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On Sunday, February 25, we received an email from a person who signed himself Aaron Bushnell.
Crimethinc. Ex-Workers Collective
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Millions of people are celebrating Aaron Bushnell as a hero for his protest outside of the Israeli embassy. His protest also reflects a growing crisis within the US military. BT's Kei Pritsker explains the military recruitment crisis and the potential mutiny within its ranks...
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The Australien Government has made an ad about its Whistleblower Protection Laws, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
The US military is presented as an institution that does protecting; defending; “saving.” But fundamentally, it is an institution of killing. Of mass killing. Throughout our country’s entire history there have been service members who could not grapple with that fact; who...
Mike Prysner
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Over the last five months, we've seen an unprecedented escalation in violence in Gaza. Most people I know feel like they're going crazy. We're all seeing the same footage, but no matter how angry we all get and how much we try to change public opinion, nothing seems to come...
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When you commit a crime so great that you will never recover from it yourself. - Owen Jones
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We are running out of time to stop this. - Owen Jones
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This is an outtake from the film The Village of Lovers about the radical research community of Tamera in Portugal. The speaker is peace worker Martin Winiecki.
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'There’s been no shortage of commentary in corporate media about pop superstar Taylor Swift helping to make this year’s Super Bowl the most-watched telecast in U.S. history.¹There’s been a lot less commentary about how Americans were fixated on football at precisely the same...
The future of this experiment is on the line as much of its civilian infrastructure has been destroyed since October.
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How does the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Germans teach us about what's happening in Palestine today?
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Across diverse landscapes of conflict and peace, a common thread unites them: the unwavering resolve to confront injustice. From the depths of their courage, they challenge the very essence of what it means to defy forces that seek to diminish the human spirit.
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Don't let them get away with it. - Owen Jones
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Netanyahu doesn't care about freeing the hostages. David Hearst is editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye.
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And how the world fell for it.
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Remember how Israel's claims that staff at UNRWA - Gaza's main humanitarian agency - were involved in 7th October attacks drove the ICJ ruling from the headlines, and led to Western countries cancelling funds? Those claims are falling apart. Journalists who've seen Israel's...
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A new devastating report - based on interviews with CNN journalists and staff and internal emails and memos - has exposed CNN's raging pro-Israeli bias. This matters - a lot. - Owen Jones
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The US is designating the Houthis as a terrorist group for what amounts to disrupting genocide. The Houthis have targeted ships headed to Israel, citing their obligations to the UN Genocide Convention. BT’s Kei Pritsker explains the hypocrisy behind the US decision and asks...
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"The Night Doctrine," ProPublica's first animated documentary, traces the story of Lynzy Billing, a young British journalist of Afghan-Pakistani origins who returns to Afghanistan to find out who killed her family 30 years earlier, only to stumble upon a secretive U.S.-backed...
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Novara Live broadcasts every weekday from 6PM on YouTube and Twitch.
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Thought the International Court of Justice ruling would force Israel to scale back its murderous onslaught? Think again. The opposite has happened.
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This talk by Chris Hedges was recorded by Skalli Events at The Islamic Society of Central New Jersey on January 18, 2024.
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It wasn't just the Israelis who peddled this lie - so did Western politicians and journalists. But Israeli intelligence has privately admitted the truth.
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The International Court of Justice rules 15-2 in favor of South Africa.
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Members of the Israeli far right have referred to Hamas as “an asset” and claimed that anyone who wants to stop a two state solution needs to support Hamas. In this video, we go over their strategy to divide and conquer the Palestinian people, keeping them physically and...
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Journalist Jeremy Loffredo reports from inside Israel, where the country's tiny minority of antiwar Jewish citizens face harsh repression, ugly social consequences, and even jail time for speaking out against the military campaign in Gaza. Loffredo interviews several Israeli...
