Stay Free - Russel Brand - “Putin Wanted HILLARY!” In 2017 | BOMBSHELL Evidence EXPOSES Russiagate AGAIN! - Stay Free #306

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00:02:23.000 Awakening Wonders, thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand.

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00:02:34.000 If you're watching this on Rumble right now, you're in for a hell of an experience.

00:02:38.000 We're going to be talking about The endlessly escalating forever war that Biden is advocating for and Stella Assange is on the show today ahead of next week's hearings here in the UK in which it will be determined whether or not Julian Assange has the right to appeal.

00:02:57.000 That's pretty extraordinary isn't it?

00:02:58.000 There's got to be a trial in order to establish whether or not there can be an appeal.

00:03:03.000 How many bureaucratic layers between freedom and that man Can they implement? 0.97

00:03:09.000 Astonishing really, given that so far Julian Assange has never stood trial for the charge of espionage, which as you know was deployed under Barack Obama, that change and hope candidate, more than under any other president.

00:03:24.000 Now the first part of the show will be on YouTube, then we will be on Rumble.

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00:03:39.000 I hope you're enjoying the additional videos we give you, like how to challenge authority with Terrence McKenna and we've got another exclusive video for you where we analyze Lee Fang's recent appearance before a subcommittee over there in the United States talking about censorship and free speech and the emergence of these new AI agencies that are becoming expert in managing the public discourse.

00:04:03.000 Now, if you want to monitor how much the culture has changed and how much it has gotten out of control, you could look to the re-emergence of Jon Stewart in the mainstream media space.

00:04:14.000 When Jon Stewart was last at the center of this culture, it was accepted that you could be somewhat critical of political figures on both sides of the aisle.

00:04:22.000 Since then, censorship has risen to a High, high, high Fahrenheit levels and now if you criticize Joe Biden it's a problem.

00:04:33.000 Let me know if you saw Stuart on the Daily Show, the new rebooted Daily Show, and let me know if you saw the view, frantic, that anyone would criticize Joe Biden for being Elderly, and perhaps pointing out that a person in that position ought not be grappling with senility and descending into senescence with such obvious consequences.

00:04:59.000 You know, particularly when, in a minute, we're going to be talking about the ongoing forever wars.

00:05:03.000 We'll be looking a little bit at Rishi Sunak and his patronizing videos.

00:05:07.000 But first, let's start with The View, talking about Jon Stewart.

00:05:10.000 Frantic that he's not Simply advocating for four more years of Biden, when Joe Biden may not even have four more years left.

00:05:18.000 And I say that with all due respect.

00:05:21.000 I love it that Jon Stewart is back, but what's so offensive to me is there's difference between age and intelligence.

00:05:27.000 There's a difference between age and vitality.

00:05:30.000 There's a difference between age and really being up She's not actually talking about her co-host there on The View, Joy, and I think there's a distinction between hosting The View and running the United States of America and perhaps the

00:05:50.000 The free world.

00:05:51.000 Hey, remember that Stella Assange is joining us later.

00:05:54.000 If you've got any questions for Stella, post them there in the Rumble chat with Julian Assange's hearing coming up on Tuesday and Wednesday next week.

00:06:01.000 We will be streaming live from the Royal Court.

00:06:04.000 If you're in the United Kingdom, you can join us there for this historic occasion where the possibility for a little bit of democracy and a little bit of free speech will be discussed privately behind closed doors by highly paid judges.

00:06:15.000 Cooking is not the same as running the free world.

00:06:17.000 cooking in front of people. Cooking is not the same as running the free world.

00:06:22.000 She's still exactly Robert De Niro and Al Pacino are getting it in. They've got babies.

00:06:27.000 Pretending to be a gangster is not the same as being an actual gangster and running the free world.

00:06:33.000 He's in their 80s. Okay. Jay's 86.

00:06:37.000 Representative Maxine Waters, 85.

00:06:39.000 Bernie Sanders, 82.

00:06:41.000 Nancy Pelosi, 83.

00:06:42.000 I don't know.

00:06:43.000 They look like they know what they're doing.

00:06:45.000 I don't know what they're doing when it comes to investing.

00:06:48.000 In fact, is it true that if we just invested in the commodities that Nancy Pelosi, or Paul Pelosi, sorry, it's not Nancy Pelosi that does the actual investing, that we will be ahead of the market, ahead of hedge funds?

00:06:59.000 Is that true?

00:07:00.000 Let me know in the chat if that's true.

00:07:01.000 They have the wisdom, they have the history.

00:07:02.000 The problem with this country is that we don't value people with their wisdom.

00:07:06.000 We don't value seniors.

00:07:07.000 We don't value entrepreneurs.

00:07:09.000 Okay, I'm sick of this ageism problem.

00:07:12.000 There's a difference between revering our elders and connecting with the sacred and remembering this Lent that we must allow God to move ever closer to us and allowing someone that's possibly grappling with cognitive decline to make very complex decisions.

00:07:29.000 Certainly in the UK we have a different problem.

00:07:31.000 We got one of them haircut politicians.

00:07:34.000 We got a haircut in charge.

00:07:35.000 We got one of your Macron's, one of your Trudeau's, a little bit of liberal language.

00:07:40.000 Although Rishi Sunak is purportedly a conservative leader, he lacks none of the WEF's panache when it comes to communication.

00:07:48.000 And he's YouTubed his way into a modern communication set.

00:07:53.000 This is brilliant.

00:07:54.000 This is Rishi Sunak.

00:07:55.000 You know, like when you're in a relationship with someone, the relationship's not going very well, and the person goes, no, the relationship is going well.

00:08:00.000 Here's Rishi Sunak doing that.

00:08:02.000 He's essentially, he's our prime minister, if you're watching this in the United States, you may not know that.

00:08:07.000 Here's Rishi Sunak telling you why things ain't so bad.

00:08:11.000 Hi, I wanted to talk to you a little bit about what's going on in the economy and the plan that we're working towards.

00:08:16.000 But before then, I wanted to take you back to the context that we found ourselves in.

00:08:23.000 It's so patronising and extraordinary, isn't it?

00:08:25.000 As politics amends to become more accessible, can you see that it somehow becomes more banal and more disingenuous?

00:08:33.000 Remember Covid?

00:08:34.000 Someone in the Awake and Wonder chat's going, oh no, he has a master plan!

00:08:39.000 He's got a whiteboard!

00:08:40.000 There's a master plan coming!

00:08:41.000 And the enormous impact it had on all of us.

00:08:43.000 And because of that, we did a lot of things to get the country through Covid.

00:08:49.000 Like supporting the NHS, vaccine programme, furlough.

00:08:53.000 That's why most nurses are now considering industrial action. 1.00

00:08:56.000 That's why most junior doctors are knackered and exhausted.

00:09:00.000 It was convenient to support the NHS for a while, while wrangling people into mass compliance.

00:09:06.000 But is the NHS, generally speaking, being supported now?

00:09:09.000 Or is it being covertly privatised?

00:09:11.000 And look at this extraordinary little circle that is drawn that looks like the coronavirus in microcosm itself with all of these tangential arrows and angles emerging from it telling us why things are great and there's nothing to worry about.

00:09:25.000 Those things cost around 400 billion pounds with all the other support we provided.

