Week in Review: 2024, week 05

Published: 2024-02-04or support this work via Buy Me A Coffee or Patreon.Corrections/Notes* When speaking about the Lascaris article I mistakenly, initially refer to the judge's rebuke as a protest from the legislature though moments later use the correct term, judiciary.* When mentioning Assange, he was being issued political, not diplomatic, asylum.* I state that Napolitano's questions are not always that good. I include every time he asks his guests to read someone else's mind. "Why did X do Y?" This, I presume comes from his experience at Fox, and is a window into why US cable 'news' is so shitful; they don't even know how to ask decent questions. Actually, I expect its a bit simpler than that. They're just lazy. The question is an idiom. It means "extemporize on ".* Another of the Colonels is Andrew Bacevich meantioned in regard to the Tom's Dispatch publication. He is also the head of the newish Responsible Statecraft think tank. Another is Lt. Col. Daniel Davis.SourcesYesXorNoDaly and Wallace: November, 2023 and i4cTrouble Ep 154, 155 & 156, January 2024, YesXorNo, 2024-01-28Interesting Articles: 2024 late January, YesXorNo, 2024-01-30SSR: Propaganda Survival Guide for Tower 22, YesXorNo, 2024-01-31[Re-issue] The Mechanics of Politics by Other Means, From the 50's to the 20's, YesXorNo, 2024-01-31US Threatens to Start WWIII, YesXorNo, 2024-02-02SSR: Drilling Down from Tower 22, YesXorNo, 2024-02-03A Civilizational Civil War, YesXorNo, 2024-02-03Drones: The Perfect False Flag Weapon, YesXorNo, 2024-02-03Pre-Week in Review Ramble, YesXorNo, 2024-02-03AntiwarThe Genocide (in Gaza)Nancy Pelosi Says Calls for Gaza Ceasefire Is 'Putin's Message', Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-01-28Israeli Ministers Attend 'Resettle Gaza' Conference, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-01-28Israel Says 'Significant Gaps' Remain After Hostage Deal Talks, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-01-28Israel Struggles to Destroy Hamas Tunnels, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-01-29White House Denies Report That It's Considering Leverage Military Aid to Israel, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-01-29Hamas Reasserting Control Over Areas of Northern Gaza, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-01-30Netanyahu Says He Won't Withdraw From Gaza for New Hostage Deal, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-01-30US Troops Put on Standby for Potential US Ground Involvement in Gaza, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-01-31US Rep. Mast, a Former IDF Soldier, Says Palestinian Babies Killed in Gaza Are Not 'Innocent Civilians', Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-02-01Israel Announces It Will Attack Gaza Border City of Rafah, Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar, 2024-02-02Soutwest Asia (the conflagration)Three American Troops Killed in Drone Attack in Jordan, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-01-28Senators Call for US to Bomb Iran in Response to Drone Attack in Jordan, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-01-28House Lawmakers Tell Biden He Must Seek Authorization to Bomb Yemen, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-01-28Iran Denies Role in Drone Attack That Killed Three US Troops, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-01-29Israeli Airstrikes Hit Damascus, Several Reported Killed, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-01-29Pentagon Admits It Has No Evidence Iran Was Behind Drone Attack That Killed 3 US Troops in Jordan, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-01-29Report: Drone That Hit US Base in Jordan Followed an American Drone, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-01-29Biden Says He Decided How to Respond to Drone Attack That Killed 3 US Troops, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-01-30Israel DM: Troops Will Go Into Action 'Very Soon' in Lebanon, Jason Ditz, Antiwar, 2024-01-30Iraq's Kataib Hezbollah Suspends Military Operations Against US, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-01-30US Launches 11th Round of Strikes Against Houthis in Yemen, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-01-31Report: US Plans Weeks-Long Bombing Campaign Against Iranian Targets, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-01-31Report: Iraqi Government, Iran Pressured Kataib Hezbollah to Stop Attacking US, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-01-31US Navy Ship Had Close Call With Houthi Missile in the Red Sea, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-02-01Lloyd Austin: 'We Don't Know' If Iran Was Involved in Jordan Drone Attack, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-02-01Qatar Says Hamas Received Hostage Proposal 'Positively,' But No Deal Yet, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-02-01US Strikes Iranian Military Targets in Iraq and Syria, Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar, 2024-02-02Iraqi Bases Housing US Troops Attacked Following Strikes on Militias in Iraq and Syria, Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar, 2024-02-03US Strikes in Iraq and Syria Kill About 40, Including Civilians, Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar, 2024-02-03NATOstanEU Plans to Sabotage Hungary's Economy If Orban Blocks Ukraine Aid, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-01-30US to Deploy Nukes