Guns, Germs, and Steal

This week Lara and Michael cover Israel's forced starvation of the Palestinian people in Gaza, which has reached Stage 5 for many people in the Gaza Strip, the US sanctions levied against United Nations Special Rapporteur on the oPt, Francesca Albanese, and the odd resignation of ... Show More

This week Lara and Michael discuss the uprisings in LA and the solidarity seen at the protests. We also cover updates around the groundbreaking lawsuit brought by Palestine Pod alum Damia Taharraoui which seeks to hold Israeli/French citizens accountable for complicity in genocid ... Show More

Lara and Michael sit down separately this week. Lara reads from her submission on the political economy of the Gaza Genocide prepared as part of her work for the Gaza Tribunal's Sarajevo session and Michael talks about being digitally disappeared from Instagram by one of Meta's m ... Show More

For the past week, an international outcry has been building, particularly in Europe, over Israel’s plans to escalate its military campaign in Gaza and over its two-month-long blockade, which has put Gaza’s population on the brink of starvation.On Wednesday in Washington D.C., tw ... Show More

Matt and Daniel are joined by Katie Halper (The Katie Halper Show, Useful Idiots) to cover the tragic killing of Aysengur Eygi by an IDF sniper, the difficulty in extracting a straight answer from the US State Department, and the Israeli tween publicity corps.Please donate to the ... Show More

Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the latest developments in the grinding Gaza war, including Israel's plans to attack Rafah, the incendiary protest at the Israeli embassy by one active duty US serviceman, and the deepening scandal at the New York Times over its discredit ... Show More

The suffering in Gaza has reached new depths, and now finding food, which was already scarce, has become a deadly endeavor.Israeli forces have opened fire on crowds of desperate and hungry people who were trying to reach aid sites established by a new and controversial humanitari ... Show More

“We cannot know what sort of human beings will emerge from this.” Following Hamas’s deadly attack on 7 October 2023, Israel’s military response has been described as “inevitable”. Eleven months on, the scope and ferocity of that military response has stunned the world. In this ep ... Show More

With the International Court of Justice deliberating over South Africa’s genocide case against Israel, we look at how the proceedings could affect reporting on the war. Contributors: Qaanitah Hunter - Journalist, News24 Nimer Sultany - Editor-in-Chief, The Palestine Yearbook of I ... Show More

A US military veteran who worked for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has told the BBC he's never seen such brutality as that shown by Israeli soldiers and American contractors against starving civilians.And Israel's ambassador to France tells Newshour a French decision to recogn ... Show More

In this episode of The President's Daily Brief: On the fourth day of Israel's war against Hamas, we’ll highlight the responses from both the Israeli government and the Israeli Defense Forces. We shine a spotlight on the tragic massacre at the Supernova music festival, a pivotal m ... Show More

At Glastonbury, Britain’s biggest music festival, two artists called out Israel’s genocide in Gaza and accused the British government of complicity. On-stage remarks by one of them - Bob Vylan - plunged the country's public broadcaster, the BBC, which livestreamed the performance ... Show More