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00:00:00administration. Well, President
00:00:00about the foolish... policies of Trump certainly does not sound
00:00:03like a man in a hurry to get this conflict over with,
00:00:07despite uh the spike in oil prices and despite concerns from many of
00:00:10his republican allies that this could hurt them in the midterm
00:00:14elections. This latest round of tensions
00:00:17began on Sunday when the US attacked Iranian
00:00:20positions on Larach Island that it said were preparing to
00:00:24launch uh mines into the straight of hormous. That prompted
00:00:28Iranian retaliation, which prompted. prompted US retaliation, which prompted
00:00:32Iranian retaliation back to this familiar pattern
00:00:35of back and forth strikes that has drawn in almost every country in the
00:00:39region uh that houses those tens of thousands of
00:00:43US
00:00:43troops.
00:00:47so the headline places Iran at the beginning of the chain of aggression, but
00:00:51if you listen carefully to CNN's own reporter, you hear the contradiction.
00:00:55yeah, actually, you now, Kevin Liptach, CNN's reporter,
00:00:58acknowledges actually that... sequence began with the US attacking Iranian
00:01:02positions on larak island and which was
00:01:05followed by Iranian retaliation and followed by then another US
00:01:08retaliation so even CNN's own reporting is contradicting the
00:01:12simplistic framing of Iran as the initiator okay which makes the
00:01:16headline particularly
00:01:19economic and security fallout of revealing uh sema i mean the um audiences or audience
00:01:22sees Iran attacks Jordan as Fuad is highlighting
00:01:25Bahrain and Kuwait but the report itself describes the cycle
00:01:29triggered. by a US attack, the contact is buried
00:01:32beneath the headline in the story, and this is
00:01:36actually miraculously how propaganda can continue to operate without
00:01:39inventing facts, so you selectively frame them, the words that are spoken
00:01:43disagreements basically reaching the top of during the report tell one story, but the headline its own is
00:01:47priming viewers to absorb another, even if you're presenting the reality, which is
00:01:50let's say the US initiated, yes, so
00:01:54now let's move from war narratives to another remarkable story,
00:01:57actually, the independent published thailand, issues prostitution
00:02:01warning as 5,000 US sailors arrive after 200 days at
00:02:05sea, so the story reports that thai authorities basically prepared
00:02:08additional patrols and conducted raids ahead of the USS
00:02:11Abraham Lincoln's arrival in pataya, detaining 40 to
00:02:16a joint operation, not the question of 50 people over suspected prostitution, so let's watch that:
00:03:01You know it's actually ironic that uh,
00:03:04it's just ironic like foreign city preparing uh police
00:03:08patrols because thousands of US sailors are
00:03:10arriving uh after more than 200 days at see, yes I mean
00:03:14indeed, see when a military visit requires authorities to prefer
00:03:18specifically for a prostitution
00:03:20crackdown, it raises uncomfortable question
00:03:24about the conduct and reputation
00:03:27Iran, it also has a accompanying America's global, I mean this dates back. a long time, but perhaps this, I mean, this
00:03:31dates back a long time, but perhaps this is another measure of you, further
00:03:35imperial decline, not simply losing influence abroad,
00:03:39but increasingly exporting the social and moral baggage
00:03:42and decay of an overstretched military presence. Okay, so from
00:03:46distorted headlines about who started a war to the
00:03:49extraordinary precautions surrounding a military port visit.
00:03:52Today's stories show how media narratives and military
00:03:56culture can reveal far more than their headlines suggest.
00:04:11army's highest levels to explosive revelations of military descent
00:04:15over the war against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Cracks are widening
00:04:18across the Trump administration's national security
00:04:21establishment. Here are the headlines. The army
00:04:24in turmoil Hexeth clashes trigger resignation at
00:04:28the top pentagon in. uprore, classified
00:04:31leak exposes military descent over Iran
00:04:34war.
00:04:42As storm wirele deepens inside the Trump administration, you
00:04:45reports are raising serious questions
00:04:49command and growing descent
00:05:04army secretary Daniel P. Drisco, handling in his
00:05:08resignation, and simultaneously the Pentagon is
00:05:11erupting over this. ified leak exposing military
00:05:14descent over the war on Iran. So let's begin with the New
00:05:17York Times with this article that they've published titled army secretary
00:05:21resigns after clashes with Hekset over firings by Helen
00:05:24Cooper and Greg Joff. So this title alone tells us that
00:05:27disagreements over how the military is being run have
00:05:31actually reached the highest levels in a long time. So the
00:05:34article reports army secretary Daniel P. Driskel
00:05:38the services top civilian leader who classed repeatedly with defense
00:05:41secretary. tegset over the ouster of a swath of
00:05:45key combat tested leaders handed in his
00:05:48resignation on Monday, according to administration officials, so the resignation
00:05:51comes amid a series of firings and fudes that have left the army essentially
00:05:55rudderless as it struggles to deal with the threat posed by cheap deadly
00:05:58drones and missiles that have pounded US bases in the middle east, so
00:06:02the article continues, the army has not had a chief of staff,
00:06:06the services top officer since Mr. Hags fired Jen Randy
00:06:10George without explanation back in April and "there are no signs
00:06:13that he is close to filling the position," officials said, so
00:06:16heckssef has forced out at least three senior officers who had been
00:06:20viewed as potential successors to general randi george, and
00:06:24when senior generals is being removed, while the army lacks
00:06:28a permanent chief of staff, this
00:06:32goes beyond an internal political dispute, actually it
00:06:35raises major question, seem about
00:06:38command and also about control, a moment when
00:06:41American forces are..." of facing actually two things, an active
00:06:45and expanding regional conflict exactly, and you have
00:06:48experienced commanders being pushed out, senior positions remaining
00:06:52vacant, and strategic
00:06:55the chain of command, so this is a really dangerous combination during wartimes
00:06:59specifically, yeah, and the turmoil does not stop at the army, actually, so the hill
00:07:03reported also an article that was titled pentagon erupts over glazified
00:07:06leak of Iran war descent that top military leaders warned
00:07:10Hexeth against extending
00:07:12these large scale operations as they call them against Iran, so the article
00:07:16says the warnings appear in the August 14 edition of the Secretary of
00:07:20Defense Orders book, SDOB, detailed by the heads of the
00:07:23Army, Navy and Air Force and the four star commanders overseeing US operations
00:07:27throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America. It continues,
00:07:30people familiar with the classified assessment prepared for Hags have told the
00:07:33Washington Post that several combatant commanders have advised the defense
00:07:37chief that prolonging operations against Iran is unsustainable
00:07:41and it risks weakening the us from the secretaries orders book is a
00:07:44crime, it's a betrayal of the forest, and he added that the Pentagon wants candid
00:07:48advice and that disagreements are common, but
00:07:51if military commanders themselves actually are warning that
00:07:55prolonging this war is unsustainable, um, that
00:07:58suggests actually that this agreement may be far more consequential
00:08:02than ordinary internal debate, don't you agree f? yeah, that's
00:08:06right, and when descent, leadership, purges and classified leaks
00:08:09emerge simultaneously, the bigger story
00:08:12is institutional strain and the question is whether political leadership is
00:08:16listening to its military professionals or overriding them. okay, so so
00:08:19therefore from resignations at the top to military leaders warning
00:08:23against prolonging the war, the reports point
00:08:26ap from explosive clashes with
00:08:29reporters, the controversial statements on zyinus Israel,
00:08:33top trump administration officials are facing mounting
00:08:36scrutiny online over whether Washington's foreign policy is really
00:08:40serving American interest. here are the headline. America
00:08:43first or Zionist first, social media takes
00:08:46aim at Trump officials
00:08:49Washington under fire, the Trump administration's Israeli
00:08:53entity allegiance parks online
00:08:56fury.
00:09:03As American politicians increasingly appear to speak for
00:09:07Zionist Israel rather than the American interest, social
00:09:10media users are asking just...
00:09:25actually this past week over the audacious way that senior
00:09:28figures in the Trump administration are speaking about zionist Israel and
00:09:32US policy with Pete Hexeth, the Secretary of War and the
00:09:35Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the center of this criticism, so let's begin with
00:09:39a post that's questioning the priorities of America's military.
00:09:42leadership and it's controversial actually, because Americans are
00:09:45asking whether US forces should be, serving US interests
00:09:49first, maybe, yes, so uh, JBC press
00:09:53wrote, Pete Hegseth exploded in anger at a reporter
00:09:56who asked him why our military serves
00:10:04sending their men and women to war for, are is there a
00:10:08concern of this spiraling into a longer war and then one
00:10:11for the chairman? Did you not hear my
00:10:14remarks? I mean, we're ensuring the mission gets
00:10:18accomplished, but we are very clear eyeed as the president has been, unlike other
00:10:22presidents uh
00:10:25the past that recklessly pulled us in to things that were not
00:10:29tetherd to actual clear objectives um
00:10:32so we we know we have
00:10:35plans we have generals we have chairmans we have commanders sent commanders admiral
00:10:39cooper
00:10:43and that question goes directly to the heart of the controversy mean who
00:10:47exactly is Washington accountable to that's right and the
00:10:50reaction is very significant because dismissing the question doesn't make the
00:10:53underlying concern this It reinforces the perception that
00:10:57criticism of the US-Israeli
00:11:05actually focuses on Rubio and a disputed account of how Washington became
00:11:08involved in the war on Iran, so for Americans the
00:11:12controversy lies in whether their government is being transparent or not about
00:11:16the decisions that could send them to war. So Morgan J Freeman
00:11:20MJ Free wrote porter says, he
00:11:22told us yesterday that Israel was going to strike.
00:11:28that's not true, were you there yesterday? And then the reporter says, yes, I
00:11:32asked you the question, let's take a look at that video,
00:11:34yes,
00:11:36yesterday you told us that Israel was going to strike iran
00:11:40and that that's why we needed to get involved, today the president said
00:11:44that Iran was going to get, yeah, your statement is false, so that's not what, I was asked
00:11:48very specifically, were you there yesterday? Yes, I ask
00:11:50question, wait a minute, there absolutely
00:11:54was an imminent. threat and the imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran was
00:11:57attacked and we believe they would be attacked, that we knew
00:12:01that if Iran was attacked and we
00:12:04believe they would be attacked, that they would immediately
00:12:07come after us. Now did you, were you the one that cuz somebody asked me a question said, did we go
00:12:11in because of Israel? And I said, you asked me that you that follow up, and I said
00:12:15no, I told you this had to happen anyway. The president made decision, and
00:12:19the decision he made was that Iran was not going to be allowed to hide behind its ballistic
00:12:23missile program, that Iran was not going to be...
00:12:25allowed to hide behind its ability to conduct these attacks, that decision had been
00:12:28made, the president systematically made decision to
00:12:31systematically destroy this terroristic capability that they had, and we carried
00:12:35that out. I was very clear in that answer, this was a question of timing of why this had to happen as
00:12:41the intent.
00:12:44The exchange raise much bigger even question that what we're trying to
00:12:48analyze about accountability, for example, when decisions
00:12:51involving war are being challenged even
00:12:55publicly exactly and social media magnifies that confrontation because
00:12:58millions can see how officials are being directly
00:13:01questioned and judg the answers for
00:13:09statement attributed to an Israeli entity minister addressing
00:13:12soldiers before entering Gaza, because of this content, actually it has triggered
00:13:16outrage online and internationally. so mo
00:13:20Abusalah, a historical scandal that the whole world
00:13:24must see,
00:13:34Good evening everyone, we are about to enter again for the war effort of the
00:13:38purple brigade, the Givati brigade, since I received comments every
00:13:42time regarding Zionism, we start the briefing today with
00:13:45Zionism. by surprise to call
00:13:49now some minister
00:13:52from the Knesset, we call him by surprise.
00:13:59Beautiful. I have here a wonderful group of fighters
00:14:03who are going to fight to enter here with full force. I
00:14:06need 30 seconds of Zionism. You have it on your watch.
00:14:09I'm starting a 30-second count for you. Minister by surprise. This is
00:14:13called no problem. Do you hear me? Do you hear me, dear
00:14:17and brave fighters? Not only the eyes of the people of Israel are on
00:14:20you, but the eyes of generations upon generations
00:14:24are.
00:14:55granted a US visa, by the way, this doesn't apply if you criticize
00:15:05will stand with the Jewish people. We have
00:15:08implemented a vigorous new visa policy that will prevent foreign
00:15:12nationals from coming to the United States to foment hatred against
00:15:16our Jewish community. We are holding international organizations
00:15:19and nations accountable for rhetoric against Israel that resurfaces in
00:15:23the manifesto of monsters.
00:15:37Thank you for the opportunity to address
00:15:39you,
00:15:43so these posts actually collectively are reflecting ever growing
00:15:47online argument over whether US foreign policy is being driven by US
00:15:51interests strictly or of course by uh this unwavering
00:15:55loyalty that we've seen develop over the years to
00:15:58Zionist Israel. Okay, well, social media continues challenging
00:16:01Washington's official narrative. The real question is
00:16:04whether American citizens are still being allowed. question the
00:16:21territory to sing coast and battered tourism sector.
00:16:25the numbers tell a story of a country paying the price for hosting America's
00:16:29military footprint in the region. here are the
00:16:31headlines. Jordan pays the price
00:16:35119 projectiles. 14 injured
00:16:38and economy under pressure. America's
00:16:41war, Jordan's bill, the hidden cost of hosting US
00:16:45forces.
00:16:53As Jordan absorbs the
00:16:56the US Zinist aggression against Iran, the numbers reveal the
00:17:00price of allowing foreign military operations to be
00:17:14country caught between the dependence on Washington and the
00:17:17consequences of Washington's regional wars, now Jordan has
00:17:21faced 119 missiles and drones launched toward its
00:17:25territory during the escalation with its air defenses intercepting the
00:17:28fast majority, but interception does not
00:17:31mean there is no cost, falling debris and shrapn have
00:17:35caused 14 reported injuries along with localized damage and
00:17:38disruption, military installations hosting US forces,
00:17:42including the salty airbase and al-azraq have
00:17:46become targets and then comes the economic price,
00:17:49right, right, tourism, which accounts for nearly 15% of
00:17:53Jordan's GDP has been badly hit, fuel and
00:17:57gas prices rose by roughly 11% after the
00:18:00complicated complications of trade and investment prospects around,
00:18:04okay, so obviously Jordan is effectively.
00:18:07paying a price for hosting the military infrastructure that makes it
00:18:11part of the conflict, and as you're highlighting, medium, while it's
00:18:14economy is
00:18:21political responsibility cannot be ignored, right? Jordan remains heavily
00:18:24dependent on Washington, receiving up to two billion annually
00:18:28in US military and economic assistance, yet when missiles
00:18:31and drones begin reaching Jordanian territory, that
00:18:35relationship does not necessarily shield. ordinary Jordanians from the
00:18:38constituence and this creates a painful contradiction actually, because Jordan is
00:18:42still benefiting from the strategic relationship with Washington, but at the same time this relationship
00:18:46is exposing it to retaliation and which is connected to a war that it did not
00:18:50initiate. Absolutely, and this kind of
00:18:53brings us back to the responsibility of the Jordanian regime itself,
00:18:57it if it permits US forces to use Jordanian
00:19:00territory as a platform for operations against
00:19:05responsibility to protect. its population from the
00:19:08consequences, the public should not be expected to absorb the
00:19:12risks of American and Israeli entity, regional adventures while
00:19:15receiving little protect, regional adventures while receiving little
00:19:19protect 90, 119 projectiles that
00:19:22you are actually highlighting make the risk intangible, medium,
00:19:26because this is no longer simply geopolitical
00:19:29calculation taking place on maps every now and then it is reaching
00:19:33Jordanian communities, affecting the economy as you previously highlighted,
00:19:37infrastructure and also livelihoods, yes, precisely, and these figures that you're
00:19:41presenting are exposing this imbalance. Jordan is bearing the immediate security and
00:19:44economic costs, and then at the same time it's dependence on Washington is making
00:19:53injuries, 119 incoming missiles and drones,
00:19:5711% rise in fuel and gas prices, and tourism
00:20:00sector representing 15% of GDP under
00:20:03pressure, all point to a country paying the price.
00:20:07strategic and uncalculated, and as the
00:20:10regional war expands, the question becomes
00:20:13whether Jordan will continue absorbing the consequences
00:20:30daily show to Jewish voices confront the devastating
00:20:33transformation of power, challenging the familiar
00:20:36David and narrative in the context of Zianis
00:20:40Israel's war of genocide on
00:20:42Gaza. Peter Benard, editor at large, a
00:20:46Jewish currents, author of the Bernard notebook on substance.
00:20:50and professor at the New Mark School of Journalism joins host John
00:20:54Stewart for a conversation that cuts through
00:21:03David becomes Goliath,
00:21:06and the responsibility there, is that what
00:21:09troubles you? Yeah, I mean, our responsibility is
00:21:13to remember is to remember what was done to us, to remember
00:21:17what we would have wanted people around the world. I'm not saying... what's happening in Gaza is the
00:21:21equivalent of the holocaust or anything like that, but what's happening in Gaza is
00:21:24bad, but it may be slow. you now, i saw an article on
00:21:28the times, bret stepens, i think, and his argument was, this can't be a genocide
00:21:31because Israel's so strong they could kill them much quicker, right? and i thought, well
00:21:35that's the most cynical description of a military
00:21:39siege and a purposeful starvation that i've ever seen in
00:21:43my life, right? mean even Israel's leading human rights organization, buttsallam has
00:21:46just come out with a report saying they believe this is gene.
00:21:50so it seems to me, if we want to remember our history, if we want to
00:21:54honor those in our own families and of our people who were
00:21:58slaughtered and who were genocided, who were starved to death while nobody
00:22:02in the world cared, our obligation is to care, our
00:22:05obligation is to risk
00:22:13feel like a crazy person, i feel like i'm watching something that
00:22:17is so self
00:22:51you how with the definition of anti-semitism would probably have to bomb
00:23:30God willing, in the coming days and weeks, we will announce
00:23:33a restricted area outside the
00:23:36Strait of Hormuz, which starts from the
00:23:39blockade line of the US Navy
00:23:43and comes to the same area of the
00:23:46Strait of Hormuz and from here goes into the Persian Gulf.
00:23:51What is this area? We declare this area
00:23:54a prohibited area, meaning any ship
00:23:57that intends to pass through the
00:24:01Strait of Hormuz and enters this area and is identified
00:24:04will be put on our sanctions list.
00:24:07That means if we see
00:24:11from now on ships
00:24:14whether on the side of the strait, meaning
00:24:17the western side of the Strait of Hormuz, or on the
00:24:21eastern side of the Strait of Hormuz, or on the western side of the Strait of
00:24:24Hormuz
00:24:26moving, has not entered the Strait of Hormuz yet,
00:24:29but wants to come and stop somewhere to then pass,
00:24:33we will inform it to stop right where it is.
00:24:36If it violates, we have the ship's name,
00:24:40we have the ship's owner, we have the person who
00:24:43chartered the ship. We will put this on the sanctions list
00:24:47and inform it that it will have a problem with
00:24:50insurance. In terms of insurance, its cost will
00:24:54be extremely high, and then it knows that if it passes
00:24:57through here again and returns here, it's in our
00:25:00hands. Many of these ships, mostly 80-90%
00:25:04of these ships, do not pass once and leave,
00:25:07because here
00:25:10a large part of world trade, especially oil and
00:25:13gas, is here. Well, what is the difference now with the current situation? Even
00:25:16now, if a vessel wants to pass, it must be in coordination with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
00:25:20What is the difference with it being on the sanctions
00:25:23list? Those who want to use
00:25:26this area outside of Iran's management,
00:25:30whether for smuggling or causing
00:25:33problems, we put them on the sanctions list, because before
00:25:37closing the Strait of Hormuz, and even before these wars, daily
00:25:41over 100 ships passed through here.
00:25:45It pays a lot of dollars. It tries to turn off all
00:25:49these devices at night, it lets 56
00:25:52ships pass. Usually these also hit.
00:25:55Of course, we have not yet decided
00:25:59to sink them because they contain
00:26:03and carry
00:26:06oil products, and if they
00:26:09pollute the entire Strait of Hormuz and the Persian
00:26:12Gulf, then it will cause problems for us.
00:26:16Therefore, any violation, any
00:26:19actions that in our opinion will be criminal,
00:26:22we can put them on our sanctions list,
00:26:26and if they ever want to pass through the
00:26:30Strait of Hormuz, we will freeze them here. we cling. And this
00:26:33will take time. This area is forbidden, meaning that this area will be forbidden until a certain time
00:26:37or this area is forbidden until the siege of the American
00:26:41Sea is
00:26:43against what Trump says, the range is completely closed
00:26:47and on the other hand, we are looking for
00:26:50a heavier pressure on the US to be able to pay
00:26:54the rights of the Iranian
00:26:55nation.
00:27:12The embroidered
00:27:13fabrics
00:27:18are plain.