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It's an Emmajority Report Thursday on the Majority Report On today's program: The U.S. has seized a Venezuelan oil tanker, marking a serious escalation in Trump's march toward war with the South American country. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer offers a statement so empty it all but amounts to an endorsement of Trump's goal of regime change in Venezuela. At a news conference held moments after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, Venezuelan opposition figure María Corina Machado is asked about Trump's looming invasion, and she claims that Russia, Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas have already "invaded" Venezuela. Ret. Lt. Col Anthony Aguilar joins Emma to discuss his decision to become a whistleblower after his experience as working as a sub-contractor for the Gaza Humanitarian Fund. Melat Kiros joins Emma for a conversation about her campaign Colorado's 1st congressional district. In the Fun Half: Dan Goldman responds to Brad Lander primarying him in 2026. Roseanne Barr jumps into the Nick Fuentes debate with a heavily medicated take. Piers Morgan dress Fuentes down on Piers Morgan Uncensored over his misogyny and virginity. We revisit Jasmine Crockett's response to questions about AIPAC and Israel where she expresses liberal Zionist views. Erika Kirk indirectly responds to Candace Owens' torrent of Kirk content with veiled t All that and more. The Congress switchboard number is [phone]. You can use this number to connect with either the U.S. Senate or the House of Representatives. Follow us on TikTok here: https://www.tiktok.com/@majorityreportfm Check us out on Twitch here: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport Find our Rumble stream here: https://rumble.com/user/majorityreport Check out our alt YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/majorityreportlive Gift a Majority Report subscription here: https://fans.fm/majority/gift Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! https://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: https://majority.fm/app Go to https://JustCoffee.coop and use coupon code majority to get 10% off your purchase Check out today's sponsors: ZOCDOC: Go to Zocdoc.com/MAJORITY and download the Zocdoc app to sign-up for FREE and book a top-rated doctor ONESKIN: Get 15% off OneSkin with the code MAJORITY at OneSkin.com ZBIOTICS:  Exclusive $35 off Carver Mat at https://on.auraframes.com/MAJORITY. Promo Code MAJORITY  SUNSET LAKE: Use coupon code "Left Is Best" (all one word) for 20% off of your entire order at SunsetLakeCBD.com  Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattLech On Instagram: @MrBryanVokey Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on YouTube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Subscribe to Brandon's show The Discourse on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Check out Ava Raiza's music here! https://avaraiza.bandcamp.com  

It is Thursday, December 11th, 2025. My name is Emma Vigeland in for Sam Cedar, and this is the five-time award-winning majority report. We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA. On the program today, Anthony Aguilar, Gaza Humanitarian Foundation whistleblower, will be with us. And later in the show, Melot Kiros, candidate for Colorado's first congressional district, joins us to talk about her race. Also on the program, U.S. troops seize a Venezuelan oil tanker amid massive troop buildups and escalations by the Trump administration trying to start war with Venezuela. And Trump tells the left-wing Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, that he is quote next. Wasn't he the, I kept hearing from the right,

he's the anti-war guy, huh? Good thing we got the neo-conservatives out. The House approves the $900 billion defense authorization bill. 94 Democrats voted against it. Should be, should have been all, but. A federal judge orders Kilmar, Abrigal, Garcia's immediate release from ICE custody

was broke this morning. ICE claims that it has no body camera footage of its brutal Chicago raids, which would be an open defiance of a court order. Got to hit record. Yeah, I mean, it happens. They'd also claim to a judge when they can't lie

because this is a FOIA request that they have that footage. So weird. The Trump administration pushes to set up a militarized zone on the California-Mexico border. A Democratic analysis from the Joint Economic Committee finds that Trump's tariffs have cost the average family $1,200 over the past 10 or 11 months. This comes as the Fed cuts interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point amid the economic slowdown. Republicans on Capitol Hill. are scrambling because Trump still has not endorsed a plan to prevent ACA rates from spiking in three weeks.

Not my problem. I'm not up for re-election in 2026. I'll be dead anyway. Yeah. I'm meeting my maker. The federal judge orders the administration to halt its deployment of California National Guard troops in L.A. another federal judge in Oregon blocks the Trump administration from arresting protesters for making noise and lastly torrential rains hit Gaza

flooding tents and at least one child has died of exposure all this and more on today's majority report welcome to the show everybody it's an majority report Thursday hello Matt, hello Brian, hello audience

what's up Matt So it might be against, you might not be able to be loud as a protester. But it might be free speech for landlords to use algorithmic price fixing. I love this free speech stuff. It's really great the way that our political system has interpreted the First Amendment. Well, we've already granted personhood rights to corporations. Why not computer systems? I mean, why are we trying to restrict the AI from,

price allowing corporations to price fix. Optimizing. They're just speaking. Butch, but Chugg Sanders, thank you, writes in that order by a judge about body cameras was made after the raid on the apartment complex. Okay, thank you very much for that clarification.

The point, I guess, still stands, though, that they've made the claim in court that they have this, but they're not complying with FOIA requests from outside groups trying to get access to that. But let's turn to Venezuela and the big news from yesterday here. Since September, the Trump White House,

again, called themselves the anti-war ticket so cynically using the Biden administration's support for genocide in their favor. I mean, look, it's a political campaign, but their willingness to lie

on the campaign trail to achieve power is historic. and almost unprecedented. And it's the fault of the Democrats for being unable to call it out because it's such a brazen lie. I don't mean to contradict you, but this is why the Democrats

can't be a pro-war party because the Republicans do run on this. Richard Nixon ran on a secret plan to end the Vietnam War and then won the 68 election based on that. It would be nice if the Democrats learn from that. While collaborating with opposition forces

to continue the war. So, which is very, very eerily similar to the Trump administration having meetings with Netanyahu as Netanyahu was, you know, walking, dog walking Biden all over the place. Yeah, and then getting into the Republicans getting into power and then expanding the war into different neighbors. Like, you know, let's fire a missile out Iran. And now Iran will come into this story. Don't you worry, the ever-present boogeyman for the neocons, even though we are in the Western Hemisphere and Trump sees himself as some sort of, you know, late 19th century

leader that wants to engage in conquest within our backyard. And the. Teddy Roosevelt or something. Yeah. And, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, we, the, we've done this via covert actions for the last hundred years or so. This is Trump just being expressly open about it. and being a brute, which is one of his defining qualities.

