The Raw Deal (9 March 2026) with co-host Joe Olson
Jim Fetzer and Joe Olson dissect the March 2026 "Operation Epic Fury," alleging U.S.-Israeli decapitation strikes killed Ayatollah Khamenei and his family, galvanizing Iran into a jihad that targeted GCC water infrastructure and Tel Aviv bunkers. They analyze intelligence failures regarding the new Supreme Leader Motab Khamenei's potential nuclear ascent, conspiracy theories linking 9/11 to micro-nukes, and catastrophic EMP risks following ice storms. Ultimately, the hosts argue Western media complicity and monopolist control threaten global stability, urging listeners to cherish loved ones amidst looming nuclear conflict. [Automatically generated summary]
This is Jim Fetzer, your host on The Raw Deal, right here in Revolution Radio Studio B this ninth day of March 2026, joined by co-host Joe Olson.
During the second hour, we'll join by Eli James, who will offer a critique of the origins of Christian Zionism, I believe, focusing on the Schofield Bible, where we were sold a bill of goods, at least those Christians who bought into it.
Meanwhile, during the very first segment here, the first 30 minutes, you will understand why this was a colossal blunder to undertake this war, why Iran has all the advantages geographically and otherwise, and why, absent the use of nukes, which I wish I could rule out, there's no question but what Iran has basically already run the war.
Here's a Chinese professor just exceptional and giving a lecture about the basics of what's going on here.
Play close attention, and you'll understand why this was a colossally stupid idea to begin with.
Iran's Geographic Advantage00:15:07
Don't listen to Powerball and mega millions are trying to hide.
Hope everyone have a nice break and welcome back to the end of the world.
So as you know, World War III has started.
The United States and Israel have started to attack Iran.
And we are now in the fourth day of this war.
And we can expect this war to last for many weeks, possibly also for many years.
But I promise you that after this war is done, the world will never be the same again.
In the early morning of Saturday in Tehran, the Israelis and Americans launched a decapitation strike against the Alatona Haminai, who is the supreme leader of Iran.
Now there are arguments and disputes about as to what happened.
The Americans in Israelis said that they had real intelligence about where the leader was and so they sent airplanes to just bomb the crap out of a place.
They also had a spy who was able to record the body of the dead Aratolla and then this was announced.
At first the Iranians denied this and the Iranians insisted he was still alive.
But eventually state media admitted that he did die in the airstrike.
But then what they also said is that De Aratolla, he's 86 years old and he chose to die.
He could have gone to Moscow, but instead he chose to stay in Tehran and die for his people.
But not only that, but he died along many of his relatives.
He died along with his daughter, his son-in-law, his grandchildren.
So the entire, so many of the family died in this assault.
Also, there's been reporting that he had prostrate cancer.
So he was going to die fairly soon as well.
So what you need to understand first about the war is that even though the Americans and Israelis claim great success in decapitating the leadership of the Iranians, from the Iranian perspective, this is a martyrdom, martyrdom.
So the religion of the Iranians is called Shia Muslim.
And this is different from Sunni Muslim.
So Sunnis are the majority.
They're about 9% of all Muslims in the world.
The Shia have always been the minority.
And as such, they've always been persecuted.
In the Shia faith, the core value, the force that binds everyone together and gives them purpose and meaning in life, that galvanizes them into action, is the idea of martyrdom, which forces jihad.
You sacrifice yourself for your religion, sacrifice yourself for the common good.
So think of the death of Khamenei as a sacrifice, a self-sacrifice, in order to motivate the Iranians in this war.
So that's the first thing you need to understand.
That for the Iranians, this is not a typical war.
This is not an economic war.
This is not a war of resistance.
This is a jihad.
It's a war against the great Satan to revenge their leader.
They will fight to the death.
That's number one.
Number two is this.
Also that morning when Diatollah was killed, the Israelis struck a school in the south of Tehran, killing about 150 school children.
These are girls in primary school.
And again, there's a lot of debate and argument as to what happened.
The Israelis said that, first of all, the school was next to a military base.
We were targeting a military base.
And second of all, it wasn't us which struck the school.
It was a air defense missile that went off course.
And the Iranians insisted, no.
The Israelis purposefully attacked the school to kill the school children.
And then you're like, why would the Israelis do that?
Within these few years, we've seen what they've done in Gaza, in Palestine, to the Palestinians.
And it's pretty consistent what the Israelis have been doing.
So this action against the Israelis, it's meant to show to themselves in the world that we are now all in.
We've made the sacrifice.
We are now committed to this war to win this war at all costs.
And this action has also provoked the Iranian people to resist with their full might.
So I want you to keep this in mind.
And again, we don't have complete evidence that it's the Israelis who did this, but given past actions from the Israelis, this is fairly consistent with what they've done.
So we can assume that this is something the Israelis did.
Why they did this, what the purpose is, is something we will discuss as we move on.
It's very complicated.
Next, I want to show you this.
This is Dubai.
And Dubai is considered one of the wealthiest, safest cities in the world.
There are thousands, tens of thousands of Westerners who move to Dubai because it's clean, you don't pay any taxes, you make a lot of money, and there are great restaurants.
And this is really the economic model of Dubai.
It's one of the Gulf, the GCC countries, the Gulf coastal countries.
And for the longest time, Dubai had a really good deal because they were under the protection of the American military.
So they didn't have to pay for defense.
And then they were in the Middle East, which is the oil-producing center of the world.
And so they focus on aviation.
They focus on logistics.
They focus on finance, on tourism.
They make me wealthy, right?
I'm not sure if you're thinking Edmund.
It's one of the best airlines in the world.
So their airport, Dubai Airport, is the busiest in the world.
And Dubai, for the longest time, was flourishing under American protection.
And Dubai said to the world, listen, we're like Switzerland.
We're neutral.
We don't want any involvement in any wars.
We're here just to take care of our citizens, to make sure everyone has a good time, to make money.
And then right after the war started, the Iranians attacked the GCC.
Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Iran, Qatar, Kuwait.
They attacked these places.
And these places were like, what's going on?
We're neutral, man.
We're not involved in this war.
And the airport was shut down in Dubai.
At one point, the rich people in Dubai were willing to pay about $250,000 just to get on a plane and get out of there.
So the reality is this.
For the longest time, Dubai had a reputation for being safe.
And that's why people moved their money there.
Guess what, guys?
After what the Iranians did, it's dead.
Dubai is a city in the long term.
It is dead.
Because you're a wealthy Westerner, you're not going to move to a place where it can be attacked anytime by the Iranians.
You might move to Singapore, you might move to Hong Kong, Japan, South America, but you're not moving to Dubai.
So the big question for us is why do the Iranians do this?
It was the Israelis and Americans who attacked you.
Why go after the GCC?
And not only that, but they're escalating the attacks against the GCC.
So this is something that we will look at very closely today.
Well, the short answer is because these places, even though they pretend to be neutral, they house the American military.
They allow the Israelis and Americans to use their airspace to attack Iran from.
So this is Bahrain.
Now, Bahrain is interesting, okay?
Because I want you guys to remember this.
But Bahrain will probably be one of the major centers of this conflict.
Because first of all, this is the American Fifth Fleet.
This is their naval base in the Middle East.
And as you can see, the Iranians are attacking it with missiles and it's being blown up.
Bahrain is interesting because it has about 50% or even more, Shia, which is the religion of the Iranians.
But the people in charge are the Sunnis.
And so what makes this strike really important from our perspective is, first of all, not only are the Iranians attacking U.S. military assets, not only are they destroying the economies of the GCC, they're also also trying to ignite a religious war, right?
Because you're Shia, you're loyal to the Adatollah.
If he's dead, then you must, as a religious obligation, now commit jihad against your enemies.
It's no different in other religions where, listen, if you want to kill the Pope, the Catholics will be really angry at you and they would want to kill you, right?
So now you have these Shia who will probably eventually arise, creating a revolution in Buran, okay?
So I think Buran will be the first to fall.
Dubai will probably go bankrupt, but in the long term, we can expect the entire GCC area, including Saudi Arabia, to eventually collapse.
And this is something we'll use game theory to understand.
All right, let's continue.
So we will know how this war develops just based on geography, okay?
So this is a map.
And this map, even if you don't really know the war, even if you don't know the participants, even if you don't know the weaponry, this map will tell you exactly how this war will progress.
All right, so some certain things to keep in mind about this map.
This is what we call this area, okay?
Really small, but it's 33 kilometers wide, okay?
People can swim across it.
It's really, really narrow, okay?
This small area, guys, it's called the Strait of Humus.
And it's important because it's really the center of the world.
This one area is the nexus, the pivot of the world.
Let me explain why.
First of all, from the GCC, you have 20% of all the world's oil flowing through this narrow strait.
Where does it go, guys?
It goes to Asia, India, Pakistan, South Korea, China, Japan.
India depends on 60% of its oil from this area.
China depends on 40%.
Japan, 75%.
Prime Minister Takeichi of Japan has said that, listen, if the Shirfamus closes, we're going to have oil in about eight, nine months.
The entire Japanese economy would collapse in eight, nine months if the Shirfamus were to close.
And guess what?
The Iranians have closed the Shirfamus.
