WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:04.320 It is that time again, two time without Torner West 2 00:00:04.320 --> 00:00:06.679 I mean a Turner. We count it all joy for 3 00:00:06.799 --> 00:00:10.080 us to be together with you on this day. Although 4 00:00:10.279 --> 00:00:14.080 so much is happening in our nation and in the world, 5 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:17.480 we want to keep you focused on truth time, understanding 6 00:00:17.480 --> 00:00:20.480 the situation as it is, and the situation as it 7 00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:24.600 can be, fighting with love, with hope, and with joy. 8 00:00:24.920 --> 00:00:28.239 And speaking of fighting, doctor Wes, here we go. You know, 9 00:00:28.280 --> 00:00:32.399 Trump left the G seven some early, you know, kind 10 00:00:32.439 --> 00:00:36.719 of saying some things are in store. We're hearing rumblings 11 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:41.399 that he may decide to send the troops into war 12 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:44.240 in the Middle East. Now, those of us who understand 13 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:47.039 the Constitution understand that the President of the United States 14 00:00:47.079 --> 00:00:49.359 of America does not have the authority to send our 15 00:00:49.399 --> 00:00:53.200 troops into war without the consent of the Congress. And 16 00:00:53.240 --> 00:00:57.200 there are several Congress members making that known loudly and 17 00:00:57.320 --> 00:01:00.880 clearly in both chambers, both the Senate and the House, 18 00:01:01.320 --> 00:01:04.719 and I hope to God they continue to press on. 19 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:08.519 It just really boggles my mind, Doc, how people can 20 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:12.519 just cavalierly send other folks, loved ones to war without 21 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:14.680 even giving it a second thought. And it's not even 22 00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:18.920 our war. Calling on Black Jesus with the sandals on. 23 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:22.359 That's the one I'm calling on. What is on your heart, 24 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:25.359 your soul, and your mind on this day? 25 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:31.319 Well, I begin with joy, I begin with counting my blessings, 26 00:01:31.319 --> 00:01:36.239 a sense of gratitude that helps me with my attitude. 27 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:41.200 So I confine to an altitude of swinging for love, 28 00:01:41.599 --> 00:01:45.120 justice and peace. But peace with justice. We don't want 29 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:49.159 to know peace with just un injustice and disorder. But 30 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:52.079 I do want to salute La Progressive. You may have 31 00:01:52.159 --> 00:01:55.400 seen that wonderful peace saluting brother Tabs, and it showed 32 00:01:55.480 --> 00:02:02.159 my sister staring gile Yes. Powerful Peace is a beautiful piece. 33 00:02:02.519 --> 00:02:06.040 It is a truthful piece, and there's a wonderful line 34 00:02:06.079 --> 00:02:09.599 in that piece what she says that brother Tavis, somehow, 35 00:02:10.120 --> 00:02:14.240 vision and courage has managed to create a context in 36 00:02:14.319 --> 00:02:21.680 which Black truth is centered and respected and engaged. And 37 00:02:21.719 --> 00:02:24.560 that's very important because at a moment in which THEI 38 00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:27.919 is being trashed, at a moment which they're trying to 39 00:02:27.960 --> 00:02:32.800 erase eliminate Black history, they're trying to degrade Black people, 40 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:35.840 and of course his tenth anniversary where they're killing and 41 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:40.639 murdering precious black people. In the manual, Ami church there 42 00:02:41.439 --> 00:02:45.199 South Carolina, that brother Tabs is still at it, and 43 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:49.879 of course Tavish does it collectively, all the wonderful voices 44 00:02:49.919 --> 00:02:55.000 and all the wonderful staff there k e La fifteen 45 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:58.000 eighty right there at the Murty Park on the Chocolate 46 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:04.000 side of Chocolate Center, say of loss at and and 47 00:03:04.639 --> 00:03:08.759 of course both of us are so blessed to be 48 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:12.080 able to work with him. And of course I'm deeply 49 00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:17.400 