely asinine things, which he always does, but this instance is about Gaza.

I spent a lot of last night talking to people who were rightly terrified by Trump’s remarks about the US occupying and controlling Gaza, but now is not the time to freak out - yet. So we are going to have a free-form conversation about it so allay some fears. Join us!

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Things aren’t looking too hot for anyone on this planet right now, but stick around as we Talk about Iran and the BRICS summit and floundering US/Israeli policy… There are rays of hope...

On Sunday, February 25th, US Airman Aaron Bushnell lit himself on fire in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington D.C. In this episode we look at various viewpoints in order to assess public reaction and predict how certain actors will try and shape the narrative around this extreme action.

Special thanks for the audio mastering done by former Gaza resident Mohammed “MoKu” Kutkut (ig @mokutkut) to bring it to some level of clarity. Words cannot describe the horrific state of Gaza’s healthcare system (if it can be described as such) or the point of view of medical personnel taking on the harrowing task of saving as many lives as feasibly possible under a genocidal siege, but Dr. Mohammed Altalla does his best to do so as one of the few doctors still alive or in the capacity to take on such a burden in Gaza’s only fully functioning hospital, Al Aqsa. A teaching assistant at The Faculty of Medicine at Al Azhar University in Cairo and a medical director of Al Amal Health Center. Dr. Altalla wakes up every day to manage the critical task as surgeon for the Surgery Department of Al Aqsa Hospital. Dr. Altalla had the misfortune of witnessing one of the worst surges of patients as a result of the Al Nussiret Massacre which resulted in 270 + murdered and over 700 severely injured. In defiance of the nightmarish and unsafe conditions weaponized to drive medical staff out of Gaza, Dr. Altalla refuses to evacuate until there is a permanent ceasefire. As electricity is in obvious scarcity, the internet coverage being extremely undependable, a couple bombs being dropped in the background when he was recording and a drone loitering overhead the entire time, the interview had over a dozen interruptions with very poor quality of audio and video capture, so editing the final result only yielded so much. Yet despite the technical nightmare of interviewing anybody within the kill box of Gaza, the good doctor was able to convey the plight of medical workers throughout the strip, the aftermath of the Al Nussiret Massacre, the grave nature of the IDF’s sadism towards medical staff and patients at Al Shifa hospital as a campaign of democide, the more probable estimate of Gaza's casualties being North of 50,000 murdered, a personal story of a specific patient who left a permanent imprint on his heart, and the faith that drives most of Gaza’s medical staff into hell’s gates for the sake of any innocent lives they may manage to preserve.

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On this episode of our coverage and analysis of Israel's Rafah assault, we examine the geo-political factors influencing the changing US policy towards Israel and the mounting international pressure to halt this misguided military action. We are joined today by returning geo-political analyst, Elina Xenophontos. https://www.instagram.com/elina_linax/ #israelpalestineconflict #ceasefire #decolonize #antiimperialism #globalaffairs #foreignaffairs #humanrights #israelhamaswar #counterterrorism #militaryindustrialcomplex #militaryintelligence #militaryintervention #uspolitics #bidenvstrump #independentjournalism #militaryhistory #veteran #veteransforpeace #egypt #icc #icj #ihl

A lot of unfortunate things happened this past week. From Kamala Harris's cynical speech to the beef between Netanyahu and Gantz, we do out best to cover all the strategic developments in an hour and four minutes. Cheers!

The Gaza ceasefire stands on the edge of a knife. This political and military reality brings back into focus, though it’s never gone away, the humanitarian situation in Gaza in the wake of the Israeli state policy of systematically dismantling medical infrastructure with the use of US weaponry and clumsily orchestrated direct action IDF raids on hospitals and hospital staff in the name of “finding Hamas.”

To that end, we are joined by Dr. Mimi Syed, a board-certified emergency medicine physician. She is an assistant clinical professor at University of Washington and Washington State University.

