انتم تخدون معركه خائبه فاشله لن تؤدي الى اي نتيجه القتل يزيدنا وعيا وعنادا واسرارا. dr. jill stein, welcome back to the show, it's so great to see you. it's really great to see you, kim. okay, so uh, you look like you're traveling right now, can you tell us where you where you are? yeah, i'm in, i'm in new york city, uh, i'm in in uh brooklyn uh, a supporters home, and we are in the ballot fight right now, this is the last stand of of the empire in their effort to keep uh grassroots campaigns. the ballot. it's so

ridiculous that candidates have to uh secure these ballots and mean i mean i guess it's like a, i don't know, what is the solution? mean, do if we say, okay, there's no criteria to be on the ballot right, then and anybody could put their name on, we would end up maybe with lot a huge ballot right, with thousands of people that just throw their name in. should there be some sort of criteria, and if so what should it be? what's more realistic versus what you're having to do? the other candidates don't have to do as right, you don't have the republican candidate doesn't have to do what you're doing, the democrat candidate doesn't have to do what you're doing, which is unfair, so what do you think it should be? yeah, mean, our system is ridiculous, basically if you are part of the machine, if you are democrat or republican, you are grandfathered in, you have to compete uh within your party, and that's fine, and then you're automatically on, uh, it shouldn't be that way, you know, there there needs to be either a, there needs to be a reasonable threshold so that you shouldn't have to... be uh you know the uh

political elite in order to get on the ballot or the economic elite because right now you can buy your way on and if you have oodles of money you can hire petitioners and you can attain these ridiculous requirements in new york city they rather in new york state they tripled the requirement uh and that was done of in a budget bill as secret hidden provision so there was no discussion or debate new yorkers like everybody everywhere wants more choices especially you know in the current election, but as a rule it's been growing over decades that people want to have more choices, not just be limited to the two parties of war and wall street basically, and uh so uh governor coomo uh secretly inserted into a budget bill this increase in the requirement from 15,000, which is high, 15,00 signatures in six weeks, you know, if it's a, you know, okay, that that's... it's

reasonable to have to show that you have some support uh in order to uh get on the ballot, so they were able to just triple the requirement, who made that decision, and how do they come across, how do they go about making that type of decision? so it was buried in a budget bill, and and often these budget bills are humongous and you know we don't pass legislation anymore as a rule, we just jam everything into one budget bill a year, you now that's kind of how congress works and that's how uh state legislatures. work because we don't really have a functioning democracy, we don't actually uh debate things, the public is not informed, we have consolidated corporate media, so you know, which is largely in surface of careerism as opposed to you know the public interest, so the whole system is dysfunctional on every count, we are shadow band to start with because you know the system doesn't like me uh at all, i'm classified with wikileaks uh on on twitter and presumably on the rest of social media as well, i'm considered a threat, and i'm proud

of that, and i think that's why mainstream media is going to use any excuse whatsoever not to cover us, and that's why we've got to be on the ballot in new york, we have to be a fullbore challenge to empire and oligarchy, which is throwing all of us under the bus, um, you know, genocide is a red line for lot of people, and it should be, and endless war should also be, and wars that are approaching nuclear, conflicts on three fronts right now, at least, are all could all go nuclear in the blink of an eye and our leadership, our criminal misleadership is absolutely clueless about these dangers and we the american people are being impoverished if at the blink of an eye we're throwing another 60 billion to ukraine, throwing uh fuel on that fire, which could have been avoided all together had the us not been ginning this up, and likewise in uh israel's war on gaza, which is not really a war, it's a massacer, it's a massacer of civilians, this is herrif. uh

every hour that goes by is really uh, we are a death watch, we are a death watch for two million people right now who do not have food or water and for whom the supply has been totally choked off for the last 10 days and everybody's mal-nourished, everybody's incredibly stressed and they're under bombardment and you know they don't have uh shelter uh they don't have sanitation, it it's just nothing short of miraculous that people survive. you are um the only major candidate who is against the zionist agenda that's going on right now in the genocide in gaza, why do you think that is? oh man. well, i, i think, you know, as ronald reagan's secretary of defense said back in the 1980s, israel is the unsyncable battleship for the united states in the middle east, basically overseeing control over that very important source of oil, and you know, this is us

expressed military policy, expressed pentagon policy, so-called full spectrum dominance, that the us will dominate all, basically all substantial resources and all areas of competition for the for resources around the world and that we will dominate all domains, that is outer space, cyber space, um, battle, you know, potential land battles, the sea, the subsea, we will dominate full spectrum here, and we will not allow even regional powers to rise to regional prominence, because we have to have total control, now how is that working out for us, we have lost every battle, start. back in the 1960s, when we flagrantly lost vietnam and murdered some 3 million vietnamese uh as as part of that battle and others you know in cambodia and so on, we've had this horrific imperial policy, and israel is sort of settler colonial um

