Praise Be to Allah-Carte War Crimes

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman break down a chaotic weekend in American foreign policy as the official narrative of a dramatic military rescue in Iran begins to unravel. While the government claims a heroic recovery of a missing weapons officer, the details point toward a massive cover-up of a failed special operations ambush near a nuclear site. The duo explores the staggering loss of military hardware and the purge of knowledgeable experts like General Randy George that has left the U.S. command vulnerable. The episode also tackles Donald Trump’s unhinged Easter posts threatening war crimes and his bizarre public disclosure of alleged CIA gun-running operations through the Kurds. With a new 2027 budget proposing a record $1.5 trillion in military spending while gutting domestic agencies, it appears the administration is abandoning diplomacy for a total war footing. From the "peasant mindset" of modern governance to the looming echoes of pre-World War conditions, Jared and Nick examine why the institutions designed to save us are failing in real time. Support the show and get the Weekender at Patreon.com/muckrakepodcast.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. Welcome to the Muckrake Podcast. I'm Jared J.
0:04.3	Sexton. I am here with my co-host, my friend Nick Hausman, out of office.
0:09.6	Oh, I, you know, people, I saw SPF for Jared out on the beach yesterday.
0:15.8	How was this possible? I don't know. I appreciate you out there risking the sunshine, living the good life.
0:23.8	How are you feeling? You know, I feel really, really great. I mean, there's nothing like a little
0:28.1	R&R and just, you know, extra little sleep for everybody. I recommend it if you can just to kind
0:32.9	have a moment to yourself and relax. Well, I'm happy for you. Unfortunately, we're not going to have you on the Weekender episode. And I am getting on the road. I've got some major organizing stuff that I've got to get to. So we're doing a bunch of different things. The next week, week and a half is going to be a little all over the place. But the news doesn't stop. Well, variety, it's a
0:54.7	spice of life. So the Spice of the podcast. Vacation Nick. Oh, man, he's feeling good. He's glowing people. You can go over on YouTube and look at the gluck. You did get some sun already. I don't know how. I was on the shade, but I feel a little emanating heats at this point. You know, that's not a great thing.
1:11.3	We're a couple of pale boys. Yeah, that's right. We are. We're a couple of pale boys. All right, everybody. A reminder if you want to support the podcast. And also, you want to get the weekender. I'm going to be, I'm going to be manning the desk on Friday. You're going to want to listen, head over to patreon.com slash
1:26.2	my Craig podcast, support the show, keep us
1:28.2	editorially independent, and also gain
1:29.9	access to the weekender and special
1:31.5	show. day you're going to want to listen head over to patreon.com slash my Craig podcast support the show
1:27.8	keep us editorially independent and also gain access to the weekender and special shows
1:31.9	Nick there is so much going on right now uh I was putting this show together and I was just
1:39.1	like man we are it feels like we're in a little bit of a, a moment before a big moment, right?
1:47.8	And so like we're, we're in this sort of a situation now where everything we're talking about
1:52.1	today has giant large implications moving forward.
1:55.4	But we have to start with what happened over the weekend.
1:59.7	Um, the, the official story is that on Friday morning, Iranians shot down an F-15, and the pilot and
2:10.2	the weapons officer ejected safely.
2:12.3	The pilot was located quickly.
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