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Oct 2023
1h 18m

Arming Apartheid | Ghada Karmi & Antony ...

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About this episode
This week we were planning to bring you an episode about money in the digital age, but with everything that is currently unfolding in occupied Palestine we felt that this conversation between two leading thinkers on the subject was an important contribution to current discourse. In this episode, recorded on October 6th, Ghada Karmi and Antony Loewenstein s ... Show More
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