Episode

6/26 The Iran War Cabal & Its Proxies w/ Murtaza Hussain

June 26, 2019

Joining Michael Brooks on today’s Majority Report is Murtaza Hussain to talk about the right wing’s secretive efforts to start a war with Iran and the writings of the fake journalist Heshmat Alavi.

On today’s show: DSA-endorsed public defender Tiffany Cabán (most likely) wins Queens DA race.

Murtaza Hussain (@MazMHussain), journalist at The Intercept, joins us to talk about the right wing’s secretive efforts to start a war with Iran and the writings of the fake journalist Heshmat Alavi. The return of “America first” paleoconservative who advocates turning the US from an empire to a white ethno-state. How pro regime change forces faked an Iranian journalist named Heshmat Alavi. (Read Hussain’s report at The Intercept.) Jared Kushner lays out plans for the future of Palestine. The Trump admin’s clueless efforts to buy the Palestinians out of the hope of statehood.

On the fun half: Japanese Americans protest children being moved to camps in Oklahoma. Meghan McCain makes child concentration camps at border about her and her family. Dana Loesch’s Meghan McCain impression and Meghan’s brunch tweet. Dave Rubin thinks government needs to intervene in the marketplace of ideas, specifically YouTube. USA women’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe on going to WH: “I’m not going to the fucking White House.” Gorka says the wall has to come before providing hygenic products to detainees. Trump says border conditions were worse under Obama. Dennis Prager says Google is censoring any conservative voices.

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