Readings of all Caitlin Johnstone's articles, usually by her co-writer Tim Foley.
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A weekly podcast hosted by Jon DiSavino. It celebrates the enduring and compact literary form known as - you guessed it - the short story. But more importantly, it gives listeners an opportunity to hear the work of some of the best emerging writers of today. Each episode begins with an interview with the week's guest author, and ends with a professional audiobook production of a story by that author.Jon DiSavino is an actor and stage director. In the last few years he has begun producing and ...
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Each year state and local governments spend $4 trillion dollars. Where does that money come from? Where does it go? Who manages it? And what do citizens and taxpayers have to show for it? In this podcast we explore the budgets, bonds, and bureaucrats at the heart of state and local public finance. The Public Money Pod is a production of the University of Chicago's Center for Municipal Finance. It is co-hosted by Liz Farmer and Justin Marlowe.
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Israel's Backers Are Now Advocating The Assassination Of Greta Thunberg
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6:26US Senator Lindsay Graham has just tweeted an article titled “Greta Thunberg sets sail with Gaza flotilla that aims to break Israeli naval blockade,” adding the comment, “Hope Greta and her friends can swim!”Australian Zionist think tanker Arsen Ostrovsky somehow outdid Graham, tweeting “Oh look, the little jihadi Greta Thunberg is trying to get in…
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We've seen multiple reports from doctors documenting Israeli forces actually entering hospitals they've attacked and destroying all the individual pieces of medical equipment in those facilities, one by one.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley
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If This Is What Israel Does, Then Israel Shouldn't Exist
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5:26If what we are seeing in Gaza is what it means for Israel to exist, then it shouldn't.People scream bloody murder when you say this, but it shouldn't be a controversial position. I'm not saying Jews shouldn't exist, I'm saying a genocidal apartheid state should not exist. A state is an artificial construct of the human mind, held together by human …
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Episode 128 - Laury A. Egan: "The Impaired Pair"
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40:55Award-winning NJ author Laury A. Egan's new collection is Contrary - an eclectic mix of twenty-one stories which also includes a two-act play. She's the author of seventeen books of fiction and four poetry volumes. We read her story "The Impaired Pair," which appears in Contrary. https://www.lauryaegan.com/ Support the show…
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Sorry If This Is Antisemitic But I Think It's Wrong To Burn Children Alive
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5:33srael is burning children alive in Gaza. And call me an antisemitic Jew-hating Nazi terrorist lover if you must, but I happen to believe that's wrong.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley
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This Dystopia Would Never Be Accepted Without Extensive Indoctrination
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4:47It takes a lot of education to make us this stupid. Our minds require a whole lot of training to accept this horrific dystopia as the baseline norm. That's why the empire we live under has the most sophisticated domestic propaganda machine that has ever existed.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley
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Navigating Muni Market Volatility, with Jennifer Johnston
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49:38This week, we welcome back Jennifer Johnston, Senior Vice President and Director of Municipal Bond Research at Franklin Templeton. We wanted to get a sense for the causes and conditions behind municipal market volatility, including what affects issuer and investor behavior on both the retail and institutional sides of the market. We also talk about…
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It's A Complete Lie To Say Gaza Can Have Peace If Hamas Surrenders
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7:01Anyone who says Gaza will be at peace if Hamas just surrenders and releases the hostages is either knowingly sowing disinformation or ignorantly sowing misinformation. We need to make sure everyone's clear on this so no one can say they didn't know after history unpacks this one.Reading by Tim Foley.…
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Today's Hitler Says "Free Palestine" Is Today's "Heil Hitler"
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4:08There’s been a frenetic push from the pro-Israel crowd in using the slain embassy staffers to argue that pro-Palestine protesters need to be shut down, and it’s just so ridiculous. Nobody should grant it even one second of serious consideration.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley
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Thoughts On The Israeli Embassy Staff Killings
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5:26Two Israeli embassy staffers getting shot in Washington DC is less newsworthy than tens of thousands of Palestinians being killed in Israel's genocidal land grab. It is less important. It deserves less attention. It is not the main story. Israel's genocide in Gaza is the main story.Reading by Tim Foley.…
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The Western Media Brought Gaza To This Point