00:09:30.000 All that support we've provided?

00:09:32.000 Your life's fantastic!

00:09:33.000 Just as we were recovering from Covid, we saw a war when Russia invaded Ukraine.

00:09:37.000 That meant that everyone... Bloody war when Russia... Like, think how many times you could dispute everything he's saying. 0.65

00:09:44.000 Hold on, what about the NATO impeachment on former Soviet Union territories?

00:09:50.000 Was that money during the Covid period well spent?

00:09:53.000 And where the hell are you doing this?

00:09:54.000 Hetty Hope on the Awaken Wonder Locals chat and you can join us there.

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00:10:00.000 He says, is he in his bedroom?

00:10:02.000 I don't know, there's a lot of beige going on.

00:10:04.000 There's energy bills. 1.00

00:10:05.000 Johnny Freedom simply says, what a dick! 0.99

00:10:10.000 Off Gem estimated that they would go up from around £1,300. 0.99

00:10:14.000 Did Britain go to war officially then?

00:10:16.000 That's a good point, you know, Razbender.

00:10:18.000 That's extraordinary.

00:10:19.000 War!

00:10:20.000 War!

00:10:21.000 A war just happened.

00:10:22.000 Yeah, we're not supposed to be in that war.

00:10:25.000 To £4,500, unless the government did something about it, which it did.

00:10:29.000 It provided about £100 billion of support to everyone.

00:10:33.000 Remember the reason that Julian Assange is in Belmarsh right now without trial is because he reported and facilitated the reporting of whistleblowers through WikiLeaks openly in a way that was hardly advantageous to the kind of elitist interests that Rishi Sunak no doubt represents. Last year, one of the things that won't

00:10:52.000 feature in his graph is that he paid 20% tax. He won't be telling you about the

00:10:56.000 relationship between his father-in-law's firm and the WEF. Look it up for yourself. It's called Infosys,

00:11:02.000 that company. And he won't tell you about Thalim Partners, the hedge fund that

00:11:06.000 invested heavily in Moderna right before Moderna became a very profitable organisation

00:11:12.000 around the time that Covid appears on Rishi's wee whiteboard graph there.

00:11:17.000 Their energy bills. But all of these things meant that we saw high inflation. That's what

00:11:22.000 caused all the pressures with the cost of living.

00:11:26.000 At the beginning of last year, I set out five priorities.

00:11:29.000 The first of those priorities was to halve inflation.

00:11:32.000 What's happened to inflation?

00:11:34.000 What he's essentially going to do is give you information that makes it look like they're doing a fantastic job, when I think many of us might dispute that.

00:11:34.000 Look at this!

00:11:45.000 Russ looks like Fonzie.

00:11:47.000 Astonishing.

00:11:48.000 Okay, guys.

00:11:50.000 It says here that we're leaving YouTube in a minute, but we could, if we wanted to, reduce the 10-minute period.

00:11:55.000 There's other ways we could adjust that, guys, so you should wait for me to cue that.

00:11:59.000 That would always be my preference.

00:12:01.000 Take that off, please, and we'll do that in a second.

00:12:04.000 Thanks very much.

00:12:05.000 Let's have a look.

00:12:06.000 Over the past year, well, according to the Office of National Statistics, inflation was around 11% when I became Prime Minister.

00:12:17.000 Now, inflation has more than halved.

00:12:20.000 Oh, there you go.

00:12:21.000 Everything's fantastic.

00:12:23.000 What we're being invited to do is to ignore the evidence of our own eyes, our own ears, our own hearts, our own experience.

00:12:29.000 To avoid the evidence of soaring fuel prices, grocery and food bills, the ongoing sense that the infrastructure around us is crumbling, the despair, the woe that is immersive and evident and abundant all around us and except that this man with the dead eyes and the whiteboard is telling you the truth.

00:12:48.000 So around 4% that's good progress but we've got to keep going because inflation belongs back down at 2%.

00:12:56.000 What does that mean for you And your family?

00:12:59.000 Well, first and foremost, because inflation is coming down, that eases burdens with the cost of... That house looks like a little sad face.

00:13:07.000 If you're watching us on YouTube, start the countdown if that's okay, guys.

00:13:11.000 Thank you very much.

00:13:12.000 We're gonna leave now to do our conversation with Stella Assange.

00:13:16.000 We're gonna be talking to Stella Assange in a moment.

00:13:20.000 About Julian Assange's hearing and yeah, so join us over there.

00:13:25.000 Click the link in the description.

00:13:27.000 See you in a few moments.

00:13:29.000 Thank you very much.

00:13:30.000 Cheers for joining us.

00:13:32.000 Yeah, there's a very sad house, says Sue's Joy over on Locals, mostly because people can't afford one.

00:13:32.000 Right.

00:13:38.000 Yes, Stella is coming up.

00:13:41.000 Let's have a look at this Hillary Clinton story then, just if you pull that up for me guys and we'll do that.

00:13:49.000 Cheers, number seven.

00:13:50.000 Thank you very much.

00:13:51.000 So, I can't see that.

00:13:55.000 Michael Schellenberger says the US government said in 2017 that Russia favoured Trump as president, but now sources reveal for the first time that the CIA cooked the intelligence to hide that Vladimir Putin Biden or Trump?

00:14:05.000 Clinton not Donald Trump as president. CIA cooked the intelligence to hide that

00:14:11.000 Russia favored Clinton not Trump. Also in a Kremlin TV interview Putin appeared to

00:14:18.000 indicate that his preference would be Biden over Donald Trump. Let's have a

00:14:24.000 look at that.

00:14:27.000 Biden. He is a more experienced man, he is predictable, he is an old-fashioned politician.

00:14:35.000 But we will work with any leader of the United States that the American people will trust.

00:14:44.000 I suppose what we can glean and deduce from that is that Putin would prefer to deal with that professional class of politicians who are widely suspected to belong to financial interests, in particular those of the donor class.

00:15:01.000 Then a maverick like Donald Trump who may be somewhat erratic.

00:15:07.000 That's basically what I took from that.

00:15:09.000 We did a poll a little earlier where we asked who do you trust to handle Putin in the war and unsurprisingly, because we're beginning to know what your preferences are guys, 75% of you said Donald Trump.

00:15:20.000 No one!

00:15:21.000 2.7% Hillary Clinton and some of you RFK.

00:15:27.000 Let's have a look.

00:15:28.000 And we polled elsewhere.

00:15:30.000 I think that's, oh yeah, 66,000 votes.

00:15:33.000 Again, just endlessly Donald Trump.

00:15:35.000 But RFK, as with most polls, emerging as a real contender.

00:15:42.000 In case you weren't terrified for a moment about impending escalating war, Let's consider nukes in space. 0.79

00:15:51.000 A new, terrifying story.

00:15:53.000 We've had sub-aquatic nuclear weapons.

00:15:56.000 We've had nuclear weapons of every description.

00:15:58.000 We're being bombarded with propaganda to keep us terrified and traduced continually and constantly.

00:16:05.000 But have we had space nukes for a while?

00:16:07.000 No.

00:16:08.000 So here they are.

00:16:09.000 Russian nukes in space.

00:16:11.000 Multiple sources are telling CNN tonight that the U.S.