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“The Gaza war is a total disaster for Israel” - David Hearst, editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye
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As uncomfortable as it may be to find flaws in your home country, wherever that may be, it's an important part of being an informed citizen. While it's good to call the US out on individual failures, it's becoming increasingly important to help people understand that the US...
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Legendary filmmaker, author and activist Peter Joseph joins Abby to discuss the Gaza genocide, as well as debunking liberal Zionism through the lens of Bill Maher.
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I've always wondered what it would've been like to be alive during the era of great, brave men like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Listening to Marc's speech, I was suddenly hit with realization that men and women like that exist in all ages and among all generations...
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Tal Mitnick is a courageous 18-year-old Israeli citizen who was jailed after refusing to serve in the army - in protest at the war on Gaza, and the oppression of the Palestinian people. Here he tells me absolutely shocking truths - but also explains why there is hope. - Owen...
In September 2001, in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks, people gathered by the thousands across the country of Iran in spontaneous demonstrations and candlelight vigils to show support for America in its hour of grief. At one football match in Tehran, sixty thousand...
Charles Eisenstein
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Could British ministers - and British civilians who fought with the Israeli Defence Forces - face prosecution for aiding and abetting Israel's war crimes? A new legal case has been launched - including a criminal complaint alleging UK government ministers' complicity in war...
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Criminalizing Dissent: The Attack on BDS & Pro-Palestinian Speech, a panel featuring Cornel West, Linda Sarsour, Shaun King, Omar Barghouti, Tim Wise, and Dima Khalidi, was held at the UMass-Amherst Fine Arts Center on Nov. 12, 2019 in front of a capacity crowd despite being...
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While those still cheering on the massacre of Gaza should be treated as morally depraved beyond reason, what of those still silent? No excuses anymore. It's time to shame these people - this is about life and death on a colossal scale. - Owen Jones
Sermon for MLK Day from All Souls UU Kansas City
Tai Amri Spann-Ryan
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"This is the true patriotism—no revenge wars and calls for extermination, no unnecessary bloodshed, and no sacrifice of kidnapped citizens and soldiers in false wars," said KM Ofer Cassif
Jon Queally
Over the past two-plus decades, the Media Education Foundation has produced and distributed documentary films, and organized a series of high-profile events and talks, to counter U.S. media narratives that have dehumanized the Palestinian people.
Media Education Foundation
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"Even if you've been closely following Israel's war crimes, South Africa's legal team provided overwhelming, utterly devastating evidence of genocide against the Palestinian people. I go through the key points and claims here - and why the Israeli state has no leg to stand...
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The Burden presents the determined voices of those within the military and across the political spectrum who advocate for breaking America’s addiction to fossil fuels as essential to improving our national security.
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Legendary scholar-activist Edward Said delivers a powerful lecture dismantling the persistent ideological belief that the world is riven by a clash of civilizations between the civilized and enlightened U.S.-led West and the barbaric and backward-looking totalitarian forces...
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An intimate look at life inside the Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
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In this 1998 film based on his paradigm-shifting book, Edward Said excavates and deconstructs deeply rooted Western perceptions of the Middle East as a mysterious land of exotics, villains, and terrorists, and argues that this caricatured cultural heritage continues to blind...
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I'm delighted to interview Ofer Cassif, an Israeli politician of the leftist Hadash party. He has signed a petition backing South Africa's genocide claim against Israel - and he explains why he's done so, the horrors currently enveloping Gaza, the attempt to silence him, the...
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From 7th October 2023, it's been clear that media coverage about Palestinians has been defined by racism: that their lives are considered to have little value. That's not simply an assertion. A detailed study has gone through the BBC's coverage in depth - and it has exposed...
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International law is officially dead.
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Tech leader Paul Biggar calls out the pro-Israel bias of the industry (and how wrong it feels to go about business as usual while our government is funding a genocide).
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South Africa has filed a case against Israel in the International Court of Justice, accusing it of genocide in Gaza. The 84 page document offers an absolutely terrifying and overwhelming case.
