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History, Marshall Poe wrote in December 2023, shows that Israel will never win a “war of occupation”. Eighteen months later, with Israel on the brink of a full scale occupation of Gaza, Poe's argument is even more relevant. the Gaza war, the historian warns, is turning into Israel's Vietnam - an unwinnable occupation that will only bring shame on the invaders. Trust Poe on the Vietnam analogy. His last book was about the Mai Lai massacre in Vietnam, so he's all too familiar with the catastrophic consequences of imperial wars of counter-insurgency. Five Takeaways * Counterinsurgency operations typically evolve into prolonged occupations, as forces cannot easily identify and eliminate insurgents without alienating the local population.* Military occupations historically fail when the entire civilian population becomes hostile to occupying forces, leading to ethical compromises and potential atrocities.* The My Lai massacre in Vietnam exemplifies how poor intelligence and leadership can result in civilian casualties when soldiers cannot distinguish between combatants and non-combatants.* Population relocation, a strategy being discussed for Gaza, has historically been catastrophic whenever attempted in the 20th century.* The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has limited viable solutions, with Poe suggesting the two-state solution is no longer realistic and expressing skepticism that external powers like the US can resolve the situation.Marshall Tillbrook Poe is an American historian, writer, editor, and founder of the New Books Network, an online collection of podcast interviews with a wide range of nonfiction authors. He has taught Russian, European, Eurasian, and world history at various universities including Harvard, Columbia, University of Iowa, and, currently, the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Poe is the author or editor of a number of books for children and adults.Keen On America is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting the daily KEEN ON show, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy interview series. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

Join us for another wife swap where Geoffrey takes over the Nerdery and talks about the television series Eureka. Meanwhile Zig takes over the Murdery and tells the tragic story of the Mai Lai Massacre.For your 30 day free Audible Trial go to: Audibletrial.com/nerderyandmurderyFor 10% off with BetterHelp go to: betterhelp.com/nerderyandmurderySupport the show

Darrell Castle talks about the report of journalist Seymour Hersh released the 8th day of this month in which he reported that under direct orders from President Joe Biden, the U.S. Navy blew up the Nord Stream pipelines. Transcript: AN UNEQUIVOCAL ACT OF WAR Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today's Castle Report. This is Friday the 17th day of February in the year of our Lord 2023. I will be talking about the report of journalist Seymour Hersh released the 8th day of this month, in which Mr. Hersh revealed that the United States Navy, at the direction of President Joe Biden, was responsible for the September 26, 2022 attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines carrying natural gas between Russia and Germany. This story should be world wide news because it is not everyday that the United States commits an act of war against a nuclear armed nation and against one of its closest allies. Blowing up Nord Stream was an act of war not only against Russia but against Germany as well and one could argue against all of Europe which benefited from the Russian gas. Germany got its energy from Russia and that Russian gas fueled the German economy and Germany is a U.S. ally and a member of NATO. The report, however, indicates that the German Chancellor was somehow in on the deal because during the planning stages he was reported to be “firmly in the Americans camp”. Maybe then he is a traitor to his own people, but this report is not about Mr. Scholz, instead it is about President Joe Biden. Who is Seymour Hersh and why is he reporting such terrible things about United States President Joe Biden. Controversy seems to follow Mr. Hersh  since he won a Pulitzer Prize for revealing the Mai Lai massacre in Vietnam many years ago. He also reported the torture and extreme conditions of the prisoners held at Abu Ghraib. In both cases the federal government said no it wasn't us and, in both cases, it turned out to be true. I find Mr. Hersh's report on the attack on Nord Stream to be believable and I do accept it as true. I'm sure that as in his other exposes additional information will be found and brought out into the light. What will happen now since an illegal and unconstitutional act of war against two nations which had not harmed the United States in any way should be an impeachment offense? It probably won't go anywhere since the mainstream press including the New York Times and the Washington Post have been largely silent. Total silence then, in the U.S. press despite the fact or because of, depending on the perspective that Mr. Hersh has blown apart the entire narrative of the U.S. involvement in Ukraine as a response to unprovoked Russian Aggression. In Mr. Hersh's Report he quoted the denials of the White House and the CIA, but he is an old-school journalist and a rare one in today's world of captive media. He does not submit his work to the CIA for approval beforehand so quoting from the article, “Asked for comment, Adrienne Watson, a White House spokesperson, said in an email, “This is false and complete fiction.” Tammy Thorp, a spokesperson for the Central Intelligence Agency, similarly wrote: “This claim is completely and utterly false.” According to Mr. Hersh and his whistleblower sources within the government, Biden's decision to sabotage the pipeline came after more than nine months of highly secret back and forth debate inside Washington's national security community about how to best achieve that goal. For much of that time, the issue was not whether to do the mission, but how to get it done with no overt clue as to who was responsible. Word gets around though and people talk and once more than one person knows about something it is not so secret anymore especially when it is an unconstitutional and impeachable war crime. Throughout “all this scheming,” Mr. Hersh's source told him, some working guys in the CIA and State Department were saying, “Don't do this. It's stupid and will be a political nightmare if it comes out.

