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April 14, 2024
My Quick Take on Iran/Israel...

CNN: Biden told Netanyahu US will not participate in offensive operations against Iran, US official says
CNN: Biden tells Netanyahu tonight was a win, nothing of "value" hit in Israel, US official says
FT: Western diplomats said Israel might be able to tolerate an attack that only did some physical damage to military facilities.

This was calibrated and coordinated by US and Iran with Oman in the middle relaying messages to both sides. The BIG question is if Netanyahu will agree to end this here, or if he will break with Biden WH and respond militarily to Iran.

👉 Reminds me of Soleimani affair.
Iran launched ballistic missiles at the al-Asad Airbase in Iraq in response to the assassination of Soleimani by a US drone.

Iran informed the Iraqi government of an imminent attack beforehand. Switzerland was relaying messages between US and Iran before the strike.

The strike was deliberately designed to avoid causing any fatalities in order to dissuade a US response. Iran got its big retaliation/strike on US airbase. Trump continued to say he took out Soleimani.
Escalation/war averted.

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The Board or just "Bored" of Freedom? - A talk with Larry Johnson on the contemporary situation

My Fellow Duranins,
Again I have had the tremendous privilege to host Larry here for us and talk about the most recent topics of the world.
Please find Larry on YouTube at his channel Counter Currents
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LOCKED into a conflict with NO reverse gear

LOCKED into a conflict with NO reverse gear

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Russia Iran Fleets Conduct Hormuz Exercise Trump Delays Strike: Moscow Says Kiev Army Wasting Away

Russia Iran Fleets Conduct Hormuz Exercise Trump Delays Strike: Moscow Says Kiev Army Wasting Away
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Zaluzhny blames Zelensky. German Media Nord Stream report claims CIA and Zaluzhny knew
THE COMING ATTACK ON IRAN - RECALLING THE 2011 ATTACK ON LIBYA

The gathering of enormous US military forces in the seas and territories around Iran, and the relentless rhetoric from the neocons and their media allies as they press for another regime change war, this time against Iran, inevitably recall regime change wars past.

This made me revisit an article I wrote back in 2011 in the aftermath of the successful regime change war in Libya. I reproduce it complete below.

What struck me on re-reading my 2011 Libya piece is how neocon propaganda barely changes.

There was the same rhetoric in 2011 about ‘heroic protesters’ that there is today. At the time I wrote my piece it had not yet been revealed that the anti-Gaddafi protests in Libya had been engineered by the foreign powers - essentially the US and its friends - who sought and eventually succeeded in overthrowing him. That fact is mostly undisputed today. Today, in the case of Iran, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent openly boasts that it was the US that caused the financial crisis that was the purported ...

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June 17, 2024
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A quick commentary on the "Piss Summit"
I might not be able to upload much more or do lives for a while

My Fellow Duranianss.

Yes, it's happened again. I have been assaulted by a vicious Malware Bot Virus or whatever 911 Socks is and this thing is bad ! 

However I wanted to give you a "peace" of my mind concerning the "Piece" or piss, as Elensky calls it, as this thing fell to pieces before it even happened.

Coincidentally on the very SAME DAY  this crap happened Saudi Arabia DROPPED the US Petrodollar as a buying currency and NO ONE absolutely NO ONE is talking about this fact anywhere !!!

 

Hope to see you all asap.

 

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September 29, 2023
Locals Community Private Telegram Messaging

Locals will be sunsetting the private messaging feature throughout the Locals website. In order to keep our private messaging active we have created a private Telegram messaging group called 'The Duran Locals.'

This is a private channel open only to our Locals subscriber community. In the private Telegram group you can send a message to the group or a private message to Alex or Alexander via a direct Telegram message. 

You can access Telegram for web, desktop or mobile here: https://telegram.org/

The link for this Telegram group is below (can be viewed by community subscribers).

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