Anti-imperialist, anti-war, and anti-establishment podcast.
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Special thanks for the audio mastering done by former Gaza resident Mohammed “MoKu” Kutkut (ig @mokutkut) to bring it to some level of clarity.Words cannot describe the horrific state of Gaza’s healthcare system (if it can be described as such) or the point of view of medical personnel taking on the harrowing task of saving as many lives as feasibl…
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The War in Gaza, Digital Diplomacy, and the Decline of American Exceptionalism w/ Dr. Jennifer Cassidy
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What is soft power, digital diplomacy and how has the game of nations changed since October?Dr Jennifer A. Cassidy is a diplomatic scholar at the University of Oxford, where she lectures on Diplomacy and International Law, Digital Diplomacy, and Gender and Diplomacy. Her PhD (2017) from the University of Oxford focused on the emerging discipline of…
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We're on Patreon now if you want extra content: https://www.patreon.com/ColonialOutcastsSo, the situation in Southern Lebanon and Northern Israel is escalating and Cyprus is getting dragged in. I personally don’t think a wider war will kick off this weekend, but Israel is no longer a rational actor. We’ve already talked about what that will look li…
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Check us out on Patreon for Exclusive Content: https://www.patreon.com/ColonialOutcastsThis "Tactical Pause" is a Farce. We've looked at it since Saturday. I don’t want to get into too much politics in this Episode, because we feel that it’s time to revisit what is happening to civilians on the ground in Gaza. So we’ve invited Zeena Aqel back on to…
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Israel Greenlights Assault on Lebanon/Did they Allow Oct.7th? Operational Breakdown: June 18th/19th
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Hello and welcome to Colonial Outcasts and our spur of the moment breaking news Segment - Operational breakdown, where we look at IOF shenanigans from a military perspective. Why are we doing this ad hoc episode? Well, the battle plan for the invasion of Lebanon invasion was just approved, and a never-before-seen IDF document surfaced last night wi…
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*We re-uploaded this episode with better audio thanks to Mohammed Kutkut, a Palestinian sound engineer from Gaza.* In this Episode I’m joined by another veteran from the special operations community - a former US Airforce Combat Controller - to talk about US complicity in Israel’s disastrous campaign in Gaza from the perspective that the US Militar…
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This weekend, according to the NYT - Israel Rescues Four hostages in a hostage in military operation - This is a fact, it’s in the active voice and the hostages are numbered. Then “Gaza officials Say Scores are killed.” Which is presented as hearsay, in the passive voice and they victims are not numbered. This is pretty egregious. The role of corpo…
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So Netanyahu and his cabinet appear to have decided, or at least to be strongly entertaining the idea that they will attack Southern Lebanon. We are talking about an actual invasion with the presumed objective, if they have any defined objectives, of pushing Hezbollah back to the Litani River. What could possibly go wrong? In short, just about ever…
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The Joint Chiefs Oppose the Partitioning of Palestine - 1947 Memo To President Truman Revealed
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Have you Ever Heard that Israel is the West’s greatest strategic ally in the Middle East? Well, we’re going to talk about how that is blazingly untrue and we’re going all the way back to 1947 to do it. Welcome to Colonial Outcasts, your semi-friendly neighborhood anti-Imperialist podcast, and hot-darn it! We just pulled some Top Secret documents fr…
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Welcome to Colonial Outcasts. This a ceasefire-related episode. It is currently Sunday June 2nd. Things are going to move fast so we’re going to keep it short-ish and jump right in. Elina Xenophontos, regular political analyst calling in from Cyprus, is here with us today. We’re going to talk about the Biden ceasefire proposal, Obama’s passive-voic…
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We will be discussing how Israel and the Mossad, excuse me - the Mob-ssad - have been spying on the international criminal court and threatening South African Ministers, but not in a sophisticated spy-agency James Bond villain type way. I’d say it was a mob way, like “I’ll make the South African Foreign Minister an offer she can’t refuse.” But acco…
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Israel Strikes Refugee Camp in Rafah and Prepares to Designate UNRWA a Terrorist Organization
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Late Sunday night Israel carried out an airstrike on a refugee camp in southwest Gaza which has lead to the death of at least 45 Palestinians with at least 3x that in wounded, producing graphic images of non-contained tent fires and literally a decapitated toddler. The tent encampment was set alight - it being designed to house internally displaced…
