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"Fallon acts as the high priest of a terrified optimism, his rictus grin serving as a shield against the encroaching silence of the real. Here, in the sanitized, over-lit heart of the American culture industry, there is an inescapable horror. But it isn't a monster lurking in the shadows; it is the manic, unblinking insistence that actually, there are no shadows at all. If the Gothic tradition of fear teaches us that the ruins of the past haunt the present, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon offers the inverse: a present so forcefully flattened, so aggressively “fun,” that it has exorcised history entirely, leaving us trapped in a sterile, eternal loop of viral games and celebrity lip-syncing while the world slides into climate collapse and fascist politics."

...

"These games are not true “play” in the revolutionary sense of the word, wherein games are unscripted, free, and disruptive. Instead, they represent the total commodification of play. In a cultural landscape dominated by the attention economy and defined by precarious labor and existential dread, Fallon presents play not as an escape from work, but as an obligatory task that must be performed, a contractual obligation to a marketing team. He recently joined forces with the soulless monstrosity that is State Farm to shill their insurance, and in a great detail, their ad highlights that you don’t actually need to tell a joke for Jimmy to appear. You just need to say the word “joking” to summon him like a cheap simulacra of Bloody Mary or Candyman. Advertising Fallon is indistinguishable from him on the show—after all, he’s doing exactly the same thing."

...

"Fallon presides over his rituals of play like a vampire, feeding not on blood but on enthusiasm. He doesn’t really converse with any of his guests; they all know what they are there for. Rather, he extracts. He demands “relatability” from them, draining the authenticity from the interaction until only the husk of a “viral moment” remains. The horror lies in the repetition: the feigned shock, the hysterical laughter at unfunny mishaps, the relentless “Golden Retriever energy.”

It is a performance of joy so excessive, so desperate, that it reveals the void it attempts to cover. It is the logic of the assembly line applied to human connection. What Fallon offers is a standardized production of “fun” that feels increasingly like a desperate plea to ignore the crumbling world outside the studio walls.

The real, unsettling mechanism of Fallon’s banal horror is its insistence on a radical non-engagement with reality: a position that, in our current political climate, is itself an aggressively political act. Fallon doesn’t do politics, or if he does, he wants to “keep his head down” because “we hit both sides equally.” Tellingly, Donald Trump has called for the firing of almost all of the other late night hosts—Colbert, Kimmel, even Seth Meyers—but excluded Fallon from his hit-list, because Trump recognizes that there’s nothing about Fallon’s empty banality that could be anything close to a threat."

...

"The Tonight Show is built to liquify all phenomena into content. Trump, the political reactionary and demagogue, the harbinger of a crisis, was treated not as a threat to democracy or a figure of public concern, but just another wacky celebrity guest willing to play along. Fallon and his show are not horrifying because they are malevolent, actively creating suffering in the world, but because of a thoughtless, systematic refusal to perceive any of their work as having ethical consequences. Trump’s monstrosity becomes merely eccentric, as neoliberal media packaged as entertainment normalizes a failing status quo."

...

"The peak of this banal nightmare arrived only recently when Sam Altman, the serene architect of our contemporary algorithmic enclosure, sat across from Fallon to discuss the most intimate of human labors: the rearing of a child, and how he simply couldn’t imagine raising his newborn baby without the “help” of ChatGPT. With the flat, bloodless affect of a man who has already priced in the end of the world, Altman described using ChatGPT as a parental surrogate. Unlike with Hilton, here the audience is deathly quiet. As Altman offers up the future of his own offspring to the black box of his company’s large language model, Fallon’s grin never wavers. It is the ultimate Gothic inversion: the living child is transformed into a data set to be optimized, while the host performs a pantomime of joy to mask the sound of a tomb clicking shut."

...

"The horror of the Tonight Show is not found in any singular problem, but in the totality of its project: the systematic replacement of the real world with a brightly lit simulation of “niceness.” Fallon is the court jester of the Anthropocene, a figure who invites us to watch celebrities play parlor games on stage while the air outside the studio begins to smell of tear gas and smoke. In Fallon’s sterile loop of viral repetition comes the final victory of the commodity over human beings—a world where even our laughter is outsourced to the demands of the algorithm. You don’t even need jokes anymore. All you need is to say something that sounds like it could be a joke, and the hollow laughter will come. To watch Fallon is to stare at the face of a culture that has chosen the comfort of a rictus grin over the heavy, necessary terror of the truth. It serves as a grim warning: if we cannot reclaim our play, our politics, and our presence from this algorithmic void, we will be left with nothing but the echoes of a desk being slapped in an empty room, for an audience that has long since ceased to exist."]]></description>
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    <title>The Equator Podcast | &quot;The American university is simply a corporate institution&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2026-05-11T00:17:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/cd365742</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The American university today, the writer Siddhartha Deb tells Equator's Pankaj Mishra, is "a money-making, MBA- and lawyer-run hedge fund and real estate operation with a minor sideline in education." It's hard, he says, to tell the difference between "Columbia University and the New School on the one hand and X and Elon Musk on the other."

Siddhartha, an Indian writer and novelist, came to academia in the US in the belief that it was a citadel of free thought and open minds. But as he wrote in his Equator essay From Calcutta to Columbia, disenchantment set in quickly. He saw how students were loaded with debt, how his university was voraciously expanding across its pocket of Manhattan, and how the jargon of theory "allowed people to cultivate a moral distance from capital and empire".

Journalism has suffered in parallel as well, both in the US and India. Siddhartha, a former journalist, tells Pankaj that newspapers as much as universities have cravenly surrendered to the Trump administration and but also to previous presidents. "I grew up with this idea of writing being a noble vocation," says Pankaj. "One of the great disillusioning experiences really of the last two or three decades has been that very few people seem to think of it that way. Most people think of it  as a pathway to the most hideously conventional forms of success."

Read Siddhartha's essay for Equator, From Calcutta to Columbia: A memoir of disenchantment https://www.equator.org/articles/from-calcutta-to-columbia "

[also here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-american-university-is-simply-a-corporate-institution/id1886383434?i=1000766628988
https://open.spotify.com/show/3pS2rfsMQ3PoEfqWvSaBPG ]]]></description>
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    <title>Why Western Media Only Platforms Pro-Israel Iranians - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-24T06:42:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFCtqxOaTjs</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["How does Western media build public support for war on Iran? By platforming a narrow class of pro-Israel Iranian diaspora voices and silencing everyone else.

Iranian-American attorney Hoda Katebi breaks down how Reza Pahlavi — the son of Iran's deposed Shah — became the West's handpicked opposition figure, backed by Israeli state influencers, Saudi-funded outlets like Iran International, and bot armies manufacturing the illusion of popular support. She explains why the monarchists cheering from Los Angeles don't represent Iranians, why you can't bomb a country into democracy, and what a real path to freedom actually looks like.

Guest: Hoda Katebi — Iranian-American attorney, writer, and community organizer


Chapters:

0:00 Intro
2:21 The fractures inside the Iranian diaspora
9:15 A third path: no Shah, no bombs, no regime
17:18 How Western media manufactures consent on Iran
20:53 Opposing war is not supporting the Islamic Republic"]]></description>
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    <title>Why Apple’s move to video could endanger podcasting's greatest power - Anil Dash</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["TL;DR:

• Apple is adding support for video podcasts to their podcast app
• Podcasts are built on an open standard, which is why they aren’t controlled by a bad algorithm and don’t have ads that spy on you
• Apple’s new system for video podcasts breaks with the old podcast standard, and forces creators to host their video clips with a few selected companies
• The stakes are even higher because all the indie video infrastructure companies have been bought by private equity, while Trump’s goons go after TV and consolidate the big studios
• If Apple doesn’t open this up, it could lead to podcasts getting enshittified like all the other media

Podcasts are a radical gift

As I noted back in 2024, the common phrase “wherever you get your podcasts” masks a subtle point, which is that podcasts are built on an open technology — a design which has radical implications on today’s internet. This is the reason that the podcasts most people consume aren’t skewed by creators chasing an algorithm that dictates what content they should create, aren’t full of surveillance-based advertising, and aren’t locked down to one app or platform that traps both creators and their audience within the walled garden of a single giant tech company.

Many of those merits of the contemporary podcast ecosystem are possible because of choices Apple made almost two decades ago when they embraced open standards in iTunes when adding podcasting features. Their outsized market influence (the term “podcast” itself came from the name iPod) pushed everyone else in the ecosystem to follow their lead, and as a result, we have a major media format that isn’t as poisoned, in some ways, as the rest of social media or even mainstream media.

Sure, there are individual podcast creators one might object to, but notice how you don’t see bad actors like FCC chairman Brendan Carr illegally throwing his weight around to try to censor and persecute podcasters in the same way that he’s been silencing television broadcasters, and you don’t see MAGA legislators trying to game the refs about the algorithm the way they have with Facebook and Twitter. Even the Elon Musks of the world can’t just buy up the whole world of podcasting like he was able to with Twitter, because the ecosystem is decentralized and not controlled by any one player. This is how the Internet was supposed to work. As early Internet advocates were fond of saying, the architecture of the Internet was designed to see censorship as damage, and route around it.
The move to video

All of this is at much higher risk now due to the technical decisions Apple has made with its move to support video podcasts in its latest software versions that are about to launch. The motivations for their move are obvious: in recent years, many podcasters have moved to embrace new platforms to increase their distribution, reach, engagement and sponsorship dollars, and that has driven them to add video, which has meant moving to YouTube, and more recently, platforms like Netflix. That is also typically accompanied by putting out promotional clips of the video portion of the podcast on platforms like TikTok and Instagram. Combined with Spotify’s acquisition of multiple studios in order to produce proprietary shows that are not podcasts, but exclusive content locked into their apps, and Apple has faced a significant number of threats to their once-dominant position in the space.

So it was inevitable that Apple would add video support to their podcasting apps. And it makes sense for Apple to update the technical underpinnings; the assumptions that were made when designing podcasts over two decades ago aren’t really appropriate for many contemporary uses. For example, back then, by default an entire podcast episode would be downloaded to your iPod for convenient listening on the go, just like songs in your music library. But downloading a giant 4K video clip of an hour-long podcast show that you might not even watch, just in case you might want to see it, would be a huge waste of resources and bandwidth. Modern users are used to streaming everything. Thus, Apple updated their apps to support just grabbing snippets of video as they’re needed, and to their credit, Apple is embracing an open video format when doing so, instead of some proprietary system that requires podcasters to pay a fee or get permission.

The problem, though, is that Apple is only allowing these new video streams to be served by a small number of pre-approved commercial providers that they’ve hand-selected. In the podcasting world, there are no gatekeepers; if I want to start a podcast today, I can publish a podcast feed here on anildash.com and put up some MP3s with my episodes, and anyone anywhere in the world can subscribe to that podcast, I don’t have to ask anyone’s permission, tell anyone about it, or agree to anyone’s terms of service.

If I want to publish a video podcast to Apple’s new system, though, I can’t just put up a video file on my site and tell people to subscribe to my podcast. I have to sign up for one of the approved partner services, agree to their terms of service, pay their monthly fee, watch them get acquired by Facebook, wait for the stupid corporate battle between Facebook and Apple, endure the service being enshittified, have them put their thumb on the scale about which content they want to promote, deal with my subscribers being spied on when they watch my show, see Brendan Carr make up a pretense to attack the platform I’m on, watch the service use my show to cross-promote violent attacks on vulnerable people, and the entire rest of that broken tech/content culture cycle.

We don’t have to do this, Apple!

How this plays out

What will happen, by default, if Apple doesn’t change course and add support for open video hosting for podcasts is a land grab for control of the infrastructure of the new, closed video podcast technology platform. Some of the bidders may be players that want to own podcasting (Spotify, Netflix, maybe legacy media companies like Disney and Paramount), or a roll-up from a cloud provider like AWS or Google Cloud. Either way, the services will get way more expensive for creators, and far more conservative about what content they allow, while being far more consumer-hostile in terms of privacy and monetization. We’ve seen this play out already — video shows on YouTube give advertisers massive amounts of data about viewers, while podcasts can be delivered to an audience while almost totally preserving their privacy, if a creator wants to help them preserve their anonymity. The reason you see podcasters always talking about “use our promo code” in their sponsor reads is because advertisers can’t track you going from their show to their website.

