Manufacturing Dissent

For more than a decade, anyone following Yemen has been told the same story. The war, they say, is the result of an ancient conflict between Shia and Sunni Muslims. Ansar Allah is presented as a purely Shia movement. Its supporters are portrayed as motivated primarily by sectarian identity. Every political development is filtered through the same lens. It is a simple explanation. It is also a misl...

For most of his life, Mohammed Deif existed somewhere between reality and legend. Israel spent decades hunting him. Intelligence services tracked him across Gaza. Fighter jets targeted him repeatedly. Assassination attempts left him wounded, scarred, and, according to numerous reports, permanently disabled. Yet he kept reappearing, surviving long after many believed he had been killed. To Palestin...

Elon Musk insisted that no children died because of the dismantling of American foreign aid. The evidence coming out from South Sudan tells a different story. Al Jazeera's Fault Lines documentary A Thousand Cuts follows families caught in the fallout from the Trump administration's assault on USAID and humanitarian programs that had long served as the backbone of healthcare delivery in one of the...

On Sunday, October 25, 2026, Dwight Jackson was outside his own home on Chattahoochee Street in Chattahoochee, Florida, putting up Halloween decorations when he suffered a seizure and collapsed. His brother, Caleb Johns, called for help. EMS arrived and began treating him. Roughly 45 minutes into the medical response—while responders were still rendering aid and had the situation under control—Sgt...

📽️ Credit: Piers Morgan Uncensored From the show: Benjamin Netanyahu is fighting for his political future as Israel’s opposition looks to bring an end to his long and turbulent premiership. But if the era of Israel’s longest-serving prime minister is nearing its end, what legacy will he leave behind? Once hailed as “Mr Security”, Netanyahu faces intense criticism over the security failures surroun...

Podcast Summary: Aaron Maté joins Fidias for a conversation on media narratives, the war in Ukraine, Western foreign policy, sanctions, and the influence of powerful political interests on government decision-making. The discussion challenges mainstream explanations for ongoing conflicts and examines how public opinion is shaped, how diplomatic opportunities are often sidelined, and who benefits p...

How does imperialism shape today's wars, and why is Iran in the crosshairs? Dan Cyrus talks with Maung Zarni, a Burmese scholar exiled in the UK, a human rights activist and a founder of the Free Rohingya Coalition. He has challenged Myanmar's military regime for decades. In this episode: * What imperialism and anti-imperialism mean today, and how Western governments and corporations work together...

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The release of Britain’s Gaza Secrets Exposed , Channel 4's latest Dispatches investigation, has reignited a question that has followed the genocide since its earliest days: what did the British government know about allegations of war crimes in Gaza, and why did it continue approving arms exports to Israel despite growing international concern? According to the documentary, the answer lies within...

Israel’s latest election is just another chapter in the endless cycle of a state built on occupation, displacement, and militarism choosing more of the same. Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc pulling ahead in the partial counts is the predictable outcome of a society that has been radicalised by decades of expansionism, collective punishment in Gaza, and the systematic denial of Palestinian rig...

At the United Nations General Assembly, 26 national delegations took the floor in succession to criticize the decades-old U.S. economic embargo against Cuba, reinforcing a pattern that has defined annual UN debates on the issue for more than three decades. According to UN proceedings, Member States from multiple regions argued that the embargo continues to harm Cuba's economy, restrict development...

A heated confrontation erupted on the floor of the United Nations General Assembly on October 27, 2026, as Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla and U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz clashed during the annual debate over Washington’s decades-long embargo on Cuba. Waltz was speaking against a non-binding resolution calling for an end to the U.S. economic, commercial, and financial measures when...

Why Does Michael Gove Think He Gets to Define Antisemitism for Everyone Else? When former Conservative minister and current Spectator editor Michael Gove publicly clashes with Green Party leader Zack Polanski over antisemitism, the argument is about far more than one political disagreement. It raises a question that has become central to British politics: who gets to define antisemitism, and why a...

When author Benjamin Moser shared a story about his 80-year-old mother changing her views after reading his book Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History , it captured something larger than a personal conversation. Moser recalled that his mother had once gone so far as to accuse him of being aligned with Hamas. After reading his work, she apologized, telling him, “I’m ashamed I ever said I was a Zionist.” T...

The NYPD under Mayor Zohran Mamdani will sign a $750,500 3-year no-bid contract with Israeli surveillance firm Cognyte. The contract will provide NYPD with an AI-powered cell-site simulator known as FalcoNet. It can create fake cell towers to track mobile devices. It can be attached to police cars, drones or even hidden in a backpack. About Cognyte Myanmar Won a contract to sell Interception Spywa...

The 2006 film Valley of the Wolves: Iraq (Kurtlar Vadisi: Irak) is often remembered as a controversial action movie. But its central claim, that organs were being harvested arab muslim bodies, was not invented. It has since been corroborated by Israeli admissions and ongoing allegations from Gaza. 🎬 The film that brought it to light The plot follows a Turkish intelligence agent sent to Iraq after...

As of October 24th, 2026, direct accounts and reporting indicate a severe resurgence of famine conditions across the Gaza Strip. Border crossing closures, regional military escalations, international aid cuts, and internal market failures have rapidly worsened the humanitarian situation. Essential food supplies—including flour, fresh produce, and basic staples—have largely vanished from markets, d...

As we move deeper into late October, tensions throughout the Persian Gulf have arrived at a critical juncture, and headlines across Western nations are dominated by discussions of US and Israeli strikes along with reports that Iran has been testing ballistic missiles in its central and western provinces. Even so, the reality on the ground involves far more than what is immediately apparent at firs...

When NAZA premiered at the Venice Film Festival, it was immediately clear that this was not just another war documentary. Directed by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, the film presents testimony from 24 current and former Israeli intelligence officers and soldiers who describe, often anonymously and under conditions of secrecy, how targeting systems, surveillance technologies, and...

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For centuries, Jewish communities lived across the Arab world as part of the region’s social fabric. They weren’t outsiders. They weren’t foreigners. They weren’t “minorities” in the modern sense. They were Baghdadi Jews, Yemeni Jews, Egyptian Jews, Syrian Jews, Tunisian Jews — people whose language, food, music, humor, and worldview were Arab to the bone. They wrote Arabic poetry, ran Arab newspa...

Since the current Israeli government took office in late 2022, and especially after October 2023, conditions for Palestinians in the West Bank have deteriorated alarming. B’Tselem’s Elimination Project report, based on more than 2,000 testimonies collected since October 2023, describes a coordinated system that dismantles Palestinian life through state policy, military actions, and settler violenc...

The protests in Albania began with the Kushner deal. People saw the government handing over prime land and national assets through a deal negotiated behind closed doors, pushed through without public consultation, and designed to benefit foreign investors and political insiders instead of Albanians. Students reacted first, calling it a sellout of the country. Workers joined them. Families joined t...

The Utah County Planning Commission pushed through a widely unpopular data center ordinance Tuesday night — without allowing public comment — and the room erupted in a single word: “shame.” People had filled the meeting in Provo to oppose the ordinance, which allows for an expansion of the permitted use of data centres in areas used for mining, grazing, and industry. The crowd stayed seated and ca...

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