00:16:14.000 has new intelligence on Russia's efforts to deploy a nuclear anti-satellite system in space.

00:16:20.000 Keep in mind, if nukes were launched to the U.S.

00:16:21.000 from space, they would be undetectable.

00:16:23.000 And this news gives ominous context to the fact that one of Putin's mouthpieces floated this very idea on Russian state television nine months ago.

00:16:31.000 Be afraid!

00:16:32.000 Be very afraid!

00:16:33.000 There are nukes in space now.

00:16:36.000 There's always something to be terrified of.

00:16:40.000 Invisible space nukes could be raining down on you any moment now, perhaps.

00:16:45.000 It is the rapture.

00:16:47.000 Hey, listen, while over there in Russia, not detecting any space nukes, and in the opinion of the legacy media, simply creating propaganda for Putin, here's Tucker Carlson, Shopping.

00:17:00.000 I mean, he did seem to have a pretty good time in Russia.

00:17:02.000 Did you see this moment?

00:17:03.000 So a long-standing feature, maybe the longest standing feature of Cold War propaganda in the West, was the Soviet grocery store.

00:17:12.000 No products, no choices, shoddily made things.

00:17:18.000 And it wasn't actually propaganda, it was real.

00:17:20.000 And you can look up the pictures on the internet if you want.

00:17:23.000 So we thought it would be interesting to take a look at a contemporary, modern day, 2024 Russian grocery store, two years into sanctions.

00:17:32.000 So we're gonna try and buy what a family of four would buy every week.

00:17:36.000 That supermarket looks pretty bloody nice, actually.

00:17:39.000 We've got Stella Assange coming in in a moment.

00:17:41.000 In fact, we're going to bring her in here right now for a conversation about the hearings that are taking place next week.

00:17:47.000 And let's look at the glorious success of the legacy of Soviet communism.

00:17:52.000 Let's see what the selection is and we're going to see what it costs.

00:17:56.000 Now, Russia is famous for its bread, which is one thing I can assess pretty well.

00:18:00.000 Oh, come on! 0.99

00:18:04.000 Unicorn and Minnie Mills?

00:18:08.000 All right.

00:18:09.000 Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.

00:18:12.000 And this is Russian wine.

00:18:13.000 It's from Crimea, which not only has the warm water naval base, but also is the source of most of the grapes in this part of Russia for wine.

00:18:24.000 So it's apparently pretty good.

00:18:26.000 You check out of a grocery store, and you've got gum, razor blades, and candy.

00:18:30.000 Actually, they hide the razor blades, because we steal them.

00:18:33.000 But these all seem to be Western products.

00:18:35.000 Mars, Twix, Snickers.

00:18:38.000 Milky Way, Bounty, Gillette.

00:18:42.000 It's astonishing, actually, because I mean, we didn't have time to show you the subway one.

00:18:46.000 He's absolutely dazzled by the subway, though there are some pretty impressive murals out there.

00:18:52.000 Now it's time for our long anticipated and it's an interview that I'm very excited to bring you.

00:18:59.000 I'm joined now by Stella Assange, ahead of Julian Assange's hearings next week.

00:19:05.000 Stella, thank you so much for taking the time to join us today.

00:19:09.000 My pleasure, Russell.

00:19:10.000 How significant are the hearings?

00:19:11.000 Because we're going to stream live from the Royal Courts on Tuesday and Wednesday.

00:19:16.000 Any of you that are watching, it would be fantastic if you could join us if you're available.

00:19:21.000 How significant is it?

00:19:22.000 How likely is it to lead to a positive outcome for Julian?

00:19:25.000 Well, it is the critical hearing.

00:19:28.000 We're saying it's the final hearing, because although there's a small chance that he could win this, that would only mean that he would go to a full appeal down the line, maybe eight, ten months, and that Julian will remain imprisoned.

00:19:40.000 But the worst case scenario is what we're focused on, which is the most likely scenario, which is that he loses.

00:19:48.000 And there will be no further appeals in the UK.

00:19:50.000 That means it's the end and then the UK will move to extradite him, basically.

00:19:55.000 Isn't this an entirely unprecedented situation to have someone charged with espionage and then extradited without trial?

00:20:05.000 Has this ever happened before?

00:20:08.000 Well, the U.S.

00:20:09.000 has brought an espionage case against a journalist, and this has never happened before.

00:20:15.000 They've used the espionage statute, which is from 1917, and was originally written up to catch actual spies.

00:20:22.000 And they're not claiming that Julian's an actual spy.

00:20:25.000 They're saying, basically, that journalism can be reclassified as espionage and that publishing to the public is the same as giving information to the enemy.

00:20:36.000 How has this reframing taken place almost in real time, where Julian went from a collaborator with some of the most prestigious news organisations in the legacy media world, like Le Figaro, The Spiegel, Guardian, New York Times, all of whom participated in the publishing of the caches of WikiLeaks information.

00:20:57.000 How has he gone from being central to that media organisation to being maligned and imprisoned?

00:21:03.000 What exactly took place to move him from being within that institution and a sort of celebrated truth teller to being a criminal?

00:21:11.000 What happened?

00:21:13.000 Well, Russell, the thing is that Julian was a massive media critic and there was this, originally there was this attack on him.

00:21:22.000 They said that he's not a responsible journalist and the legacy media talked about itself as responsible journalism.

00:21:30.000 They didn't like Julian.

00:21:32.000 He wasn't their kind of journalist because he had a different model.

00:21:35.000 WikiLeaks has what is called a scientific journalism model.

00:21:41.000 You publish original source documents and then you comment on those.

00:21:45.000 Whereas the media traditionally sees itself as a gatekeeper.

00:21:52.000 Yes, curates the information and in a sense tells us how to interpret the information and I suppose what Julian and WikiLeaks were offering was open source information.

00:22:01.000 What was hugely significant I suppose was the advent of the technology itself that allowed Chelsea Manning or Edward Snowden to make, let's face it, heroic choices To blow the whistle on, in both of these cases at least, US military activity that was literally illegal.

00:22:19.000 Let's forget, let's not forget that the actual crimes were committed by the United States in foreign territories.

00:22:26.000 War crimes, and in the case of Edward Snowden, spying on their own citizens, or at least through their relationships with the Five Eyes Nations, on a variety of different nation citizens in ways that transgressed their own laws.

00:22:40.000 It's extraordinary, really, isn't it, that those revelations have not continued to be regarded as heroic.

00:22:46.000 It sort of shows you how much the cultural and media landscape has shifted in the intervening years, doesn't it?

00:22:53.000 Yeah, I mean, Julian was able to publish at the time because there were anonymizing tools on the internet that he was able to harness and take advantage of to bring a new sort of journalism and to really inform the public in a way that was revolutionary and remains revolutionary.

00:23:13.000 And since then the media has picked and chosen some of the aspects of what WikiLeaks introduced.

00:23:20.000 But even the technology is now under attack.

00:23:25.000 There is an alleged source of a different WikiLeaks publication who just got sentenced to 40 years and they used the use of anonymizing technology against him as evidence of criminality.

00:23:39.000 That's extraordinary.

00:23:42.000 One of the reasons that we remain fascinated by Julian's case is it represents a benchmark both in media reporting but also in the kind of righteousness or lack thereof within the political class that there are so few people Within our political communities that are willing to speak out about Julian indicates, like Keir Starmer is never going to go, it's a disgrace that Julian Assange is in prison, something's got to be done.

