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American Prestige

News - Israel Escalates Lebanon Strikes, Taiwan Arms Sale Stalls, Bolivia Protest Crackdown w/ Anthea Gordon

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

News, History, Politics

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Subscribe now⁠ to skip the ads and get more content. The AP UFC dome is regrettably being held up by Producer Jake’s HOA. In this week’s news: an update on the U.S.-Iran talks and U.S. airstrikes near Bandar Abbas (1:11); Trump demands new Abraham Accords signatures and threatens Oman over Strait of Hormuz fees (4:46); Israel escalates attacks and pushes displacement further north in Lebanon (11:39); Israel kills Hamas commander Mohammed Odeh (14:38); Gaza’s Board of Peace lacks pledged funds (15:31); Trump pauses a Taiwan arms sale due to the Iran war depleting stockpiles (16:43); the RSF prepares an offensive in North Darfur, plus Sudan’s military prepares an offensive in Blue Nile (18:37); U.S. airstrikes kill civilians in Somalia (20:28); Russia threatens new strikes on Kyiv (22:03); Bolivia faces a protest crackdown (24:18 ); Tulsi Gabbard resigns as director of national intelligence (26:12); and Derek speaks to Anthea Gordon, GiveDirectly’s country director for the Democratic Republic of Congo, about the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo and the challenges complicating the response (28:56). ⁠Help Ebola-affected families in the DRC⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to American Prestige.

0:03.2

To listen ad-free, you can subscribe at AmericanPestigepod.com.

0:08.3

Find the link in our show notes.

0:11.9

Some follow the noise.

0:14.4

Bloomberg follows the money.

0:16.6

Because behind every headline is a bottom line.

0:20.3

Whether it's the funds-fueling AI or crypto's trillion dollar swings,

0:25.0

there's a money side to every story.

0:27.7

And when you see the money side, you understand what others miss.

0:32.1

Get the money side of the story.

0:34.1

Subscribe now at Bloomberg.com.

0:38.3

That's kind of conversation to your soul.

0:46.3

That's conversation to your soul.

0:49.3

And then I'm gonna. Hello, Prestige Heads, and welcome to American Prestige.

1:03.4

I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade Derek Davidson,

1:07.1

and we are excited to bring you the news.

1:08.7

But before we do some quick housekeeping,

1:16.3

if you haven't yet, please check out our live streams. You can find them at American Prestige's YouTube. We're doing them every week at 5 p.m. PST and 8 p.m. EST. And we're getting more

1:23.2

advanced. We're going to start having guests, so please check those out. And as always,

1:27.1

check out the website at AmericanPrestigepod.com. We've got a ton of series that still remain relevant. And also, you could join the Discord through that space. And finally, I haven't asked to do this in a while, but if you haven't yet, please like and review the podcast on Apple. It does help us, and our reviews have been slowing down a bit.

1:46.4

So if you could just take a second to do that, if you haven't yet, we would really appreciate it.

1:50.4

All right, Derek, let's jump into news. And let's start with the Iran peace talks and an update on the airstrikes.

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