blessed to work with you. He lend you that. I'm 50 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:20.639 telling the world that I was just talking to my 51 00:03:20.759 --> 00:03:24.479 beloved wife Ana heat the Saint Lord have mercy to 52 00:03:24.599 --> 00:03:27.800 be able to spend these days with my dear sister 53 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:31.960 Nina is a It's a beautiful thing and it just 54 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:34.840 boys us up. We're willing to speak the truth about 55 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:38.319 the genocide God, speak the truth about master incarceration at home, 56 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:40.919 speak the truth about what's going on in the rock 57 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:44.439 under the Moolers and the Woman Life Freedom movement, but 58 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:48.639 also recognizing that the war that has been initiated by 59 00:03:48.840 --> 00:03:53.039 Israel is a violation of their sovereignty, but it goes 60 00:03:53.080 --> 00:03:56.280 hand in hand with the violation the sovereignties of Syria 61 00:03:56.439 --> 00:03:59.080 of Lebanon that we've seen over and over again in 62 00:03:59.199 --> 00:04:04.000 terms of the Israeli incursions violations international law. But it 63 00:04:04.039 --> 00:04:06.840 seems as if when it comes to the United States, 64 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:12.039 when it comes to Israel, international law, don't not that 65 00:04:12.479 --> 00:04:17.759 human rights doesn't mean anything at all. Kill as many 66 00:04:17.839 --> 00:04:20.959 Palestinians as you want in terms of innocence civilians. Come 67 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:24.839 up with your rationalization and keep doing and it's just wrong, 68 00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:26.720 and it would be wrong, of course if we were 69 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:30.920 done against Jews. Is wrong when it's Palestinians, is wrong 70 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:35.040 when it's done against in the body sou these congoleates, 71 00:04:35.079 --> 00:04:39.199 whatever whoever it is. And that's what it means, I 72 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:42.560 think to engage Black truth. And we just think rather 73 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:48.079 tablets for having the courage and vision of facilitating these 74 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:50.319 kinds of conversations so freely. 75 00:04:51.639 --> 00:04:54.800 Yeah, amen to all of that. Doctor. You know in 76 00:04:54.839 --> 00:04:57.279 the Black church. When the preacher has preached the church 77 00:04:57.439 --> 00:05:03.920 says a man, a man the four year anniversary? Who 78 00:05:04.040 --> 00:05:07.879 is happening is this this week? Hello? And I know 79 00:05:07.920 --> 00:05:13.120 you're gonna be there, Jesse Jackson Junior, have been jealous. 80 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:15.800 I mean, so many people are going to be there 81 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:19.399 this week to celebrate and uplift the four year anniversary 82 00:05:19.480 --> 00:05:23.560 or KBLA talk fifteen eighty can I believe four years 83 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:27.120 old already and thanks to the vision of brother Tavis 84 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:30.839 Smiley and all who work with him and for him. 85 00:05:31.519 --> 00:05:35.759 It takes teamwork to make anybody's dream work, and Tavis 86 00:05:35.800 --> 00:05:39.360 Smiley has a team. And the uplift of black people 87 00:05:39.399 --> 00:05:42.000 as you laid out, Doc, and the uplift of humanity 88 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:44.839 in general. It is truly a beautiful thing. 89 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:49.319 It really is. It really is the main ful we 90 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:52.639 the Tavis and the others have such a profound love 91 00:05:52.720 --> 00:05:56.439 for Black people that spills over to love for everybody 92 00:05:57.439 --> 00:06:04.680 and manifest in allowing all is to be lifted, allowing yeah, 93 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:05.879 roast the. 94 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:11.519 Board on it, but it's zero humanity, the activity and 95 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:18.120 the dignity of black that's a the badly needed thing 96 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:21.480 at a moment where the attacks and assaults on black people. 97 00:06:21.240 --> 00:06:26.399 And brown immigrants and Palestine rounds and others are intensifying. 