🧪 Federal Judge Upholds Florida Ban on Lab-Grown Meat, as Other States Propose Similar Bans “The dangers of cultivated meat far outweigh any misleading environmental claims. Floridians will not be lectured by billionaires like Bill Gates on how to feed their families.” @JayCollinsFL Lab-grown or cultivated meat is produced from cultured stem cells taken from live animals or an animal cell bank and then reproduced in bioreactors using techniques borrowed from Big Pharma. Don't let Big Pharma control your food. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/federal-judge-upholds-florida-ban-lab-grown-meat-cultivated-chicken/ Federal Judge Upholds Florida Ban on Lab-Grown Meat, as Other States Propose Similar Bans The ban will remain in place while the lawsuit challenging its legality moves through the courts. Upside Foods, which makes a cultivated chicken product, sued to overturn the ban, which was signed into law on May 1. florida flag, lab grown chicken and gavel Toxic Exposures by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D. October 23, 2024 florida flag, lab grown chicken and gavel 5411 Pageviews Listen to this article A federal judge earlier this month rejected a request by California-based Upside Foods for a preliminary injunction against Florida’s new law banning the manufacture, distribution and sale of “cultivated,” or lab-grown meat. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the ban into law on May 1, making it a second-degree misdemeanor to produce or sell lab-grown meat in the state. The law took effect in July. Upside Foods, which makes cultivated chicken, sued Florida in August, alleging the ban is unconstitutional and violates two federal laws that preempt Florida from imposing the ban. A preliminary injunction is typically issued in a lawsuit if the court finds the plaintiff has a good chance of winning its case — a “substantial likelihood of success on the merits,” However, Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker said Upside’s argument, which boiled down to “if it’s a poultry product, states can’t ban it,” was insufficient. Just because a product falls within the scope of the federal Poultry Products Inspection Act and is under the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) regulatory authority does not mean a state is “expressly preempted from banning the sale of that particular kind of poultry product,” Walker wrote. Upside argued that the ban imposed ingredient and manufacturing requirements that clashed with provisions of the Poultry Products Inspection Act. However, Walker said Upside was unable to identify any federal law or regulation that created an “ingredient requirement” for cultivated meat. He also said that because the company didn’t produce its lab-grown meat in Florida, the manufacturing ban didn’t affect its premises, operations or facilities. scales of justice Your support helps fund this work, and CHD’s related advocacy, education and scientific research. Donate Now The ruling means the ban will remain in place while the lawsuit challenging its legality moves through the courts. “We are not surprised by the judge’s rejection of Upside’s preliminary injunction,” Florida Sen. Jay Collins, who co-sponsored the original bill, told The Defender. “The dangers of cultivated meat far outweigh any misleading environmental claims. Floridians will not be lectured by billionaires like Bill Gates on how to feed their families.” Upside’s attorney, Suranjen Sen from the Institute for Justice, said in a press release that the company plans to appeal the decision and is “confident that the courts will ultimately recognize that Florida cannot ban products simply to protect local industries from honest competition.” A bench trial is set for Monday, Aug. 18, 2025. Upside struggled to become profitable Lab-grown or cultivated meat is produced from cultured stem cells taken from live animals or an animal cell bank and then reproduced in bioreactors using techniques borrowed from Big Pharma. The cells are “fed” a mixture of sugars, amino and fatty acids, salts and vitamins to make them proliferate quickly. Once they’ve grown into a mass or a sheet — depending on the manufacturer — they are formed into meat-looking shapes like cutlets or nuggets. Although the companies promote lab-grown meat in part by claiming it has environmental benefits, the process is energy-intensive. Research from the University of California, Davis, found that cultured meat’s environmental impact is likely “orders of magnitude” higher than real meat, based on current production methods. Attorney Ray Flores, who worked in the natural health industry for 35 years, told The Defender that even if it provides environmental benefits, “Any environmental benefit is greatly outweighed by the possible dangers that these cutting-edge products may pose to one’s health.” An investigation by The New York Times revealed several incidents during the development of some of Upside’s products that raised safety concerns. The company in 2018 found its chicken cell line contaminated with mouse cells. And in 2019, the cell line was found to be contaminated with rat cells. Yet, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Upside’s meat was safe for human consumption in 2022, and the USDA approved the sale of products by Upside Foods and Good Meat — the first two companies to go through the regulatory approval process — in June 2023. That approval made the U.S. the second country in the world, behind Singapore, to allow sales of lab-grown meat. In January, Israel green-lighted the sale of steaks made from cultivated beef cells, The