So we can expect that the entire global economy will suffer greatly over the next few months.
So that's point number one.
Point number two is: so the GCC sends oil across the Shirt of Hormuz, and what do they get back in return?
Food, guys.
All right, so people don't appreciate the GCC, but it is really the linchpin of the American Empire.
Because what is the American Empire?
The American Empire is the petrol dollar.
All right?
The idea of the petrol dollar is this.
The US dollar is worth nothing.
It's only valuable when people want it.
But the GCC says that if you want oil from us, you have to pay us in US dollars.
Then that is the basis of the value of the US dollar.
So if the GCC collapses, the American economy and the American Empire both collapse at the same time.
The problem though is the GCC is an artificial construct of empire.
It does not exist naturally.
Why?
Because there's no food, there's no oil, no water.
Okay, guys?
No food, no water.
So these cities are able to grow in the millions because of all these petrol dollars flowing in.
If you close off the Shriva Hormuz, there's no food coming in.
They're all going to starve.
How much food does the GCC get from overseas?
80%.
80% of all the food it consumes comes from overseas that it imports.
It doesn't grow by itself, it imports.
So the Shriva Hamus is really key.
And again, the Iranians will close it in order to strangle the global economy and therefore bankrupt the American Empire.
Second thing you will notice is these mountains.
These mountains is what we're called Iran.
All right, this is Iran.
This is GCC.
This is not a fair matchup, right?
Because these are mountains.
And what can you do in mountains?
Well, you can hide rocket bases.
You can hide drone bases.
You can hide missiles.
And that's the entire Iranian offensive strategy.
From here, they can hide missiles and drones from which to attack the GCC.
And what are they attacking?
They're attacking three things, right?
They're attacking American military bases, American military bases.
That's number one.
Is it possible for the Americans to defend against these attacks?
The answer is no!
No, it's not.
It's the silliest thing in the world.
You have all these bases in the Middle East, but you cannot defend them against the Iranians.
That's kind of strange.
Okay, but that's number one.
Number two is oil and energy.
How hard is it to blow up an oil field with a drone?
Not hard at all.
Can you defend these oil fields?
No, you cannot.
Number three, and that's most important, is water.
You guys don't know this, but the GCC has little access to fresh water.
So the only way that it can produce water is what we call desalination plants, okay?
These factories that take salt water and then through electrochemical process turn it into fresh water for the population to use.
60% of the water supply in the GC comes from desalination plants, okay?
60%.
Is it hard to blow up desalination plants using a drone?
The answer is it's very easy.
You understand?
So you have this absurd situation where Iran is a mountain fortress where it can hide its offensive capacity and the GCC is just this desert, this flat desert, and it is exposed to attack and there's nothing it can do about it.
So at any point in this war, the Iranians can choose to just destroy the entire GCC and there's nothing that anyone can do about it.
But Iran also has a weakness, okay?
And this is fundamental.
So Iran also has a water problem.
So for the longest time, they suffered a drought issue.
Just climate change.
And so what the plan of the Israelis and Americans is, is to destroy the water supply of the Iranians.
Because the fortress, it is a mountain fortress, but it can also be a mountain prison as well, where people are trapped inside with no access to water.
So what we're going to see right now, we're already seeing attacks on civilian infrastructure, hospitals.
In the future, you'll see attacks on water supply, on dams, on reservoirs, on power plants.
The point, the idea is to make Iran so inhabitable that the people will have to rebel against the people or there'll be a refugee crisis in Iran.
So as you can see from this map, this war, it is the end of the world.
Both sides have the potential to destroy each other.
It's really a question of how far do they want to go.
We can also say this is almost a game of chicken.
We can blow each other up.
How far do you want to go?
And the problem is this.
The problem is that the Iranians are Shia, which believes in martyrdom.
And you've killed the religious leader, the Atollah Khamenei.
So they're willing to go very, very far.
The GCC countries are Muslim, but they're materialistic.
They love money.
And also, most of the population are expatriates, foreigners.
90% of Dubai are foreigners.
Global Liquidity Crisis00:08:27
Guess what's going to happen if they suffer?
They're going to run away.
So this is not a fear matchup.
Absolutely brilliant.
Joe, I want your thoughts about it, my friend.
I just think this guy is sensational.
thoughts here i've got my mute unmuted uh he's pretty good but you know sometimes you get off in the weeds and it's like more more information than than necessary and it doesn't really include a lot of pertinent facts One thing I do want to mention that I came up with yesterday, well, actually, two things.
One of them, Western media is complicit in the war on Iran.
This is Abby Martin.
It does an absolutely great job.
According to her, proven reserves are Venezuela is number one, Saudi Arabia is number two, Iran is number three, Canada is number four, Iraq is number five.
As far as production, the United States is number one on production, Saudi Arabia is number two on production, and Russia is number three on production.
So that's where we are in the energy problem.
And then Marjorie Taylor Greene had a really disturbing post on YouTube yesterday, why Donald Trump turned on me.
And he stated publicly that he is going to endorse a candidate in the Texas GOP Senate runoff, and the other candidate needs to drop out.
So we have a megalomaniac that decides that no matter what the 30 million people in Texas think, he's going to pick our next U.S. senator.
It's absolutely disgusting.
The man is deranged, and that's how we ended up in this situation.
We've got a deranged black male broad pedophile.
Joe, I agree with all that, but I really wanted your assessment about the strategic and tactical relationship between the Gulf states and Iran, which the Chinese professor covered so wonderfully.
Here's some further stories that confirm that this is a catastrophe for the West from oddly enough vaccine impact.
Iran war turns apocalyptic.
Will there be bankrupt soon due to liquidity crisis?
Here's why the desalinization plants are so important.
The Gulf Coast countries hold about 60% of global desalinization capacity, produce around 40% of the world's desalinated water through 400 plus plants.
Most rely heavily on desalinization.
90% of Kuwait's drinking water.
86% in Omits, 70% in Saudi Arabia, 42% in the UAE.
Saudi Arabia is the world's largest producer with capacity expected to reach 85 million cubic meters per day by 2025 after an $80 billion investment.
Now, while Iran needs water, it is far less dependent.
It only takes about 5% of its water from desalinization plants.
So when the decision was made to strike Iranian desolidization plants, inviting Iran's response, they were taking out a tiny part of what Iran needs for its water, but a major part of what the Gulf Coast states mean.
Meanwhile, a huge financial story came out Friday, barely mentioning corporate media while the stock market was rapidly declining.
BlackRock, the largest hedge fund management company in the world, blocked nearly half of the investors who requested withdrawals from its 26 billion private credit fund from withdrawing their funds.
Sign of a major liquidity crisis in the U.S. market.
This is huge.
BlackRock just told investors they can't have their money back, and the entire private credit industry is shaking.
Something significant happened in global financial markets this week that received far less attention than it deserved.
BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, overseeing more than $10 trillion in assets, blocked nearly half the investors requested withdrawals from a 26 billion private credit fund from getting their money back.
Not because the fund had collapsed, not because of fraud or regulatory intervention, simply because too many people wanted out at the same time, and the fund didn't have the liquidity to pay them all.
This is not a minor operational footnote.
It's a structural warning sign about one of the fastest growing and least understood commerce of global finance, corners of global finance, and the reverberations are already being felt across the entire asset management industry.
What makes the moment particularly significant is that BlackRock situation is not an isolated case.
Across the private credit sector, the same pressure is wielding simultaneously.
This implies to me the entire global financial network could collapse because of those who want to get their money out by virtue of the threats of war.
Meanwhile, Iran War impelled $300 billion in Gulf AI spending.
I wonder if Trump and his Zionist administration ever considered the impact on AI and big tech when they started the war with Iran.
They are heavily invested in the Middle East to build data centers close to cheap energy.
And Iran apparently understands this.
UAE and Saudi Arabia have been big investors in AI and labor destination for data centers.
The war in Iran is complicating plans by Gulf states to spend more than 300 billion on data centers, chips, and other AI investments gripping a potential source of funding for power-hungry tech companies.
Those such as UAE and Saudi Arabia have become big destinations for data centers.
Local firms are developing the projects with U.S. companies such as XAI, Open, AI, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, and Google, which are drawn to the region for its cheap energy.
Now, the deal here, Joe, is those data centers require vast amounts of fresh water to cool them.
And since the Gulf Coast states don't have any of their own water to speak of, but they're dependent on these desalinization plants, taking out the desalinization plant is further complicating the situation in the media in the Middle East for the Gulf Coast countries.
Your thoughts, Joe.
You're muted.
Got to remember to do that.
Okay, on we're on day 10.
On day seven, there was a response from UAE.
This is an Ahmed Al-Harbo, H-A-B-T-O-O-R.
He said, Who gave you the authority to start the Iran war?
It's posted at Middle East Eye, and it's really a great letter to Trump.
And he questions the food, the water, the cash flow.
It's absolutely devastating to everybody involved.
And so, bottom line is: yesterday, Trump sent an offer to Iran to do a ceasefire.
And this has already happened twice.
We had a ceasefire last year, and we had a ceasefire this year.
And both times, it was the United States and Israel that decided, oh, we're just going to use the ceasefire as a sneak attack.