00:24:12.000 Hilary Clinton, obviously, because she personally I suppose, suffered as a result of WikiLeaks is unlikely.

00:24:19.000 So there's no figures on the left, or within the establishment left, let's say, certainly, that are willing to speak out on behalf of Julian.

00:24:28.000 And also, I suppose, Julian's case provides an opportunity for people that are both on the left and the right that believe in free speech to come together in defence of The kind of values that a little while ago, ten years ago, we all understood were pivotal for any democracy, but now we seem to be negotiating on.

00:24:47.000 Well, Julian's greatest sin seems to be that he is truly objective, that he's exposed everyone, and that's why you don't have the kind of You know, championing of Julian by any given party or class of people who's in power.

00:25:03.000 But at the same time, that means that people from left and right also have an interest and can defend him because he is truly just a exposer of wrongdoing no matter Who is doing the wrongdoing and he's in prison not because of any crimes that he committed but because he exposed the crimes of others.

00:25:24.000 Yeah that seems unusual and I suppose what you're saying is that in a way it demonstrates that there are no consistent values or principles because Julian Assange couldn't be used in a partisan fashion.

00:25:36.000 He became useless to the political class because The revelations exposed hypocrisy and corruption throughout the political establishment and couldn't be particularly or specifically exploited by either party.

00:25:52.000 Next week, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the hearings take place.

00:25:55.000 What can we do to support that and what can the people watching this stream do?

00:26:01.000 Look, this is the final hearing.

00:26:03.000 If Julian loses, which is the most likely scenario, because statistically it is most likely and what is being asked by these judges is to say that their colleague was wrong.

00:26:15.000 I think it's pretty clear that Julian will lose this round and then the UK will move to extradite him.

00:26:22.000 And we need a lot of people on the streets.

00:26:25.000 We need a lot of noise around it if he can't be there.

00:26:30.000 To basically show the establishment that they can't get away with this.

00:26:36.000 It's a political case and that means that public opinion really matters.

00:26:40.000 What type of reporting do you anticipate then, given what's transpired in the last 10 years?

00:26:47.000 Do you imagine that this will be covered by the BBC or by CNN or even by Fox News?

00:26:54.000 And what type of coverage do you envisage there being of this hearing in what we generally call the legacy media?

00:27:01.000 Look, they're always the same attacks, and they're the same attacks that they had 12, 13 years ago, which have been dispelled again and again.

00:27:08.000 I had a press conference yesterday, and I told the journalists there that they are misleading the public when they repeat things that I just told them were wrong.

00:27:18.000 But, you know, there is maliciousness among some parts of the media, and they don't want to show what the what the real implications of this case are because I guess they're cowardly and maybe because they don't expose wrongdoing and Julian shows them to be lacking as journalists.

00:27:39.000 Quen B saying in our Awakened Wonder Locals chat, my question for Stella is do you believe that Citizen Whistleblower should have the same protection as and can you just scroll back for me on that so I can see the end of that question guys?

00:27:50.000 Or is it quicker for me to do it?

00:27:53.000 Excuse me.

00:27:53.000 Yeah, I'm doing it.

00:27:55.000 I'm doing it.

00:27:57.000 Oh no, I'm not doing it.

00:27:58.000 Yeah, could you pass on the Quimby question for me?

00:28:00.000 I'll just get Gareth to repeat it.

00:28:02.000 That seems like that's the quickest way to get it to me.

00:28:05.000 If wars can be started by lies, peace can be started by truth, said Julian Assange.

00:28:09.000 That's ChatterX on the Rumble chat. 0.80

00:28:12.000 And the Hemby question in the locals chat that I just asked for you to grab for me.

00:28:19.000 Thank you.

00:28:23.000 Oh no, just tell me.

00:28:23.000 Gal?

00:28:31.000 If, if citizen...

00:28:35.000 Should citizens...

00:28:38.000 Could you just say it, Gal?

00:28:39.000 Should citizens have their same...

00:28:45.000 My...

00:28:46.000 Oh, it's up on the screen.

00:28:47.000 Should citizens have the same protection under the law as those which journalists such as Julian Assange is reclaiming?

00:28:54.000 I see, I don't understand that question entirely.

00:28:58.000 I guess that's sort of the challenge there.

00:29:01.000 Well, whistleblowers should, of course, be protected.

00:29:04.000 But Julian is in a different category to whistleblowers.

00:29:08.000 In fact, he's often described as a whistleblower in the same breath as Chelsea Manning or Edward Snowden.

00:29:14.000 They were the source of journalists' publications.

00:29:17.000 And Julian, of course, is the journalist.

00:29:19.000 He is the publisher.

00:29:21.000 And he is being accused not as a whistleblower, but as a journalist.

00:29:24.000 And that's why it's so important for this case to be dropped, for people to really

00:29:28.000 understand that what is being done here is criminalizing journalism

00:29:32.000 so that people, so that those in power basically can get away with it and that their cover-ups are

00:29:38.000 never exposed.

00:29:39.000 The reason I figure this is such a significant case is because

00:29:43.000 we can use this to understand how much our culture has moved.

00:29:49.000 We can use this case to demonstrate the lack of clear moral principles at the heart of our culture.

00:29:57.000 It seems to me that our inability to have an open conversation about Julian Assange, the unwillingness and inability of the legacy media to report on it, was a significant moment in when our culture radically changed.

00:30:09.000 Now, whatever you think of the Tucker Carlson and Vladimir Putin conversation, it's accepted that we all hand over control of the information we receive to centralised forces.

00:30:21.000 It's become kind of normalised, the idea of censorship.

00:30:26.000 Something significant happened.

00:30:30.000 What we're experiencing at the moment collectively is a kind of race, a kind of arms race in the social media space between absolute free speech and new democracies and new systems of communication and government emerging and perhaps unprecedented tyranny and I feel that if Julian Assange is extradited that will be a significant step in the wrong direction.

00:30:56.000 Absolutely.

00:30:56.000 One of my favorite clips of Julian's is one where he says that people who are connected to the Internet are the best informed generation and part of the greatest bullshit detecting mechanism that the world has ever seen.

00:31:09.000 But what's happened is that the Internet has since then become manipulated.

00:31:13.000 And the kind of model that WikiLeaks and Julian represent is a horizontal model of information.

00:31:19.000 And of course, what the new era is, is a top down kind of filtered model to keep the public uninformed and manipulated.

00:31:29.000 Yeah, and to limit conversation and to limit choice to a very small pool in both instances so that we have the illusion of choice and the illusion of information and the illusion of free speech while actually entering into a kind of banalised and bureaucratic version of tyranny that may not be obvious to us as people that were schooled on tyrannies that were militaristic and dictatorial in terms of identifiable mustachioed figures with medallions about their chest but nevertheless what we appear to be entering into now is in order for to maintain security in order to maintain safety in order to access ever greater convenience we're giving up freedom even the freedom to communicate so it's a I think it's a pivotal moment in the in this discourse isn't it Stella?

00:32:19.000 Well, Julian already said about 10 years ago that we live in what he said was a media-ocracy, where the media basically determines the scope of how we see the world, what we can discuss, and so on.