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4:40Benjamin Netanyahu is now explicitly saying that the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza is a precondition to ending the slaughter in the besieged Palestinian territory.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley
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A former Knesset member named Moshe Feiglin went on Israeli television on Tuesday and proclaimed that "every child, every baby in Gaza is an enemy" of Israel, and that "not a single Gazan child will be left there" after Israel's genocidal onslaught is completed.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley
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The World Cannot Know True Peace Until We Have Reckoned With What We Did To Gaza
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4:01This genocide has changed me forever. It has changed a lot of people forever. We will never be the same. The world will never be the same. No matter what happens or how this nightmare ends, things are never again going back to the way they were.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley
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Israeli Officials Explain Balancing Act Between Overt Genocide And Maintaining Western Support
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6:46They have opted for their slow-motion strangulation approach because that's what's necessary to maintain essential western support and avoid war crimes tribunals.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley
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You Are Already Fully Qualified To Oppose The Genocide In Gaza
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5:12You don't need to understand every little detail about Israel and Palestine to oppose the genocide in Gaza. You can safely go with your gut on this one. You can and should research this issue, of course, but everything you learn will only make Israel look worse.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley
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Tariffs and Their Impact on Municipal Finance, with David Dubrow
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46:31This week, we're joined by David Dubrow, Partner at ArentFox Schiff. With the uncertainty surrounding tariffs in recent weeks, how should issuers prepare for contingencies, and what effects might we expect on prices, trade, and economic growth? David talks to us about all of this and more, including how mutual funds have been impacted, as well as s…
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Prostate Cancer Has A Right To Exist. Biden's Tumor Has A Right To Defend Itself
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6:10Biden's malignant metastatic tumor must be given everything it needs to defend itself from unprovoked attacks by radical oncologists.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley
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Imagine If Gaza Was Jewish And The People Bombing It Were Muslims
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4:47If Gaza was populated by Jews and the people massacring its inhabitants were Muslims, nobody would have any trouble calling this thing what it is. The words "genocide" and "Holocaust" would've been appearing in the news every single day for the last 19 months.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley
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Never, Ever Let Anyone Forget What They Did To Gaza
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3:35I will never forget the Gaza holocaust. I will never let anyone else forget about the Gaza holocaust.No matter what happens or how this thing turns out, I will never let anyone my voice touches forget that our rulers did the most evil things imaginable right in front of us and lied to us about it the entire time.Reading by Tim Foley.…
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Episode 127 - SAW PALM: Florida Literature and Art - Issue 19: Florida Strange
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1:04:18The literary journal Saw Palm was created in 2006 by John Henry Fleming, Phd and the MFA students of the Creative Writing Program at the University of South Florida. Saw Palm's mission is to go beyond the tourist brochures and capture the unique experience of Florida lives, landscapes, and tropes. The episode features a discussion about the making …
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Israel Admits It Bombed A Hospital To Kill A Journalist For Doing Journalism
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6:03That's right kids, Israel will literally assassinate a journalist by bombing a hospital, openly admit that they bombed the hospital to assassinate the journalist for engaging in journalistic activities - and then call you an antisemite if you say Israel bombs hospitals and assassinates journalists.Reading by Tim Foley.…
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How To Make Your Mind Harder For The Propagandists To Manipulate
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6:24When people hear the word "propaganda" they tend to think it means the same thing as "lies", but that's not accurate. The domestic propaganda that westerners are fed by the powerful does not typically consist of whole-cloth fabrications, but rather of distortions, half-truths, manipulated emphasis, and lies by omission.Reading by Tim Foley.…
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Multiple Western Press Outlets Have Suddenly Pivoted Hard Against Israel
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6:26After a year and a half of genocidal atrocities, the editorial boards of numerous British press outlets have suddenly come out hard against Israel's genocidal onslaught in Gaza.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley
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It Is Freakish And Insane How Our Society Averts Its Gaze From Gaza