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In this new episode of Colonial Outcasts we to map out, and draw connections in a very basic way between two conflicts (Gaza/Ukraine) and a potential armed flashpoint (Taiwan), because, as people have begun to realize since October 7th, it’s all connected, man. Not in a conspiracy sort of way, but in a very run-of-the-mill Imperialist way - the mos…
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The ICC is a Western institution that has often been used to advance Western foreign policy objectives, such as the issuing of an arrest warrant against the President of Russia, premised on unsubstantiated and limited evidence.The impact of such a decision is thus politically emblematic as a Western institution, after 7 months of a genocide and the…
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So the basic premise of this discussion, as I see it, will be - The UN General Assembly wants to vote to potentially recognize a Palestinian State, which Israel desperately does not want. The US supports Israel unconditionally thus far, but if the UN, which is essentially a US construct which gives America geo-political legitimacy and influence aro…
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Will the Israeli State Survive to Celebrate 100 years? So it is currently May 14th, Israel’s Independence Day. And there’s a whole mess of contention about its long-term, existential survival. Will domestic fury and fierce civil strife cumber all the parts of Israel Proper?Israel does have a polarizing civil unrest problem on its hands, and statist…
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Pomona Divest Apartheid - Pomona College protestors setting the tone for Southern California Activism
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With a long history of activism, Pomona College students live up to their reputation of never backing down from mobilizing against oppression. We conducted a brief interview with a PR spokesperson for the Pomona Divest Apartheid, a resilient on-campus pro-Palestinian movement that has only grown more determined and larger in student numbers and sup…
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Mounting Israel/US Tensions Over Rafah Assault, ICC Rumors, and Egypt's Predicament: May 8th
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On this episode of our coverage and analysis of Israel's Rafah assault, we examine the geo-political factors influencing the changing US policy towards Israel and the mounting international pressure to halt this misguided military action. We are joined today by returning geo-political analyst, Elina Xenophontos.https://www.instagram.com/elina_linax…
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Israel's Assault on Rafah, The Met Gala, and Egyptian Complicity - Operational Breakdown: May 7th
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Now, Three months ago I said the Rafah assault probably wouldn’t happen. It’s operationally impossible, Israel has no achievable goals, the resistance is still active in the north, but sometimes I forget that every decision Israel makes is in its own worst interest and its only agenda is genocide and ethnic cleansing at all costs. Its absolute insa…
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Pro-Palestine student protests have flared up across the country in conjunction with campus and police crackdowns, with many students learning that their universities are essentially collegiate hedge funds. They demand divestment from Israel. The level of state violence they have endured at the hands of police has not been seen since the Vietnam Ba…
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Most American conservatives support Israel but are completely unaware of Israel establishing Epstein's empire, their cultivation of corruption with our politicians, their alliance with and monopoly over the main stream media and Hollywood, their involvement in supplying tyrannical regimes (including our own) with surveillance technology, their psyo…
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Last night Israel launched its response to Iran, and as anticipated, in the words of National Security Minister Ben Gvir “It was Weak.” Israel and the collective West’s non-0existent response to Iran, as well as Iran’s master class deterrence policy, clearly exhibits the historic proportions of the global re-alignment of power that is occurring.Aft…
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Germany's Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Dissent and It's Symbolic Importance - Episode 19: Helen Fares
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Nobody fascists like my people. In this episode we focus on Germany as American college campuses erupt in protest because of its symbolic importance. Germany has a lot of "sins of the father" dynamics going on which places it ideologically in support of Israel unconditionally. The central question is if this authoritarian crackdown can ever be chec…
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The ghost wars for regional influence in the Gulf and the Levant between Israel and the US, Russia and Iran, continue but the long-established status quo has changed. In this episode of Operational Breakdown, we look at Iran's telegraphed yet effective and measured response to Israel's bombing of its Consulate in Damascus. We also talk about the lo…
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Episode 17: Wally Rashid - More personal stories and the hope and future of Palestine. Part II