This will also start to impact content. You don’t hear podcasters saying “unalive” or censoring normal words because there is no algorithm that skews the distribution of their content. The promotional graphics for their shows are often downright boring, and don’t feature the hosts making weird faces like on YouTube thumbnails, because they haven’t been optimized to within an inch of their lives in hopes of getting 12-year-olds to click on them instead of Mr. Beast — because they’re not trying to chase algorithmic amplification. The closest thing that podcasters have to those kinds of games is when they ask you to rate them in Apple’s Podcasts app, because that has an algorithm for making recommendations, but even that is mediated by real humans making actual choices.

But once we’ve got a layer of paid intermediaries distributing video content, and Apple leans more heavily into the visual aspects of their podcast app, incentives are going to start to shift rapidly. Today, other than on laptops, phones and tablets, Apple Podcasts app only exists on their Apple TV hardware, and doesn’t even have a video playback feature. By contrast, a lot of video podcast consumption happens in YouTube’s TV apps in the living room. Apple Podcasts will soon have to be on every set top device like Roku sticks and Amazon Fire TVs and Google’s Chromecasts, as well as on smart TVs like Samsungs and LGs, with a robust video playback feature that can compete with YouTube’s own capabilities. Once that’s happened — which will take at least a year, if not multiple years — creators will immediately begin jockeying for ways to get promoted or amplified within that ecosystem. Even if Apple has allowed independent publishers to make their own video podcast feeds, it’s easy to imagine them treating them as second-class citizens when distributing those podcasts to all of the Apple Podcast users across all of these platforms.

The stakes for all of this are even higher because nearly all of the independent online platforms for video creation outside of YouTube have been bought up by a single private equity firm. In short: even if you don’t know it, if you’re trying to do video off of YouTube, all of your eggs are in one, very precarious, basket.
What to do

Apple can mitigate the risks of closing up podcasts by moving as quickly as possible to reassure the entire podcasting ecosystem that they’ll allow creators to use any source for hosting video. Right now, there’s a “fallback” video system where creators can deliver video through the traditional podcast standard, and other podcasting apps will show that video to audiences, but Apple’s apps don’t recognize it. If Apple said they’d support that specification as a second option for those who don’t want to, or can’t, use their video hosting partners, that would go a huge way towards mitigating the ecosystem risk that they’re introducing with this new shift.

If Apple can engage with a wide swath of creators and understand the concerns that are bubbling up, and articulate that they’re aware of the real, significant risks that can arise from the path that they’re currently on, they still have a chance to course-correct.

Some of these decisions can seem like arcane technical discussions. It’s easy to roll your eyes when people talk about specifications and formats and the minutiae of what happens behind the scenes when we click on a link. But the history of the Internet has shown us that, sometimes, even some of what seem like the most inconsequential choices end up leading to massive shifts in a larger ecosystem, or even in culture overall.

A generation ago, a few people at Apple made a choice to embrace an open ecosystem that was in its infancy, and in so doing, they enabled an entire culture of creators to flourish for decades. Podcasting is perhaps the last major media format that is open, free, and not easily able to be captured by authoritarians. The stakes couldn’t be higher. All it takes now is a few decision makers pushing to do the right thing, not just the easy thing, to protect an entire vital medium."]]></description>
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    <title>ck and the shiny happy people myth | penny for your thoughts ep.15 - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-01T06:40:01+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["a light work follow up video for the eminem video to get back into the swing of things. missed yall. Lots of new people, welcome to the tragic optimist's club.

I'm Dasia, rhymes with Asia and we actually talk alot less about Kirk in this video and much more about the shiny happy people myth, the groundwork is being laid for the most under discussed weapon of mass destruction in the American propaganda toolbox: white male radicalization. Left unexamined, it will make life much harder for everyone in it's path. 
Keep your eyes on the south because it's leading the way. 

For the uninitiated: the shiny, happy people myth is the collective performance of having
 ✨no problems✨  white american culture maintains a public image of moral superiority, patriotism, and family values while actively living against those values in many cases and refusing to acknowledge or address the very real crises happening within its own communities. 
The myth requires everyone to "take their joy" and keep smiling, 
and anyone who names the reality gets punished for it.

Penny for your thoughts on the shiny happy people myth.


See you in the next one.

🎙️ Penny for Your Thoughts is a (semi) weekly (ish😬👉🏾👈🏾) voice note to the community, it's my spot for mini deep dives on politics, media, labor, culture, and the stories we’re told.

💬 What’s your thought? Drop your reflections in the comments or send it in: worthapenny@altmail.kr

for the readers/sourced:
Disciples of White Jesus: The Radicalization of American Boyhood by Angela Denker 
Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era by Michael Kimmel 
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew
Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right by Cynthia Miller-Idriss 
Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate by Alexandra Minna Stern 
Why Young Men: The Dangerous Allure of Violent Movements by Jamil Jivani 
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl

vid credits:
https://tinyurl.com/2crj59at"]]></description>
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    <title>Resistance101: Forging a New Movement for Palestine in Italy DOCUMENTARY - YouTube</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["With little hope of the genocide in Gaza subsiding, dock workers in major Italian port cities have organized strikes and large demonstrations to halt arms shipments to Israel. These actions are a direct response to the refusal of international institutions and governments around the world to confront the carnage. Though the genocide continues, the dockworkers’ industrial disruption offer us a model of resistance. Will the Italian way spread to the imperial core — and can it end the genocide?"]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2026-02-14T23:03:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgm8L9t0s2M</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Epstein files exposed sex crimes and elite networks. Yet much of the Western spotlight turned to Russia, while documented ties to Israeli officials, military-linked groups and political figures drew far less sustained scrutiny. This is about framing, consistency and media narratives."]]></description>
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    <title>The ‘ceasefire’ myth: Israel’s impunity in Gaza | The Listening Post - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-08T04:47:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnjfN5HBuMU</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["More than 500 Palestinians have been killed since a US-brokered "ceasefire" was signed, which begs the question: Should journalists, in contextualising the story, really be calling this a “ceasefire”? As Israel signals it’s preparing to resume full-scale war, we examine how media silence, selective framing and restricted access help keep Gaza off the world’s screens.

Featuring:

Shaiel Ben-Ephraim - Senior analyst, Atlas Global Strategies
Diana Buttu - Palestinian lawyer
Muhammad Shehada - Visiting fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations
Daniel Levy - President, U.S./Middle East Project"]]></description>
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    <title>From Jabotinsky to Epstein: Zionism and the Cult of Cruelty | Palestine This Week with Mouin Rabbani - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-03T21:50:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEcjtGcRudg</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Israel now admits Gaza’s death toll—but only after years of denial. Mouin Rabbani joins to explore what this shift means, and how media and political elites helped enable genocide. We look at US complicity, the BBC’s Gaza coverage collapse, and the ideology of Jewish supremacy inside Israel’s government. Plus: the Epstein files, vice as political currency, and Arab states scrambling to prevent war with Iran.
 
00:00 Introduction & Overview
02:30 Why has Israel now accepted Gaza’s death toll after years of denial?
14:46 Has the media become Israel’s ‘getaway car’ in genocide?
21:28 Did US envoys help suppress warnings of Gaza becoming an 'apocalyptic wasteland'?
26:37 Is Jewish supremacy ideology now mainstream in Israeli politics?
30:04 What does Mike Huckabee’s tribute to Ze’ev Jabotinsky reveal about Israel’s historical trajectory?
34:42 Is virtue signalling being replaced by vice signalling in Western politics?
40:15 Why is the global far right flocking to Jerusalem and promoting the ‘great replacement’ myth?
42:18 Do the Epstein files point to Mossad ties and deeper political compromise?
51:27 Are Arab states trying to prevent a catastrophic US-Israel war on Iran?"]]></description>
<dc:subject>israel zionism histotry mouinrabbani palestine cruelty ze'evjabotinsky mikehuckabee jeffreyepstein genocide ethniccleansing media gaza torture jerusalem policy us iran mossad politics mainstreammedia jewishsupremacy supremacy government apartheid epsteinfiles</dc:subject>
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    <title>You are being misled about renewable energy technology. - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-03T21:30:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Let's learn and grow. New things are cool!
Links 'n' stuff down below. Lots of links.

First, the "clean version." Please pass that around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgxb8I1nk2I

Jerry Rig Everything's video on battery recycling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2xrarUWVRQ

If you'd like a legal argument from an actual lawyer which highlights the uniquely strange and unchecked powers we have given DHS and ICE, this is worth a watch. I am not being hyperbolic in saying that this is a serious problem we need to face head on through abolishment, not reform.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkgNnbTrsgw
 
Here are a couple of corn ethanol vs. solar land use studies. There are more if you'd like to look for them.
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/04/trading-some-corn-ethanol-land-solar-offers-tremendous-opportunity
https://www.cleanwisconsin.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Corn-Ethanol-Vs.-Solar-Analysis-V3-9-compressed.pdf

I'm not gonna post links to my socials or my Patreon here.

Take care of each other.

00:00 Intro
07:35 Some opening notes
10:14 Cars and all the oil they use
15:38 Photovoltaics and electric cars
18:59 A cost and opportunity comparison
22:33 Solar farms
30:35 A discussion of land use
38:29 A diversion on wind power
41:17 The materials in solar panels
50:52 What about the batteries?
1:02:41 The reasons I made this video
1:10:16 The reason I am who I am
1:16:35 Who the liars are and what we need to do about them."]]></description>
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    <title>From George Floyd to Alex Pretti: “Copaganda” Author on Myths About Immigration, Crime &amp; Policing | Democracy Now!</title>
    <dc:date>2026-01-27T17:05:52+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["As calls grow to defund and abolish ICE, author Alec Karakatsanis warns that activists should take care to not fall for “copaganda,” which “takes ordinary people who are outraged over what’s happening and converts them into supporting meaningless reforms that actually don’t reduce the size or power or budget of these bureaucracies.” Karakatsanis is the author of Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News. He breaks down many of the myths about crime and policing that arose in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests over the past decade, including the reformist myth of police body cameras and the so-called crime wave. Police-tracked crime, “contrary to what you have been told in the news every single day for the last several years, is actually down,” says Karakatsanis, but fearmongering mainstream media narratives are “designed to make people so afraid that they support repressive institutions that infringe on their own liberty, that don’t make them safer, but that give people in power in our society more ability to control and manipulate.”"

[video on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSGMmfuUfo8 ]]]></description>
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    <title>The New Satanic Panic Is Here - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2026-01-24T17:16:13+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[See also:
https://www.usermag.co/p/the-new-satanic-panic-is-here ]

"Are Smartphones & Social Media Really Causing a Teen Mental Health Crisis?

Are smartphones and social media actually destroying teen mental health, or is this just another moral panic? I critically examine the growing narrative that phones, apps, and screen time are responsible for rising anxiety, depression, and harm among teenagers. 
 
These claims, popularized by politicians, journalists, interest groups like the Heritage Foundation, and authors like Jonathan Haidt (The Anxious Generation), are being used to justify mass surveillance laws, deplatforming marginalized people, and implementing policies that actually harm kids and reward big tech. 
 
They allow lawmakers to scapegoat users, and institute draconian surveillance laws instead of enacting meaningful regulation. Haidt and others boosting this moral panic have pushed debunked claims about how social media can turn kids LGBTQ. Haidt has pushed false and misogynistic claims that young liberal women suffer from more "anxiety." He is on the board of Bari Weiss' unaccredited reactionary right wing University. 

Using peer-reviewed studies, media analysis, and real-world examples, this episode breaks down:

- Why smartphones became the default scapegoat for teen mental health
- How correlation is repeatedly confused with causation
- Ho weak and misleading data is driving major public policy decisions
- How moral panics spread through podcasts, news media, and social platforms
- Who is actually harmed by phone bans and social media crackdowns
- Why girls, LGBTQ youth, and marginalized teens are the most harmed

I also explore how internet scares like the Momo Challenge illustrate the dangers of fear-based policy making, and why banning technology doesn’t solve any of the root issues of kids' mental health issues like social isolation, economic stress, lack of mental health care, and inequality.

If you’re interested in:

- Teen mental health
- Social media & smartphones
- Internet culture and moral panics
- Education policy and school phone bans
- Digital rights and youth safety

this video will challenge what you’ve been told by the mainstream media, but please keep an open mind!"]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2026-01-04T07:12:10+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["One way that Silicon Valley and the Communist Party resemble each other is that both are serious, self-serious, and indeed, completely humorless.