00:32:34.000 And so there's a different movement now.

00:32:36.000 There's a popular movement, it's international, of people on the internet finding shows such as this one to get non-manipulated information which challenges the viewer as

00:32:51.000 well.

00:32:53.000 It's the opposite model of what WikiLeaks and free information and informed public actually

00:32:58.000 stand for.

00:32:59.000 We're certainly not manipulating the information.

00:33:01.000 We're simply spilling it out onto the internet in an almost erratic fashion and allowing

00:33:07.000 our glorious audience, all of you watching in our Rumble chat like Jake Long XXX and

00:33:13.000 in our Awake and Wonder chat over there on locals to make of it what you will.

00:33:17.000 Now there's perhaps no subject that has been more significant in the Assange case than

00:33:22.000 the ability of the powerful to wage war indiscriminately or certainly without due diligence or due

00:33:29.000 accountability.

00:33:30.000 We appear to be at a significant moment when it comes to the conflict with Iran, potential

00:33:36.000 escalation of tensions and hostility between the United States and China, and the ongoing

00:33:41.000 proxy war between Ukraine and Russia.

00:33:44.000 We've got a report coming up on that.

00:33:46.000 I suppose in almost every instance it's clear that war and militarized conflict is the most

00:33:56.000 extreme aspect of what we're discussing.

00:33:59.000 While we might continually be alert to the potential for climate change and environmental disaster to disrupt or all other trajectory of our kind, it seems to me that war and the potential for Armageddon and meltdown is one of the subjects around which we were most educated during this WikiLeaks era.

00:34:19.000 In fact I'm continually referring to Julian Assange's edicts and sort of paraphrasing that the point of the Afghanistan war was to perpetuate it rather than to end it and that conflict alone cost two trillion dollars and we're about to embark on it seems like you know there's a bill Potentially being passed now to prolong the Ukraine and Russia war.

00:34:40.000 Potentially spending money engaging in hostility with Iran.

00:34:45.000 I wonder if this is the kind of stuff where we need more clarity of reporting and it's the kind of subjects that are being increasingly censored and where it's more and more difficult to get clarity of information.

00:34:58.000 Well, of course, Russell, it's no coincidence that Julian is in prison.

00:35:02.000 He's the foremost, the journalist who has done the most to expose war and really basically change the course of war towards peace.

00:35:13.000 In the case of Afghanistan and Iraq, he is a hero of the world who doesn't want to see war and he's in prison.

00:35:23.000 And of course if he were out, if WikiLeaks had been able to continue its work as it had, then we would know a lot more about these conflicts.

00:35:36.000 Stella, thank you so much for joining us today.

00:35:38.000 Next week, join us live in London for Julian's final hearing.

00:35:42.000 That's on Tuesday and Wednesday.

00:35:44.000 We'll post more information about that and we'll post in the chat additional information from you, Stella, about how people can support us during this.

00:35:53.000 Now, it's time for us, as I just indicated, to talk a little more Here's the news.

00:35:57.000 about the increasing hostility in the Middle East.

00:36:00.000 As Biden's national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, refuses to rule out direct strikes on Iran

00:36:05.000 and a new bill aims to secure billions more for multiple wars, are both political parties

00:36:10.000 now committed to an escalation that threatens all-out war in the Middle East?

00:36:13.000 Stella, thanks for joining us and we'll be talking to you more

00:36:15.000 on Tuesday and Wednesday, of course.

00:36:17.000 Thanks, Russell.

00:36:18.000 Hey, thanks for joining us.

00:36:19.000 Here's the news, no, here's the effing news.

00:36:21.000 Here's the news. 1.00

00:36:24.000 No, here's the fucking news. 0.99

00:36:26.000 Jake Sullivan, who advises Joe Biden on national security, refuses to rule out strikes directly on Iran. 0.99

00:36:33.000 And while all the talk in the world is about raising billions for forever wars, are we on the precipice of all-out war in the Middle East?

00:36:40.000 Oh, I do hope so!

00:36:43.000 Jake Sullivan, who you might have seen at Davos, is now on MSNBC doing one of those half interviews that political figures sometimes do where they sort of go on the television and then don't even tell you anything.

00:36:55.000 Are you refusing to rule out strikes inside Iran?

00:36:58.000 Well, I can't say that on the television.

00:36:59.000 What are you doing on the television then?

00:37:01.000 So here is Jake Sullivan, National Security Advisor to your President, Joe Biden, refusing to rule out strikes inside Iran.

00:37:08.000 What will happen to the Middle East, and indeed the world, if America starts bombing Iran?

00:37:13.000 Is it going to be great for everyone, do you think?

00:37:15.000 Great for your children?

00:37:16.000 Great for your taxis?

00:37:17.000 I do hope so.

00:37:18.000 Let's get into it.

00:37:19.000 Is the United States already in a wider war in the Middle East, Jake?

00:37:23.000 What the United States is doing is responding to threats as we see them.

00:37:26.000 That's amazing.

00:37:27.000 It's not in a wider war.

00:37:28.000 It's responding to threats as we see them.

00:37:31.000 Does your response to those threats as you see them, sometimes to the casual observer or someone who might have studied military history, look a bit like a war?

00:37:44.000 Lovely phrase, significant but proportionate.

00:37:45.000 That's one of those things that would have been workshopped.

00:37:48.000 Yes, it was significant, but it was proportionate.

00:37:50.000 People have talked a lot about proportionality when discussing the dynamics between terrorists and national armies.

00:37:55.000 Well, what would be a proportionate response? 0.85

00:37:57.000 And actually, it is a ridiculous word when talking about war, isn't it?

00:38:01.000 Because if you talked about proportionality and reason, you'd surely get to the point where you agreed that diplomacy and peace was the best proportion to offer everybody.

00:38:11.000 This rationalisation of military escalation is a curiously modern phenomena.

00:38:16.000 In the days of barbarians and Mongols and Saracen swords swinging about, I think people at least knew, look, We want to be powerful.

00:38:23.000 We're stronger than you.

00:38:25.000 You're going to do what we tell you or we'll force you.

00:38:27.000 Now people try to present war to you as if it's, well, that's all we could do.

00:38:31.000 It's the only way to bring about peace.

00:38:33.000 Sadly, I hate war more than anyone.

00:38:36.000 But has the war expanded?

00:38:38.000 Has the war expanded in the region, Jake?

00:38:41.000 Well, first, we don't accept that what's happening in the Red Sea, for example, Kristen, is entirely tied to the war in Gaza.

00:38:52.000 Entirely tied?

00:38:53.000 Somewhat connected?

00:38:54.000 Tangentially connected?

00:38:55.000 A little bit tied?

00:38:57.000 This is very curious.

00:38:57.000 When you watch old media experts engaged in discourse, you'll notice that what you're watching is a ballet of syntax.

00:39:05.000 Non-commitment, vague ideas, generalities, rather than sort of like casual discourse.

00:39:11.000 Because of course Jake Sullivan can't go on Joe Rogan for three hours.

00:39:14.000 This is the kind of metered language you'll get from the legacy media.

00:39:17.000 This is why we need independent media.

00:39:19.000 That's why it's important, significant, epochal even, that Tucker has spoken to Vladimir Putin.

