Max Blumenthal joins Matt Gaetz to chart how Trump’s obvious cognitive decline intersects with a foreign-policy apparatus marching toward a disastrous war on Iran.
He dissects Treasury-engineered currency collapse and IMF-style “reform” as weapons against Iran’s middle class, links sanctions to orchestrated street violence and Mossad/MI6 hybrid war tactics, and shows how neocon officials openly fantasize about decapitation strikes and regime change that even they admit bombing can’t deliver. Along the way, Max skewers Trump’s Davos performance, NATO’s hypocrisy, and a U.S. political class using economic siege, proxy terror and carrier groups to do what Congress and the public would never openly authorize.Open
Within hours of a Border Patrol agent's killing of Alex Pretti on Saturday, Minnesota officials launched a series of extraordinary legal maneuvers to stake local authorities' claim to investigate the shooting. Why it matters: The moves are meant to counter what state officials and legal experts framed as unprecedented obstruction by federal authorities surrounding a shooting investigation that — under most circumstances — would involve state and local authorities. "This is uncharted territory," Attorney General Keith Ellison told reporters Sunday . "We've never had to do anything like this before." - "Closing the crime scene, sweeping away the evidence, defying a court order and not allowing anyone to look at it … This is an…
'Every American should support and draw inspiration from the wave of peaceful protests in Minneapolis and other parts of the country,' the Obamas said in a statement
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) said Sunday that the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti raises questions about the tactics of federal immigration officers. “This is a real tragedy,” Stitt told host Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “And I think the death of Americans, what we're seeing on TV, it's causing deep concerns [...]