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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Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania
FOREWORD BY JAY BHATTACHARYA, MD, PHD Diary of a Psychosis is different from all other books on Covid: it traces the development of the government response as it happened, bit by bit, and subjects it to relentless scrutiny: did any of it do any good? It thereby...
Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty
Americans today have “freedom” to be fleeced, groped, injected, harassed, surveilled, vilified, disarmed, beaten, detained, and maybe shot by federal agents. From hapless homeowners hit by SWAT raids to pandemic lockdowns pointlessly paralyzing lives, government...
The Fake China Threat and Its Very Real Danger
Today the front pages and bookstores are filled with tales of the so-called "China Threat." From spy balloons to Fentanyl pipelines, genocide to dreams of world domination: CHINA! But is it all true? Is any of it? Now, for the first time, the speciousness of these and...