Americans Must Revolt, in Order to Stop Israel’s Takeover of the U.S.

4 July 2026, posted by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbDH6xAYKsw 

https://theduran.com/unconstitutional-military-merger-nobody-in-congress-will 

https://kucinichreport.substack.com/p/us-israel-military-merger-delayed 

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[Alex CHRISTOFOROU] All right, Alexander, we are joined once

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again by the excellent Dennis Kusinich

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on the Duran. Mr. Kusinich, thank you

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for joining us and people can follow

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your work. The best place where they can

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follow your work is on your Substack

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where you post uh amazing uh articles.

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Is that correct?

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[Dennis KUCINICH] That’s uh that’s correct. And thank you

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for mentioning Substack. Thank you.

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[CHRISTOFOROU] All right. I have that Substack as a

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link in the description box down below

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and I will also add it as a pinned

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comment as well. So, Alexander uh Mr.

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Kusinich, let’s uh let’s discuss what is

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happening in reference to a recent

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Substack post from Mr. Kusinich.

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Alexander, pass it off to you.

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[Alexander MERCOURIS] Indeed. Indeed. And can I just say it is

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always a great pleasure and honor for me

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to be speaking with Dennis Kucinich,

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especially at these very difficult and

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fraught times. Dennis has been a voice

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of reason and sanity and great courage

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by the way, moral courage in the United

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States, in Congress, in politics, in

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life generally in the United States for

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decades. And I remember as I said just

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before we started this program reading

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and hearing all about him and admiring

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him from a distance all those years ago

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and his voice has stayed true throughout

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all of that time, strong and true all of

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that time and it continues to be so now.

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So Mr. Kusinich, you’ve written many

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many fine pieces, you know,

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throughout your time in politics, and

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since you’ve just written a piece on

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your Substack site about war crimes, and

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I was wondering if you could tell us a

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little bit about it.

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[KUCINICH] Uh yes, and and again, thank you,

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Alexander and Alex, for being on the

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Duran.

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uh my uh I I’ve written a series of

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pieces on uh Substack that um uh that

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reflect upon a provision in uh the

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National Defense Authorization Act of

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2027,

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which is before Congress right now.

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Uh there is a provision in it in section

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219 [ON PAGES 102-106 OF THIS], that merges uh top level um uh

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operations of the US and the Israeli

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military. This is unprecedented.

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It is frankly in my view

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unconstitutional.

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It puts us in a position

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where uh we are going to be in wars

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forever. And why do I say that? You have

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to remember that even recently uh it’s

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no secret that Benjamin Netanyahu pushed

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Donald Trump into attacking Iran. Uh and

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that’s just one part of the Zionist

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ambitions to gain more and more

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territory and those territories include

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Turkey, they include Egypt as well as

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the areas that are now being occupied or

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are being aggressed against. And so if

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we were to bring Israel inside of our

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defense establishment

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uh considering the influence that they

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already have on the outside,

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and create a formal structure where we

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eliminate duplication. That’s what

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they’re talking about in this proposal

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where there’s an integration on a on a

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on a vast range operations.

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Then what you have is instead of Israel

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getting four billion dollars a year from

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the US for for military purposes, they

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will then have access to 1.5 trillion

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annually in the US military um

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expenditures [in other words, affecting all the rest of America’s annual military spending]. So uh the there are so

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many things wrong with this proposal and

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here we are in the United States uh

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celebrating the 250 years of our

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independence from Great Britain.

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and we are about to uh jump into a

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circumstance with Israel where we’re

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actually going to be forfeiting our

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independent decision-making.

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[MERCOURIS]I don’t think anybody in the United

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States perhaps grasps other than from

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yourself, Mr. Kucinich,

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how absolutely unprecedented

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in American history this is. Of course,

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I am British and I’m very familiar with

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the relationship between Britain and the

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United States during the Second World

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War. The relationship then was a very

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very strong one. But the British

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military and the American military

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fought alongside each other. There was

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never any question of the kind of

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integration between the two militaries

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that we’re talking about here. Had it

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been proposed, which it actually was, by

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the way, by uh people around Churchill,

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Churchill was rather keen on that. Had

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it ever been proposed, well, had it been

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seriously proposed in the United States,

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it would have been rejected outright.

