Download Episode. Scott interviews Iraqi journalist Dana Taib Menmy about an article he wrote on the possibility that cleric Muqtada al-Sadr may return to Iraqi politics after a nearly three-year withdrawal. Scott and Menmy discuss who Sadr is, why he left, why it...
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UN Review: No Evidence UNRWA Staff Are Terrorists
The UN’s review on UNRWA’s neutrality notes that Israel provided no evidence for its claim that staff members belong to terrorist organizations.
UN Report Finds Palestinians Face Severe Abuses in Israeli Detention
The UN aid agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) released a report showing that Gazans rounded up by the Israeli military have been subjected to severe abuses. UNRWA found some of its employees were subject to coercion and forced to make false statements about the...
Israel Killed 100+ Civilians in ‘Apparent War Crime’ – HRW
A deadly Israeli airstrike on a six-story apartment block early in the Gaza war likely constituted a war crime, rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has reported.
World Court Orders Israel to Ease Grip on Gaza Aid
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered Israel to relax its blockade on aid shipments into Gaza, saying Tel Aviv must stop interfering with deliveries as Palestinians face dire food and medicine shortages.
UN Expert Says Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza
UN experts on human rights stated Israel was committing genocide in Gaza. The statement comes as the nearly six-month-long Israeli onslaught in Gaza has killed at least 32,000 people and has put over a million Palestinians on the brink of famine. Francesca Albanese,...
Israel Seizes West Bank Land for Future Settlements
The Israeli government has confiscated a swath of territory in the occupied West Bank to make way for a new settlement block
Rights Groups Demand US End Weapon Shipments to Israel
Oxfam and Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a joint letter calling for President Joe Biden to halt arms transfers to Israel. Over the past five months, Washington has shipped weapons to Tel Aviv on a near-daily basis. The rights groups documented Israel conducting...
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Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much? In Provoked: How...
