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Iran War Day 171, New US Territory, Hormuz Will Not Reopen & US National Security Strategy

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by Sam Chaney | August 18, 2026

Millions will starve from diesel shock

The Underreported US Drug War

They’ve poisoned the land

Marked Like WWII Prisoners

Opening & Historical Context Sam Chaney opens the August 18, 2026 Tuesday edition on Day 171 of the Iran war, checking audio after previous feedback issues. He runs “This Day in History,” covering Peter the Great studying Dutch shipbuilding undercover in 1698, the first Montgomery Ward catalog, Japan’s gift of cherry trees to Washington D.C., the “Hardest Day” of the Battle of Britain in 1940, the Korean axe murder incident, Dennis Rader’s BTK sentencing, and 2019 Hong Kong protests. Civil-liberties history includes a 1933 Jewish newspaper protest against publishing Mein Kampf in the U.S. and the 1939 banning of The Grapes of Wrath in Kansas City.

White House Deportation Propaganda
The White House posts an hour-plus video looping claims that “deportations are
surging.” Chaney calls it classic repetition-based mind control and presents
formal removal numbers across the last seven administrations, showing Trump’s
current term (roughly 500–600k so far) and first term remain well below
Obama-era peaks and far short of campaign rhetoric about mass deportations.

Iran War Day 171 & Economic Hit
Trump again declares the Strait of Hormuz U.S. territory. Iran states the
waterway is closed and rejects any such claim. No genuine negotiations are
underway. U.S. diesel crack spreads break $100 per barrel — a record high —
with Chaney warning of severe domestic economic consequences as the conflict
drags on. He urges Trump to simply declare victory and end the war.

Domestic & Other Stories
Argentine protesters dressed as wizards (“Gandalfs”) demonstrate outside Peter
Thiel’s residence in Buenos Aires against Palantir with a “You shall not pass”
banner. Brief mentions of an FBI claim involving an NIH “bat” figure, Disney’s
lawsuit against the FCC over censorship, and a local Madera, California woman
making inflammatory militia threats online.

West Asia & Ukraine Escalation
Israeli forces conduct strikes in Syria that nearly provoked a Turkish
response. Systematic demolition continues in southern Lebanon. Gaza operations
and settler violence in the West Bank persist. Russia signals it may treat
UK-supplied weapons used in deep strikes inside Russia as a direct attack by
Britain itself. The United States has sanctioned the International Criminal
Court. Ultra-Zionist settlers receive formal authorization for prayer at the
Al-Aqsa / Temple Mount compound, escalating religious tensions.

Close Final headlines from
Iran International and Al Jazeera show continued mutual denial of talks and economic
pressure. Viewer comments across Odyssey, Rumble, and YouTube are acknowledged.
The episode ends with a call for peace, independent research, and a return the
next day.

Iran War Day 171, Strait of Hormuz, $100 diesel, White House deportation video, Peter Thiel Palantir protest, USS Abraham Lincoln, Israeli Syria strikes, Russia UK escalation, Al-Aqsa settlers, ICC sanctions, Weaponized News, Sam Chaney

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The Patriot Voice@TPV_John

Pete Hegseth was picked as DOW with a VERY specific purpose. To help pave the way for building of the Third Temple in Jerusalem, by way of the Greater Israel expansion project, by using the American Military Industrial Complex.

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Shadow of Ezra@ShadowofEzra

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The wildly overhyped influence of the "10 million" Christian Zionist members of Christians United for Israel is a red herring. All it takes to become a "CUFI member" is to fill out the first three fields in this form on their website and hit "submit." You don't even need to https://t.co/NZqt4YF9UM

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Remember how Trump assured MAGA on the campaign trail that Jared Kushner would not be a part of his second administration?

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Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 @infolibnews

Jared Kushner, after meeting with Netanyahu, says that the US won't "restrict Israel's right to defend itself." He says that if Hamas doesn't disarm over the next 60 to 90 days it'll show "they're not genuine about peace," and it'll give Israel cover to "go and finish the job."

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US CONGRESSMAN RANDY FINE CAUGHT SNOOPING around HOME’S MAILBOX while CAMPAIGNING

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🇸🇾 Eight Israeli airstrikeshit the runway of the Abu Duhur air base in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province early Tuesday, causing material damage but no reported casualties, according to Syrian state television. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said foreign fighters had

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🇸🇾🇮🇱 Reports of new explosions at Abu al-Duhur Airbase in northwestern Syria, with footage showing a thick plume of smoke rising from the area. https://t.co/sDkrvRf6FL

3:44 PM · Aug 18, 2026 · 29.3K Views

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Syria condemns Israeli airstrikes on Abu al-Duhur Airbase —— Syria condemned the Israeli airstrikes that targeted the Abu al-Duhur Military Airbase in Idlib earlier today, calling them a violation of the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, the Ministry of Foreign

2:21 PM · Aug 18, 2026 · 3.58K Views

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Barrack Warns Unnotified Israeli Raid Near Turkish Border Risked Confrontation U.S. Envoy Tom Barrack revealed Türkiye received no warning of Israeli strikes on Syria's Abu al-Duhur airbase near its border, forcing Washington to push for a trilateral deconfliction link.

