#92: Love Letter to Soleimani (2020/1/9) - a podcast by The News Never Ends

New year, same old war.

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Links:

General Robert B. Neller on how “we’re the mujahideen” (start around 26:00)
https://www.c-span.org/video/?444970-1/navy-leaders-reporters-pentagon

Nasrallah speech video & transcript
https://thesaker.is/nasrallahs-full-speech-soleimanis-assassination-will-put-an-end-to-us-presence-in-the-middle-east-us-troops-will-go-home-in-coffins/

Kerry on “managing” ISIS conquest of Damascus (start around 26:00)
https://mondoweiss.net/2017/01/watched-manage-leaked/

Rick Rowley on Democracy Now on the Afghanistan War
https://www.democracynow.org/2011/3/3/us_apologizes_to_afghan_people_for

Cover art collage for the episode:
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1: Iranians display the Nasrallah hand gesture
https://twitter.com/ysfjaber/status/1214485108360658945

2: Baghdad embassy seal team
Murtadha Sudani (Anadolu Agency) /AFP Forum
http://www.afpforum.com/AFPForum/Search/Results.aspx?pn=1&smd=8&mui=3&q=10225160446487695997_0&fst=murtadha+sudani&fto=3&t=2&cck=a1aff2#pn=6&smd=8&mui=3&q=10225160446487695997_0&fst=murtadha+sudani&fto=3&t=2&cck=a1aff2

3: Raising flags over the Baghdad embassy
Murtadha Sudani (Anadolu Agency) /AFP Forum

4: Qassem Soleimani & Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis

5: Nasrallah invents the hand gesture
http://english.almanar.com.lb/906820

6: Breaching the Baghdad embassy
Murtadha Sudani (Anadolu Agency) /AFP Forum

7: Soleimani mourning crowd in Kerman
https://twitter.com/FarsNews_Agency/status/1214485188866199552

8: Pose with the Baghdad embassy sign
https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1212027181099958272

9: Making the Nasrallah hand gesture at mourning vigil for Soleimani in Tehran’s Palestine Square
https://twitter.com/FarsNews_Agency/status/1214629044064571392

Iranian cleric Shahab Moradi calls into Iran’s IRIB Ofogh channel to ask, “America has no hero that we can target... It's a huge country but no real heroes... Who are we going to assasinate there? Spiderman? SpongeBob?!”
bit.ly/2FzdBcL
bit.ly/39WrgIQ

Dexter Filkins: The Shadow Commander
bit.ly/2FBVq6e

Who the hell was this contractor who was killed anyway?
bit.ly/37QBw3t

Iraq’s National Security Council meeting ends with condemnation of the US attack on Kataib Hezbollah
bit.ly/2FDJK2M

The taking of the embassy video
bit.ly/39TVXyu

Iraqi military members attacking the embassy
bit.ly/39YxBDU

Soleimani was coming on a peace mission
bit.ly/2QBgxMi

General Milley turns around at the press conference to call the withdrawal letter a “mistake”
bit.ly/35EeafS

Liz Sly & Mustafa Salim on the “draft” “mistake” withdrawal letter
bit.ly/39WqPhG

Mustafa Salim on why the Iraqi parliament’s vote means so little
bit.ly/2QYZsLr
bit.ly/2uAQOez

Soleimani’s & Mughniyeh’s sons-in-law were killed in the strike, too
bit.ly/2QWEVHi

Mourners for Soleimani
bit.ly/2s9tkw5

Depictions of Soleimani’s hand in relation to Ashura / Karbala iconography
bit.ly/2NcQybZ

We are cardboard cutouts
bit.ly/35B3SgQ

Trita Parsi on the Iranian strikes
bit.ly/2FwqXXp

Walid on the Iranian strikes
bit.ly/2QUN2ny

The cultural sites Trump is threatening to hit
bit.ly/381CY3p

Trump is going to pardon the murderer from the 2007 Nisour Square massacre
bit.ly/2Tf8p69

Iran Air Flight 655
bit.ly/2tJgW6B

Khomeini orders women and African-Americans released from Iran hostage crisis
wapo.st/2QUMzli

Mourning Soleimani & al-Muhandis together
bit.ly/2NcPTY3

Elizabeth Warren caves under Meghan McCain’s pressure
bit.ly/2tJwM0S

Nasrallah doesn’t want US civilians dead
bit.ly/2tNiCvz

Ali Kourani on Nasrallah receiving son’s body in 1998
bit.ly/37SkuCk

Theme song credit: "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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