Associated Press reported. Since the USDA approval, however, Upside has struggled to become profitable. Upside doesn’t have products available in stores. Partnerships with restaurants are primarily how the company gets its products to consumers. It had sold its lab-grown chicken to one restaurant in Miami and was planning to showcase it at Miami’s Art Basel event before the ban took effect, according to the judgment. However, Crunchbase reported that the company halted its plans to develop a major facility in Glenview, Illinois, and restaurants that had tried it out have since pulled it from their menus. San Francisco Michelin-star restaurant Bar Crenn, its final sale venue, confirmed it was pulling the lab-grown meat from the menu in February. In the original complaint, Upside and the Institute for Justice claim that the “growing patchwork of conflicting state laws governing cultivated meat” makes it more difficult for Upside to partner with national meat distributors “who generally will not carry products they cannot lawfully sell in every state.” It also makes it more difficult for them to partner with restaurants. If not for the ban, they said, they would be reaching out to several restaurants to create partnerships. Following the Florida ban, Upside laid off 26 workers. TVs stacked on each other 10 a.m. ET 
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Wednesday, Dec. 4 Donate Now More states move to ban lab-grown meat, federal regulators eye labeling requirements A few weeks after Florida passed its bill, Alabama passed a similar law making the manufacture, sale or distribution of food products made from cultured animal cells a Class C misdemeanor, with fines ranging from $100 to $10,000. Iowa’s governor in May signed a bill prohibiting schools from buying lab-grown meat products and requiring clear labeling for lab-grown meats sold in other venues. Five other states have proposed similar laws. And in August, Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen signed an executive order banning the state government from purchasing it. The USDA and the FDA share regulatory responsibility for cultivated meat products. Under the Biden administration’s 2022 plan to advance biotechnology and biomanufacturing innovation, the USDA also announced plans to issue draft guidance on the pre-approval consultation process and the agencies plan to propose rules for labeling cell-cultured meat and poultry sometime in 2024.

US-Israeli intelligence activities thwarted in Yemen, while Israel admits being behind Haniyeh's killing and pager terrorist attack Plus highlights of Israeli hypocrisy and news from Syria. Ismaele Note to subscribers: the article exceeds the length limits of the e-mail. To read it in its entirety, just click on the title to open the full online version. Yemen foils US-Israeli led intelligence activities From Al Mayadeen. Yesterday, Wednesday 25th December 2024, Yemen News Agency Saba and Al Mayadeen reported that the Yemeni security services foiled intelligence activities led by the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Israeli Intelligence Service (Mossad). A statement issued by the Yemeni security forces said: The enemy's intelligence seeks, through espionage activities, to hinder the Yemeni people's stance in support of Gaza by targeting its military forces and leadership. …and warned that CIA an Mossad collaborators may even face death sentence. It is not the first time that Yemeni security services perform such an operation: in June this year (2024), they uncovered and captured a large US-Israeli espionage cell operated by CIA and Mossad within the US embassy, labelled as “a den of espionage and a tool for sabotage”, as I reported in this article. In my opinion the US embassy in Sanaa should be closed, as the one in Tehran was closed following the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979. Over the last few days, the Yemeni security forces arrested several collaborators and spies, whose intelligence missions included “tracking and gathering information on experts, laboratories, platforms, and vehicles used for launching missiles and drones […] as well as monitoring locations and positions of naval forces, camps, and weapons depots belonging to the armed forces”. The recruiter, Hamid Hussein Fayed Mujalli, is still fugitive and wanted… but hopefully he will be found and arrested soon, so that he can face justice. The spies and collaborators even tried “to locate and gather information on the whereabouts of the leader of the Yemeni Ansar Allah movement, Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi”, thus suggesting that Little Satan (a.k.a. Israel) and Great Satan (a.k.a. the Outlaw US Empire) are planning to launch decapitation strikes against Ansar Allah in Yemen as they did with Hezbollah in Lebanon (first with Fuad Shukr and then with Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah) and Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar (in Gaza) and Ismail Haniyeh (in Iran), whose targeted assassination - by the way - was finally admitted by Israel Katz, Israeli Minister of “Defense”, a couple of days ago, as reported by IRNA (Islamic Republic News Agency of Iran), which quoted him as saying (emphasis mine): We will strike hard at the H[o]uthis... and decapitate their leadership -- just as we did with Haniyeh, (Yahya) Sinwar, and (Hassan) Nasrallah in Tehran, Gaza, and Lebanon, we will do so in Hodeida and Sanaa. Anyone who raises a hand against Israel will have his hand cut off, and the long arm of the Israeli military will strike him and hold him accountable. …thus also confirming