Download Episode. Scott talks with journalist Mohamed Elmaazi about the latest Assange hearing before the UK High Court. The hearing, which took place on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week, saw the Assange team requesting the ability to make an appeal on the order...
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News Roundup 2/19/2024
Ukraine Ukraine Withdraws from Key Donbas City of Avdiivka AWC Officials in Hungary Snub Congressional Delegation Pushing NATO Expansion NYT Israel Israeli Military Says Hamas Will Not Be Defeated in Gaza Offensive AWC After Call With Biden, Netanyahu Rejects...
South Africa Asks Genocide Court to Order Israel Halt Rafah Offensive
South Africa has petitioned the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to take emergency action as Israel plans an offensive on a Gazan city sheltering about two-thirds of Palestinians living in the Strip. Tel Aviv and Washington have rebuked the court for finding that...
1/26/24 Trita Parsi on the Significance of the ICJ Ruling
Download Episode. Trita Parsi talks to Scott about the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) ruling in South Africa’s case that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Parsi argues that this is a huge blow to Israel and that it puts the Biden Administration in a...
Israel Fails to Produce Evidence to Justify Widespread Cemetery Destruction in Gaza
The Israeli military granted CNN a three-hour tour inside the Gaza Strip to view the destruction of Palestinian cemeteries. The outlet explained that the evidence presented by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) did not confirm Tel Aviv’s claims about tunnels under the...
Kenyan Court Ruling Obstructs Biden’s Plan for UN Force in Haiti
The Kenyan High Court has issued a ruling that will prevent President William Ruto from sending over 1,000 police to Haiti. The Biden administration had incentivized Nairobi into agreeing to lead a multinational UN force mission in Haiti. UN Peacekeepers have a...
FBI Agent Reveals Smoking-Gun Evidence of Right-Wing Entrapment Operation
In the 1990s, the FBI ran an operation entailing undercover agents and informants posing as right-wing extremists. Code-named Patriot Conspiracy, or PATCON, the operation was kept secret until well into the 2000s. After being made public, FBI informant John Matthews,...
Nairobi’s High Court Puts Hold on US-Backed Kenyan Troop Deployment to Haiti
Kenya’s High Court put a temporary suspension on a planned troop deployment to Haiti. The Joe Biden administration made a deal with Nairobi to deploy its soldiers to Haiti on a mission approved by the UN Security Council. The US agreed to finance the mission and train...
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Americans today have “freedom” to be fleeced, groped, injected, harassed, surveilled, vilified, disarmed, beaten, detained, and maybe shot by federal agents. From hapless homeowners hit by SWAT raids to pandemic lockdowns pointlessly paralyzing lives, government...
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