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5:54It can make you feel like you’re going mad. How phony and superficial it all is. How we’re a year and a half into history’s first live-streamed genocide and our whole society is acting like everything’s peachy.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley
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India-Pakistan Ceasefire, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
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4:50After a few frightening missile and drone strike exchanges and some of the most large-scale aerial combat that our world has seen in recent history, India and Pakistan have reportedly agreed to a full and immediate ceasefire.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley
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Israeli snipers routinely, deliberately shoot children in the head throughout the Gaza Strip.Israel created an AI system for the IDF to target suspected Hamas fighters when they go home to their families and mockingly called it "Where's Daddy?", because they are killing the fighters' children.Israel has targeted healthcare facilities and ambulances…
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Nuclear states getting into tit-for-tat bombing exchanges with each other is a threat to everybody.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley
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Waking Up From The Nightmare Of Western Civilization
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5:17We don't need horror movies. We're creating our own horrors in places like Gaza.We don't need dystopian fiction. We're living in dystopia right here in our own society.We don't need fantasy stories about scary monsters. The scary monsters run our government.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley
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Israel Will Even Persecute Palestinians For Simply Talking To Journalists
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4:46Israeli soldiers have been harassing a Palestinian activist who appeared in Louis Theroux's recent documentary The Settlers to talk about Israel's apartheid abuses in the occupied West Bank. Issa Amro shared footage of IDF troops raiding his home over the weekend, days after Theroux's film debuted on the BBC.Israelis not only murder journalists, at…
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It Was Never About Hostages. It Was Never About Hamas
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4:10There is absolutely no excuse for continuing to babble about hostages and Hamas after the US and Israel said the goal is the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza. They told you what this is really about. They said it. With their face holes. They said it right to you. End of debate.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley
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Anti-Zionism is anti-semitism. Cats are ducks. The Declaration of Independence is spaghetti sauce. The Bronze Age is a foot fetish. There are no differences between any two things. All things are exactly the same as all other things.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley
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Israel's Backers Keep Whining That They're Losing Control Of The Narrative
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8:19Amnesty International is now calling Israel’s mass atrocity in Gaza “a live-streamed genocide” due to the way this nightmare is unfolding right in front of us on the screens of our devices around the world, and public support for Israel is plummeting in the United States.Zionists are losing control of the narrative, and they know it. And they are n…
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Episode 126 - Caitlin Galway: A Song for Wildcats
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50:05Award-winning Toronto author Caitlin Galway speaks with us about her "mad scientist" approach to writing, which has produced some of the most startling and original fiction being written today. Her new collection is A Song for Wildcats, published by Dundurn Press. https://caitlingalway.wixsite.com/caitlin-l-galway Support the show…
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So everyone who said the Biden administration was working for a ceasefire lied. They lied that whole entire time. They committed genocide and lied about it, and then they said you were crazy and irresponsible if you didn’t support them.People’s rage should shake heaven and earth.Reading by Tim Foley.…
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Translating Financial Empowerment to City Fiscal Health, with Angela Rollins
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45:29This week, we're speaking with Angela Rollins, Director of Financial Empowerment for the City of Rochester, NY. As someone who is working at the intersection of personal finance and public finance, we wanted to ask Angela about how individual-focused financial empowerment programs help both resident economic mobility as well as the overall financia…
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Israel is a bad country full of bad people. They are not bad because of their religion, they are bad because they live in a genocidal apartheid state whose existence depends on indoctrinating its people into seeing genocide and apartheid as good. It's the system. It's always about the system.Reading by Tim Foley.…
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We Are Trapped In A Dystopia That Is Ruled By Lunatics
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7:11We really need a name for the mental illness that comes with obscene amounts of wealth. Elon Musk's bizarre progeny obsession. All the weird shit Michael Jackson did. The stories you hear about rich families making their servants clean their toilets after every use or throw away plates after every meal.Reading by Tim Foley.…
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All The Worst Evils Are Happening Right Out In The Open
