The UN has reported that 15 medics and rescue workers from the Red Crescent were murdered “one by one” by the IDF and buried in a shallow grave. State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce was asked if this complies with international law.

“Well,” she answered, “I can tell you that for too long, Hamas has abused civilian infrastructure, cynically using it to shield themselves. Hamas’s actions have caused humanitarians to be caught in the crossfire.”

So instead of answering anything about the IDF’s actions, Bruce claims that the point blank murder (known here as ‘crossfire’) of 15 first responders is the fault of Hamas.

Interestingly, it’s also come out that Israel itself has been systematically using Palestinians as human shields. The Israeli outlet Haaretz reports it this way:

 

But when US outlet CBS News is forced to report the same story, they do it like this:

“Our CBS cameras in Gaza caught something rare: hundreds of Palestinian protesters calling not only for an end to the war with Israel, but an end to Hamas rule in Gaza as well. Throughout the war, Hamas has used Palestinian civilians as human shields. Now Debora Patta tells us there are accusations that some in the Israeli army have done it as well.”

Despite the fact that there has been zero shown evidence in a year and half of genocide that Hamas has used human shields, CBS uses this lie plus unrelated Hamas-protest news to bury the IDF story. Meanwhile, on non-corporate media, photos have surfaced of Palestinians chained to the front of IDF tanks to protect the militants inside. What could Israel do that US corporate media wouldn’t defend?

Also in this week’s Thursday Throwdown: former Disinformation Czar Nina Jankowicz shocks Katie and Aaron by actually saying something true, GOP Senator Bill Cassidy is the latest in a long line of Republicans to admit they plan to cut Medicare, and Trump’s trade war turns out to be a war against American workers.

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There’s a lot going on in the world this week: Israel is increasing nuclear tensions with Iran, the Trump Administration leaked on Signal its plans to attack a civilian apartment building in Yemen, US federal officials kidnapped another college student for pro-Palestine speech, and the JFK files unveiled decades of new classified information.

This is high level stuff, which means we’ve got to go high up to get real answers.

Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, who served in the CIA at the time of JFK’s assassination, has become one of the most important peace activists in the country, breaking important classified stories and fighting the military industrial complex. He also cofounded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity to “protest the use of faulty intelligence” to justify US wars.

Ray breaks down SignalGate, US terror in Yemen, the JFK files, the latest in the proxy war in Ukraine, and how the intelligence community uses the threat of Iranian nukes an excuse for Israeli aggression.

This week, the Tulsi Gabbard-controlled Office of National Intelligence put out a threat assessment that flies in the face of Israeli officials who are constantly fear-mongering about Iran’s nuclear program and encouraging the U.S. to bomb Iran accordingly.

“This is the front burner question right now,” Ray says. “It's worth reading because I think it will be a very great disincentive for the administration to claim that the reason they are with Israel attacking Iran is because Iran has a nuclear weapon.”

He reads the report: “The threat assessment dated two days ago says this, ‘We continue to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and that Khamenei has not reauthorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003.’”

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Ray explains what all this means for the Middle East, analyzing all the players from the Houthis in Yemen and their effort against Israel to Marco Rubio’s State Department and its funding of the ongoing genocide.

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