The scale, frequency, and brazenness of human rights violations around the world have not diminished, but rather have grown profoundly, raising the question of whether the very notion of “civilization” is little more than a veneer. Scores of countries spanning the globe have committed large-scale, documented abuses against their own populations and/or native groups, and against civilians in neighboring countries, and are doing so with impunity.
Today’s podcast guest is Aaron David Miller, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Between 1978 and 2003, he served at the State Department as an historian, analyst, negotiator, and advisor to Republican and Democratic secretaries of state, where he helped formulate U.S. policy on the Middle East and the Arab-Israel peace process, most recently as the senior advisor for Arab-Israeli negotiations.
In this episode, we discuss the current state of Israeli-Palestinian affairs and what the prospects are for peace, including regionally, what we may see from the upcoming elections in Israel, the current status of the Iran war and its implications for the region, the Gulf states’ concerns about their security in the war’s aftermath, Israel’s gains and losses from the war, and the state of US foreign policy under Trump toward the region.
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The MAGA base has entered a new social contract, not with the Constitution but with Trump himself as sovereign, trading liberty and truth for the security of belonging to his camp. The horror is precisely that the destruction of American democracy is being carried out not only by a “madman” but by ordinary functionaries who know better and choose not to act.
Child sex trafficking is not just another societal problem waiting for legislative tinkering or bureaucratic reform. It is a moral outrage—a fundamental rupture in the ethical fabric of our world. The measure of our humanity will be taken not by how we treat the powerful, the wealthy, or the competent, but by how fiercely we protect those who cannot protect themselves.
Trump has plainly lost his way. With inflation persisting, mounting political setbacks, defections from his MAGA base, losing the war with Iran, adverse court rulings, and a worsening Republican electoral outlook for the mid-term election, he is increasingly unable to control the narrative—or conceal the consequences of his dismal failures. His response is familiar: lash out at the press.
By excluding CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from White House access because of reporting he considers unfavorable, Trump has triggered a much broader confrontation with the American press. In a significant show of unity, ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, and NBC have suspended their shared White House television pool coverage after CNN was prevented from carrying out its scheduled assignment. CNN, MS NOW, and Politico have also challenged the administration in court, arguing that the restrictions violate their First Amendment rights. What began as an effort to exclude several news organizations has now brought some of the country’s largest competing media outlets together to defend press access and independent journalism.
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Thank you press for sticking together and defending free speech! If only our corporate leaders, our Supreme Court, universities, lawyers and judges would stand up to him and his administration!
BREAKING: Fox News just cut away from JD Vance's own speech, essentially telling their audience it wasn't worth watching unless he actually said something newsworthy. Fox News was carrying live coverage of Vance speaking at a rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, a battleground state ahead of the midterms. Then, mid-speech, they cut away entirely. A Fox News host explained the decision on air, telling viewers, "We will bring you back to this rally if he starts to make news." Read that again.
I love it when fake news has a temper tantrum
Awesome 👏
Dear Sane America, He pulled the passes. Cry fucking harder. We do not care. Those were not newsrooms getting evicted from a temple of democracy. Those were TDS stations, an arm of the left, that spent years refusing to put President Trump’s speeches on the air unless the clip came pre-butchered by four panelists explaining why you should hate it. A president addresses the country and they cut away. Talk over it. Replace it. Then they have the gall to lecture anyone about “the public’s right to know.” When the platforms erased him from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and the rest, these same fuckwads did not defend speech. They sold the purge as hygiene. Private companies. Privilege, not a right. He can talk somewhere else. Protecting democracy. Then back to the only move they have ever had: attack the man, pathologize the man, make the man the entire story so nobody notices they just endorsed censorship and called it journalism. Now the badge is gone and they want a constitutional crisis over a chair. No. A White House pass is not in the Bill of Rights. It is a courtesy, and courtesy is not owed to a political operation that already decided the audience should not hear him live. They can still publish. They can still stand on the sidewalk. They can still run the same deranged monologue. What they lost is free housing for the tantrum. You set the rule. Access is a privilege. Speak from somewhere else. The man is the problem. You cheered when the mute button hit him. You do not get to rediscover “authoritarianism” the second it hits your preferred studios. Sit down. The passes are gone. Cry fucking harder. Nobody who watched you mute him twice is impressed. Someone who is done pretending your breakdown is a news story. Glenn Reib
The first thing shitler did was silencing the press, so his Evil regime could begin the KILLING. America has our own shitler, don’t we?
You mean, the worst liars.
That is because they won't report the truth and nothing but the truth. Deep State operatives used to brainwash the sheep.
Keep dreaming, hadji.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi is warning that ordinary Iranians are being crushed between war, economic hardship, sanctions, and repression at home, which she has experienced personally. The human rights activist says she was severely beaten during her latest arrest, spent two months in solitary confinement, and eventually lost consciousness before being hospitalized. She has received prison sentences totaling 44 years and remains at risk of returning to prison. Yet she says resistance inside Iran is growing, particularly among a younger generation determined to defend its rights. Behind every war and every crackdown are ordinary people paying the price. Their voices must not be forgotten.