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And if you know the story, the history

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of our relations with between ourselves

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during the Second World War in a war of

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existential importance

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when we were both defending ourselves

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against a you know an a a powerful

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adversary with unlimited ambitions,

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well, people in the United States would

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have said this is completely

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unacceptable. It violates all

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conceptions of American independence, of

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the Constitution, as you said, in

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exactly the way that you said. I I I

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would never have believed that a country

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like the United States would ever do a

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thing like this.

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Just my comment.

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[KUCINICH] Well, you know, you

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you’re um the parallel that you just

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drew is very in instructive

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because you know we you know even even

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with the current administration many of

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us in America understand that there is a

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special relationship with uh Great

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Britain.

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But even with that kind of relationship,

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even under existential conditions as you

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have recited,

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we would not have permitted a uh a

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merger of uh of British and US uh u or

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integration of British and US military.

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Now uh

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consider that if we wouldn’t do that

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with our historic best friends [ACTUALLY ENEMIES SINCE 1776],

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we we wouldn’t we shouldn’t do it with

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anyone. And and and the thing to keep in

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mind is that

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one of the reasons why I believe this is

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illegal is that uh this essentially is

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the form of a treaty. It it you know you

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have the North Atlantic Treaty

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Organization, which you know I’m not

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really keen on, but that was a treaty.

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This would have to be a treaty that

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would be subject to Senate debate and

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approval. There’s there’s no treaty

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here. just slipped it in as a provision

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in a large, you know, almost a

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thousand page [actually 1,614-page] bill and zero debate. Zero.

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Matter of fact, they cut off debate by

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not including an amendment that would

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have struck this provision from the bill

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in the rules committee of Congress and

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they did that silent silently, quietly.

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Uh so there was no debate in the

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committee and there was no debate of

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course on the floor of the house. Now,

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legislation’s held up for the moment,

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but but this is a um it’s not just that

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it’s unprecedented.

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Um we have a right if there was a debate

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to say what about this particular

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partnership if we for those who say well

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we want to do it.

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Israel’s leaders who whose national

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security ministry is in the United

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States uh uh at this time

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they’re they’re uh either have arrest

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warrants out them for them at the ICC

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for war crimes or the arrest warrants

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are in process.

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What in the world are we doing?

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bringing somebody right inside of our

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sacred house [a Government] who has murdered maybe a

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hundred thousand Gazans [and]

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who who have a military uh practice of

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shooting children in the in the head and

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the chest who have just dropped in

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southern Lebanon perhaps one of the

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biggest bombs that’s ever been dropped

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in peace time on on on innocent people.

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MY COMMENT:

For more details on this, see Kucinich’s Substack,

https://kucinichreport.substack.com/p/us-israel-military-merger-delayed,

which closes:

What we can do

Every Member of Congress should hear one simple message:

Urge House leadership and the Rules Committee to make in order the Massie-Khanna Amendment and other amendments that would remove the U.S.-Israel military merger and other objectionable provisions from the NDAA.

If the Rules Committee refuses, vote against the rule.

If the rule passes, vote against the NDAA until the military merger is removed from the bill.

This is the only way to stop this patently unconstitutional merger, which undermines American sovereignty and opens the door for Israel to drag the United States into more wars to advance its expansionist and murderous impulses.

This Fourth of July, celebrate Independence Day by defending the very principles upon which this nation was founded.

TAKE ACTION

The House is expected to take up the NDAA when it returns on July 13. The time to act is now, before a new rule is written and the bill returns to the House floor.

Let us truly celebrate our independence by staying independent. Please help spread the word by forwarding this article to your family, friends, and colleagues.

Find your Members of Congress:

House: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

Senate: https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

Call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask to be connected to your Representative or Senators.

Ask them to:

• Support making in order the Massie-Khanna Amendment and other amendments to remove Section 219 from the NDAA.
• Vote against the rule if those amendments are blocked.
• If the rule passes, vote against the NDAA until Section 219 is removed.

Optional telephone script:

My name is ______ and I am a constituent. I am calling to urge Representative ______ to insist that the House Rules Committee make in order the Massie-Khanna Amendment so the House can debate and vote on removing Section 219 from the NDAA.

If the Rules Committee refuses to allow that amendment, I urge the Representative to vote against the rule. If Section 219 remains in the bill, I urge the Representative to vote against final passage of the NDAA.

Congress should defend American sovereignty, uphold the Constitution, and reject any measure that integrates the executive and military functions of the United States with those of a foreign government.

Thank you.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.