If the Bay Area once had an impish side, it has gone the way of most hardware tinkerers and hippie communes. Which of the tech titans are funny? In public, they tend to speak in one of two registers. The first is the blandly corporate tone we’ve come to expect when we see them dragged before Congressional hearings or fireside chats. The second leans philosophical, as they compose their features into the sort of reverie appropriate for issuing apocalyptic prophecies on AI. Sam Altman once combined both registers at a tech conference when he said: “I think that AI will probably, most likely, sort of lead to the end of the world. But in the meantime, there will be great companies created with serious machine learning.” Actually that was pretty funny.

It wouldn’t be news to the Central Committee that only the paranoid survive. The Communist Party speaks in the same two registers as the tech titans. The po-faced men on the Politburo tend to make extraordinarily bland speeches, laced occasionally with a murderous warning against those who cross the party’s interests. How funny is the big guy? We can take a look at an official list of Xi Jinping’s jokes, helpfully published by party propagandists. These wisecracks include the following: “On an inspection tour to Jiangsu, Xi quipped that the true measure of water cleanliness is whether the mayor would dare to swim in the water.” Or try this reminiscence that Xi offered on bad air quality: “The PM2.5 back then was even worse than it is now; I used to joke that it was PM250.” Yes, such a humorous fellow is the general secretary.

It’s nearly as dangerous to tweet a joke about a top VC as it is to make a joke about a member of the Central Committee. People who are dead serious tend not to embody sparkling irony. Yet the Communist Party and Silicon Valley are two of the most powerful forces shaping our world today. Their initiatives increase their own centrality while weakening the agency of whole nation states. Perhaps they are successful because they are remorseless.

Earlier this year, I moved from Yale to Stanford. The sun and the dynamism of the west coast have drawn me back. I found a Bay Area that has grown a lot weirder since I lived there a decade ago. In 2015, people were mostly working on consumer apps, cryptocurrencies, and some business software. Though it felt exciting, it looks in retrospect like a more innocent, even a more sedate, time. Today, AI dictates everything in San Francisco while the tech scene plays a much larger political role in the United States. I can’t get over how strange it all feels. In the midst of California’s natural beauty, nerds are trying to build God in a Box; meanwhile, Peter Thiel hovers in the background presenting lectures on the nature of the Antichrist. This eldritch setting feels more appropriate for a Gothic horror novel than for real life.

Before anyone gets the wrong idea, I want to say that I am rooting for San Francisco. It’s tempting to gawk at the craziness of the culture, as much of the east coast media tends to do. Yes, one can quickly find people who speak with the conviction of a cultist; no, I will not inject the peptides proffered by strangers. But there’s more to the Bay Area than unusual health practices. It is, after all, a place that creates not only new products, but also new modes of living. I’m struck that some east coast folks insist to me that driverless cars can’t work and won’t be accepted, even as these vehicles populate the streets of the Bay Area. Coverage of Silicon Valley increasingly reminds me of coverage of China, where a legacy media reporter might parachute in, write a dispatch on something that looks deranged, and leave without moving past caricature.

I enjoy San Francisco more than when I was younger because I now better appreciate what makes it work. I believe that Silicon Valley possesses plenty of virtues. To start, it is the most meritocratic part of America. Tech is so open towards immigrants that it has driven populists into a froth of rage. It remains male-heavy and practices plenty of gatekeeping. But San Francisco better embodies an ethos of openness relative to the rest of the country. Industries on the east coast — finance, media, universities, policy — tend to more carefully weigh name and pedigree. Young scientists aren’t told they ought to keep their innovations incremental and their attitude to hierarchy duly deferential, as they might hear in Boston. A smart young person could achieve much more over a few years in SF than in DC. People aren’t reminiscing over some lost golden age that took place decades ago, as New Yorkers in media might do. 

San Francisco is forward looking and eager to try new ideas. Without this curiosity, it wouldn’t be able to create whole new product categories: iPhones, social media, large language models, and all sorts of digital services. For the most part, it’s positive that tech values speed: quick product cycles, quick replies to email. Past success creates an expectation that the next technological wave will be even more exciting. It’s good to keep building the future, though it’s sometimes absurd to hear someone pivot, mid-breath, from declaring that salvation lies in the blockchain to announcing that AI will solve everything.

People like to make fun of San Francisco for not drinking; well, that works pretty well for me. I enjoy board games and appreciate that it’s easier to find other players. I like SF house parties, where people take off their shoes at the entrance and enter a space in which speech can be heard over music, which feels so much more civilized than descending into a loud bar in New York. It’s easy to fall into a nerdy conversation almost immediately with someone young and earnest. The Bay Area has converged on Asian-American modes of socializing (though it lacks the emphasis on food). I find it charming that a San Francisco home that is poorly furnished and strewn with pizza boxes could be owned by a billionaire who can’t get around to setting up a bed for his mattress. 

There’s still no better place for a smart, young person to go in the world than Silicon Valley. It adores the youth, especially those with technical skill and the ability to grind. Venture capitalists are chasing younger and younger founders: the median age of the latest Y Combinator cohort is only 24, down from 30 just three years ago. My favorite part of Silicon Valley is the cultivation of community. Tech founders are a close-knit group, always offering help to each other, but they circulate actively amidst the broader community too. (The finance industry in New York by contrast practices far greater secrecy.) Tech has organizations I think of as internal civic institutions that try to build community. They bring people together in San Francisco or retreats north of the city, bringing together young people to learn from older folks.

Silicon Valley also embodies a cultural tension. It is playing with new ideas while being open to newcomers; at the same time, it is a self-absorbed place that doesn’t think so much about the broader world. Young people who move to San Francisco already tend to be very online. They know what they’re signing up for. If they don’t fit in after a few years, they probably won’t stick around. San Francisco is a city that absorbs a lot of people with similar ethics, which reinforces its existing strengths and weaknesses.

Narrowness of mind is something that makes me uneasy about the tech world. Effective altruists, for example, began with sound ideas like concern for animal welfare as well as cost-benefit analyses for charitable giving. But these solid premises have launched some of its members towards intellectual worlds very distant from moral intuitions that most people hold; they’ve also sent a few into jail. The well-rounded type might struggle to stand out relative to people who are exceptionally talented in a technical domain. Hedge fund managers have views about the price of oil, interest rates, a reliably obscure historical episode, and a thousand other things. Tech titans more obsessively pursue a few ideas — as Elon Musk has on electric vehicles and space launches — rather than developing a robust model of the world.

So the 20-year-olds who accompanied Mr. Musk into the Department of Government Efficiency did not, I would say, distinguish themselves with their judiciousness. The Bay Area has all sorts of autistic tendencies. Though Silicon Valley values the ability to move fast, the rest of society has paid more attention to instances in which tech wants to break things. It is not surprising that hardcore contingents on both the left and the right have developed hostility to most everything that emerges from Silicon Valley. 

There’s a general lack of cultural awareness in the Bay Area. It’s easy to hear at these parties that a person’s favorite nonfiction book is Seeing Like a State while their aspirationally favorite novel is Middlemarch. Silicon Valley often speaks in strange tongues, starting podcasts and shows that are popular within the tech world but do not travel far beyond the Bay Area. Though San Francisco has produced so much wealth, it is a relative underperformer in the national culture. Indie movie theaters keep closing down while all sorts of retail and art institutions suffer from the crumminess of downtown. The symphony and the opera keep cutting back on performances — after Esa-Pekka Salonen quit the directorship of the symphony, it hasn’t been able to name a successor. Wealthy folks in New York and LA have, for generations, pumped money into civic institutions. Tech elites mostly scorn traditional cultural venues and prefer to fund the next wave of technology instead.

One of the things I like about the finance industry is that it might be better at encouraging diverse opinions. Portfolio managers want to be right on average, but everyone is wrong three times a day before breakfast. So they relentlessly seek new information sources; consensus is rare, since there are always contrarians betting against the rest of the market. Tech cares less for dissent. Its movements are more herdlike, in which companies and startups chase one big technology at a time. Startups don’t need dissent; they want workers who can grind until the network effects kick in. VCs don’t like dissent, showing again and again that many have thin skins. That contributes to a culture I think of as Silicon Valley’s soft Leninism. When political winds shift, most people fall in line, most prominently this year as many tech voices embraced the right. 

The two most insular cities I’ve lived in are San Francisco and Beijing. They are places where people are willing to risk apocalypse every day in order to reach utopia. Though Beijing is open only to a narrow slice of newcomers — the young, smart, and Han — its elites must think about the rest of the country and the rest of the world. San Francisco is more open, but when people move there, they stop thinking about the world at large. Tech folks may be the worst-traveled segment of American elites. People stop themselves from leaving in part because they can correctly claim to live in one of the most naturally beautiful corners of the world, in part because they feel they should not tear themselves away from inventing the future. More than any other topic, I’m bewildered by the way that Silicon Valley talks about AI."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The military-industrial-complex has grown into a monster so powerful that even its earliest critics likely never foresaw its evolution. In the age of Big Tech's rising power, can anything stop it?"

...

"The military-industrial-complex (MIC) is unique in its ability to pull untold flows of tax revenue into “defensive” infrastructure that benefits no one other than the private sector manufacturing and investing in it. The machine, which perpetuates itself through an incestuous milieu that lobbies for war and defense spending, wages psychological warfare on citizens and engages in corrupt backroom deals, has risen to once unthinkable heights of influence and power since Dwight D. Eisenhower first warned Americans of its growing presence in 1961.

Political scientist William D. Hartung joins this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to discuss his and Ben Freeman’s new book, The Trillion Dollar War Machine, which contextualizes the growth of the MIC behind the backdrop of Silicon Valley’s increasing radicalism and integration into American military infrastructure, as well as the Trump administration’s chaotic and unabashed foreign policy.

These tech elites push for automated warfare, domestic surveillance, and the full diffusion of any line still separating the corporate and public sectors. In essence, they symbolize how significantly Western capital has grown since Eisenhower’s warning — bolstering a corporate state bent on maximizing profit through warfare and manufacturing reliance on its often faulty products both in the public and private sector.

Empowered by the Trump administration, the trillion dollar war machine only looks to grow — and Hartung says that it will harm the entire nation in its endless quest for domination."

[direct link to video:
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    <title>The News: Fool Me All the Time? I Must Be an Editor of the New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2025-12-25T17:03:23+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the waning years of apartheid, the New York Times bureau chief in Johannesburg was Christopher Wren. His coverage used to drive me nuts, because Wren always worked from the premise that what the government said was the starting point for the news, even if it was the apartheid government, a government that had a singular ideological perspective that it dogmatically enforced at all times. That wasn’t just a in-public commitment, either. In the last decade, I’ve been working on the Cold War era in sub-Saharan Africa primarily through American and UK archives and whether I’m reading in the mid-1950s all the way into the 1980s, I come across American and British officials, many of them politically conservative and fairly racist in their own right, expressing exasperation to one another over the delusional stridency of government officials from Pretoria in any meeting or conference they were included in. In Wren’s reportage, this meant that anything that people from the ANC, UDF, or other opposition group said about events in South Africa was treated as the biased opinion of people who had a reason to bend the truth and anything the government said at least started as factual. In either case, Wren might accept that his reportage had an investigative responsibility, but it went in different directions. To move from the government’s truth took investigative work to prove it false; to move from the opposition’s truth took investigative work to prove that it had some degree of accuracy.

I happened to be in the audience at an event where Wren spoke about his career after retirement. I took the opportunity to ask him why he had shaped his reporting in that way, given that after the end of apartheid, much of what he took to be rumor or ideologically-motivated claims about government-coordinated violence and apartheid propaganda were verified, and the depths of apartheid malfeasance, even with the destruction of many official records in the early 1990s, was revealed. I think the question confused him. I don’t think I was confusing in how I asked it. Inasmuch as he had an answer, it was that this is how reporting, especially foreign correspondence, worked. Governments had to be the starting place. A reporter, especially from somewhere else, couldn’t be expected to have a situational and local understanding of who to trust and who not to trust.

With many American dailies in the last half of the 20th Century, it wasn’t quite that straightforward. The Cold War provided one kind of structuring principle. Communist governments were presumed by reporters to be engaged in deception, Western governments were not. (Even though a fair number of American and European journalists were fully aware that the UK, US and French governments had sustained projects aimed at creating disinformation about their perceived adversaries.) Often this extended to the Global South: postcolonial governments were also assumed to be at the least unreliable in the information they provided, and this was a view that extended to individuals—often on the belief that both officials and ordinary people were simply not competent curators of information nor responsible witnesses to events.