the Zionist decapitation plan against Ansar Allah in Yemen. Israel publicly admits to assassinating Hamas leader Haniyeh in Tehran Israeli Minister of “Defense” Israel Katz - from IRNA. Speaking of criminal admissions, just a few days ago two recently retired senior Mossad agents were interviewed by CBS and explained how they orchestrated the pager terrorist attack against Hezbollah over several years. Had it been the other way around, e.g. Hezbollah, Iran or Russia perpetrating such a heinous terrorist attack (which incidentally injured and killed not just Hezbollah militants, but also children, teachers, nurses, doctors, etc.) in US and Europe, NATO would have launched a renewed “war on terror” and massive carpet bombing against Lebanon, Iran or Russia, as it has been done in the past against Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya with similar excuses; instead, now Western mainstream media (MSM) is still celebrating this sick operation: utterly disgusting! UNSC to hold emergency meeting on Yemen, Israel United Nations Security Council (UNSC) - from IRNA. Today Al Mayadeen and IRNA have also reported that last Tuesday, 24th December 2024, the Zionist hypocrites summoned Vatican's envoy in Tel Aviv, Archbishop Adolfo Tito Yllana, for a meeting with Foreign Ministry Director General Eyal Bar-Tal, who protested against Pope Francis’ criticism for the ongoing Israeli bombing of Gaza, targeting mainly innocent civilians and children - by the way, just this morning they killed 5 Palestinian journalists in an airstrike that hit a vehicle clearly marked as “PRESS” (source: The Guardian). Not only that, but, as reported by IRNA, that hypocrite of Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar asked US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, current president of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), to convene a UNSC emergency meeting next Monday, 30th December 2024, to discuss the repeated attacks by Ansar Allah against Israel. If they really wanted to stop drone and missile attacks on their territory from Yemen, they could easily achieve this objective simply by ending the aggression on Gaza and lifting the siege, as requested by Ansar Allah in all its statements. However, I doubt they will ever do it, especially after they managed to reach a ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah, whose leaders were saying that they would stop their attacks against Israel only if the latter halted its military operations in Gaza… yet they are still ongoing and the Zionists are even taking advantage of the ceasefire with Hezbollah to infiltrate Wadi al-Hujayr in southern Lebanon, “a region that has been inaccessible to them during the war due to the Lebanese Resistance”, as per Al Mayadeen. Little Satan is so emboldened that it thinks that it can enforce its will on everyone, thanks also to the support of Great Satan, a.k.a. the Outlaw US Empire, and its vassals within NATO and EU. Ansar Allah fighters march during a rally of support for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and against the US strikes on Yemen outside Sanaa on Monday, January 22, 2024 (AP) From Al Mayadeen. So, in the meantime Yemeni attacks against Israel continue: in fact, as reported by Al Mayadeen and Saba, yesterday the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) announced that its Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Forces had conducted two drone strikes: one targeting “a vital and sensitive target of the Israeli enemy in the occupied area of Yaffa” and another one targeting “the industrial zone of the Israeli enemy in the occupied area of Ashkelon”, after interception of a ballistic missile launched from Yemen and targeting central Israel overnight, as reported here. Thanks for reading GeoPolitiQ! This post is public so feel free to share it. Share VOA From Al Maydeen. Meanwhile the tension in Syria remains very high, as I discussed in the second half of my previous original article, focussing on the intolerance of so-called “moderate jihadists” towards Christians. VOA (Voice of America), quoted by Al Mayadeen, has reported the following concerns of a Sunni Muslim resident of Damascus, shared by many others (all emphasis mine): We know that Hayat Tahir al-Sham [HTS] is trying to change, and we welcome that. But there are two things that people in my circle are really concerned about. One is how genuine al-Sharaa is, and the other is how much control he really has over the more radical people in his group. Syrians in general, including the conservative ones, are not inclined to extremism. If al-Jolani keeps his promises and controls his men, then Syrians will support him. But if extremists dominate, Syrians will rise against them just as they rose against Bashar al-Assad. VOA also quoted, an expert on Islamist groups in Syria, Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi, as saying that one of the main tensions is “between the HTS leadership under al-Jolani and the action of individual members who for years were fed propaganda” and that… They may collectively impute guilt to Alawites and others like Christians and engage in attacks and insults. The VOA articles then cites two other analysts who give a more optimistic view, suggesting that HTS and the caretaker government will sideline or even arrest extremist factions, but without providing any concrete sign in support of such a positive opinion. Instead, the situation seems to get worse on the ground, as reported in another Al Mayadeen article, which describes chaos and lack of security in Masyaf, northwest of Hama, where three