Greg Stoker

Greg Stoker is a former US Army Ranger with a background in human intelligence collection and analysis. After serving four combat deployments in Afghanistan, he studied anthropology and International Relations at Columbia University. He is currently a military and geopolitical analyst, and a social media “influencer,” though he hates the term.

How Displacement Became a Tool of US and Israeli Power

From Gaza to New York, displacement is no accident, it’s a weapon. This State of Play episode features Murad Awawdeh on ICE militarization and explores how U.S. and Israeli tactics around forced displacement intersect.

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By Greg Stoker
SOP EP 63

This episode of State of Play by MintPress News delivers a sharp, unfiltered look at the overlapping crises shaping our world, from Gaza to the U.S. borderlands, exposing how displacement, propaganda and militarized policing function as interconnected tools of state power. The show opens with a satirical jab at Donald Trump’s recent claim that

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Crisis Theater: How Israel and the US Are Orchestrating Syria’s Collapse

Israel’s bombing of Syria and US-backed reconstruction deals are being sold as humanitarian efforts. In reality, they are part of a calculated campaign to fracture Syria, fuel sectarianism, and preserve Western dominance in the region.

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By Greg Stoker

Southern Syria is once again in turmoil. Recent clashes in the city of Suwayda between Druze militias and Bedouin gangs triggered a swift military response from the Syrian government, and airstrikes by Israel on positions in Damascus. In this episode of State of Play, I’m joined by Ahmad from Propaganda & Co. and MintPress journalist Robert

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MAGA Embraces Forever Wars With Foreign Policy Flip

Trump’s MAGA movement has shed its anti-war stance and embraced the neoconservative foreign policy consensus, backing sanctions and military escalation worldwide.

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By Greg Stoker
SOP Ukraine

Over the past six months, the MAGA movement has undergone a dramatic transformation, shedding what little remained of its anti-establishment, anti-war identity. The populist rhetoric that once promised to end “forever wars” and put “America First” now echoes the neoconservative consensus it once claimed to oppose. Donald Trump’s foreign policy

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Tiger Teams to Concentration Camps: ICE and its Connections to Israeli Intelligence

This week on State of Play, Greg Stoker is joined by Jalyssa Dugrot and Robert Inlakesh to expose how ICE is targeting student protesters using Israeli spyware, blacklists, and military-linked firms.

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By Greg Stoker
State of Play EP. 58 Web

This week on State of Play, host Greg Stoker is joined by Jalyssa Dugrot, an independent journalist recently arrested while covering anti-ICE protests for MintPress News in Los Angeles, and Robert Inlakesh, a Middle East analyst and MintPress contributor known for his reporting on politics, repression, and empire, to examine a rapidly expanding

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Big Beautiful Cover Up: Epstein, ICE and the MAGA War State

Epstein’s gone, the files are sealed, and Trump’s DOJ says the case is over. Meanwhile, ICE becomes the third-largest military force on Earth. Greg Stoker unpacks why the real story was never justice, it was control.

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By Greg Stoker
State of Play EP. 58 Web

The Department of Justice has quietly declared the Epstein case closed—no client list, no criminal conspiracy, and no further disclosures. Despite years of public pressure and speculation, the DOJ and FBI now assert that the contents of the Epstein files primarily involve sensitive victim information and materials that, if released, could endanger

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Gaza Aid or Cover for War? US Mercenaries Accused of Firing on Civilians

In this episode of State of Play, Greg Stoker and Robert Inlakesh examine how a Delaware-based NGO with ties to Israel and the Trump administration is using American mercenaries to control, and possibly depopulate, Gaza.

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By Greg Stoker
State of Play AMERICAN MERCS IN GAZA

A new investigation by the Associated Press has uncovered disturbing details about American military contractors operating in Gaza under the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a U.S.-based group tasked with distributing aid. Video footage and eyewitness testimony suggest these contractors—many of them former U.S. soldiers—have repeatedly opened

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Ceasefire Theater: Gaza Talks Mask Israel’s Push for Ethnic Cleansing

As Israeli leaders fly to Washington, bombs fall on Gaza and peace talks offer cover for a strategy of civilian punishment and engineered displacement.

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By Greg Stoker

Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 60 people across Gaza, just one day after former President Donald Trump called to “make a deal in Gaza, get the hostages back,” a combat operation all too familiar after nearly two years of unrelenting violence. According to Reuters, Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer is traveling to Washington

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