Jared Kushner, CIA Coups & the Bananas Reason We’re at War with Iran: Amanda with Jeremy Scahill
3/24/20261 hr 26 min
We’re told this is about bad guys, nuclear threats, and national security. History—and this moment—tell a different story. In this You’re Not Gonna Believe This Bullshit episode, Amanda traces America’s regime change playbook—then sits down with investigative journalist, co-founder of Drop Site News, Jeremy Scahill to break down what's really driving the current wars in Iran and Gaza.
- Trump launching strikes on Iran amid disputed “nuclear threat” claims
- The coordination of war decisions with Netanyahu—and why that matters
- Kushner’s role in Gaza reconstruction plans that look a lot like real estate development
- “Negotiations” with Iran happening alongside military escalation
- The long history of regime change—and who actually benefits If it feels chaotic, it’s not. It’s a pattern. About Jeremy: Jeremy Scahill is co-founder of Drop Site News. He was previously a Senior Correspondent and Editor-at-Large at The Intercept and is one of the three founding editors of The Intercept. He is an investigative reporter, war correspondent, and author of the international best-selling books “Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield” and “Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army.” He has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, Nigeria, the former Yugoslavia, and elsewhere across the globe. Scahill has served as the national security correspondent for The Nation and “Democracy Now!”. He continues to host the podcast Intercepted. Scahill’s work has sparked several congressional investigations and won some of journalism’s highest honors. He was twice awarded the prestigious George Polk Award, in 1998 for foreign reporting and in 2008 for “Blackwater.” Scahill is a producer and writer of the award-winning film “Dirty Wars,” which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award. Follow We Can Do Hard Things on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/wecandohardthings TikTok — https://www.tiktok.com/@wecandohardthingsshow
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First 90 secondsAmanda Doyle· Host0:00
Hello you. Thank you for coming back to We Can Do Hard Things, for my latest you're not gonna believe this episode. Thank you for listening to all of them. I am really, really grateful for your encouragement and your enthusiasm for all the shows, like Why Are Billionaires and The Everything You Need to Know About the Epstein Files series. I really love pulling back the curtain and learning all of these things with you. Also, if there are topics you wanna hear about, please send me a message on Instagram. I'm there at amandafdoyle. Send me a note if there are things that we should be talking about here. Okay. In the last days of February, we all woke up on a Saturday to find out that we were at war with Iran, having bombed them overnight, killing their supreme leader. On January 3rd, we launched a military strike in Venezuela and abducted their president and brought him to the United States. A couple of weeks later, Trump's son-in-law, a multi-billion dollar private equity fund guy whose biggest client is Saudi Arabia, named Trump's special envoy for peace, somehow announced a new master plan for Gaza as a real estate development opportunity. That same week, Trump doubled down on his threats to take control of Greenland, not ruling out the use of military force. And just last week, Trump said of Cuba, against which the US has launched crushing oil blockades, creating a humanitarian crisis, that he would have, quote, "The