And so, Iran was interviewed yesterday on U.S. media, the Iran spokesman, and he said the answer is unequivocal no until we get everything that we want done.
And that's going to be removal of all U.S. from the Mideast.
So, that's going to be pretty interesting.
And we've had a gas price increase here in Houston of about almost $1.90 a gallon since this whole thing started.
Iran Rejects Ceasefire Offers00:04:18
So, epic fail as far as what they were trying to do.
Their fury has been stolen and redirected back at them.
Standby, we'll be right back.
Developments in Tel Aviv.
BB's bunker blown up.
We'll be right back.com.
We'll be right back after this lesson.
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Tel Aviv Missile Strike00:06:24
And now we return you to your host.
Joe, we had a major development in Tel Aviv with a bunker that's used by the highest ranking Israelis hit by Iranians in the 30th wave.
Let's check it out.
This is a big, big, big deal.
And I want everyone to appreciate what's happening here now.
and then you have to refresh for your links to work.
Here it comes.
BB's bunker blown up.
Wow, here we go.
Someone going on here.
Joe, go right ahead and share with us some of your latest reports while I try to sort out what's going on.
Yeah, well, getting back to the desalination thing, I was mentioning that the typical method for that is reverse osmosis, which you have little tiny fibers that are like straws and you pack them together and you put real high pressure seawater on one side and the straws are filters and they force nothing but pure water to come out on the other side.
But then every once in a while, you have to take some of that pure water and reverse it back through in order to clean the salt off of the straws.
So these plants are high pressure, low-tech.
They're pretty effective.
But the problem is that they don't need much in the way of a surrounding building.
So they're not in armored structures.
Israel has five of them that produce at least 80.
I've seen as high as 85% of their potable water.
And that's not only your drinking water, that's your irrigation water for all of your landscaping and eat whatever vegetables you're trying to grow.
It's also the water that you use for putting out fire.
So you can run that through the same water mains.
You're not pumping seawater through and putting salty water all over anything that gets on fire.
So when you knock out the water desalination plants, you have no fire suppression.
You have no way to wash and bathe.
You have no way to prepare food.
You have no way to drink.
You go a day without water and you start getting renal failure.
So bottom line is they're going to have cruise ships lined up at what's left of Haifa and shipping immigrants out of Israel as fast as they possibly can.
It'll be Exodus in reverse and who knows where they're going.
But I'm pretty sure Russia doesn't want them to show up at Ukraine again because that's where all this crap started 900 years ago.
I've got it now.
I think we can hear the, this is an Iranian missile hitting a deep bunker in Tel Aviv.
This is the most toxic thing you put on your hair every month.
If you're still using chemical hair dye.
Fire and destruction all around in Tel Aviv.
One of the most secretive underground facilities is now in ruins.
According to unverified reports, an Iranian missile has struck what is believed to be one of Israel's largest underground wartime shelters in Tel Aviv, a heavily protected facility reportedly used by Israeli leaders during major conflicts.
Witnesses described a massive explosion followed by a raging fire at the site.
Flames quickly spread across the area, burning buses and cars nearby as thick smoke poured into the sky.
The surrounding streets were left littered with debris while firefighters rushed to the scene, struggling to contain the blaze as residents fled in panic.
The underground shelter is believed to be part of Israel's extensive civil defense and command network, a system designed to shield top officials and security leadership during wartime emergencies.
According to these initial reports, the Iranian missile may have penetrated the area's defenses, triggering a powerful blast that set parts of the underground facility ablaze.
Authorities have not yet confirmed whether any senior Israeli leaders were inside the shelter at the time of the strike.
However, the attack has already sent shockwaves through Israel's security establishment, raising urgent questions about the vulnerability of even the country's most fortified wartime command sites.
This video showed Iranian missiles lighting up the night sky over Tel Aviv.
Below, sirens were blaring, forcing people to rush to bomb shelters to save their lives.
A massive thunderous impact from the missiles can be heard in the video.
This comes as the IRGC confirmed it fired the 30th wave of missiles toward Israel and U.S. bases in the region.
This video shows the impact of Iran's cluster warheads carving out craters on the roads in Tel Aviv.
Shocked Israelis can be heard saying, look what happened to cars.
At least one injury was reported in Rishon Lazayan, Tel Aviv, due to an impact from the latest missile attack from Iran.
Why Political Litmus Tests Hurt Combat00:09:01
Mogan David Adam said a woman in her 40s was moderately injured as a result of falling shrapnel.
The woman is being treated for a head injury after being the first woman in her party being hurt by shrapnel is insignificant, but if leading Israeli political and military figures were in that bunker and taken out, that would be a glorious result for Iran.
Meanwhile, air defense missiles running out.
Risk of a U.S. nuclear strike on Iran.
Check this out.
Scott.
What's the easiest tool to manage my agreements?
You know what gets me, of course?
Okay, never mind.
Mark Arubi has never served, of course.
Why would he?
Trump, the way he talks, you know, everybody, if you dominate idiots, like, well, I could have done this.
I could have done five deferments.
He's so happy to send everybody else off to fight.
He didn't fight.
His kids didn't fight.
His grandkids were never going to fight.
What do you do to politicians like that?
But, you know, American politicians have always been known for their courage behind a desk and their unwillingness to don the uniform or accounts.
Even those who put on the uniform, I'm not denigrating JD Vance.
He did graduate Marine boot camp, but he was a combat reporter, not a frontline infantryman.
And Lindsey Graham, the most bloodthirsty of them all, was an Air Force lawyer.
Combat lawyer, Graham.
The greatest threat to his life comes from dying of an infected paper cut.
Even people like Tom Cotton, who did serve in the infantry, he was never really under a meaningful threat.
He was in Iraq during a very calm period of time doing a lot of public relations work as opposed to active combat patrolling.
The people with the biggest mouths have the shortest combat portfolios.
The people that actually served, many of them are in favor of this conflict, but you won't see them posturing.
They understand what's at stake here.
They're more quiet professionals just doing their job.
I can disagree with them on policy, but I would never attack their courage or their sense of moral integrity or, as I said, physical courage.
But none of the people promoting this conflict today are people who know what it means to, you know, to strap it on and put yourself, you know, on the firing line at risk.
And, you know, as a result, we get the other thing, too, that it's part of the disease of the American system, you know.
We see the men and women who wear the uniform in the senior ranks.
And no offense to them, but the system's fundamentally broken.
There was a time when the U.S. military truly adhered to the concept of apolitical.
We didn't really give a damn who you voted for.
It's none of our business.
You just carried out your mission.
But during the time of Ronald Reagan and then George W. Bush or George Herbert Walker Bush, we had 12 years of conservative Republican leadership that was built around the notion of rebuilding a military.
And when Bill Clinton came in, you saw a backlash against the senior military officers.
Bill Clinton politicized the senior ranks.
He made sure that there was a political litmus test to become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
He purged the ranks of general officers who were deemed to be too conservative.
And then you had eight years of Clinton doing that.
And so when George W. Bush comes in, the trend gets reversed.
We go back and we start replacing officers who were deemed to be too Democrat.
We put them with Republicans, eight years of that.
Then Obama comes in, and we see saw back and forth.
And the bottom line is we have a senior military class that is just turned into a bunch of yes men, literally.
Absolutely.
In order to, there was a time when you had to go to be command selected at the lieutenant colonel level, meaning you're ready for battalion command or squadron command, you had to go to a board and they looked at your military leadership capabilities.
But now they're looking at your politics.
And, you know, so we're selecting people for leadership positions, not based upon leadership, but on politics.
And then that means from that moment on, every decision they make as they go up the ladder is a political decision.
They aren't doing things what's best for their Marines, best for their soldiers, best for their airmen, because the people that do that don't get selected.
They're doing what's best for their political bosses.
And so we have a military leadership right now that is not capable of standing up and saying no because sometimes ideas are so stupid that you have to say no.
And this is why we get this Iran situation.
We have generals that no, we can't win this war.
No, we lack the resources.
But yet only one admiral was fired.
The director of the Joint Chiefs apparently stood up and said, we lack the capacity to accomplish this mission.
And he was immediately relieved of his command.
That means that General Kane and the rest of the Joint Chiefs played the game and said, oh, yeah, we can do this.
We can do this.
But we can't do this.
You know, I've only known in the 11 years I served, I knew only two generals, both one stars, that I respected.
General Griffin, General Hurden.
The only ones.
Every other general by that point, this late 90s, early 2000s, they were all political animals.
And you look at them.
I had some friends ask me when the conflict with the SMO started, Russia lost several generals on the battlefield.
Like, why are Russian generals getting killed?
Like, because they're fighting generals.
U.S. used to have fighting generals that lead from the front.
Now they lead from a stack of PowerPoint slides with a thousand man staff and air conditioning and catered meals.
It's totally different mindset to begin with.
I think that even if Joe, wouldn't you agree?
Our military ranks have been decimated.
We don't have leaders.
We have followers.
We have political psycho fans.
If you don't kiss the right ass politically, you're out.
It's left us in a totally vulnerable situation where we have an airhead like Hag Seth as a so-called Secretary of War, and he doesn't know his a-hole from his elbow.
Yeah, well, during World War II, we had 13 million people in service, or maybe 18 million.
