Legendary filmmaker Robert Greenwald joins Gaslit Nation to talk about his powerful documentary from Brave New Films, Gaza: Journalists Under Fire. We break down the horrifying media consolidation driven by Netanyahu-ally , billionaire Larry Ellison, who is actively dismantling beloved institutions like CBS to enforce a McCarthyist, pro-Netanyahu chill on American journalism.
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Show Notes:
WATCH: Gaza: Journalists Under Fire https://www.bravenewfilms.org/palestinianjournalists
Protect yourself and your community from ICE: https://www.patreon.com/gaslit/posts/free-prairieland-162794130?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
Meet Josh Gruenbaum and Aryeh Lightstone of the Board of Peace: https://boardofpeace.org/members
Fight back with the Gaslit Nation Action Guide on GaslitNationPod.com and the Media and Democracy Project (https://www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/) and also Rise and Resist (https://www.riseandresist.org/)
Famine confirmed for first time in Gaza https://www.who.int/news/item/22-08-2025-famine-confirmed-for-first-time-in-gaza
209 Journalists and Media Workers Killed in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory https://cpj.org/2026/06/cpj-undertakes-review-of-its-documentation-of-journalists-killed-in-israel-gaza-war-since-2023/
Amnesty UK draws criticism for arguing journalist death toll in Gaza higher than in any other war https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-864300
ICE Ordered to Cease Most Vehicle Stops After 2 Killings in a Week: Agents fatally shot a man in Houston and another in coastal Maine, both in their vehicles. The killings were the latest in a string of ICE shootings during President Trump’s second term. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/us/ice-agents-traffic-stops.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xlA.K8PG.HyO51Npt7m7m&smid=url-share
E. Jean Carroll Receives Trump’s $5 Million Judgment Plus Interest https://www.reuters.com/world/us/
E Jean Carroll receives $5.6m owed by Trump after court releases damages https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/14/e-jean-carroll-trump-payment
ICE Suspends Vehicle Stops After Fatal Shootings in Maine and Texas https://www.reuters.com/world/ice-suspends-vehicle-stops-us-immigration-enforcement-sources-say-2026-07-14/
ICE Officer Fatally Shoots Driver in Biddeford, Maine https://www.reuters.com/world/us/person-killed-ice-involved-shooting-maine-media-reports-2026-07-13/
What to Know About ICE’s Fatal Shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston https://apnews.com/article/7f8b3218b97c63388fc016b3da9718ee
Trump Abandons Proposed 20-Percent Strait of Hormuz Fee https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-us-will-take-investment-deals-with-gulf-states-instead-fee-using-2026-07-14/
Trump Announces U.S. Control and Proposed Toll on the Strait of Hormuz https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trump-says-us-will-control-strait-hormuz-get-paid-it-2026-07-13/
Associated Press Fact Check: Competing U.S. and Iranian Claims Over the Strait of Hormuz https://apnews.com/article/8df557699c900b29fb33172e6da7f3e9
Lindsey Graham’s Final Mission to Support Ukraine https://www.wsj.com/world/lindsey-graham-death-ukraine-russia-81ccfe7f
Committee to Protect Journalists: Journalists Killed in the Israel–Gaza War https://cpj.org/2026/
Record Number of Journalists and Media Workers Killed in 2025 https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/record-129-journalists-media-workers-killed-2025-mostly-by-israel-says-cpj-2026-02-25/
Israel Schedules National Election for October 27, 2026 https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israels-election-will-be-held-october-27-coalition-head-says-2026-07-12/
Maggie Haberman & Jonathan Swan – On “Regime Change” & Inside The Trump Presidency | The Daily Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdmdGTrJ2nI
How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran: In a series of Situation Room meetings, President Trump weighed his instincts against the deep concerns of his vice president and a pessimistic intelligence assessment. Here’s the inside story of how he made the fateful decision. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/politics/trump-iran-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xlA.RnIs.VnaiNfmBkDie&smid=url-share
Iran Strikes U.S. Military Facilities Across Gulf Region: A Times analysis of satellite imagery and verified videos shows Iran found vulnerabilities in U.S. locations in the region.
What’s Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ really about? https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/209-front-burner/episode/16193683-whats-trumps-board-of-peace-really-about
32 Palestinians killed trying to reach food distribution hubs, Gaza authorities say https://www.npr.org/2025/07/19/g-s1-78420/palestinians-food-aid-deaths
Trump notifies Congress of new war against Iran President Donald Trump’s notification that the U.S. is again at war with Iran gives the administration another 60-day clock for military action. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/13/trump-notifies-congress-of-new-war-against-iran-00995170
Iraq journalist deaths match number killed during Vietnam War https://cpj.org/2006/05/iraq-journalist-deaths-match-number-killed-during/
Andrea’s interview with Alex Gibney and Alexis Bloom of the must-watch documentary The Bibi Files https://www.gaslitnationpod.com/episodes/hitler-youth/
Trump’s Crypto Scheme to Sell Ukraine to Russia https://www.patreon.com/gaslit/posts/trumps-crypto-to-144034868?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
New book reveals how Trump compared himself to Mao, Stalin, Attila the Hun https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/18/politics/new-book-reveals-how-trump-compared-himself-to-mao-stalin-atilla-the-hun
Marco Rubio: “Actually, the Board of Peace was chartered and set up by the UN Security Council through a vote at the UN Security Council as to deliberations, so it’s an international organism recognized by the Security Council of the United Nations, which is something I think many of you should be supportive of…” https://x.com/StateDept/status/2016582608377749629?lang=en
What the UN Security Council vote means for Trump’s Gaza peace plan https://abcnews.com/International/security-council-vote-means-trumps-gaza-peace-plan/story?id=127623162
This content originally appeared on Gaslit Nation and was authored by Andrea Chalupa.