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5:35Trump is committing genocide for Israel after publicly admitting to being bought and owned by the Adelsons.All the worst shit happens right out in the open. You don't need to come up with any elaborate conspiracy theories to see it. It's right there, completely unhidden.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley
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Nobody say "Fuck Israel, Free Palestine." Saying "Fuck Israel, Free Palestine" is very offensive to people who think genocide is good.When you say "Fuck Israel, Free Palestine," you are hurting the feelings of the people who believe it's fine to bomb every hospital in Gaza. So you must never, ever say "Fuck Israel, Free Palestine."Reading by Tim Fo…
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Zionism Is The Single Greatest Threat To Free Speech In The Western World Today
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5:29The Irish-language hip hop trio Kneecap is being investigated by British counterterrorism police following a controversial appearance where the group performed in front of the words "FUCK ISRAEL, FREE PALESTINE" during a music festival in the United States.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley
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The 21st Century Human Is Called Upon To Awaken Both Outwardly And Inwardly
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4:27We can’t keep living like this. We’ve got to wake up. We’ve got to become better. We’re never going to make it if we don’t awaken to the reality of our circumstances, both as individuals and as a collective.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley
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Not Taking A Position On Gaza IS Taking A Position On Gaza
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4:34It's not okay to claim ignorance or uncertainty about what's happening in Gaza in 2025. You're an adult. You have internet access. If you don't know, learn. You can't just go "it too compwicated, me no understandy, googoo gaga." It's not cute and it's not okay.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley
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If October 7 Justifies The Gaza Genocide, What Acts Of Violence Will The Gaza Genocide Justify?
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4:34If you believe that all the violence and destruction in Gaza is the fault of Hamas, then by your own logic you must also accept that the coming wave of violent extremism and antisemitism which is going to ensue from the incineration of Gaza will exclusively be the fault of Israel.I said this on Twitter the other day and Israel supporters got outrag…
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The Pope Has Died, And The Palestinian People Have Lost An Important Advocate
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6:00Pope Francis has died after using his Easter Sunday address to call for peace in Gaza. I don't know who the cardinals will pick to replace him, but I do know with absolute certainty that there are some major transnational intelligence operations in the works to make sure they select a more reliable supporter of Israel. They've probably been working…
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(Mis)Understanding Climate Risk and Financial Risk, with Spencer Glendon
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1:00:34Climate change is a reality of our world, but are we thinking effectively about addressing our challenges? To find out, we sat down with Spencer Glendon, Founder of Probable Futures. We asked Spencer to tell us about what we often get wrong when thinking about climate adaptation, mitigating financial risk tied to high-risk weather events, and what …
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"I Want A Death That The World Will Hear" - Journalist Assassinated By Israel For Telling The Truth
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4:30Israel views journalists as its enemy because Israel is the enemy of truth.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley
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Trump Supporters Don't Understand Free Speech
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4:09The hypocrisy of Trumpists cheerleading the president's assaults on free speech makes it clear that they have no idea why free speech ever came to be valued in our society in the first place.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley
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The US Just Massacred Civilians In Yemen Without Even Claiming They're Military Targets
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4:42The US massacred civilians in Yemen with repeated strikes on a Hodeidah fuel port on Wednesday night, killing some 17 workers in the first bombing and five medical workers in the second "double tap" attack.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley
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They are sending billionaires and pop stars into space while the planet burns and Americans ration their insulin.There are companies marketing AI lovers to lonely people and harvesting their data.Last night Israel bombed a tent camp in Gaza, and women and children burned alive.This is a strange, dark place. Strange, dark times in a strange, dark wo…
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"Israel Has A Right To Defend Itself" Is A Genocidal Slogan
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3:54Bernie Sanders has been repeatedly uttering the phrase "Israel has a right to defend itself" on his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, which in the year 2025 can only be interpreted as blatant genocide apologia.Reading by Tim Foley.By Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley
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