Israel will appear triumphant after it finishes its genocidal campaign in Gaza and the West Bank. But by the time Israel achieves its decimation of Gaza, it will have signed its own death sentence.
Chris Hedges
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In this illustrated 2017 talk, Rutgers University media scholar Deepa Kumar, one of America's foremost experts on Islamophobia, looks at how Arabs and Muslims have become the predominant face of terror in U.S. news and entertainment media -- even though terror attacks by...
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In this powerful 2013 documentary, award-winning filmmaker Abdallah Omeish chronicles the experiences of Al Jazeera's Cairo-born, Arab-American Ayman Mohyeldin and Arab-British Sherine Tadros as they report from Gaza City throughout the devastating assault. With...
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Many of you feel you have watched the horror of Israel's onslaught against Palestinians in Gaza and felt fury and grief - but helplessness. You may have participated in large demos, tweeted about it, peacefully occupied a train station, yelled at your computer screens and...
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Israel's Netanyahu and Turkey's Erdogan have engaged in a vicious war of words, each accusing the other of mass murder. They're both right about each other - they just don't have a moral leg to stand on. But this spat had an unfortunate consequence for Netanyahu - he just...
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“Jesus was always on the side of the oppressed”
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Hammam Farah is a Palestinian Christian based in Toronto - and right now, he faces unimaginable horrors. His family are sheltering in the besieged Holy Church in Gaza - and his relatives have been brutally killed by Israel's onslaught.
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"During the first six weeks of the war in Gaza, Israel routinely used one of its biggest and most destructive bombs in areas it designated safe for civilians, according to an analysis of video evidence by The New York Times."
This is a clip from our show SYSTEM UPDATE, now...
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In the Bible’s first semi-mythic story of what we now call the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Abraham dies decades after he has endangered the lives of his two sons, Ishmael and Isaac. His two sons come together to mourn and bury their dangerous father. As a result, Isaac goes...
Rabbi Arthur Waskow
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Daniel Levy is a former member of Israel's negotiating team, a Middle East analyst, and commentator - and here he uses his expertise to discuss a two state solution, apartheid, the current onslaught - and what the hell happens next.
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A conversation with Michal Halev, whose only son was murdered by Hamas on October 7. She tells the story of how she came to call for an end to vengeance.
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The video Piers Morgan & Ben Shapiro don’t want you to see.
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Human Rights Watch have just done an in-depth report about how Meta is censoring pro-Palestinian voices on Facebook and Instagram. Here I show that I've been 'shadowbanned' on Facebook - and why this is part of a general attempt to silence the few pro-Palestinian voices with...
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This is a clip from Glenn Greenwald's SYSTEM UPDATE, now airing every weeknight at 7pm ET on Rumble. You can watch the full episode for FREE here.
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Listen to this. They're not even pretending.
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Ariel Bernstein is a former IDF combat soldier who fought in Gaza in 2014. Now he campaigns for peace and against the occupation.
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Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza is being witnessed in real time, with Palestinian civilians broadcasting their own bombardment; Israeli soldiers streaming sadistic acts of humiliation - proof of an historic crime. The question Palestinians are asking - urgently - is whether...
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The One Speech The World Needs To Hear
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We discuss President Joe Biden's "full support for a scorched-earth campaign" in Gaza with The Intercept's Jeremy Scahill, who says the U.S. is providing "political cover and rushing weapons there and giving support to the most pernicious lies that Israel [is] telling."
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Jeremy Scahill is one of the top US investigative journalists - a founder of The Intercept and a bestselling author - and here he takes apart Israel's propaganda, the devastating US role in Gaza atrocities, and why Palestine's history matters.
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Yanis Varoufakis is one of the world’s most important thinkers. Here we discuss Gaza - including the question of genocide, the world order, history - and whether there is any hope at all.
