The Intervention

A year in review, U.S. Steel brings good news to their shareholders, the pillaging of the Congo, Steve's Reich-wing roundup, and a spark of hope in the smoldering left in the State of Israel.

Articles:
“Who are the Israeli refuseniks picking jail over the Gaza war?” in Al Jazeera
"U.S. Steel’s acquisition will end a difficult marriage that forged — and constrained — Pittsburgh’s identity" by Christopher Briem in PublicSource
"First Israeli Conscientious Objector of the Gaza War Is Jailed: 'I Know It's the Right Thing'" by Linda Dayan in Haaretz
"Joe Biden: ‘Without Israel, Jews wouldn’t be safe anywhere’" by Rosa Doherty in The Jewish Chronicle
Letter by Senators Hawley, Vance, Rubio to Secretary Yellen Urging CFIUS to Block Sale of U.S. Steel & Protect America’s Industrial Base
"JD Vance opposes sale of US Steel to Nippon" by Olafimihan Oshin in The Hill
"Crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo" by Eugene Puryear in Liberation News
"U.S. Steel sale will create new jobs, spark investment in Mon Valley, analyst says" by Justin Vellucci in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
"'Youth Against Dictatorship’: Meet Israel’s new class of conscientious objectors" by Oren Ziv in +972 Magazine
"'I refuse to take part in a revenge war’: Israel jails teen for opposing army draft"
by Oren Ziv in +972 Magazine

Resources:
Answer Coalition
The Anti-Imperialist Archive
Jewish Voices for Peace
Middle East Children's Alliance
The Palestine Children's Relief Fund
Palestinian Youth Movement

The Intervention Podcast:
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Levi Levi:
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Big thanks to Plasmid for the music for the show: Instagram - @plasmidband. Listen / follow on Spotify

Al Jazeera launched a “Know their Names' ' project on December 12th to bring attention to the over 275 Palestinian men, women, and children murdered in the West Bank since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood has drawn the world’s attention to Gaza. There has been an (understandable) secondary attention given to the West Bank from sympathetic press or even outright neglect from mainstream press with an active, horrifying, genocide occurring in Gaza.

Prolific author, human rights lawyer and anti-imperialist activist Dan Kovalik returns to our show on the heels of a recent trip to the West Bank to help us shine a light on the ongoing Nakba in this “other” theater. His insights are essential to understanding the mass injustice across the whole of Palestine.

Resources:
Answer Coalition
The Anti-Imperialist Archive
Jewish Voices for Peace
Middle East Children's Alliance
The Palestine Children's Relief Fund
Palestinian Youth Movement

Dan Kovalik:
Twitter: @danielmkovalik
Facebook: DanielMKovalik
Instagram: #dankovalik
Skyhorse Publishing: Dan Kovalik

The Intervention Podcast:
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Levi Levi:
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Email: [email protected]

Big thanks to Plasmid for the music for the show: Instagram - @plasmidband. Listen / follow on Spotify

After two months that have felt like two decades, Mike rejoins us to polish off The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.  In the first part, we dug deep into the theory undergirding Marx’s understanding of political history. while in this part we focused on the political history undergirding Marx’s understanding of theory. Don't worry, this isn't a primer on 19th century France, rather we consider what of his analysis continues to be relevant in understanding our current political struggle.

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Turn Leftist Podcast (Mike):
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The Intervention Podcast:
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Levi Levi:
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Big thanks to Plasmid for the music for the show: Instagram - @plasmidband. Listen / follow on Spotify

We take a minute to work through two articles in depth which speak to structural rot at the basis of the Israeli liberal establishment. The first by Jonathan Ofir argues the depravity at the basis of the genocide of Palestinians is proof of a state death cult. The second, by Nir Hasson & Liza Rozovsky represents the decadence of the liberal position as it condemns the "excesses" of individual actors to justify the actions of state. In both, the genocidal logic of Zionism is laid bare but while one comes to grip with the ideology at its base the other makes excuse after excuse. Love me, I'm a liberal.

Articles:
"I Used to Think the Term ’Judeo-Nazis’ was Excessive. I Don’t any Longer" by Jonathan Ofir in Mondoweiss
"Hamas Committed Documented Atrocities. But a Few False Stories Feed the Deniers" by  Nir Hasson & Liza Rozovsky in Ha'aretz
"‘It Would’ve Been Better if They Shot Us’: Palestinians Recount Prison Abuse" by Imad Abu Hawash in +972 Magazine
"Nearly 500,000 Fled Israel Since 7 October" by The Cradle News Room
"Israeli Security Establishment: Hamas Likely Didn’t Have Advance Knowledge of Nova Festival" by Josh Breiner in Ha'aretz

Resources:
Answer Coalition
The Anti-Imperialist Archive
Jewish Voices for Peace
Middle East Children's Alliance
The Palestine Children's Relief Fund
Palestinian Youth Movement

The Intervention Podcast:
Twitter: @intervenepod
Instagram: @intervention_pod
Email: [email protected]

Levi Levi:
Twitter: @levi0levi
Instagram: @levi0levi0levi
Email: [email protected]

Big thanks to Plasmid for the music for the show: Instagram - @plasmidband. Listen / follow on Spotify

Joe Mayall finally returns to talk about the parallels between the American propaganda efforts leading into the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the current massive propaganda push to support Israel's erasure of Palestine. Pulling from Joe's article (which formed the basis of our discussion) propaganda production rests on four interrelated concepts: outright lies, selective use of facts, manipulating the structure of a narrative, and censorship. We work through how each concept is being employed right now  to prime the American public for another war.

