CIA Cuban drug-trafficking with Marco Rubio

Secretary of State Marco "Coca Dealer" Rubio is Trump's pick? Facts about Florida senator

(The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel) How politician Marco Rubio (and his brother Orlando Cicilia) emerged from the CIA-linked drug trafficking scene in Florida with | The Chris Hedges Report

• "This is according to Marco Rubio's version" - Investigations Editor at The Prospect Maureen Tkacik

Marco, come back to your roots! You're forgiven!

Trump's lefthand man Marco Rubio has three siblings: older brother Mario, older sister Barbara (married to felon Orlando Cicilia), and younger sister Veronica (formerly married to entertainer Carlos Ponce) [15].

Cuban American Rubio received his first communion as a Catholic in 1984 before moving with his family back to Miami a year later. He was confirmed.

Marco sold cocaine at the doggy day care. Barf.

Although he changed religious affiliations several times, he remains with the Catholic Church [16, 17]. From ages 8 to 11 he and his family attended the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints while living in Las Vegas [18].

During those years in Nevada, his father worked as a bartender (selling alcohol to drunks and others) at Sam's Town Hotel and his mother as a housekeeper at the Imperial Palace Hotel and Casino [19], where people feed their gambling habit.

As a teenager, Rubio was hired by his brother-in-law Orlando Cicilia to "care for the latter's dogs" and used the money to attend Miami Dolphins games [20].

• [Because what is more lucrative than doggy daycare? Oh, yeah, smuggling and selling narcotics like cocaine in and around Miami after the CIA's Bay of Pigs fiasco and illegal Republican Christian abortions.]

When Rubio was 16, Mr. Cicilia was arrested and convicted of trafficking millions of dollars' worth of cocaine; the Rubio family maintains that they had no knowledge of his criminal activity [20]. More Marco Rubio - Wikipedia

• Sec'y of State Marco Rubio addressed criticism of the Trump administration's lack of communication with Congress about operations in Venezuela in an end-of-year press conference: "To this point, nothing has happened that requires us to notify Congress or get congressional approval or cross the threshold into war," adding that "23 bipartisan briefings" have taken place on Capitol Hill. ABC News/Instagram
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The Left is 'Antifa' now: Chris Hedges

(NY Post) Agenda 2025: Weaponizing the gov't against the progressive Left opposing fascism

• Democracy Now!

Excuse me, Mr. AI Robot

I was brake checked by this AI robot driver. - Man mocks ICE paramilitary troopers on bike

US Holocaust Industry and Israel ($$)

Francesca Albanese slams the U.S. mainstream media for genocide denial

(Novara Media) Sept. 17, 2025: Support this work: novara.media/support. "There is not a single decent expert that you can call an expert today that doesn't call what's happening in Gaza a genocide."

At the Together for Palestine event in London, UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese called out the failure of politicians and the media to take responsibility for what is happening in Gaza. Interview by Harriet Williamson.

Business of settler colonialism

(uncivilized) 5-Step Colonialism, Explained

How to profit from genocide

Francesca Albanese EXPOSES the companies profiting from occupation

Chris Hedges: Death of Holocaust Industry

(Chris Hedges) Hitler seems cruel not for a genocide but for doing it to "white" people

• VIDEO: Together for Palestine, London (Sept. 17, 2025)
• Fran Albanese calls out Israel at Together for Palestine
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Gaza: Jewish Dr. Gabor Mate, Chris Hedges

Hypocrite Charlie Kirk get @$$ handed to him. - Thank you for pressing me on the matter: Yes.

Chris Hedges' speech on Gaza: The End of the Western Mythology

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Israel's slaughter in Gaza, Palestine: 'One Day Everyone Will Have Been Against This'

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This author Omar El Akkad on Gaza (Zeteo)

Author Omar El Akkad has 4.7 out of 5 stars with 91 ratings and the Number 1 new release in democracy. This New York Times bestseller is making an impact.

