The number of innocent civilians killed in Gaza is in the hundreds of thousands. Whatever the reasons for an undercount of the dead, the number is astronomical. That is the definition of a genocide. As a Jew, the shock at minimizing this mass murder is devastating. Israel Shahak, an Israeli chemist, got it right when he said that there exists a minority in a given population that plans and enjoys murder, and a mass of ordinary people who will go along with the murderers. The third group he discussed were those who protest. In societies that commit mass murder, there are many who fit Shahak’s first two groups and many nations throughout history need a huge mirror in which to look into to see those who go along with killing for a whole host of reasons. In Gaza, its land and hatred of a particular class of people, in that case, the Palestinian people.
As far as impeachment, I think Ralph is right in having as many Congressmen and women on board on articles of impeachment now. ICE and immigrants, using the presidency as a cash cow, and conducting war without Congressional authorization are issues that come to mind. If I were to bet on the Congressional elections being derailed by Trump et al. in November, an educated guess is those wrongdoers ending republican democracy in the US. They care about money and power and nothing else.
Im Jewish too. I hate what is happening and its architects. But I also have family and friends in Israel, who range from the far right to the nutty orthodox to the very far right who really believe we Jews who oppose that are blighted by fake news
More effective and quicker than impeachment would be an invocation of the war powers act. Ler's stop the wars in Iran, Gaza, and Ukraine before we take up impeachment.
I’m Wondering if that Florida woman, mentioned at the end of this week, show, would be willing to share her talking points that were successful in convincing local Florida stations?
There are a couple independent community radio stations here in Minneapolis I think who could be convinced to carry Ralph show.
If Steve, David or Hannah (hope I spelled correct) reached out to her, she could connect here on Substack via direct messaging.
Regardless, I will work to spread Ralph’s show. It’s really vital right now!
Amy Goodman, Gideon Levy, and Jeremy Scahill are poor examples of the “mainstream media” willingness to sacrifice journalistic and intellectual integrity by not approaching the story of the undercount of deaths in Gaza. Gideon Levy’s regular dispatches from inside Israel reported at great personal risk present a detailed alternative view. And I have no doubt that he is very familiar with the “anti-semitism” accusation. Amy Goodman does not shy away from the issue. In fact, she has had Jeremy Scahill on Democracy now talking about the difficulties of reporting accurate death counts in Gaza.
wrong. Goodman & democracy now used to be good, not any more... Scahill another one. They are perfect examples of pseudo-left "mainstream media" that is still believed by many on the 'left'
I listened to the Gideon Levy interview and felt a sharp deja-vu at his mention of two fascist sons who no longer speak to him.
At the end of the great Michael Powell film “The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp” the immortal Anton Walbrook gives a speech which could have been written for Mr. Levy.
This is one of the most heartrending speeches in all of cinema. If you ever have a chance to see it, don’t miss it.
The real journalistic energy is happening on the Substacks of many writers which are pointing toward major political change once the Trump regime ends.
This edition does not include the additional portion of your show called “The Wrap-up” including Francesco DeSantis, with "In Case You Haven’t Heard", normally available to your podcast listeners. Is this a technical glitch on your part, or was it intentional?
Also, at the end of the Judge Napolitano interview, Andrew Napolitano begins to describe his most recent book, but most of this is inaudible because Russell Mokhiber's Corporate Crime Reporter segment plays on top of it. Please correct this technical glitch.
A good reason not to impeach Trump at this point is that the impeachment will fail in the Senate and then Trump will use it to brag about the attacks on him that failed.
Apologies for the error, it has been corrected. Francesco was busy with the Impeachment Symposium held this week so he did not have time to do his regular segment. He will be back next week. Thank you for listening!
I will never again automatically vote for a Democratic candidate or donate money for their campaign. The Democratic party has shown no backbone to stand up to the totally corrupt Trump administration.
The Democrats have not given the American people a true alternative to the fascism and racism rampant in the U.S. government. This has been going on for a long time. Many Democrats have sided with Trump and other corrupt politicians far too many times.
Both “my” Democratic Senators and my “Representative” in the House all voted in favor of giving Israel more money and weapons so it can continue killing Palestinians.