8:33 PM · Aug 18, 2026 · 18.2K Views

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Netanyahu's Office: Israel and Syria agreed to a status quo in security matters, which Syria was on the verge of breaching by permitting Turkish troops to deploy at an airbase near Aleppo. Israel repeatedly warned Syria that such a deployment would pose a threat to Israel's

8:25 PM · Aug 18, 2026 · 97.2K Views

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A Sydney library removed the book "How to Sell a Genocide," which critiques US media coverage of Gaza, after a complaint reportedly from a Bondi beach terror attack survivor who found it distressing on the "new releases" shelf. Author Adam Johnson responded: Genocide is not my

2:52 PM · Aug 18, 2026 · 20.1K Views

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Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: God speaks to us through the Torah and tells us how to act, how to manage the State of Israel from this beit midrash.

12:46 PM · Aug 18, 2026 · 78.2K Views

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Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Trump's peace plan: Palestinian Authority supports terrorism. We did not sacrifice our lives and pay such a price for three years just to trade one donkey for another and hand [Gaza] over now to another enemy.

12:45 PM · Aug 18, 2026 · 20.8K Views

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Ansarallah claims drone attack on Aramco refinery in Saudi Jazan —— Yemen's Ansarallah targeted an Aramco oil refinery on Saudi Arabia’s southern Red Sea coast earlier today, according to the Saba news agency. Ansrallah “targeted the Aramco refinery in Jazan with a number of

1:15 PM · Aug 18, 2026 · 3.75K Views

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Saudi-backed Yemeni army strikes Ansarallah positions in Al-Jawf —— The Saudi-backed Aden government Yemeni army carried out strikes against Ansarallah positions in the northern governorate of Al-Jawf. Footage released by the army showed attacks targeting Ansarallah fighters and

10:53 AM · Aug 18, 2026 · 4.06K Views

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Kataib Hezbollah warns Iraqi leadership of retaliation over raids targeting resistance families —— Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah has warned Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi that its patience is running out regarding ongoing security raids targeting the families of resistance fighters and

11:43 AM · Aug 18, 2026 · 4.42K Views

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Let’s not forget that Israel hunts children and kills them for sport.

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Update: the 12 year old girl I mentioned in this story who was hunted down by an Israeli drone has died from her injuries.

8:39 PM · Aug 17, 2026 · 127K Views

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🔴 The Israeli army rigged and detonated the reservoir in Mansouri, Lebanon, destroying the town’s only fresh water source. Demolishing civilian infrastructure is a war crime and an act of genocide.

11:09 AM · Aug 18, 2026 · 107K Views

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🔴 The Israeli army rigged and detonated the reservoir in Mansouri, Lebanon, destroying the town’s only fresh water source. Demolishing civilian infrastructure is a war crime and an act of genocide.

11:09 AM · Aug 18, 2026 · 107K Views

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BREAKING | Israeli occupation forces carry out combing operations near residential homes in Haddatha and Aita al-Jabal, in southern Lebanon.

10:41 AM · Aug 18, 2026 · 4.8K Views

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BREAKING | Israeli occupation forces deliberately burn a villa in the southern Lebanese village of Zawtar al-Sharqiya. Israeli occupation forces have targeted ad burned hundreds of homes in southern Lebanese in the last few weeks alone.

11:07 AM · Aug 18, 2026 · 3.58K Views

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BREAKING | Israeli occupation forces target Haddatha, in southern Lebanon, with artillery shelling.

10:30 AM · Aug 18, 2026 · 5.98K Views

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Only 3% of Gaza’s cropland remains usable, UN warns —— Just 3 percent of Gaza’s cropland remains both accessible and undamaged, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned Tuesday, based on an analysis of satellite imagery. The assessment found that the amount of

11:53 AM · Aug 18, 2026 · 6.62K Views

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💢🇵🇸 Another Palestinian Child Dies Due to Israel’s Deliberately Imposed Hunger Crisis in Gaza Palestinian girl Maha Bashir has died from severe malnutrition on Tuesday, Palestinian media report, as Israel continues to deliberately restrict food and other necessities entering