This is a foundational perspective that remains in place in the mainstream legacy media in the United States. I’ve come to the conclusion that one reason the New York Times in particular is proving to be so accommodating to Trumpism is not any affection for Trump himself but that the upper editorial staff were feeling increasingly disoriented and frightened by pressures to change these kinds of deep assumptions—that they increasingly felt that an initiative like the 1619 Project had been an alien and unwanted intrusion into the correct way to see the world.

There have been other moments of similar disorientation in the history of mainstream American media. The struggle over whether to print the Pentagon Papers, whether to report on the COINTELPRO revelations, or whether to continue to investigate Watergate was not just about fear of legal and political retaliation, it was that all these stories made the world topsy-turvy. The government’s information was full of lies; the whistle-blowers and the leftist activists were the only place to get something like the truth. Later on, when Raymond Bonner and Alma Guillermoprieto reported in 1982 for the New York Times and Washington Post respectively that the Reagan-supported government in El Salvador had massacred over 800 villagers in El Mozote, both reporters were criticized not just by the American government but by some journalists for putting what ordinary people and the guerillas opposing the government said about what had happened ahead of official accounts. The editor at the NYT, Abe Rosenthal, was notorious for his intense anti-Communism, and eventually pulled Bonner from the assignment. And of course the American press, including Bill Keller of the New York Times, were notoriously devoted to reproducing what the US government said about the post 9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as truth until long after it became clear just how much was being concealed from the public—and once again, this involved a very deliberate ordering of truth that saw all criticism as fundamentally ideological, motivated and biased, whereas government-provided information started as default truth and had to be proven to be false or inaccurate before reporters could begin to deviate from its account of events.

I don’t think this is just the ideological bent of reporters and editors, Abe Rosenthal’s anti-Communism or Bill Keller’s liberal-hawk desire to demonstrate his patriotism notwithstanding. Mainstream journalists are here just a peninsula of a vast mainland that also counts among its inhabitants historians. No matter how determined I might be to read against the grain and render history “from below”, the fact is that as a historian of the 19th and 20th Centuries, most of my work rests on the vast torrents of information produced by governments, both for their publics and for themselves. Even the archives that trace their origin back to civil society live in the shadow of information flowing from and to governments. The professionalization of expertise in the 20th Century has almost always involved some form of quasi-statutory blessing by governments: a license, a credential, a testing process, the provision of data about expert or regulatory activity. (This is why it is so notable when a particular branch of government or a particular group of experts aggressively exempt themselves from requirements to produce official, authenticated data about their activities—say, in the resistance of U.S. police forces to tracking their discharge of weapons while on the job.)

Over time, however, most people whose jobs center on producing information and knowledge have learned how to keep their distance from and lessen their dependence on government-provisioned information—to think more critically about how archives came to be, how data is created and stored, how the world looks from inside of official power, to understand how classification regimes shape what circulates and what remains hidden.

Mainstream American journalists, on the other hand, are if anything worse at this aspect of their jobs at the present moment than at any time after the Pandora’s Box of Watergate was fully opened. That epiphany swung both ways for journalists in the 1980s and 1990s. It made many of them face just how much they’d facilitated substantive and consequential lies by political leaders in the past, not so much to cultivate their sources but just because that’s what you did if you were one of the boys. It made many of them recognize that starting from a default position that the government provided the truth you had to dig into was naive. Despite the reversion to form after 9/11, the profession seemed like it might be headed to the position that truth might start anywhere, that you really didn’t know what version of truth to stand behind until you dug into it with as few priors as possible.

Now, on the other hand, we’re faced with a mainstream press that gets lied to as a routine matter in the most unpracticed and amateurish ways, but that still insists on starting from what they’re told as a default.

Are Somalis garbage people who hate America? We’re looking into it! Did the Secretary of War order another attack on people clinging to a destroyed boat? We’ll check it out! Are tariffs are part of a coordinated plan to bring high-paying industrial jobs back to the United States? Well, despite there being no evidence of something you might call a plan, we’ll act as if this is the case until it’s proven otherwise.

Journalists, pundits and public commenters keep marveling that somehow the Trump White House gets away with it, that blatant lies and laughable delusions that would have brought any previous regime crashing down don’t amount to anything. If I were to witness a fatal hit-and-run accident and I wrote down the license plate of the car that sped off, I’m not entitled to marvel that the driver got away with it if I didn’t tell the police that I was a witness and didn’t provide the license number. The driver didn’t get away with it. I chose to help him escape the consequences.

I understand the point that pervasive, reflexive mistrust of every claim made by government officials and mainstream institutions has been one of the major reasons why disinformation and conspiracy theory have flourished in the last two decades. But this is not the fault of people who moved to a more skeptical regard for governmental authority and more openness to the truth-value of everyday witnessing and interpretation in the wider society. It is the fault of governments that lied while claiming to tell the truth, the fault of institutions that let lawyers tell them how to minimize liability rather than keep faith with their publics, the fault of politicians and public figures trying to escape the consequences for misconduct.

We are not going to re-establish trust in public knowledge because mainstream legacy journalists simply decide that they’ll return to reporting what the government says as the starting point for truth even when its falsehood is evident, or treating truth as something that has to be matched exactly to the distribution of voting preferences or partisan loyalties. It’s not even-handedness to treat each successive statement by an assembly of known liars as if this time it might be true until it is shown otherwise. It’s not just that the political appointees in the Administration lie routinely, it is that they are engaged in a systematic effort to destroy or contaminate the many forms of government-published data and evidence that have previously made it possible to evaluate the relative truthfulness or probity of government officials. There has never been a time where it is more urgently necessary to flip the script: if the Trump Administration says it, presume it’s an instrumental and conscious lie, and require them to produce reliable, objective, independent evidence to the contrary for the story to be written as anything different.

That’s the job. It doesn’t even take the courage that journalists in more thoroughly authoritarian states have to muster in order to do that job. At least not yet. I don’t think papers like the New York Times are managing their risk or feeling out the boundaries for what they can get away with. I think they’re stuck in long-set habits of thought and feeling righteously resentful about recent attempts to shake those habits loose. Now is not the time to get hung up on the time that the new reporter piously corrected the senior editor about the proper way to talk about transwomen. Don’t lecture people about the dangers of playing with matches while there’s a five-alarm fire happening right behind you. "]]></description>
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    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcCs5OOnpYs</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The brothers welcome Ali Abunimah of the Electronic Intifada ‪@TheElectronicIntifada‬  to the show to discuss mainstream media distortion of Palestine and the rise of alternative media, shifting public opinions on Zionism and solidarity for Palestine in the West, the growing divide between ordinary people and political elites, and the shared sense that we are witnessing the terminal decline of Zionism in the West.

Date of recording: November 3, 2025"

[also here:
https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/39193260
https://sites.libsyn.com/495388/anti-imperialism-with-solidarity-at-home-w-ali-abunimah ]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A consortium of journalists is revealing how the industry influences governments in Latin America and globally."]]></description>
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    <title>Palestine, World-Building, and the Mamdani Effect with Steven Salaita - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-11-11T18:28:22+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this episode we'll talk about Dr. Steven Salaita's latest piece, "Palestine and the Making of a New New World," subtitled, "The liberation of Palestine is, above all, a world-building project." In this piece he talks about the global liberal discourses around "rights," "laws," and "liberties" and how the movement for Palestinian liberation cannot be accommodated within these logics. 

We will talk about the (now successful) mayoral campaign of Zohran Mamdani and whether this represents a "win" for Palestinians and anti-zionism, or plays a counterinsurgent role in the imperial core against the politics necessary to actually attain liberation for Palestinians. 

Steven Salaita is an award-winning scholar, writer, and activist. He is the author of ten books, including his two most recent books, An Honest Living: A Memoir of Peculiar Itineraries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eegzTvPT6xY and Daughter, Son, Assassin: https://www.youtube.com/live/Z-0sG3i1Ung

Support The Sameer Project: From Displacement Response to THE RETURN HOME
https://chuffed.org/project/149178-sameer-project-x-mass-displacement-campaign

For other ways to support this campaign see: https://x.com/sameerproject/status/1988240227983396889

This is our 6th conversation with Dr. Steven Salaita since Tufan Al-Aqsa. To check out the others, view our playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBj8KHKHvws6Yh9i95yz4s-Alu4UltG7F "]]></description>
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    <title>Literary Hub » Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani</title>
    <dc:date>2025-11-09T17:09:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://lithub.com/maybe-dont-talk-to-the-new-york-times-about-zohran-mamdani/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Former Chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin College
Would Prefer Not To"

[See also this response from Jesse Singal:

"If You Can’t Accurately Quote Someone, Why Should I Believe Anything You Write?
Example #234234234 of intellectual rot in left-of-center spaces"
https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/if-you-cant-accurately-quote-someone

via
https://blog.ayjay.org/the-acceleration-of-misrepresentation/ ]]]></description>
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    <title>Nick Fuentes, Neo Nazis and Groypers Have Taken Over the GOP</title>
    <dc:date>2025-11-01T23:25:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/nick-fuentes-neo-nazis-and-groypers</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Neo-nazi Nick Fuentes has emerged as one of the most influential young conservative voices in America, and his white nationalist politics are the present and future of the GOP."

[on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxggd1EJGMk ]]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2025-10-24T19:56:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/hedges-slams-hostile-australian-interview</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Pulitzer Prize–winning US journalist Chris Hedges joins Antoinette Lattouf to unpack his time in Australia so far, including some fraught interactions with sections of the Australian media. We also discuss what he flew all this way to talk about: how western journalists are betraying their colleagues in Gaza."

[direct link to video:

"Hedges SLAMS hostile Australian interview, unpacks Press Club mess + western media betraying Gaza"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U54ht6ETsGc


"Pulitzer Prize–winning US journalist Chris Hedges joins Antoinette Lattouf to unpack his time in Australia so far, including some fraught interactions with sections of the Australian media.
We also discuss what he flew all this way to talk about: how western journalists are betraying their colleagues in Gaza. 
Plus, Chris offers some honest advice for young people who still want to tell stories and speak truth to power.

0:00 Welcome Chris Hedges 
2:00 NYT & Iraq War
6:20 leaving legacy media 
8:20 Speaking in Australia 
9:30 ABC's David Marr interview 
11:00 Press Club Mess
13:40 Lattouf reacts to ABC Late Night Live exchange
17:10 Coverage not improving on Gaza 
20:30 Progressive except for Palestine 
22:00 What Hedges wanted to say at the National Press Club before getting cancelled 
23:30 Hedges on Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson
26:34 Time at Russia Today America 
33:19 Advice to young journalists  
34:44 Lessons from Palestinian journalists"]]]></description>
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    <title>We Will Not Be Moved - by Timothy Burke - Eight by Seven</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-19T21:39:07+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Ezra Klein has come in for a lot of well-deserved criticism since his remarks on Charlie Kirk’s assassination, but he really offers a good window into what’s going on. Mainstream centrist thinking is not based on a consistent set of values, issue commitments, or perspectives. It is a calculus about a relationship to power. Someone like Klein could never bear for long to be on the outside of power looking in, if only in his own imagination. He plainly cannot look over at a competitor like Ross Douthat and say, “That’s ok, he does his thing and I do mine”, as Douthat suddenly becomes a mandatory stop on the circuit of Trump-adjacent “thought leaders”.

Thus for Klein—or for mainstream cultural critics like Alan Sepinwall, whose hilariously ill-informed assessment of the HBO series Task ends up imagining that Delaware County, where I live, is a part of the rural heartland of a suffering America—he can only care about the people with whom he presently has no standing or reputation. The only thing that matters now is to crack the code of the Trump base and to become a Trumpist whisperer, to understand these mysterious forces and then to become a thought leader who can credibly speak about and hopefully for them. It is not because they are many, but because it is now plain to Klein that they stand proximate to power. The other half, whomever they are, the half to whom he previously spoke and stood upon for his legitimacy, don’t exist any longer. "]]></description>
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In this Nerd Reich Mailbag episode, host Gil Duran sits down with Brooke Harrington (author of "Offshore: Stealth Wealth and The New Colonialism) and Adam Becker (author of "More Everything Forever") to answer listener questions about authoritarianism, AI power, and the new tech-driven assault on democracy.