On the bright side, we also discuss how independent and social media may be undermining the Western propaganda machine. That progress, though, means nothing unless we get organized. Find a local organization, take to the streets, and demand, "Free Palestine!"

Articles:
"On Palestine, The Media Is Doing EXACTLY What It Did With Iraq" by Joe Mayall
"Antisemitic Attitudes Across the Ideological Spectrum" by Laura Royden
"Arresting Arabs and Left-wingers: How Israel Intends to Crack Down on Domestic Dissent Over Gaza War" by the Ha'aretz Editorial Board

Resources:
Answer Coalition
The Anti-Imperialist Archive
Colorado Palestine Coalition
Jewish Voices for Peace
Middle East Children's Alliance
The Palestine Children's Relief Fund
Palestinian Youth Movement

Joe Mayall:
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Twitter: @joemayall
Instagram: @joe_wrote
TikTok: @joewrote
  
The Intervention Podcast:
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Levi Levi:
Twitter: @levi0levi
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Email: [email protected]

Big thanks to Plasmid for the music for the show: Instagram - @plasmidband. Listen / follow on Spotify

Levi joined Evan and public historian Justin Clark to help host the latest series on Left of the Projector: History in Film. For the first installment (or maybe the second if you count our own episode on The Grapes of Wrath) we discussed Citizen Kane. The anti-hero treatment of the neo-fascist Charles Foster Kane rhymes with the real life tyranny of William Randolph Hearst. While the movie may not be any of our favorites, it is a remarkable film.

Justin Clark:
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Podcast: Red Reviews
Website: justinclark.org

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Levi Levi:
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This episode covers a turbulent time period of just under a year between April 1967 and March 1968 when the Third Arab-Israeli War shattered the relationships of Israel to the world and the Palestinian Liberation struggle among its Arab neighbors. Pan-Arabism met an ultimate, humiliating defeat leading the nations of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria lost in the resulting ideological wilderness. The Zionist movements both within the State of Israel and abroad, on the opposite end, felt their ideological commitments bolstered and radicalized to their logical extreme.  In an examination of the Khartoum Resolution and U.N. Article 242 in the larger historical context of our series, we argue Israel's newfound utter and complete belligerence stifled any hopes of a peaceful resolution of the occupied territories - cementing the mythical status of the Battle of Karameh.
 
Resources:
Answer Coalition
The Anti-Imperialist Archive
Jewish Voices for Peace
Middle East Children's Alliance
The Palestine Children's Relief Fund
Palestinian Youth Movement

The Intervention Podcast:
Twitter: @intervenepod
Instagram: @intervention_pod
Email: [email protected]

Levi Levi:
Twitter: @levi0levi
Email: [email protected]

Big thanks to Plasmid for the music for the show: Instagram - @plasmidband. Listen / follow on Spotify

This episode covers the years between the Second and Third Arab-Israeli Wars - from 1956 to 1967. Egypt's victory in '56 catapulted pan-Arabism to heights of legitimacy in opposition to the Zionist state. Although this ideology gained mass purchase among Palestinians, a rival "Palestine First" grew out of the Palestinian diaspora yearning for their own state. With the benefit of hindsight, we focus on the founding and early growth of the Fatah's particular articulation of "Palestine First." In Israel, the state went through a rapid modernization which included the first direct connection of the "collective Jew" state identity to the Holocaust in the kidnapping, trial, and execution of Nazi Adolf Eichmann. As 1967 dawned, a bloody confrontation between pan-Arabism and Zionism appeared more and more inevitable.

Resources:
Answer Coalition
The Anti-Imperialist Archive
Jewish Voices for Peace
Middle East Children's Alliance
The Palestine Children's Relief Fund
Palestinian Youth Movement

The Intervention Podcast:
Twitter: @intervenepod
Instagram: @intervention_pod
Email: [email protected]

Levi Levi:
Twitter: @levi0levi
Email: [email protected]

Big thanks to Plasmid for the music for the show: Instagram - @plasmidband. Listen / follow on Spotify

Steve joined Pete on Left of the Projector to discuss Stanley Kubrick's 1964's suspense-comedy: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Don't worry, they draw the comparison between fluoridation destroying “our precious bodily fluids" and the government “putting chemicals in the water that turn the friggin’ frogs gay.”

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Sina Rahmani of East is a Podcast joins us on a wide ranging conversation about the looming spectre of Iran in anti-Palestine propaganda. The genesis for this episode's structure developed loosely around an article in the AP wherein the CIA admitted (through their own podcast no less) they backed the undemocratic coup in 1953 which cemented Mohammad Reza Shah in power. The CIA argued, “We should acknowledge, though, that this is, therefore, a really significant exception to that rule.” We rebut, the imperialists (including Israel) ground their project in anti-democratic violence as exemplified in the long history of abuse of the peoples and sovereignty of Palestine and Iran.

Article:
CIA publicly acknowledges 1953 coup it backed in Iran was undemocratic as it revisits ‘Argo’ rescue

Resources:
Answer Coalition
The Anti-Imperialist Archive
Jewish Voices for Peace
Middle East Children's Alliance
The Palestine Children's Relief Fund
Palestinian Youth Movement

The East is a Podcast:
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The Intervention Podcast:
Twitter: @intervenepod
Instagram: @intervention_pod
Email: [email protected]

Levi Levi:
Twitter: @levi0levi
Email: [email protected]

Big thanks to Plasmid for the music for the show: Instagram - @plasmidband. Listen / follow on Spotify