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Terrible,she is brave
well at least they didnt give it to Trump this year
what is HAPPENING ???????????????????????????????????
What about what Israel is doing. That's far worse. Over 73,000 so far although ben givere says it's 440,000
The currant regime is inhumane and beyond disgusting It hates women
Keep lying away you hasbara garbage
Stop these creepy men and their foul religious femicide.
150 little girls condemned to death by usa military
Disgusting Iran 😡
Give her 50 for collaborating with Zionists. There is no greater betrayal to the Legacy of Cyrus the Great than to collaborate with the apartheid state who burns churches, synagogues, mosques, schools, hospitals, homes and sacrifices children by the 10s of 1000s. You have disgraced all Persians and betrayed all humanity.
Israel does not merely tolerate settler violence; it enables and deploys it. Across the West Bank, settlers torch olive groves, cut water lines, steal livestock, and burn Palestinian cars and homes. Harassment, assault, and intimidation have become routine—carried out under the protection, and often in the presence, of Israeli soldiers. These are not isolated crimes by “rogue” extremists. They form part of a broader policy of dispossession: driving Palestinians from their land and hastening annexation. The violence unfolds openly, with near-total impunity. Yet, instead of demanding that Israel stop committing these crimes, Trump continues to arm Israel. His authorization of 2.8 billion in military weapons makes Trump an active enabler of this deadly campaign. This is complicity in crimes against humanity.
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Very true
Double yes
I normally don't agree with Trump, but I definitely agree with his policy on Israel. We need to support Israel with everything we can.
A Pair of mobsters, Doe'Doe & B'loodB'ath
Daar zitten twee dictators die de wereld dicteren
Isi basardik müslümani müslümana kirdiryorlar. Kendileride oturduklari yerden seyredecekler. Enayiler bir birini hal ederler.
Prisão com os dois
This is so true spot on
KUlka w tył głowy dla kadego z nich
Best president in history
Inutile commentare quando il mondo non muove un dito.......che schifo !!!!!!!!!!!
Assassini distruttori del mondo 🤬🤬🤬
Netaniyahu yehudonatni, and mr donald.
fallen angels doing fallen angel agendas
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God bless America and Israel
אתה אלון בן מאיר בן בוט ממומן על ידי קטאר
A világ két köcsögje.
Ha, ha ,ha, o ly if you are rich
The Trump administration’s EPA has repealed major limits on carbon pollution from coal- and gas-fired power plants—rules that the previous administration estimated could prevent 1,200 deaths and 360,000 asthma attacks in 2035 alone. The discarded standards were projected to eliminate 1.38 billion metric tons of carbon pollution through 2047 while also reducing dangerous pollutants linked to serious health problems. The EPA says eliminating the rules will save businesses $370 million in regulatory costs. But HRW notes that the agency did not estimate the resulting costs to public health. This is not only about climate policy. It is about the air Americans breathe—and the health consequences communities may face.
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CO2 is not a pollutant.
Living things exhale CO2 - it is not a pollutant.
news flash we are carbon based life forms
Carbon based lifeforms against carbon. Yeah, that makes sense.
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If you really want to improve the planet cleanup India and our homeless problem first then you can complain about CO2 levels remaining at 2020 levels. Also we cleaned up the air and got accelerated warming since 1992, of 0.6 degrees Celsius. Nothing we do as humans will eliminate air emissions in the modern era and carbon capture has proven to be non-beneficial
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CO2 is greening the planet. Catch up!! Claims that CO2 is "pollution" are absolute nonsense. See NASA data re: the greening earth......and smile.... this is great news for the planet. I was never a Trump fan, but it looks like he got this one right.
Awesome. We need more of this. More countries should follow suit.
No, he’s not risking anything. He’s being SMART!
Thank God for Donald Trump.
What limits and how does that effect the U S ??
Yet another reason to impeach. I don't think any other American president has committed so many atrocities, democrat or republican.
Trump sucks big donkey dicks!
Way too many idiots on this post
It's all about the corporate money pouring into trump investments and campaign funds. Why does trump need a campaign fund when he can't run for reelection?
So what? Do you still mix up climate and wheather?
He doesn't care as long as there is money flowing his way ....
He wants to kill us little people
Hello, it's 1956 again. I lived through the time of coal furnaces and generating plants, steam powered contruction shovels, incinerators for garbage in every apartment house, cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoking everywhere, black smoke pouring out of every chimney and black exhaust from every tailpipe.The Hudson was covered near shore in a rainbow-- hued film and garbage and needles washed up on the city's beaches after every very heavy rain. In summer, temperature inversions formed low down in the atmosphere, and all the pollution moved down close to the street. All that combined with heavy exhaust from every vehicle made breathing hard, and , if you had a problem, even painful. That was normal life once. It's coming back Get yourself ready.
Lying Democrat propaganda
Leftist fearmongering again.
SHOULD MAKE HIM BREATHE IN DEEPLY AND THEN JUST WAIT . . .
he is doing his best to make money of this country and make the worst that he can....
