On the show this week:
• Trump's Iran gambit: is the chaos a strategy or is it just chaos?
• What Modi’s trip to Tel Aviv meant for Netanyahu and the Indo-Israeli alliance
• How Brazil’s young, evangelical influencers are becoming powerful force in politics
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On the show this week:
• Big AI, the hype machine and what major tech companies stand to gain from all the fear mongering
• The smear campaign against Francesca Albanese for speaking out about Gaza
• The campaign to shape coverage of Israel in African media
Watch now ▶️ youtu.be/Y7W9Sbu1lYQ
“This idea that because these two monsters are now one is locked away and one has died, that the entire apparatus has been brought down. It hasn’t. It did not just disappear… We know that somebody picked up the mantle.”
– Danielle Moodie on the Epstein files cover-up
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On the show this week:
• How the US Epstein class is evading accountability
• The renewed wave of repression in Iran
• How the Super Bowl became the US military’s ultimate propaganda showcase
• “The world is in peril” - Former Anthropic employee’s stark warning about AI
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In the month since Iran’s crackdown on anti-government protesters, authorities have raided and arrested scores of journalists and reformist politicians.
Tariq Nafi reports.
“It’s a way then for Americans to feel patriotic without seeing the ugly side of war.”
– Retired Lt. Colonel Gregory Daddis on the patriotic spectacle of the NFL.
Full report ▶️ youtu.be/X9KOyRlyQlM
Also featuring Kavitha Davidson and Howard Bryant.
On the show this week:
• The most significant stories missing from the mainstream media in the Epstein files
• No eyes on Gaza: How selective framing and restricted access are helping turn the media’s attention away from the ongoing horrors in Gaza
Watch now ▶️ youtu.be/JQ5vqgPbeAs
While mainstream media downplays Epstein’s numerous links to the Israeli government, more tenuous links to Russia are becoming increasingly conspicuous.
@meenakshirv.bsky.social and Drop Site News’s Murtaza Hussain take us through the story.
Mexicans are currently witnessing the latest showdown between President Claudia Sheinbaum and media mogul Ricardo Salinas Pliego - who has accused the government of “political persecution.”
Elettra Scrivo reports.
On the show this week:
• The lies following the ICE killings in Minnesota
• TikTok under the control of American owners is as censorious - maybe more - than it was under Chinese ownership
• Disinformation-driven violence in Bangladesh ahead of its elections
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Days after Trump allies took control of TikTok in the US, users have reported widespread censorship of content that mentions sore subjects for the administration like ICE, Palestine and Jeffrey Epstein.
Tariq Nafi reports on the allegations, the backlash and the rise of UpScrolled.
On the show this week:
• Trump's imperial tantrums spiral beyond all control - the rants, the posts and the delusion
• Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ initiative and the colonial vision for Gaza's future
• The unconventional team of investigators digging into the Epstein files
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On the show this week:
• Internal revolt and external pressure collide in Iran and the battle of narratives intensifies
• The White House is using AI bots to respond to the ICE killing of Renee Good
• Cory Doctorow on how scrutiny has taken a backseat in the AI arms race
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On the show this week:
• How Trump flooded the media zone with their Venezuela talking points
• Iranian protests spread like wildfire and Trump says the US is “locked and loaded” to intervene
• José Luis Granados Ceja on the abduction of Maduro and the future of Venezuela
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Richard Gizbert reports on the major news outlets being locked out of military briefings and the US’s brutal act of war in Venezuela.
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The Trump administration has doubled down on its threats to the Iranian government - saying it has its eye on the protests that are sweeping the country.
@meenakshirv.bsky.social reports
This past week, Reporters Without Borders released its annual report on violence against the media.
Nearly half of the 67 deaths this year were at the hands of Israeli forces in Gaza… contributing to a total of at least 278 media workers killed since October 7th.
Richard Gizbert reports.
On the show this week:
• So much money. So much drama. Is Netflix the better buyer for Warner Bros — or is it Paramount?
• No more social media for under 16s in Australia. How's that going?
• From jail, Pakistan's Imran Khan is a thorn in the side Asim Munir
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On the show this week:
• Will Netanyahu get the pardon that he says will "unite" Israel?
• Hillary Clinton sticks by her argument that TikTok - not genocide – is the root of Israel’s PR crisis
• Is South Korea's Kim Ou-Joon helping or harming its media discourse?
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On the show this week:
• The Trump administration is using the 'narco-state' narrative to justify its attacks on Venezuela
• The latest roadblock in peace talks between Russia and Ukraine
• How settler ideology became mainstream in Israeli society
Watch now ▶️ youtu.be/kANz99X3I-c
On the show this week:
• The escalating Israeli settler violence that’s simply not getting enough coverage
• Why are some media outlets helping Trump make the case for war with Venezuela?
• Elisa Morgera on #COP30 and the hold Big Oil has on our information systems
Watch ▶ youtu.be/QuXlRamOlzc
On the show this week:
• Trump’s war on news media goes global as BBC becomes his latest target
• Syrian President al-Sharaa makes a landmark trip to the US filled with photo ops and political theatre
• ‘Italian brainrot’ and the AI slop taking over our feeds
Watch now ▶️ youtu.be/BNAPd_ur4-s
On the show this week:
• Outrage in Israel: where war crimes against Palestinians are considered a PR problem
• The potential genocide in North Darfur and the disappeared journalists unable to report on it
• Why Kenya’s William Ruto has so many nicknames
Watch now ▶️ youtu.be/OnGUp41nHSc
“They understand the potential damage of journalists going in there…the protests and the objection to what Israel did will only grow.”
– Oren Ziv on why Israel is still blocking international media from going into Gaza.
Full report ▶️ youtu.be/icNWmHjbDJs
On the show this week:
• The double standards that lay bare how the genocide in Gaza was allowed to go on for so long
• Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado dedicates award to Trump
• How conservative women are rebranding Trump's politics for a female audience
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On the show this week:
• Trump takes a victory lap as ceasefire deal in Gaza takes effect
• Can billionaires Larry and David Ellison shift the narrative on Israel in the US ?
• How chasing ratings over accountability gave rise to the far-right in Portugal
Watch now ▶️ youtu.be/BUNFnZBXVhM
“As more journalists were being slaughtered and there were no consequences for Israel, their response became increasingly brazen.”
— Sharif Kouddous (@dropsitenews.com) on Israel’s systematic targeting of Palestinian journalists in Gaza.
Watch Smear. Kill. Repeat. ⤵️
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“This is utter hypocrisy.”
Inès Abdel Razek, Michael Lynk and Séamus Malekafzali spoke with us about the countries continuing to aid Israel’s genocide in Gaza despite recognising Palestinian statehood.
Full report ▶️ youtu.be/W78mjsGF4RE
Sudan’s civil war has displaced more than 13 million people and killed up to 150,000.
Reporting is sparse… but the coverage that has trickled out bears striking similarities to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
@meenakshirv.bsky.social has the details.
On the show this week:
• After Charlie Kirk’s killing, a crackdown is underway in the US
• Israel accuses the UN of sympathising with Hamas...again — and very few people are buying it
• How Donald Trump injected unpredictability into Russia’s war on Ukraine
Watch now ▶️ youtu.be/S2l0czCH7G8
