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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Bear Witness to the USA-UK-Saudi-UAE-AQAP Genocide in Yemen
All in the name of reinstalling the Saudis' and Muslim Brotherhood's man, Mansour Hadi, in power in a capital city most Americans have never heard of. https://twitter.com/abcdaee1990/status/1177803244439035904
12/11/18 Peter Van Buren on the Mueller Investigation
Peter Van Buren comes on the show to talk about his latest article on the Mueller investigation, which he believes is more conspiracy theory than truth. He points out that there's still no evidence of blackmail based on personal matters, and that none of the supposed Trump Tower business deals in Russia have been shown to be illegal. Moreover, if the Russians really have Trump in their pocket, they don't have a whole lot to show for it since Trump's policies really haven't been very friendly to Russian interests. Van Buren isn't even satisfied with the story that the GRU is responsible...
2/21/18 Nasser Arrabyee on Yemen’s battle for unification
Nasser Arrabyee returns to the show to update the Saudi-American war in Yemen, where the country has been split by factionalism. Scott then asks well, if there's great factionalism, why not let the country split up? Arrabyee details the role the United Arab Emirates is playing in the conflict, the continuing blockade of the Port of Hodeidah, and the fight for control over Southern Yemen. Nasser Arrabyee is a Yemeni journalist based in Sana’a, Yemen. He is the owner and director of yemen-now.com. You can follow him on Twiiter @narrabyee. Discussed on the show: Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi Houthis...
2/21/18 Nasser Arrabyee on Yemen's battle for unification
Nasser Arrabyee returns to the show to update the Saudi-American war in Yemen, where the country has been split by factionalism. Scott then asks well, if there's great factionalism, why not let the country split up? Arrabyee details the role the United Arab Emirates is playing in the conflict, the continuing blockade of the Port of Hodeidah, and the fight for control over Southern Yemen. Nasser Arrabyee is a Yemeni journalist based in Sana’a, Yemen. He is the owner and director of yemen-now.com. You can follow him on Twiiter @narrabyee. Discussed on the show: Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi Houthis...
3/13/17 Cynthia Storer on the Trump administration’s (mis)understanding of Islamic extremism
Former CIA terrorism analyst Cynthia Storer discusses the credentials of Sebastian Gorka, President Trump's deputy advisor on national security affairs, who claims to be an expert on Islamic terrorism; Cynthia's earlier CIA work tracking Osama bin Laden and warning about Al-Qaeda's intent to target the US; and why labeling the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization would be a stupid thing to do.
New Declassified CIA Memo Presents Blueprint for Syrian Regime Collapse
A newly declassified CIA document explored multiple scenarios of Syrian regime collapse at a time when Hafez al-Assad's government was embroiled in a covert "dirty war" with Israel and the West, and in the midst of a diplomatic crisis which marked an unprecedented level of isolation for Syria. The 24-page formerly classified memo entitled Syria: Scenarios of Dramatic Political Change was produced in July 1986, and had high level distribution within the Reagan administration and to agency directors, including presidential advisers, the National Security Council, and the US ambassador to...
How Obama made Syria’s civil war much, much worse
Aleppo has fallen. And much of the West is awash in a considerable amount of guilt over the Syrian city's fate. The Eiffel Tower was dark yesterday in honor of the victims of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Aleppo. In Britain's House of Commons, ministers grandly accused themselves of their own inaction. George Osborne, a conservative MP, said that there was "some hope for what might come out from this terrible tragedy in Syria, which is that we are beginning to learn the price of not intervening." The horror in Aleppo is easy to mourn, because the West is now so thoroughly not in a position...
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