Syrian war

Tom and I are back again with another Homeland review show. This week we begin by exploring Homeland’s blatant sexism and misogny. We focus first on Carrie and her characters return to bi-polar nymphomaniac, and how the show has routinely made Carrie into an awful female character that we all hate. Tom and I discuss our theories for why the producers have continued to make Carrie into a monster and how this translates into a larger picture of how we view the CIA through Carrie.

Kremlin.ru
Vladimir Putin: Mr President,
Let me wish you a warm welcome to Moscow. Despite the dramatic situation in your country, you have responded to our request and come here to Russia, and we thank you for this.

The greatest secrets: the West has no people on the ground in Syria to take over the liberated territories; the Russians still seek partnership, Erdogan has bitten more than he can chew, and ISIS is a phantom, after all.

 
 
by Israel Shamir

We begin this episode by discussing the recent “rebellion” in Tajikistan.  Christoph and I break down who Deputy Defense Minister Abduhalim Nazardoza was and why he carried out a series of deadly attacks in the capital.  Christoph explains how this is being exploited by Tajik President Emomali Rahmon in his unending battle to destroy Central Asia’s only Islamist party, the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT).  We discuss the role that the IRPT played during Tajikistan’s brutal civil war during the 1990’s and ultimately what this means politically.

Al-Nusra militants by the way are being identified as some of the most active dealers of black market antiques of the Middle East. Lebanese media have reported that a great number of ancient icons, crosses, reliquaries, and statues have been smuggled from Syria into Lebanon and then sent abroad. Local smugglers are said by INTERPOL to be moving hundreds of Ma’loula’s antiquities, transporting Christian antiquities to European countries

 Image: A handout picture released by SANA on January 25, 2014 shows families returning to their houses in the Barzeh neighborhood of Damascus after the authorities in the area repaired the infrastructures.

Image above: United States ambassador to the UN Samantha Power next to President Obama

Published on Sep 19, 2014
Shocking video depicting a Syrian soldier taken prisoner by ISIS is forced to search the bodies of his dead comrades.  He finds an AK47 and opens fire on his captors killing many (as you will hear).  Listen to some terrorists who have clear American or Canadian accents.  A must see video.  The Syrian Army does not lose heart and our morale is at the heavens The MoD must award this soldier its highest medal.  This video has made me proud.

 
 
President Bashar al-Assad’s interview with Agence France Presse (AFP) ~January 20, 2014
 
AFP: Mr. President, what do you expect from the Geneva conference?

US Military Plans Direct Intervention in Syria