6/21/19 Ali Abunimah on the Film the Israel Lobby Doesn’t Want You to See

Ali Abunimah discusses the leaked documentary, "The Lobby – USA," which reveals a coordinated campaign of tens of millions of dollars designed to silence news about Palestinians and to smear anyone fighting for Palestinian rights, including college students. When the Israel lobby found out about the project of undercover journalism exposing these facts, they put enormous pressure on the Qatari government, who runs Al Jazeera, to quash the documentary. It was unpublished until The Electronic Intifida put out the leaked copy. You can watch it at electronicintifada.net. Ali Abunimah is...

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6/21/19 Jon Schwarz on the AUMF and War with Iran

Scott talks to Jon Schwarz about the threat of war with Iran in retaliation for shooting down an American drone and allegedly attacking Japanese tankers in the Gulf of Oman. Mike Pompeo recently claimed that the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force, intended to be used against Al-Qaeda, also authorizes the president to go to war with Iran if he wants to. Luckily—for the time being—there are enough people around Trump and among the democrats who strongly oppose war with Iran that he seems to have backed down. Discussed on the show: "2020 Democratic Candidates Counter Mike Pompeo's...

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White House: Drone May Have Crossed Into Iranian Airspace

An important paragraph buried down in the middle of this one in the Times: But a senior Trump administration official said there was concern inside the United States government about whether the drone, or another American surveillance aircraft, or even the P-8A manned aircraft flown by a military aircrew, actually did violate Iranian airspace at some point. The official said the doubt was one of the reasons Mr. Trump called off the strike. Close enough for government work.

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