JIMMY DORE SHOW—Jon Stewart is using his return to the Daily Show host’s chair to do everything in his power to get back into the good graces of the establishment. Most recently, he gave Hamas and Israel the “both sides” treatment, implying that the two warring factions are equally at fault for the lack of progress toward peace. Jimmy and Due Dissidence hosts Russell Dobular and Keaton Weiss discuss Stewart’s blithe dismissal of Israel’s policy of collective punishment, imposing starvation, genocide and immiseration on the people of Gaza.
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George Galloway victory triggers UK elite meltdown
145 Mins readEDITOR—The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate on the stunning victory of George Galloway in the Rochdale parliamentary by-election over a Labour candidate, which he dedicated to the people of Gaza, and the freakout it has caused among the British establishment. The team at Due Dissidence—Russell Dobular and Keaton Weiss—add their interpretations, along with their London guest, Ian Puddick.
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—In case you haven’t been following the story, back in December the Times published an article titled “‘Screams Without Words’: How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7” which was riddled with glaring plot holes that were exposed by research from outlets like The Grayzone, Electronic Intifada, and Mondoweiss. Later it came out with the help of an anonymous Twitter account named zei_squirrel that one of the three authors of the New York Times piece — Anat Schwartz — is a genocide-supporting Israeli intelligence veteran who had never worked in journalism before, and that another author of the piece — a food writer named Adam Sella — is her partner’s nephew.
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OLIVER BOYD-BARRETT—The effete leaders of the Western World stubbornly persist in repeating all their mistakes. So, knowing that their obsessive craving for a sanctions regime that might work the way they think it should work is actually a rather pathetic delusion which only makes Russia more independent and more prosperous than ever, and which diminishes Western trade and profitability and pushes up the cost of energy for Western industry and is right now pushing Europe into recession and deindustrialization, what do they do? Even the IMF has told Washington and Europe that its sanctions packages are counterproductive.
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“Ukraine is Winning!” Selling the mendacious official narrative by every available channel
11 minutes readEDITOR—Matt Orfalea in one of his inimitable spoofs demonstrates that for all its ostensible diversity, US media does not dare deviate from the official monotonic narrative on any of the important topics defining reality for most people in the West. This was seen, for example, with the phenomenon of Russiagate, still an unchallenged hoax now making a comeback with the expected victory of Trump in 2024, and currently the narrative gyrations covering the Ukraine fiasco, the imperial genocide of Palestinians, and the constant demonisation of Washington’s main designated enemies, Russia, China, and Iran.