Manbij
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Oct 19, 2026
Left Melancholy: A Minneapolis Retrospective w/ mags and Ed (E228)
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55:57EdGUEST
to devastating failures and defeats, and in some cases, self-defeats.
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56:04EdGUEST
And the stories of Manbij between 2011 and 2016 that Anand Gopal tells, as well as a lot of the stories from the Pale of Settlement between 1905 and 1917 and after that Molly Crabapple tells, I just feel like serve as such a valuable warning about what can happen when self-interested actors take over entire movements.
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56:37EdGUEST
Yeah, I don't know.
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56:39EdGUEST
I guess I have more to say about that.
Retired Military Leaders Warn of National Security Risks as Missile Shortages Mount
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4:17Ben MeiselasHOST
You can see the letter right here and all of the signatories.
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4:20Ben MeiselasHOST
Now, this comes at the same time that Hegseth and Donald Trump will be covering up the Pentagon report, which has been complete for many, many months, into the war crimes that were committed by the regime against the elementary school in Manbij on the first day of the catastrophic war in Iran, and against Lamer, a sports hall where some of the Trump regime's new tungsten weapons sprayed these tungsten pellets and slaughtered a bunch of little children who were involved in volleyball practice in Iran.
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4:54Ben MeiselasHOST
The report is already complete.
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4:57Ben MeiselasHOST
Obviously, it was the Trump regime.
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4:59Ben MeiselasHOST
The Tomahawk is what blew up and killed the little girls in the elementary school in Manbij.
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5:04Ben MeiselasHOST
It's the tungsten pellet weapon that killed the little girls and little children in Lamer.
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5:09Ben MeiselasHOST
I mean, a sicko Epstein class that is this Trump regime.
Drone Dominance | Travis Metz - DIU Acting Director
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50:48Justin McIntoshPANELIST
Now, this is 2016.
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50:49Justin McIntoshPANELIST
We were using drones, both quadcopters all the way up to, you know, the Reapers and Predators, to be able to, uh, direct artillery fire and to help, you know, move, advance the Kurds in Manbij or advance the Kurds in Raqqa or, you know, Hajin down south.
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51:06Justin McIntoshPANELIST
I, I see that as like d- what that should have been a template for is, hey, this is going to be part of, like, we're, we're seeing this as a more effective use.
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51:15Justin McIntoshPANELIST
You don't have to have FOs and forward observers out for cav scouts calling in this artillery.
Drone Dominance | Travis Metz - DIU Acting Director
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50:47Justin McIntoshHOST
using, this is 2016, we were using drones, both quadcopters all the way up to, you know, reapers and predators to be able to direct artillery fire and to help, you know, move, advance the Kurds
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51:00Jordan SchneiderHOST
in Manbij or advance the Kurds in Raqqa or, you know, Hajin down south.
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51:07Justin McIntoshHOST
I see that as like what that should have been a template for is, Hey, this is going to be part of like, we're seeing this as a more effective use.
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51:15Justin McIntoshHOST
You don't have to have FOs and board observers out for cab scouts calling in this artillery.
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 10/16/26
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14:46Ben MeiselasHOST
I- in the real world, a, a ceasefire amongst nations at war is a deeply serious thing.
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14:52Ben MeiselasHOST
When you go into war against a country like Iran, you shouldn't be surprised after slaughtering children in Manbij and Lamer that Iran is going to fight back.
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15:02Ben MeiselasHOST
You may wanna analyze all of the issues in the region as well, and then quickly realize not only will Iran take over the Strait of Hormuz, which they did, but also there can be regional wars that spread, which we see right now between the Houthis, Ansar Allah in Yemen, the Saudi-backed PLC government, and Saudi Arabia.
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15:22Ben MeiselasHOST
I mean, we see the war spreading between Russia's, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
6 MINS LATER
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21:07Ben MeiselasHOST
They're going after Rick Grenell in the Kennedy Center and saying that he took donations from Habba's billionaire Turkish husband who has the Venezuelan concrete contracts, and Grenell's saying, "I didn't take the money." And they're all, they're all fighting each other.
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21:22Ben MeiselasHOST
And then is Susie Wiles gonna be fired? There's an issue if she's gonna be, you know, fired.
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21:26Ben MeiselasHOST
Is Hegseth gonna last after the midterms? They're withholding the, um, report on the slaughter of the children in Manbij until after the midterms.
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21:35Ben MeiselasHOST
Hegseth's refusing to release the report because it could be damaging.
Afternoon Breaking Updates with Ben 10/15/2026
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9:43Ben MeiselasHOST
I just want us all to have an objective data set of what is actually happening here.
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9:49Ben MeiselasHOST
Meanwhile, Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon have stated they will not be turning over any reports regarding the war crimes that were committed in Manbij, where little elementary school girls were slaughtered by the Trump regime.
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10:04Ben MeiselasHOST
At least 168 little elementary school girls were slaughtered.
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10:08Ben MeiselasHOST
That report is going to be concealed through the midterms.
Breaking Afternoon Updates with Ben Meiselas - 10/13/2026
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42:49Ben MeiselasHOST
But, but let's also say this, he doesn't even know the most basic war tactics, and here we're spending our taxpayer dollars, one, like slaughtering civilians and killing innocent people abroad as well is where a lot of our money's going to.
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43:06Ben MeiselasHOST
And, and look, the Trump regime has slaughtered children in Manbij and Lamer.
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43:10Ben MeiselasHOST
The Trump regime gives all this money to the Netanyahu regime for the genocide.
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43:13Ben MeiselasHOST
I can go on and on and on.
Afternoon Breaking Updates with Ben 10/8/2026
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16:38Ben MeiselasHOST
First off, Hegseth is a war criminal.
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16:40Ben MeiselasHOST
He slaughtered little children in Manbij and Le Maire, and he slaughters people on fishing boats off the coast of Venezuela and in the Pacific.
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16:49Ben MeiselasHOST
I mean, he's actually...
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16:50Ben MeiselasHOST
We're watching a war criminal.
Trump’s 1 AM Return Gets Ugly
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16:13Ben MeiselasHOST
I actually said much more than that.
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16:15Ben MeiselasHOST
I said there shouldn't be anybody running for the presidency on the Democratic side unless you promise that you will turn over Trump, Hegseth, Rubio, Vance, anybody h- who's in the chain of command who's ordered the slaughter of the children in Manbij and Lamer, who's ordered the s- slaughter of people on fishing boats off the coast of Venezuela.
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16:39Ben MeiselasHOST
And I also said anyone running for the presidency on the Democratic side must also promise on day one that the Golden Ballroom will be demolished on live TV, and anything that has Trump's name on it in Washington, DC also gets demolished on day one on live TV.
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16:58Ben MeiselasHOST
And if you don't commit to that, I say you are disqualified.
Trump Falls Apart at Navy Yard Speech
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7:29Ben MeiselasHOST
"We gonna do it the nice way or the not so nice way?" Really? That's what you're...
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7:34Ben MeiselasHOST
That's the way you're speaking right here? What does that mean? Are you gonna slaughter mul- more children in Manbij and Lamerd and Keshem and Sirik? Is that what you're gonna do? Here was Fox cutting the coverage.
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7:43Ben MeiselasHOST
Play this clip
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7:44Donald TrumpSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The highest number was three, and we're at 21 trillion, and that's building factories all over the country.
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