state which is very much allied with us interests and this is a shame because uh palestine, the traditional palestine and... was multicultural, multi-religious, christians, jews and muslims lived peacefully side by side until the zionists came with the intention of practicing ethnic cleansing, that's not to say that every immigrant fleeing pograms of the holocaust in the aftermath, that's not to say this was their intention, but the organizers, the the terrorist groups, the jewish terrorist groups who went around you know bombing the king david hotel for example in jerusalem were hundred a hundred um you know brits and others westerners and others were all murdered in a specific event that was designed to terrorize you know at that point

you know particularly great britain but also there was a terrorist campaign designed to drive out the palestinians now that was not widely known although that's what palestinians have always said, but their their experience was validated by the national israeli archives and the military records which showed indeed um and and there was a whole new generation of israeli historians which did their work starting in the 1990s that completely overturned the basic presumptions about zionism that it was a land without a people and people without a land, this was a marriage made in heaven, they were going to make the desert bloom, you know not true at ball on on every score and that was shown through israel's own records that were declassified in the 1990s showing that there was basically um a an intentional plan to move out the local population and

that's what's happened over and over you know village by village they were burned or the inhabitants were driven out their crops were burned their olive trees were burned um you know and there were massacers. that began even before the state of israel was formally declared, so that's where the conflict began, um, and you know, it's out of that conflict that eventually, you know, october 7th was just the latest skirmish of massacred population to fight back, what israel has committed since october the 7th is just so totally over the top, um, you know, it's it's pathetic that that hamas, hamas, hamas, continues to be this justification. the slaughter of thousands of children who are being tortured and murdered on industrial scale, every day 37 children lose their mothers. this is a civilian death. i was just you know at at this this conference, doctors against genocide um last last week, this

really amazing conference that included lots of people who've actually been there and work there and you know, mean you can see this in the podcast as well of the healthcare. fighters you haven't been targeted yet and and murdered, which is also going on here, and that itself is is a war crime, the destruction of the healthcare system, but they are taking. care of, it's entirely civilians, they are not, and it's mostly children and and women, so you know, it's it's outrageous that this mythology that there is a war uh going on is that anyone gives that any attention whatsoever, you know, what went before the international court of justice, you know, and you had 13 out of 15 judges all sailing saying that you know this is plausible genocide, which is the most definitive you can ever be about a genocide until... after the fact and you have all the evidence, this is as definitive as it gets and you know it's not only the um the

palestinians, it's also israelis who are really in the target hairs here, because you know even their traditional allies, egypt for example who joined the um the case and egypt was also threatening to tear a power part their peace treaty with israel uh in advance the assault on the rafa gate, so you know there may be some mixed messages coming out of egypt, but there's an unful of discontent and the same is true in jordan where there have been huge rallies now also demanding that jordan end its peace treaty with israel, you've got an active hot war going on with lebanon, you have between israel and the us some five uh countries including iran, which is actually being targeted, iran is networked with russia, which obviously they have a military alliance, and russia obviously has uh nuclear weapons, this could go ballistic, this is like a world war. one situation with nuclear weapons thrown into the mix, so this puts us all in the target hairs of the

violence, because once you got a nuclear war it doesn't matter where it happens, uh nuclear winter uh is terminal for us all, so our leaders are so clueless, so uninformed, so you know subservient to their war profetier and apac masters, that you know they're just they're all just going full speed ahead, you know voting unanimously. for the latest appropriations to keep the futil and horrific war going in ukraine where there should have been you know what russia wanted was neutrality that that could have been uh in the cards and on the table from the get go the same thing this war uh in the middle east threatens everyone in the region especially israelis and all of us potentially so it's up to us as the american people as as fredrick douglas said power. power concedes nothing without a demand, it never has and it never

will. we have to be that demand, and we can do that knowing that the american people are behind this demand. it's not just the united nations, it's not just world opinion, it's also the opinion of the american people who want immediate cease fire and a diplomatic solution by substantial and growing majorities. you know, that's what the students were standing up for when they got their heads bashed in, what the majority of the... american people say, so we have to stand up for that, and we have to stand up for that in this election. if our campaign isn't in the race, it will not be discussed in this election, because they all agree, it's it's full speed ahead on these disastrous war policies that are endangering all of us and empowerishing us here in the us, where it consumes this endless war machine consumes half of our congressional budget, so this is just nuts, we can put it to... and simply by standing up with the courage of our convictions and taking, you know, taking a lesson here from the young

