America’s violent past continues to haunt and terrorize the present.
The country’s inability to quit racism, greed, and war-mongering, especially in the Middle East, now has the world confronting potential WW3 unless cool, rational heads prevail and de-escalate.
Unfortunately, Donald Trump is President of the United States, and war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu is Prime Minister of Israel.
As of today, Iran has retaliated in response to Israel and America’s unilateral strike against its nuclear facilities, which didn’t even fully destroy the targets. Iran alleges it was able to move its stockpile of enriched uranium safely. Perhaps it wasn’t a strong 4-D chess move by Trump to publicly post about war and regime change following Israel’s strike last week. Regardless, Iran coordinated with Qatar and fired missiles at Al Udeid Air Base, the largest U.S. military site in the Middle East. Thankfully, there were no injuries, and air defense systems intercepted the missiles. It seems Iran is sabre-rattling and putting the U.S. on notice to de-escalate.
One hopes that an anchor or commentator on Fox News can spend significant airtime parroting that message. That’s the only way it’ll reach Donald Trump, who was influenced to join Israel’s war by Fox commentary and “vibes” instead of relying upon U.S. intelligence. From his own words, we know Trump doesn’t trust Tulsi Gabbard, his own Director of National Intelligence. His Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, continues to use Signal, an insecure app, and has lost the faith of the military. His Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, continues to be Reek and humiliate himself on national television in the service of his master. Trump throws his VP, J.D. Vance, under the bus by having him go out and say the U.S. will not commit to a regime change, only to post hours later that it will. Also, our National Guard and military are focused on terrorizing innocent American citizens and immigrants. Oh, and the head of countering violent extremism in America is 22-year-old Thomas Fugate, a former gardener.
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There is a wide open lane for a Democrat to emerge and be the “anti-war” party, considering 85% of Americans, according to a latest poll, oppose a war with Iran. However, we unfortunately have war hawks like Senator Schumer in charge, who are beneficiaries of AIPAC money and have been largely quiet as the U.S. supports Netanyahu’s genocide in Gaza.
Speaking of Palestinians, much of this can be traced to President Biden’s refusal to hold Netanyahu in check, further emboldening his cruelty and war boner. One person who refused to be complicit in Biden and Netanyahu’s war-mongering was Annelle Sheline, a research fellow in the Middle East program of Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, who resigned in March 2025 from the State Department over the Biden administration’s unconditional support for Israeli military operations in Gaza.
She joins The Left Hook to discuss the long arc of this current war, how the establishment continues to embolden the military industrial complex and war criminal Netanyahu, and what potential blowback can result if there is no de-escalation.
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