She is a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians.Dr.Syed served in Gaza from August 8 to September 5, 2024, and December 3 to December 31, 2024, at both al-Aqsa Hospital and Nasser Hospital.

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Three US Military Veterans - A former US Army Ranger, a Field Artillery Officer, and an Intelligence Officer walk into a podcast to discuss IDF targeting, government corruption, and interpretations of the word "Terrorist." As we watch the brutal prosecution of the civilian population of Gaza, we are wondering if you have any veterans in your life who are still on the fence about the morality of what's happening on the ground. If so, please send them this. Thanks to special guest Josephine Guilbeau for coming on! You can follow her on instagram for similar content: https://www.instagram.com/josephine.guilbeau/ Also check out Veterans For Peace at: https://www.instagram.com/veteransforpeace/ #israelpalestineconflict #ceasefire #decolonize #antiimperialism #globalaffairs #foreignaffairs #humanrights #israelhamaswar #counterterrorism #militaryindustrialcomplex #militaryintelligence #militaryintervention #uspolitics #bidenvstrump #independentjournalism #militaryhistory #veteran #veteransforpeace

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So today we’re going to be talking about Iran again, the US designs on it, bombing it or rather getting Israel to bomb it, and have a spirited discussion and a robust exchange of Ideas because Elina Xenophontos, geopolitical analyst and regular of the show, and I may have slightly different ideas about this, which should be interesting because it rarely seems to happen.

TODAY at 5 PM EST: Join Greg Stoker on State of Play, a MintPress News podcast, as we delve into "Hasbara 2.0" – the sophisticated online tactics used to shape narratives around Israel and suppress dissent.Guests Jacob Berger and Blakeley both targets of coordinated online attacks, as we reveal:

• *The Hasbaristas:* Unmasking the networks that fund and train digital influencers to defend Israeli policies and silence dissent.

• *Weaponized Algorithms:* How Hasbara 2.0 leverages astroturfing, algorithmic manipulation, and accusations of antisemitism to control the narrative.

• *Big Tech Complicity:* Why platforms like Meta, X, Google, and TikTok take advantage of State-Sponsored disinformation campaigns.

Tune in for yet another epic livestream on State of Play.

Repost from  @MintPressNews  subscribe for more content like this. Hey! After many requests I have decided to focus on a primer for this incredibly complex, painful, and divisive conflict from a great-power politics perspective. I will soon be platforming Syrian analysts to give a more balanced perspective to this intractable conflict that is now taking center stage in the Geopolitical forum and is indelibly connected to the US and Israel.

In the end, the shrieking chain-rattling ghost of Henry Kissinger is always right “It may be dangerous to be America enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.” He also said “America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.” Ukrainians and to a lesser extent Europeans are figuring out what it means to be Kurdish, and they are spiraling.

Western Europeans, liberal elites and establishment figures are seeing the face the US presents to nations of the global south, and the truly shocking thing is they’re now getting the same treatment in a humiliating public way.

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This is a repost of an interview I did for Mint Press News. It's important, so here we go:

As Israel postpones it's attack on Iran to better analyze and evaluate potential political blowback, we on State of Play take an hour with Dr. Assal Rad to examine the western antipathy towards Iran and how it precipitates violence and interventionism throughout the region.

This is a very free-form episode about the proposed Rafah Assault, Bibi's political predicament, and how I (Greg Stoker) almost got kicked out of Ranger Regiment in a shoot house ten years ago...