people who've always led the charge on significant uh political change and social change, we need to uh follow their example and stand up and demand an end to this, including in the voting booth, by getting us on the ballot in new york, it is a shot across the bow of the empire and oligarchy that their days are numbered and you know and that they better start. moving now, the, i don't think the political elites in washington are clueless, i mean i hello and welcome, good evening everyone, we are interrupting your normal news programming to give you some special coverage, as it seems uh tonight tensions continue to escalate in the middle east as israel has once again launched air strikes in the southern beirot, we will be unpacking these events and their implications as they unfold with expert analysis and reporting, stay with us as we bring you the latest updates, i'm so sorry,

on this critical situation, so stay with us. the resistant movement, hezbollah continues with its retaliatory strikes into israeli occupied territories, despite the regime's aggression against, lebanon. hisballah says, it launched a missile strike on the northern cities of safed, carmal in northern occupied territories. the resistance movement also targeted the gathering of israeli forces in blaida and boram regions with rockets. hisbollah says it has killed over two dozen israeli com. landers and wounded more than 130 others over the past 5 days. israel and lebanon have been engaged in daily clashes since the regime launched its genocidal war on gaza last year. israel has launched a ground invasion of lebanon earlier this month following days of deadly bombardments of the country. to give you more insight on that

matter, we are now joined by our beirot correspondent mariam saleh. maria, i hope you're well, are you with us? what do you have to share with us? well, around an hour ago we heard of sounds of very loud explosions, and there was a very heavy strike on the town of kamati as well as the town of kaifoon, these are towns in the area which is in mount lebanon, it is outside the area which is usually targeted in the southern suburbs of beirot, the moun area was usually in the past uh areas where the displaced seek safe haven, especially from the southern suburbs of beerut, and so you have them basically jam packed with displaced people, especially from the southern suburbs, we know that the result of that shell, that shelling included six marters, including women and children, of course we are still waiting for

details to know um exactly how many murders and the injured and so on and what the repercussions and results of that strike are, but this is the latest that we have in the surrounding of the capital beirot, this is in addition to the targeting of the heart of the southern suburbs and what seems to be a systematic destruction of all of the suburbs, and we even have neighborhoods within the uh southern suburbs which were not target in the past even during the time of the israeli occupation of beirot, they were not subject to uh this type of targeting, you some towns, some neighborhoods that are still have old buildings decades old buildings and so it's it seems the israelis have changed their their course of allowing there to be some certain safe areas uh or even any area in all the southern suburbs which is very wide geography it extends from the area of which

is close the edges of the capital beirot all the way to the the airport the internat berut international airport and this is why a lot of smoke and sounds of explosions were heard at the beirot international airport. however, of course we do not have civilian planes right now, except for the middle east airlines, which is the official airlines for lebanon. it is bringing in of course urgent planes uh based on the fact that they have a certain uh maybe um approval or coordination with the international community and the united nations, but "we do have our military airplanes that are arriving for the sake of giving assistance or for evacuation of foreign nationals, or even the lebanese who have double nationalities um that need to travel beyond outside of lebanon in order to go to the uh the country which is their destiny and so we have that type of movement

which is still a very very humble movement when it comes to the beirot airport but" still functional uh this is as opposed to what we had in 2006 when the first hours of the aggression included direct targeting of the terminals in the bayrut international airport. now there is an expectation that it might be also targeted, but this will probably be after the evacuations that are occurring in the next two or three days. we also have direct attacks on various towns um all over the areas of south lebanon, in the western side of the border or the eastern side of the border, you also have the fact that the israelis seem to be now preparing to try in other areas, they have failed to try to invade or to launch incursions into the eastern side of the border, more towards iadaise and marunaras and yarun, there is an expectation that they might try on the

western side, which is closer to the towns of itarun for example, and ramesh and rami of course there is an expectation that they might do that, but it seems that hazbullah is also targeting and launching their rockets on all the bases that are near the border as well and where the forces are mobilizing and localized in attempts to try to launch new incursion. now we have of course the another attack on the area of shari which is nabati and the edges of their syrian in we have also a direct attack on. is area which also is considered safe area or it was actually labor the safe area, it seems that now this time around there will not be any safe areas. especially in south lebanon and the southern suburbs of beirot and the surrounding of beirot, we know that two people at least were killed, and so we have these are additional marters that are within the civilian

