US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gathered top generals and encouraged the military to commit war crimes and ignore international law. Donald Trump ordered the Department of War to use US cities as "training grounds" to fight the "enemy within". Ben Norton reports on the increasingly authoritarian US empire.

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0:00 (CLIP) Pete Hegseth message to US military

0:54 US Department of War takes mask off empire

1:31 US empire's wars come home

2:25 (CLIP) Trump threatens "enemy within" USA

3:00 Special event in Quantico, Virginia

3:21 (CLIP) "Era of Department of Defense is over"

4:07 (CLIP) "Strongest, most lethal military on planet"

4:21 War is peace

4:46 (CLIP) "Peace through strength"

5:31 Trump admin attacks "wokeness" & DEI

6:21 Missing the forest for the trees

7:06 (CLIP) Hegseth encourages war crimes

8:09 USA attacks international law

8:51 Pete Hegseth: Fox News pundit

10:25 (CLIP) Hegseth wants to "rewrite rules of war"

11:36 Hegseth's "American Crusade"

12:48 War with China

13:23 (CLIP) "We are preparing for war"

13:45 (CLIP) Targets: western hemisphere & China

14:07 Donald Trump's speech

14:30 US war on Venezuela

14:50 (CLIP) Trump threatens Venezuela

15:17 Colonial Monroe Doctrine

16:26 US seeks regime change in Venezuela

18:12 (CLIP) Trump wants Venezuela's oil

18:39 (CLIP) $1 trillion US military budget

19:09 (CLIP) Nobel Peace Prize for war

20:29 (CLIP) Trump boasts of NATO arms sales

22:11 US empire's wars

22:54 (CLIP) Department of Defense was "woke"

23:26 Conservative identity politics

23:41 USA: a country of war

24:21 Trump targets "enemy within"

25:17 (CLIP) "America is under invasion from within"

27:20 US authoritarian regime

28:01 (CLIP) US, British, & Roman empires

28:32 Outro