Today I am joined by Pearse Redmond of PorkinsPolicyReview.com and one of the hosts of the BFP roundtable. We expand on the last two episodes, responding to some listeners comments, in particular explaining our views of the Oded Yinon plan for a ‘greater Israel’ and the persistent but false rumour that Shin Bet were secretly behind the Entebbe hijacking. Our discussion also explores how Israel is a magnet for people’s attention and hostility not just in the Middle East but all across the world, and how this is likely a deliberate consequence of NATO’s policy of creating and supporting the Israeli state.
This week we are joined by independent journalist Keith Harmon Snow for an extended conversation on the 20th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda and it’s effect on Congo and central Africa. This is a longer podcast than usual, but one I am especially proud of. For the most part I take a back seat and just let Keith break down the truth about what actually happened during those infamous 100 days, and how that event reverberated through out Africa. Keith names names and connects a lot the dots in this complex story involving the Pentagon, multinational corporations, mass media propaganda, and the brutal slaughter of millions in the pursuit of domination and money. Keith breaks down how the Tutsi elite, with the backing if the US, UK, and Israel, actually committed the majority of war crimes and acts of genocide. We explore how this was used as the pretext to invade and rape the Eastern Congo. Keith also goes into depth regarding the imperial history of Africa. I really suggest that you read through the articles in the show notes, as well as explore all of Keith’s writing. He is a fountain of knowledge on a subject that few here in the West fully understand.
For today’s podcast we had the great pleasure of speaking with Ryan Dawson of Anti-Neocons Report. We had a wide ranging discussion about Iran, the death of Ariel Sharon, 9/11, JFK, and much more.
A recent report by the British Brainwashing Corporation (BBC) about the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia purchasing nuclear weapons from Pakistan could be nothing more than propaganda. This report comes on the heals of supposedly productive talks between Iran and west over the whole nuclear issue. The Saudis have been vociferously protesting this warming of relations. Ergo, the timing of this report is suspect. Even more suspect is the source for this information. It comes from the ever unreliable Israeli intelligence community. Israel and Saudi Arabia have found much in common when it comes to the prospect of Iran securing nuclear weapons, which of course there is no real evidence for. This could all be nothing more than bluster and propaganda directed at the United States in an effort to persuade them to take a more aggressive stance towards Iran. If you don’t do what we like, then we will buy nukes from the Pakistanis, thus starting the nuclear arms race in the Middle East. The most ironic part of this whole story is that the source of Saudi Arabia’s nukes. They are allegedly coming from Pakistan. As FBI whistle blower Sibel Edmonds has noted, Pakistan acquired nuclear technology from various US officials, who were engaged in an illegal nuclear secrets trade deal with various actors in Pakistan.
So, we sell nuclear secrets to the Pakistanis, who in turn sell nuclear weapons to the Saudi’s, and Iran is still the enemy. That is how our current corrupt system works.
According to a Swiss study large amounts of polonium 210 have been found in the bones and property of PLO leader Yasser Arafat. This notion of poisoning was once disregarded as nothing more than a conspiracy theory out out by the conspiracy minded Palestinians. The corporate media and Israeli press of course are still regarding this as the bogus. A spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry went do far as to say this was “more soap opera than science.” Ultimately Israel will never admit that it may have had a hand in murdering Arafat, despite various Israeli leaders at the time saying that killing Arafat was on the table. This is really just confirmation of something that most people already knew to be fact.
The more interesting aspect of this is that it once again forces people to come face to face with the reality that Israel is the only state in the Middle East with nuclear weapons. Polonium 210 can only be created by someone with sophisticated nuclear facilities. The Israeli nuclear weapons program has long been a taboo subject for the western press. As Grant F. Smith has chronicled in his book Divert, US presidents from LBJ to Obama have continued a policy of denial when it comes to the vast nuclear weapons that Israel posses. The discovery large amounts of polonium in Arafat’s body again point to the Israeli nuclear program. The timing of this couldn’t be worse to the Israeli state. While they are urging America to obliterate Iran, they are themselves sitting on a massive reserve of destructive nuclear weapons.
