So, Good evening. It's Friday, March 10th. Welcome to a new episode of System Update. Our live

nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 PM

Eastern exclusively here on Rumbull, the free speech alternative to YouTube.

Tonight, being Friday night, we will have our now quasi-traditional week and review segment as we examine some of the most significant yet under-discussed stories of the week with the roving independent journalist Michael Tracy.

We begin with a rather remarkable and actually unexpected development today.

A major diplomatic breakthrough reached between longtime enemies Iran and Syria, spearheaded and engineered by China.

The deal unto itself has sweeping consequences for the region for the increasing influence

of China in the Middle East,

the freeing US-S Saudi partnership

and the competition for the US always fixated on various wars,

and China seemingly always fixated on increasing its influence with other countries.

We'll examine the implications of this new agreement.

Plus, Congressman Matt Gates had a bill this week to require the withdrawal of all troops from Syria.

Yes, for some reason, the U.S. still has close to a thousand combat troops in Syria,

despite Congress having never authorized war there in the first place.

The resolution failed to earn a majority of the House members and thus failed.

Yet it attracted four or five dozen yes votes from each of the two parties, leading one to see at least far in the

distance a long promised coalition between left-wing and right-wing

populist at least when it comes to reigning in the US posture of endless war.

We'll talk about that.

We'll also examine the very revealing spectacle at yesterday's House hearing at which

Democratic lawmakers and their followers praised CIA, Homeland Security, and FBI

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