5:57 PM · Aug 18, 2026 · 44.1K Views

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💢 Israeli Strike Kills 7 Palestinians, Including a Child, at Gaza City Beach Cafe Regional media report that an Israeli strike on a seaside cafe killed seven Palestinians and wounded 14, with Al Jazeera confirming at least one child was among those killed. Gaza’s Health

5:30 PM · Aug 18, 2026 · 42.8K Views

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An elderly woman sits drenched in blood after having her hand blown off by a fresh Israeli strike that killed 7 and wounded 14 in a Gaza City beach cafe today. A small child’s shoes lay abandoned among blood and shattered debris, while blood runs from the elevated cafe toward the

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💢 “Additional Terrorists” An Israeli airstrike tore through a cafe on Gaza City’s shoreline Tuesday killing 7 and wounding 14. Israel claimed it “struck a meeting of Nukhba commanders, including a company commander, three platoon commanders” and “several additional terrorists.” https://t.co/H0W9YwQ6XV

7:58 PM · Aug 18, 2026 · 45K Views

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“We don’t know what we’re supposed to deal with anymore. Do we deal with the Israelis? Or the sun burning us inside the tents? Or the water — waking up at 6 a.m. to go get water? Or do we deal with the winter that is still coming, when we’ll also suffer from the weather?” —

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🔴 “We went down and found people in pieces. The upper halves of people’s bodies had been blown away.” Abu Ahmed, 30, described the aftermath of an Israeli strike on Palestinians gathered at Gaza Port, west of Gaza City, where displaced Palestinians living in tents had come to

7:09 PM · Aug 18, 2026 · 21.9K Views

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Multiple casualties reported after an Israeli attack on a cafe in Gaza City moments ago.

3:53 PM · Aug 18, 2026 · 5.41K Views

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💢 REPORT | Israeli forces committed four ceasefire violations across Gaza on Sunday, killing two Palestinians, including 14-year-old Suhail Masoud Raba’ Shalouf, and wounding 14 others, including eight children, one woman and two elderly people. The report shared by the

8:37 AM · Aug 18, 2026 · 19.5K Views

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Statement by Hamas: "The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) condemns in the strongest terms the criminal Zionist aggression against the Syrian Arab Republic's territories, which targeted Abu al-Duhur Airport in the Idlib countryside area this morning, and consider it a

2:45 PM · Aug 18, 2026 · 4.38K Views

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VIDEO | Israeli military admits occupation soldiers wrote identification numbers in marker on foreheads of detained Palestinians Israeli occupation soldiers wrote identification numbers in marker on the foreheads and arms of Palestinian men during a military raid in the town of

10:16 AM · Aug 18, 2026 · 7.76K Views

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📸 Overnight, Israeli settlers sabotaged a water pipeline supplying the Palestinian communities of Yazza and al-Ras al-Ahmar, east of Tubas in the occupied West Bank.

6:08 AM · Aug 18, 2026 · 17.7K Views

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⭕️ Israeli forces carried out raids from Jenin and Nablus in the northern West Bank to the Bethlehem area in the south, attacking and detaining Palestinians. ➤ Jordan Valley: Israeli settlers rioted and conducted provocative patrols at the Samra outpost. (Video 1) ➤ Northern

6:03 AM · Aug 18, 2026 · 13.9K Views

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⭕️ Israeli Forces Arrest Child, Doctor and Young Man in West Bank Raids Israeli forces arrested 15-year-old Zahar Abu Eid after raiding and ransacking his family’s home in Anata, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, early Tuesday. In Ramallah, Israeli forces arrested Dr. Dima Amin

5:51 AM · Aug 18, 2026 · 42.7K Views

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Just In: Israeli forces demolish homes belonging to Palestinian resident Yasser Abu Sabha in al-Fakheit, near Yatta, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. Via Shehab News

5:46 AM · Aug 18, 2026 · 13.7K Views

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💢 Israeli settlers, protected by Israeli forces, set fire to Palestinian-owned land in the al-Shouna area on the outskirts of Turmus Ayya, northeast of Ramallah, on Monday evening, local sources told Shehab News.

6:13 AM · Aug 18, 2026 · 13.9K Views

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VIDEO | "I can't sleep and I can't let the [Israeli] settlers steal my house while I was watching." Palestinian Loui Ridi flew from Detroit to his home in the occupied West Bank village of Qusra, where his and two other properties have been under an aggressive Israeli settler

10:33 AM · Aug 18, 2026 · 6.54K Views

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⭕️ Israel formally allows Jewish prayer at Al-Aqsa Mosque for first time Israeli authorities formally permitted Jewish prayer inside Al-Aqsa Mosque for the first time, marking an unprecedented change to the decades-old status quo governing the occupied East Jerusalem holy site,

3:54 PM · Aug 18, 2026 · 38.5K Views

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