On COI #423, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman cover the Empire’s major escalations this week against Palestine, Syria, Iran, Russia, and freedom of the press in the United States.

Kyle breaks down Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s Orwellian announcement that Washington has constructed an AI online tool to hunt so called ‘Russian disinformation,’ the British and Dutch governments’ plans to build an “international coalition” that provides Ukraine with western-made aircraft including F-16s, Moscow’s openness to peace proposals for the Ukraine conflict made by African leaders and Brazil, as well as a report that the White House may be preparing for a frozen conflict in Ukraine that could last years or even decades.

Connor details the Black Sea grain export deal’s two-month extension, a bill introduced by hawks in Congress which plans to use sanctions as a way of preventing countries from normalizing with Damascus, the Pentagon’s plans to conduct joint military planning with Israel on operations aimed at Iran, the progress of Yemen peace talks, and Israel’s latest atrocities carried out against the occupied Palestinians in East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank.