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00:00:00ganda to reality as Washington's war against Iran produces
00:00:03contradictions that are becoming increasingly difficult to conceal, we
00:00:07examine how the BBC reported Evans capture of
00:00:11of sophisticated US submersible while Fox News continued selling
00:00:14a battlefield narrative increasingly challenged by
00:00:18events. On X, Trump's claims from 911 to the war
00:00:22a against Iran ignite ridicule anger and growing calls for
00:00:25accountability. The New York Times examines the economic
00:00:28consequences now. threatening Trump's political fortunes, while
00:00:32Lamon exposes a Europe increasingly unable to influence
00:00:36the decisions made in Washington. We break down the numbers
00:00:40behind
00:00:40a Iran's unprecedented missile operations and the mounting pressure
00:00:44on
00:00:45of US military defenses before hearing a striking warning
00:00:49from American commentator Tocker Carlson about war,
00:00:52propaganda and the media. Welcome to season two of Expose, the
00:00:56award winning show that leaves no stone unturned.
00:01:06From the BBC confronting story Washington could not
00:01:09successfully
00:01:10a buried to Fox News confidently declaring Iranian attacks
00:01:14a failure while the wider reality tells a far more
00:01:18complicated story. Tonight we examine how two major
00:01:22broadcasters framed the warring narrative. Here are the headlines.
00:01:26Narrative. Here are the headlines. For it exposes Washington's.
00:01:30report exposes Washington's submersible cover up,
00:01:33Fox News declares victory while reality tells another
00:01:40of story.
00:01:44From Washington's
00:01:46of increasingly desperate attempts to
00:01:47of control the narrative of its war against Iran, to western
00:01:51broadcasters recycling military claims contradicted by events
00:01:54on the ground. Tonight we exposed the propaganda behind the headlines.
00:01:58Joining me are: broadcast media expert Fuad Itayim and Analyst Sima
00:02:02Itayim. Welcome to both of you. Thank you. Thank you. So, a great deal
00:02:06has happened this past week in the familiar world of failed US propaganda
00:02:10surrounding the illegal war against Iran. Perhaps the most
00:02:14astonishing episode was Washington's confusion over this unmanned US
00:02:18submarine captured by Iran at the entrance
00:02:20of the straight of hormos. Western media initially treated the claim
00:02:24with considerable skepticism,
00:02:26but then Palmer Lucky, the founder of Anderill. uh
00:02:30directly contradicted Centcom's attempt to dismiss this vehicle as
00:02:34some you know insignificant older model and he actually
00:02:37confirmed that it was anderal dive
00:02:40of LD that had operated in Centcom's area of operation for months and
00:02:44provided what he described as significant value before it's captured
00:02:48by the Iranian forces so the BBC, unlike
00:02:52of much of American media at least examined it ans claimed
00:02:55seriously so let's take a look at
00:02:58of that. Now Iran claims it seized an
00:03:02unmanned American submersible in the street of homo saying
00:03:06submersible in the street of Homus saying its forces have taken the vehicle as
00:03:09a prize, it's thought there are seen in the picture below
00:03:13from the US department of defense. Iran's revolutionary guard said
00:03:17in a statement that they captured one
00:03:19of the most modern smart, unmanned underwater vehicles
00:03:23belonging to the US military at the entrance to the straight
00:03:26in a complex intelligence and operational action. The US
00:03:30hasn't yet responded to those
00:03:32a claims, well control
00:03:33of the straight has become a key factor in this war. Iran has blocked
00:03:37access for most shipping since the start
00:03:38of the conflict, whilst Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed America is in
00:03:42control
00:03:43of the key waterway. Well, with me now is GR Goal from
00:03:47a BBC's Persian language service, BBC Persian, so
00:03:49of JR, what more do we know about these claims? Just today
00:03:53Iran revolutionary guard
00:03:54in a statement, they say, as you
00:03:56a just said, an operation, they have managed to seiz
00:04:00US sophisticated underwater vehicle,
00:04:04unment vehicle in the entrance of a straight of hormos, they said
00:04:08this vehicle is capable of sebit
00:04:11mapping, detecting minds, intelligence
00:04:15gathering, also checking on pipes and
00:04:18underwater cables
00:04:20a and
00:04:20we have heard in the past week that us has
00:04:24been using these kind of vehicles to detect the
00:04:28minds that has been. laid by the Iranian to
00:04:32of prevent shipping in the straight of hormos and in some cases the report was saying
00:04:35they have been
00:04:37of successful. the significance here is
00:04:40obvious, mean Washington first attempted to minimize the capture only for the
00:04:44manufacturer itself to undermind that narrative by Washington, so this is actually
00:04:48precisely how official credibility
00:04:50of erodes. the public is told one version, then facts
00:04:53emerge and the facts themselves expose these gaps, and is
00:04:57that the more frequently that happens, the... more Americans are forced to
00:05:01look beyond their own government and also media institutions
00:05:05for information specifically they can actually trust and find reliable
00:05:09at one point now uh let's move from contradiction. to
00:05:13outright comedy. Fox News has run with headline US military
00:05:16confirms all Iranian attack attempts failed, but one
00:05:20basic reality complicates this triumphant narrative that they're claiming US
00:05:24military operations can no longer rely on Kuwait or the UAE following the
00:05:28damage inflicted by Iran, following the damage inflicted by Iran, given that
00:05:32these bases, have been reduced to rubble, public congressional hearings
00:05:36involving and secretary of state Marco Rubio have also made
00:05:40it pretty hard to conceal the extent of casualties and the
00:05:43losses, particularly involving radar systems and missile
00:05:47defenses, and regional reports have described significant
00:05:50damage, particularly following Iran's latest attack on the al-az base in
00:05:54Jordan. Let's watch Fox's version.
00:05:57Okay, In the
00:06:01Middle East, US forces delivering powerful response to the latest act of
00:06:05Iranian aggression, the military taking out five oil tankers in
00:06:09response to attempted attack on US warships. Steve
00:06:12Harrigan is live in Tel Aviv with the latest, hey
00:06:14Steve. Angeley, Iranian forces
00:06:18continue to try and fail to take out US
00:06:22military ships in the region, and they are paying heavy price for
00:06:25doing so. Centcom just post doing so. Centcom just
00:06:29posted, no US Navy warship has atempted attacks failed.
00:06:33Meanwhile, US forces have successfully destroyed 10 Iranian tankers
00:06:37in just the last week. These vessels were part of a multi-billion
00:06:40dollar shadow network that... funds the IRGC and
00:06:44Iran cannot defend them. Now right after the US destroyed
00:06:48those five Iranian tankers, uh, Iran tried once again
00:06:52to hit US forces inside of Jordan. They launched a ballistic missile
00:06:56attack. Jordan says 18 of those missiles were intercepted,
00:06:59two them fell harmlessly an uninhabited
00:07:02area. So the reporter
00:07:06speaking from Tel Aviv uh sounds almost euphoric, yet nearly
00:07:09every sentence is presented as an unquestionable. fact, while the
00:07:13wider battlefield tells a far more complicated story. yeah, and this is the problem with
00:07:17propaganda maskerading um a journalism, it collapses the
00:07:21moment viewers begin uh comparing the broadcast
00:07:25narrative with independently reported events.
00:07:29yeah, and fox news
00:07:29has repeatedly done this, demonstrated this willingness to just shape facts around Washington's
00:07:33preferred narrative, so actually the real question here when we're pointing this out is not why
00:07:37do they keep doing this, because that's a useless question, it's more
00:07:40how much longer is there all gonna continue believing this?
00:07:44exactly, when governments repeatedly exaggerate victories and conceal the
00:07:48failures, uh, they're not simply losing control of news cycle, they're
00:07:51losing the trust the public. we've lost, perhaps Washington's
00:07:55greatest, perhaps Washington's greatest propaganda failure,
00:07:59every contradiction is pushing the public further away, is pushing the
00:08:02public further away from official narratives and closer to
00:08:06the uncomfortable truth. thank you for and seamo.
00:08:09thank you.
00:08:16from a New York Times warning that Trump's costly walls could turn the economy
00:08:20into his greatest political layability to lemon skating
00:08:24assessment of a Europe powerless to influence the very
00:08:28policies whose consequences it most endere, the mainstream media
00:08:32exposing the mounting cost of Washington's relecless
00:08:35rule. Here are the headlines: New York Times
00:08:39Trump's New York Times Trump's wars. become and
00:08:43economic
00:08:44Europe pays while Washington calls the
00:08:46shots
00:08:54from an American economy increasingly burdened by Washington's war
00:08:57to a Europe discovering the limits of its own political
00:09:01relevance, limits of its own political relevance. The consequences
00:09:05of Trump's fing far beyond the battlefield. Joining us are digital
00:09:09media experts Simayim and analyst Fuad Itayim. Hello, welcome
00:09:13to both of you. We begin with you, Simon. Thank you. So the U.S. war of
00:09:16aggression against Iran has not only taken its toe on the American
00:09:20economy or
00:09:21you know domestic politics, but actually the consequences could now
00:09:24increasingly shape the primary elections as well.
00:09:28So, and and while this is happening, Europe finds itself actually paying the
00:09:31price for the decisions, right, over which it appears to have virtually
00:09:35no influence whatsoever, because it's tropped by this inability to restrain
00:09:39Washington's increasingly reckless policies in west Asia. has to go along
00:09:43with, okay, so the New York Times begins actually with the domestic consequences
00:09:47in costly conflicts with Canada and Iran, loom over Trump's
00:09:51mid-term pitch. Tony ROM argues that Trump has plunged the United
00:09:55States deeper into costly conflicts, rattling
00:09:58financial markets, threatening higher prices and unnerving republicans
00:10:02ahead the 26th election. So ROM writes, the
00:10:06president's attacks on Canada and his new bid this week to block some of
00:10:10its exports to the United States, some of its exports to the United States all
00:10:14together, risk damage to American states and domestic industries
00:10:18border, and his ongoing war with Iran contributed to another spike in gas
00:10:21prices, with the average cost of a gallon of gas topping.
00:10:25$4.22 nationally, so the article then continues,
00:10:29while the economy once might have served as Mr. Trump's source of political
00:10:33strength, it has recently become his greatest liability, one that
00:10:36may jeopardize Republicans continued hold on the House and the Senate
00:10:40in November. Yeah, so this is what happens when governing is replaced by a
00:10:44personal impulse, and the administration behaves as though policy can
00:10:48be imposed by royal decree, without calculation,
00:10:52without consequence or accountability or anything like that. and on the
00:10:55other hand, an ordinary American ultimately pay the price for all
00:10:59these fantasies that CMA is highlighting through higher
00:11:03prices, economic uncertainty and wars, they never even
00:11:06imagine that they can endorse, yeah, and the damage is not just confined to the
00:11:10United States, because Trump's aggression and constant sabotage that we see
00:11:14in and out, has also exposed Europe's extraordinary
00:11:18political weakness,
00:11:20and we're seeing the the peak of this now, lemond in Pierre
00:11:23Ramon's war in Iran. every day the world reminds
00:11:27Europeans that they lack the ability to influence decisions made in the US,
00:11:31argues that six months into
00:11:33the US-Israeli entities war against Iran truly
00:11:36influence Washington, truly influence Washington, I mean even through
00:11:40the media, they have to remind them, so the article states indeed, many European
00:11:44diplomats view themselves as guardians of US
00:11:48rationality and not as independent actors, such a
00:11:51strategy does not seem sufficient to build a foreign policy, especially
00:11:55an era of neo-royalism, the term used by American political
00:11:59scientists Abraham Newman and Stacy Godard in the Journal
00:12:02International Organization to describe the transcendence the West Felion
00:12:06model, a world where states, first and foremost, the
00:12:09US, under Donald Trump are increasingly governed by personal clicks
00:12:13rather than administrations, and Europe has
00:12:17voluntarily reduced itself to anxious spectator waiting
00:12:21to manage the consequences of decisions made by one man in Washington.
00:12:25for a continent that once claimed that
00:12:28strategic autonomy has instead become an uncertain pawn,
00:12:32unable to restrain American power, even when its own economies
00:12:36and security are placed somehow at risk, and
00:12:39this may be actually the defining lesson here, and we see it even with west Asian countries,
00:12:43which is that this unquestioning alliance that you may have to Washington does not buy
00:12:47you influence, just like it doesn't buy security, so it's merely guaranteing that
00:12:51when Washington is acting recklessly, Washington is acting.
00:12:55lessly its allies just inherit the consequences because they're forced to play along and
00:12:59yes at time to political paralysis abroad. Trump's wars are
00:13:03producing consequences that neither America nor Europe appears
00:13:07prepared to confront. The question now is confront. The
00:13:11question now is whether those are paying the price will finally demand
00:13:14accountability. Thank
00:13:16you.
00:13:22From rewriting history and contradicting. his own administration
00:13:26to dismissing deadly war as small
00:13:29potatoes. Donald Trump found himself on the relentless fire
00:13:33this week as X turned his latest claims into a spectacle of
00:13:37outrage, ridicule and growing demands for accountability. Here are
00:13:41the headlines. Trump's lies go viral from
00:13:449/11 fantasy to Iran, war denial,
00:13:48lawless king. Muchary turns into mounting
00:13:51impeachment pressure.
00:14:00x was a blaze this past week with Donald Trump facing torrent
00:14:04of ridicule over a string of extraordinary claims from
00:14:089/11 to the war against Sedan while calls for impeachment began
00:14:12spilling beyond social media and told television
00:14:15screens. Joining me are social media expert Sima and Analyst
00:14:18Form. Hello um once again sima. Thank you so much
00:14:22for that. So as you pointed out X has
00:14:24been on. fire, frankly pinning Trump as liar at every corner that it can, from
00:14:28his bizarre 9/11 claims, to the contradictions over the war on
00:14:32Iran, users showed him no mercy, they were mocking him relentlessly, and the backlash
00:14:36has now grown into a serious public conversation about beachment, this ridicule
00:14:40conversation about beachment, this ridicule can look funny, but it's actually very
00:14:43serious, so let's begin with claim that left many users stunned quite
00:14:47frankly as Trump appeared to place himself at traumatic national tragedies as
00:14:51they consider it, so Aaron Rupar writes, Trump
00:14:55claims he was basically lifted out the rubble on 9/11,
00:14:59two fireman, big strong guys, they grab me under the arms, got to get
00:15:03out of here, and they literally lifted me up and they started running with me, but a
00:15:07community note, which you find these have come to the rescue quite
00:15:10often, points out that Trump was miles away from ground zero at the time,
00:15:14speaking by phone from his office and that his story lacks corroborating
00:15:17evidence, so here is Trump claiming to have been there, if he
00:15:21got two firemen, we thought it was coming down top of us and two fire.
00:15:26big strong guys and i'm not the smallest guy in the world, they
00:15:29grab me under the arm, got to get out of here, and they literally
00:15:33lifted me up, this is not easy to do, i'm big.
00:15:37they lifted me up and they started running with me, i said fellaas, i
00:15:41can run myself, but they were amazing, but they thought it was coming
00:15:45down, it didn't come down
00:15:46there,
00:15:50so what's striking is the sheer audacity of attempts to rewrite
00:15:54history or on the event that's been so extensively documented, and it's
00:15:58not merely exaggeration, it's claim that social media users can dismantle
00:16:02literally within minutes, yeah
00:16:03and actually i remember all the way back in the day there was a on tv he was on the phone
00:16:07someone on tv, he definitely was not there, and so the contradictions actually don't stop there, has
00:16:11owned what it calls the conflict, what it calls the
00:16:15conflict with Iran, this the operation, so reporter asks
00:16:19Trump, how can he deny the conflict with Iran is a war
00:16:23when uh US service members have died, so this is how it
00:16:26went uh bulwart clips reporter goes, the vice president said
00:16:30yesterday that he would not describe the conflict with Iran as a war, if this
00:16:34is not a war, what exactly is it? Trump goes, call it a
00:16:37military conflict because it's small potatoes for us, it's not a big
00:16:40thing. reporter goes, "18 people have died, it certainly
00:16:44doesn't feel like small potatoes. 18 service members have died, we're seeing
00:16:48record long deployments. so trump goes, why is it record long? how long are we in vietnam? he
00:16:52loves saying this. uh, we're in five months now, it's nothing,
00:16:55you know, according to trump. so here's the video of that encounter, please looks,
00:16:59mr. president, uh, the vice president said yesterday that he would not describe the
00:17:03conflict with Iran as a war, but the US resume strikes for the first time."
00:17:07in recent weeks, can you explain to the American people, this is not a war, what
00:17:11exactly is it? well, I tell you what, lot of people don't call it a war, I
00:17:15call it a military conflict, because it's it's small potatoes for us,
00:17:18it's not a big thing, we did Venezuela and we did
00:17:22this, and Venezuela we lost nobody, and this we lost
00:17:2618 people, uh, and Vietnam you lost
00:17:30100,00 people, and in other conflicts you lost tens of
00:17:33thousands of people, and 18 people have died in this, it doesn't feel like small.
00:17:37potatoes, 18 service members have died, we're seeing record long
00:17:41deployments, you initially said this, record long, why is it record long? so the
00:17:4480 air, how long were we in Vietnam, how long were we in
00:17:47Vietnam, how long were we in Vietnam, we're in five
00:17:51months now, we've and you did in five months, they're not going
00:17:55to have nuclear weapon, that's what we
00:17:57did, small
00:18:00potatoes for his president, perhaps, but certainly
00:18:04not for the families of those killed, as you're highlighting, s'? or
00:18:07soldiers and during prolonged deployments uh for
00:18:11unnecessary war of aggression as some actually perceive it, the
00:18:15contempt in that language is kind of astonishing. yeah, trump is
00:18:18astonishing, and
00:18:20you know the next post highlights actually the absurdity, even more clearly, this absurdity that
00:18:23we've been talking about. the vice president says trump won the
00:18:27Iran war, well Trump insists there is no war at all, so look at this, global
00:18:31war desk wrote JD vanson Trump just gave two very different
00:18:35descriptions the Iran conflict. like JDV
00:18:38goes, nobody has won a war in the last 42 years of American history, president
00:18:42Trump did that by winning the Iran war, and then Trump winning the Iran
00:18:46war, and then Trump goes, we will not give payouts on because it isn't
00:18:50a war, side by side, so according to
00:18:53Vance, Trump won the war, and according to Trump, it wasn't a
00:18:57war, same administration, two completely different
00:19:00descriptions side by side, shameless, shameless, so it's an absolute
00:19:04clown show, even towards their soldiers.
00:19:07Yep, yeah, it's definitely clown show, and it's political
00:19:11double speak at its most blatant, they want the glory of winning a war,
00:19:15while avoiding the legal, political and financial consequences of admitting that one
00:19:19exists, yeah, and as ridicule, it has intensified online, impeachment has
00:19:23increasingly entered the conversation, as you mentioned, and it's gone beyond
00:19:26X. Mr. Producer Rich Sementa wrote, rep Jamie
00:19:30Raskin admits, everybody on our side understands that
00:19:33impeachment is critical tool in the toolbox for constitutional self-defense against.
00:19:37president acting like a king, an imperious, lawless, arrogant
00:19:41king, we won't hesitate to use it if we need to use it,
00:19:44not no, not yes, if we need to, after he already
00:19:48called him a king. here's the interview, peach
00:19:52president trump, do you support that? would you want to move to impeach
00:19:56president Trump? should democrats retake the house? look, everybody on our side understands
00:20:00that impeachment is a critical tool in the toolbox for
00:20:03constitutional self-defense against a president acting like
00:20:07a king, an imperious, lawless, arrogant king. uh,
00:20:11on the other hand, Donald Trump already is 50% the impeachments
00:20:15of a president American history, and we saw what happened last time,
00:20:19he incited mob to storm the capital, to
00:20:23attack his own vice president and congress, we impeached him in the house,
00:20:27and we could get only seven republican senators to join us, we were 10
00:20:31short again because of Mitch McConnell, so you don't, you don't support impeachment, you
00:20:34think it would be waste of time? no, impeachment is not... Taboo with us, it's not a
00:20:38fetish with us, we understand it's not a panacea, it is a tool in the toolbox,
00:20:42we will not hesitate to use it if we need to use it, but we also understand the
00:20:46framers gave it to Congress rather than the Supreme Court because they wanted. to
00:20:50contextualize impeachment in the whole sphere of things we got
00:20:54to deal with, like getting healthcare back to our people, because they've thrown millions of
00:20:58people off their healthcare with the medicaid cuts and the destruction the aca
00:21:01tax credits.
00:21:05well, well, what began as
00:21:09mockery online is now intersecting with an
00:21:12unmistakably serious political question, how many ordinary
00:21:16claims can accumulate before accountability follows? thank you seam.
00:21:20Fuad: Thank
00:21:21you.
00:21:28From a massive Iranian ballistic barrage and strained patriot defenses to
00:21:32threaten persion golf shipping lanes and increasingly militarized
00:21:35skys. The numbers are exposing the mounting pressure on American
00:21:39forces and the widening vulnerabilities of Washington's regional
00:21:43war. Here are the headlines: 30, 40 missiles,
00:21:4712 launch sights. Iran overwhelms the... american defense
00:21:50narrative. Patriot under pressure, US
00:21:54defenses struggle as the battlefield
00:21:56expands.
00:22:04This week, the numbers tells the story Washington may struggle to spin an
00:22:08unprecedented Iranian missile operation, strained American
00:22:12air defenses and rapidly militarizing region
00:22:15stretching from Jordan to the Persian gulf. Joining me our senior
00:22:19researcher.
00:22:24Thank you, the most significant development was a
00:22:27one's largest reported ballistic
00:22:30operation against us positions in Jordan
00:22:33precisely. Now under operation punishment the
00:22:36aggressor, between 30 and 40 missiles were reportedly
00:22:40launched simultaneously from 12 bases across central and western
00:22:44Iran, primarily targeting az airbase.
00:22:48Now reports indicate Iran. used Koram Shah missiles equipped with
00:22:52cluster or submunition warheads designed to spread explosives
00:22:55across wide areas and the apparent objective was not
00:22:59only to not only a single point of impact but
00:23:03rather air fields, maintenance facilities and aircraft
00:23:06shelters, yeah you know this distinction actually matters
00:23:10enormously because the defense system may intercept individual missiles but actually
00:23:13repeated waves combined with dispersed submunitions can
00:23:17rapidly overwhelm and exhaust interceptor. is
00:23:20this the exactly, and according to sources,
00:23:23sema, patriot pack th batteries are reportedly
00:23:27fired around 100 interceptors against the first wave, yet
00:23:31were then unable to respond effectively to subsequent
00:23:35waves, and the explanation is still contested here because interceptor
00:23:38stocks may have been either depleted or elements the system may have been
00:23:42damaged, either way it exposes serious
00:23:46vulnerability here, heba a defense system costing enormous.
00:23:51um is only as effective as its ability to stain repeated
00:23:54attacks somewhere, yes, and at see the
00:23:58escalation is equally dangerous for. after us strikes
00:24:01reportedly destroyed iranian tankers, eran
00:24:05warned oil cruise in emirati, kuwaiti and Bahraini
00:24:09ports to leave, signaling that commercial infrastructure linked to
00:24:13US military operations could increasingly be drawn
00:24:16into the confrontation, which means you
00:24:19know that... "the war is slowly but surely expanding geographically, even
00:24:23countries attempting to remain on the margins, we see now
00:24:27confronting direct economic and security consequences, yes, yes,
00:24:31true, and here the skies reflect the same escalation, um,
00:24:34according to source sources, Iran issued critical aviation
00:24:38warning covering parts the Gulf of Oman
00:24:42and the Arabian sea up to um, FL100
00:24:46citing military activity, electronic warfare and possible.
00:24:50electronic warfare and possible GPS intervention
00:24:53interference. Saudi Arabia has also activated
00:24:57extensive US aerial surveyance, refueling and
00:25:01fighter deployments have intensified across the region as well. In other words, the
00:25:05battlefield is no longer confined to a single front. It now
00:25:09extends undergrounds, extends across the sea and throughout the
00:25:12airspace. Yes, and and the figures here Farah
00:25:15reflect
00:25:17you know that Washington is confronting precisely what it. sought to
00:25:20avoid, yes a prolonged regional war in which every new
00:25:24military response creates additional fronts
00:25:28and from dozens of
00:25:30from dozens of ballistic missiles and exhausted defenses
00:25:34to threatened shipping, lanes and militarized skies. the
00:25:38numbers reveal a conflict growing costlier, more complex
00:25:42and increasingly difficult for washington to control. thank you hibancima, thank
00:25:46you.
00:25:53The US war of aggression against Iran is also producing increasingly
00:25:57uncomfortable voices from inside the United States itself. Tucker
00:26:01Carlson, a prominent. american political commentator and former Fox
00:26:05News host argues that Washington's media establishment
00:26:09has abandoned its responsibility to inform the public
00:26:12instead helping sustain what he describes as a war
00:26:15driven by interests far beyond those of ordinary
00:26:19Americans and the soul interest of Zionis Israel. Let us watch
00:26:23this video posted by the Clash report
00:26:25together. Everybody knows the only reason
00:26:29we're having this war is because "Israel wants it,
00:26:33this is their last chance, they believe, this
00:26:37presidency is the last presidency where they're going to have unequivocal
00:26:40bipartisan support,
00:26:43period, you can't primary every Thomas Massy, and there's a
00:26:47whole army them coming at some point, because everyone can see what's going on, and you can
00:26:51shut down x, and you can shut down the internet, you can be like Great
00:26:54Britain and arrest people who protest Israel, but attitudes are not
00:26:58going to revert to what they were five years ago, sorry, and they know this, so this..."
00:27:02last chance, what's so
00:27:05amazing is that Israel, which at least is acting in what
00:27:09it perceives to be its own national interest
00:27:11is joined by its shils in the United States
00:27:15of course, but really it's only other ally in
00:27:19this is the American news media, whose job it is to tell you
00:27:23the truth and inform
00:27:24you as what's happening, to tell you, hey,
00:27:26wake up, the world could be changing and it's going to affect
00:27:29you and your family, that's their job and... Instead, they've been
00:27:33lolling you to sleep with the same variety of
00:27:36transparent lies and
00:27:38propaganda. Ladies and gentlemen, with that
00:27:42we conclude our expose for tonight right here on Press TV. Until next week, question the
00:27:46headline, trace the source and never surrender your
00:27:48judgment.
00:30:30You're on warns.
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