Bottom line is we had almost all of the male population between the ages of 18 and 35 in military service during World War II.
And we had like a half dozen admirals and a half dozen generals, and we managed to win that war.
Now we've got hundreds of admirals and generals, and none of them do anything.
But I think he's overestimating the past efficacy of the military ranking system.
MacArthur and Eisenhower were both rotten commanders, and they were absolutely rotten human beings.
Eisenhower joined the CFR in 1924.
He was a CFR puppet for his whole entire career.
When he ended up leaving the White House, he turned around and told us about the military-industrial complex, which he'd play suck-up to his whole entire life.
And that was his pauceous pilot moment.
He was washing his bloody hands as he walked out the door.
If you want to know exactly what happened in World War II, I go to the website Tales of the American Empire.
They've got 120 episodes, and you can just any one of them.
They're 15, 20 minutes long, well documented with citations, and it absolutely will blow the mind of anybody that believes conventional history and certainly anything to do with the U.S. military.
Yeah, good, Joe.
Good, good, good.
I think that's right.
And, you know, we created this situation and we're suffering the consequences.
Iran's Nuclear Future & Epstein00:04:02
Meanwhile, we have Iranian drones that are destroying American cloud centers, or AI and others is being hit too.
Iranian drone strikes have targeted American cloud infrastructure in the Middle East, marketing a dangerous escalation of modern warfare, exposing the vulnerability of critical digital systems, supporting our economy and national security.
Amazon web service confirmed Iranian drones directly struck two UAE data centers and damaged a third brazilian bomb rain during retaliatory attacks.
The strike caused fires, water damage, prolonged outages affecting banking systems, airports, stock market across the Gulf.
This represents the first confirmed attacks on commercial data centers, signaling a shift in warfare targeting civilian tech infrastructure.
Tens of thousands of travelers were stranded in the U.A. East Oak market closed for two days and cloud services collapsed.
That's just a tip of the iceberg.
Meanwhile, Trump wanted to pick Iran's new supreme leader.
I mean, this is just absolutely incredible.
Thus, Kevin Barrett lampoons the very idea.
Trump wanted Epstein to pick Iran's new supreme.
You're the right man with this job, Jeffrey.
If Rand picks a leader, who's never raped 13-year-olds in front of Osad spy cameras, we'll force the U.S. back into a war in a few years, Trump explained during a White House press conference where Donald Trump demanded Iran allow Jeffrey Epstein to select the new Supreme Leader.
As how Epstein could participate in the selection process, given that he supposedly hanged himself, Trump chortled.
Jeffrey is alive and well, I can assure you.
He's living in a specially outfitted Iranian missile blue child rape bunker in Tel Aviv.
He can fly to Tehran at a moment's notice with underage sex slaves and cameras, lying equipment, Viagra, and other essentials for filming Iranian leaders raping children just like he filmed me.
I wish I could say that satire were not rooted in truth.
Meanwhile, Iranian state television has reported that Motab Khamane, the son of Iran's supreme leader, has been selected as his successor.
Dubai Motabi Khomeini, a son of Iran's late supreme leader, has named his successor Iranian state television announced early Monday as a war that began a little over a week ago with his father's killing took a dramatic turn.
The younger Khamani, who has not been seen or heard from publicly since the war began, was long considered a contender even before an Israeli strike killed the Ayatollah Khamani, his father, and despite never being elected or appointed to a government position.
His appointment came after signs of a rift among Iranian officials as the country awaited a decision by the Assembly of Expert, a group of clerics who select the Supreme Leader.
State TV read a statement from the Assembly saying he was selected based on strong votes, urging the nation to unite behind him.
The station broadcast scene to people celebrating in parts of Tehran.
Joe, your thoughts about the sun.
What they did, you know, that was colossally mistaken is that the original Supreme Leader had issued the Fatwa against the use of nuclear weapons, even though there are others in Iran who wants Iran to develop them.
And with him gone, he was a principal obstacle to Iran acquiring nukes.
Hospitals in Flames and Children Buried00:06:31
I believe now Iran will rapidly acquire the very nuclear weapons this war was supposed to thwart.
Your thoughts, Joe.
Yes, and let's don't forget how all of this bullshit started in the Middle East.
Britain discovered oil in the southern part of Iran in 1906, and they went in there and set up the BP monopoly.
And they were paying like a nickel on the dollar for every barrel that they were pumping out of there.
And so when World War I started, they converted the fleet, the naval fleets, from coal to oil because it's a hell of a lot easier to load and unload.
You don't have the caking of the boilers when you burn coal, and you don't have the giant plume of smoke coming out of your smokestack from burning fuel oil.
And so that's why they've won World War I.
And they won it because they had Lawrence of Arabia go in and convince the Arabs that if they rose up against the Ottomans, who were allied with the Axis powers, that they would be granted freedom.
But unbeknownst to them, as they were following Lawrence of Arabia from battle to battle, the British and the French signed the Sykes-Peacock Treaty in 1916, dividing up the real estate.
And that's what they did at the end of the war.
They said, oh, you don't get freedom.
We're going to not only tell you where your countries are, we're going to pick out which tribal leaders we want to be, quote, royals.
And that's how this royal crap happened.
And in these populations, just like you mentioned, a lot of them are either minority groups that are inside those countries of Shia that are inside these Sunni territories, or they're foreigners that are in there, quote, guest workers.
And they're not treated like guests.
They're treated like slaves.
And there's plenty of evidence going on about what's going on as far as the location of the CIA agents and the military officers that were displaced from the blowing up of the Fifth Fleet headquarters in Dubai.
And so all of those rooms are well known.
And that's why the Iranians are able to hit them with direct strikes exactly where they need to be.
And getting back to the bunker, what makes fuel air bombs so dangerous is that 20% of the atmosphere is oxygen.
When you set off a properly designed fuel air bomb, it sucks all of the oxygen around the immediate area in order to feed the fuel.
And what happens if you're inside a bunker is it creates enough negative pressure that it sucks your lungs up out of your throat.
So I don't expect that if anybody is in that bunker, that they're still left alive.
And the Israelis and the United States are lying completely about their casualties so far.
Reports from Iran said that at least 2,200 U.S. servicemen have been killed.
Meanwhile, we decorate six coffins and we bring them back.
And Trump doesn't even take off his hat while they're having the ceremony for him.
That's how much he respects our military.
Joe, you're absolutely right.
It's embarrassing, very bad.
And of course, it's indicative of why we're losing this war.
Big time.
Meanwhile, the residents reporting apocalypse in the streets of Tehran.
Here you got to sort out the real from the fake news.
Why don't we take a quick look at some of the issues that have already come up when it comes to the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran in particular?
Because it turns out that the civilian casualties are really starting to increase significantly.
The total number of reported civilian deaths stands at 1,114, including 181 children.
The New York Times published their investigation into the elementary school, the all-girls school in Manab that was part of the opening strikes against Iran.
And it turns out that their investigation found that the United States did carry out those strikes, which is incredibly devastating.
You know, you have an incident, like the death toll in that strike keeps changing, but there's evidence that a double tap happened, double strike, and that, you know, as many as 160 little girls were killed as a result of these strikes against the school.
Anyway, now there's more because there's a new report in the UK publication known as the Telegraph.
And the title of the piece, if you want to read it for yourselves, is Tehran, an apocalypse of hospitals in flames and children buried beneath the rubble.
Certainly sounds a lot like Gaza, doesn't it?
The report indicates that Camron, a Tehran resident, told The Telegraph that the United States and Israel have been bombing endlessly with no care about where or what they're striking.
He says, quote, they are striking buildings where families live.
After each explosion, people rush to help.
And then another bomb hits the same area.
And again, it bears repeating, these double tap strikes were carried out against the girls' school in Manab.
The girls' school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent U.S.-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes with the second missile killing sheltering survivors.
Two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.
And according to Camron, going back to his statements, remember, he's the guy who lives in Tehran.
He says many people are trapped under the rubble.
Hospitals are filled with injured patients and staff are overwhelmed.
They are even striking hospitals where the wounded are being treated.
And hospitals certainly are being struck.
A hospital in the southern Bush Air area has been destroyed.
Then you also have the emergency workers who have been seen evacuating newborn babies from that hospital, which suffered the terrible strike, you know, trying to get those newborn babies out into safety.
The Gandhi Hospital in Tehran and multiple other medical facilities across the country were.
Those are reports, of course, from the early strikes.
The situation is very different now.
After Iran has launched 30 strikes, Eli James will be joining Joe and me during the second hour to talk about how Judaism has been able to finagle support from Christians, even though the Zionists want to kill them all.
Evacuating Newborns from Tehran00:04:41
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Nevatim Strike Shocks Israel00:14:42
Well, our featured guest, Eli James, has not arrived as yet, so we'll continue reporting.
Here we have an Israeli F-35 base attack, ranium missile destroyed, Nevatim Air Base killing 1200 Israeli soldiers.
Devastating.
The first reports came in just after midnight.
A massive explosion echoed across the Negev Desert, and within minutes emergency sirens were screaming across southern Israel.
At first, military officials believed it was another routine missile interception.
But what satellite sensors detected seconds later told a completely different story.