98 00:06:27.560 --> 00:06:30.399 Yeah, we needed it. Starts with I mean, I firmly 99 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:33.199 believe that the liberation of all marginalized and working class 100 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:36.959 people from all background starts with the absolute liberation of 101 00:06:37.079 --> 00:06:40.120 Black people right here in America. And there, I say, 102 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:42.720 the diasporas you have been naming out some of the 103 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:45.079 suffering that's going on in diaspora. Doc, you and I 104 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:50.319 talked countless times about what the Scramble for Africa did generationally, 105 00:06:50.439 --> 00:06:55.040 the ripple effects of white supremacy across the world, and 106 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:59.959 how when black folks are liberated, everybody else is liberating. 107 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:05.040 That liberation is coming. They're listening to Truth Time with 108 00:07:05.079 --> 00:07:07.879 doctor Cornell West and Nina Turner. When we come forward, 109 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:12.839 we will continue this conversation right now we are together. 110 00:07:13.720 --> 00:07:16.279 So that is storming in Cleveland, Ohio right now on 111 00:07:16.439 --> 00:07:18.639 our viewers, our listeners to know that just in case 112 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:21.600 that we abruptly get disconnected for some reason, and me 113 00:07:21.720 --> 00:07:25.560 is thundering, lightning touring down Rain. I just feel like 114 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:31.160 Mother Nature is saying, yeah, some some ain't right, you know, 115 00:07:31.439 --> 00:07:34.600 with all the thunder and the lightning. But here we are. 116 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:39.079 So that Donald J. Trump, President Trump exits the G 117 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:43.600 seven summit a day early. You have a French president 118 00:07:43.600 --> 00:07:48.160 Emmanuel Macrome claiming that the US that that President Trump 119 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:52.319 is considering the prospect of a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, 120 00:07:53.079 --> 00:07:55.680 that indeed would be a beautiful thing. Let us not forget. 121 00:07:55.680 --> 00:07:59.639 President Trump ran on being anti war. LA's number one. 122 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:02.759 Number two. He does not again have the constitutional right 123 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:06.079 to send our troops into war without the consent of 124 00:08:06.079 --> 00:08:11.560 the United States Congress. So Macrone is describing the interchange 125 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:15.439 as something that's positive. I hope, I hope, I hope 126 00:08:15.480 --> 00:08:17.040 that that is absolutely true. 127 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:17.959 War. 128 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:20.639 We can't war our way to peace. Doc. This is imminent. 129 00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:22.879 This is something that everybody is going to have to 130 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:26.920 be concerned about, whether it's directly or indirectly impacting you. 131 00:08:27.800 --> 00:08:30.680 War will have an impact on the United States America. 132 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:33.080 Even if we you know, even if the Congress does 133 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:36.240 not authorize sending troops in it's still going to impact 134 00:08:36.279 --> 00:08:39.639 the United States of America and other countries as well. 135 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:42.919 It's ever going to be just this isolated thing, whereas 136 00:08:42.960 --> 00:08:47.200 only the two parties Iran and Israel, and so people 137 00:08:47.240 --> 00:08:51.639 got a ready in their minds that we remember Iraq, Afghanistan. 138 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:53.919 You know, all of these things are very fresh because 139 00:08:53.919 --> 00:08:57.159 they're very young. They almost just happened when you think 140 00:08:57.159 --> 00:09:00.799 about the continuum of history, and I just don't know, 141 00:09:00.840 --> 00:09:02.919 I mean, just having so many leaders that are very 142 00:09:02.960 --> 00:09:06.039 cavalier about it. We had mentioned even yesterday that these 143 00:09:06.039 --> 00:09:10.159 who called Republicans who believe in America first, where they at, 144 00:09:10.159 --> 00:09:12.279 where they at. I want to hear from them, American 145 00:09:12.279 --> 00:09:15.759 First Republicans especially, and overall I want to hear from 146 00:09:15.799 --> 00:09:19.960 a United States Congress that refuses to adjucate this responsibility 147 00:09:19.960 --> 00:09:23.559 to any president, this one or any other president when 148 00:09:23.559 --> 00:09:26.120 it comes to war powers. 