So since September, just a reminder, we've launched dozens of strikes on boats that the administration claims are drug runners and have provided zero evidence for that. We've killed over 80 people off the coast of Venezuela. We have now 15,000 troops in the region. This is the largest troop buildup in that area in the 21st century. We flew fighter jets into Venezuelan airspace the other day.

And yesterday, the U.S. seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. This tanker had previously been the subject of U.S. sanctions. It was under another name because the U.S. claimed it was shipping oil to Iran, which if that's the case, Venezuela has the right to sell its oil to whoever they want. but not under the sanctions regime, where we decide and we freeze their assets and we use the leverage of the United States to make it very difficult for Venezuela to have state control over their resources here and trade with who they want. So because of this, yeah. And if destroying their oil industry leads to a bunch of people having to leave their country and then the right wing can use that to use anti-immigrant sentiment to get into power, then that's just an extra little side benefit. It's a self-looking ice cream cone to use a phrase that Sam likes to deploy.

But here is the president, Donald Trump, asked by a reporter yesterday about his taking of this oil tanker. It's unfortunate what happened. I mean, I know exactly what happened. It got to start it a little bit, but we'll see if we can put it out. We're interested in the seizure of this tanker. What happens to the oil on this ship? Well, we keep it, I guess. Where does it go to?

When you have to follow the tanker, you know, you're a good gizman. Just follow the tank. Do you know what we're going to? Follow it. Get a helicopter. Follow the tank. I guess we're going to keep the oil. All right.

Just keep the oil. Just keep the oil. It's not even awake. It's good for the history books, though, just how clear this is going to be. That is, again, we've talked about this. The benefit of Trump being such a dumbass. Yeah. Is that he says all of the quiet things out loud.

Remember when he maybe. accidentally revealed that the death toll in Gaza was hundreds of thousands. Yeah. By saying that count. Or him just saying, like, we need to keep Begrim Air Force Base in Afghanistan so we can keep an eye on the Chinese. Yeah, right. Okay, thank you.

These are the behind-the-scenes conversations that aren't like, this is about American freedom, baby. Yeah, that's the stuff, like, author like Stephen Kinzer would have to go into the paragraphs, like reading between the lines. Yes, yes, exactly. And just a reminder, when Trump was engaging

in his racist screed against Somali Americans and Somalis the other day. He said, quote, the only thing they're good for is going after ships. Less of a month ago, Iran sees this tanker, this Marshall Islands flag tanker, so it has a relationship with the U.S., and they did so in Gulf waters. And this is what the U.S. Central Command's press release in November said, about such an action. Just scroll down. I think it's like the third paragraph here. Yes, Iran's use of military forces to conduct an armed boarding and seizure of a commercial vessel in international waters constitutes a blatant violation of international law, undermining freedom

of navigation and the free flow of commerce. We call on Iran to articulate to the international community, the legal basis for its actions. This is the United States saying that. International law? Who's citing international law all of a sudden? The thing that we don't, we just openly say we're not subject to that? The Trump administration won't Biden doesn't follow international law. No president does. No president does. The Trump administration doesn't even follow U.S. law.

I mean, just to remind people, like, the legal basis for these attacks on these boats and this escalation with Venezuela, it's so illegal. It's so unbelievably illegal. Congress has the power to declare war. They have not done so with Venezuela. Venezuela. The Trump administration is trying to use this, the 2001 and 2002 authorizations for the use of military force, which need to be repealed because they are so immensely broad. It basically gave the executive branch and the Bush administration the ability to kill people, anybody they deemed as terrorists, within the scope of responding to 9-11, and then of course, you know, what ended up being our illegal invasion of Iraq.

The idea that the administration can claim that these attacks on these boats and are escalation with Venezuela is somehow covered under the authorizations for the use of military force that were in response to 9-11 is so laughable on its face. That's why they're trying to bring Iran into the conversation, because they are stretching the truth so broadly that they need to find a Middle Eastern boogeyman to justify their attempts to provoke Venezuela and to respond. And by the way, we talked about this with Iran. Iran and Venezuela, their restraint is what's keeping us from these horrific, horrific wars. Like the fact that Iran didn't respond more robustly to the United States bombing them earlier this year is part of why we're in this situation. We are the bully. We're the belligerent actor here. We're the ones causing unrest across the globe.

And we're not even touching on the genocide that we're funding. It's, yeah, I mean, all this stuff about drugs or Iran and terrorists, those are just the buzzwords that the people who want to unholster their guns know they need to activate in order to unholster them. So whatever they need. And honestly, it's a type of, it's such a great lie that it should lead to the type of almost like revolutionary anger. The way that these people cite like the tens of thousands of opioid and stuff deaths that have done because we have not addressed that as a public health crisis. But instead like something that needs, again, to send cowboys. across the world to protect people. No, we've led off the billionaires who were, like the sacklers and stuff.

Yeah. Should we execute the sacklers in the town square? Or is it because if they're wealthy and, you know, donate to museums in New York City, that doesn't mean that they deserve summary execution. They're not tied to anything that we want to overthrow or control. So it's not relevant. And so they, like, that's the thing is they don't care about protecting women's sports. They don't care about your uncle that died from a drug overdose.

They don't give a fuck about it, except as a warrant for them to unholster their guns and point at who they already wanted to point at. And a good example of this is Maria Karina Machado. She is the latest figurehead that the United States is trying to push to be the leader of Venezuela. She's been a longtime supporter of violent regime change in Venezuela. She supported these far-right protests in 2014. that left many people dead. She has advocated for United States sanctions on her own people, emiserating them.

