The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack

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So far the Israeli Defense Forces attack on the West Bank camp of Jenin has killed 10 people and injured at least 50 more. We've also witnessed attacks on medical treatment facilities and people's homes; make no mistake, these are war crimes.

Rejoining us is journalist Mahmoud Mustaha and he explains what is happening, what the next 18-36hrs might look like and the protests taking place in Gaza and the West Bank that have also come under attack.

Mahmoud also addresses the claims by the IDF that the teenagers killed were terrorists and not young men born under occupation and into lives of despair.

(Note: The connection to Gaza was poor and we had to do 2 recordings and splice them together)

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As the world watched the incompetent Wagner coup fall apart, we were also trashing around for insights on what it all meant. One person who preached caution and less hyperbole was Economics Professor, Russian-Irish man and tortoise shack regular, Constantin Gurdgiev.

He rejoins us to talk about the implications for Putin, Wagner "CEO" Yevgeni Progozhin, Ukraine and the rest of us. He explains the Kremlin power dynamics, the rise of Progozhin from hotdog salesman to mercenary army war criminal and who needs to stay away from tall buildings. Then we dive into what systemic corruption does to the concept of accountability via the lens of both the incompetent coup and RTE's week from hell.

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In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks to Dean Scurry, community activist in Ballymun and co-organiser of the Apollo House occupation, about Dean's innovative work responding to the rise in anti-refugee protests. Dean went and spoke to asylum seekers and homeless sleeping in tents, and to young men from working class communities involved in the protests. Dean explains how we need to come at this through finding our common humanity, understanding and responding to the scale of abandonment and exclusion of working class communities, the housing crisis, and being honest, about it all, as Dean is in this conversation about his own mental health. You can help by taking some positive action on world refugee day June 20th

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We've ended up doing an accidental economic series within a series and what better way to wrap it up than with Head of Economics in UL, Stephen Kinsella. We discuss the President's comments and why Stephen robustly disagrees, how he teaches economics and the differences between the economics in colleges and the much of the stuff in the newspapers.

We also get stuck into what Ireland should and should not do with the "windfall" taxes. Our members loved this podcast; don't miss it.

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In this Reboot Republic, Rory speaks with Senator Eileen Flynn and Dr Seamus Taylor of the Department of Applied Social Studies Maynooth about the Hate Crime Bill which is progressing through the Dail and Seanad currently. Seamus and Eileen explain why it is important in making it clear that hate crime is not acceptable in Ireland, ranging from anti-minority and ethnic groups, gender identity, anti-Traveller, disability. They also discuss areas where it needs improvement, but also the fear of it being derailed. Eileen talks about her own community's experience of racism and discrimination, about the need for education, and Government action on tackling discrimination and wider socio-economic inequalities.

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A few months ago we spoke with schoolteacher, podcaster and sound out Corkonian, Padraig Wilson McCarthy, about the fact that the rents he was seeing in Dublin were more than his monthly salary. Lots of you said that we needed to get him back on. So here he is.

We talk about Pride as protest and not corporate crap, the horrifying rise of homophobic hate crimes, the shitty Dublin rental market and how Padraig is once again facing a stint as a couch surfer. But there's lots of laughs as well, I promise.

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In this Reboot Republic, Rory talks to Lorraine from the Muslim Sisters of Eire, who are doing trojan work providing hot meals to those who need it on the streets of Dublin, and also working to support integration and tackle racism. We discuss the on-going cost of living crisis, what they are seeing in terms of social needs in Dublin, how it is beyond anything seen in recent years, we also discuss how to tackle the far-right and what we all and the Government should be doing.

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The budget talk is like the Brown Thomas Christmas Shop, it gets earlier every year. Joining us to discuss the kites flown by government and what should really be done, is Economist and Researcher with Social Justice Ireland, Colette Bennett.

We also discuss the recent protests in communities that have been under-resourced for decades and the opportunity we have to do some big things in the public sphere with the "windfall" taxes.

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(TW: Contains references to suicide)

A couple of weeks ago MEP, Luke Ming Flanagan, posted a few tweets in which he addressed his own mental health struggles and his frustration with the governments lack of resources for people who need support.

We reached out to Luke to see if he'd be willing to delve into this on the podcast and this is the conversation that followed. We also touch on the Citizens Assembly for Drugs and Luke's work on the European Parliament's Agri Committee.

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The narrative that "austerity saved the economy" still floats around in the corridors of Leinster House and occupies much of the mainstream economic commentary. But it's not true. Joining me for a chat about the current economic model, the truth about austerity and the austerity-by-stealth that most people are enduring now is Economist with NERI, Ciaran Nugent. We had a lot to discuss including the insanity of the growth in working-poor in a booming economy.

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