🔥 Topics include:

How Project 2025 was planned like a “war against America”

The rise of the Tech Right — Musk, Thiel, and the Silicon Valley elite

How AI and algorithms are reshaping politics and power

The “Dark Enlightenment” and the anti-human turn in tech

Why dystopian science fiction was supposed to be a warning — not a blueprint

This episode is part political analysis, part cultural autopsy — and a call to understand how authoritarianism is accelerating in the digital age.

🎙️ Featuring:

Brooke Harrington — Professor of Economic Sociology, Dartmouth College
Follow on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ebharrington.bsky.social

Adam Becker — Astrophysicist & author of "More Everything Forever"
Follow on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/adambecker.bsky.social

Gil Duran — Host. Follow on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/gilduran.com
Follow on X: https://x.com/gilduran76

R.R. Robbins — Producer"

[See also
https://www.thenerdreich.com/project-2025-silicon-valley-techs-ai-war-on-democracy/ ]]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2025-10-12T03:41:33+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["En el episodio de hoy, 07/10/2025, Inna Afinogenova, Marco Teruggi y Estefanía Veloz hablan de los carteles de droga de EEUU y de la estructura financiera de lavado de dinero que sostiene el narcotrafico en ese país. 

Con la participación del historiador, Ismael Carvallo y el autor del libro ‘Carteles gringos, Jesús Esquivel."]]></description>
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    <title>How Western media enabled genocide in Gaza - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-11T01:37:08+00:00</dc:date>
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Former BBC journalist Karishma Patel and media scholar Gregory Shupak comment on how this distortion took hold - and how it continues to obscure accountability even as ceasefire talks emerge."]]></description>
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    <title>Smear. Kill. Repeat. | The Listening Post - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-06T17:20:45+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this special episode, we examine the systematic targeting of Palestinian journalists in Gaza during two years of Israeli genocide. With international media barred from freely reporting in the Strip, local journalists have risked their lives to document the unprecedented killing, destruction and displacement around them.

Since October 7, 2023, more media workers have been killed in Gaza than in any modern conflict. Families have been torn apart, homes and offices destroyed, and reporters have been wounded, seen their families killed or have been killed themselves.

This episode reveals the extraordinary playbook employed by Israel to threaten, intimidate, smear and target Palestinian journalists.

Contributors:
Wael Dahdouh – Gaza Bureau Chief, Al Jazeera
Jodie Ginsberg – Chief Executive, Committee to Protect Journalists
Sharif Abdel Kouddous – Journalist & Editor, Drop Site News
Rachel Shabi – Journalist and author

Presenter: Richard Gizbert
Produced by: Soumaya El Filali, Monazza Farooqi, Ella Willis, Tariq Nafi & Meenakshi Ravi"

[See also (small portion of the same):

"How Western media failed Gaza | The Listening Post"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylTIWQMzPx4 ]]]></description>
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    <title>The Real Story of Nepal’s Gen Z Uprising - YouTube</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Nearly a month ago peaceful student demonstrators protesting corruption in Nepal were shot and killed, sparking nationwide outrage. Government buildings were set in fire, leaders were forced out, and the prime minister resigned, leaving the country’s future uncertain.

But that's not how the mainstream media reported it. They misrepresented Nepal's Gen Z youth movement, portraying young protesters as spoiled children upset about losing social media access, rather than as citizens fighting corruption and authoritarian suppression of free speech. It was a lot of the same framing that the media has used over other authoritarian crackdowns on speech like the TikTok ban here in the U.S. 

I brought on Bala Krishna Sha, one of the top journalists in Nepal, who writes for The Himalayan Times, the country's number 1 English language newspaper. He joins me to break down exactly what happened in Nepal, what the real story is that you won't see in traditional western media, and why the free speech fight happening in Nepal has global implications."]]></description>
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    <title>Matt Taibbi Went From Raging Against the Machine To Pandering to It</title>
    <dc:date>2025-09-10T22:52:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theamericansaga.com/p/matt-taibbi-went-from-raging-against</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Taibbi once inspired me to go into journalism. Now he's an example of what's wrong with it."

...

"A frequent theme of the episode was that the American media is willing to talk honestly about atrocities in Syria but not what’s happening to the Palestinians.

“It’s worthy and unworthy victims, that whole thing. Syria, those are victims we can talk about them. This we can’t talk about,” Taibbi said.

If Taibbi is suddenly of the belief that Palestinians are unworthy victims, it would mark a sudden shift in the thinking of a man who spent his life criticizing not only American foreign policy more broadly but specifically criticizing the American media for how it helps justify hatred of and attacks on Palestinians.

But my guess is this isn’t about Israel or the Palestinians at all to Taibbi.

For most of his life, he was out there in the wilderness (sometimes, literally, he played professional basketball in Mongolia). He was raging against the Machine, whether that machine was the American media, both Democratic and Republican governments and politicians, or vicious foreign governments like the one that that runs Israel right now.

Over the past few years, his writing has become unrecognizable to longtime fans like me because he seems to have become something he never was before: comfortable. It’s easy to continue to push out pablum that appeals to his partisan readers, who I suspect are increasingly the only audience he has.

If that means ending his long campaign of holding elites accountable and now pandering to them instead, so be it. After all, so many other media figures have been audience captured by partisan readers and donors. What makes Taibbi above that? He’s still a man, and all men err.

It’s just a shame that a man I once admired so much decided to go from being the solution to being the problem."]]></description>
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    <title>Former UN Chief EXPOSES October 7 Myth - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-09-01T08:39:10+00:00</dc:date>
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Chris Gunness is the former chief spokesman of UNRWA and founder of the Myanmar Accountability Project"]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2025-08-30T02:32:10+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["READ THE WIRED STORY: 

"A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers
An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they have to do is keep it secret—and agree to restrictions on their content."
https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers 

Statement from the Omidiyar Network (where I'm currently doing a reporting fellowship) on how they've never taken dark money from The Sixteen Thirty Fund: https://omidyar.com/update/omidyar-networks-approach-to-funding-independent-journalism/

After the Democrats lost in November, they faced a reckoning. It was clear that the party had failed to successfully navigate the new media landscape. While Republicans spent decades building a powerful and robust independent media infrastructure, maximizing controversy to drive attention and maintaining tight relationships with creators despite their small disagreements with Trump, the Democrats have largely relied on outdated strategies and traditional media to get their message out.

Now, Democrats hope that a new program, funded by a powerful liberal dark money group called The Sixteen Thirty Fund, might tip the scales. The program kicked off in June/July, and creators involved were told by Chorus that over 90 influencers were set to take part. 

Creators told WIRED that the contract stipulated they’d be kicked out and essentially cut off financially if they even so much as acknowledged that they were part of the funding program. Some creators also raised concerns about a slew of restrictive clauses in the contract.

After attempting to reach them for weeks, Chorus finally responded to our request for comment yesterday. Their lawyer shared a screenshot from a slideshow with WIRED  that offers several talking points if a member of the cohort wanted to discuss Chorus publicly. Their comments have been incorporated into the article, which can be read at the link above."

[also disussed here:

"Dark Money Dem Influencers EXPOSED with Taylor Lorenz & How to STOP Israel with Craig Mokhiber" (Katie Halper)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DInKWBqqQUo ]]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2025-08-20T02:20:32+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[how Israel targets and kills Palestinian journalists and how the West, media included, gives them a pass]]]></description>
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    <title>The story of Anas al-Sharif &amp; Israel’s killing of Palestinian journalists - YouTube</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Israel’s deliberate killing of Anas al-Sharif and his colleagues offers a glimpse into the reality faced by Palestinian journalists in Gaza.

Anas, the 28-year-old journalist who grew up under Israeli bombardment, was killed while documenting Israeli atrocities. His reporting quickly made him one of the Arab world’s most recognisable faces from inside Gaza. 

His killing, along with the killing of at least 238 Palestinian journalists, exposes the extreme risks journalists face under Israel’s relentless bombing, and the impunity with which these attacks are carried out. 

Israel’s war on Gaza has made it the deadliest period for media workers ever recorded. 

This is their story."

[See also:

"Naming the best of us - The journalists in Gaza who Israel killed".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OeqfqxmWWc ]]]></description>
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    <title>Naming the best of us - The journalists in Gaza who Israel killed - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-08-13T19:46:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OeqfqxmWWc</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[""Through their work, they pleaded with us, Look, see, here we are.

We are being annihilated. We are being bombed. Entire family lines are being murdered out of existence, we are being systematically starved. 

We are being genocided. 

Yet most of their other journalist colleagues, the ones who speak the languages of power and speak to powerful people, chose to doubt them.
 
Chose to weave cover for violence that destroyed them. To obscure facts, obfuscate reality. To confuse. To be complicit.” 

The Middle East Eye team pays respect to the journalists in Gaza who have been killed by Israel by saying their names and explaining how they were all killed."

[See also:

"The story of Anas al-Sharif & Israel’s killing of Palestinian journalists"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEeYQAbB5iY ]]]></description>
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    <title>Nora Barrows-Friedman: They Can’t Keep Getting Away with This - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-08-05T04:22:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu-xeLbk-I8</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this episode we welcome Nora Barrows-Friedman to the show for the first time!

Nora Barrows-Friedman is a staff writer and associate editor at The Electronic Intifada, and is the author of In Our Power: US Students Organize for Justice in Palestine (Just World Books, 2014). She hosts the Electronic Intifada Livestreams that we all watch on Thursdays at noon eastern time. 

We will talk about some of Nora's background as a journalist, her work covering student organizing around Palestine, and we'll talk about her most recent piece, "Israel abducted starving children at Gaza “aid” sites, then tortured them": https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/israel-abducted-starving-children-gaza-aid-sites-then-tortured-them

We will also discuss some of the differences between "Israeli" media and US corporate media in terms of how they cover the acts of the Israeli military and government and the genocide and war crimes that have taken place in Palestine. As many public officials, and governments, who have facilitated and supported the genocide in Gaza shift their tone in recent days, we'll talk about what we think about this phenomenon. And we'll also discuss concepts of accountability and justice as they relate to this horrific phase in human history."

[Also here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_hMd208NCs ]]]></description>
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    <title>&quot;A free press is supposed to challenge the government&quot; with Assal Rad - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-29T03:31:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-83RwQxvX_M</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The brothers welcome historian and headline fixer Assal Rad to discuss the mainstream media’s role in manufacturing consent and perpetuating Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism, how it enables the Gaza genocide, how it accepts Israeli state propaganda as fact while rendering suspect Palestinian eyewitness accounts, and the differences between the coverage of Israel’s genocide in Gaza from its war on Iran.

Date of recording: July 15, 2025."

[also here:
https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/37588875
https://sites.libsyn.com/495388/a-free-press-is-supposed-to-challenge-the-govt-w-assal-rad ]]]></description>
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    <title>Forget Starbucks. Boycott the New York Times | Mona Chalabi | Real Talk - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-14T23:02:41+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["'These journalistic institutions have done far more to support the genocide than... Starbucks or McDonald's' 

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mona Chalabi joins Real Talk to unpack how mainstream media coverage has enabled Israel’s war on Gaza, and why she’s calling to boycott outlets aiding that effort. She also reflects on how many of these same patterns were present in the run-up to the Iraq War and its aftermath.

Mona shares personal experiences from inside different newsrooms, including moments of racism and Islamophobia, and reflects on what it meant to be asked about her "relation" to Ahmed Chalabi, a controversial Iraqi politician who championed the US invasion of Iraq. 

We also talk about the political backlash to Zohran Mamdani’s primary win in New York, and Mona’s work as creative director of #1 Happy Family USA, an animated series exploring the Muslim American experience through humour. 

Real Talk is hosted by Mohamed Hashem

00:00 Intro 
11:29 Views on Zohran Mamdani
16:03 Backlash to Mamdani's campaign 
20:49 Disgusted by colleagues' passivity on Gaza
26:06 Reporting parallels: Gaza & Iraq 
36:20 Aftermath of winning a Pulitzer 
43:00 Iraq War reporting 
48:23 'I don't read NYT anymore' 
54:42 Disdain for Arab life
59:11 Conflicted feelings on Haaretz article
01:02:11 Mona’s role as a "historian"
01:07:42 Genocide changed outlook towards future 
01:11:21 #1 Happy Family USA
01:16:32 Animating 3 generations of Muslim women"]]></description>
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    <title>Unredacted Tonight: The Hidden TRUTH About A U.S.-Backed False Flag! - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-13T18:54:23+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this explosive episode of Unredacted Tonight, Lee Camp breaks down the shocking revelations surrounding the 2018 alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria. Based on whistleblower testimony and the recently released book The Syria Scam by former OPCW investigator Ian Henderson, this episode digs into the claims that the official investigation was manipulated — and exposes what mainstream media won't touch.