149 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:30.200 That's very, very real. Now It's true. You know, you 150 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:35.559 got Chucker Carlson and Steve Bannon and even Marjorie Green 151 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:41.120 starting to raise certain critical voices. Yeah, America first to 152 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:45.720 an isolation, is positioned over against the war. But I 153 00:09:45.720 --> 00:09:49.799 think we do have to recognize that because America and 154 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:56.759 Israel are so inextricably interwoven that Israel could not do 155 00:09:56.840 --> 00:10:00.559 what it does without a green light from Trump. There's 156 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:03.639 no way they could run without a green light from Trump. 157 00:10:03.799 --> 00:10:07.279 And we even know about the three hundred hell fire 158 00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:12.679 miss early last week that are being used. So they're 159 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:19.919 using American military equipment in the various attacks in the 160 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:24.240 same way that Israel could not engage in the genocide 161 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:28.799 and ethnic cleansing in Gaza with without an American green light. 162 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:31.240 And all Trump has to do is just say stop. 163 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:34.440 He either gets humiliated by Nathan Yahoo or they stop. 164 00:10:34.919 --> 00:10:37.679 And the chances are they stopped because the Israeli army, 165 00:10:37.720 --> 00:10:41.480 as powerful as it is, cannot survive over a long 166 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:45.480 period of time without US support, US fishment of supplies. 167 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:48.559 So in that sense, the United States is already a 168 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:52.519 part of the war that just no doubt about it. 169 00:10:52.559 --> 00:10:57.519 And you think about the I mean a nuclear weapon issue, 170 00:10:57.720 --> 00:11:05.000 that does ron have a nuclear weapon? No, Gabert just 171 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:08.879 gave her intelligence report just a couple of months ago. 172 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:12.159 Say no, they don't. How close to well, we don't 173 00:11:12.200 --> 00:11:17.399 really really know. That's true. We really don't know. There's 174 00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:20.559 only nine nations in the world that have nuclear weapons, right, 175 00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:23.799 You got Russia has about fifty five hundred, United States 176 00:11:23.799 --> 00:11:29.679 got two hundred hundred. Then you got and she got England, 177 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:34.440 you got got India, you got North Korea. Now Israel 178 00:11:34.600 --> 00:11:37.360 has more than North Korea. Actually, but they never said. 179 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:40.440 So if you asked any US president, you asked any 180 00:11:40.559 --> 00:11:43.919 is Israeli president, do you have nuclear weapons? They refuse 181 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:46.639 to answer the question. But everybody knows. 182 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:51.759 But I was refusing. The answer is The answer is. 183 00:11:51.720 --> 00:11:56.000 South Africa had it, but Mandela dismantled it. And it's 184 00:11:56.080 --> 00:11:59.399 interesting because South Africa had it in part because of 185 00:11:59.399 --> 00:12:03.279 the collaborate with Israel. The Israel was willing to collaborate 186 00:12:03.440 --> 00:12:07.440 on a nuclear weapon with apartheid South Africa that would 187 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:11.559 drop the bomb on Africans. When it comes to Iran 188 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:14.960 and their weapon that wants to drop the bomb on them, 189 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:18.039 they say, no, we understand that we don't want anybody 190 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:22.159 