Episode 120 - The US is Lying to You

In light of the student uprisings, Michael and Lara and checking in to see if the US administration is heading the historically correct student movements. Surprise; they’re not. The western media and the Biden administration propel the US to hide behind military power while disregarding the facts.
Lara breaks down the recent Pro-Publica report which calls to dismantle the unjustly powerful link between the US & Israel. Those within the Biden administration have also called for this unlinking, yet Biden and Secretary Blinken continue to fund the occupation and ignore both students, tax payers, and their own advisors. Michael goes on to discuss the oppression by the NYPD, the Wall Street slave market, and how the repression of college students only fuels a greater fire in them to fight for the truth.

To consult the sources used in the preparation of this episode, please see:

Background/Contextualizing Sources

• Convention on the Rights of the Child | OHCHR

• Fact Sheet_UN Conv Rights of the Child

• Distribution of Palestinian Child Fatalities by Month (Defense for Children Intl - Palestine)

• IV Geneva Convention_Civilian Protections (UN.org)

• ICJ Order for Provisional Measures 26 January 2024 (icj-cij.org)

• ICJ Order Reaffirming Provisional Measures 28 March 2024 (icj-cij.org)

• Leahy Law Fact Sheet - United States Department of State

• CIA's use of journalists and clergy in intelligence operations : hearing transcript before the Select Committee on Intelligence of the United States Senate, 1996

• An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba (Bloomsbury)

• Francis A. Boyle. The Palestinian Right of Return under International Law (Gale Literature Resource Center)

• What is the Nakba? Day of catastrophe for Palestinians, explained (Middle East Eye)

Videos

• Episode 042 - The Tantura Massacre (The Palestine Pod)

• Major functions of the CIA include planting false stories in the media - EX-CIA John Stockwell (youtube.com)

• Compilation of Israeli Military Marauding (on Instagram)

Articles/References

• Blinken Has Not Sanctioned Israeli Units Linked to Killings, Rapes Despite Staff Recommendations (ProPublica)

• Netanyahu Resists U.S. Plan to Cut Off Aid to Israeli Military Unit (ProPublica)

• Omar Assad: Autopsy finds Palestinian American man died of heart attack after being bound and gagged by Israeli soldiers (The Washington Post)

• The CIA’s Media Assets (Frontier Centre For Public Policy)

•  ‘Sderot cinema’ (Belfast Telegraph)

• Historic Gaza Solidarty Protests at Columbia U, Spread Across Country (Democracy Now!)

• College campus strife persists as NYPD descend on Columbia (POLITICO)

• Inside the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University (The Nation)

• The Streisand Effect (Wikipedia)

• “The Whole World Is Watching”: An Oral History of the 1968 Columbia Uprising (Vanity Fair)

• The Hidden History Wall Street's Slave Market (The Street)

• Columbia University: How Slavery Was Part of School History (TIME)

• New York to put up marker at site of Wall Street slave market (The History Blog)

• April 8, 2024_Active Genocide Alert_West Bank (Lemkin Institute) 

• Genocide alert issued over Israeli violence in West Bank (The Electronic Intifada) 

• Beatings, threats at gunpoint and fleeing in terror: Inside the most aggressive West Bank land grab in 50 years (The Independent)

• Israel seizes 800 hectares of Palestinian land in occupied West Bank (Al Jazeera)

• US vetoes Palestine’s request for full UN membership (UN News)

• U.S. blocks resolution for Palestinian statehood at the United Nations (The Washington Post)

• Israel cabinet approves $5 billion plan to bolster, develop Gaza border towns (Reuters)