Macallan fell into a trap set by Mai Lai causing the destruction of the Irongate facility, almost killing her strike force in the process. Robertson is injured while Gregor remains suspended in a coma forcing Underchief Watson to seize control of the mission from Macallan. And in Japan, Tulley and Oberlin are tortured by the Yakuza as Tulley tries to make a bargin to keep him and Oberlin alive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Macallan fell into a trap set by Mai Lai causing the destruction of the Irongate facility, almost killing her strike force in the process. Robertson is injured while Gregor remains suspended in a coma forcing Underchief Watson to seize control of the mission from Macallan. And in Japan, Tulley and Oberlin are tortured by the Yakuza as Tulley tries to make a bargin to keep him and Oberlin alive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Attica Uprising is an overlooked attrocity in American History - comparable to perhaps Mai Lai, Abu Ghraib, and the Battle of Wounded Knee. Historian Heather Ann Thompson, won the Pulitzer Prize for this account which takes us through the prison conditions, the brutal retaking of the prison and the horrifying coverup by state officials including Governor Rockefeller.

EXILE OF HOPE (SCI-FI) MacAllan fell into a trap set by Mai Lai causing the destruction of the Irongate facility, almost killing her strike force in the process.  Robertson is injured while Gregor remains suspended in a coma forcing Underchief Watson to seize control of the mission from MacAllan.  And in Japan, Tulley and Oberlin are tortured by the Yakuza as Tulley tries to make a bargin to keep him and Oberlin alive. The Leviathan Chronicles    

Macallan fell into a trap set by Mai Lai causing the destruction of the Irongate facility, almost killing her strike force in the process.  Robertson is injured while Gregor remains suspended in a coma forcing Underchief Watson to seize control of the mission from Macallan.  And in Japan, Tulley and Oberlin are tortured by the Yakuza as Tulley tries to make a bargin to keep him and Oberlin alive.

Dahr Jamail is one of the few "unembedded", truly independent journalists on the ground in Iraq. He has spent 8 of the past 14 months in Iraq, interviewing Iraqi people, taking and collecting photos of others and seeing for himself the devastation of the people of Iraq. He cites that over 100,000 Iraqis have been killed. He especially talks about the horrors and massacre of Fallujah which he refers to as similar to Dresden, Germany or the Mai Lai massacre in Vietnam. He also describes the illegal weapons used and the DU ("depleted uranium) which really means radiation exposure from which there are already 125,000 Gulf War I veterans on disability not to mention the horrible effects on the people of Iraq. Now the US is actually using twice as much DU as it did in Gulf War I.Jamail also talks about the evidence for the elections in Iraq having been manipulated by the US and, even though the Iraqi people who voted (and whole cities did not) voted for, as Jamail says, "electricy, jobs, water"-- ie, against the continuance of the US Occupation-- it probably won't matter since the Iraqi Governing Council won't be able to do anything without the ok of the US. The Iraqi resistance is growing exponentially while the US already has 4 military bases in Iraq with 10 more in the process of being built. All this is paid for the tax money of the US population.Right now the future doesn't look bright though Dahr Jamail will probably return to Iraq in May.Check out his blog/website to keep up on what's happening in Iraq.