in the UK for the First Time in 15 Years, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-01-30Rep. Massie Hints at Impeachment if Biden Starts a War With Iran, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-01-31EU Gets Hungary to Agree on 50 Billion Euro Aid Package for Ukraine, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-02-01Ukraine/RussiaZelensky Expected to Oust His Top General, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-01-31China/Taiwan/SE AsiaUS Establishes New Stockpile in Australia to Prepare for War Over Taiwan, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2024-02-01Other Voices …The sub-sections in this section change on demand as focus shifts. New this week are 'Geopolitics' and 'Zeitgeist'.A new notation is introduced, that of postfixing a reference line with a [*] to indicate that this has already been a reference in an article published this past week. But, they belong in this compilation so are included.GeopoliticsWill the Hegemon Ever Accept a New Westphalian World Order?, Pepe Escobar, The Unz Review, 2024-01-31Notes: * An Age of Wars? Article One, Sergei A. Karaganov, Russia in Global Affairs, 2024-01-01* Word for the day: "thalassocracy" means a maritime power. Escobar uses the adjectival form, thalassocratic.Has International Law Survived, or Has the Western Political Class Killed It?, Craig Murray, Craig Murray, 2024-01-28Hyper-Imperialism, Vijay Prashad, Consortium News, 2024-01-29 [*]The ZeitgeistNever Before Has The Empire Been So Exposed, Caitlin Johnston, Caitlin's Newsletter, 2024-02-03Remote Warfare and Expendable People, Nick Turse and Tom Engelhardt, Antiwar (opinion), 2024-01-31Western Officials Warn of War-Crimes Complicity, Jake Johnson, Consortium News (orginally Common Dreams), 2024-02-02U.S. judge rebukes Biden administration for “unflagging support” for Israel’s genocide, Dimitri Lascaris, Dimitri Lascaris, 2024-02-02The Genocide (in Gaza)Palestinians Still Not Denied Right to Dream, Vijay Prashad, Consortium News, 2024-02-02The Silence of the Damned, Chris Hedges, ScheerPost, 2024-01-31 [*]By Hurting UN Agency, the West Sides With Genocide, Jonathan Cook, Consortium News, 2024-01-31 [*]Israel Cannot Hide From the UN Court, [Prof.] Jeffrey Sachs, Consortium News, 2024-01-31 [*]Soutwest Asia (the conflagration)USA Keeps Fighting for Iran, Scott Horton, Antiwar, scott-2024-012/1/24 Matthew Hoh on What War with Iran Would Be Like, Horton interviews Hoh, The Scott Horton Show, 2024-02-02* MP3 NATOstanThe Foreign Policy Blob's Desperate Attempt To Preserve NATO, Ted Galen Carpenter, Natylie's Place: Understanding Russia, 2024-02-03Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan sentenced to 10 years jail in state secrets case, Abid Hussain, Al Jazeera, 2024-01-30Ukraine/RussiaTo End the War in Ukraine, Expose Its Core Lie, Ted Snider and Nicolai N. Petro, Libertarian Institute, 2024-01-18Eli Did A Wonderful Job..., Andrei Martyanov, Reminiscence of the Future ..., 2024-02-02[Recommends the video, see the “Eli” Video below]China/Taiwan/SE AsiaNope.AssangeSee below for an interview by CN Live!'s Cathy Vogan.VideosGaza Genocide: The Only ‘Legitimate Voices’ in Israel Are Genocidal Fascists (Balad Party Leader), Ratansi interviews a former Knesset member, Going Underground TV, 2024-01-26Dimitri Lascaris ICJ Ruling Against Israel, Tremblay interviews Lascaris, Dateline News & Conversation, 2024-01-26Daily Debrief: The bid to bury Imran Khan, Peoples Dispatch, 2024-02-02To End The War In Ukraine, Expose Its Core Lie! | By Nicolai Petro and Ted Snider, Nicolai Petro reads the article referenced above, (republished by Pascal Lottaz of) Neutrality Studies, 2024-02-02I went to Volgograd in winter and THIS happened, Eli, Eli from Russia, 2024-02-02Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Is Netanyahu a Terrorist?, Napolitano interviews Wilkerson, Judging Freedom, 2024-02-02China is now the 'world's sole manufacturing superpower'. How did it develop so fast?, Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economics, 2024-01-31WATCH: CN Live! — ‘The Assange Defence’, Vogan interviews Aus' Senator Shoebridge and MP Josh Wilson, Consortium News, 2024-02-01CrossTalk: Avoiding defeat, Lavelle interviews Craig Pasta Jardula, Wilmer Leon, and Dmitry Babich, CrossTalk (RT), 2024-01-31* MP4Alastair Crooke：Will Israel Self-Destruct?, Napolitano interviews Crooke, Judging Freedom, 2024-01-29Col. Douglas Macgregor：Is WWIII Around the Corner?, Napolitano interviews Macgregor, Judging Freedom, 2024-01-29Ray McGovern：Israeli False Flag Killing US Troops?, Napolitano interviews McGovern, Judging Freedom, 2024-01-29Larry Johnson：Neocon Delusions Over Ukraine?, Napolitano Johnson XXXX, Judging Freedom, 2024-01-29Matt Hoh：Can the US Fight Two Wars?, Napolitano interviews Hoh, Judging Freedom, 2024-01-30Scott Ritter：Russia and the Middle East?, Napolitano interviews Ritter, Judging Freedom, 2024-01-30Aaron Maté：(The GrayZone) - Ukraine On Its Last Legs?, Napolitano interviews Maté, Judging Freedom, 2024-01-31Amb. Craig Murray：Fallout From ICJ Ruling Against Israe?, Napolitano interviews Murray, Judging Freedom, 2024-02-01Max Blumenthal： Biden’s Ukraine Blunder?, Napolitano interviews Blumenthal, Judging Freedom, 2024-02-01INTEL Roundtable w⧸ Johnson & McGovern： The Week in Ukraine and Israel?, Napolitano interviews the lads, Judging Freedom, 2024-02-02 [*]Copyleft: CC0 Get full access to YesXorNo at yesxorno.substack.com/subscribe