By Janet Kobren
Big Oops
Someone pointed out to me that I miswrote something in my note on Item#4 in my last post. Big embarrassing mistake on my part. I meant to say, “SB claims that Hizbullah’s main mission has been against Sunni Muslims” (not Shia Muslims). That takes place @9:09 into the video. Makes a huge difference. That was an indication of problems I was having wrapping my brain around what SB was talking about. A discussion about that video takes place in Item#19 below. Very interesting IMHO, especially what Sister Wahida says in response to an idea the facilitator introduced starting @1:56:41.
Also, on a completely different topic, you may have noticed that I have not been posting many articles. That’s because of eyestrain and difficulty reading because of my cataracts. I will be having cataract surgery on both eyes in mid-November. They tell me that although there might be an immediate improvement it may take up to a month for my vision to adjust. So it is likely that I will take a sabbatical on sending out these digests during this period. Meantime my posts may be few and far between.
~ Janet
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Item#1
It’s American Impunity, not Hegemony [Length: 8:09]
Shahid Bolsen/Middle Nation
October 7, 2024
[Note from JK: Another gem. And now he’s talking about expelling the U.S. from the UN.]
Item#2
Israel TERRIFIED: Hezbollah, Iran, Yemen & Iraq Ready to DECIMATE IDF w/ Ghadi Francis & Lowkey [Length: 22:04]
Host: Danny Haiphong
October 8, 2024
Item#3
Hizbullah Destroys Buildings In Haifa | Netanyahu Plans “His Own Attack” On Iran [Length: 32:59]
Host: Mahmood OD | محمود عودة
October 8, 2024
Item#4
Middle East In Depth With Laith Marouf – Episode 28 – Israel/Iran Retaliation Spiral [Length: 53:26]
Host: Garland Nixon
October 8, 2024
Item#5
Missiles, Planes, And Ships – With Scott Ritter And Andrei Martyanov [Length: 1:23:53]
Host: Garland Nixon
October 8, 2024
Item#6
Anniversary of a Genocide (w/ Richard Medhurst) [Length: 24:25]
Host: Briahna Joy Gray/Bad Faith
October 7, 2024
Item#7
Scott Ritter: Israel on Brink of SHOCKING DEFEAT to Hezbollah & Iran, IDF Losing on All Fronts [Length: 22:44]
Host: Danny Haiphong
October 7, 2024
Item#8
Alastair Crooke : The Middle East One year after October 7th 2023. [Length: 36:44]
Host: Judge Napolitano – Judging Freedom
October 7, 2024
Item#9
Mohammad Marandi: Israel’s Downfall? Iran & Hezbollah Ready to CRUSH the IDF in a SHOCKING Defeat! [Length: 59:49]
Host: Nima R. Alkhorshid/Dialogue Works
October 7, 2024
Item#10
MIND-BLOWING Geopolitical Events in Middle East | Syriana Analysis w/ Vanessa Beeley & Maram Susli [Length: 51:14]
Host: Kevork Almassian/Syriana Analysis
October 7, 2024
Item#11
US support for Israel’s war crimes is bipartisan: Trump, Kamala Harris, Biden, JD Vance, Tim Walz [Length: 48:12]
Host: Ben Norton/Geopolitical Economy Report
October 8, 2024
Item#12
Atrocity Inc: How Israel Sells Its Destruction Of Gaza [Length: 44:19]
Producer: Max Blumenthal/The Grayzone
October 7, 2024
[Note from JK: I wish MB had provided some sources (unless I missed them) for the debunking of the beheading of children and some other atrocities at the beginning of the documentary.]
Item#13
Is This The Last October 7 Where We’ll Be Able To Speak The Truth?
Defeat Israel
By Lisa Savage/Lisa’s Substack
October 7, 2024
Item#14
Item#15
I Have Seen The Insides Of Too Many Dead Kids
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): I have seen the insides of too many dead kids to have any patience for status quo politics or centrist incrementalism. I have seen the insides of too many dead kids to care who the Americans elect in November. I have seen the insides…
By Caitlin Johnstone
October 8, 2024
Item#16
By Paul Larudee/Dissident Voice
October 7, 2024
[Note from JK: I included the Mike Whitney article referred to in this piece as Item#10 in my October 2 post.]
Item#17
Larry Johnson: Answers Questions On Military War Conflict! #offgriddesertfarm #RealTruthTalk1 [Length: 49:31]
Host: Juan Rodriguez/RealTruthTalk1 with Paul/OffGridDesertFarmNews
October 8, 2024
Item#18
On this day in particular, I would like to express my deepest sympathies for the victims of Israeli murderousness over the past year.
By Caitlin Johnstone
October 7, 2024
Item#19
Middle Nation Content Talks | Iran & the Axis of Assistance [AUDIO Length: 2:33:09]
Source: Middle Nation
October 6, 2024
[Note from JK: This is an extended discussion by a Middle Nation study group of Shahid Bolsen’s Iran & the Axis of Assistance video I posted in my last digest. The first 32 minutes is an audio version of his video that the group listens to before commenting. Very interesting IMHO.]