A number of Democrats supported a budget that funded Trump's gestapo (ICE). Democrats are not nearly doing enough to combat the 34-time convicted felon. His horrible budget attacked many programs (Social Security, medicare, SNAP and others) that helped people who are not rich. Citizens are struggling with the U.S. economy that is only supportive of the wealthy and their corporations.
Meanwhile the bloated U.S. military budget is more than China’s, Russia’s and Germany’s combined. The Pentagon is a huge ponzi scheme. In November 2024, the Pentagon failed to pass its annual audit, meaning that it wasn’t able to fully account for how its $824 billion budget was used. This was the 7th failed audit in a row.
Trump is a traitor who should be in jail for treason after his attempt to overthrow the 2020 elections and inciting violence in Washington D.C. 1/6/21. He’s broken the law of the land (The Constitution) numerous times. We The People want another choice. If Democrats want people’s vote, they’d better offer a real alternative to a government that supports and is basically run by the super wealthy (oligarchy).
Many Americans have lost any trust in the federal government. They know Trump should be in jail for treason for his actions in 2020. The fact that he is not in jail but was even able to run for president and be elected, tells the citizenry there are two systems of justice in the United States. One is for the super wealthy and the other is for the rest of us.
We see no real separation of powers. The Supreme Court shouldn’t be chosen by the President and Congress without their legal qualifications being the number one consideration for their possible appointment - not what their political views are.
For quite some time Supreme Court Justices have been chosen because of their political views. Members of the Supreme Court(including the chief justice John G. Roberts) have taken huge bribes from their super-wealthy supporters.
There were 173.85 million registered voters in the U.S. in 2024. Only 64.7 percent of them voted. This means more than 113 million citizens didn't vote in the last election. Some were eliminated illegally from the voter rolls. However, many didn’t vote because they feel no one is listening to them because they aren’t super wealthy.
The reason this has happened here is that the Democrats and Republicans have been bought and sold by the incredibly rich and have never made the obscenely wealthy or their corporations pay their fair share of taxes.
Even more criminal is the goal of Trump and the Republicans to give the wealthy even more tax breaks by cutting Social Security and Medicare, the postal service and other programs that benefit all of us who aren’t wealthy.
It is great to listen to Judge Napolitano about this issue. I don't know much about him and cringe at the opening of his show on YouTube, all the stuff about gold. But I would like to know more about his positions on other issues. My uniformed and immediate assumption is that he is against things that I fight harder for, like more assistance for people ewho need it, like disabled people and the poorest communities. To me, he comes through as someone who is still about America first, hegemonic and less about America is part of the world and it is dominating by force and bullying.
I have a couple of disagreements with Ralph.
Jeremy Scahill does talk about the many more deaths in Gaza. He gives the official numbers and mentions the reasons, also pointing out that the numbers are way higher
About Omer Bartov, the point of the criticisms I heard, similar to my own, is not that he doesn't see the problems with zionism, is that he places the turn of the ideology to evil at a point that is completely inaccurate. Zionism started as a colonial project, Herzl wrote about eliminating Palestinians in that land. The movie Palestine 36 is very good showing how the zionist Jews arrived in the land by wanting to share, but already destroying and occupying.
I wouldn't use the picture of Judge Napolitano that comes up when I go to share this podcast. I know it will turn off a lot of my followers and they won't listen to the podcast. I'm seeing if I can share the url without that picture coming up.
The number of innocent civilians killed in Gaza is in the hundreds of thousands. Whatever the reasons for an undercount of the dead, the number is astronomical. That is the definition of a genocide. As a Jew, the shock at minimizing this mass murder is devastating. Israel Shahak, an Israeli chemist, got it right when he said that there exists a minority in a given population that plans and enjoys murder, and a mass of ordinary people who will go along with the murderers. The third group he discussed were those who protest. In societies that commit mass murder, there are many who fit Shahak’s first two groups and many nations throughout history need a huge mirror in which to look into to see those who go along with killing for a whole host of reasons. In Gaza, its land and hatred of a particular class of people, in that case, the Palestinian people.