drop the bombs on Israelis, or Africans, or Germans or 191 00:12:22.159 --> 00:12:26.440 any or indigenous peoples of anybody else. I'm actually with 192 00:12:26.919 --> 00:12:32.080 Albert Einstein. I'm for nuclear dismantlement across the board. But 193 00:12:32.159 --> 00:12:34.519 you got twelve thousand of them out there in the world, 194 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:40.399 So what you're gonna do. But all of this rationalization 195 00:12:40.639 --> 00:12:49.080 for this kind of ugly invasion and military imposition on 196 00:12:49.240 --> 00:12:52.200 innocent peoples, be the in Gaza, or be there in 197 00:12:52.759 --> 00:12:56.879 on the West Bank, or be there in Iran anywhere else. 198 00:12:56.919 --> 00:12:59.279 I mean, it has to be radically called into question. 199 00:12:59.360 --> 00:12:59.960 It just seems to. 200 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:03.919 Me, Yeah, definitely. And what you're outlining really is the 201 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:08.360 difference between tomato tomato in terms of how we latest 202 00:13:08.360 --> 00:13:11.799 thing out. The United States is already in it. There 203 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:14.840 just has not been a declaration of war coming from 204 00:13:15.279 --> 00:13:18.759 the United States of America, so they playing in our face. 205 00:13:19.399 --> 00:13:22.279 Jeremy Corbin over there in the UK has weighed in 206 00:13:22.399 --> 00:13:25.279 on this. He said, I asked the Foreign Secretary a 207 00:13:25.399 --> 00:13:33.120 straightforward question. Are British weapons being used by Israel to bomb? 208 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:37.960 I ran ask them a straightforward question, Jeremy, the Honorable 209 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:41.240 Jeremy Corbyn goes on. He refused the answer. So that's 210 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:41.879 the answer. 211 00:13:42.720 --> 00:13:45.559 You refuse the answer, So we know what the answer is. 212 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:53.559 Yes, sir, and thank God for strong leaders like Jeremy Corbyn, just. 213 00:13:53.480 --> 00:13:56.279 Trying to get the truth, like all of us. And 214 00:13:56.320 --> 00:13:58.000 the truth is bigger than all of us. See. The 215 00:13:58.039 --> 00:14:01.919 problems is that everybody's so many people want to rationalize, 216 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:07.080 they little partisan position, rationalize their policy. The truth is 217 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:11.919 deeper and bigger than that. And we want to know 218 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:12.960 the truth. 219 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:16.320 Yeah, we do, we do. 220 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:20.399 We got to know what the truth is. Who is zooming? 221 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:22.240 Who of breath has said. 222 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:27.480 That's sick, that's who's zooming? Who amen? Amen to that? 223 00:14:27.799 --> 00:14:31.039 We got Senator Bernard Sanders in the House. The Constitution 224 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:35.159 of the United States is very clear. There is no ambiguity. 225 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:39.919 It is Congress that determines whether we go to war, 226 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:45.919 not the President. Trump must not take illegal military actions 227 00:14:46.679 --> 00:14:53.399 action against Iran. Amen, Amen and amen that those are 228 00:14:53.519 --> 00:14:56.600 I mean, those are the facts, doctors is irrefutable. That's 229 00:14:56.960 --> 00:14:59.320 exactly what it is. You can't you can't do it. 230 00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:03.360 May try to do it, but legally he is not 231 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:05.039 allowed to do so. 232 00:15:06.679 --> 00:15:09.480 No, we salute brother Bernie. And I know if Tim 233 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:12.399 Kaine has been trying to push a similar bill, but 234 00:15:12.919 --> 00:15:16.200 I mean Trump, Trump administrator, they don't give a day 235 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:20.840 about no go to shuit. No, No, They're obsessed with 236 00:15:20.919 --> 00:15:24.600 the levelth commandment, I shall not get caught. We gonna 237 00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:27.799 do everything, and before we get caught, and it's only 238 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:30.440 when the courts come through and try to enforce it. 239 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:34.679 And we're reaching a point where courts are going to 240 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:40.960 disagree with Trump, and Trump fundamentally, explicitly, unequivocally says I 241 00:15:41.039 --> 00:15:43.159 will not do it, and he's already done it implicitly 242 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:46.120 with the planes going to El Salvador taking the precious 243 00:15:46.120 --> 00:15:50.320 immigrants and so forth. But I'm talking about major clash. 