Israel & U.S. Have Suffered A "Humiliating Defeat" In Iran War! w/ Chris Hedges
6/1/202659 min
Journalist and author Chris Hedges joins Jimmy to argue that the US and Israel have suffered a "humiliating defeat" in the Iran war, with Iran now the dominant power in the Middle East, exerting a stranglehold on 20% of seaborne oil and natural gas, and that the war has accelerated the terminal decline of the American empire. He notes that Trump launched the war against the advice of his own intelligence chiefs and military advisers, based on a fantasy sold to him by Netanyahu that regime change would be quick and easy—and that the Gulf States were not consulted, their air defenses were stripped to prioritize Israel, and they now realize US bases are "magnets" for attack rather than protection.
Hedges warns that the key issue is the dollar: if China, Russia, and Iran succeed in breaking the dollar's hegemony as the world's reserve currency, the US will be unable to sell Treasury bonds, leading to an instant contraction and the collapse of the empire. He concludes that Trump is little more than a figurehead surrounded by sycophants who are eviscerating the administrative state, and that unlike previous Republican presidents who were reined in by establishment figures, Trump's second-term team is deliberately accelerating the implosion.
Plus segments on Trump's latest threat to bomb a longtime Middle East ally and AI proving more costly for corporations than using human employees.
Also featuring Garland Nixon and Stef Zamorano!
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First 90 secondsJimmy Dore· Host0:00
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Jimmy Dore· Host0:35
Let's bring in our first guest. Oh, very exciting. Uh, Chris Hedges is with us. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, took second place to Samantha Power in the, the [laughs] book award. He's an activist and best-selling author of 12 books, including A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine. That's not out yet, is it, Chris?
Chris Hedges· Guest0:59
No, that one's out. The one I did with Joe Sacco where we-- That's c- those are kind of essays, you know, but the, um, but the book we just did, we interviewed 29 families in Egypt who had fled Gaza. We tell the story of the genocide through their experiences. That's called Requiem for Gaza, and that'll come out, uh, Fantagraphics is publishing it in October.
Jimmy Dore· Host1:22
Okay. Uh, how do, how do I m- how did I m- I never miss a book by you. I missed that one, A Genocide Foretold. Son of a gun.