As far as impeachment, I think Ralph is right in having as many Congressmen and women on board on articles of impeachment now. ICE and immigrants, using the presidency as a cash cow, and conducting war without Congressional authorization are issues that come to mind. If I were to bet on the Congressional elections being derailed by Trump et al. in November, an educated guess is those wrongdoers ending republican democracy in the US. They care about money and power and nothing else.
Im Jewish too. I hate what is happening and its architects. But I also have family and friends in Israel, who range from the far right to the nutty orthodox to the very far right who really believe we Jews who oppose that are blighted by fake news
One by problem though I believe this all. But an Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, does in fact run this stuff. Gideon Kevy is one.
Past failures by our government to hold war criminals accountable has led to the mess we're in now.
More effective and quicker than impeachment would be an invocation of the war powers act. Ler's stop the wars in Iran, Gaza, and Ukraine before we take up impeachment.
hit him on all fronts - they are throwing every distraction at the public i a constant never-ending wave, do the same to him and the rest of them.
I’m proud of my antifa(cist) family! Uncles fought fa(cists) in WW I. My mother treated their wounds
interesting how all that has been twisted
I’m Wondering if that Florida woman, mentioned at the end of this week, show, would be willing to share her talking points that were successful in convincing local Florida stations?
There are a couple independent community radio stations here in Minneapolis I think who could be convinced to carry Ralph show.
If Steve, David or Hannah (hope I spelled correct) reached out to her, she could connect here on Substack via direct messaging.
Regardless, I will work to spread Ralph’s show. It’s really vital right now!
thank you guys!
The judge never disappoints, just like Ralph 💪🏼
Amy Goodman, Gideon Levy, and Jeremy Scahill are poor examples of the “mainstream media” willingness to sacrifice journalistic and intellectual integrity by not approaching the story of the undercount of deaths in Gaza. Gideon Levy’s regular dispatches from inside Israel reported at great personal risk present a detailed alternative view. And I have no doubt that he is very familiar with the “anti-semitism” accusation. Amy Goodman does not shy away from the issue. In fact, she has had Jeremy Scahill on Democracy now talking about the difficulties of reporting accurate death counts in Gaza.
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/2/7/israel_propaganda_gaza
wrong. Goodman & democracy now used to be good, not any more... Scahill another one. They are perfect examples of pseudo-left "mainstream media" that is still believed by many on the 'left'
I listened to the Gideon Levy interview and felt a sharp deja-vu at his mention of two fascist sons who no longer speak to him.
At the end of the great Michael Powell film “The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp” the immortal Anton Walbrook gives a speech which could have been written for Mr. Levy.
This is one of the most heartrending speeches in all of cinema. If you ever have a chance to see it, don’t miss it.
Public Notice threw Sam Hussaini out. They were hosting Chuck Schumer! Just thought you’d want to know what they’ve done to your think tank. https://substack.com/@teeashby/note/c-305482625?r=83w6o&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
They both rely on Hamas’s undercount and rarely if ever mention that Hamas’s figures are incorrect.
Thats negligence
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According to Lew Rockwell columnist Karen Kwiatowski the Gaza toll is already well over a million: https://karenkwiatkowski.substack.com/p/explaining-the-numbers-in-gaza
Also it is worth reading Dean Blundell and Zev Shalev as they cover the stories the msm are not: https://substack.com/@deanblundell/p-208450852
https://substack.com/@zevshalev/p-208369897
The real journalistic energy is happening on the Substacks of many writers which are pointing toward major political change once the Trump regime ends.
This edition does not include the additional portion of your show called “The Wrap-up” including Francesco DeSantis, with "In Case You Haven’t Heard", normally available to your podcast listeners. Is this a technical glitch on your part, or was it intentional?
Also, at the end of the Judge Napolitano interview, Andrew Napolitano begins to describe his most recent book, but most of this is inaudible because Russell Mokhiber's Corporate Crime Reporter segment plays on top of it. Please correct this technical glitch.
A good reason not to impeach Trump at this point is that the impeachment will fail in the Senate and then Trump will use it to brag about the attacks on him that failed.
Apologies for the error, it has been corrected. Francesco was busy with the Impeachment Symposium held this week so he did not have time to do his regular segment. He will be back next week. Thank you for listening!