civilian land registry judges from the Alawite sect were killed two days ago, and in Aleppo, where an undated video was geolocated showing armed men storming the religious shrine of Abu Abdullah al-Hussein al-Khasibi, the founder of the Alawite sect, resulting “in the killing of five attendants, the mutilation of their bodies, the vandalization of the shrine, and its burning”. Regardless of its date, the video went viral online and caused “public discontent among the residents in the area” yesterday, as reported also by IRNA, which mentions thousands of people demonstrating in Latakia, Tartus, Homs and Hama (see also the video below). And this morning Al Mayadeen reported clashes during an attempt by security forces to arrest an officer, who had served under Bashar al-Assad, in Tartus province yesterday, resulting in 17 people killed, 14 of which members of the General Security force and 3 armed men, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which identified the wanted person as Mohammed Kanjo Hassan, “an officer in the former regime forces who held the position of director of the military justice department and field court chief [and] issued death sentences and arbitrary judgements against thousands of prisoners”. Apparently the clashes broke out after “a number of residents refused to allow their houses to be searched”. From The Times of Israel. Finally, a nuclear bombshell (literally!): the Israeli airstrike on the weapons depot in Tartus on 16th December 2024 may have been carried out with a small nuclear bomb, such as an American B61, as speculated by some reports mentioned in India.com, considering spikes in radiation measured by the European Union’s Radioactive Environmental Monitoring in Cyprus and Turkey ~20 hours after the blast, which also caused an earthquake of magnitude 3 that was felt even in Iznik (Turkey), ~820 km away from Tartus. If true, this would be shocking, as it would be the first use of a nuclear bomb in a conflict since Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War 2… but, according to western MSM, we should be afraid of “Russian nuclear sabre-rattling”, not of the Outlaw US Empire, the only country in the world that used nuclear weapons, or Israel, with its hidden nuclear arsenal - by the way, the US National Security Archive recently declassified documents revealing that the Outlaw US Empire “has been aware since the 1960s of ‘Israel's’ ability to produce weapons-grade plutonium at its Dimona nuclear research center”, as per Al Mayadeen. I will conclude this article with the following cartoons from China Daily - excellent food for thought: 'China Daily' cartoon rebukes US for human rights claims “Preaching rights while destroying humans” - from China Daily. World situation casts shadow on Christmas - from China Daily. P.S.: Al Mayadeen and The Guardian have reported this afternoon Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes on Sanaa international airport, destroying its control towers, and Hezyaz and Ras Kanatib power station, while Ansar Allah leader Sayyed Abdulmalik Badr al-Din al-Houthi was delivering a speech. 1 HTS leader Ahmad al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani. https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/us-israeli-intelligence-activities?triedRedirect=true

Assad’s Army and Russian Forces Killed 1,000 HTS Terrorists. “US-Zionist plot’ behind Jihadists” Syria offensive (video). Fabio G. C. CarisioDecember 1, 2024 Become a VT Supporting Member Today Please keep VT Radio and VT Foreign Policy alive! Donate today to make sure VT stays on the internet free and clear of Big Tech control! Donate today: Please Donate - Click Here UPDATE ON DECEMBER, 1, 2024 Syria stops terrorists from infiltrating Hama province, eliminates a Thousand of militants Nearly a thousand foreign-backed Takfiri terrorists, led by members of the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham terrorist group, have been killed in Syria’s northwestern provinces of Aleppo and Idlib in the past three days, as government forces are pressing ahead with their counter-terrorism operations. According to Syrian media outlets, the terrorists have been killed by Syrian troops with Russian air support. WORLDWIDE real DEMOCRATS vs the NWO-NATO Plot in Syria. Here Why ASSAD will Defeat BIDEN’s Ghosts According to a post on social media X, Abu Muhammad al Jolani, leader of Hayat Tahrir al Sham, a Sunni rebel group that has attacked in Syria, was killed in a Russian airstrike. The incident allegedly occurred in Idlib, Syria. The Syrian Armed Forces units operating in the north of Hama province prevented terrorists from breaking through and destroyed dozens of militants, holding back their offensive, the General Command said in a statement. “Our units operating in the northern part of Hama [province] last night strengthened the defense line with firepower and equipment, confronted the terrorist organizations and prevented them from breaking through,” said the statement posted on the Defense Ministry’s Facebook. “Our forces also managed to take control of a number of areas, the most important of which are Qalaat al-Madiq and Maardis, eliminating dozens of terrorists and causing the rest to flee,” the General Command said. Syria will defeat terrorist whoever its sponsors might be, Assad vows The source added that the friendly Syrian and Russian warplanes are also targeting terrorists’ gatherings, movements and supply lines. Syria will ultimately defeat terrorism no matter who supports or sponsors it, Syrian President Bashar Assad pledged. FREEMASONRY & ZIONISM – 3. Devilish Roots of HOLOCAUST IN HOLY LAND. 70 % of Exterminated are Children, Women by Netanyahu thanks Western NeoNazis “President Assad stressed that terrorism doesn’t know any language other than the language of force and this is the language we will use to defeat and uproot it, whoever its supporters or sponsors might be,” Assad’s office quoted him as saying during a phone call with Abkhazia’s acting President Badra Gunba. READ MORE ABOUT BELOW Iran: “Terrorism to Boomerang on Plotters, Qalibaf Warns after Chaos in Syria” Islamic nations should not let US, Israel exploit Syrian crisis: Pezeshkian ARTICLE PUBLISHED ON NOEWMBER, 28. 