From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values.

"[A] bracing memoir and manifesto."

—The New York Times

“I can’t think of a more important piece of writing to read right now. I found hope here, and help, to face what the world is now, all that it isn’t anymore. Please read this. I promise you won’t regret it.”

—Tommy Orange, bestselling author of Wandering Stars and There There

(PoliticsJOE) How the destruction of Palestine will be remembered

On October 25, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet:

“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” This tweet has been viewed more than 10 million times.

• On Sunday, March 16, 2025, at 8:30 am, Akkad was interviewed by Chris Hedges, KPFK, Pacifica free speech radio for Los Angeles. LISTEN: Online Archives - KPFK 90.7 FM

As an immigrant who came to the West, El Akkad believed that the West promised freedom, a place of justice for all. But in the past 20 years, reporting on the War on Terror, Ferguson, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests, and more, and watching the unmitigated [genocidal] slaughter in Gaza, El Akkad has come to the conclusion that much of what the West promises is a lie.

He has further concluded that there will always be entire groups of human beings the West has never intended to treat as fully human—not just Arabs or Muslims or immigrants, but whoever falls outside the boundaries of privilege.

One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is a chronicle of that painful realization, a moral grappling with what it means, as a citizen of the U.S., as a father, to carve out some sense of possibility in a time of carnage.

This is El Akkad’s nonfiction debut, his most raw and vulnerable work to date, a heartsick breakup letter with the West. It is a brilliant articulation of the same breakup we are watching all over the United States, in family rooms, on college campuses, on city streets; the consequences of this rupture are just beginning. This book is for all the people who want something better than what the West has served up. This is the book for our time. More

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Omar El Akkad was born in Cairo, Egypt, and grew up in Doha, Qatar, before moving to Canada. He worked as a journalist at The Globe and Mail, and his coverage of a 2006 terror plot earned him a National Newspaper Award for Investigative Reporting. His other journalistic work includes dispatches from the NATO-led war in Afghanistan, the military trials at Guantánamo Bay, the Arab Spring revolution in Egypt, and the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson, Missouri. He has also received the Goff Penny Memorial Prize for Young Journalists, as well as three National Magazine Award honorable mentions. He is a graduate of Queen's University. He now lives with his wife in the woods just south of Portland, Oregon. Source

LIVE: Jimmy Dore Show w/ Matt Tiabbi

(The Jimmy Dore Show) U.S. seizes a Venezuelan plane in the Dominican Republic. Trump says to LEGALIZE it. Legalize what? Jimmy Dore sits down with guest Matt Taibbi. Kamala Harris and Pulitzer Prize-winning Chris Hedges have something to say, too. RFK Jr.'s VP candidate Nicole Shanahan also put out a nice commercial on TDS ("Trump Derangement Syndrome").

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The 'Moral' 🙄 Army: Jewish Israel's IDF

Novara Media, 12/14/23; Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

(Novara Media) Israeli troops film themselves trashing Palestinian homes. Last week they filmed themselves rounding up Palestinian males in Gaza and stripping them naked, calling them "terrorists" and members of Hamas when they were no such thing, trying to earn a propaganda win in the mainstream media news cycle before the truth came out.

Israel kills 20% of Israelis with "friendly fire"

BREAKING: 20% of IDF deaths are friendly fire amid its brutal battles

Zionist Jews are some kind of wonderful...killing machine (the IDF), when backed by endless, unconditional U.S. funds and Pentagon/CIA military technology.

Israel is a developer, manufacturer, and exporter of weapons, which it tests on Palestine's civilian populations. (See the most recent episode of The Chris Hedges Show for details on testing weapons on Gazans to use as a selling point for later arms sales to other countries. New weapons are, by this conflict, "battle tested" and ready for market.

Israel's IDF kills journalists, targets children and noncombatant (helpless) civilians, which it lies to, telling them to "move to safety" and then bombs "safety." Even refugee camps within the Gaza Strip are not safe from Israeli targeting and aerial bombardment.

