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Hamas’ Condoms
30/01/2025
Trump’s team falsely claimed $50M in U.S. aid funded condoms for Hamas. In reality, the freeze blocks lifesaving medical care for thousands in Gaza.
We Refugees | by Hannah Arendt
14/12/2024
Hannah Arendt’s We Refugees explores the identity struggles of Jewish refugees, forced optimism, and societal rejection, revealing deep human and political crises.
“People are sick of the bullshit in here” – Liam Cosgrove goes off on State Dept spox
10/10/2024
Matthew Miller dodges tough questions from Liam Cosgrove, deflecting concerns about nuclear risks and U.S. hypocrisy in Gaza with dismissive doublespeak.
Selective Outrage: Gazan Tragedies Overlooked as Focus Narrows on Putin’s Horrors
27/02/2024
The article by Elena Basile discusses the widespread feeling of helplessness that permeates society due to the current trend towards
Russell Brand: Tucker Putin Interview – This Changes EVERYTHING | Transcript
12/02/2024
The legacy media are furious about Tucker Carlson interviewing Putin. But why? And does the new power axis of Tucker and Elon Musk now dwarf all legacy media combined?
Tucker Carlson Interviews Vladimir Putin | Transcript
10/02/2024
Putin’s interview with Tucker Carlson: Discusses Russia-Ukraine history, criticizes NATO, sanctions impact, and advocates for dialogue & peace
The Real Meaning of ‘From The River To The Sea’
18/12/2023
Explore the complex history and aspirations behind ‘From the River to the Sea,’ a symbol of Palestinian desire for freedom and equality
Noam Chomsky: U.S. is world’s biggest terrorist | Transcript
12/11/2023
Isabelle Kumar of Euronews interviewed Noam Chomsky about terrorism, Cuba and the future of Europe.
Dror Eydar: “The objective is to destroy Gaza, this absolute evil” | by Marco Travaglio
28/10/2023
“The objective is to destroy Gaza, this absolute evil,” said Dror Eydar, former Israeli ambassador to Rome from 2019 to ’22, on Italian TV. Not to destroy Hamas, but Gaza…
The Risk for Bibi of Falling Into His Own Trap | by Marco Travaglio
24/10/2023
If Bibi Netanyahu knew the history of the country he rules, he would not continue to fight an invisible phenomenon like Hamas terrorism with artillery and tanks.
Yuval Noah Harari on CNN Amanpour – Hamas’ aim was ‘to assassinate any chance for peace’ | Transcript
16/10/2023
Christiane Amanpour’s interview with Yuval Noah Harari, exploring the long-term implications of Hamas’ attack on Israel and the subsequent retaliation in Gaza.
Why Great Men Are Not Chosen Presidents
17/02/2021
Europeans often ask, and Americans do not always explain, how it happens that this great office, the greatest in the world, unless we except the Papacy, to which any man can rise by his own merits, is not more frequently filled by great and striking men?
What’s Wrong with Animal Rights?
16/02/2021
Originally an article in Harper’s, “What’s Wrong with Animal Rights?” demonstrates how Hearne’s attempts to explain animals end up being at least as much attempts to understand people.
CHINA & UIGHURS: LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER [TRANSCRIPT]
27/07/2020
John Oliver discusses the human rights abuses the Uighur people are facing at the hands of the Chinese government, and why those atrocities are worth our undivided attention.
DONALD TRUMP: LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER [FULL TRANSCRIPT]
03/07/2020
Oliver discusses Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and his career in business, outlining his campaign rhetoric, varying political positions and failed business ventures. He also says the Trump family name was changed at one point from the ancestral name “Drumpf”.
EVICTIONS: LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER [FULL TRANSCRIPT]
29/06/2020
‘Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’ explains how the pandemic bolsters affordable housing crisis
CORONAVIRUS VIII: PRISONS & JAILS: LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER [FULL TRANSCRIPT]
23/06/2020
‘Last Week Tonight With John Oliver’ addresses alarming Coronavirus spikes in prisons and jails, Urges depopulating facilities to avoid spread of COVID-19
POLICE: LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER [FULL TRANSCRIPT]
21/06/2020
John Oliver chose to forgo the usual Last Week Tonight format in favor of spending his entire episode Sunday night talking about the police brutality that led to the anti-racism protests that followed the May 25 killing in Minneapolis of an unarmed black man, George Floyd.
WALTER LIPPMANN: THE INDISPENSABLE OPPOSITION
20/06/2020
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters.
NEW RULE: THE BLUE WALL OF SILENCE | REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER [TRANSCRIPT]
17/06/2020
Bill Maher applauds the police officers who have finally begun to acknowledge that the problems in their ranks extend beyond just a “few bad apples.”
SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK: BLACK LIVES MATTER & IDENTITY POLITICS [TRANSCRIPT]
14/06/2020
Zizek discusses and links together several topics, such as the Black Lives Matter movement, the ‘All Lives Matter’ response to it, identity politics, subjectivity and universalism, why white liberals are attracted to identity politics in general and the meaning of the ‘Plus’ in LGBT+.
Randolph Bourne: “War is the Health of the State”
17/04/2020
Born some twenty years after Julien Benda, Randolph Bourne published his own attack on the betrayal of the intellectuals in the midst of World War I, a decade before Benda’s Betrayal appeared. He was a clerk avant la lettre, who played the part with splendid vehemence and political recklessness.
New Rule: Nowhere Else to Go | Real Time with Bill Maher [Transcript]
27/10/2019
In his editorial New Rule, Bill Maher has what he believes is a simple way for Democrats to win back the White House in 2020: presidential candidates have to stop acting weird.
Protected: Turkey’s Endgame in Syria
13/10/2019
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
NOAM CHOMSKY: MANUFACTURING CONSENT
01/08/2019
One of the best ways to control people in terms of attitudes is what the great political economist Thorstein Veblen called “fabricating consumers.” If you can fabricate wants… make obtaining things that are just about within your reach the essence of life, they’re going to be trapped into becoming consumers.
GRAHAM WALLAS: NATIONALITY AND HUMANITY
08/07/2019
Graham Wallas touched the cause of the trouble when he pointed out that political science today discusses institutions and ignores the nature of the men who make and live under them.
Croesus and Cassandra – by Carl Sagan
06/07/2019
A vital aspect of global warming is the interface between the predictions and the policy responses. We humans have a rich tradition on the confrontation of prophecy and politics. and some of the most instructive lessons trace back to classical Greece
Can Europe survive the new wave of populism? – Bernard Henri-Lévy with Douglas Murray (2017) – Full Transcript
02/06/2019
Bernard-Henri Levy and Douglas Murray debate ‘populism’ in 2017
Bernie Sanders announces 2020 run: Extended interview [CBS This Morning] – Full Transcript
19/02/2019
In this conversation with “CBS This Morning” co-host John Dickerson, Senator Bernie Sanders discusses taking another shot at the presidency and why he believes this campaign will succeed.