Multiple high-speed ballistic objects were descending directly toward one of Israel's most heavily protected military installations.
The target was not a civilian city, not a border radar station, but the heart of Israel's most advanced air power.
Nevatim Air Base.
This base is home to Israel's fleet of F-35 stealth fighters, some of the most advanced aircraft ever built.
For years, Nevatim had been considered nearly untouchable, protected by multiple layers of missile defense and some of the most sophisticated surveillance systems in the region.
But tonight, something went terribly wrong.
Several Iranian ballistic missiles reportedly slipped through the defense shield.
And, seconds later, massive fireballs lit up the desert sky as explosions ripped through the airbase.
Fuel depots erupted first, then secondary blasts began tearing through aircraft shelters and military housing areas.
According to early battlefield assessments circulating through intelligence channels, the attack was devastating.
Reports now claim that more than 1-200 Israeli soldiers were killed in the initial wave alone.
If these numbers are confirmed, this would instantly become one of the deadliest single military strikes in Israeli history.
And it raises a terrifying question that analysts across Washington, Tel Aviv, and Tehran are now asking.
How did Iranian missiles manage to hit one of Israel's most secure air bases?
Before we break down what may have happened tonight, make sure you subscribe to John OG Times so you don't miss the next updates as the situation continues to unfold.
Because if these reports are accurate, we may be witnessing the beginning of a much larger regional escalation.
Nevatim Air Base is not just another military base.
It represents Israel's long-term strategy to maintain air superiority across the Middle East.
The base hosts Israel's fleet of F-35 Adir stealth fighters, aircraft specifically designed to penetrate advanced air defenses and strike targets deep inside hostile territory.
For years, these jets have been seen as Israel's most powerful deterrent against countries like Iran.
From this base, Israeli pilots can reach almost any strategic target in the region.
And that makes Nevatim one of the most valuable military assets Israel possesses, which is exactly why analysts believe it may have been deliberately chosen as the primary target.
Early intelligence suggests the strike may have involved multiple long-range Iranian missiles launched from different directions simultaneously.
This kind of coordinated launch is designed to overwhelm missile defense systems by forcing them to track and intercept many threats at once.
Even the best defense systems can struggle under that kind of pressure.
And if just a few missiles slip through, the consequences can be catastrophic.
Satellite imagery from the first hour after the strike reportedly shows several large burn zones across the airbase.
These marks suggest direct hits on critical infrastructure.
Aircraft hangars appear to be among the structures that were damaged.
And if confirmed, that could mean some of Israel's most advanced fighter jets were destroyed before they even had a chance to take off.
The Israeli military has not yet released a full statement confirming the scale of the damage, but emergency response teams were seen rushing toward the base within minutes of the explosions.
Fire crews, medical helicopters, and military convoys began flooding into the area.
Local hospitals were suddenly placed on emergency alert.
What makes this situation even more alarming is the timing.
The strike reportedly happened during a shift change when many personnel were concentrated in barracks and operation centers.
If that detail is accurate, it could explain why the casualty numbers are so shockingly high.
And it may also suggest that whoever planned the strike had detailed intelligence about activity patterns at the base.
That raises another disturbing possibility.
Was this attack simply a missile strike?
Or was it part of a much larger, carefully coordinated operation?
Because military analysts are already pointing to something unusual about the timing of the launches.
Several radar systems reportedly detected the missiles only seconds before impact.
That could mean they followed a highly optimized flight path designed to avoid early detection.
Or it could suggest the use of newer missile technology that travels faster and lower than previous generations.
Either way, it appears the attackers knew exactly what they were doing.
And now the region is bracing for what happens next.
Because when a military installation of this importance is hit this hard, retaliation is almost inevitable.
And the next move could determine whether this crisis stays limited or explodes into something far bigger.
The shock inside Israel's military command structure was immediate.
Within minutes of the explosions, emergency communication channels between Air Force headquarters and national security leadership were activated.
Senior commanders reportedly rushed into underground control rooms as new radar data began flooding their screens.
What they saw made the situation even more alarming.
The missile strike did not appear to be a random barrage.
It looked precise, calculated, and brutally effective.
Several missiles had impacted the central operations sector of Nevatim Air Base.
That area contains maintenance facilities, aircraft shelters, and housing zones where hundreds of personnel stay during operational rotations.
Witnesses near the base described massive columns of smoke rising into the night sky.
Some residents more than 20 miles away said the ground actually shook when the first explosions hit.
Emergency responders arriving at the scene reportedly faced a chaotic and devastating situation.
Fires were spreading across multiple sections of the base while injured soldiers were being rushed out on stretchers toward waiting helicopters.
In the first hour after the attack, Israeli air defenses across the country were placed on the highest possible alert.
Additional interceptor batteries were activated as commanders feared a second wave might already be on the way.
But what worried analysts even more was the type of missiles believed to have been used in the strike.
Preliminary defense assessments suggest they may have been advanced Iranian ballistic missiles capable of traveling over 1,000 kilometers.
These weapons move at extremely high speeds, sometimes several times faster than the speed of sound.
That means defense systems often have only seconds to detect, track, and intercept them.
If multiple missiles arrive simultaneously from different trajectories, even sophisticated systems can be overwhelmed.
And that may be exactly what happened over Nevitim.
Early satellite tracking reportedly showed launches coming from more than one direction.
Some missiles appeared to approach from a high ballistic arc, while others traveled on a lower, flatter path.
This kind of mixed trajectory attack is specifically designed to confuse radar systems.
It forces missile defenses to divide their attention between multiple threats at once.
Military strategists sometimes call this a saturation strike.
And when executed correctly, it can punch holes through even the strongest defensive shields.
For years, Israel's missile defense network has been considered among the most advanced in the world.
It includes multiple layers designed to intercept everything from short-range rockets to long-range ballistic missiles.
But tonight, those layers may have been tested in a way they never had before.
If the reported casualties are confirmed, the psychological impact inside Israel could be enormous.
Nevatim is not just a base filled with aircraft and equipment.
It represents Israel's technological edge and its ability to strike enemies far beyond its borders.
This is really stunning, Joe, assuming this report is accurate.
1,200 Israeli troops lost, their major airbase destroyed.
Wow.
Meanwhile, Colonel McGregor, the Middle East may be worse than anything ever seen in history.
Get this.
McGregor is so good.
I think what Iran has to do is survive.
If Iran survives, they will be victorious.
And they're dealing right now with the United States Armed Forces and the Israelis, who are effectively waging a campaign that is designed not just to decapitate the state, in other words, eliminate the leadership, but to destroy the society, to cause it to disintegrate.
That's really what they want to do.
If they can do to Iran what they failed to do to Russia, and Iran fragments, then they can exploit the oil resources as they wish.
Ideally, they'd like the Iranians to capitulate and then to accept a puppet regime that reports to Israel, that is subordinate to Israel.
Israel is the beachhead, so to say, for the control over the region.
I don't think it's going to work, and I think a great deal of punishment could be meted out to Iran for some period of time.
But there are already people in Washington who are claiming victory, who are saying that they have defeated the air and missile defenses, and they can now attack at will, and it is simply a matter of time until the Iranians are exhausted.
I'm not sure I buy that.
I just don't know the details.
I think what we've seen thus far is that we have been unable to prevent the missiles from penetrating all of the air and missile defenses in Israel and in the Gulf.
If I were living in UAE right now or Qatar or any of these places, the first question I would ask is, why do we want these Americans in our countries anymore?
Look what's happened to us.
They haven't been able to protect us, and yet they said they would protect us.
You know, this is the sort of thing that we don't think about in the West, but I think that's something that is on people's minds in the Gulf.
Israel is in a different position.
For Israel, this is a do-or-die proposition.
Either they are victorious and they establish their hegemony over the region, or they are defeated and potentially destroyed.
The United States is simply doing what the Israelis wanted to do, which is destroy their principal opponent.
Although keep in mind, Eddie, that the Israelis have already within the last two weeks identified Turkey or Turkey, as people like to call it, as potentially an even more dangerous enemy than Iran.
And so many of us have begun to think that after, if we are successful in destroying Iran, that Turkey will be the next on the menu because the Israelis will want to destroy them.
Now, they've recently called up 100,000 men in the Israeli armed forces from the reserves, and they are now invading Lebanon again.
How far do they plan to go?
To the Latani River or all the way to Beirut?
I don't know.
I know that at least one Merkova Israeli tank was destroyed by Hezbollah, and Hezbollah is obviously fighting.
They're launching missiles and rockets at Israel, and they are fighting against the Israeli army as it moves up through the country.
There are a lot of things happening that nobody's reporting right now.
Right now, the CIA and the Mossad are trying to put together an invasion of Iran by the Kurds.
They're trying to persuade the Kurds in northern Iraq and in Syria to organize for an invasion of Iran.
And they're promising the Kurds a state of their own if they are successful and do so.
Now, this is very threatening to both Turkey or Turkey and Iran, because that state would be composed of territory that is partially Iranian and partially Turkish.
So there's a lot going on.
And the fact that we are encouraging this right now leads me to believe that the air and missile campaign is not quite as successful as advertised.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Without any doubt, it's actually a calamity.
