There's a motherfucking genocide happening and we're being told we need to be worried about TikTok and defaced portraits of Lord Balfour.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Worrying About TikTok During An Active Genocide

העולם על פי שפטל יורם שפטל - 14-03-24

Israel is as dependent as a nation can possibly be. It literally cannot exist without the direct military backing of the most powerful empire of all time, namely the United States and its globe-spanning network of allies and assets.

Reading by Tim Foley.

If Israel Wants To Be An "Independent Nation", Let It Be An Independent Nation

You can't equate the violence of the oppressor with the violence of the oppressed. They're not the same, and the oppressor is the ultimate source of the violence from both sides.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Don't Equate The Violence Of The Oppressor With The Violence Of The Oppressed

"The editors of The New York Times know exactly what they're doing packaging a story about Israel's deliberate starvation of Palestinian civilians like it's a troubling prediction about the weather."

Reading by Tim Foley.

It's Journalistic Malpractice To Say Gazans Are Starving Without Saying Israel Is Starving Them

The PR campaign for Israel's destruction of Gaza revolves around encouraging everyone to focus on the feelings of people on the pro-Israel side instead of focusing on facts and evidence. The way Israelis are feeling about October 7. The way Israelis are feeling about the hostages. The way pro-Palestine demonstrations make western Jews feel inside. What feelings Biden is privately feeling toward Netanyahu. The whole thing's one big fat appeal to emotion fallacy.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Apologia Is One Big Fat Appeal To Emotion Fallacy

The fact that half of Americans don't know whether Israelis or Palestinians are suffering more deaths in Gaza is the result of the appalling "Palestinian child walks into bullet"-style headlines the mainstream American press have been churning out since this conflict began.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Half Of Americans Have No Idea Whether Israelis Or Palestinians Are Suffering More Deaths

It sure is a crazy coincidence how all this stuff about difficulty with food distribution, collateral damage, human shields, the need to eliminate Hamas etc just happens to combine to create a situation that looks exactly the same as committing a genocide against an undesirable population.

Reading by Tim Foley.

A Barely-Disguised Genocide

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בלי חשבון עם אלי ציפורי 28-06-24

It's Midterms, baby! Gotta love da Midterms. We start off today's show getting our Wohls filled by Will Sommer with the story of Trump-worshipping wunderkind Jacob Wohl's sad attempt to frame Robert Mueller. Then Virgil takes the wheel and guides us through America's hotly contested midterm landscape. Will Democrats eke out enough power to put a check on America's Three Stooges-led slide into fascism? Will Republicans solidify their stranglehold on power? Will we be excoriated by online communists for engaging in bourgeois electoralism? Come wonk off with us and find out!

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Readings of all Caitlin Johnstone's articles, usually by her co-writer Tim Foley.