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Best-selling author, foreign correspondent, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges addressed the Middle East crisis with a talk titled "The Genocide in Gaza" on December 6, 2023 at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in North Troy NY.
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Ofer Cassif is an Israeli Member of Parliament who has been fighting for peace and reconciliation with the Palestinians and their right to return to their homeland. He predicts that Israel is dooming itself not only by committing genocide against the Palestinians and shocking...
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"This is one of the most important revelations since the war began. Journalists at an Israeli-Palestinian media outlet have exposed claims that the Israeli military seeks to avoid civilian casualties - by interviewing those at the heart of the military intelligence...
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When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the brutal way Israel treats Palestinians, their lives take sharp left turns. They join a movement of young American Jews battling the old guard to redefine Judaism’s relationship with Israel...
Gaza was a free-fire zone on Saturday and Sunday, with UN officials saying that no place in the Strip is safe. Hundreds were killed, almost all of them innocent noncombatants, and including a worrisome number of children.
Although Israel tried to pull the stunt of issuing a...
Juan Cole
It will result in even higher levels of death and destruction.
Chris Hedges
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This year, there are at least 2,456 lobbyists at COP28, the U.N. climate summit in Dubai — nearly four times as many as last year — from companies like Shell, Total and ExxonMobil. The lobbyists outnumber the delegations of every country other than Brazil and the United Arab...
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We look at a new report that reveals how Israel is using artificial intelligence to draw up targets in its military assault of Gaza. The report's author, journalist Yuval Abraham, has found that the IDF's increasing use of AI is partly a response to previous operations in...
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Henry Kissinger is dead at the age of 100. The former U.S. statesman served as national security adviser and secretary of state at the height of the Cold War and wielded influence over U.S. foreign policy for decades afterward.
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Israel killed 21 members of Ahmed Alnaoulq's family. He doesn’t hold back.
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"Comparing a state or people with Nazi Germany has a powerful and compelling effect on many people. It achieves the goal of dehumanizing an entire civilian population."
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Politicians and corporate execs want to convince us that war creates jobs and economic stimulus for all. In reality, defense spending has become yet another way for wealth to transfer from the working class to the elites. And this one is getting people killed.
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Lowkey uncovers the powerful past of New York’s most famous racist ranter
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“This is what wars do. But here, we have gone beyond wars. This is not war. This is terrorism,” the Pope said.
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I was invited to watch a screening - organised by the IDF - of the Hamas atrocities committed on 7th October. Here's my response in detail.
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Semi-faux-viral story turns into viral story about the story, which turns into political lesson for the world we live in.
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This really does have to be seen to be believed.
I just heard someone say, “One war crime does not justify another.” My reflex as a peace advocate is to agree with that statement, but something gives me pause. It starts with a grammatical issue but it doesn’t end there.
Charles Eisenstein
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Noam Chomsky on How will Palestinians attain freedom? How will Palestinians achieve freedom from Israel? #noamchomsky
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Beirut-based journalist Rania Khalek, host at BreakThrough News, joins Abby to discuss the Gaza genoicde, the border war between Hezbollah and Israel, and the potential for a full-blown regional war.
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Avi Shlaim served in the IDF. Ghada Karmi fled the Nakba. Two exiles, one history
On 16 November 2023, The Elders delivered an open letter to the President of the United States, Joe Biden, on Israel and Palestine.
The Elders
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Abby Martin discusses how Palestinians are killed by the Israeli army regardless of whether they protest non-violently, recounting the non-violent Great March of Return protests that took place between 2018–2019, where over 223 Palestinians, including medics and journalists...
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Here is a message of peace from my friend Michal Halev, the mother of Laor Avramov who was murdered on October 7th, 2023. I share this with you and stand behind her:
Pro-war Israel supporters today are invoking the same logic Bin Laden used to justify the 9/11 attacks. This theory, which justifies the war crime of collective punishment, is morally bankrupt no matter who promotes it.