Here we have intentional chemical warfare, toxic black rain in Tehran after U.S.-Israel bomb oil facilities.
This is from Common Dreams, which of course is a left-wing site, but for criticism of Trump's war policy, left-wing sites can be very good.
The consequence is that this environmental and humanitarian catastrophe will not be confined within Iran's borders.
These strikes constitute war crimes, said a spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry.
And the weight of infernos unleashed across portion of Tehran last night.
The people of Iran's capital woke up Sunday to the hideous sight of ominous gray clouds above, choking levels of smoke and black raindrops full of toxic oil falling across the city.
Craigs has signed scenes of Ur Maged characterizing the bombings and the destruction they triggered as the latest crimes committed by the U.S. and Israel since they launched their unprovoked and illegal assault on the Middle East nation last week.
Iranian officials urged it to stay indoor to avoid the health impact of the air quality following Israel's intentional bombing of several oil storage and processing facilities in the city on Saturday.
On top of everything else, Israel and the U.S. have unleashed an environmental disaster in Tehran, said Assad Brad, a fellow at the Arab Center in Washington, D.C. How many ways can they show you they have no regard for a human life?
I think that's exactly right.
Meanwhile, big brains behind Operation Epic FHAP continue to miscalculate.
This is from Winter Watch.
In nine days, the U.S. and Israel launched 4,500 strikes against Iran.
Iran fired back 905 missile, but zone let that sink in.
After 4,500 strikes, Iran is still retaliating.
The decision was made in the Operation Epic FHAP, Big Brain Trust, to torch Tehran's oil refinery infrastructure.
The scene is apocalyptic and straight out of a Peter Hegset wet dream.
They hit the oil refineries at Fid Tehran.
Thousands of labor workers burned alive.
Families burned in their homes.
Toxic fumes that viral over a city of 9 million.
Two days ago, they hit the burn treatment center.
So even if it were still open, it couldn't do its job to treat the Iranian people.
Joe, this is all really disgusting stuff.
Give us your thoughts.
Iran's Escalating Desalination Attacks00:10:11
Yeah, well, that's their typically M.O. for doing everything.
After they hit the Iranian desalination plant, Iranians said, Well, we'll hit one of your desalination plants.
After they hit the Tehran oil refinery, then Tehran said, Well, we'll hit the Haifa one.
And they knocked out 50% of the capacity of Haifa, but they've also knocked out some of their less than honorable Arab neighbors that are still partners in this whole fiasco.
So, but getting back to the first piece you did, this is an Oriental guy that has his website is money over history.
And the very first thing he posts is a disclaimer every day: beware of other AI creations using my voice and image.
And this is my only legitimate channel.
Well, I've seen a bunch of his other, you know, quote, other pirate channels, and they give some really provocative material.
But when you start doing research on it, a lot of it turns out to not be true.
And his site itself has some stuff that's questionable.
So I've seen him say, you know, that they sank a U.S. destroyer, and I've seen no other reports anywhere about it.
And I don't think you could conceal a destroyer sinking for five days.
I mean, this supposedly happened last week.
And so bottom line is he does some pretty nice stuff.
But if you look at the graphic images, a lot of times the graphic images don't match what he's talking about.
He'll have pictures of, you know, World War I and two soldiers when he's talking about current events.
So, you know, take it with a grain of salt.
It looks like it could be AI slot, but, you know, a lot of this stuff he has is really good.
And I've referenced it and it vets out.
So, you know, just buy or beware.
Joe, we understand about every source during the war that you got to have skepticism, but I found him by far the most reliable laying out the big picture about Tehran, the geography, why Iran has inherent advantage, the Gulf Coast states cannot defend themselves.
I think he's masterful.
And frankly, having spent 35 years lecturing to students, his lectures are brilliant.
They are completely spot on.
So I'm less of a skeptic than you, but I do agree that we can't take anything for granted.
If I don't find stories that cohere with other sources, then I tend to disregard him.
Here we have Phil Giraldi.
Maybe attacking Iran wasn't such a good idea.
After all, I couldn't agree more.
The completely unprovoked attack on Iran initiated by the U.S. and Israel has, after a little more than a week of military action, opened a new depth of geopolitical insanity.
As suspected, the attack was all about protecting Israel while also minimizing damage to U.S. military intel and diplomatic facilities and the Persian Gulf.
In that, it has been less than a great success.
There's been reportedly considerable damage done by Iranian missiles and drones in both the Jewish state and at American bases.
Iran has also suffered substantially.
And the U.S. bomb that killed 165 schoolgirls continues to fuel huge demonstrations and rage that is feeding a willingness to resist the U.S. among the Shia community, both inside Iran and in adjacent states and regions, expanding the conflict.
The combined Israel-U.S. onslaught was intended to destroy Iranian military capabilities, particularly its fictional nuclear and missile programs, and to bring about regime change after killing the former supreme leader.
As the attack took place, President Trump announced, by way of his Truth Social platform, we are going to destroy their missiles and raise their missile industry to the ground.
It'll be totally, again, obliterated.
We're going to annihilate their Navy.
On Saturday, March 7, Trump elaborated.
Twin out today, Iran will be hit very hard under serious consideration for complete destruction and certain death because of Iran's bad behavior.
Our areas and groups of people that were not conservative are targeting up until this moment at time.
Trump also expressed himself in a post on Truth Social, how Americans will die against Iran, elaborating.
Lives of courageous American heroes may be lost.
In what the Pentagon dubbed Operation Epic Fury, we may have casualties.
As Trump's entire family has avoided military service, the element of Briser's war making will consist of using other American families, sons and daughters, as cannon fodder.
And he may be preparing for a political backlash by demonstrating now how much he cares about the average Americans who will be impacted by policies, of course.
He clearly does not care unless their name is Adelson or Netanyahu.
And the war is taking place at all is due to Israel's absolute control of American political class.
Reality, Netanyahu and predecessors have not been shy about admitting.
U.S. is a hapless giant that has been corrupted by Jewish billionaire money from within, totally committed to the expansion of greater Israel.
No many have to die in the process.
Do the Israelis care what happens to the American people?
No.
It's only necessary to look at the planned or actual killing of Americans by Israel, starting with the LeBon affair in 1954, which planned to bomb U.S. embassy offices in Egypt.
Then there came the attack on the USS Liberty in international waters in 1967, an attempt to sink the Navy ship and kill all of its crew, covered up by Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of Defense McNamara.
More recently, a number of Americans have been killed with impunity by Israel.
One might mention prominent peace activist Rachel Corey in 2003, deliberately run over by an Israeli army bulldozer, Joe.
He omits 9-11, which was the ultimate Israeli false flag attack, blaming it on, you know, Arabs, 19 Islamic terrorists on flights that were fabricated and faked.
I mean, it's just outrageous.
I don't understand why Phil hasn't put two and two together here.
I even have a book entitled America Nuked on 9-11 compliments of CIA, neocons, and the DOD and the Mossad.
The evidence is overwhelming.
These are not our friends.
They are our enemy.
They want to exploit us, use us, kill us, suck us dry, and cast us aside once they're done with us.
Joe, your thoughts.
Yeah, well, he also forgot to mention the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.
And he also forgot to mention JFK, which is a pretty obvious little event.
Great interview with Greg Dyson and Ted Polsto, P-O-S-T-O-L.
He's an MIT professor, and he said, I've spent 30 years studying missile defense systems.
And he said they're all frauds.
Once you get over about Mach 2, there's absolutely no way you can have a reliable system that's going to knock down missiles.
And when you're talking about Mach 15, forget about it.
There's no way.
And then when you get stuff that's directional, no way.
So this whole thing is just nothing but an MIC grift.
And getting back to how all this shit happens, the last time that the United States declared war was on Hungary on June 4th, 1942.
And the reason we declared war on them is because they were surrounded.
Them, Bulgaria, and Romania had Hitler on one side and Stalin on the other.
And I'm sorry, if you're a Germanic tribe, you would kind of go, well, you know, we got two bad options.
Let's go with the Germans.
And so that's what happened.
And that's what ended up causing them to be cast under the Iron Curtain thanks to the Yalta sellout by FDR.
So that's a little bit of a problem.
And well, I should take more notes so I don't forget stuff because my old brain, but also I had a real busy weekend.
I'm straight off the top of your head.
You're doing great.
We don't need that name.
Okay.
All right.
Okay.
Well, something I just wanted to mention since our guest isn't here.
Over the weekend, I got contacted by Truth Action Project.
They have been doing the 9-11 stuff for 25 years.
And they're the ones that put together that conference that was supposed to be on September 11th.
But then we had the Charlie Kirk thing, which looks to have a lot of Jewish footprints.
And so they ended up postponing their first day.
And then they had a couple of people that canceled because they thought the event might be bombed.
But anyhow, we had a really good discussion, and they were unaware of all the research that I've done.
And they were pretty unaware about the nuclear stuff.
So I've been feeding them information.
Looks like we'll be doing another interview with them.
And then last night, I did an interview with Navy chief, chief petty officer, Jerome Bell.
And he's pretty good too.
But the other thing I wanted to mention is there's protests going on all over the West in support of installing the Shah again in Iran.
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And guess what?
At the time that they overthrew the Shah, there was about a million wealthy Jews that had been living in Iran for hundreds of years.