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A continuation of what turned into an unexpected cross interview, we dive into personal stories from Palestine, the often-sour relationship between American Jews and Israelis, racism among Israeli Jews, the horrors that Palestinians face, the inevitable demise of the Israeli apartheid, Wally's genius strategy suggestions in bolstering the economic …
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With the illegal Israeli settlements expanding further in the West Bank, entrepreneur and Palestinian American activist, Wally Rashid gives us a horrifying glimpse into the the nightmare that Palestinian families face on a daily basis at the hands of the most violent and deranged Israeli settlers.Broken up into two parts, this episode also served a…
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Israeli Strike on Damascus Consulate and the Iranian Response: Operational Breakdown, April 10th
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On April 1st, Israel took the unprecedented action of leveling an Iranian Consulate in Damascus, Syria. Embassies and diplomatic buildings have historically enjoyed international protection since they are recognized as sovereign territory. So, how will Iran respond to this attack on its own soil? They are being calculated, and not rushing a hasty r…
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Weaponized starvation, bombing safe zones, the destruction of infrastructure including hospitals, libraries, schools… Using white phosphorous on people… sound familiar? In this episode we draw parallels between the genocide of the Tamil People in Sri-Lanka, which Israel was also involved in, and the current catastrophe in Gaza.So to guide us throug…
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While AIPAC is a significant force in United States politics, many Christian Evangelical politicians would still support Israel unconditionally no matter its crimes. In this episode we plumb the thorny depths of Evangelical End-Times Prophecy, which dominates the lives of over 100 million Americans. We invite you to listen, as you cannot understand…
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Continuation of a discursive and chaotic marathon of academic discourse with the Doc and an anonymous guest who requested to remain mostly as an occasional interactive listener . We invited a personal friend of Mark - Palestinian American Muslim mom, Rashy, who is incidentally also a student of O'Mara's lives. Recorded on Sunday, March 24th during …
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Another discursive and chaotic marathon of academic discourse with the Doc and an anonymous guest who requested to remain mostly as an occasional interactive listener . We invited a personal friend of Mark - Palestinian American Muslim mom, Rashy, who is incidentally also a student of O'Mara's lives. Recorded on Sunday, March 24th during the holy m…
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The Julian Assange Reprieve, Wikileaks, and the Islamic State - Episode 13: Elina Xenophontos
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An introductory discussion about Julian Assange, the Wikileaks witch-hunt, and an examination of the Islamic State. Here is your primer for the uninitiated!Elina Xenophontos - an International Law and Globalisation specialist. She has worked as a researcher in international and EU policy, with special focus on financial and corporate crime. She has…
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The Rafah Assault and Israeli VS United States Ground War - Operational Breakdown: March 20th
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This is a very free-form episode about the proposed Rafah Assault, Bibi's political predicament, and how I (Greg Stoker) almost got kicked out of Ranger Regiment in a shoot house ten years ago...
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Ex-Israeli Soldier Discusses Militant Zionism and Dehumanization: Episode 12 - Yuval Manns
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Ex-Israeli Soldier discusses militant Zionism and the dehumanization of the self, which allows for the atrocities that we are seeing on the ground. We also rag on Liberals on this one again. One of my favorite past-times. Thanks to Yuval Manns for coming on. Links below:https://www.instagram.com/yuvalmanns/https://yuvalman.com/#israelpalestineconfl…
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Three US Military Veterans - A former US Army Ranger, a Field Artillery Officer, and an Intelligence Officer walk into a podcast to discuss IDF targeting, government corruption, and interpretations of the word "Terrorist." As we watch the brutal prosecution of the civilian population of Gaza, we are wondering if you have any veterans in your life w…
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Temporary Aid Port and the Importance of Cyprus to Western Policy - Episode 10: Elina Xenophontos
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The construction of this "Aid Port" on the shore of Gaza is a very transparent attempt to entrench and exploit Western energy interests in the Gaza marine basin. In this episode we discuss the strategic importance of Cyprus, an Island with its own colonial struggle, within the context of the ongoing catastrophe in Palestine. We are joined today by:…
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It is Monday, March 11th and a temporary aid port was announced by the Biden Administration in order to deliver humanitarian aid and bypass an increasingly uncontrollable Israel. Let's break it down!