244 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:52.799 And then they say, well, we finally got a constitutional 245 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:54.960 crisis where we've been in that crisis for a while, 246 00:15:55.279 --> 00:15:59.440 but it becomes undeniable when you get a major clash 247 00:15:59.720 --> 00:16:02.279 and We're gonna get that on the war too, because 248 00:16:02.399 --> 00:16:08.240 America's already in the war the genocide against gods as 249 00:16:08.279 --> 00:16:12.200 well as the ward he wrong, and it's a it's 250 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:16.399 a very very perilous times. So I'm telling you, he's 251 00:16:16.480 --> 00:16:21.519 a very la still got the police, still got the 252 00:16:21.600 --> 00:16:22.759 curse for you going on. 253 00:16:23.240 --> 00:16:26.080 And the National Guard. They're questioning whether the National Guard 254 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:30.399 are going to be there more permanently than expected. For some, 255 00:16:31.240 --> 00:16:32.799 that's just insanity right there. 256 00:16:33.320 --> 00:16:39.159 Absolutely absolutely So we just got to keep telling the truth, 257 00:16:39.279 --> 00:16:42.879 keep fighting. That's the bottom line. But it's getting dimmer 258 00:16:42.919 --> 00:16:47.080 every day, grimmar every day, bleaker every day. But we're 259 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:50.840 not gonna allow Anybody's still our joy, it's still our love, 260 00:16:50.960 --> 00:16:55.559 still our courage, and it's still integrity and truth teller. 261 00:16:56.480 --> 00:16:59.960 Yeah, that all of that, all of that some bright life. 262 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:04.799 We got a Republican representative, Thomas Massey. I just introduced 263 00:17:04.799 --> 00:17:09.200 an Iran War Powers Resolution with a rep rocana to 264 00:17:09.279 --> 00:17:13.920 prohibit us involvement in the Israeli Iran war. This is 265 00:17:14.079 --> 00:17:18.559 not our war, even if it were, Congress must decide 266 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:22.319 such matters according to our constitution. So when you talk 267 00:17:22.359 --> 00:17:24.480 about some real by because you know they fancy that 268 00:17:24.559 --> 00:17:27.519 word by partisanship around just to kind of it's like 269 00:17:27.640 --> 00:17:31.799 sprinkling fairy dust, so to try to get you think, oh, 270 00:17:31.880 --> 00:17:34.480 they're working together bipartisanly, so that makes it all right. 271 00:17:34.519 --> 00:17:36.799 There have been a lot of bad bipartisan things that 272 00:17:37.240 --> 00:17:40.279 the Congress has done that was bad. This one right here. 273 00:17:40.759 --> 00:17:43.279 Representive Thomas Massy, I never thought I would say it, 274 00:17:43.319 --> 00:17:47.880 but you go, you go, you and Representative Rocanna, who's 275 00:17:47.880 --> 00:17:50.799 a dear friend of both myself and doctor Cornell West. 276 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:53.440 So we're gonna put that out there right now. So 277 00:17:53.759 --> 00:17:57.039 happy that Congressman Rocanna is stepping out. He's been stepping 278 00:17:57.079 --> 00:18:00.680 out against these forever wars, and it is really really 279 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:05.480 good to see him and Representative Thomas Massey introduce a 280 00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:09.480 resolution to prohibit the United States involvement. And I'm glad 281 00:18:09.480 --> 00:18:12.960 they called it what it is, the Israel Iran war. 282 00:18:13.599 --> 00:18:16.920 This is not our war. Now. They can say those 283 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:21.920 things and technically they're right, but and I hate to 284 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:23.920 put the butt all the things that you just laid 285 00:18:23.920 --> 00:18:29.240 out Dot that's happening in a very covert way makes 286 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:31.400 it our war. But we understand what he's saying. He's right, 287 00:18:31.400 --> 00:18:35.000 this ain't our war, but covertly the United States is 288 00:18:35.079 --> 00:18:39.839 complicit because, as you laid out, Doc, Prime Minister, that 289 00:18:39.880 --> 00:18:42.119 and Yahoo wouldn't have had the guts to do this 290 00:18:42.279 --> 00:18:44.920 unless he firmly believed that the United States who was 291 00:18:44.920 --> 00:18:46.079 going to back his mischief. 