The rich white european men who came to the Americas killed millions of the native people. They were definitely were colonists.
I will never again automatically vote for a Democratic candidate or donate money for their campaign. The Democratic party has shown no backbone to stand up to the totally corrupt Trump administration.
The Democrats have not given the American people a true alternative to the fascism and racism rampant in the U.S. government. This has been going on for a long time. Many Democrats have sided with Trump and other corrupt politicians far too many times.
Both “my” Democratic Senators and my “Representative” in the House all voted in favor of giving Israel more money and weapons so it can continue killing Palestinians.
A number of Democrats supported a budget that funded Trump's gestapo (ICE). Democrats are not nearly doing enough to combat the 34-time convicted felon. His horrible budget attacked many programs (Social Security, medicare, SNAP and others) that helped people who are not rich. Citizens are struggling with the U.S. economy that is only supportive of the wealthy and their corporations.
Meanwhile the bloated U.S. military budget is more than China’s, Russia’s and Germany’s combined. The Pentagon is a huge ponzi scheme. In November 2024, the Pentagon failed to pass its annual audit, meaning that it wasn’t able to fully account for how its $824 billion budget was used. This was the 7th failed audit in a row.
Trump is a traitor who should be in jail for treason after his attempt to overthrow the 2020 elections and inciting violence in Washington D.C. 1/6/21. He’s broken the law of the land (The Constitution) numerous times. We The People want another choice. If Democrats want people’s vote, they’d better offer a real alternative to a government that supports and is basically run by the super wealthy (oligarchy).
Many Americans have lost any trust in the federal government. They know Trump should be in jail for treason for his actions in 2020. The fact that he is not in jail but was even able to run for president and be elected, tells the citizenry there are two systems of justice in the United States. One is for the super wealthy and the other is for the rest of us.
We see no real separation of powers. The Supreme Court shouldn’t be chosen by the President and Congress without their legal qualifications being the number one consideration for their possible appointment - not what their political views are.
For quite some time Supreme Court Justices have been chosen because of their political views. Members of the Supreme Court(including the chief justice John G. Roberts) have taken huge bribes from their super-wealthy supporters.
There were 173.85 million registered voters in the U.S. in 2024. Only 64.7 percent of them voted. This means more than 113 million citizens didn't vote in the last election. Some were eliminated illegally from the voter rolls. However, many didn’t vote because they feel no one is listening to them because they aren’t super wealthy.
The reason this has happened here is that the Democrats and Republicans have been bought and sold by the incredibly rich and have never made the obscenely wealthy or their corporations pay their fair share of taxes.
Even more criminal is the goal of Trump and the Republicans to give the wealthy even more tax breaks by cutting Social Security and Medicare, the postal service and other programs that benefit all of us who aren’t wealthy.
It is great to listen to Judge Napolitano about this issue. I don't know much about him and cringe at the opening of his show on YouTube, all the stuff about gold. But I would like to know more about his positions on other issues. My uniformed and immediate assumption is that he is against things that I fight harder for, like more assistance for people ewho need it, like disabled people and the poorest communities. To me, he comes through as someone who is still about America first, hegemonic and less about America is part of the world and it is dominating by force and bullying.
I have a couple of disagreements with Ralph.
Jeremy Scahill does talk about the many more deaths in Gaza. He gives the official numbers and mentions the reasons, also pointing out that the numbers are way higher
About Omer Bartov, the point of the criticisms I heard, similar to my own, is not that he doesn't see the problems with zionism, is that he places the turn of the ideology to evil at a point that is completely inaccurate. Zionism started as a colonial project, Herzl wrote about eliminating Palestinians in that land. The movie Palestine 36 is very good showing how the zionist Jews arrived in the land by wanting to share, but already destroying and occupying.
Scahill may finally be talking about the horrendous death toll now... late like Bernie and others.
Thank you judge for having the great American citizen - Ralph Nader
I shudder to think what Trump might do that's utterly crazier than attacking Iran.
I wouldn't use the picture of Judge Napolitano that comes up when I go to share this podcast. I know it will turn off a lot of my followers and they won't listen to the podcast. I'm seeing if I can share the url without that picture coming up.