2024 Iran: “The US and Israel are responsible for the resurgence of Salafist terrorism in Syria” The US and Israel are responsible for the resurgence of Salafist terrorism in Syria, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has claimed, adding that Tehran will support the efforts by the government in Damascus aimed to to halt the ongoing jihadist offensive. Click to watch Hayat Tahrir-al-Sham (HTS), the terrorist group formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra, attacked government-controlled territory in northern Syria on Wednesday alongside a collection of allied militias, breaking a fragile truce brokered by Russia and Türkiye in 2020. By Friday, HTS fighters had entered Aleppo, which had been under Syrian government control since 2016. In a phone call with his Syrian counterpart, Bassam al-Sabbagh, on Friday, Araghchi called the offensive “an American-Zionist” plot. According to Iran’s PressTV, Araghchi noted that the attack took place immediately after Israel struck a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah in Lebanon, suggesting that Washington and West Jerusalem were using HTS as proxies to strike a blow against Syria’s government, which supports the Palestinian cause. 4 rockets hit US occupation Conoco base in Syria: Exclusive Araghchi told al-Sabbagh that Iran continues to support the “Syrian government, nation, and army towards fighting terrorism and protecting regional security and stability,” PressTV paraphrased. Before adopting its current name in 2017, Hayat Tahrir-al-Sham was known as Jabhat al-Nusra. Indirectly armed by the US and allegedly backed by Türkiye, the terrorist group was one of the main factions opposing Bashar Assad’s government during the Syrian Civil War. Russia intervened in the conflict in 2015, helping Damascus retake much of the country from Jabhat al-Nusra, Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), and dozens of US-supported armed groups deemed “moderate rebels” by Washington. Turkish papers: 21 Erdogan’s jihadist militias supported by Cia, Pentagon and armed with TOW missiles Iran also played a key role in helping the Syrian government hold back the jihadists, with the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps providing weapons and training to the Syrian Army and sending thousands of military advisers and volunteers to assist Assad’s forces on the battlefield. While the US waged war against IS fighters in Syria, it overtly supported other anti-Assad militias and covertly backed jihadist groups. Despite Washington placing a $10 million bounty on the head of Al-Qaeda’s commander in Syria in 2013, current US National Security Adviser and then-State Department staffer Jake Sullivan had written to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton several months earlier, explaining that “AQ [Al Qaeda] is on our side in Syria.” Jihadists-Linked White Helmets Staging new Chemical False-Flag Attack together Ukraine, NATO Intel Al-Qaeda’s Syrian commander, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, broke ties with the organization in 2016 and went on to lead HTS. In an interview in 2021, Former US Special Representative for Syria Engagement James Jeffrey described HTS as “an asset” to American strategy in Syria, saying that supporting the jihadist commander was “the least bad option” for keeping Idlib out of Syrian government control. While the US officially considers al-Jolani a ‘Specially Designated Global Terrorist’ and has implicated his group in a litany of human rights abuses, al-Jolani insists that HTS “does not represent a threat” to Western interests. READ MORE ABOUT Jihadists claim to re-enter Syria’s Aleppo https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/12/american-zionist-plot-behind-jihadists-syria-offensive-russian-aistrikes-killed-400-terrorists/

Israel-Backed Al Qaeda Terrorists Storm Aleppo Kevin Barrett, Senior EditorDecember 2, 2024 Become a VT Supporting Member Today Please keep VT Radio and VT Foreign Policy alive! Donate today to make sure VT stays on the internet free and clear of Big Tech control! Donate today: Please Donate - Click Here Rumble link Bitchute link Spotfund donations Paypal donations The Syrian Army is pressing ahead with its operations to confront and expel foreign-backed terrorists from the country’s north and northwestern provinces. Reports on the ground say that the Syrian military backed by the Russian Air Force struck the terror groups in villages of Hazarin and Al-Raqeya in the southern countryside of the province of Idlib. Airstrikes also targeted positions of Al-Nusra Front Terror Group around Khan Sheikhoun south of Idlib and Morek in the northern countryside of Hama. The Syrian military says it has reinforced its defense lines with various means of fire, personnel and equipment in areas where clashes are underway with the terrorists. The army also says it’s managed to secure a number of areas including Ma’ardis. According to the Syrian media, nearly terrorists have been killed in