NEW: JAM Mini Mix #38 - KOOL-FM ‘Phoenix, AZ' (1989) (Composite)

A new report from the UK's Channel 4 News adds to the surprising amount of opposition we're seeing in the mainstream press to Israel's narrative about the deadly explosion at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza this past Tuesday.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Mainstream Press Keep Slamming Israel's Hospital Bombing Story

It's a little bit bomby in Gaza today,
at least that's what the news men say.

Israel's victims were "murdered" and "killed"
and all mourn the innocent blood that was spilled,

but in Gaza explosives just fall from the air
and nobody mentions who launched them, from where.

They talk about "blasts" and how buildings were "hit".
Who blasted and hit them? Eh, who gives a shit.

It's a little bit bomby outside, that's the weather.
Put up your umbrellas, dudes. Get it together.

Reading by Tim Foley.

It's A Little Bit Bomby In Gaza Today

White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told the press on Tuesday that the continued killing of civilians in Israel's bombing campaign in Gaza "is going to happen".

Reading by Tim Foley.

White House Says Continued Civilian Slaughter "Is Going To Happen" In Gaza

They don't have truth on their side, and they don't have morality on their side, so all they can ever do is attack the sources of the ideas and information that are opening people's eyes to the criminality of Israel and its western allies.

Reading by Tim Foley.

All Israel Apologists Have Is Ad Hominem Attacks

It gets harder and harder for the imperial propagandists to frame empire-targeted powers like Hamas as evil villains who are simply evil because they are evil. As our society gains a better and better collective understanding of psychology and trauma and why individuals do what they do, fewer and fewer people are swallowing such infantile propagandistic frameworks. When something scary and traumatizing happens, more and more people are beginning to ask, "Why? Why did that happen? What were the antecedents which led those people to do what they did?"

When people start asking such questions, answers are revealed which are very inconvenient for the information interests of the western empire. Oh it turns out Israel is an abusive apartheid state and Gaza is a giant concentration camp where Palestinians are deprived of basic human needs. Oh it turns out NATO was amassing war machinery near Russia's border in ways the United States would never in a million years permit near its own borders. Oh it turns out western powers were funneling weapons to murderous extremist groups in Syria with the goal of ousting Assad and installing a puppet regime in Damascus.

More and more people understand that nobody is just plain evil because they are evil; if they're doing something violent and scary, it's a safe bet that something violent and scary was done to them, either immediately before or in their formative years. You see this expanding awareness manifest today in popular movies and shows with the rise of the anti-hero and complex villains with traumatic pasts that you can understand and sympathize with. Modern storytelling has largely abandoned the Virtuous Protagonist vs Villainous Antagonist model, simply because audiences are too conscious to buy it anymore. 

Reading by Tim Foley.

On Gaza And Human Consciousness

Israel has lost the argument. Permanently. There's no coming back from this.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Has Permanently Lost The Argument

It’s okay to admit you were wrong about this. It’s okay to change your mind.

It’s okay to admit you reacted inappropriately to the news of what happened on October 7 and advocated some Israeli responses that you should not have advocated.

It’s okay to admit that you were wrong to cheer when the bombs started landing on Gaza.

It’s okay to admit you were wrong about the longstanding debate over Palestinian rights.

It’s okay to admit that you shared some things online that you now regret sharing.

I say this because there are probably a lot of pro-Israel people looking at what’s happening in Gaza and starting to feel a bit dissonant about it. Like maybe they’re on the wrong side of this thing after all.

And I just want to reassure you that you can change your position on this. It’s perfectly fine and normal to do so.

Reading by Tim Foley.

It's Okay To Admit You Were Wrong About Gaza

In America they killed all the buffalo just to take away food from the natives,
made mountains of their skulls and posed proudly in photos
like they posed proudly in front of burnt bodies after lynchings in the south.

In Australia they stole the brown children and gave them to pale families
and watched their ancient civilization disappear into the toxic fumes of industry
like a sailboat into the mist.

In Israel teenagers play with buttons that cause explosions on screens
and look forward to the end of the Gaza operation
so they can leave and go play better video games.

In Gaza mothers clutch tattered pieces of flesh and clothing to their chests
and scream names that will never again be answered
and call out questions to the heavens that will also go unanswered.

And the ghosts of the buffalo roam through the ruins 
looking for their heads
while the people of Gaza comb through the rubble 
looking for their dead,
and the rest of us stare at screens and cry like babies
and ask our own unanswered questions 
of heavens clouded by the fumes of industry,
vanishing stars above a dying world
as the lights go out in Gaza
one by one.
_____________

Reading by Caitlin Johnstone.

As The Lights Go Out In Gaza

In other words, the White House is worried that a brief pause in the Israeli massacre of civilians in Gaza will allow journalists to report the truth about the Israeli massacre of civilians in Gaza, because it will hurt the information interests of the US and Israel. They are worried that the public will become more aware of facts and truth.

Reading by Tim Foley.

White House Fears Pause In Fighting Will Let Journalists See What's Been Happening In Gaza

Here are last WODS jingles of the 1990s, JAM Productions’ “Do It Again” package…..including a few for BOTH morning shows during the period. My WODS colleague and late production whiz Dick Durante kindly copied these for me in 1999.

WODS Boston - JAM "Do It Again" Jingles/Late 1990s

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

It's A Little Bit Bomby In Gaza Today

Caitlin Johnstone

Related tracks