She wrote to Netanyahu a few years ago asking for help overthrowing Maduro. And she's just been in the pocket of U.S. NGOs and hawks like Marco Rubio for years and years. So she's been forced into hiding because there's an arrest warrant out for her in Venezuela. She, with according to some reports, seemingly, with the help of the United States, jet it off to Norway to see my homeland here and accept her Nobel

Peace Prize Award and as she supports basically military action against her own population so for peace an invasion to empower herself this is what she had to say in Norway

just a few hours ago Hello David on Swedish radio yesterday the U.S. seized a ship outside the coast of Venezuela. Would you welcome a U.S. military intervention in Venezuela? Look, some people talk about invasion in Venezuela, the threat of an invasion in Venezuela, and I answered, Venezuela has been already invaded. We have the Russian agents. We have the Iranian agents.

we have terrorist groups such as Hezbollah Hamas operating freely in accordance with the regime Um just F the Nobel Prize forever man I know really forever It's done it's done I mean well What a joke When we gave it to Kissinger or Obama

Or Obama even But it just What a joke Yeah I mean Hezbollah It's Hezbollah It's Hezbollah It just

Hamas is even crazy Right, right. Everyone getting along there. Hezboa has left, you know, they have some internationality. Yes. Yeah, yeah, right. It's just like. Amaz has a tunnel that goes all the way over.

Amaz is a tunnel to Venezuela from Gaza. But it's just like, I mean, how transparent do you have to be? I'm going to hit every one of them. I'm going to hit every one of them. It's like when we're in a conversation with somebody and you, know they're sucking up to you. Are you sure, Ms. Machado, are you sure North Korea isn't in there, too? Right.

And, but don't worry, folks. We have the Democrats, the leader of the Democrats in the Senate. He's going to stand up against this incredibly illegal, obvious, insane move by the Trump administration trying to impose regime change in Venezuela, start a war with Venezuela. Schumer is on it. He's on it, folks. He is going to draw a distinction. You know, when he was really mad at Trump for doing a side deal with Iran? No side deals. No diplomacy. We want more escalation with Iran was his message in response to what the Trump administration back in June. Yeah, not wanting to talk to Iran instead of sending missiles at him. Yeah. Here he is. This is when Jake Tapper asked him expressly, do you support regime change?

Chuck is going to draw a distinction between Democrats and Trump. Do you disagree with President Trump's ultimate goal of regime change in Venezuela? Look, the bottom line is President Trump throws out so many different things in so many different ways. You don't even know what the heck he's talking about. Can you pause it? you know it's your job to tell the American public what he's doing and what he's talking about not to say this this are the our political opponent I can't even define what he what is bad about what he wants to do it's just the fact that he does a bunch of different things are you joking

there's a can I get any staffers listening to this um print this phrase out Democrats or Republicans think you're lazy, Democrats think you're stupid. And make sure your boss doesn't play into the latter thing. Because they always do. They think, no, we can follow what Trump's doing. He's murdering people in the Caribbean to try to provoke a war, you idiot. It's insane. How infantile is this?

But it's like the Iran thing. No, you know, no side deals. He does this. He does, like, just stand in opposition to this aggression. It's just, we'll keep going. This is Chuck Schumer who was against the Iran deal. Yeah. It goes out so many different things in so many different ways.

You don't even know what the heck he's talking about. You know, obviously, if Maduro would just flee on his own, everyone would like that. But we don't know what the heck he's up to when he talks about that. So it's very, very, you cannot say, I endorse this, I endorse that. When Trump is all over the lot, not very specific and very worrisome at how far he might escalate. All over the lot was the same. phrase he used in that in that video I talked about. The

problem with Trump is not the substance of his actions. It's that he's confusing Chuck. Are you, I mean, what more do I need to say? Is there anything else to say? No. Okay. In a moment, we will be speaking to

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Well, I appreciate that. I am glad we finally got to have you on because your testimony was so impactful when you came back from Gaza and you spoke exactly about what the Gaza is. the humanitarian foundation was doing. Just take us through that. Take us through your decision-making process as to why you decided that you had to speak out after what you saw when you were in Gaza. So why I had to speak out to not only the world, but really to the American people, is that the situation in Gaza is not one that has just occurred by accident or the fog and friction of war as Pete Hegseth likes to throw around a lot. It's intentional.

It was, it's by design. The level of destruction, the genocide, the designed starvation, which has now led us into the brink of a famine, the setting up of distribution sites to serve as nothing more than bait to displace the civilian population is, something that violates every tenet of the Geneva Conventions and international humanitarian law. And it's so apparent that the United States is not just an innocent bystandard, but is complicit. The current situation report that came from the new civil military coordination center, which was put in Kyrgyzat Yacht in Israel as part of the implementation of this peace plan, the commanding general, a U.S. Army General, who is there, has said, the Israelis have the lead on this. They are the hand, and we, the United States, are the glove.

So we are absolutely complicit in what is happening in Gaza in terms of the munitions that are used. Every bomb, every mortar, every artillery round, every rocket and missile comes from the United States, either to us allowing it or directly providing it. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation set up by the United States as this aid mechanism was a facade to continue the force displacement of the entire population from all of central Gaza. So witnessing these things firsthand and seeing that there's no denying it, there's no hiding it, there's no sugar-coating it, there's no justifying it is something that the American people need to be aware of how their tax dollars are being spent and how our government is involved in a genocide. Can you, let's back up for just a second. Can you describe the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

Initially, Boston Consulting Group, which is a major consulting firm, which Benjamin Netanyahu worked for, by the way, back in the day, was intimately involved in setting up. this so-called aid distribution organization, which is really, as you say, a mechanism of ethnic cleansing. And I've heard you describe these aid distribution sites as deliberate death traps. And I want to ask, you know, why you describe them that way in just a bit. But tell us a little bit about what this organization really is. So the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, I would describe in comparison to British colonial, the East India Company, basically a company that is not providing goods

to the population that it is supposed to be servicing, but to provide to the empire. And if you look at why the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation was stood up, it came out of nowhere into existence this past March. So this is not a longstanding, long-enduring, principles-based organization that has proven, performance. It just popped up in March, led by a former Blackwater, then Triple Canopy Associate named Jake Wood, and then taken over by Mr. Johnny Moore, who is a self-described