Intelligence circles in the Middle East are abuzz with news of a mysterious website that appears to offer substantial financial rewards in exchange for information about alleged members of militant group Hezbollah. The website, located at stop910.com, describes its mission as helping end “Hezbollah-perpetrated terrorism in Lebanon and abroad”. It specifically targets the Lebanese group’s Unit 910, believed to be tasked with international operations, including intelligence gathering from around the world. Hezbollah is a Shiite militant group and political party that controls large swathes of Lebanese territory. It was founded in 1985 in response to the invasion of southern Lebanon by the Israel Defense Forces. It is largely funded by Iran and in recent years has come out in support of the Syrian government in the ongoing Syrian Civil War. Much of the stop910.com website consists of dozens of photographs of alleged Hezbollah operatives. Some are identified by name or alias, but the website asks for further information on them, including their real name, primary residence and telephone numbers or email accounts associated with them. Other photographs show images of unidentified individuals, whom the website describes as suspects known to be members of Hezbollah’s Unit 910. Next to each photograph, the website provides an allegedly secure link, which visitors can use to upload information and request payment. The website, which is currently blocked by most Lebanese Internet service providers, claims to represent an alliance of Western intelligence organizations. But McClatchy Newspapers contacted two Western intelligence officials who said the website was almost certainly an Israeli effort to gather information on Hezbollah activities. The United States-based news agency said it spoke to an unnamed “official based in Beirut […], who works for a European intelligence service”. The official told McClatchy that he had seen the website and “wondered why they [the Israeli intelligence services] lied” about who was behind the project. The news agency spoke to another unnamed “intelligence official based in Europe”, who dismissed the project as bad spy tradecraft. “I can’t believe this thing […], it’s very foolish”, he said. And he added: “it actually contains a significant amount of raw intelligence that would be literally illegal for American or European services to release to the public without the highest level of clearance”. The unnamed intelligence official continued: “now anyone can go online and get an idea of how much information we or the Israelis have on some of these guys”.
The newly elected President of Iran Hassan Rouhani addressed the UN general assembly today. In his speech he laid out his vision for Iran and it’s tenuous relationship with the United States. While his speech talked about peace, negotiations, an ending to the brutal sanctions imposed on his country and his further insistence (backed up by numerous reports) that Iran is not and never was attempting to develop nuclear weapons, Netanyahu and his cadre of psychotic Zionist warmongers were non too pleased. Netanyhu proclaimed to all that would hear him that Rouhani is nothing but a liar. His “charm offensive” is all a rouse to ingratiate himself with the political establishment in the West, while continuing to build nuclear bombs; of course so he and the other “mad mullahs” can destroy the world and procreate with virgins in the after life. If this all sounds familiar its because its the same load of shit that Netanyahu always says. You see it really doesn’t matter whom the Iranian people elect for president. If it’s not a subservient dog that licks the boots of US and Israeli leaders then it must mean that he is hell bent on bringing about a second Holocaust.
Netanyahu in fact loved Ahmadinejad. With Ahmadinejad he had a lose cannon who often angered the globalists. Ahmadinejad was the perfect tool for the Israelis to use to prove to the world that Iran was full of nut jobs whose sole purpose in life was to kill Israelis. Rouhani on the other hand is smart, diplomatic, and yes charming. Rouhani represents not just a new moderate leader in Iran, but a completely new policy with in the Islamic Republic. The “mad mullahs” are not mad enough to have their nation and people obliterated by the US and Israeli war machine. Hence why they backed Rouhani. Netanyhu who is actually hell bent on a messianic crusade to rid the world of all the Muslims who are not slaves to the Israeli war machine has lost his best friend. He no longer has his punching bag. So what does he do? He simply states that Rouhani is a fraud. A fraud that must feel the destructive force of the US/Israeli war machine. The “all options on the table” approach that the Unites States has taken can roughly be translated to: still keeping the option of using a nuclear weapon on Iran . As with the fake peace negations Israel conducts with the fake Palestinian government, the issue over Iran is not about curbing nuclear weapons, it is about destroying independent nations that challenge Israel and their imperial objectives in the Middle East.