00:39:23.000 Because what's happened now is everything is shifted.

00:39:26.000 Now we're confronted with information that's not gone through this type of filter.

00:39:29.000 Because the Houthis are attacking shipping that has absolutely nothing to do with Israel.

00:39:35.000 Oh, those hoothies. 1.00

00:39:36.000 So, there are connections among these things, to be sure, but... It's weird, because then he keeps telling you that there is a connection.

00:39:42.000 One thinks for certain, bombing Iran can't make this situation any better. 0.96

00:39:46.000 You can't just bomb Iran and then just go, well, let's just hope that people respond to that rationally. 0.62

00:39:51.000 Whether or not the Houthis are engaged in this activity in the Red Sea as a response to events in Gaza or not, the bombing of Yemen in a kind of tit-for-tat violent exchange between the American military and the Houthis is hardly likely to make the situation any better and is yet more of this fuel-to-the-flames mentality that seems very good for the military-industrial complex, very good for generating a state of anxiety around the world, extra taxation, more money for the Pentagon who can't Do any of us believe at this point that it's going to reach a resolution?

00:40:23.000 That the Hoofies are going to stop doing that? 0.98

00:40:25.000 This idea that you can kind of kill everyone that you don't agree with, whether it's in Canada from euthanasia or in the Red Sea through this kind of military activity is so ridiculous. 0.78

00:40:34.000 And now we have the benefit of the kind of hindsight we do, whether it's the invasions and wars in Iraq and what that subsequently led to, or even the Suez Canal like nearly a century ago, 70 years ago.

00:40:44.000 You kind of learn first of all of these events through a patriotic lens.

00:40:48.000 That's our canal!

00:40:49.000 We should use it when we will!

00:40:51.000 Then you find out, yeah, what Egypt were doing is just saying, well, that canal's in our country.

00:40:55.000 Go on, off you go.

00:40:55.000 I mean, the fact is, Yemen is a lot nearer to the Red Sea than Milwaukee.

00:41:00.000 These are distinct threats as well that we need to deal with.

00:41:05.000 Uh, on their own basis.

00:41:06.000 So in the Red Sea, we need to deal with the threat to commercial shipping.

00:41:10.000 And we are doing so with a coalition of countries.

00:41:12.000 Like, they're making, actually, imperialism and colonialism just sound like, well, it's business as usual.

00:41:17.000 There are commercial ships in the Red Sea.

00:41:19.000 And of course, all of us, in one way, tangentially or otherwise, are benefiting from commerce and America's role in the world.

00:41:25.000 And I sometimes wonder, wish almost, that someone would say, look, do you realize what this is?

00:41:28.000 If China and Russia gain global preeminence.

00:41:31.000 Your little way of life and your cute little shirts are over baby. 0.95

00:41:34.000 But I don't see that.

00:41:35.000 I don't recognize in my own such as it is analysis of global events an agenda by Russia to start sort of getting a Madrid or New York or for China to start running around in Frankfurt.

00:41:45.000 It seems like they're doing stuff in their regions that are mostly connected to trade and geographical disputes that are a significant part of their history.

00:41:53.000 whereas America are bombing Yemen, where they used to bomb Vietnam and Afghanistan, all these places

00:41:58.000 they thought what the hell's that got to do with us all of a sudden? What is this role and is this

00:42:03.000 possibly a time to revise it? Even if it's being done with the best intentions, we have to do that,

00:42:07.000 these people are savages. When we were doing it, the British, that was our idea, these people 1.00

00:42:10.000 are savages, they need us to do it. And what the version of that's playing out now? Maybe it's time

00:42:15.000 to review it. In Iraq and Syria we need to deal with threats to our troops and we are doing so 0.99

00:42:19.000 including with the strikes the president ordered Friday night.

00:42:22.000 Why are there American troops in Iraq and Syria?

00:42:24.000 Because Iraq and Syria aren't in America, are they? 1.00

00:42:27.000 Well, you mentioned Iraq and Syria.

00:42:28.000 Let me ask you, how do you respond to Iran's foreign minister calling this a strategic mistake that will destabilize the region?

00:42:37.000 Is the United States bracing for a counterattack?

00:42:40.000 It's weird how they manage to call things not wars but proportionate and significant responses when we've now established in the last three days America's bombed Yemen, Syria and Iraq and are sort of pondering whether or not to bomb Iran.

00:42:51.000 This isn't a war though.

00:42:53.000 Well I'm not a bit surprised that Iran didn't like the strikes that we took on Friday night so that would be par for the course. 0.99

00:43:01.000 We are prepared to deal with anything that any group or any country tries to come at us with.

00:43:08.000 And the president has been clear that we will continue to respond to threats that American forces face as we go forward.

00:43:14.000 So the general posture is that America have the right to have troops in that region, protect commercial interests that possibly are at odds with other regional interests.

00:43:25.000 And it's interesting when we discuss migration and border security that America or all over the world?

00:43:30.000 Why the hell are these people from all over the world arriving in America? 1.00

00:43:34.000 Is there anything to do with globalism that your country is engaged in at the moment?

00:43:38.000 Yeah, we go around the world bombing loads of people and asserting our right to practice certain globalist principles.

00:43:44.000 And when I say you, I don't mean people in America. 0.78

00:43:46.000 I don't even mean your American military.

00:43:48.000 I mean the forces that are behind even your government.

00:43:51.000 The deep state, the military-industrial complex, who appear to benefit from the They've clearly calculated this will be a good, even way.

00:43:57.000 Like whatever happens, Iran get involved in war, that'll be alright. 1.00

00:44:00.000 Iran don't get involved in war, we'll just carry on.

00:44:03.000 They've not thought about the impact on you economically, spiritually, psychologically, or even the mortal impact of more dead service personnel.

00:44:10.000 Have you ruled out strikes inside Iran?

00:44:14.000 Well, sitting here today on a national news program, I'm not going to get into what we've ruled in and ruled out from the point of view of military action.

00:44:21.000 It's funny how meta the news has become.

00:44:23.000 Like, everyone knows what this is and this does.

00:44:25.000 Well, sitting here on a national news program, I'm not going to get in and out of what we will and won't do. 0.88

00:44:29.000 Well, what's your bloody job then, mate?

00:44:31.000 If you're just going to say what you won't say, what you will and won't do. 0.97

00:44:31.000 What are you doing here? 0.97

00:44:34.000 What you'd want to see is, no, we're not getting into bombing Iran, that's going to escalate war in the region. 0.93

00:44:38.000 I suppose is what you want to hear, isn't it?

00:44:40.000 But he's not saying that.

00:44:41.000 And I suppose the best guess has to be because they probably are going to bomb targets inside Iran. 0.73

00:44:46.000 What I will say is that the president is determined to respond forcefully to attacks on our people.

00:44:52.000 So much rhetoric involved and grandstanding and like the sort of the idea of Biden responding forcefully.

00:44:57.000 If you've seen Joe Biden in public, he can't respond forcefully to his own heartbeat.

00:45:01.000 The president also is not looking for a wider war in the Middle East.

00:45:05.000 Well, Yemen, Iraq, Syria.

00:45:08.000 Won't rule out Iran. 0.99

00:45:09.000 That's a wider war in the Middle East.