Civilians are rounded up, stripped, filmed, humiliated, and when proven to be civilians an apology is made for inflicting war crimes on non-criminals when, if they were criminals it would still have been a war crime.

Israel is the occupying force and therefore cannot, according to international law and U.N. decree, claim self-defense against the people it occupies and rules over and is now attempting to exterminate or forever relocate out of their homes, despite an international "right of return" law that promises eventual safe return to Israel's illegal settlements and apartheid system.

What REALLY happened Oct 7? (Blumenthal)

The Real News Network, 11/17/23; Sheldon S., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

What REALLY happened in Israel on Oct. 7? w/ Max Blumenthal | The Chris Hedges Report

(The Real News Network) The Chris Hedges Report. For all the sensationalism (Israeli intelligence's "atrocity propaganda") surrounding the events of Oct. 7th, when Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades broke through the Gaza prison walls and seized territory in the Gaza Envelope as part of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, there is still much that we do not know.

The official Israeli death toll from the attack is estimated at 1,200 or fewer, revised down from an initial estimate of 1,400. Among this figure are several hundred civilians, which Israel says were killed by Hamas militants [but more likely were the victims of IDF's unfriendly fire in accordance with their "Hannibal Doctrine," in which they purposely target and execute Israelis so as to keep them from falling captive and used as hostages for political ends].

Other testimony from survivors of Oct. 7 suggests an alternative explanation: That in its fervor to defeat Hamas/Al-Qassam Brigades, Israeli commanders may have willingly and purposely targeted Israeli civilians and soldiers, sacrificing them in the crossfire [in an attempt to kill Palestinians and Israelis who would be blamed for those Israeli deaths for Israeli propaganda purposes, as in the case of any incinerated bodies in cars, far more likely to be caused by Israeli "Hellfire" missiles than armed young men on motorcycles].

Max Blumenthal of The Grayzone joins The Chris Hedges Report for an in-depth look.

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Sarah 'Zionist' Silverman stoned: Kill Gazans 😢

Sheldon S., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

But I was stoned when I was talking! I still want to be America's favorite commedienne!

Anti Palestine TikTok

(Noah Samsen) Nov. 21, 2023: This video examines a handful of short-form content pieces from supporters of Israel and connects this content to broader Zionist-Jewish (pro-Israel) attitudes.

This video is not easy to watch, but it is hoped that it gives some context on what Israel is doing and good YouTube channels to follow.

• @DemocracyNow
• @HasanAbi
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• @JohntheDuncan video: • Genocide
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How US censors pro-Palestine, pro-peace voices

The Chris Hedges Report, Premiered Nov. 24, 2023

Zionist anti-Palestine censorship is surging w/Dylan Saba | The Chris Hedges Report

(The Real News Network) The Chris Hedges Report. Dylan Saba, a lawyer for Palestine Legal, was asked to write a piece on the silencing of pro-Palestine voices by The Guardian — only to then be informed at the last minute that his piece had been killed and would not be published. Saba joins countless pro-Palestine activists and voices who have been targeted with termination, doxing, harassment, censorship, and even death threats. Saba joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss the intensifying war on civil liberties unfolding as public revulsion at Israel's crimes in Gaza grows.

• Article by Dylan Saba: "A Surge in Suppression" (nplusonemag.com)

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The US War Machine with Dennis Kucinich

Dennis Kucinich, The CH Show, 11/3/23; Sheldon S., Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Palestine, Israel, and the US War Machine with Dennis Kucinich | The Chris Hedges Report

(The Real News Network) Premiered Nov. 3, 2023: The Real News Network Podcasts. Israel's ongoing massacre in Gaza has stirred worldwide calls for a ceasefire to stop the genocide unfolding. The United States has been no exception, which countless peace demonstrators taking to the streets in recent weeks.