Dr. Mohammad Abdelfattah, an American Palestinian critical care physician in Los Angeles, describes his experience volunteering at the European Gaza Hospital. He describes the unfathomable conditions, injuries, heart wrenching suffering of families, the cruelty of Israel's boot on the necks of Gaza in even the smallest facets of life, but even more important: the superhuman strength, faith and resilience of Gaza's native doctors able to witness such horror daily and maintain a personal connection with every single patient they treat. Dr. Abdelfattah describes his journey from the airport in Egypt through the Sinai, the harassment and bureaucracy from Egyptian authorities as an institutionalized tactic of discouraging Western aid to Gaza and the life-altering experience of walking through an ICU in Gaza that would horrify any medical worker. You can support Dr. Altalla through his Gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-dr-mohammeds-medical-mission-in-gaza?utm_campaign=p_cp+fundraiser-sidebar&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer IG: https://www.instagram.com/dr.mohammed_altalla?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== #medicine #medical #hospital #disaster #war #politics #internationalnews #humanitarian #nursing #medicalstudent #disease #military

Nobody fascists like my people. In this episode we focus on Germany as American college campuses erupt in protest because of its symbolic importance. Germany has a lot of "sins of the father" dynamics going on which places it ideologically in support of Israel unconditionally. The central question is if this authoritarian crackdown can ever be checked. We have invited Helen Fares, a Syrian/German journalist (or Syrian living in Germany) on to discuss this shocking intractability of the German Government and people. Helen's links: https://www.instagram.com/helenfares https://www.instagram.com/deinehomegirls https://www.tiktok.com/@UCKl5VgiDWXSU1uAH8KZoRog https://open.spotify.com/show/2mJ5eTOox6BsZfGb9SDLld?si=6806f3d50cf6439f https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/homegirls/id1460801517 https://music.amazon.de/podcasts/a9ea0c36-b35f-4517-a671-89db1b60eb36/homegirls #decolonize #uspolitics #antiimperialism #humanrights #antiimperialism #ceasefire #globalaffairs #israelhamaswar #militaryhistory #journalist #journalism #bds #divest #boycottIsrael #endwar

So what we are talking about today is the state of the Democratic Party and how much they love to lose. If y’all took a break from the news cycle over the weekend you may have missed the story broken by politico about this DNC operative retreat where a bunch of democratic “strategists” gathered at an east coast resort to talk about how to win mid terms in 2026 and to take the Whitehouse in 2028 by doing the exact same thing they’ve been doing since 2015….

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The fighting between Israel and Hezbollah has escalated for nearly two weeks. It began when Israeli intelligence detonated thousands of pagers, killing and injuring thousands Hezbollah operatives and civilians in an operation that would have been roundly condemned as a catastrophic act of terror had Hezbollah conducted the same operation against Israel. It continued with detonating walky-talkies at a series of funerals for the people killed the day before.

With a long history of activism, Pomona College students live up to their reputation of never backing down from mobilizing against oppression. We conducted a brief interview with a PR spokesperson for the Pomona Divest Apartheid, a resilient on-campus pro-Palestinian movement that has only grown more determined and larger in student numbers and support despite the administration's heavy handed initial approach against its own students (and traditions) using local law enforcement as its mercenaries. Their message is simple: their college has no business investing in any entity that supports a genocide. Show them love and support via the links below: https://www.instagram.com/pomonadivestapartheid https://twitter.com/i/flow/login?redirect_after_login=%2FPomonaDfA https://linktr.ee/pomonadivestapartheid https://t.me/s/PDfASolidarityEncampment https://docs.google.com/document/d/15p-PeTkXC0170GF2RHjCWVzYFcfLgyo1wPuAa_PT7g8/edit #Pomona #southerncalifornia #California #columbiauniversity #ucla #uspolitics #universityoftexas #emoryuniversity #stopcopcity #decolonize #antiimperialism #globalaffairs #ceasefire #foreignaffairs #humanrights #israelhamaswar #militaryindustrialcomplex #vietnam #vietnambacklash #antiwarmovement #endwar #ceasefire #ceasefirenow🇵🇸 #militaryindustrialcomplex #blackrock #vanguard #haliburton #boeing #genraldynamics #raytheon #merchantsofdeath #aipac #veteran #veteransforpeace #humanrightswatch #savethechildren #ccr #icj #icc #warcrimes #amnestyinternational