Manufacturing Dissent

PBS had planned to air One Day in Gaza across its national network, a film that digs into what happened on May 14, 2018, when Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinians during the Great March of Return. The BBC had already aired it in the UK. The U.S. broadcast was scheduled, promoted, and locked in. Then, without warning, PBS yanked it from the lineup and replaced it with a recycled Frontline epi...

📽️ Credit: Unknown We are a fully subscriber supported publication. We feature citizen journalists unapologetically. Help us grow and fuel honest, citizen journalism by becoming a paid member. Get full access to Manufacture Dissent at mandissent.com/subscribe

Cornell likes to present itself as one of the safest, most prestigious campuses in the country. It’s the kind of place parents brag about, the kind of place brochures show with smiling students on green lawns, the kind of place that insists it has everything under control. But the numbers sitting inside its own reports tell a completely different story. They show a campus where harm isn’t rare. It...

📽️: yaakov_shapiro/x We are a fully subscriber supported publication. We feature citizen journalists unapologetically. Help us grow and fuel honest, citizen journalism by becoming a paid member. Get full access to Manufacture Dissent at mandissent.com/subscribe

Masculinity is a performance for other men, and the Cornell 7 are a textbook example of what happens when that performance becomes the only reality men trust. None of this is about impressing women. It’s about proving to other men that you’re willing to cross lines, enforce dominance, and protect the group’s image at any cost. Masculinity becomes a stage where the audience is always male, and the...

The Green Party has voted to adopt a motion declaring Zionism to be a form of racism, triggering immediate backlash from the mainstream media and pro-Israeli groups. The motion was brought forward by members who felt that the party had not taken a firm enough stance on the political ideology fueling the oppression of the Palestinians. It was passed by delegates who argued that the ideology was a r...

📽️: Uncivilized Media We are a fully subscriber supported publication. We feature citizen journalists unapologetically. Help us grow and fuel honest, citizen journalism by becoming a paid member. Get full access to Manufacture Dissent at mandissent.com/subscribe

📽️: DropSite News On February 28th, Minab began its morning just as it always did. The children put on their schoolbags, the teachers prepared their lessons and the parents sent their children out the door, expecting to see them again for lunch. By noon, the school had been reduced to a crater. A sequence of U.S. Tomahawk missiles struck the building, leaving almost nothing standing. At least 156...

John Pilger’s 2002 documentary revisits the West Bank and Gaza a quarter‑century after his first film on the same subject, arguing that the core injustice facing Palestinians has remained fundamentally unchanged. Pilger documents how Palestinians continue to live under Israeli military occupation, facing restrictions on movement, home demolitions, refugee‑camp limbo, and a permit system he compare...

Ansar Allah, often called the Houthis, is a political and military movement that emerged from Yemen’s northern Saada region in the early 2000s. They didn’t appear out of nowhere. They grew out of years of political exclusion, economic neglect, and foreign interference in Yemen’s internal affairs. Before the war, Ansar Allah was part of Yemen’s political landscape. They ran social programs, religio...

Israel has maintained for months that its bombing raids on Gaza were “precise,” that “half the dead were combatants,” and that civilian casualties were “unavoidable.” Evidence from the Bearing Witness Project, independent casualty audits, and epidemiological modeling show that Israel has lied about all three. Israel has always known exactly who it was killing. Internal audits of Gaza’s public heal...

📽️: Middle East Eye We are a fully subscriber supported publication. We feature citizen journalists unapologetically. Help us grow and fuel honest, citizen journalism by becoming a paid member. Get full access to Manufacture Dissent at mandissent.com/subscribe

The actual situation with mosques in the United States is dull, ordinary, and entirely without merit for the hysterical fears that people continually create. They function as community centers, have places where prayers are held, serve as food banks, offer language courses, see children playing around after their Quran lessons, have women who arrange charity campaigns, and have men who repair the...

The RAF Fairford episode is a direct result of an ongoing debate about Britain's alleged sovereign control over its military operations and how much Britain is willing to sacrifice its military independence for the perceived geostrategic and diplomatic benefits of being an unwavering ally of the United States and Israel. The Fairford affair is thus just one symptom of a much broader strategic and...

Israel’s clearing of Gaza neighborhoods is no longer just a pattern visible in scattered videos — it’s now documented across multiple independent investigations. CBC’s visual analysis, backed by satellite imagery, shows entire districts flattened by heavy machinery, then repurposed into military bases. What makes this more than a reconstruction effort is the timing: these clearances happened while...

Dr. Nahreen Ahmed has now become one of the most significant medical witnesses to the situation affecting children in Gaza. She is a pulmonary and critical care physician from Philadelphia, works as a volunteer with MedGlobal, and has already been in Gaza five different times. Each time she comes back from a visit, she has more stories than any doctor ever ought to have to tell. At her speech to t...

We are a fully subscriber-supported publication. We feature citizen journalists unapologetically. Help us grow and fuel honest, citizen journalism by becoming a paid member. Ai Tools Used Meta Ai— Thumbnail Gemini— Slides Adobe Premiere Ai— Video Editing Get full access to Manufacture Dissent at mandissent.com/subscribe

This whole exchange is a perfect snapshot of how U.S. officials justify wars they already decided to fight: retroactively invent the threat, wrap it in emotional anecdotes, and hope nobody notices the timeline doesn’t make sense. Afshin Rattansi: “Americans pay $2 billion a day for the Iran war.” Afshin Rattansi: “Why did the US launch this war when there wasn’t an Iranian threat to the US before...

Meet the Press – Summary of Interview with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi On Meet the Press, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi laid out Iran’s position on both diplomacy and war, centering on Tehran’s seven‑day proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. He said Iran has already delivered the plan through mediators and is still waiting for Washington’s official response. “Why are they...

Who is Hussam al‑Asiri Hussam al‑Asiri is a former Saudi official who operated close to the administrative and security orbit surrounding Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. His position placed him inside the machinery that handles sensitive internal matters: personnel vetting, internal discipline, confidential communications, and the informal channels through which the Crown Prince’s directives mov...

📽️ Credit: The Tea with Myriam François/YT We are a fully subscriber supported publication. We feature citizen journalists unapologetically. Help us grow and fuel honest, citizen journalism by becoming a paid member. Get full access to Manufacture Dissent at mandissent.com/subscribe

Israel and Saudi Arabia quietly aligning themselves long before the public photo ops isn’t sudden. For years, regional reporters have been writing about 'unofficial channels' between Tel Aviv and Riyadh from the early 2010s. What is new, however, is the growing understanding of how those channels were established, who was responsible for setting them up, and the role that cyber-warfare and private...

The UN General Assembly ought to have been a place where justice, accountability, and international law were promoted, but it has in fact become a platform on which an official wanted by the ICC was given a microphone and international attention. Nasser Asadi felt no need to observe diplomatic convention when he pointed out the blatant hypocrisy; he spoke with a moral clarity that the UN discarded...

When Ms. Rachel calls what is occurring in Gaza genocide — she is challenging the whole celebrity culture which claims to be neutral while children are being killed. She has been making this point for months: if you have a platform and yet fail to speak out when families are being bombed, starved and trapped, then you are choosing comfort rather than the truth. Silence is not apolitical; silence i...

We are a fully subscriber-supported publication. We feature citizen journalists unapologetically. Help us grow and fuel honest, citizen journalism by becoming a paid member. Get full access to Manufacture Dissent at mandissent.com/subscribe