00:45:11.000 Linguistics, packaging, semantics, all the while saying, you can't let Tucker interview Putin, he'll propaganda us.

00:45:17.000 That's propaganda.

00:45:17.000 What?

00:45:18.000 People are getting bombed all over the Middle East.

00:45:20.000 Meanwhile, let's not call it war.

00:45:22.000 What do you imagine it would be if in three days targets were hit in Florida, New York and California?

00:45:29.000 This is a war.

00:45:30.000 This is the worst thing.

00:45:32.000 That's not, oh, it's a skirmish.

00:45:32.000 Let's go.

00:45:35.000 It's a significant but proportionate response.

00:45:37.000 That's a mentality that has to be shed in order to achieve peace.

00:45:41.000 Is it off the table?

00:45:42.000 Are strikes inside Iran off the table?

00:45:44.000 Even the way the discourse is conducted, like strikes in Iran.

00:45:47.000 This is when people are dying and stuff.

00:45:48.000 If you went to any of these regions, you'd meet people with limbs blown off, and yeah, that's when Michael died.

00:45:52.000 You can't even watch these kind of documentaries. 0.97

00:45:54.000 You try and watch them sometimes, like maybe Michael Winterbottom will make a documentary, and it's like, yeah, this five-year-old kid died, and then you sort of think, oh, shit, oh, no, they're the same as us. 0.92

00:46:01.000 Oh, my God, they're the same as us.

00:46:02.000 I've allowed myself to think that because they've got different sounding names and they've got different outfits on, that it's all right to do this.

00:46:07.000 Oh, my God, I've been lied to!

00:46:09.000 Are strikes inside Iran off the table?

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00:48:06.000 sitting here on television, it would not be wise for me to talk about what we're ruling

00:48:11.000 in and ruling out.

00:48:13.000 So you're not ruling it out?

00:48:14.000 Get a room, you two.

00:48:16.000 I'll just say the same thing one more time, which is, I'm not gonna get into... There's theatre, innit?

00:48:20.000 It's just entertainment.

00:48:21.000 That's not news, is it?

00:48:23.000 That's like, she's playing the role of someone, I'm giving you a pretty hard time here.

00:48:26.000 And I'm playing the role of someone.

00:48:27.000 Like, you know the Matrix, when different people are occupied by agents or whatever, you still think that these are, in a sense, just wax and motifs of a...

00:48:35.000 hidden ideology and of an agenda of powers that are way beyond them. Like if she just went one

00:48:40.000 day, I'm sick of this crap, like she'd be out of a job. If he went, yeah probably we're gonna 0.99

00:48:43.000 bomb Iran, you're out of a job, they're irrelevant aren't they? They're just sort of, they've got 1.00

00:48:47.000 probably less power than us. What's on the table and off the table when it comes to the American

00:48:51.000 response. So there you go, let's get an alternative perspective on this conflict because Christine,

00:48:55.000 who has many qualities, and Jake, who's adorable in his way, are not really able to give us much

00:49:00.000 in the way of insight, so let's see what we can do together.

00:49:03.000 On Friday, the United States carried out airstrikes on seven locations throughout Iraq and Syria in what U.S.

00:49:09.000 officials said was the beginning of weeks or even months of attacks across the region.

00:49:13.000 That we will not be calling a war.

00:49:14.000 War sounds mean. 0.77

00:49:15.000 Nasty.

00:49:16.000 I like strikes. 0.96

00:49:17.000 Love them.

00:49:18.000 It's like baseball.

00:49:19.000 Over the next two days, Saturday and Sunday, the US and UK launch further airstrikes against the Houthi rebels in Yemen.

00:49:26.000 Yemen.

00:49:27.000 Good.

00:49:27.000 The attacks mark the beginning of our response, and there will be more steps to come, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Sunday on CNN's State of the Union.

00:49:35.000 In other words, the United States' endless war in the Middle East, which has killed millions of people.

00:49:39.000 Millions of people have died.

00:49:40.000 Like, the way they're discussing it, it's like, sort of, what brand of cake mix you like most.

00:49:44.000 And, like, millions of people have died of this not war.

00:49:47.000 ...and destroyed entire societies over the course of the past three decades, is entering a new and more deadly stage.

00:49:52.000 Now, this has been going on for ages and ages, three decades.

00:49:54.000 We've kind of got used to it, tuned it out, can't really be bothered with it, getting on with life.

00:49:58.000 And now, it's escalating into, actually, we're going to need you to pay a bit more attention to this, and maybe even take a little short holiday to the Middle East.

00:50:06.000 It's a one-way ticket, so it's not too pricey.

00:50:08.000 U.S.

00:50:08.000 officials have made it clear that central target of the U.S.

00:50:10.000 military offensive is Iran. 0.59

00:50:12.000 Appearing on Meet the Press Sunday, Sullivan was asked directly if the United States would rule out strikes inside Iran.

00:50:17.000 Sullivan declared he would not do so, stating, But I will freely discuss actual things that are on the table.

00:50:21.000 For example, that's a pen.

00:50:22.000 when it comes to the American response.

00:50:24.000 But I will freely discuss actual things that are on the table.

00:50:27.000 For example, that's a pen.

00:50:29.000 I got that at a hotel I was staying at recently.

00:50:31.000 When Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson followed Sullivan on the same program,

00:50:34.000 he made an even more explicit threat to attack Iran.

00:50:37.000 When asked, do you want to see strikes inside Iran, Johnson replied, it should not be off the table.

00:50:41.000 Everyone's obsessed with the table, aren't they?

00:50:43.000 It's the table.

00:50:44.000 One thing we can be clear about, it's the table.

00:50:46.000 Wars, and what they are and what they aren't, and millions of dead people, and how they happen to get deaded, that I won't discuss.

00:50:52.000 But tables, all day long.

00:50:54.000 I love the grain in this pine table, for example.

00:50:57.000 How did you varnish that?

00:50:58.000 How many coats?

00:50:59.000 The only thing that's being varnished is the truth.

00:51:01.000 The back-to-back appearances by officials of both the Democratic-controlled White House and the Republican-led House of Representatives were meant to convey the unanimity within the US political establishment for the escalation of the war in the Middle East.

00:51:12.000 Alright, so even the sort of curating and staging of like, here's this guy, what do you think?

00:51:17.000 War's not off the table. 0.83

00:51:18.000 And you, sir?

00:51:19.000 Nothing's off the table.

00:51:20.000 The whole point of it is just go, look, see, whoever you vote for, War. 0.92

00:51:23.000 The Biden administration is proceeding with staggering recklessness in flaming a regional war that threatens to draw in the entire world.

00:51:30.000 People act as if, like, world wars aren't a thing.

00:51:32.000 You can't have world wars, you know.

00:51:34.000 There have been them before.

00:51:35.000 They're going into regions that are full of disputes.

00:51:37.000 They're provoking Russia over here.

00:51:39.000 They're provoking China over there.

00:51:40.000 They might bomb Iran. 0.98

00:51:41.000 They've done these three countries in the last few days. 0.51

00:51:43.000 They're pretending that it's proportionate.

00:51:45.000 Can someone tell us What's the actual plan?

00:51:48.000 What's the ideal endpoint?

00:51:49.000 Look, we're just gonna do that in Yemen, then we'll do that in Syria, then that, then that, then that, then... Oh no, yeah, you're right actually, we're all gonna die as a result of this.