Christian Zionist, evangelist, and no humanitarian aid background in this particular organization. But really, the GHF, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, was really just, the candy coating on this hard pill that we were forcing down the throat of the Palestinians in that you had Safe Reach Solutions and UG Solutions, which were contract companies under the GHF. UG Solutions is who I worked for. Those two companies both popped up in January and February, again with no past performance, and they hired the Infidels Motorcycle Club to run the armed contract security, and safe

Reach Solutions was owned and run by CIA case officers, covert case officers, for that matter. So when you start peeling back the layers on the GHF, Safe Reach Solutions, UG Solutions, it's nothing more than a cover for action for parallel military operations. And when we first went into Gaza, it was my belief as kind of the, um, The odd man out, if you will, because I'm not a member of the infidels motorcycle club. I'm not. Can you explain who those are? I mean, it's an anti-Islamic kind of gang, essentially.

Or it's a Islamophobic gang, basically. Right? Precisely, Emma. Yes, it's a, it's an Islamophobic motorcycle club, but for lack of better terms, as we would call any other by its name, a gang. And the infidels motorcycle club, what's more concerning specifically to this region in Gaza is that this is not your run-of-the-mill extremist or hate group. In their Islamophobia, they see themselves as crusaders. They wear a tattoo emblazoned with a crusader cross with infidels above it, with 1095 in the bottom rocker, kind of like what you would see on the Sons of Anarchy, TV. show. And 1095 is the year of the First Crusades, where Pope Urban directed the First Crusade of

the Holy Land to eradicate the earth of all the vermin scum, referring to Muslims. And that is their charter. And you now have an organized motorcycle club made up of military veterans who have an idea that going into the Holy Land to kill Muslims is not only a calling, but they see it as a pilgrimage, as a crusade, if you will. And that's who was hired, specifically hired by the GHF to execute this mission. And I was hired in at the end when they were trying to fill some last-minute slots. So I wasn't their ideal recruit, I guess you would say. But very concerning when you see the behavior at these sites of not only the IDF, but also of the U.S. UG Solutions, American contractors, and their complete disregard for international law, humanitarian practice, just basic decency.

Can you talk a little bit about these distribution sites? As I mentioned earlier, you talked about them as death traps. What does that look like? What did you see? How would you describe what Gaza looks like and what these death traps look? like in that context. So, you know, Emma, I've been, I've been to a lot of war. In the last 25 years, I have fought in every war the United States has been deployed in,

not just Iraq, not just Afghanistan, but Syria, Tajikistan, the Philippines, fighting Islamic insurgency in the south of the Philippines. I've seen some things. I've seen things that when I retired this past March, you know, I just retired six months ago, I thought Tony had seen his fill. What I witnessed in Gaza from the very first day, on the 24th of May, when we rolled through the Karim Shalom crossing into Rafa, what I saw made me sick, it broke me. I have never seen or witnessed anything of that level of disproportionality, complete disregard

for the civilian population. As we drove through Rafa to the site number three, so what's interesting, about these sites is that under the United Nations in UNRWA, there were 400 distribution sites, community-based outreach. GHF reduced those sites down to four, and only one, maybe two, operated at a time, given one or two sites operating at most on any given day, whereas once there was 400. And one of the sites in the south was in Rafa. You actually had to drive through the rubble of Rafa to get to it. There was no way around it. So we had to drive through the rubble. And as we were driving through on the 24th of May, we had come to a stop because the IDF had a bulldozer in front of us that was trying

to clear a path of just immense destruction. And as we stopped, and, you know, I could, I opened the door to stand out to look. You could hear the voices of P. Oh. one second folks I'm back you cut out briefly you said you could hear the voices of people you could hear the voices of people you could hear the voices of the

of people that were still trapped in the rubble that weren't going to be rescued who died in this rubble and the distribution sites themselves were deliberately established in the active combat area of this greater war zone. So some might make the argument, well, all of Gaza is a war zone. And that might be true.

But in war and in military operations, you have the rear, you have the front lines, you have the support area, you have secure areas, which do exist in Gaza. They deliberately chose to put these distribution sites specifically to service humanitarian aid for unarmed civilians in sites that would be. require them to move on foot great distance through an active and ongoing combat zone. So as the Palestinians approach these sites, they would literally have to cross the front line or what's called the flot, the forward line of troops, which is for those that have served in the military, that is dangerous in terms of where the most action is going on.

So the front line. So the fact that these sites were specifically set, in these locations was greatly concerning. And it came to my knowledge that that was not an accident, that they were established there intentionally. I just want to linger on what you just said about hearing people screaming under the rubble. And I know that you don't have the ability to answer this scientifically, but it's just something I can't let go because the downplaying of the true death toll in the Western press is manufacturing consent for the continuation of this genocide. People have no idea how bad it is,

how many missing people are actually dead, crushed to death, screaming, suffocating to death under rubble. Can you talk about that a little bit and what the scale of destruction would indicate to you about the death toll in Gaza? So as I've said, my contextual comparison is years of war and seeing probably the most I could relate it to is Mosul in the fight against ISIS or Raqa in Syria, where once the rubble was cleared and the area was actually back cleared and secured, thousands were found dead in the rubble that weren't part of their original death toll, so to speak. So I've said this before, and I will say it again, and the truth will come out, little by little. I believe that the death toll from this war, either by direct action, direct shelling, bombing, or the direct associated wounds, injuries, and death caused in this war is close to 500,000. And I say that because there are 50 million tons of rubble.

in Gaza that would take from now until 2050 to clear if we started today. Hundreds, thousands did not make it out of those apartments and schools and hospitals when they were leveled to the ground. And when you see what a 2,000-pound bomb, a joint deployed aerial munition, dropped directly on a 10-11-story building, and it flattens it to the earth, no one survives that, they're buried in it. And those that live for a very short period of time are merely crying out in their last breaths. I further have belief for that death toll because part of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's plan before they were shut down operating within Gaza had a plan for a humanitarian assistance transit area.