three days of fighting. Clashes between the army and the terrorists erupted after attack theory groups, including al-Nusra Front, launched a surprise attack on northern and northwestern parts of Syria on Wednesday. And reactions and condemnations continue pouring in over the resurgence of foreign-backed terrorism in Syria. The Arab League has issued a statement stressing the need to respect the sovereignty and preserve the territorial integrity of Syria. League Secretary General Ahmed Abu Ghait expressed concerns over the continuous developments that Syria is witnessing and their impacts on civilians. In a phone call, the UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan said the country stands with Syria and supports it in combating terrorism and unifying its territory. The Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudanian and Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein expressed their country’s support, saying that Syria’s security and stability are linked to Iraq’s national security. In a statement, the Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yivan Gil expressed country solidarity with the Syrian people and government, calling on the international community to condemn terrorist attacks in Syria. And now joining us at Saidiya, Morocco, is Dr. Kevin Barrett, editor at Veterans Today. Pleasure to have you on, Dr. Barrett. I hope you’re safe and doing well. What are we to make sure of this resurgence of terrorism in Syria, their objectives and their backers? Well, the first question is, why now? The timing is crucial to understanding what’s going on. And it’s obviously not a coincidence that this happened at exactly the same moment that the genocidal Zionist occupation entity is changing its focus from its unsuccessful war on Lebanon, in which it was forced to accept essentially a defeat, to a war on Syria. It’s now trying to take out the Lebanese people’s ability to defend themselves, which they did so successfully, by going into Syria and attacking Syria and trying to cut off any means that supporters of Lebanese independence will be able to use to help ensure that Hezbollah and the patriotic forces in Lebanon will be able to continue to defend themselves successfully in the future. So the Zionist entity attacked Syria. And at the same moment, these takfiri terrorists who are armed and supported by the Zionist entity’s backers in Washington, D.C., also attacked Syria. Clearly, this is a coordinated operation. It’s not only a response to the Zionists’ loss in their war on Lebanon, but it’s also an attempt to bring back the divide and conquer strategy to try to do something about the success that Chinese-backed and to some extent Russian-backed diplomacy has had in uniting the region against the Zionists. The leadership of the Gulf Arab regimes, which had been very pro-Zionist in the past, has awakened to the futility of accepting the Zionists as a permanent entity. They’ve seen this genocide. They know their people will never stand for that. And so they have gone along with these Chinese backed efforts to bring together the whole region in a kind of a peaceful settlement and solution to some of the smaller differences, which will allow the region to settle the big problem, which is this genocidal Zionist occupation of Palestine. And so the forces that don’t like that and that want to break the region apart and to turn the different countries against each other are panicking. That’s why they’re now trying to ramp up this war on Syria. But it’s not working. As we’ve seen, the leadership in all regional countries is standing strong. And let’s hope that Turkey wakes up and that the Turkish leadership realizes that this divide-and-conquer Oded Yinon strategy is aimed at them as well, and that Kurdish separatist extremists are going to be armed and turned against them in the same way that the Takfiri terrorists are being armed and turned against Syria. And it’s ironic you say that because we often hear so many regional countries, Dr. Barrett, always allude to that exact thing, that the Zionist entities’ actions in West Asia do nothing but perpetrate more destabilization, insecurity, and instability for everyone in the region. That’s right. That’s what it’s there to do. You know, there are conspiracy theories that might be true, like so many conspiracy theories, that in fact, the reason or one of the reasons that the West supports this seemingly completely counterproductive and out-of-control genocidal Zionist entity is precisely to create so many problems in the region that it will never be successful. That is, to prevent the region from finding ways to unite and to trade productively, to get more and more political and economic unity and to become a major player in the world. And so the forces that don’t want West Asia to succeed have conspired to implant this inherently genocidal Zionist entity right there in the heart of the region, in the Holy Land. It’s holy to the majority of the world’s population. It is holy to four billion Christians and Muslims, along with a few million Jews, a fraction of 1% of the Abrahamic monotheists, who all look to that Holy Land as kind of the heart of their culture and their heritage. And so by essentially destroying it and creating this Antichrist project in the Holy Land, they are sticking a dagger into the heart of West Asia. And the purpose of that is to try to ensure perpetual chaos and failure in West Asia. But the West Asian governments are starting to wake up to this, and I don’t think they’re going to continue to fall for this Oded-Yanon divide and conquer project for very