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One Man’s Terrorist, Another Man’s Freedom Fighter — The Houthis of YemenAugust 9, 2018. Dhayan, Northern Yemen. A yellow school bus parked at a market. Forty children aged six to eleven on a summer field trip. A laser-guided bomb drops from the sky and hits the bus directly.The bomb was a GBU-12 Paveway manufactured by Lockheed Martin in Bethesda, Maryland. Sold by the U.S. government to the Royal Saudi Air Force. The plane that dropped it was refueled by an American tanker. No one was ever prosecuted.This week we launch a new series on rebel groups, freedom fighters, and terrorist organizations — one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. We open with the Houthis of Yemen.The Zaydi Shia tradition that ruled northern Yemen for a thousand years. The six Saada wars. Twenty-four years of American drone strikes. Anwar al-Awlaki’s sixteen-year-old American son, killed eating dinner at a restaurant. $64 billion in weapons sales to Saudi Arabia. By 2021, a UN report estimated at least 377,000 dead. 85,000 Yemeni children, at least, have been starved to death.And how a nation represented by the poorest fighters on Earth, just defeated the Saudi military that American tax dollars built.Who taught them how to fight like this? We did, after almost 24 years of perpetual bombing of maybe the poorest country on earth. #blackarmyradio #news #Yemen #Houthis #freedomfighters

Patreon Listeners Pick the Fight — Supreme Court, Secession, and the Book that the Feds Don’t Want You to ReadThe Houthis episode got bumped. Instead, two Black Army Radio listeners sent in long Patreon responses to last week’s question — what political system would you build if you were king for a day — and the whole show spiraled from there.Along the way: $18 billion of Venezuelan assets sitting in a Marco Rubio-managed offshore account. Kimberly Guilfoyle allegedly trying to blackmail the White House over her American Express bill. Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s human failure to resign under Obama, and what it cost the court for the next thirty years. Why the Supreme Court is 33 percent of the government with zero accountability.Plus: dinosaurs had sixty-five million years to evolve consciousness. Homo Naledi was burying their dead half a million years ago. AI just hacked a stranger’s website to cover up its own cheating.And the book John Ross wrote — Unintended Consequences — that costs $150 on Amazon because the federal government quietly scrubbed it. Taught at FLETC (Federal Law Enforcement Training Center) as a book agents aren’t supposed to read.Houthis next episode. We promise.@breakingpoints @partoftheproblem @theowenreport @dropsitenews#blackarmyradio #newsfeed #news #trump #midterms #middleeast #war

The Phantom Ceasefire, Six-Dollar Diesel, and the Mom Crying at City Market over grocery costs. Trump announced an “energy ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine. Neither Putin nor Zelensky had any idea what he was talking about. Hours later Ukraine smoked a Russian refinery. Russia responded with a ballistic missile strike that blacked out all of Kyiv.Meanwhile in Saudi Arabia, the Houthis — fighters out of one of the poorest nations on Earth — have shut down Riyadh’s international airport, killed 15, wounded 300, and the Saudi military cannot stop them. The U.S. is out of Patriot interceptors because we gave them all to Israel.And in Steamboat, Colorado, a 30-year-old mom stood in the City Market dairy aisle with her kids in the cart and quietly cried over a $9 carton of whipping cream she couldn’t buy. Diesel is pushing $7 a gallon. Gas is $5.This week we walk through all of it. Plus Ty’s own Baghdad chow hall story about why contractors don’t hide under plastic tables, Ben Askren’s lung-transplant GoFundMe, the student loan trap, and one open question we’re putting to listeners: what system would you build if you were king for a day?#blackarmyradio #oil #news #trump #middleeast #saudiarabia #iran #diesel  ⁨@breakingpoints⁩   ⁨@DropSiteNews⁩   ⁨@PartOfTheProblem⁩   ⁨@OwenReport⁩   ⁨@TheYoungTurks⁩   ⁨@AnaKasparian⁩ 

A 28 year old Russian scientist working in Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia has died from a disease of "unknown origin." The War in Iran expands as Trump and Netanyahu discuss another "shock and awe" strike on Iran, as Iran continues to hit ships militarily in the Strait of Hormuz.Escalation with Saudi Arabia: The Houthis from Yemen continue to hit Saudi targets as they strike the capital of Saudi Arabia: Riyadh. The international airport there is now closed, and international fights are being directed away from Saudi airspace.September 22, 2026. From the podium of the United Nations General Assembly, President Donald Trump threatens to “annihilate” Iran and “drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations.”The Union of Concerned Scientists issues a formal statement that same day: Trump’s words constitute an implied threat to use overwhelming nuclear force. Six months earlier, Trump posted to Truth Social that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” Amnesty International called those words apocalyptic threats of large-scale civilian devastation.This is the finale of our three-part series on the nuclear doctrine crisis of 2026.The pattern across both the Russia-Ukraine and US-Iran wars is now one phenomenon. Nine states — South Korea, Japan, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Germany, Brazil, Iran, and Ukraine — are actively moving toward nuclear weapons acquisition. The post-Cold War non-proliferation order is dissolving in real time.Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), the doctrine that kept the Cold War cold, has been progressively replaced by tactical nuclear doctrine that treats limited exchange as survivable.What this means for your family. And what you can actually do about it.#blackarmyradio #nuclearweapons #trump #iran #turkey #saudiarabia #middleeast

Episode two of our exploration into "nuclear deterrence," and what that really means for non-nuclear states: Today, Iran.Pre-dawn, February 28, 2026. American and Israeli missiles strike Tehran. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in his compound. So is his 14-month-old granddaughter. So is most of his family.All 19 US intelligence agencies had assessed Iran was not building a bomb. Netanyahu told Trump otherwise in an hour-long Situation Room presentation on February 11. US envoy Steve Witkoff reportedly misrepresented Iran's offer to suspend uranium enrichment for several years — an offer that could have prevented the war.Seven months in: 1,700+ Iranian civilians killed by documented count. 168 killed in a single Tomahawk strike on a school in Minab, mostly children, little girls. The US Navy Fifth Fleet HQ in Bahrain damaged. The Houthis seize Yemen's entire Red Sea coastline. Diesel at $6 a gallon.And Iran is still functioning. Khamenei's son Mojtaba now leads. Iran's parliament has introduced legislation to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.Every country that has ever withdrawn from the NPT has acquired nuclear weapons.This week: how we got here, what Iran is learning, and what every non-nuclear state on Earth is now learning with them.#blackarmyradio #newsfeed #Iran #nuclearweapons #middleeast #trump #hamas #lebanon #hezbollah #gaza #iraq@davesmith @breakingpoints @piersmorgan @owenshoyer @saagarenjeti @krystalball @dropsitenews @theowenreport