Sounds benign. It's basically a concentration camp to move all surviving Palestinians of the United States of, the operational war to the south to hold them to then back clear and start reconstruction. Well, that humanitarian and assistance transit area was designed to hold 1.5 million people. So if you consider the population to be around 2 million and the plan was only that there'd be 1.5 million remaining, now that may be calculation of considering people that also left or will leave, the death toll is likely close to half a million. Can you speak a little bit about what you're seeing?

I know you've been back for months, but just now this, since the Trump imposed ceasefire that Israel has repeatedly, repeatedly broke, the IDF has divided the Gaza Strip into two sections and has essentially commandeered, I think, something around 53% of the strip. this is a piece of land that's 141 square miles and they are pushing the Palestinians into a smaller and smaller territory and shooting even young boys as we've seen their faces, these two siblings who cross this invisible line into the territory that Israel has controlled.

Is that the development of the concentration camp that you speak of? What can you talk about that tactic and what that means for the Palestinians right now? So the world should be very, very concerned about this peace plan that was adopted in UN Resolution 2803. The United States gave Israel the ticket to continue what I would call their final solution. If you think about World War I, World War I, World War II, most deaths post-Dashire direct intense conflict was because of death, disease, accidents, famine, etc. In the occupied areas, that's no different than what we'll see here. Thousands will die by these very actions.

So how you said it was bisected, so the infamous Netzerim corridor divides northern Gaza or Gaza city from central and southern Gaza or communis and what was once the city of Rafa, which is now completely raised to the ground without one building over 10 feet standing. And that divide, around that divide, they have built or expanded these military corridors to where each pocket is completely surrounded. So it's not only necessarily bifurcating it in half, it's bifurcating it in half and then creating two salients, if you will, the Gaza city and then Con Yunus Rafa. and where they establish this yellow line that they call it,

if you were to go and stand at the yellow line and measure that area behind the yellow line that's now under the control of the IDF, as you said, that's about 53%. But they've given themselves a 10-meter buffer off of that yellow line forward that anybody that encroaches upon that yellow line can be killed.

And this is not a yellow line where you see, like, when you're watching a football game and this magic line comes on and everybody can see it. This is an imaginary line that's only enforced by whichever IDF soldier is there at the time who feels where the yellow line should be. And you also say this buffer zone, too. I mean, Israel is infamous for creating buffer zones that end up just getting larger and larger, which is just the way that they seize more territory. So it's more than the 53% that you've even been describing here.

It's a great majority of the strip. Yeah. Yes, it is, it is, it is upwards of about 60, 62% of the entire Gaza strip that is under the total complete occupation. And the reason this is not necessarily a surprise to me is that if we recall back to August, Israel began its offensive into Gaza City, which they called Operation Gideon Chariots 2. That operation was not supposed to begin until late September. They started. it early and called up 60,000 reserves to pack into Gaza to hold the South because they knew that they were running out of time. They knew that the world was growing leery of what was actually happening when so much was coming out to where you just, you couldn't hide the fact of what's happening anymore. So they accelerated that operation, but it's always been the plan. And this is where I'm deeply concerned as an American and why I'm doing everything I can to notify inform and educate lawmakers, is that the Boston Consulting Group, as you alluded to in the beginning,

which Nittanyahu worked for, which was part of the design of this plan, those designs, the planning for this demilitarized area, holding area, reconstruction area, to then to then construct a Riviera and resorts with this beautiful artistic rendering of the future of Gaza, high rail train and a Riviera and resorts. That plan was designed in 2021. I've seen it. It hung on the wall of the headquarters of the coordinating office of the governance of activity in the territories of the IDF, Boston Consulting Group.

So the United States has had a direct hand in not only how this operation is ongoing, but what the true objective and intent is, And the true objective is intent is that every Palestinian within Gaza will either be dead or voluntarily transferred somewhere else. And they will never come back. I think even on your show maybe about a year ago, or not too long ago, but it was a clip from about a year ago with Jared Kushner, talking about this very thing, what he called the IDF would be cleaning Gaza. This is this plan that the Boston Consulting Group developed that Jared Kushner had a

very integral part in. And so did Steve Whitkoff and Steve Whitkoff's son. So did BB Netanyahu since 2021. So when I hear October 7, 2003 as the date, I'm skeptical about what was truly the intent in the nature and the way it looks to me based on the continuation of this genocide. There is no ceasefire. I'm in contact with families and actual human beings in Gaza daily, and I see it and I hear it and the bombs that are dropping. There's not a ceasefire. And it puts the entire future of this region in a precarious situation because now we have the administration rushing to get to this phase two, to hurry up and get to phase two, without addressing the fact that they, have brought no Palestinians to the table in this negotiation. And they are adamant about Hamas disarming. Yet Israel hasn't upheld their end of this ceasefire agreement from October 10th to

cease the bombing, to pull back their forces beyond the yellow line out of Gaza to the border, and to allow the free flow of all humanitarian aid. They are still not allowing aid in any numbers that can feed the population. They are starving them every day. And let alone the storm that is hitting Gaza right now, we already have a little girl that froze to death due to the elements. And these people that are intense right now are in dire straits, obviously. But Anthony Aguilar, retired U.S. Army, Lieutenant Colonel, whistleblower,

who worked in Gaza with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. I really appreciate your time today. And thank you so much for speaking out and giving a voice and saying what you've seen. Because I think it makes a difference, even though, of course, the genocide is still ongoing. But brick by brick, we build up an opposition here. Thanks so much for your time today. And thank you and Sam for your courage and your platform, because it takes courage to continue to speak the truth. And I appreciate everything you do for humanity.

Well, thank you so much. Quick break, folks. And when we come back, we're going to be talking to Melot Kiros, who is running in Colorado's first congressional district. We are back and we are joined now by Melot Kiros, candidate for Colorado's first congressional district. Melat, thanks so much for coming on the show today. Thanks so much for having me. Excited to be here. Excited to talk to you.