long. And before we let you go really quick, the West’s ultimate objective when it comes to Syria—do you feel they’re still after regime change? And why, when the U.S. is already occupying parts of Syria and looting its natural resources, what is there left for the West in Syria? I don’t think the West believes that it’s going to succeed in imposing regime change on Syria. But I think that the so-called West, which is largely occupied by the Zionists— there’s an ideological consensus among perhaps almost half of the Zionist billionaires who control the West, people who are fanatically loyal to this bizarre Zionist occupation project—I don’t think that the West, the people who think about the strategic interest of the West (as opposed to fanatical Zionists) really believe that there is any realistic chance that they’re going to get that regime change in Syria that they thought they could get fifteen years ago. Instead, I think that they see this as a strategic move to try to cut off Syria from Lebanon, to increase the pressure on the resistance front, to increase pressure on Russia as Russia is on the brink of victory in Ukraine. Russia has also been a backer of the stability of the region and of the Syrian government. So I think they’re trying to increase pressure on their adversaries. And as I said earlier, they’re coordinating this move with the Zionist attack on Syria as the Zionists turn from Lebanon to Syria while they continue their genocide of Gaza. Dr. Kevin Barrett, a Ph.D. Arabist-Islamologist is one of America’s best-known critics of the War on Terror. He is the host of TRUTH JIHAD RADIO; a hard-driving weekly radio show funded by listener subscriptions at Substack and the weekly news roundup FALSE FLAG WEEKLY NEWS (FFWN). He also has appeared many times on Fox, CNN, PBS, and other broadcast outlets, and has inspired feature stories and op-eds in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Tribune, and other leading publications. Dr. Barrett has taught at colleges and universities in San Francisco, Paris, and Wisconsin; where he ran for Congress in 2008. He currently works as a nonprofit organizer, author, and talk radio host. 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Israel-Backed Al Qaeda Terrorists Storm Aleppo Kevin Barrett, Senior EditorDecember 2, 2024 Become a VT Supporting Member Today Please keep VT Radio and VT Foreign Policy alive! Donate today to make sure VT stays on the internet free and clear of Big Tech control! Donate today: Please Donate - Click Here Rumble link Bitchute link Spotfund donations Paypal donations The Syrian Army is pressing ahead with its operations to confront and expel foreign-backed terrorists from the country’s north and northwestern provinces. Reports on the ground say that the Syrian military backed by the Russian Air Force struck the terror groups in villages of Hazarin and Al-Raqeya in the southern countryside of the province of Idlib. Airstrikes also targeted positions of Al-Nusra Front Terror Group around Khan Sheikhoun south of Idlib and Morek in the northern countryside of Hama. The Syrian military says it has reinforced its defense lines with various means of fire, personnel and equipment in areas where clashes are underway with the terrorists. The army also says it’s managed to secure a number of areas including Ma’ardis. According to the Syrian media, nearly terrorists have been killed in three days of fighting. Clashes between the army and the terrorists erupted after attack theory groups, including al-Nusra Front, launched a surprise attack on northern and northwestern parts of Syria on Wednesday. And reactions and condemnations continue pouring in over the resurgence of foreign-backed terrorism in Syria. The Arab League has issued a statement stressing the need to respect the sovereignty and preserve the territorial integrity of Syria. League Secretary General Ahmed Abu Ghait expressed concerns over the continuous developments that Syria is witnessing and their impacts on civilians. In a phone call, the UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan said the country stands with Syria and supports it in combating terrorism and unifying its territory. The Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudanian and Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein expressed their country’s support, saying that Syria’s security and stability are linked to Iraq’s national security. In a statement, the Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yivan Gil expressed country solidarity with the Syrian people and government, calling on the international community to condemn terrorist attacks in Syria. And now joining us at Saidiya, Morocco, is Dr. Kevin Barrett, editor at Veterans Today. Pleasure to have you on, Dr. Barrett. I hope you’re safe and doing well. What are we to make sure of this resurgence of terrorism in Syria, their objectives and their backers? Well, the first question is, why now? The timing is crucial to understanding what’s going on. And it’s obviously not a coincidence that this happened at exactly the same moment that the genocidal Zionist occupation entity is changing its focus from its unsuccessful war on Lebanon, in which it was forced to accept essentially a defeat, to a war on Syria. It’s now trying to take out the Lebanese people’s ability to defend themselves, which they did so successfully, by going into Syria and attacking Syria and trying to cut off any means that supporters of Lebanese independence will be able to use to help ensure that Hezbollah and the patriotic forces in Lebanon will be able to continue to defend themselves