Were the chemical attacks used as a pretext for war? Why were OPCW findings allegedly altered? And what role did Western-backed groups play in the narrative?

🔥 Lee dives deep into:

    The forensic evidence that contradicts the official OPCW report

    The engineering analysis that debunks the "cylinder" story

    First-hand witness accounts that challenge the chemical attack claims

    The bigger picture: propaganda, false flags, and the politics of war

💣 Plus: Lee tackles Bernie Sanders' very late acknowledgment of DNC primary rigging, with his trademark wit and no-holds-barred commentary.

📕 Sources include The Syria Scam by Ian Henderson and direct OPCW insider insights."]]></description>
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    <title>Who Goes MAGA? | Techdirt</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-12T00:03:12+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["With apologies to Dorothy Thompson, whose 1941 essay in Harper’s, “Who Goes Nazi?” remains a worthwhile read on the cultural archetypes of who is drawn to fascism, and who would never go down such a path. It felt like it could use a modern updating, however.

It is an interesting and somewhat macabre social media game to play while scrolling through your feeds: to speculate who in your network would go full MAGA. By now, I think I know. I have gone through the experience many times—watching the 2016 election, the pandemic, January 6th, and now Trump’s return. I have come to know the types: the born MAGAs, the MAGAs whom social media criticism has created, the certain-to-be fellow-travelers. And I also know those who never, under any conceivable circumstances, would fall for the grift.

It is preposterous to think that they are divided by any obvious characteristics. Rural Americans may be more susceptible to MAGA than most people, but I doubt it. College graduates are supposedly inoculated, but it is an arbitrary assumption. I know lots of PhD holders who are born MAGAs and many others who would don the red hat tomorrow morning in response to some perceived slight. There are people who have repudiated their own principles in order to become “Honorary Patriots”; there are lifelong Democrats who have enthusiastically entered Trump’s orbit. MAGA has nothing inherently to do with geography, education, or even stated political beliefs. It appeals to a certain type of mind.

It is also, to an immense extent, the disease of a generation—the generation that grew up online, that learned to mistake engagement for truth, that confused being heard with being right. This is as true of suburban millennials as it is of rural boomers. It is the disease of the algorithmically poisoned.

Sometimes I think there are direct digital factors at work—a type of media consumption, a pattern of social validation, and a form of tribal identity that has produced a new kind of citizen with an imbalance in their nature. They have been fed rage and filled with grievances that are beyond their capacity to process rationally. They have been subjected to forms of propaganda that have released them from the constraints of empirical reality. Their emotions are vigorous. Their reasoning is childish. Their civic education has been almost completely neglected.

At any rate, let us look through the feeds."

...

"The Contrarian Intellectual"

...

"The Wellness Influencer"

...

"The Centrist Politician"

...

"The LinkedIn Though Leader"

...

"The Crypto Enthusiast"

...

"The Facebook Mom"

...

"The venture Capitalist"

...

"The Legacy Media Reporter"

...

"The Business Owner"

...

"The Normie"

...

"The Ones Who Won’t"

Take the small-town Republican from Ohio who should be MAGA by every demographic marker—pickup truck, church every Sunday, straight GOP for twenty years. But her childhood best friend came out as trans, and suddenly the culture war had a face she loved. Now she’s at city council meetings defending the very people she once thoughtlessly condemned. The MAGA crowd calls her a traitor. She calls it friendship.

There are others in the feeds who will never go MAGA, no matter what. They’re not necessarily the most educated or the most politically engaged. They’re not defined by their demographics or their stated beliefs.

They’re the ones who have something the MAGA-susceptible lack: a genuine comfort with complexity and nuance, an ability to tolerate uncertainty, and a fundamental respect for other people’s humanity. They don’t need to believe they’re special or superior. They have the same insecurities others have, but they don’t blame others for them. They don’t need enemies to blame for their problems. They don’t need simple answers to complicated questions.

They’re the teacher who posts about her students’ achievements without making it about herself. They’re the small business owner who pays his workers well because he knows it’s right and actually better for business, not because he has to. They’re the veteran who talks about service without wrapping it in nationalism. They’re the parent who worries about their kids without blaming teachers for everything.

They’re the people who can say “I don’t know” without feeling diminished. They’re the ones who can admit they were wrong without feeling attacked. They’re the ones who can see others succeed without feeling threatened.

The Pattern

The pattern is clear once you know what to look for. MAGA appeals to people who need to feel special, who need enemies to blame, who need simple answers to complex problems. It attracts those who mistake confidence for competence, who confuse being loud with being right, who think that admitting uncertainty is weakness.

It’s not about education or geography or even politics. It’s about character. It’s about whether you can tolerate complexity, whether you can admit mistakes, whether you can see other people as fully human.

The scary thing about MAGA isn’t that it’s obviously evil—it’s that it’s appealing to people who think they’re good. It offers them a way to feel righteous about their resentments, patriotic about their prejudices, and principled about their selfishness.

But the good news is that character isn’t fixed. People can change. They can learn to tolerate uncertainty, to admit mistakes, to see others as human. They can develop the emotional and intellectual tools to resist fascist appeals.

The question is whether they will—and whether the rest of us will help them, or just watch them scroll deeper into the darkness.

The game continues. The stakes keep rising. And the feeds keep feeding us exactly what we want to hear."]]></description>
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    <title>Israel, Zohran Mamdani and the coming class war | Norman Finkelstein | The Big Picture - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-27T21:04:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JADy940qXHY</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[See this video to cover the Finkelstein's engagement with Black studies and history. 

"Norman Finkelstein's Bad Faith Engagement with Black Studies and History"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnuP_4nVtMo ]

"In a fiery and deeply personal return to The Big Picture Podcast, professor Norman Finkelstein explains why Israel and its allies in the West have destroyed the international order, and how the election of a Muslim socialist in New York threatens their grip on power.

Finkelstein is a political scientist and one of the world’s foremost scholars on Israel-Palestine, as well as a critic of culture and empire. 

He is the author of 'The Holocaust Industry' and most recently, I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get To It.

TIMECODES:
00:00 - Intro
05:00 - Zohran Mamdani and October 7
08:50 - Anti-Zohran propaganda
11:00 - NYC is the capital of capitalism
27:00 - Israel's war on Iran
44:00 - Nazis and the nature of evil
51:00 - Israel's starvation of Gaza
53:00 - Antisemitism on campus
1:00:00 - Sabra and Shatilla massacre
1:10:00 - The greed of Arab leaders
1:19:00 - What my parents would think
1:29:00 - They're scared of Mamdani
1:36:00 - It's about a class war
1:46:00 - They're afraid of the movement
1:50:00 - Outro"]]></description>
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    <title>The Subway Is Not Scary - by Hamilton Nolan</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-20T02:52:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway-is-not-scary</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Fear of the subway is a mark of low moral character."

...

"In 2014, New York Times reporter Michael Barbaro (who would go on to become one of the paper’s superstars as host of its podcast “The Daily”) posted this tweet:

[image: "Situation at 123 underpass at 41st and 7th Ave has become dangerous and unacceptable @MTA"

After receiving a good deal of ridicule, Barbaro deleted the tweet. The nervous sentiment he expressed, however, lives on. Just this week, in its anti-endorsement of Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayor’s race, the Times editorial board explained why it preferred Andrew Cuomo, a famously corrupt former governor and sexual harasser who resigned in disgrace, over a progressive like Mamdani.

“Many longtime New Yorkers… have worried that their city was heading back to the bad old days of the 1970s and ’80s,” the paper warned. “Subway trips can have a chaotic or even menacing quality.”

In this vague but pervasive fear of the subway system, the good liberals at the Times are not alone. Their reactionary colleagues at the New York Post scream endlessly about every crime on the subway—the tabloid has an entire “Subway Shoves” tag page on its website. Fox News carries this torch on a national scale, using subway crime as a club with which to beat allegedly “delusional” Democratic city leaders, who have allowed the transit system to become a den of iniquity. This is a regular talking point for Republican politicians as well, who spin tales of dangerous trains as a justification for defunding mass transit. "The truth is, transit across America is dangerous," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said this spring. "And these liberals, liberal mayors, they want everybody out of cars and into trains — but they made the trains unsafe so nobody really wants to ride them."

All of these sweaty warnings harden into accepted precepts deep in the American heartland. I recall chatting with some women from Texas a couple of years ago, who were visiting Manhattan to demonstrate at the courthouse in support of their hero, Donald Trump, who was being indicted at the time. I asked them what else they planned to do on that lovely, sunny day in the city. “Probably nothing!” they answered. They were taking a cab back to their hotel and hunkering down, for safety, lest they be subjected to the robberies and murders that plague the city and its blood-drenched transit system.

This, you see, is an issue where the conventional wisdom of Fox News-watching middle American Republican yokels and Times-reading upper-class Manhattanites coalesces into one shared belief: The subway is scary. It is dangerous. And any aspiring leader who does not propose to flood the subway system even further with armed officers is just not being serious.

Here is my counterpoint: No it’s not."]]></description>
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    <title>Journalists and Their Shadows (with Patrick Lawrence) | The Chris Hedges Report</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-12T23:26:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/journalists-and-their-shadows-w-patrick</link>
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    <title>‘Not complicated, it’s colonialism’: Saul Williams on Gaza and a 'crumbling' US empire | Real Talk - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-09T16:40:13+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["“I have no business with genocidaires.”

That’s how artist, poet and activist Saul Williams describes his refusal to stay silent on Israel’s war on Gaza. 

In this Real Talk interview, Williams opens up about witnessing apartheid in Israel-Palestine, losing friends and work for speaking out, and the responsibility artists have in the face of propaganda and empire.

We also explore his critique of US politics as a ‘duopoly’ invested in war, his challenge to mainstream liberalism, and how hip hop has moved from resistance to commercialisation.

Williams also reflects on his powerful role in ‘Sinners’, the blockbuster film directed by Ryan Coogler.

Real Talk is a Middle East Eye interview series hosted by Mohamed Hashem.

Timestamps: 
00:00 Intro 
03:30 'Diamonds' Kanye West story 
08:18 "Birth of a Nation" & the KKK
11:32 Art as propaganda 
18:37 Resisting empire 
28:23 How Gaza ‘unmasked’ US Democrats 
38:45 The personal cost of speaking out 
48:12 Parallels: Apartheid South Africa 
55:06 Conversations with Zionists 
01:07:52 Tupac. Gaza, & Hip-Hop today  
01:16:32 His role in ‘Sinners’ 
01:29:53 Music that breathes forever"]]></description>
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    <title>How the Media Makes You More AFRAID of Crime - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-08T18:54:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJhJFdZGbFo</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["“It was really clear that societies that had more equality and more access to housing and health care and education had lower levels of violence… I was seeing every single day in jail cell after jail cell with people sleeping on top of each other and feces and blood and mucus and mold and urine and being beaten and being deprived of medical care, other people making huge amounts of money off of all of that.”

Civil rights lawyer Alec Karakatsanis speaks with Zeteo’s political correspondent, Prem Thakker on the relationship between mainstream media and mass incarceration — diving into how the news inflates crime more than necessary. He also discusses what copaganda is and how inequality in society leads to police violence.

CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
00:42 What is copaganda?
04:02 ‘The Bad Apple’ in cops and community
09:45 How the media inflates crime
16:51 Societies with more equality have lower levels of violence
19:55 No context in mainstream news"]]></description>
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    <title>“Israel is a dependent empire” - YouTube</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The brothers explore the latest Gaza ceasefire negotiations, the abject failure of the corporate media to cover the crude and explicit expressions of racism and genocidal intent from across the spectrum of Israeli society, the sudden shift among European leaders as they attempt to rhetorically distance themselves from the genocide, and the continuing cost to those who speak out against the genocide in increasingly repressive Western societies.

Date of recording: May 27, 2025."