292 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:50.200 I do believe that. I mean, I'm glad to see 293 00:18:50.279 --> 00:18:55.119 Congress having some life. I mean they've been literally, symbolically 294 00:18:55.720 --> 00:19:01.440 politically dead for so long, completely deferential to the authoritarian 295 00:19:01.480 --> 00:19:06.960 and often dictatorial moves of Trump and company. But it 296 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:10.119 might be too little, too late, because they would have 297 00:19:10.160 --> 00:19:14.960 already it aired. They say Congress must approve the involvement. 298 00:19:15.119 --> 00:19:21.960 They already involved involved. Yeah, yeah, that's that that little 299 00:19:22.039 --> 00:19:23.920 you know that we're taking the truth. You know how 300 00:19:24.079 --> 00:19:26.359 when you go to court, you got to testify, you 301 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:28.720 put up the hand, d swear to tell truth, the 302 00:19:28.839 --> 00:19:31.759 whole truth, and nothing but the truth. So hope you 303 00:19:31.799 --> 00:19:33.839 got you and I are and that nothing but the truth. 304 00:19:34.319 --> 00:19:36.680 So help us God. And we need our audience to 305 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:41.319 understand that the US is involved, even if it's unofficially, 306 00:19:42.119 --> 00:19:47.079 we are absolutely involved. As Deanna bo Jeremy Corbyn asked 307 00:19:47.119 --> 00:19:52.160 about about Great Britain, he didn't get an answer. They're involved. Too, 308 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:55.079 So you got these Western nations back in this play. 309 00:19:55.720 --> 00:20:00.759 Okay, that's exactly right. I think what we have to 310 00:20:00.799 --> 00:20:07.039 come to terms with is our very concrete experience of feeling. 311 00:20:07.279 --> 00:20:13.319 Is if we are powerless and impotent. Yeah, can't stop genocide, 312 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:20.599 can't war, can't stop mass incarceration, can't start grotesque wealth, inequality, 313 00:20:20.960 --> 00:20:25.960 can't stop corporate greed. We can talk about it, organized fried, 314 00:20:26.079 --> 00:20:28.160 we could hit the street, we could go to jail, 315 00:20:28.799 --> 00:20:32.519 but we still we haven't stopped it. We haven't stopped it. It 316 00:20:32.480 --> 00:20:34.519 doesn't mean we give up, but we gotta be honest 317 00:20:34.759 --> 00:20:39.839 about ourselves. Yeah, we do, truthful about our own will 318 00:20:39.960 --> 00:20:40.880 to truth. 319 00:20:42.839 --> 00:20:44.359 Or do we want to be lied to? I mean, 320 00:20:44.400 --> 00:20:47.880 do we really like politician's whispering sweet, nothing's in our ears? 321 00:20:47.880 --> 00:20:50.240 Because sometimes you know, that's saying ignorance is bliss. It 322 00:20:50.319 --> 00:20:54.279 really is, because once your consciousness is pierced and pricked, 323 00:20:54.720 --> 00:20:55.920 you can't go back to being the. 324 00:20:55.880 --> 00:20:58.640 Same, not the true. 325 00:20:59.319 --> 00:21:03.680 Yeah true oo, Doc, I'm telling you this is something. 326 00:21:03.720 --> 00:21:06.200 We got all kinds of stuff going on just just 327 00:21:06.279 --> 00:21:10.480 in normal life, and then to have this happening, and 328 00:21:10.559 --> 00:21:12.519 even with the Palestini, you know or min I don't 329 00:21:12.519 --> 00:21:16.200 know if you saw, you know, governors and elected officials 330 00:21:16.240 --> 00:21:20.759 were signing warheads a few months back that were that 331 00:21:20.799 --> 00:21:24.480 were being used in Israel against you know, against our 332 00:21:24.519 --> 00:21:27.519 Palestinian sisters and brothers and family and friends. This is 333 00:21:27.559 --> 00:21:32.480 a warmongering nation and there are a few people who 334 00:21:32.640 --> 00:21:35.920 will benefit greatly. I want to know what kind of 335 00:21:35.960 --> 00:21:39.920 stocks have been traded by the inside trading and trading 336 00:21:39.960 --> 00:21:43.440 going on. They wouldn't block it even under Speaker Pelosi. 337 00:21:43.599 --> 00:21:46.680 So let let we're gonna be clear under Republican or 338 00:21:46.720 --> 00:21:54.400 democratically controlled Congress, to to beholden to big money, to greedy, 339 00:21:55.640 --> 00:21:59.640 lack of integrity, to stop Congress members from being able 340 00:21:59.680 --> 00:22:02.160 to trade stocks. So I want to I want to 341 00:22:02.200 --> 00:22:03.640 know right now. I want to see all the stock 342 00:22:03.720 --> 00:22:06.480 trading that is going on among the members of Congress 343 00:22:06.559 --> 00:22:06.920 right now. 344 00:22:07.440 --> 00:22:10.039 Boof is it that hadn't even thought about that? But 345 00:22:10.119 --> 00:22:15.119 of course that's something that's that's real, very real. Indeed, 346 00:22:15.240 --> 00:22:19.920 who is profiting, well, what defense contractors are, but then 347 00:22:20.079 --> 00:22:23.240 the stocks to and the politicians. 