population, also woman that was killed, and yesterday also we had woman with her three daughters, they were also murdered as a result of attack on the shuf district, and so that adds to the continuous crimes committed by the israelis, we also see that it seems the israelis are using some pretty lethal um arms, we know from one of the heads of the the social and medical association in lebanon, he said that they are willing to file a report and they're going to do some testing because they believe there was a use of uradium warheads against the southern suburbs of beirot which could cause poisoning and could cause extreme long-term impact on the environment as well as on the ground in south lebanon and for any... who comes close could actually be impacted by the smoke, which is of course, we can smell it, we can, you can feel it also from several kilometers

away, so it is that intense, actually um, and and that proves that the israelis are using seemingly illegitimate uh, illegal weapons. of course, this all also comes a time when hizballah continues with its operations in order to make sure that they stop any inteptant. incursions, we have for example, the last of which hasbullah targeted a group of soldiers an israeli force in the settlement of yaftah with a salvo of rockets, they also targeted the karmail settlement, which is not the first time, of course, yesterday, kar was targeted at least two times, frageladi was also targeted several times yesterday, once again today, has focusing their attacks on the areas where we have groups, and forces, especially the ground forces that are mobilizing in that area and being getting ready for what they are saying is a ground invasion, of course hizbullah has already targeted the the city

of safad in addition to very lively, very significant military sites and bases in the city of hyfa as well as well as that was also significant, we also saw that today for the first time has targeted the 7,200 b which is in the south of the city of hyfa two times and two different, this is a large facility, then includes different maybe buildings, and so they targeted first the building where there is factory for explosives, the other attack included direct attacks on the areas where there is maintenance and even preparation, logistic preparation for the israeli forces and this is all in the south south of city of hyfa which is also very... significant has taken it further, not only in the vicinity of hifa towards the north, but also towards the south, getting closer to the center of the israeli regime, we also have

now just in hezballah targeted a group of israeli soldiers that were localized and deployed seemingly surrounding the baghdadi military base, which is base that is close to the border and has been targeted more than once, before hazbillah launched of course the attack on the... 1200 base in south of hyfa using a fleet of drones uh that was one of the very few times especially in the last round of fighting when the israelies launched their offensive before has been using drones extensively now it seems the number of times that they are using uavs is very specific, it seems that they are launching them only when they want to attack specific bases like the one in hyfa 7,200 for example. uh and the samson base as well, for example yesterday it was also targeted, that also is very strategic military base. we also have attack on the bar with rockets and these are just

some examples of the many operations that are being launched by hazballah and we see definitely that the as long as the rockets are being launched from south south of lebanon or from anywhere in lebanon actually, but reaching the occupied territories, this means hisballah still... remains intact and the command and control system is also still present, right? what do you think the purpose of israeli regime is, maria? well, their purpose is, they've already declared it, there's the general purpose, and there's also the the detailed, maybe the sub objectives, the the major objective that the israeli regime's prime minister had declared, even during the war on. says that he wants to change the middle east, that is his objective, that is the main purpose. um, it is very difficult for a regime like israel

that was built on, uh occupation and crimes and massacres and so to be able to accept that there is any type of resistance against it and it gets its hegemony uh in the region, but we also know that its presence as an entity uh as an occupation uh this this hegemony that it has will also be to the interest of the united states and this is why we believe that now the united states is pushing even more for the continuation of the war in order to achieve uh the like i said the other objectives, which are first of all to break the resistance, to weaken the resistance, but not only its military, because they they need to break the military, it seems they are not able to do so, because hazbillah has very significant foundation, which is the support that they have from the people, and it is the people of the resistance that are also part and parcel of the uh of the resistance, and this is why we see direct systematic attacks. on civilians

especially in areas where they they're even seeking refuge and this issue that resembles more and more what was happening in ghazza the whole past year as they attempted of course in many cases uh to give sometimes five to 10 minutes of warning and then they start shelling in areas where there are still civilians and that led to a big number of civilians being killed and let's not forget the the gaza strip. is very closed geographic space where you have very dense population, perhaps in lebanon there is still still some room for movement for the displace, and despite that the israelis have targeted, like i said, safe areas, specifically targeting residents where there are displays, and that seems to be part of their policy to put pressure on the resistance, and so that could be also another objective of the... is

another goal is to put pressure on the on the people of the resistance, the supporters of resistance to the extent that they reach a state of despair and perhaps would maybe based on their terms, israeli terms that they would stop supporting the resistance, and we see more pressure being put from the us based on this to try to get some political gains in lebanon. that is exactly right, now given the growing regional support for groups like hisbollah and hamas, particularly after recent israeli actions, how do you think the resistance is gaining a strength politically and militarily? maria, well, it's it's difficult to say when it comes to political terms uh, we can see that there is of course lot of support on the popular front, the people, whether in north america, south america, europe, and those countries where the governments are completely pro'.