And they fled with their money.
And a lot of them ended up creating dysphorias all over the country.
And so you had big protests in support of overthrowing the Iranian government by Jews that haven't lived there for 47 years.
It ain't going to happen, John.
So glad to have you here, my friend.
Bye.
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That Osama had nothing to do with it.
That the twin towers were blown apart by a sophisticated arrangement of mini or micro nukes.
That Building 7 collapsed seven hours later because of explosives planted in the building.
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One who may have been anticipating Eli James' commentary on Christian Zionism.
I will bring him back either this Friday or the next Monday.
Count on it.
Meanwhile, newsmax, U.S.-Israel was sending special forces to seize Iran's nuclear stockpile.
United States and Israel are discussing sending special force into Iran to secure its stockpile of highly enriched uranium.
At a later stage of the war, Axios reported Saturday, citing four sources with knowledge of the discussions.
Reuters could not immediately verify the reports.
Israeli forces expanding their bombardment of Iran overnight, striking fuel depots near Tehran, while Behran said an Iranian attack damaged one of its desalinization plants, signaling a wider assault on vital infrastructure across the region.
As a fighting escalator on day nine of the U.S.-Israeli assault on Iran, Tehran moved closer to naming a new supreme leader after the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with every indication suggesting his powerful son could take charge, as indeed he has.
Meanwhile, here are more reports.
If U.S. attacks Iran's nuclear sites, the radiation could affect Gulf, Pakistan, and India.
This would be very bad.
If a nuclear facility in Iran is hit in war, the danger does not stop at Iran's borders.
It travels with the wind.
The recent strikes under Operation Epic Fury, including reports of attacks on the Netan's enrichment complex, have already triggered warnings from the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi called the situation very concerning.
He did not confirm radiation leaks, but he made one thing very clear.
A radiological release cannot be ruled out.
And if that happens, consequences could stretch far beyond the battlefield.
We stand by what I said before.
We haven't seen major military activity targeting the nuclear facilities.
We have been looking at different satellite images.
There might be something there, but not significant or comparable in any way to what we saw last time.
Have you sensed that there is still willingness in resuming the diplomatic talks?
Well, I think so.
I think so.
I think there is a recognition, and if you listen to statements made by President Trump or Foreign Minister Araki, I think there is a recognition that there will have to be a dialogue at some point.
Of course, we are in the midst of a military campaign.
So we cannot expect at this point to have a date, a place, a moment.
This is premature.
But I think there is a recognition that there has to be a conversation, that there has to be a dialogue.
And we will be ready to assist, if so requested.
The communication I am referring to is the communication that our incident and emergency center normally has with a point of contact that is determined or defined by every state on issues that have to do with radiological situations.
Neither the United States nor Israel is a rational agent in this matter.
Meanwhile, what to know about Daimona, Israel's nuclear site.
If Israel were to attack Iran's enrichment facilities, Iran no doubt would attack Daimona.
And I believe the consequence would be to render at least half of Israel, which is only the size of New Jersey, uninhabitable for the next 200 years.
Explainer, what to know about Daimona, Israel's nuclear site.
In a war already redrawing the region's red line with a death toll, the U.S.-Israeli attacks on RAND, reportedly having surpassed 1,000, Tehran has brought one of the Middle East most sensitive strategic sites into the escalation equation, Israel's Daimona nuclear side.
A senior Iranian military official told the Iranian website, Iran Nuances, later reported by Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency, that if the U.S. and Israel pursue a regime change scenario in practice, Tehran's final effective missile will target the Daimona nuclear reactor and all regional energy infrastructure, adding, this is a scenario for which we have already prepared.
Iran has retaliated with waves of drone and missile strike targeting Israel as well as Gulf countries, hosting U.S. military assets, raising fears of a wider regional war.
The warning has reignited questions that often remain muted in regional crises.
What is Daimona?
Why is it seen as the backbone of Israel's nuclear capability?
And how does it secretly shape the politics of deterrence in a region already consumed by war?
Meanwhile, Abby Martin.
Western media's complicity in the U.S.-Israel war.
Joe, you alluded to this.
She is wonderful.
There's a second guy here with her who's also very good.
Indiscriminate bombing of Iran, as the country's Red Crescent said that at least 555 people have been killed amid reports of fresh mass casualty attacks across the country.
And now, a shocked globe watches in horror as the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran boils over into a deadly regional disaster.
Since the start of the war, Israel has sent troops into Lebanon and ramped up its illegal annexations of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank.
Iran has retaliated by striking multiple U.S. military bases in the Middle East, including facilities in Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates.
Regardless of the Trump regime's saber-rattling and half-baked justifications for this illegal war, it is clear that neither Trump, Netanyahu, nor Iran have the sole ability to control the outcome here.
The proverbial Pandora's box of war has been opened.
A lot of people are going to die.
And the geopolitical and economic shockwaves are already being felt around the globe.
And to be 100% clear, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu are the ones responsible for this war and whatever comes next.
That is patently obvious.
But they and their cabinets of war hawks are not the only ones with blood on their hands.
And today, we're going to talk about how Western media and American politicians in the supposed Democratic opposition have also helped manufacture the conditions for this war.
And I'm extremely grateful to be joined today by two guests who are going to help us dig into this.
Abby Martin, legendary journalist, documentary filmmaker, and host of The Empire Files, and Adam Johnson, writer, media critic, co-host of the Citations Needed podcast, and a columnist for us here at The Real News.
Thank you both so much for joining us today.
I want to dive right in and focus on the media's complicity in this U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.
So Adam, I'm going to toss it to you first.
And I want to ask you guys, in your assessment, how have legacy media outlets responded to the war with Iran over the past week?
And what does that response tell us about the media itself?
Well, I think much of the heavy lifting was done prior to the bombing.
Obviously, decades of anti-Iran, Iran sentiment in our media, there's been this quote-unquote nuclear. threat from Iran.
I think the conflation of their civilian nuclear energy program with some sort of proto-nuclear bomb has been probably the most successful if you sort of polled.
You know, I wanted to pollster.
I talked to some pollsters about polling this question last June and none of them ever did, but I think it's actually quite urgent.
And I'm going to tend to try to get it pulled.
But if you ask the average American, do you think Iran has a nuclear weapon?
My guess is you'd say probably 60, 70% would say yes.
And you see this slip up all the time.
I mean, either intentionally or unintentionally.
CBS News under Barry Weiss claimed that Iran had one in one social media post two days ago.
But of course, there's a fatwa against having a nuclear weapon in Iran.
They've never built one.
They have not had a nuclear weapons program in at least 25 years.
This is something U.S. intelligence has affirmed over and over again.
But this conflation of their civilian nuclear energy program, which again, dozens of countries on Earth have without having a nuke, right?
This is a very common thing, has been, I think, and they're right under the NFT and other international treaties to have that has been conflated as this like constant ticking time bump threat.
I think that's really the that's the primary core of like anti-Iran propaganda because it's not like obviously Iran doesn't fund or arm al-Qaeda or ISIS.
It's not, as far as I can tell, it's not invading California or New York.
So to get the average American to sort of care, they have to have this specter of a kind of nuclear-armed madman, religious fanatics.
And that has been kind of the central conflation.
They don't make that clear.
They repeatedly mislead people into thinking they have nuclear weapons.
And I know the New York Times in several instances had to retract making those claims because it just becomes conventional wisdom.
And I think that's probably the single biggest fear-mongering thing one has seen over the last 10 years.
It's something I know that my co-host Nima Shirazi has written about for, gosh, almost 20 years with these concerns.
I don't think they're really going for regime change.
I don't think anyone really believes that, mostly because any regime that replaces this regime would still be anti-Israel because they're bombing their fucking girls' schools.
And there's not really like a dictator on offer.
And so it's obvious the goal is to just do what they did to Lebanon, which is into Syria, which is to sort of just pound it into submission and to indiscriminately kill civilians until they have full reign over the skies and sea.
And that's really what you're seeing.
So you're seeing a kind of indiscriminate bombing, as you noted, because that's part of the Israeli and part of the American strategy is to inflict violence on civilians, specifically children, to get a military actor to capitulate.
Abby, let's toss it to you.
How would you read the media's response to this war?
Well, it just reminds me, as Adam was talking, the Ron Susskin quote from the New York Times being told by Karl Rove: you know, we create our own reality, and you guys are just left to report on what we do.
That's the way the world works.
And it really has been laid bare with this kind of naked, belligerent, aggressive colonialism.
I mean, let's not forget that Iran holds the third largest oil reserves in the world.
So we're talking about literally just two months after the flagrant kidnapping, the brazen black bagging of a sovereign leader overseeing the largest oil reserves in the world with little controversy from like the world stage.
Like, I remember all the European leaders who are the doormats for U.S. imperialism came out and they're just like, well, you know, we didn't like the way, you know, let's not talk about legality now.
Like, Maduro needed to go.
And we're seeing the exact same rhetoric.
We're seeing the exact same acquiescence, kowtowing to this insanity from these global leaders because they're just complicit.
I mean, they are appendages to this system and they have been vying for this for decades.
One of the biggest, I think, misconstrued understandings of the situation is that Israel has forced America's hand into this, somehow absolving the great Satan.
