3594 - The Iran Escalation Trap; UK Green Party's Historic Win w/ Robert Pape, Grace Blakeley

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🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Summary

It's an Emmajority Report Thursday on The Majority Report

On today's program:

Senators Chuck Schumer and Chris Coon are signaling that they will vote for $50 billion in supplemental funding for Trump's illegal war in Iran.

Jack Reed (D-RI) says he would not vote for the War Powers resolution UNLESS it is being implemented in defense of Israel.

The president of Israel, Isaac Herzog, says that this war is different from past wars in the Middle East because this one is focused. Despite no one being able to agree on why this war is happening.

Professor Robert Pape of the Escalation Trap on Substack joins the show to discuss the tactics of regime-change operation from a historical perspective.

Grace Blakeley joins the program to discuss the Green Party's big victory last week in the UK.

Kristi Noem has been fired from DHS after a disastrous hearing before Congress.

In the Fun Half:

Some dummy from the Washington Post howls for his food by calling Bernie Sanders's proposed wealth tax as an assault on the American dream.

Governor Polis of Colorado is flirting with the idea of pardoning Tina Peters who is in prison over her efforts to overturn the 2020 elections.

Skip Bayless and his wife share their thoughts on the war in Iran, FINALLY!

all that and more

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0:00.0	The Majority Report with Sam Cedar.
0:06.5	It is Thursday, March 5th, 2026.
0:12.0	My name is Emma Vigland in for Sam Cedar, and this is the five-time award-winning majority report.
0:18.0	We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA.
0:27.6	On the program today, Professor Robert Pape will be with us to talk about the Iran bombing campaign and how it drags us into an escalation trap.
0:39.2	And later in the show, Grace Blakely will be with us to talk about the significance of last
0:43.8	week's Green Party victory in the UK.
0:47.8	Also on the program, the Senate votes down Tim Cain's war powers resolution that would have reigned in Trump's criminal war
0:57.2	on Iran.
0:59.0	Federman, the only Democrat, I say, with heavy quotation marks to break rank.
1:07.5	The House votes on its version today.
1:10.9	The death toll from the bombing of Iran tops 1,000.
1:17.7	And the U.S. kills at least 80, sinking an Iranian vessel coming back from a training exercise.
1:26.2	Sri Lanka's Navy rescued 32 of the Iranian soldiers.
1:32.1	The Pentagon is running out of its stores of precision weapons less than a week into the war,
1:38.6	which Trump denied on Truth Social, calling the U.S. supply infinite. We'll never run out. Don't even ask about it.
1:53.4	Some Senate Democrats are refusing to rule out voting for supplemental funding for Trump's war in Iran.
2:05.5	More on that in just a second. Crude oil prices skyrocket to their highest since June 2025 when Israel bombed Iran the last time. Israeli attacks
2:16.2	kill at least 10 in Lebanon,
2:18.5	and the closure of Gaza's border presents a new hunger crisis.
2:24.6	Trump is supposedly calling Republicans on the hill to ask them whether or not he should fire Christy Knoam.
2:31.8	Senator Steve Danes of Montana is retiring.
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