Language manipulation and media framing shape how we see war, fear, enemies and political “common sense” — often before we realise it. Professor Ruth Wodak explains how political language influences public opinion, normalises conflict and makes certain choices appear inevitable. 🗣️ In this conversation, Ruth Wodak and Thomas Karat examine the power of language in politics, media and everyday communication. They discuss persuasion, rhetoric, emotional triggers and the framing techniques that ...
"Kill them all." An Israeli Zionist linguist explains how Netanyahu turns words into weapons — and how one biblical name makes genocide sound acceptable. Dr. Ruvik Rosenthal is one of Israel's most respected authorities on the Hebrew language — a Sokolov Prize–winning journalist, lexicographer, and author of more than 30 books. In this conversation he dissects the machinery of political language from the inside: the euphemisms that sanitize killing, the pronouns that signal who's really in c...
⚖️ Tony Greenstein faced 14 years in prison on terrorism charges for a single tweet supporting Palestine — and a London jury acquitted him in just over two hours. In this interview, the 72-year-old anti-Zionist activist walks through the counter-terror raid on his flat, the four-day trial, the judge who tried to shut down his defence, and why he turned the case into a free-speech showdown he was determined to win. 🔍 We cover: 🇬🇧 How the UK Terrorism Act criminalises support for Palestinian ...
John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman, returns to explain why he believes Trump is the first US president to actually be an economic hitman — and why he calls it The Art of the Steal. In this conversation, the former economic hitman turned whistleblower argues that Trump isn't a break from the system, but that same system finally operating in plain sight: covert corruption dragged into the open and made shameless. We get into the machinery of debt, leverage and manufactur...
🔴 Fired by her own university for a book that turned out to be right — political scientist Ulrike Guérot on how dissent became a punishable offence in Germany. When the University of Bonn publicly distanced itself from one of its own professors ten days after she published a book questioning the official Ukraine narrative, it wasn't an academic dispute. It was a warning shot. Three years and four courtrooms later, Ulrike Guérot is at Germany's Constitutional Court — and her case is no longer...