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The Pentagon was exposed sending $2.2 billion in weapons to ISIS. Once gain, after the speeches, little has changed. Russia has fired on US-backed rebels. [...]

In a move that was immediately symbolic, but in the very short term also militarily important, the Syrian Arab Army has formally crossed the River Euphrates and is now active on the river’s east bank.

Russia has rejected claims from the United States and their Kurdish led proxy militants SDF that the Russian Aerospace Forces along with the Syrian Arab Air force targeted an SDF position in Deir ez-Zor East of the Euphrates.

The Euphrates River remains not only a vital lifeline across much of eastern Syria but also an important boundary area, which has become increasingly more important throughout the Syrian War.
Early in the war, Turkey warned they would not let any Kurds cross to the west of the Euphrates, and that this amounted to a “red line.”

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In a 2015 article concerning this deployment of troops in France, I wrote of the thousands of armed soldiers that were about to be deployed into the streets as  ‘a move that bears a striking resemblance to the beginnings of Martial Law in Europe…’ I also said in the same post that London would probably […]

Two attacks have simultaneously taken place in the Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, located 370 km south-east of the capital Baghdad.

As the Syrian Arab Army continues to make rapid progress in liberating remaining parts of Deir ez-Zor still under ISIS occupation, Russia is using its ultra-modern weaponry to pound ISIS fortification in the region.
The Russian Defence Ministry has just confirmed the use of seven high powered Kalibr cruise missiles to hit ISIS fortifications. The missiles were fired from two submarines in the eastern Mediterranean.

Last week the Syrian Army (SAA) backed by allied forces broke years-long ISIS siege of Deir Ezzor. Residents of the city were sincerely greeting liberators of the city. According to many experts, the SAA’s success is an important step towards total elimination of ISIS.
This, of course, can be considered as a defeat of the West and its ‘partners’, who had worked with the Syrian armed opposition and radical groups including ISIS hoping to oust Assad.

Tom Secker joins me for a discussion of the sixteenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. We begin by discussing our general emotions and thoughts on the actual anniversary. We discuss how it unfolds both here in New York and across the ocean in the U.K. Tom and I then discuss how 9/11 has evolved into a heavily scripted and predictable event over the past several years. We touch on how the attack is viewed without context, in terms of what actually happened and what followed it.