[also here:
https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/36802885
https://sites.libsyn.com/495388/israel-is-a-dependent-empire ]]]></description>
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    <title>Can We Radicalize the Professional Managerial Class? with Catherine Liu - YouTube</title>
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    <title>'Somebody needs to do it' - YouTube</title>
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The phrase has become online shorthand for a society that has lost all faith in the system. In this video, I unpack how and why this meme became so pervasive, the political and cultural moments that led us here, and dissect what the "someone's got to do it" meme reveals about the cultural and political moment that we're living in. I talk about collective trauma, political cynicism, our decaying faith in democratic institutions, and so much more. 

I spent so long on this video, please watch and let me know what you think!!!!"

[via BHN:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-IWUT-soQQ

See also:
"How Covid Radicalized American Politics with Taylor Lorenz | MR Live | Majority Report - YouTube"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYXdhQyqx1M ]]]></description>
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    <title>Staying safe during civil unrest</title>
    <dc:date>2025-05-10T00:00:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://lifeofaudrey.com/2025/01/18/civil-unrest.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I’m writing this just two days before Trump takes office, for the second time. There’s a whole slew of reasons this makes many people in the US concerned for their safety. In this post I’m going to talk about the set of situations I’m loosely calling ‘civil unrest’ — everything from police crackdowns of street protests to right-wing rallies meant to instigate violence. My aim is to help people who are concerned about getting caught up in the middle of something they’re unprepared for.

My background on this includes two key sets of events spanning twenty years. The more recent one was the racial justice protests in Portland that took place in 2020, where I spent months documenting nightly events through the work of independent reporters and local media. I also found myself right in the middle of the Seattle WTO protests in 1999. I wrote about how that experience affected me here.

The first thing to know is that events can be very local. In downtown Portland, the area around City Hall, the federal building, central police station, and federal courthouse spans three square blocks. Other parts of downtown were affected in 2020, as well as neighborhoods around police stations, but the majority of Portland wasn’t in earshot or tear gas range of what was happening. In Seattle in 1999, protests and police violence affected a larger geographic area but still in the central city. People in most neighborhoods could get around without encountering issues as long as they didn’t need to go downtown. (Also the restricted area increased when Clinton arrived, which I found really annoying.)

National media will pretty much always get things wrong. Either because they don’t know the geography (and this is a particular gripe for me since that was my field of study), they’ve fallen prone to sweeping narratives, or they’re repeating what police and local government are saying without checking it out. The last one is actually why I ended up starting the protest blog — I was astonished by how easy it was for the mayor to lie about what protesters were doing and have everyone repeat it.

This creates an environment where it’s easy for all kinds of misinformation to thrive. Rumors take off fast, and there’s often no way to verify them unless you know someone who’s right there in the midst of things. It’s important to cultivate a skill of asking how we know what we’re hearing is right. If that rumor has no provenance, then it might be a good idea to hold off on sharing it.

So given this set of challenges, what’s the best way to stay safe?

One — find on the ground sources you can trust. That might be local media. Have a look at their current reporting on crime and community safety to get a sense of how they handle things. It might be independent reporters on social media. Again, look at their work and see how well it holds up against other sources of information. Or it can be from friends, if you know people who have direct contact with the places things are happening, or the people affected (I’m thinking of immigration raids here). For the protest blog, I tried to always find two sources for any significant piece of information. That’s easier when there’s a lot of people on the ground, but a good aim overall.

Next, have a good look at the map. Where are your local police stations, government offices, and courthouses? Where are parks or public spaces where people often gather for rallies? Figure out if any of these places are on a route between where you live and places you regularly go, like work, schools, and grocery stores. If that’s the case, identify alternate routes. And if one of those locations is particularly close to your home, it may be useful to think about where you can go if a situation heats up. Police will use chemical weapons like tear gas indiscriminately and do not care whether they’re in a residential neighborhood. I’m not going to get into PPE recommendations for that today, but let me know if you want to see it in a future post.

There could be other hot spots too, local businesses, churches, anywhere that people gather. The things I wrote about community safety in 2020 apply here. I covered the supplies you need to shelter in place as well as being ready to evacuate.

Last, know who you can call on for help. Even if the threat isn’t right on your doorstep, it can be a relief to just let someone else watch the news for a while so you can put your phone down and get some rest. There are a lot of ways we can support each other.

These are difficult times and it’s so important to remember that we’re in it together. I don’t know what will happen in the next few weeks or this year, but I can tell you that being more prepared for disasters will help you through all kinds of situations, and cultivating the skills to make sense of what’s happening and know when you need to act will help you avoid panic and make the best decisions to look out for yourself and the people you care about."]]></description>
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    <title>Three Reasons Propaganda Works BETTER on Liberals Than On Anyone Else - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-30T03:45:39+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Why is propaganda particularly effective on liberals? Alec Karakatsanis, author of “Copaganda,” explains how selectively true anecdotes presented for false, misleading purposes work better than outright lies. Katie and Alex discuss how propaganda functions, from local TV news reports about “rising crime” to milquetoast NYT coverage about Israel’s genocide.

00:00 Media gets the "cause" of crime wrong
01:16 How to mislead without (technically) lying
04:38 Why are liberals the most susceptible to propaganda?
08:19 How propaganda around Israel is different

Alec Karakatsanis is a Civil Rights lawyer and the founder of Civil RIghts Corps. He is the author of Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System (2019) and Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News (2025)"

[see also:

"New York Times Calls KIDNAPPING "Deportation" "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_46oy8wIgQ

"Katie talks to Civil Rights Lawyer Alec Karakatsanis about his book Copaganda and the way the The New York Times lies about crime and "both sides" Trump's clearly illegal and fascist immigration policies.

00:00 Alec’s Twitter thread on the New York Times’ coverage of Bukele
01:08 We have been fed this idea that crime is soaring
01:51 The false idea that immigrants commit more crime
03:40 Ignorant or dishonest? Lying or duped? Libs who adopt right-wing framing
05:09 Many people within the elite institutions that get it, it’s the people at the higher levels who are misleading on purpose
06:38 We are creating a society where kidnapping people and sending them to torture prisons is totally normalized
08:00 If this is allowed to stand, it is the most consequential moment in US constitutional history in modern times
08:57 The framing of the Times article is totally normalizing some of the most shocking and serious threats to our well-being in modern history

Alec Karakatsanis is a Civil Rights lawyer and the founder of Civil Rights Corps. He is the author of Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System (2019) and Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News (2025)"

[Full interview:

"Oliver Stone On JFK Files, Alec Karakatsanis On 'Copaganda' "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoO5I0IYans

"Katie talks to the Academy-Award winning director Oliver Stone and JFK researcher and author Jim Di Eugenio about the JFK files which they testified about in Congress. 

Then Katie talks to Civil Rights Lawyer Alec Karakatsanis about his book Copaganda and the way the media lies about crime. 

00:00:00 Katie introduces Oliver Stone and Jim Di Eugenio
00:05:17 Oliver Stone explains how he got interested in JFK in the first place through Jim Garrison
00:06:15 Oliver Stone on the making of 1991’s JFK movie with Kevin Costner
00:08:30 The chain of custody on the rifle and bullets
00:10:00 Attacked by Max Boot!
00:12:30 JFK Revisited and the new AARB Evidence
00:18:50 The fingerprints story
00:22:10 What’s in the JFK files newly released by Donald Trump? Stories about Fidel Castro
00:27:20 The three women witness who debunk the official narrative
00:32:10 Oliver Stone’s take on the newly revealed big massive evidence of collusion
00:35:40 Alec Karakatsanis explains what copaganda is
00:42:00 The fallacies that Karakatsanis’s book debunks, better ways money can be spent
00:46:00 How does medicaid expansion relate to crime? And how to be misleading without lying
00:50:45 Why are liberals the most susceptible to propaganda?
00:54:45 How propaganda around Israel and Hasbara is different
00:57:00 The most important chart to help people see through copaganda
00:58:30 Bukele, Trump and the propaganda around El Salvador and Venezuela
01:03:30 Lying or duped? Does it matter how bad faith the spreading of propaganda is?
01:07:10 Why the New York Times spreading of propaganda is so dangerous
01:10:15 NBC’s coverage of Abrego Garcia, propaganda for the Trump administration
01:18:00 What the news could look like to win back people’s trust?
01:27:30 How victims and marginalized communities are treated as a monolith and used to prop up the carceral state
01:29:50 Gavin Newsom sucks
01:36:00 Katie pays her respects to The Pope

Oliver Stone is an Award-winning director, producer, screenwriter whose films include , Snowden, Savages, Untold History, Platoon, Wall Street, JFK and the documentary JFK Revisited. He is the author of Chasing the Light.

Jim DiEugenio is a researcher and writer who focuses on the political assassinations of the 1960s, including the killing of JFK. He is the author of two books, Destiny Betrayed (1992/2012) and The JFK Assassination: The Evidence Today (2018), co-author of The Assassinations, and co-edited Probe Magazine (1993-2000). 

Alec Karakatsanis is a Civil Rights lawyer and the founder of Civil RIghts Corps. He is the author of Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System (2019) and Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News (2025)"
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    <title>How does western media ‘whitewash’ genocide? | Assal Rad | Real Talk - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-26T05:48:43+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["‘The crimes [in Gaza] are so egregious that are being carried out... The attempt to cover them up and whitewash them is failing’ 

Since 7 October, western media coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza has come under intense scrutiny, particularly for the language and terminology used by many outlets.

As a result, the coverage has been accused of bias against Palestinians effectively providing cover for Israel’s war on Gaza.

To delve into this, we’re speaking to Assal Rad, an Iranian-American scholar of the modern Middle East and fellow at DAWN, who’s also made it her mission to call out and ‘fix’ misleading headlines. 

Her widely shared posts earned her the title of ‘headline fixer’,  turning this into a trend of its own online.

Real Talk is a Middle East Eye interview series hosted by Mohamed Hashem. 

Timestamps: 
00:00 Intro 
01:30 'Headline fixer' 
06:16 Reading beyond headlines
12:57 Framing the war on Gaza 
19:35 Media language & terminology 
32:07 The dangers of impunity 
40:16 Influencing public opinion 
46:30 Turning point for media accountability?"]]></description>
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This podcast was originally published on Project Censored for International Women's Day."]]></description>
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Omar Baddar – Political and media analyst
Eva Borgwardt – National spokesperson, If Not Now
Emmaia Gelman – Director, The Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism"]]></description>
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https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/how-the-media-walked-us-into-autocracy ]]]></description>
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    <title>&quot;The West Bank is being annexed&quot; w/ Mariam Barghouti - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-01T20:14:43+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The brothers welcome Ramallah-based journalist Mariam Barghouti (@ MariamBarghouti)  to discuss the ongoing de facto annexation of the West Bank, the unchecked growth of colonial outposts, the role of the mainstream Western media in whitewashing and censoring this violence, and the position of the Palestinian Authority as a subcontractor to the Israeli occupation.

Date of recording: Feb 11, 2025."

[also here:
https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/35483940
https://sites.libsyn.com/495388/the-west-bank-is-being-annexed-w-mariam-barghouti ]]]></description>
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    <title>Is Australian Media Pro-Israel? A Look at Bias in Coverage - YouTube</title>
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    <title>One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (with Omar El Akkad) | The Chris Hedges Report</title>
    <dc:date>2025-02-20T00:05:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/one-day-everyone-will-have-always</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Egyptian-Canadian novelist and author Omar El Akkad reckons with the genocide in Gaza through personal stories of the past and analysis of the present in this episode of The Chris Hedges Report."

...

"To the West, the concept of the rules-based order functions either as a list on paper to be ignored, or a strict set of laws to be weaponized. Omar El Akkad, Egyptian-Canadian novelist and journalist, has witnessed many instances, both in the West and in the Middle East, where banners of virtue were used to justify hypocritical behavior. El Akkad details these stories in his new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” and he joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to discuss them.

In the West, El Akkad admits there is a tendency of including indigenous land acknowledgements at gatherings like literary festivals and while it may be honest, he argues it continues the same pattern of theft. “You steal land, you steal lives, and what's left to steal at the end but a narrative? The narrative that absolves all that came before,” he tells Hedges. This has always been the playbook of colonialism, he explains. “We can all be sorry afterwards.”

With regard to the genocide in Gaza, Western media brushes over the daily acts of brutality with “neutral,” unassuming language. Akkad recounts the description of children being killed as as bullets colliding with their bodies, and says “What [they’re] trying to do is give someone on the other side of the planet who has the privilege of looking away the language with which to look away without feeling a pang in their conscience,” El Akkad says.