And congratulations on being endorsed. by Justice Democrats. I think what are you, the sixth candidate that Justice Democrats has endorsed so far? Tell us a little bit about that and that endorsement and what that means to you.

Yeah, definitely. We are so excited to have gotten their endorsement. Justice Democrats have been doing the work for years now of trying to address the problem of do nothing Democrats in Congress, where they are actively in bed with these corporations

that are singularly responsible for the affordability crisis that we're seeing today. And the only way we are actually going to get to the solutions like Medicare for All, Housing First, Universal Child Care is if we replace them in Congress and put people that are actually going to fight for working people in this country. You rattled off your policy platforms right at the beginning like a pro. I was going to go plank by plank with them with you. But you're a supporter of Medicare for All. That's enormous. Tell us a little bit about why you chose to support Medicare for all. Absolutely. At the end of the day, if we need to be achieving universal health care, right? And Medicare for All is the most efficient, effective and economical proposal that we have to do that. It's going to save taxpayers thousands of dollars in premiums that they're paying right now to all these middlemen health insurance companies that are just sucking Americans dry and profiting off of sickness and pain when every other developed and wealthy country in the world has universal health care. We should have the same thing here.

And universal child care is also a part of your platform. I was reading some statistics about how over the past five or so years, the cost of childcare has just grown exponentially across the country. What are you hearing in your district about what people are experiencing when they try to get care for their kids? I mean, trying to get child care is like trying to pay for a second rent or a second mortgage, right? It is that inaccessible to a lot of young people. And I'm 28, and I have absolutely no means available right now to even think about starting a family

because it is that inaccessible. And I grew up here in Denver where both of my parents were working to put my dad through pharmacy school. And so I had aunts and uncles. Like, I would stay with them on the weekends while my parents got to work. It was because they had that kind of access to childcare in the community that they were able to build the kind of life that they did for me and my little sister. That kind of community isn't accessible to everyone in this country. And especially if you are working 40, 50, 60 hours a week, the idea of having a child is just totally out of reach for people. We need to have universal child care because children are really the future of this country. And we need to be doing everything to make sure that we're giving them the very best start. And in terms of the other parts of your policy platform, climate change, do you support things like a Green New Deal with? that be something you would sign on to if you were able to get into Congress?

Yeah, without question. The Green New Deal, I think, is, you know, it's been a while since it was first proposed. So there are going to be some adjustments that we're going to need to make in there. And I think one of those things is going to be related to AI. There are a lot of questions that we need to get answered on that fronts. But absolutely, we need to be pushing for renewable energies that are going to, you know, secure our grid, make sure it's strong for working Americans today. And it's a particular issue for us here in Denver because Diana, again,

the Democrat that I'm challenging is in bed with a lot of these big energy companies. And when you are literally taking money from the very companies that are actively responsible for our rising rates in this country, you cannot be the one to hold them accountable. And so to have someone say that with a straight face that they're going to be the ones that helps address the rising energy prices, it's just ridiculous. Tell us a little bit about these AI data centers in Denver. This is becoming an increasingly important issue, I think, for politicians to address because they're polluting communities, they're driving up electricity bills, and they're kind of particularly focusing on or building in frontline communities, oftentimes people of color as well. I would imagine Denver is not an exception in that.

Yeah, I mean, the way these AI data centers are being built is they're operating in the dark, right? They are using the insidious nature of the relationship between corporations and politicians so that they can quietly get their permits approved and quietly move into these neighborhoods where they are polluting the waters or draining the energy grids of these areas and these communities. What we saw in Tucson, Arizona, not too long ago, where the communities actually rallied to prevent the building. of something like this, that needs to be the model where we are actively giving back the power to the communities where they are targeting so we can make sure that people understand what is the actual risk that's being posed by these data centers? What impact is it going to have on the water, on the energy use? So that if communities do not want that in their backyard, they have the power to say no, even though their politicians are in these pockets and are

trying to push it through quietly. That's what we really need to address. You also, in part, I was reading, there was an article about you in The Intercept, and I hadn't realized this, that in 2023, you actually lost your job because you wrote a post online, speaking about how it was wrong for certain law firms, including your own, to be vocally against the anti-genocide demonstrations and pro-Palestine protests. Can you take us back to 2020? your post and what your political evolution has been since you were let go by your job over speaking out for Palestine. Yeah, it was November of 23.

I was seeing the students that were losing their job offers and getting fired because they were demonstrating against the genocide that was happening in Palestine. And I'm from Ethiopia where there was a civil war and a genocide against Tigray for a few years there. And I demonstrated myself. And so, you know, I just could not believe that there were firms that were actively trying to prevent them from being able to just use their freedom of speech to advocate for basic human rights. And so I wrote that article. They, I was asked to take it down. I said no. And without hesitation, because at the end of the day, standing up to power for our most basic values of human rights and standing up against genocide is the bare minimum that we need to be required.

of these institutions and especially of the people that are in power right now. And, you know, the most revealing thing to me at that time was that after I did get fired, I got a lot of messages from people around the world. And there was a message that I got from another attorney. She just found out that she was pregnant. She hadn't told anyone at her firm. She hadn't even told some members of her family. And she said that I wish I could have spoken out, but I can't risk losing my health insurance when I have a baby on the way. And that's how quickly I realized that we're not living in a free market. We're living in a coercive market where these institutions and a lot of these employees are using their power over us because we can't afford our rent,

we can't afford our health care, we can't afford our groceries. And so we're stuck in these jobs that are stifling our freedom of speech and preventing us from being able to speak truth to power and stand up to things like genocide, especially when our tax dollars that are funding these kinds of war crimes. And so, you know, it was the greatest decision I've ever made because it really reminded me about where the real fight has to be. And that's in the halls of power in Congress so that we can change the balance of power so that we have people that are actually fighting for everyday working people and are not afraid to stand up for basic human rights and to stand against genocide. That coercion cuts across a variety of different, like, health care being tied to your employment