Item#20
Western Misconceptions about the West [Length: 19:57]
Shahid Bolsen/Middle Nation
October 8, 2024
Item#21
How Israel Weaponizes Pop Culture [Length: 43:30]
Host: Indie Nile
September 23, 2024
[Note from JK: I highly recommend watching this one.]
Item#22
Palestinian flag projected on Istanbul’s Galata Tower on 7 October anniversary
Source: @MiddleEastEye
October 8, 2024
Item#23
Copy/pasted below my name at the bottom is Dr. Vladimir Kozin’s latest report, Report # 323. SIXTEEN MAJOR DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MOSCOW AND KIEV IN THEIR MILITARY OPERATIONS AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION for October 8.
The highlighting is his.
Dr. Kozin is a Moscow-based Russian military expert and researcher who publishes these reports.
Item#24
The Sh*tShow #23 – Timeline to Catastrophe Edition! w/ Jordan Chariton [Length: 2:09:15]
Co-Hosts: Leila Charles Leigh and Patrick Cote/Punch Up Pod
October 6, 2024
[Note from JK: Aside from the main topic, there is some other stuff worth watching towards the end. But before that some nonpolitical comic relief starting @1:27:00.]
~ Janet
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BEGIN KOZIN REPORT
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Report # 323. SIXTEEN MAJOR DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MOSCOW AND KIEV
IN THEIR MILITARY OPERATIONS AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
October 8, 2024
| ISSUE | RUSSIAN STANCE | UKRAINIAN STANCE | |
1 | When operation or aggression began, and by whom | Russia began its defensive military operation against Ukrainian aggression on February 24, 2022 | Ukraine began its military aggression initially against Donbass on April 14, 2014 and on February 17, 2022; and against Russia in September 2022 |
2 | Use of weapons against civilians | Russia has no intention to use weapons against civilians | Ukraine intentionally uses weapons against civilians |
3 | Use of chemical weapons(adherence to Chemical Weapons Convention) | Russia never used chemical weapons | Ukraine used chemical weapons more than 400 times and violated CWC |
4 | Use of biological weapons(adherence to Biological Weapons Convention) | Russia never used biological (bacteriological) and toxic weapons | Ukraine used biological (bacteriological) weapons and violated BWC |
5 | Use of cluster munitions | Russia never used cluster munitions | Ukraine uses cluster munitions |
6 | Use of depleted uranium | Russia never used munitions with depleted uranium (DU) | Ukraine constantly uses shells with DU in artillery and tank shells |
7 | Attack on nuclear power plants | Russia never attacked Ukrainian nuclear power plants (NPP), and has no desire to resort to such actions | Ukraine attacked two Russian NPP: Zaporozhskaya NPP more than 100 times and Kurskaya NPP 4 times |
8 | Source of weapons it uses | Russia produces weapons by itself; it relies on its national defense industrial complex. Russia is against foreign arms deliveries to Ukraine | Ukraine relies on NATO and non-NATOmilitary industrial complex; it gets weapons from nearly 50 countries. Ukraine demands more lethal arms |
9 | Treatment of prisoners of war | Russia treats Ukrainian POW in accordance with Geneva Conventions on POW | Ukraine violates Geneva Conventions on POW; it has tortured and beaten Russian POW many times |
10 | Efforts to end aggression | Russia wishes to end Ukrainian aggression and prepared a draft peace treaty with Ukraine (2022) | Ukraine has no desire to end its aggression; it blocked the initialed draft treaty with Russia (2022) |
11 | Major aims | Major Russian aims in its Special Military Operation: demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine | Major Ukrainian aims in its aggression:to eliminate population in five territories that joined Russia, and to inflict to it “strategic defeat” |
12 | Ukrainian membership in NATO | Russia is against any kind of Ukrainian membership in NATO | Ukraine is in favor of its full-fledged admission into NATO as soon as possible |
13 | De-escalation or intensification of conflict | Russia is in favor of de-escalation of the conflict with Ukraine | Ukraine is in favor of intensification of the conflict with Russia |
14 | Deployment of NATO troops in Ukraine | Russia is against deployment of NATO troops in Ukraine | Ukraine is in favor of deployment of NATO troops in Ukraine |
15 | Delivery of dual capable aircraft (DCA) F-16 to Ukraine | Russia is against delivery of DCA aircraft F-16 to Ukraine | Ukraine demands to deliver more than 120 DCA aircraft F-16 to its Air Forces. Several such aircraft have already arrived |
16 | Getting and using long-range NATO missiles deep into Russian territory by Ukraine | Russia is against getting and using long-range NATO missiles deep into Russian territory by Ukraine. Russia made its updated nuclear strategy much tougher to prevent this | Ukraine insists on getting and using long-range NATO missiles deep into Russian territory. Ukraine neglected the fact that Russia toughened its updated nuclear strategy to prevent this |
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END OF KOZIN REPORT