Please keep in mind that the only nation in the Middle East that actually has nuclear weapons is Israel. While Netanyhu and the other racist Zionist war criminals were foaming at the mouth over Iran, 51 nations at the UN voted to protect Israel from having to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty. A treaty I may add that Iran is a signatory to. The actor who is really working in bad faith and conspiring to commit brutal war are the psychopaths that rule Israel. Rather than give peace a chance, and perhaps work toward a some what stable relationship, Netanayhu and a host of other psychopaths prefers to obliterate the nation and people of Iran.
The past several hours have seen what at first glance appear to be significant developments in averting a war with Syria. Skull and Bones war pig John Kerry jokingly stated that if Assad gave up all of his chemical weapons the United States would not launch a brutal air campaign against them. He also stated that this would never really happen because Assad is the reincarnation of Adolfo Hitler; hell bent on destroying the entire world. Well the Russians took the Bones man at his word and floated the idea to Assad. Much to the chagrin of the war pigs in the imperial capital Assad accepted this proposal, staving of the immediate threat of military intervention. A collective sigh of relief washed over many Americans when reading this news. We did it! We stopped the war! Let’s go back to obsessing over George Zimmerman and twerking. If only this were the case.
Absolutely nothing has changed. The chicken hawks in DC are still itching to go to war. Obama will still be addressing the public tonight on why we should go to war, and Kerry is pushing war harder than before. In fact the administration stated that Kerry was merely talking rhetorically when he suggested Assad give up weapons. If you watch the hearings going on right now (if you can stomach them) you will see that the war rhetoric has become more belligerent. Kerry, Hagel, and Dempsey are still urging Congress to vote for military intervention. The corporate controlled media talking heads are telling us that Assad can not be trusted to give up weapons. Human Rights Watch in the past few hours has spewed out a relentless stream of propaganda designed to sway liberals and so called progressives into supporting a war that most certainly will endanger human rights. And the Zionist warmongers and their minions are not letting up one bit. Billionaire apartheid advocate and committed Zionist Sheldon Adelson is now proclaiming that he will help Obama whip votes in Congress for war authorization. I guess he got over his pony Mitt Romney losing the 2012 election. Indeed Israel’s fervent desire to slaughter Syrians will probably be the main driving force in getting Congressional approval for legalized murder.
Please continue to voice opposition to war in Syria. The fight for humanity has not ended yet.
The Electronic Intifada recently exposed yet another instance of Israeli dehumanization of the Palestinian people. I refer to a series of Instagram photos they published on their website three days ago. Several of them include the Israeli solider, Mor Ostrovski, posing with his various weapons but it is the below photo which has sparked the most controversy. Yes that is a Palestinian youth that is in the cross hairs of his sniper rifle. As expected the IDF offered lip service saying that “this is a severe incident which doesn’t accord with the IDF’s spirit and values. The issue was brought to the attention of the soldiers commanding officers, will be examined and properly handled.” This is of course the same institution that has not indicted a single solider or individual for any of the 240 cases of military abuse perpetrated against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank by the IDF in 2012.
What this latest episode exposes is the persistent dehumanization of the Palestinian people. This dehumanization is rampant through out Israeli society. The dehumanization campaign is integral to maintaining the occupation. If the average Israeli were to view the average Palestinian as say a human being with natural rights such as the right to live it would be extremely difficult to maintain this massive occupation and colonization of another people. But when viewed as a nuisance at best and a “terrorist threat” at worse it becomes easier and easier to justify acts of extreme aggression toward individuals who are less than human.
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