Introduction In the mainstream view, al-Qaeda did not play a role in the Syria conflict until Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dispatched his deputy, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, to Syria in August 2011 to establish a wing of the group there, called Jabhat al-Nusra, or the Nusra Front. Additionally, al-Qaeda allegedly did not carry out any military operations until December 2011 and did not announce its establishment until January 2012. However, there is evidence that al-Qaeda affiliated militants were involved in the Syrian conflict much earlier. Saudi intelligence...
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News Roundup 12/23/21
US News US airstrikes have dropped about 54% since Biden took office. [Link] Military families in Hawaii believe they have been exposed to contaminated water for months longer than the Navy currently admits. [Link] The US sanctions three people in Brazil for supporting al-Qaeda. [Link] Covid Secret Service reports over $100 billion in covid relief funds was stolen through fraud. [Link] The US donates over 600,000 vaccine doses to Lebanon through Covax. [Link] Great Power Putin says he sees an overall positive reaction from the US to the Russian security proposal. [Link] The State...
Noam Chomsky Mentions Fool’s Errand
Twice! "The invasion was not only a violation of international law, as marginal a concern in Washington as the anti-Taliban Afghan resistance, but also had no credible pretext on any grounds. "Pure criminality. "Furthermore, ample evidence is now available showing that Afghanistan and al-Qaeda were not of much interest to the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld triumvirate. They had their eyes on much bigger game than Afghanistan. Iraq would be the first step, then the entire region. I won’t review the record here. It’s well-documented in Scott Horton’s book, Fool’s Errand. ... "9/11 provided the...
News Roundup 8/13/21
Afghanistan Afghanistan’s second-largest city, Kandahar is under Taliban control. [Link] The Taliban captured the capital of the Uruzgan province. [Link] The US is carrying several airstrikes a day. Many of the strikes are targeting US equipment captured by the Taliban. [Link] CENTCOM head Gen. McKenzie says he is concerned the Taliban taking over Afghanistan will allow al-Qaeda to regrow in the country. [Link] The US is looking for promises from the Taliban that they will not attack the US embassy. [Link] The US will deploy 3,000 troops to Afghanistan to assist with the evacuation of...
Burn in Hell Donald Rumsfeld
https://youtu.be/CahPRwaQSxA ... the libertarian stands foursquare for what are generally known as “civil liberties”: the freedom to speak, publish, assemble, and to engage in such “victimless crimes” as pornography, sexual deviation, and prostitution (which the libertarian does not regard as “crimes” at all, since he defines a “crime” as violent invasion of someone else’s person or property). Furthermore, he regards conscription as slavery on a massive scale. And since war, especially modern war, entails the mass slaughter of civilians, the libertarian regards such conflicts as mass...
September 12th, 2001 – When Will We Learn? by Harry Browne
https://youtu.be/teJdSDoAplU In very few cases have these anti-interventionists favored literal “isolation”: what they have generally favored is political nonintervention in the affairs of other countries, coupled with economic and cultural internationalism in the sense of peaceful freedom of trade, investment, and interchange between the citizens of all countries. And this is the essence of the libertarian position as well. Murray N. Rothbard For a New Liberty, p. 330 **PDF: https://odysee.com/@libertariantruther:0/When-Will-We-Learn-9-12-01:4 LBRY / Odysee:...
More Interviews of Me
GodArchy Podcast - Michael Maharrey The History of Al-Qaeda - Keith Knight Youse Guys and that Podcast Liberty Lockdown - Clint Muhe And here's the speech I gave last week in New Jersey. (I screwed up a few times in this one, but still.)...
My Red Pill Moments. James Corbett & Keith Knight
https://youtu.be/7NPF-ZzrLSo The glory of the human race is the uniqueness of each individual, the fact that every person, though similar in many ways to others, possesses a completely individuated personality of his own. It is the fact of each person’s uniqueness — the fact that no two people can be wholly interchangeable — that makes each and every man irreplaceable and that makes us care whether he lives or dies, whether he is happy or oppressed. And, finally, it is the fact that these unique personalities need freedom for their full development that constitutes one of the major...
Conflicts of Interest #79 – The State Invokes ‘Humanitarianism’ to Justify Murder
In Michigan, a farmer caring for injured wildlife was charged for rehabilitating animals without a license. The state’s Department of Natural Resources then showed up to the farm and murdered several of the animals under color of law. President Obama waged a war in Libya in the name of humanitarianism, falsely claiming Muammar Gaddafi's troops were committing acts of genocide. Once the US helped al-Qaeda linked militants to kill Gaddafi in a roadside execution, the country descended into a bloody civil war that rages on to this day. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is pressuring the...
Deception in War, Arming ISIS, & the Military Industrial Complex. Scott Horton & Keith Knight
https://youtu.be/S2c8lqfL6CU A final word about conscription: of all the ways in which war aggrandizes the State, this is perhaps the most flagrant and most despotic. But the most striking fact about conscription is the absurdity of the arguments put forward on its behalf. A man must be conscripted to defend his (or someone else’s?) liberty against an evil State beyond the borders. Defend his liberty? How? By being coerced into an army whose very raison d’etre is the expunging of liberty, the trampling on all the liberties of the person, the calculated and brutal dehumanization of the...