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Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 4, 2026
11:39
Democracy Now Video • 1 week ago

Top U.S. & World Headlines — March 4, 2026

Trump Team Scrambles Over Rubio’s Admission About Israel and Iran
New Republic • 1 week ago

Trump Team Scrambles Over Rubio’s Admission About Israel and Iran

State Secretary Marco Rubio just ate his own words.The White House is scrambling to find a palatable explanation for U.S. involvement in the Iran war after Donald Trump rejected Rubio’s public rationale.During a visit on Capitol Hill Monday, Rubio suggested that the U.S. jumped to action due to intelligence that indicated Israel was going to strike Iran. U.S. involvement was, according to Rubio, necessary to thwart retaliation against U.S. interests. “It was abundantly clear that if Iran came under attack by anyone … they were going to respond and respond against the United States,” Rubio said. “We knew there was going to be an Israeli action. We knew that would precipitate an attack against American forces. And we knew that if we didn’t preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties.”Holy crap, Rubio basically just admitted that Israel forced Trump's hand pic.twitter.com/6P18aWwe1o— Liam Nissan™ (@theliamnissan) March 2, 2026But that was apparently not the pitch that Trump approved. Responding to questions from reporters at the White House the following day, the president rejected any indication that Israel had pushed the White House to act.“No. I might have forced their hand,” Trump said. “We were having negotiations with these lunatics, and it was my opinion that they were going to attack first. They were going to attack. If we didn’t do it, they were going to attack first. I felt strongly about that.”Hours later, Rubio also changed his tune—though his tone was noticeably more stressed.“Yesterday, you told us that Israel was going to strike Iran and that’s why we needed to get involved. Today the president said Iran was going to get—” started a reporter, before Rubio interjected.“No. Were you there yesterday? That’s false. I was asked very specifically—were you there yesterday?” said Rubio.“Yes, I asked the question,” responded the reporter.Eventually, Rubio relented that the White House “knew the attack was going to happen anyway.”REPORTER: Yesterday you told us Israel was going to strike Iran and that's why we needed to get involved. But today the president said Iran--RUBIO: No. Were you there yesterday?REPORTER: Yes. I asked the question pic.twitter.com/PIUVZ2uhIC— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 3, 2026Mike Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., also tried to downplay Rubio’s comments. “[Rubio] clarified that those comments, those clips, are being taken out of context,” Waltz told CNN Tuesday night. “He was answering a very narrow operational question.”So far, six U.S. soldiers have been killed in the conflict, as have more than 20 Iranian officials, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Eighteen American soldiers have also been seriously injured. More than 1,000 Iranian civilians have been killed, including 176 children, dozens of whom were at a girls’ school in the country’s south.Meanwhile, more than a dozen countries have been roped into the conflict since the U.S. began bombing Iran—including France, the U.K., and Greece—effectively destabilizing the entire region while disrupting global markets and oil production.

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Chapo Trahouse • 1 week ago

Animal News | Chapo Trap House

"The Secret Agent": Kleber Mendonça Filho on His Oscar-Nominated Film & Brazil's Military Dictatorship
Democracy Now • 1 week ago

"The Secret Agent": Kleber Mendonça Filho on His Oscar-Nominated Film & Brazil's Military Dictatorship

Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho joins us to discuss his Oscar-nominated film, The Secret Agent, and the history that inspired it. The film is set in the northern Brazilian city of Recife in the 1970s, during the country’s U.S.-backed military dictatorship. ”The Secret Agent is very much about the past, but it’s very much about the past repeating itself through amnesia,” says Mendonça, who draws a comparison between the Cold War-era dictatorship and Brazil’s later years under right-wing Trump ally Jair Bolsonaro. This is an excerpt of a longer interview with Mendonça you can watch here.

"Utter Disaster for All Involved": Is Trump's War on Iran Repeating Bush's "Forever War" in Iraq?
Democracy Now • 1 week ago

"Utter Disaster for All Involved": Is Trump's War on Iran Repeating Bush's "Forever War" in Iraq?

As Iranian missiles strike military, residential and economic targets in neighboring Gulf states, we speak to Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara in Doha, Qatar. Bishara says Iran’s targeting of U.S. allies in the region may be an Iranian calculation that there is “a cost to be paid for American interests” as Saudi Arabia, the UAE and other regional powers are forced to respond to an “Israeli war of choice.” Meanwhile, says Bishara, the U.S. has learned “nothing” from its own history. Not only has the Trump administration “repeated every single false pretext the Bush administration carried or diffused to justify the war against Iraq,” but “this threatens to be a far worse war in its implication for American long-term security and for the stability in the region … It’s like the American government [is] addicted to international violence, to wars, to assassinations, to launching those hegemonic wars that they [cannot] end.”

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