Look, this is the ritual sacrifice to the oil dragon.
This is what America does.
This is all for oil.
It always has been.
And they will not, they do not care about the human casualties or the environmental toll of anything that they do.
So this is just pure savagery and barbarism.
But like Adam's articulating, this does not happen in a vacuum.
The media has laid the groundwork for all of this.
I mean, they're doing the exact same playbook, just like they did in Gaza, obfuscating who's perpetrating the atrocities.
I mean, 150 children.
I mean, on the first day, one of the worst atrocities that the U.S. has directly committed since Vietnam.
And the way the media is reporting on it, buried, right?
The leads buried in paragraph seven.
The headline is just like, yep, this happened.
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It was really bad.
Well, who the hell did it?
Who did it?
And then you see again the confusion.
And oh, well, it was a misdirected missile.
Well, that's what they said.
And everyone is just again trying to confuse and obfuscate who the perpetrator is of the atrocities.
And then, of course, the European doormats go out there and they're just like, how dare you?
How dare you respond to an attempt to completely destroy your country, taking out of your supreme leader all of these politicians, Ahmed Anjad, it would be like bombing Bush at his ranch.
Now, I mean, this is absolutely insane the way that this has been normalized and accepted by the world.
So I think, Joe, Abby Martin is, of course, completely right in her passion.
I'm most interested in your thoughts of what would happen if Iran were forced to retaliate by hitting Demona.
Tell us your thoughts, Joe.
What would happen?
Am I right?
It would render portions of Israel, which is only the size of New Jersey, uninhabitable for the next 200 years.
We got perfect examples.
Look at what happened in Chernobyl and Fukushima.
And you can get an idea what's going to happen if they hit Demona, and it could be 10 times worse than that.
Prevailing winds are to the east and all across the earth because that's the way the rotation is.
And so that means that all that nuclear waste is going to drift all across the Middle East, all across Iran, all across Pakistan and northern India, and then into China.
So we're going to end up polluting a whole spectrum of earth across a real wide path for centuries because of these idiots.
But as far as Abby Martin, she's great, except she is totally bought into the carbon dioxide's warming the planet crap.
And every time I hear a browbeating about that and sustainable, it's just absolute 100% bullshit.
But other than that, here's some more popping up news because I've got my tablet on.
This is great.
I got one just now.
Gates and Borla on trial in the Netherlands for the woo flu jabs.
So that's going to be interesting.
I hadn't had a chance to view that.
Yeah.
And then I got something from James Fetzer.
Tel Aviv fully blacked out.
The entire city of Tel Aviv is reported without electricity power as of 9.42 p.m. Eastern U.S. Daylight Time on Sunday, March 8th, after Iran struck their power plants.
Well, guess what happens when you don't have any power?
Well, that means you don't have any pumped water, which means that anybody in a high-rise is not going to be able to get water.
And even in a low-rise, you're not going to be able to get water.
And then you don't have the ability to pump gas.
You don't have the ability to do any kind of credit card exchanges.
I've lived through several major blackouts in the Houston area, two hurricanes and one ice storm.
And the minimum of those was five days without power.
You don't have any traffic lights.
It's like insufferable.
You're sitting around with an oil lamp going, I wonder how the pioneers lived in this kind of environment.
You know, I've got my Coleman butane burner stove and I've got a wood stove to house.
But bottom line is, when you've got a whole city that's based on a technical society and you blow out the electricity, you've got nothing but a nightmare.
Yeah, yeah, and that's why they say an EMP over the U.S. would bring about 70%, loss of 70% of the population within months.
I mean, life as we know it in America would be brought to an abrupt halt and we'd become scavengers.
I have no idea how bad it would be, but it would be quite awful.
There'd be roving gangs.
They'd be exploiting, going from home to home to steal the resources and kill the occupants if they were to resist.
Joe, I can see no end to horror stories coming out of all of this.
And I'm fascinated you're reporting that Trump has twice appealed for a ceasefire.
Can you elaborate?
Well, the latest one was disclosed by the Iranian agent that was in New York and being interviewed by, I believe it was ABC News, but primetime, I think is what it was.
But bottom line is we're going to have a guest on about biblical stuff.
I want to mention two biblical things I was going to bring up with him.
One of them is sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
This is Hosea chapter 8, verse 7.
And in that Hosea chapter, God warns the Israelis, if you don't stop being evil and don't start following my commandments, you're going to be spit out of every country where you've occupied.
And that's exactly what's happened 109 times, and it's fixed and happened 110.
So that's item number one.
The other one is out of Revelations, the four horses of the apocalypse.
And I think that somebody mistranslated it, or basically it's changed over time.
But the four horses of the apocalypse are famine, pestilence, disease, and according to the Bible, death.
Well, death is inevitable.
There's not a horseman that's going to bring death, but war is optional.
And unfortunately, all four of those threat vectors are under complete control of the monopolists that run our money system and our funny baloney governments.
So that's why we're in this situation.
This is the biblical end times.
And I hope it's the end times for these monsters that run the top of the pyramid.
And if we've got 39 trillion in debt, we know who has 39 trillion in assets that they stolen from the human race for the last 300 years.
And we need to nationalize all of the Rothschild's assets.
So bottom line is, yeah, expect a major reset.
Yeah, the situation is catastrophic.
Let's pick up on another report.
U.S. Intel community covering its ass.
What's really going on with the war with Larry Johnson?
This guy is very, very good.
This is actually in ounes.com.
Start with the big news from the U.S. Intel community leak in the Washington Post.
Judd Hudson and Warren Strobel got the story.
Classified report from National Intelligence Council found that even large-scale assault on Iran launched by the United States would be unlikely to house the Islamic Republic's entrenched military and clerical establishment.
A sobering assessment that Trump admin raises a specter of an extended military campaign of his shall say has only just begun.
These findings, confirmed to the Washington Post by three familiar with the report's content, raise doubts about Trump's declared plan to clean out Iran's leadership structure and install a ruler of his choosing.
It's absurd.
This means the war in Iran is not going well, and the U.S. intelligence is beginning the Washington game of don't blame me.
I warned you not to do it.
I don't know if Tulsi authorized the league, or it came from senior analysts from the four principal agencies involved in writing the classified report, CIA, DIA, State Department, Bureau of Intel and Research, and NSA.
It's important to understand that this report was produced by the National Intelligence Council, the NIC, and is under the direct control of Tulsi Gabbard.
In any event, I see it as a clear signal from people involved in producing the report.
They will not be the scapegoats when the Iran war turns into a debacle for Donald Trump.
It's already happening.
I get dozens of emails that day from readers asking questions.
I try to read it and respond.
I've read to Rand, here's one.
I read that Tran is now being hit with gravity bombs.
The U.S. now have total airspace control.
What happened to S-300-400 and super long-range radar able to detect South aircraft?
I'd like the question.
The U.S. does not have air superiority.
U.S. and Israeli planes are flying close to Iran's western border and releasing primarily the joint air-to-serve standoff missile, which has a range between 230 and 600 miles, depending on the variant.
I don't know how many of any S-300-400s are deployed in Iran, which has reportedly shot down 29 MQ-9s and Hermes drones since 28 Feb, which represents a financial loss of 800 mil.
What does it imply that Iran has apologized to its neighbors for attacking them?
This is a misreading of what the Iranian president said.
Drzezkin personally apologized to the neighboring country, Gulf State, Arab states, affected by Iranian missiles, saying something along the lines of, I should apologize to the neighboring countries attacked by Iran on my own behalf, on behalf of Iran.
However, in later remarks, he emphasized any de-escalation gesture was undermined by U.S. actions, like Trump's response, framing it as a capitulation.
As long as the U.S. continues to conduct military ops from the territories of the Gulf of Arab States, Iran will and has continued to attack U.S. targets in those countries.
There's more here, but we certainly get the idea.
Meanwhile, there is one I want to pick up on: to wit, Iran is morally superior to the United States.
This is 100% correct.
Caitlin Johnstone doesn't mince words.
Let's see, we got a Iran is morally superior to the United States.
Iran is better than the United States.
The United States is worse than Iran.
This is true not because Iran is especially good, but because the United States is especially evil.
Iran isn't blanketing a major metropolis with military explosives, killing over a thousand people, including hundreds of children.
The United States is doing this with its partner in crime, Israel.
Iran isn't continuously bombing and invading countries around the world, toppling governments, circling the globe with hundreds of military bases, targeting civilian populations with siege warfare and brandishing nuclear weapons at its enemies in the name of securing planetary domination.
Only the United States is.
The U.S. Empire is the single most murderous and tyrannical power structure on Earth by an extremely massive margin.
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No one else comes anywhere remotely close.
Not Iran, not anybody.
Every government in the world is morally superior to the most evil government, and the most evil government is the United States.
Whenever I say this, I get U.S. Empire apologists going, We're only the ones fighting the wars and dropping the bombs because we happen to be the ones with the power to do so.
But that's false.
The U.S. isn't the world's most vicious government because it happens to be the most powerful.
It's the most powerful government because it's the most vicious.
Brilliant, brilliant stuff.
Joe, I want to thank you for being here.
You do a great job as my co-host.
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