successfully in the future. So the Zionist entity attacked Syria. And at the same moment, these takfiri terrorists who are armed and supported by the Zionist entity’s backers in Washington, D.C., also attacked Syria. Clearly, this is a coordinated operation. It’s not only a response to the Zionists’ loss in their war on Lebanon, but it’s also an attempt to bring back the divide and conquer strategy to try to do something about the success that Chinese-backed and to some extent Russian-backed diplomacy has had in uniting the region against the Zionists. The leadership of the Gulf Arab regimes, which had been very pro-Zionist in the past, has awakened to the futility of accepting the Zionists as a permanent entity. They’ve seen this genocide. They know their people will never stand for that. And so they have gone along with these Chinese backed efforts to bring together the whole region in a kind of a peaceful settlement and solution to some of the smaller differences, which will allow the region to settle the big problem, which is this genocidal Zionist occupation of Palestine. And so the forces that don’t like that and that want to break the region apart and to turn the different countries against each other are panicking. That’s why they’re now trying to ramp up this war on Syria. But it’s not working. As we’ve seen, the leadership in all regional countries is standing strong. And let’s hope that Turkey wakes up and that the Turkish leadership realizes that this divide-and-conquer Oded Yinon strategy is aimed at them as well, and that Kurdish separatist extremists are going to be armed and turned against them in the same way that the Takfiri terrorists are being armed and turned against Syria. And it’s ironic you say that because we often hear so many regional countries, Dr. Barrett, always allude to that exact thing, that the Zionist entities’ actions in West Asia do nothing but perpetrate more destabilization, insecurity, and instability for everyone in the region. That’s right. That’s what it’s there to do. You know, there are conspiracy theories that might be true, like so many conspiracy theories, that in fact, the reason or one of the reasons that the West supports this seemingly completely counterproductive and out-of-control genocidal Zionist entity is precisely to create so many problems in the region that it will never be successful. That is, to prevent the region from finding ways to unite and to trade productively, to get more and more political and economic unity and to become a major player in the world. And so the forces that don’t want West Asia to succeed have conspired to implant this inherently genocidal Zionist entity right there in the heart of the region, in the Holy Land. It’s holy to the majority of the world’s population. It is holy to four billion Christians and Muslims, along with a few million Jews, a fraction of 1% of the Abrahamic monotheists, who all look to that Holy Land as kind of the heart of their culture and their heritage. And so by essentially destroying it and creating this Antichrist project in the Holy Land, they are sticking a dagger into the heart of West Asia. And the purpose of that is to try to ensure perpetual chaos and failure in West Asia. But the West Asian governments are starting to wake up to this, and I don’t think they’re going to continue to fall for this Oded-Yanon divide and conquer project for very long. And before we let you go really quick, the West’s ultimate objective when it comes to Syria—do you feel they’re still after regime change? And why, when the U.S. is already occupying parts of Syria and looting its natural resources, what is there left for the West in Syria? I don’t think the West believes that it’s going to succeed in imposing regime change on Syria. But I think that the so-called West, which is largely occupied by the Zionists— there’s an ideological consensus among perhaps almost half of the Zionist billionaires who control the West, people who are fanatically loyal to this bizarre Zionist occupation project—I don’t think that the West, the people who think about the strategic interest of the West (as opposed to fanatical Zionists) really believe that there is any realistic chance that they’re going to get that regime change in Syria that they thought they could get fifteen years ago. Instead, I think that they see this as a strategic move to try to cut off Syria from Lebanon, to increase the pressure on the resistance front, to increase pressure on Russia as Russia is on the brink of victory in Ukraine. Russia has also been a backer of the stability of the region and of the Syrian government. So I think they’re trying to increase pressure on their adversaries. And as I said earlier, they’re coordinating this move with the Zionist attack on Syria as the Zionists turn from Lebanon to Syria while they continue their genocide of Gaza. Dr. Kevin Barrett, a Ph.D. Arabist-Islamologist is one of America’s best-known critics of the War on Terror. He is the host of TRUTH JIHAD RADIO; a hard-driving weekly radio show funded by listener subscriptions at Substack and the weekly news roundup FALSE FLAG WEEKLY NEWS (FFWN). He also has appeared many times on Fox, CNN, PBS, and other broadcast outlets, and has inspired feature stories and op-eds in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Tribune, and other leading publications. Dr. Barrett has taught at colleges and universities in San Francisco, Paris, and Wisconsin; where he ran for Congress in 2008. He currently works as a nonprofit organizer, author, and talk radio host. 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