is coercive. I mean, it fits, it's both free speech and, and health care in the story of one of your colleagues. Immigration, too, using the threat of deportation on workers is a way that there's leverage being used and keeping people in situations that they don't want to be in. You mentioned your father and the fact that he was going through pharmacy school. I know that you're an immigrant. Your family are immigrants. Can you speak a little bit about your background and why you feel that your voice is needed in Congress? Yeah, I immigrated here in 98 when I was a baby. My dad was selected on the diversity visa lottery program, which I'm here by chance, right? And we talk a lot about the right way to immigrate here. I immigrated here on a lottery system. We get to decide what the

immigration system looks like. And the fact of the matter is the American people, agree that immigration helps our country. It is what makes us great. And they want to see more humane systems so that the people that are brave enough to leave everything behind like my parents did in the hopes of starting a better life in this country, we need to make it so that they're able to do that. And they're able to do it without spending tens of thousands of dollars or taking 10 plus years to get through the process. There's no reason for that to be the case. And for us as a party to allow Republicans to have scapegoated the immigrants in this country for the affordability crisis that we're facing in this country, it's absolutely absurd. We should be rejecting this notion from the very beginning and talking about the real people responsible for the affordability crisis in this country, which is the corporations that a lot of these establishment Democrats are in bed with, including Diana DeGette, who I'm primering in this challenge today.

I want to talk a little bit about your opponent in just a second. but I also want to make sure people realize you support an arms embargo to Israel. They may have inferred that given the strength of your statements on this particular topic, but that's also, of course, very important to our audience. Can you speak a little bit about the state of the Democratic Party in Colorado? Like, your governor sucks. I mean, I don't know what else to say about it. It reminds me a little of Pennsylvania where it's like it's a state that's moved blue,

but it's not blue in the. way that like it's more progressive there's democrats so they're pretty centrist that are running the show um yeah what what what's your viewpoint about where the democrats are in colorado yeah i mean this is why i'm so excited to have justice democrats on our side right because this is a question of what kind of democrats are we putting into power i've spent way too long watching these politicians who've been in power for decades at a time that i need to get has been in office for 30 years longer than i've been alive. Longer than you've been alive, right. Long than you've been alive. And they have been in bed with these corporations, including

people like our governor polis, where we're talking about big pharma, big energy, defense contractors that are actively responsible for, you know, deregulating, defunding, privatizing, a lot of the institutions that their generation once enjoyed, all because they're in bed with these corporations that are benefiting from these actions. So it's this relationship between corporations and establishment Democrats that's responsible for the crises that we're facing today. The only way we can actually address this problem is by voting them out. We have existential crises that we're facing, especially my generation, with the democracy, with the economy, with the planet right now. We can't afford to wait for our turn. We can't afford to ask for

permission. We just have to run, remove them from power, and change the balance of power in Congress so that we can fight for the things like universal childcare, housing first, and Medicare for all. That's how we address the affordability crisis and actually fight for working people in this country. Your opponent, as you mentioned, Diana DeGette, she was elected before you were even born. She's been in Congress for nearly 30 years. What is her record and why are you primaring her? And I guess what are some of the biggest contrast you would say between you and your opponent? It's the corporate pack money at the end of the day.

Diana DeGette has been in office longer than I've been alive. When she got elected, the number one song in the country was the macarena. We were talking about a fundamental change in the fabric of this country since the time that she's been elected. And in that time, prices have soared for housing, for health care, for childcare, making it untenable for everyday working people to build the kind of dignified lives that people in her generation used to be able to. And so for her to be in bed with the very corporations that are responsible for getting us into this mess, big pharma, big energy, defense contractors that are shipping our tax dollars overseas to fund a genocide, she cannot, with a straight face, tell us that she's going to be the best person to get us out of this mess when she was at the helm as these crises were unfolding. She cannot, her, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, all these people that were responsible for getting us here, they've got to go.

At the end of the day, we can't wait for our turn. We need to put people in Congress that are going to be accountable to the people, not to their wealthy donors, not to the corporate packs. And that's what I've made a promise to the people in this district. It will never take a diamond corporate pack money. That has to be the litmus test for every single Democrat we elect in the midterms and going forward from now on. No votes for corporate shows, period. I know that you've been endorsed by track A-PAC, not taking any A-PAC money. is your opponent's record on Israel and with APAC money?

She's taken over almost $100,000 from APAC. She is currently still refusing to sign onto the Block the Bombs Act, despite 80% of Democrats wanting an arms embargo on Israel right now. This is, at the end of the day, we're talking about a massive disconnect from the needs of the American voters and the responsiveness of the Democratic Party. We have not delivered for people and actually listened to what the Democratic voters want since Obamacare. And even then, that was a bandaid addressing the health care crisis. We cannot allow for there to be this much of a gap in between the 80% of Democratic voters that wants an arms embargo and the like 20% of Democrats in Congress that are willing to sign on for it.

Absolutely. Well, really excited about your run. Can you tell people where they can support and how they can. can best support for people that don't realize this is Colorado's first congressional district. It's Denver area, right? I mean, tell us a little bit about all of Denver. All of Denver. Wow. So how blue, yeah. How blue is this district? So blue. This is an extremely blue seats. This is an extremely blue city. We are so progressive. We have term limits. We have universal pre-K. We have a small donor matching program. The same thing that helped propel Zohran

to a win in New York City. We should have a representative, right? That's the thing that I'm calling for, too, is a national donor matching program to level the playing field so that candidates like myself that are not taking a dime in corporate pack money or money from groups like APAC can actually compete

with people like Diana to get who are taking millions of dollars from these corporate packs. And so to have a city, this blue, this progressive, we deserve a representative who reflects those values. And so really, the great, greatest way to get involved is if you live in Denver, go to our website, Kurosforco.com, sign up to volunteer. We're going to be knocking on doors. We're going to

outwork and out-organized to get at every single turn until June 30th on the primary date. If you don't live in our district, then please, if you can donate, we cannot compete with the kind of money that people like to get are putting up without this help and support from small donors across this country. If you can donate five or $10 on a recurring basis, that is going to make all of the difference. And you can do that at kirosforco.com too. All right. Just to booking my flight to Denver now to Dornock.

