A 20-year-old George Washington crashed a party he wasn't invited to β and walked out with a poem. Judy Hodgkiss on how Alexander Pope's Essay on Man carried Leibniz's ideas from a fugitive English lord into the Declaration of Independence.
Barbara Boyd cuts through the warmonger lie: Trump is pursuing peace while crushing Iran's leverage β and the real war is between Trump's American System and the dying London-centered petrodollar order that wants him dead.
A funeral pause answered with burning tankers β and a summit where Europe learned who runs the alliance now. Barbara and Susan on the empire's enforcement arm, the Golden Dome, and the midterm machine. Your questions, answered live.
Trump: the U.S. is hitting Iran βVERY HARD TONIGHT.β
The strike is no longer hypothetical. Hours ago, the President said it outright β and laid out what comes after.
From Trump's Truth this morning:
βThe United States will be hitting Iran (Whose Navy, Air Force, Radar, Anti Aircraft, and all other forms of Defense, together with most of its offensive capability, are GONE!), VERY HARD TONIGHT. At some point in the not too distant future, we will be taking Kharg Island, and other oil infrastructure points, and assume total control of their Oil and Gas Markets, much like we have with Venezuela, which is working out brilliantly for both Venezuela and the United States of America.β β Read the full Truth β
This isn't the start of a wider war. It looks like the endgame.
The Apache shootdown came at the worst possible moment β but Iran has little left to hit back with. Its navy, air defense, and offensive capability are, in Trump's words, βGONE.β What remains is nuisance strikes, not a regional inferno.
So the likelier story isn't escalation. It's the end of Tehran's quest for the bomb β and a settlement coming faster than the headlines expect. Notice what Trump put right in the post: total control of Iran's oil and gas markets, βlike Venezuela.β Translation: this resolves soon, and gas prices come down.
Plus: the establishment's all-out counterattack on Trump's DOJ, and why California's βwinβ only makes election integrity more likely.
Barbara and Mike Steger break it down in a few hours.
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A funeral pause answered with burning tankers β and a summit where Europe learned who runs the alliance now. Barbara and Susan on the empire's enforcement arm, the Golden Dome, and the midterm machine. Your questions, answered live.
REPLAY now available, join us live next Thursday live. Two nights of U.S. strikes on Iran, a NATO summit Trump and Erdogan owned, and Europe's secret panic over America.
Roberts reached back to the King's common law to define who's an American. Clarence Thomas answered with Frederick Douglass. Barbara and Susan on the birthright ruling, the firing-powers win, and the revolution we're still fighting.
Today's show is over, but watch the replay and join us LIVE next Thursday. America turns 250 this weekend β and Barbara and Susan tie the milestone to the Court's blockbuster term and the real Iran strategy. Join us live.