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Hell No – He Won’t Go

Nineteen-year-old Amit Orfali refuses to serve in Apartheid Israel’s military. Instead, he protects Palestinians from criminal assault by Jewish settler-terrorists and their soldier buddies. The GPM speaks with Amit. And, another voice from Israel-USA’s Dachau on the Med. The GPM reaches Gaza poet Nourhan Shaheen, in her tent.


Underground Networks

Mycorrhizal fungi: underground networks of the most mysterious and crucial sort, here on planet Earth. Thank heavens for them. Less fortunately: Gazans, imprisoned in Israel-USA’s Buchenwald on the Mediterranean. A bunch of them are writing poetry. We speak to one.




Beautiful Resistance

For those who’ve never visited a Palestinian refugee camp, these are not dense tent or tin shacks encampments. They’re more like barrios; densely packed, tightly knit, fully functioning communities. On a very recent trip, the GPM visited one of Palestine’s largest refugee camps – Aida – in the southern West Bank town of Bethlehem.


Algorithmic Warfare

Artificial Intelligence — to translate voices or access your bank account; to select targets to bomb and a few people to kill, along with thousands of others you weren’t targeting. The GPM speaks with the Realities of Algorithmic Warfare Project. Wherever you are in occupied Palestine, Israeli soldiers target everyone and everything, children’s theaters included. Last July, the GPM spoke with Mustafa Sheta, founding director and General Manager of the Jenin Freedom Theater. Today, he sits in an Israeli jail, one of 8000 Palestinian political prisoners.


Wanted Man

Kids aren’t the only ones rebelling against extinction. In Ottawa, a sixty-year-old gets arrested for sitting down on a highway. Forget politicians — citizens’ assemblies are the way to go. And, channeling Johnny Cash for adoring fans in France and Germany.



Green Planet Monitor Podcast

Humanity’s impact on Planet Earth has a name: the Anthropocene. The start of Earth’s human age can be pinpointed in ice and biological cores, and the bottom sediments of bays and lakes — including a small lake in southern Ontario. But human beings have no control. And now we stand at catastrophe’s door.