"Trump isn't just President, he is a gangster and a businessman" w/ Jeremy Scahill
Makdisi Street
Bayt al Makdisi
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🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 94 minutes
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The brothers welcome the investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill of Drop Site News back to the show to discuss the looming threat of a joint US-Israeli attack on Iran, the various forces driving US foreign policy, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and the capacity of Palestinian steadfastness to withstand either the plan for the dystopian reduction of Gaza to a wasteland of biometric concentration camps and foreign privatization and profiteering or the ongoing Israeli drive for total annihilation.
Date of recording: Feb 26, 2026
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| 0:00.0 | that Iran is exhibiting an unprecedented level of flexibility, that they're putting on the table |
| 0:05.5 | terms that extend far beyond the 2015 agreement, and they're putting on the table terms |
| 0:10.7 | about economic opportunity because they understand Trump isn't just the president, he's a gangster |
| 0:14.7 | and a businessman who's also thinking of business opportunities for his crony network, his family, |
| 0:19.7 | and the Trump organization, |
| 0:21.0 | even though he's technically not supposed to be involved with it. |
| 0:23.3 | They saw what happened when he went to the Gulf Arab countries and all the deals he was |
| 0:27.1 | making. |
| 0:27.5 | And of course, Whitkoff's son is making money off this stuff. |
| 0:30.2 | And Kushner, of course, is setting himself up for more profit. |
| 0:35.2 | Welcome everybody to another episode of the Magdisi Street podcast. |
| 0:39.3 | Today we're really very happy to have with us, Jeremy Skaill, who is the co-founder of the Dropside News and a really prominent investigative reporter, war correspondent and author of two international bestselling books. |
| 0:51.3 | Dirty Wars, The World is Battlefield and Blackwater, |
| 0:56.0 | the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army. I think Jeremy is known to many of you, |
| 1:01.5 | and he's extensively covered around the region from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, and other |
| 1:08.9 | countries. And more recently,, the last couple of years, |
| 1:11.6 | Jeremy has done an unbelievable job investigating |
| 1:14.6 | what's going on, especially in Gaza and the wider region. |
| 1:17.6 | So we're really happy to have Jeremy with us to take us through |
| 1:20.6 | the kind of the latest developments. |
| 1:22.6 | Jeremy, welcome. Welcome to the show. |
| 1:25.6 | It's great to be back on the street. I thought, Jeremy, I think |
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