Many in the West are quick to pillory resistance movements in places like Palestine, but resistance and the right and methods of resistance, El Akkad illustrates, belong to those under oppression and occupation. He explains:

<blockquote>“I have zero right to tell anybody anywhere who lives under occupation and injustice how to resist that occupation and that injustice. There is no acceptable form of resistance in the view of the institutions doing the oppressing. You engage in boycotts, that's economic terrorism. You try to march peacefully, you are shot with the intent to kill and or maimed. You boycott cultural institutions, you are being illiberal. You take up arms, you are a terrorist, and you will be wiped out. All you can do is die. That is your only acceptable form of resistance.”</blockquote>"

...

"I think one of the more difficult parts of this book, and I talked about it a little bit as a sort of self interrogation, I don't think you can write this kind of book and not contend with the many things you are, including some things that I'm not particularly proud of. And one of those interrogations has to do with this notion of how I describe myself. I describe myself as a pacifist, as a fairly committed proponent of nonviolence. But I have the privilege of saying those words in a relative vacuum, a vacuum created by the fact that I live on the launching end of the bombs. I live within the heart of the empire. And so two things come into clarity that I wish hadn't, but being as though they have, I need to address them. The first is my right to tell anybody under a state of occupation how to resist that occupation, which is no right at all. I have zero right to tell anybody anywhere who lives under occupation and injustice how to resist that occupation and that injustice. Particularly when there is no acceptable form of resistance in the view of the institutions doing the oppressing. You engage in boycotts, that's economic terrorism. You try to march peacefully, you are shot with the intent to kill and or maimed. You boycott cultural institutions, you are being illiberal. You take up arms, you are a terrorist, and you will be wiped out. All you can do is die. That is your only acceptable form of resistance. So first of all, I have absolutely no right to tell anybody how to resist their occupation or a state of injustice. But second, I can sit here and I can tell you how committed I am to nonviolence. And I can believe that fully. But by virtue of the society I live in, by virtue of what my tax dollars are being used to do, I am one of the most violent human beings on earth. And I can't simply brush that away and say, hey, I haven't thrown a punch since I was 15 years old, I'm fully committed to non-violence. I am part of a society that exercises great industrial violence. And at the very least, I should acknowledge that. And that makes it much, much more difficult to then go around parading my views about how violence debases us all. Sure, it does, but I am actively engaged in it right now. That has been a very difficult thing to contend with and I wish I had a sort of easy wraparound answer for it, but I don't."

...

"[W]hat I am no longer interested in is love as a form of institutional camouflage. I'm no longer interested in that. I'm no longer interested in stories that talk about how everything was great at the end after all the bad stuff happened. I am interested in that active form of love that is trying to stop the bad thing from happening right now. And I'm seeing so many examples of it and it is the one thing keeping me going. I'm a deeply, I'm not a particularly strong person. I'm a deeply weak person and I need that kind of inspiration. And I am getting it daily from people who are much stronger than me and who are engaged in the kind of love that matters more than any other, I think."

[direct link to video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPI0RmTKCYk ]]]></description>
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As The Coalition For Women In Journalism notes, “Jebreal has been a vocal critic of the neo-fascist Fratelli d'Italia party and Israel’s apartheid, military occupation and has faced years of threats, intimidation, surveillance, and smear campaigns.”

Press freedom organizations have documented increasing risks to journalists, especially those working in Palestine, exposing war crimes and Palestinian journalists who challenge ethnonationalism and fascism globally.

Join journalists Rula Jebreal, Naomi Klein, and Nermeen Shaikh for a timely discussion of these critical challenges, and how we can build solidarity with journalists—and others—working on the front lines.

————————————

Speakers:

Rula Jebreal is an award-winning international journalist. Jebreal serves on the G7 gender-based violence advisory council and currently is a visiting professor at The University of Miami, where she teaches Communications (course title “Propaganda and Genocides”).

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, New York Times bestselling author, and columnist with The Guardian and co-director of the Centre for Climate Justice at the University of British Columbia. Her newest book is the New York Times-bestseller Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, now out in paperback.

Nermeen Shaikh is a co-host and senior producer at the independent television news hour Democracy Now! based in New York City. She is the author of The Present as History: Critical Perspectives on Global Power and serves on the Board of Directors of the Nobel Women's Initiative"]]></description>
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Ghannoushi argues that “the battle for Palestine is at the heart of a battle for the soul of humanity,” describing it as a struggle that “pits ordinary men and women against a powerful, unyielding global elite—a clash between the forces of dignity, justice, and freedom on one side, and supremacy, inequality, and colonialism on the other.”"

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https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/Palestine-not-simply-struggle-one-nation-freedom-battle-for-all-humanity

"To stand with Palestine is to stand against the machinery of oppression, to reject the structures that perpetuate imperialism and domination, and to affirm the sacred values of humanity itself"

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"Last week, US President Donald Trump returned to the Capitol as president, his ascent staged as a spectacle of defiance and power.

Draped in theatrics and bombast, Trump spoke of a renewed American "manifest destiny". This time, the promise extended beyond Earth to the stars. Colonising Mars, he declared, was the next great chapter in America’s mythology of conquest.

Yet, his ambitions for expansion had already revealed themselves on Earth. He floated the idea of purchasing Greenland, mused about annexing Canada, and invoked the Panama Canal as a symbol of US dominance. Whether aimed at land, trade routes, or planets, Trump’s imperialist vision reflects a fixation on control, cloaked in the language of exceptionalism.

Beneath the polished bravado and lofty proclamations lay the shadow of history.

Manifest destiny is a doctrine written in blood. It justified the genocide of millions of Native Americans, the theft of their lands, and the obliteration of their cultures. It cloaked destruction as progress, a weapon of empire masquerading as inevitability. And now, Trump seeks to resurrect that same ethos, updated for the modern age and aimed not just at the stars, but at every frontier he deems ripe for domination.

The spectacle of the inauguration carried its own unmistakable symbolism. Front-row seats were granted to the tech billionaires whose influence spans not just Silicon Valley, but every corner of the modern world.

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg are not mere spectators of global power; they are its architects. Their wealth has ballooned at an unprecedented pace, a staggering reflection of unchecked tech capitalism.

In 2012, Musk was worth $2bn; today, his wealth has soared to $449bn. Bezos grew from $18bn to $249bn, while Zuckerberg climbed from $44bn to $224bn

These numbers represent more than personal fortune. They reflect a global system where wealth consolidates in the hands of a few, while millions suffer the consequences. Meanwhile, the federal minimum wage in the US remains frozen at $7.25 an hour, unchanged since 2009.

This is the Divided States of Oligarchy: a world where billionaires fund and facilitate war and control, while the working class is left to toil with stagnant wages and declining security.

Their presence at the inauguration was a stark reminder of how intimately technology, surveillance, and wealth are tied to state violence. These billionaires, complicit in the systems of oppression, have made fortunes providing the tools of war and control.

Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have all supplied AI tools and data to enhance Israel’s military capabilities. Meta has systematically censored Palestinian voices, while Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) has amplified Israeli justifications for war.

Trump's universe
Yet, the echoes of conquest were not confined to metaphors. The carefully staged symbolism of Trump’s address betrayed its intent. Behind him stood the families of Israeli hostages, their grief etched into the performance.

Addressing an Israeli mother whose son had died in Gaza, Trump turned to her and declared: "Had I been in power three months ago, he wouldn’t have died. We had a deal in July."

The audience roared with approval, but there was a profound absence from the stage: no Palestinian mother stood there, no grieving voice to represent the over 10,000 Palestinians killed since July or the 50,000 or more slaughtered in 15 months. Their deaths, their names, their stories, their humanity, went unacknowledged.

This silence was no accident. In Trump’s universe, Palestinians do not exist. Their lives are devalued, erased by the same logic of manifest destiny that dehumanises those deemed expendable. Their suffering is rendered invisible, their deaths stripped of meaning. This indifference is not unique to Trump. It is systemic, woven into the fabric of global hegemony.

That Trump is now proposing the ethnic cleansing of Gaza to pave the way for glossy, sea-view real estate developments is as grotesque as it is unsurprising. "I’d like Egypt to take people. I’d like Jordan to take people," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. "You’re talking about, probably, a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing and say, ‘You know, it’s over.'"

Such total disregard for Palestinian lives is not unique to Trump though. In a recent interview with MSNBC, Biden admitted that he had warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to "carpet bomb" civilians in Gaza.

Netanyahu’s chilling response? "Well, you did it," he said, pointing to the United States’ own history of indiscriminate destruction. Fully aware of Netanyahu’s intent to wage a campaign of annihilation, Biden still approved the transfer of over 50,000 tons of bombs to Israel, an arsenal that has obliterated Gaza’s infrastructure and devastated its people.

Western dominance

This is the machinery of western dominance. The bombs that rain down on Gaza are made in America and Germany. The intelligence that guides them is supplied by the United Kingdom. The political cover that justifies these atrocities is manufactured in Washington, London, and Berlin.

Figures like British Prime Minister Keir Starmer endorsed Israel’s collective punishment, calling it "legitimate" to cut off food, water, and fuel to an already besieged population. Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock repeated Israeli propaganda, defending the bombing of hospitals where women and children burned alive.

The media, too, plays its role in this cycle of complicity. Western outlets amplify Israeli narratives while silencing Palestinian voices. The New York Times circulated fabricated accounts of atrocities allegedly committed by Hamas. CNN, despite internal protests, has repeatedly suppressed stories critical of Israel. The BBC’s Middle East coverage has faced scrutiny for being overseen by figures with links to Israeli intelligence.

These institutions have become part of a well-oiled machine that shapes public opinion, painting Israel as a victim while dehumanising Palestinians. The result is a distorted reality, where the oppressor is portrayed as the oppressed, and systemic violence is rationalised as self-defence.

The Palestinian struggle for liberation is the most asymmetric conflict in modern history.

On one side stands Israel, armed with the full might of the West, the unflinching support of its governments, its media, and its institutions. Israel is not simply a state. It is an extension of western hegemony in the Middle East, a colonial project nurtured and sustained by the world’s most powerful nations.

It is backed by weapons, surveillance systems, political cover, multinational corporations, and now artificial intelligence - tools of domination wielded to maintain its colonial grip on Palestinian land.

On the other side stand the Palestinians, isolated, besieged, and abandoned by the international order. They have no superpower to arm them, no media to champion their cause, no institutions to shield them. Theirs is not merely a fight for liberation - it is a fight against the entire structure of western imperialism that sustains Israeli colonialism.

Their resistance, against overwhelming odds, is a testament to the human spirit’s refusal to be extinguished.

And yet, despite this staggering asymmetry, a rising global resistance stands in solidarity with Palestinians.

A global resistance

Around the world, a rising resistance stands with Palestine. Streets in London, Paris, and New York have filled with protesters demanding an end to the siege of Gaza. University campuses have become flashpoints of dissent, with students staging sit-ins, walkouts, and teach-ins, despite institutional crackdowns. Activists face arrests, expulsions, and criminalisation, yet their defiance remains unbroken.

The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement continues to gain momentum, forcing corporations and governments to sever ties with Israel. Legal efforts to investigate Israeli war crimes press forward, with the International Criminal Court (ICC), the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and major human rights organisations pursuing accountability, despite relentless obstruction by western governments.

The global front is not a mere act of solidarity. It is the lifeblood of the struggle for liberation, an integral force without which the colossal power imbalance cannot possibly be redressed, and true justice will remain a distant dream. This movement must not only endure but evolve into a force capable of shattering entrenched systems of power and driving political change.

Because just as the Israeli project stands as a cornerstone of global dominance - an indispensable node in the machinery of empire - it can only be confronted by a vast and unyielding network of peaceful resistance.

This resistance must transcend borders, continents, cultures, and ideologies, weaving together a unified front as boundless and determined as the oppression it seeks to dismantle.

For this is not simply a struggle for one nation; it is a battle for the soul of humanity. It pits ordinary men and women against a powerful, unyielding global elite, a clash between the forces of dignity, justice, and freedom on one side, and supremacy, inequality, and colonialism on the other.

At the heart of this struggle lies Palestine - a symbol of resistance, of defiance, of the universal fight for liberation. To stand with Palestine is to stand against the machinery of oppression, to reject the structures that perpetuate imperialism and domination, and to affirm the sacred values of humanity itself.

The battle for Palestine is the battle for all of us. It is far from over. And it will be won."]]]></description>
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