1336. Death in the Canaries

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Media can't make the news. But it can frame it. Rejoining us on the podcast is Stockholm-based journalist, Philip O'Connor, and he's got a lot to say about the lack of diversity of opinion within Irish media, especially when it comes to Sinn Féin. We discuss the self-selecting biases, the impartiality fallacy and ask you to consider 3 important questions as you are consuming news in the runup to General Election 2024. The GE2024 Candidate Podcasts are available here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-114872281

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Echo Chamber podcast we are rejoined by our Russian-Irish, US-based Prof of Economics listener favourite, Constantin Gurdgiev for what is an absolute belter of a conversation. We talk US presidential election drama, its ridiculousness and the potential results and outcomes. We look at the booming economy vs the failing infrastructure and we revisit Ukraine and how even the aid via loans now is a disaster for any notion of true solidarity. The GE 2024 Candidates Podcast Series is live now:https://www.patreon.com/posts/114681387 Donate to Dignity for Palestine:https://www.patreon.com/posts/112598735

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this Reboot Republic we talk once more to award winning journalist and podcaster with the Guardian, John Harris about the tensions, achievements and neoliberal technocracy of the new Labour Government in the UK. We dig into the disconnect between the big parties and ordinary people. We also talk about autism, disability and the waste of energy that are the culture wars. Finally John tells us about his new book that'll be out early in 2025. The GE 2024 Candidate Pods are here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/114681387 Donate to Rory's marathon for Gaza:https://www.patreon.com/posts/112598735

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Abubaker Abed is a sports journalist in Gaza but since October last year he had to change his scope to cover an ongoing genocide by Israel in the Gaza Strip. He opens up to PalCast hosts about the trials and tribulations of existing in Gaza today. He says, despite the unbearable atrocities has he seen, he has not lost hope because he insists on being a human every day. In fact he demands that we all do. Abubaker calls on people all over the world to speak up to end the genocide in Gaza and call out their complicit governments. What we have seen is beyond a genocide, he repeats. As he speaks, gunshots and noise are heard in the background from Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital where Palestinians were burnt alive by an Israeli airstrike last week. Rory's Dublin Marathon for Gaza:https://www.patreon.com/posts/112598735

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It is a constant head scratcher to us that the brilliant journalist and writer Jon Schwarz continues to put up with our madness. He rejoins us just 21 days out from the US Presidential election to talk all things political, societal in a presidential race that has ranged from the crazy to the absurd. We also talk Elon Musk and his needy role in it all. No cats were injured during the recording of this podcast. The General Election is on podcast is here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/114250721 Donate to Rory's marathon for Gaza here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/112598735