348 00:22:22.880 --> 00:22:26.720 That's it making money handover fists over other people's misery. 349 00:22:27.279 --> 00:22:29.440 The movie Don't Look Up comes to mind. If you 350 00:22:29.480 --> 00:22:31.440 have not seen that, you better go to Netflix and 351 00:22:31.480 --> 00:22:35.039 watch it. The great David Sirota of one of our 352 00:22:35.079 --> 00:22:38.160 colleagues and friends too, worked on the Sanders campaign, him 353 00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:41.119 and others. That movie is very telling for this moment. 354 00:22:41.200 --> 00:22:43.599 Right here, you're listening to the Truth Time with doctor Cornell 355 00:22:43.640 --> 00:22:46.640 West and Anina Turner. When we come forward, we will 356 00:22:46.680 --> 00:22:50.720 continue our discussion beautiful indeed doct before we turn to 357 00:22:50.799 --> 00:22:54.960 the tube. Just want to highlight some other folks writing 358 00:22:55.079 --> 00:22:57.319 on social media. We got Matt Dusk, who was a 359 00:22:57.319 --> 00:23:01.480 former foreign policy advisor, to say to Bernie Sanders. He writes, 360 00:23:01.839 --> 00:23:06.279 any Democrat who can't stand up and speak out now 361 00:23:06.960 --> 00:23:11.279 against the Trump netting Yahoo regime change war should not 362 00:23:11.319 --> 00:23:15.039 even consider running in twenty twenty eight. You're not who 363 00:23:15.039 --> 00:23:17.200 this country needs. That I got there, I got the 364 00:23:17.240 --> 00:23:21.079 triple A man that high five, the fist bumpet. He 365 00:23:21.240 --> 00:23:22.680 telling the truth on that one. 366 00:23:23.000 --> 00:23:26.039 He's laying And we'll see how many Democrats really stepped 367 00:23:26.039 --> 00:23:26.759 forward though. 368 00:23:27.440 --> 00:23:29.400 Yeah, the ones that's gonna run, he said now, So 369 00:23:29.480 --> 00:23:32.799 that means like today tomorrow, you know, not not five 370 00:23:32.839 --> 00:23:34.920 weeks from now. But were gonna keep it. We're gonna 371 00:23:34.960 --> 00:23:36.720 keep a list out. We checking it twice We're gonna 372 00:23:36.759 --> 00:23:39.640 find out who's courageous and who's not, who's naughty and 373 00:23:39.680 --> 00:23:43.359 who nice. But brother Matt, does you made that plane? 374 00:23:43.599 --> 00:23:46.119 And then I, you know, I, I you know the 375 00:23:46.200 --> 00:23:52.279 vice president is from Ohio. He is, and he is 376 00:23:52.359 --> 00:23:55.880 basically rationalizing this. He did admit that he has a 377 00:23:55.920 --> 00:23:58.440 bias towards the president. And I'm glad you know, admit 378 00:23:58.480 --> 00:24:00.680 that you're the vice president. We understand you got a bias. 379 00:24:01.240 --> 00:24:03.640 But right is right and wrong is wrong. And so 380 00:24:03.720 --> 00:24:06.960 I said this to the vice president on social media, 381 00:24:07.480 --> 00:24:10.759 said vice president were from the same state. I'm positive 382 00:24:10.799 --> 00:24:14.519 you know about brook Park, Ohio. The third Battalion, twenty 383 00:24:14.559 --> 00:24:20.000 fifth Regiment, fourth Marine Division, which lost twenty one marines 384 00:24:20.400 --> 00:24:24.839 in two thousand and five in Iraq almost twenty years ago. 385 00:24:25.640 --> 00:24:28.559 That community is still realing from that. So trying to 386 00:24:28.559 --> 00:24:31.039 put some human face on this from our own state. 387 00:24:31.680 --> 00:24:36.319 They lost twenty one marines and people are still hurt 388 00:24:36.359 --> 00:24:38.319 by the loss of the loved ones. The power to 389 00:24:38.440 --> 00:24:41.799 sin the US to war lies with Congress. Let American 390 00:24:41.839 --> 00:24:45.359 people decide. I've traveled our state and country just as 391 00:24:45.400 --> 00:24:48.839 you have. No matter where I go, one thing, I 392 00:24:48.880 --> 00:24:53.119 can almost always find common ground. About and that is 393 00:24:53.119 --> 00:24:56.160 about sending Americans to war. And you've been all over 394 00:24:56.200 --> 00:24:58.119 the country too. I don't know if anybody's ever walked 395 00:24:58.160 --> 00:25:00.720 up to you and say, hey, doctor West, please, if 396 00:25:00.759 --> 00:25:03.240 you become president of the United States of America, in 397 00:25:03.279 --> 00:25:05.599 your top three, please send people the war. 398 00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:09.519 No, that's real. 399 00:25:10.119 --> 00:25:10.880 It's not a thing. 400 00:25:11.319 --> 00:25:14.680 Very few politicians actually have children who are in the army. 401 00:25:15.359 --> 00:25:19.039