That hasn't stopped the US government from backing Israel's horrific campaign in Gaza to the hilt. The White House has refused to heed calls for a "ceasefire" and has even deployed two aircraft carriers to the Mediterranean — not to defend victims in Palestine, but to dissuade regional powers (Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, etc.) from joining the attack on genocidal Israel to defend Muslim civilians in Palestine.

As the possibility of a regional war -- and even a world war if Iran is attacked and Russia and China step in -- looms with the entry of Yemen into the conflict, many wonder how the US might respond to such a scenario.

Former U.S. Congressperson Dennis Kucinich joins The Chris Hedges Report for a discussion on the US War Machine — what it is, how it works, and how it might respond should the Jewish-Israeli war on Palestine spiral into a wider conflagration.

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Finkelstein condemns Israel (Chris Hedges)

Real News Network, 10/18/23; Sheldon S., Ash Wells, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Israel's long, long [genocidal] war on Gaza with Norman Finkelstein | The Chris Hedges Report

(The Real News Network) Oct. 18, 2023: The Chris Hedges Report. Israel has unleashed a horrific war crime of "collective punishment" against the human beings (Palestinians) of Gaza, the latest in a long history of anti-Palestinian occupation and police state oppression.

As the corporate media shamelessly provides cover for what is undoubtedly a "genocide" unfolding in real time, the need to ground our understanding of the conflict in its proper history is more important than ever.

Jewish Prof. Norman Finkelstein joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss Israel's 17-year blockade and siege of the Gaza Strip (Israeli open-air prison, Nazi concentration camp, and Native American reservation) and its crucial significance to understanding the events of the first two weeks of Israel's latest revenge attacks and war crimes.

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World banking fraud exposed (Chris Hedges)

Chris Hedges (KPFK.org); Seth Auberon, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

French whistleblower Stephanie Gibaud exposes worldwide banking fraud | The Chris Hedges Report

(The Real News Network) Oct. 13, 2023: The Real News Network Podcasts Warning signs of the instability of the global financial system abounded in the months leading up to the 2008 Lehman Brothers crash.

Among these early signs were the astounding revelations about [Swiss] UBS, the world's largest private bank, by Stephanie Gibaud, who was employee at the bank's French division.

Gibaud refused instructions given to her and other employees to delete all their company files. In doing so, she helped reveal a vast web of corruption and fraud linking UBS to a shadowy tax evasion scheme.

More than 15 years later, Gibaud has endured harassment, professional ostracization, lawsuits, and threats.

She joins The Chris Hedges Report to speak on her ordeal and the extent of corruption in the international banking system.

Studio Production: David Hebden, Cameron Granadino, Adam Coley Post-Production: Adam Coley, Kayla Rivara Watch The Chris Hedges Report live YouTube premiere on The Real News Network every Friday at 12:00 PM ET: therealnews.com/chris-hedges... Listen to episode podcasts and find bonus content at The Chris Hedges Report Substack: https://chrishedges.substack.com/ The Real News is an independent, viewer-supported, radical media network. Help us continue producing The Chris Hedges Report by following us and making a small donation: Donate to TRNN: https://therealnews.com/donate-yt-chr Sign up for our newsletter: https://therealnews.com/nl-yt-chr Like us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/therealnews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealnews

Liberal comedians fail: Lee Camp (Hedges)

How liberal comedians became lap dogs for Establishment power w/Lee Camp

(The Real News Network) Aug 11, 2023: The Real News Network Podcasts The fusion of politics, news, and entertainment has given prominence to comics like Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, and Bill Maher, who serve as attack dogs for the Democratic Party, which has joined forces with the Establishment wing of the grand old Republican Party against Do Jo Trump and his supporters.

By belittling Trump and his followers, these comics feed the smug self-righteousness of the ruling Establishment, bolstering their sense of moral and intellectual superiority. All the while, they remain comfortably constrained by the capital corporations and advertisers that employ them.