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Acclaimed Journalist Anthony Loewenstein joins us to discuss the general process of how Israel designs, tests and exports the technology of Apartheid and occupation around the globe. Links:https://www.instagram.com/antloewenstein@antloewensteinhttps://twitter.com/antloewensteinhttps://www.youtube.com/user/antonyloewensteinhttps://www.amazon.com/Pal…
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Episode 8: Doctor Liam O'Mara - Zionism and Antisemitism, the Definitive Deep Dive. Pt. 2.
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We are still seeing a problematic conflation of Jewishness and Zionism. We need to resist and challenge this at every turn because it only fuels Israeli militancy and lends credence to its claims of existential threat. The following exhaustive conversation strives for this nuance. Part 2: is all about the history and various forms of antisemitism a…
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We are still seeing a problematic conflation of Jewishness and Zionism. We need to resist and challenge this at every turn because it only fuels Israeli militancy and lends credence to its claims of existential threat. The following exhaustive conversation strives for this nuance. Part 1: is all about the history, factions, and various forms of Zio…
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A lot of unfortunate things happened this past week. From Kamala Harris's cynical speech to the beef between Netanyahu and Gantz, we do out best to cover all the strategic developments in an hour and four minutes. Cheers!
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Michael Schirtzer, Comedian and co-host of the Palestine Pod, discusses Zionism and Anti-Semitism within the context of Palestine. We believe this is an important issue so we can consider this episode part 1 of 2 on this topic. The Palestine Pod:https://www.youtube.com/@ThePalestinePodInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/michael_schirtzer?igsh=eXhyb…
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Episode 6: Zeena Aqel - The Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza, War Against UNRWA, and Illegal Settlers.
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In this episode we focus on the complex humanitarian situation on the ground in Gaza, the difference in circumstances between the north and the south, with Palestinian Journalist and Activist Zeena Aqel. We also touch on civilian/IDF interactions on the ground, as well as protests outside of the Rafah border crossing by Israeli Settlers. Zeena's So…
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On Sunday, February 25th, US Airman Aaron Bushnell lit himself on fire in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington D.C. In this episode we look at various viewpoints in order to assess public reaction and predict how certain actors will try and shape the narrative around this extreme action.
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Today we are joined by Jason Green, retired Field-Grade Air Defense Artillery Officer to talk about the basics of air defense and why you should learn about it in order to not be manipulated by the media, and the war-mongering "Bomb Iran" politicians. The US is vulnerable in the Middle East and will not risk escalation. Let's get into it!…
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On this Episode we discuss the anti-Netanyahu Protests in Tel-Aviv, the dissonance of the colonizing mentality, and the "allyship" of Liberals. We again get into to the self-serving narrative of Neoliberals as an expression of supremacy in the latter third of the episode. You know, because it's almost election season and this is an extremely import…
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Here is your regular military operation breakdown for the week of February 20th. This evening we discussed Israel's saber-rattling over a planned invasion of southern Lebanon in order to prosecute a ground war against Hezbollah. In short, the entire concept is tactically/operationally/strategically non-viable.…
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On this Episode we discuss the rise of Hindutva Fascism within the Indian Government, the active and intensifying persecution of Muslims, and the the role and relation to Israel in this ongoing drama. We are joined by Indian Muslim Activist, Sabika. Any details beyond that make things for activists in India increasingly dangerous.…
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A quick appraisal of the potential Rafah Clearance/Catastrophe that will be coming in the next days. There is evidence that Egypt will try and create a "Buffer Zone" for displaced Palestinians. This is a rough cut, but the information is there.
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