00:51:56.000 A full-scale US war with Iran would have catastrophic human, political, and economic consequences, eclipsing even the bloodbath caused by the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

00:52:06.000 One thing that's worth pointing out is that Iran do have a nuclear arsenal, which means that even though Iran sounds a bit like Iraq, remember, well, no, actually, Iraq also had weapons of mass destruction.

00:52:15.000 That's why we went there, to get our hands on those weapons of mass destruction.

00:52:18.000 But when we got there, wait a minute, there were no weapons of mass destruction!

00:52:22.000 That means the same people are in charge now, telling us that we should go to war, 45,000 troops stationed over there, millions of people there, This whole thing's our fault!

00:52:28.000 Every statement made by the White House to justify this war is a lie.

00:52:31.000 Every one.

00:52:32.000 Every statement to justify a war.

00:52:34.000 The White House declares it's not seeking war with Iran and every airstrike is justified with the assertion it was not an escalation.

00:52:40.000 We've reached the era where people just lie.

00:52:42.000 In the immediate aftermath of 9-11, we did some things that were wrong.

00:52:45.000 it but fund it. Each new illegal airstrike is presented as a defensive action to protect

00:52:49.000 US troops, but the very presence of these troops in the region is the continuation of

00:52:52.000 decades of bloody US wars throughout the Middle East, which have killed more than one million

00:52:56.000 people and have been accompanied by the systematic and deliberate use of torture as state policy.

00:53:01.000 In the immediate aftermath of 9-11, we did some things that were wrong. We tortured some

00:53:06.000 folks. The US maintains over 45,000 US troops throughout the region, coupled with dozens

00:53:10.000 of warships and hundreds of military aircraft.

00:53:13.000 Well, that's an interesting perspective on the situation.

00:53:15.000 I felt then, like if you have family members that are in the services, that maybe it's just so in us now that the service is sort of a way of life and this is part of what we do.

00:53:24.000 This really forecloses on the possibility of a different vision of our future where we're not at war and the best shot for kids from, you know, what they would call flyover states is to go and die on some far-flung irrelevant campaign at the behest of globalists.

00:53:39.000 Possibly a better version of reality for the people of Iran, the people of Ukraine, the people of Russia, the people of Delaware, for all of us.

00:53:46.000 This can't be the best version of global events.

00:53:48.000 And when you watch them discussing it on television, it becomes clear that it isn't the best version, and that they've just not thought enough about it, or they have thought about it, and the conclusions they've reached are at odds with our interests.

00:53:57.000 The latest offensive in the Middle East is a crucial element of an unfolding global war centrally targeting Russia and China.

00:54:02.000 The subjugation of Iran, lying at the heart of Eurasia, is a critical component of the United States' drive for global military domination. 0.70

00:54:09.000 In its effort to militarily encircle and economically strangle China, Washington is seeking to drive a wedge between Beijing and Iran, which is a large oil supplier to China.

00:54:19.000 Why don't they just tell us that?

00:54:20.000 Go on then.

00:54:21.000 Do your war.

00:54:21.000 A major factor in instigating the escalation against Iran is the massive setback suffered by the United States and the European imperialist powers in Ukraine.

00:54:29.000 Even as US imperialism doubles down on its fight against Russia to the last Ukrainian, it has opened up another front in the global war. 0.51

00:54:37.000 This is why recent events are so significant, because now we're gaining access to an entirely different perspective, and one that might be more conducive to our shared survival than the one that we're metaphorically bombarded with continually.

00:54:50.000 That we are told, oh, Russia is an unprovoked aggressor.

00:54:54.000 We heard Hillary Clinton say that.

00:54:55.000 And what's clear is there is a route to peace, but it involves the withdrawal of a kind of a long established American ideology of kind of commercial imperialism, would you call it that?

00:55:05.000 In his appearance on Sunday, Sullivan was keen to point out that the U.S.

00:55:08.000 strikes against Yemen and conflict with Iran have absolutely nothing to do with Israel.

00:55:13.000 This too is a lie.

00:55:14.000 Less than 10 days after the events of October 7th, we warned, the U.S.

00:55:18.000 is using the present crisis to put into effect long-standing plans for a war with Iran, as the Middle East is in front of the U.S.

00:55:23.000 war with Russia and war plans against China.

00:55:26.000 Certainly, whatever the truth of that is, I've heard, and you've heard, loads and loads of times people going, we want a war with Iran, how are we going to get a war with Iran?

00:55:34.000 American New Century, those boxes that Trump was meant to have had, war with Iran, it's a thing that's been going on long before I heard the word Houthi, for example.

00:55:41.000 The massive armada the United States immediately sent to the Middle East was not just a show of force, it was meant to be used.

00:55:47.000 Ah.

00:55:48.000 Since then, the United States has mobilized its armada to repeatedly bomb Iraq and Syria while strikes on Yemen have become virtually a daily occurrence.

00:55:57.000 American imperialism confronts a staggering domestic crisis in which democratic forms of government are breaking apart under the pressure of enormous and ever-expanding social inequality.

00:56:05.000 Even as they are enmeshed in a bitter factional struggle that is rapidly intensifying into a full-scale constitutional crisis, both US political parties are committed to a massive escalation of war throughout the Middle East and across the globe.

00:56:17.000 Both.

00:56:18.000 So that means, as Noam Chomsky once said, in all instances where both parties agree, you have no choice at all.

00:56:26.000 That's not democracy.

00:56:27.000 That's the opposite of democracy.

00:56:29.000 The domestic political crisis in the United States is a major factor in the global eruption of US imperialism.

00:56:34.000 The deeper the crisis, the more aggressive the American government becomes abroad, hoping to project its internal tensions outward.

00:56:40.000 Well, you saw for yourself the way that Jake Sullivan conducted that conversation.

00:56:43.000 You saw the way that the media framed it broadly as theatre.

00:56:46.000 And the perspective offered to us here from a, you know, pretty far-left organisation,

00:56:50.000 left in the old sense of the word, where what they're really interested in is attacking imperialism,

00:56:55.000 attacking corporatism, attacking crony zombie capitalism, is that this is an exploitative, deceptive attempt to

00:57:03.000 engage in wars against both Russia and China.

00:57:05.000 Maybe some of you will argue that the historical affiliation between those nations

00:57:09.000 and sort of old school communism means you can't rely on this analysis.

00:57:12.000 But I think there are plans to engage in what looks like a global conflict.

00:57:14.000 I mean, that sort of makes sense, doesn't it?

00:57:16.000 It sounds more true when you hear this is an attempt to encircle Chinese interests and get stranglehold over their relationship with Iran. 0.91

00:57:23.000 You don't go, well, that's propaganda.

00:57:24.000 You think, oh yeah, no, God, of course.

00:57:27.000 Knowing what we know about the most recent conflicts in that region, that makes perfect sense.

00:57:32.000 But that's just what I think.

00:57:33.000 Let me know what you think in the chat.

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00:57:41.000 Ah, and the chat is alive with controversial insights. 0.99

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00:57:48.000 I mean, I'm very happy, in fact, with the degree of conviviality in that rumble chat.

00:57:54.000 In the Awakened Wonder chat, I see a lot of love also.

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