They function as court jesters, never questioning the right of the rulers to rule or the terrible social injustices built into a rigged system. They serve as attack dogs for Establishment power, directing their comedic barbs at critics of the system, even if these critics come from the left.

Comedian and political commentator Lee Camp (Redacted Tonight) joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss the transformation of comedy from an art form rooted in the counterculture to one that has largely become a megaphone for power.

ABOUT: Lee Camp is a comedian, political commentator, and former head writer and host of the national TV show Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp on RT America. He’s a former contributor to The Onion, former staff humor writer for HuffPost, and his web series “Moment of Clarity” has been viewed by millions. Camp has toured the country and the world with his fierce brand of standup comedy. George Carlin’s daughter, Kelly, credited him as one of the few comics keeping her father’s torch lit. His website is LeeCamp.com.

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CODEPINK's Medea Benjamin, Chris Hedges

Trump gets @$$ handed to him in court

Ashley Wells, Sheldon S., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

I'll bounce back. I always do. It's my NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) and con man BS.

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Don: "I'm the law-and-order candidate."

We are sick and blooming tired of Trump coverage. Arrest him. Jail him. Imprison him already. (Jail is not the same as prison). Of course, he's guilty of many crimes, even if he is a "savior" figure for half the nation.

That half can't deny he's a pathological liar, a con-man, rapist, daughter-molester, oafish cretin, and embarrassing buffoon. We know, he's God's gift to Washington, DC. See how well he "drained the Swamp"?

Is he? It'll be civil war for gun nuts if he is.

What's good about DJ? We like the way he speaks off the cuff and admits American crimes, like spying and invading countries for their oil.

But The Swamp won't have it. That backwater of lawyers living outside the country (because DC is not officially part of the US) is now doing something about him.

I will be dictator, so help me Gob.

We have no hope these charges will stick to the Teflon Don John. Inciting to riot was not added for his crimes on January 6th.

The mainstream media lies about him, makes conspiracies, really actually fakes and/or slants news stories against him, and still he's an all-around crook and no representative of this country. It's thanks to him we were spared a Hillary. But stil it's due to him we suffer under senile Biden.

(Jimmy Dore) Glenn Greenwald, Chris Hedges, and others see a sham of another new indictment.

• Trump indictments not producing as much political fundraising as before (tripe from the spin doctors at Politico)
• Shadenfreude: Get yer funny Trump T-shirts (printerval.com)
• OMG! Make America great again like these Madmen days

C'mon, Joe, you gotta help me. We're buddies. You know I was just kidding about

Aah, an opening arrives for the Kennedy elite to rise again in American politics and not get shot

Not the p*ssy, don't grab me by the p*ssy! I was just kidding. I'll come voluntarily!

Men in Black, Men in Black! It wasn't just a movie. Who took my wallet. Give it back!

You grab 'em like this, Billy, right by the p*ssy! - Shucks, Donny, you have all the moves.

And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those darn kids at Zuccotti Park.

Hey, guys, c'mon. I run this town. I can put you all at a comfy desk in the precinct.

No, don't touch me there. It hurts. Don't "grab," you fascist idiot. I'm not guilty!

This is b*llsh*t. I don't belong here. I belong in the White House winning like Charlie Sheen!

You stupid idiot. You're the cause of this. - I'm sorry, Donald, I'm so sorry. Pay me and I'll go.

I want Rudy "The Jewel" Guiliani in here with me. That's all I want...and cheese sandwiches.

Everything I did to help the plandemic, they made me do. They made me hire Fauci.

This biznatch? She won't be the cause of my downfall any more than my sexy daughter will.

STFU, Donald! I'm trying to sleep. And, good god, what are you eating, you constipated POS?

No, this is not happening because it can't be happening. You think it's happening, but it's not.

This ballsack here, his name's E-lon, he wants advice on how to behave like a billionaire.

Could you believe this witch hunt? I never did nothing. I didn't jail Hillary like I said I would.