Here are a few recent podcasts that I think are worth taking the time to watch, even if you have to spread them across several days:
- US is ADDICTED to ‘Forever Wars’: Two Middle East Scholars Speak Out on Iran, Palestine, and Lebanon [& Trump].
https://zeteo.com/p/iran-gaza-bajoghli-erakat
Noura Erakat (Rutgers University) & Narges Bajoghli (Brown University) — both are well-informed, articulate, and tell it like it is. + audience Q & A. (~1 hr.) - Meet the Jewish ‘Troublemakers’ Who Zionists Hated (History)
https:ww.youtube.com/watch?v=_hixK06EykM
Simone Zimmerman ( an initial leader in If Not Now) with Molly Crabapple (writer of Here Where We Live Is Our Country, a history of the Jewish Labor Bund) - The Mask Is Completely Ripped Off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBA8EfQ-wYA
Myriam Francois (host of The Tea) with Abby Martin (of The Empire Files and producer of the new film Earth’s Greatest Enemy) - Lowkey Unravels Iran’s Secret Success and why the Zionist Project is Doomed to Fail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsj7MmI8RN0
Myriam Francois with Lowkey
UPDATES:
Francesca Albanese: “Apartheid Israel has created a torturous environment for millions of people” (~7 1/2 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ty9Zoiqyzo
Francesca Albanese is an expert on international law and is UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Noura Erakat Addresses UN Security Council [6 Oct. 2025]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vptGd7PSbWs
Palestinian expert on international law, Professor at Rutgers University, author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine
Jeffrey Sachs Reveals ‘Secrets’ at Heart of U.S.-Soviet Relations
https://substack.com/home/post/p-148486564
Sachs is an American economist & public policy analyst, and a professor at Columbia University.