When you said the national matching funds thing, I mean, that's the kind of nerdy stuff. That's just music to my ears. I will always nerd out on that stuff without question. I mean, it made a massive difference for Zofran, right? Like once in a generation political talent, but that infrastructure made all of the difference when you saw all of that corporate money

and billionaire money pouring into the city. That's the kind of transformative policies we need to see Democrats fighting for. Yeah, really, really, it keeps you competitive. I mean, we need that kind of national program. So I really appreciate your time today. We will put a link to your website where people can donate or volunteer and help out Melakiros candidate for Colorado's first congressional district. That's Denver.

Thank you so much for your time today. I really appreciate it. Thank you so much for having me. Bye. Of course. Bye. With that, going to wrap up the free part of this show, the Majority Report. That's what it's called.

Head into the fun half shortly. But I do just want to remind people, we have the Max Left Beanies. The Max Left Beanies are on the website, shop. That majority report radio.com. You got to go there. If you want one of those beaniees, we had the hats before. But now we've got the beanies. And whistles are back as well.

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Mad throwing. I want to make a comment. Yes. A lot mentioned the macarena. I remember being in first grade music class and learning the dance. to mockery. And probably the last dance I ever learned. But, yeah, I remember that going off. And it's crazy that somebody's been in Congress for that entire time. Entire time. Right. The whistles are up there. Yes. They have been reordered, it seems like. So we're going to have some.

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Shopped Up Majority ReportRadio.com. Matt, what's happening on Left Reckoning and with Jacobin? Yeah, Left Reckoning, we had a great show. Well, actually, let me plug the Jackman. Tomorrow, Jacobin show, we're talking to Paul Heidman about the GOP,

Newk and Gritch and all of the stuff. Go subscribe to the Jacovin show. Our show with Jasper, I just found out, did in fact get buried because we were talking about settler violence in the West Bank. And for some reason, YouTube doesn't flash that to people's, even subscribers, didn't don't even get notifications about that stuff. But we are doing a show for Jacobin over at the at Jacobin Meg YouTube channel every Friday. So look forward to that tomorrow at 10 a.m. Eastern time, folks.

and it's only available on YouTube. Brandon, hey. What's happening on the discourse? Well, actually, tons of stuff is happening on the discourse, so much that I can't really properly encapsulate it all in one sentence. So you should just go over to the YouTube or the Twitter channel, the discourse with Brandon, and just like, see, what's going on right now?

I will say we'd have, you know, and I know this is not a huge milestone for most YouTubers, but for me it was very important. We hit over 10,000. We have over 10,000 on the YouTube channel, roaring towards 11,000. And I have to, speaking of Beanie, I do have to thank Tim Poole because it really was the clip about the shooting at his compound that pushed us over the edge. Well, I guess I shouldn't have put compound in scare quotes because the compound is real. The compound is real and he does no idea how he's going to sell that property at this point, which is the thing that we're most concerned about here.

Assuming the news. If someone fires a gun at me, supposedly. The main thing I'm worried about is, God, the resale value on this. I mean, if you're buying that story, I certainly don't think it played out the way he said it played out. But a lot of things could happen. Come on. Tim Pool. Yeah.

No, never. Never. I will say, I'm excited about the max beanie. I tried to wear a beanie in solidarity with Tim after the shooting for a few minutes on the show. But I was too weak to pull it off, honestly. It made my head itch. And I felt like it made me really uncomfortable. like looking at myself like you know

in be need for the entire show and so like I just took it off and so I think that like if nothing else I can admit that he's a bigger man than I am on that front braving the discomfort he has the opposite situation where when he doesn't have it on his head itches and he feels uncomfortable

oh you're just you're just both doing the same thing of avoiding discomfort to spectrum um well with that said we don't have Matt Bender yet oh yes we're We do. Oh my goodness. Look at that. There he is. Hello, Matt Bender. Hello. What's happening with your shows? Yeah, sure. I believe we're discussing because Mike, Mike from the human support is officially on his break for Christmas. But I believe we should be having a leftist mafia tonight at 8.30 p.m. at YouTube.com slash Matt Binder. Check it out, folks. All right. We will head into the fun house. where we will read your IMs and maybe take a call or two.

We shall see. See you in the phone half. Okay, Emma, please. Well, I just, I feel that my voice is sorely lacking in the majority report. Wait, look, Sam is unpopular. I do deserve a vacation at Disney World. So, ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to welcome Emma to the show. It is Thursday.

I think you need to take over for Sam. That's cool. No, I'm going to pause you right there. What? You can't encourage Emma to live like this. And I'll tell you why. So it's offered a twerk, sushi, and poker with sushi and that's what we call it bids. Dwerp, sushi and sushi and oh. We're going to get demonetized.

I just think that what you did to Tim Poole was mean. Free speech. That's not what we're about here. Look at how sad he's become now. You shouldn't even talk about it because I think you're responsible. I probably am in a certain way, but let's get to the meltdown here. Twirp. Ugh.

Sushi and poker with the boys. Oh my God. Wow. Sushi. I'm sorry. I'm losing my fucking mind. Someone's offered a twir? Yeah.

Sushi and poker with the boys. Logic. Twerk. A little kid. Add this debate seven. Like a little kid. Little kid. I think I'm not trying to be a dick right now, but like I absolutely think the U.S.

should be providing me with a wife and kids. That's not what we're talking about here. It's not a fun job. That's a real thing. That's a real thing. That's a real thing. Sam has like the weight of the world on the shoulders. Sam doesn't want to do this show anymore.

It was so much easier. When the majority report was just you, you were happy. Let's change the subject. Now, shut up. Don't want people saying reckless things on your program. That's one of the most difficult parts about this show. This is a pro-killing podcast. I'm thinking maybe it's time we bury the hatchet.

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