The Listening Post
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The Listening Post
A weekly programme that examines and dissects the world's media, how they operate and the stories they cover.
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Bari Weiss and the Israel narrative in the US | The Listening Post
For the past couple of months, the billionaire father-son duo of Larry and David Ellison have been making deals involving major media brands. Having a...
Smear. Kill. Repeat. | The Listening Post
In this special episode, we examine the systematic targeting of Palestinian journalists in Gaza during two years of Israeli genocide. With internation...
Palestinian statehood: Recognition amidst erasure? | The Listening Post
After almost 2 years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Western powers have issued synchronised declarations recognising Palestinian statehood - a diplomat...
The crackdown in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination | The Listening Post
It’s been just more than a week since the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and in death, as in life, the far-right podcaster is proving divisive. While...
Attack on Qatar: Israel’s ever-expanding war | The Listening Post
Israel’s rampage through the Middle East continues, with an attack on United States ally, Qatar. As Arab nations evaluate the value of a US security g...
Israel’s most lethal operation in Gaza is under way
Israel’s renewed offensive in Gaza City - the largest Palestinian population centre - is being framed as an assault on Hamas’s “final stronghold”. But...
Inside India’s expulsion of Bengali Muslims | The Listening Post
India is expelling Bengali Muslims - stripping citizenship, detaining and deporting them to Bangladesh. The crackdown has spread nationwide, prompted...
The Epstein Crisis: A MAGA mess of Trump’s making
The Epstein saga has flipped the script within the MAGA movement. Having spent years accusing the Democrats of an establishment cover-up, many right-w...
“Nobody is better than Netanyahu at manipulating the US” | The Listening Post
As Netanyahu courts Trump with peace prizes and platitudes, divisions over Israel in the MAGA media space are deepening. Contributors: Laura Albast –...
“Decisions are being made out of fear” BBC and the Gaza double standard | The Listening Post
At Glastonbury, Britain’s biggest music festival, two artists called out Israel’s genocide in Gaza and accused the British government of complicity. O...
Trump battles for credit for his Iran intervention | The Listening Post
From negotiating with Iran to bombing its nuclear facilities and then brokering a ceasefire, Trump’s erratic pivots appear to be driven more by optics...
Will Netanyahu convince Trump to bomb Iran? | The Listening Post
Israel's war on Iran was one that many have expected, and yet with nuclear talks between the United States and Iran ongoing, few saw it coming. Propag...
Preemptive strike? The media and Israel’s attack on Iran | The Listening Post
Israel has launched an unprovoked assault on Iran, including strikes on nuclear facilities and assassinations of several senior military commanders an...
The Hamas-ceasefire 'collapse' blame cycle | The Listening Post
Throughout the various ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas, western news outlets have repeatedly blamed their failure on Hamas. This week,...
The sudden surge of genocide critique in the West | The Listening Post
More than 600 days into its genocidal war in Gaza, some of Israel's closest allies have begun to condemn its actions. Alongside the changing global na...
Israel: "Gaza will be entirely destroyed" | The Listening Post
The images coming out of Gaza are apocalyptic, depicting the latest - and perhaps final - chapter in a genocide. Under an operation called Gideon’s Ch...
Trump’s moment in the Middle East
United States President Donald Trump's tour of the Middle East this week is his first international trip since he started his second term. Conspicuous...
Embrace the occupation: A new phase in Israel’s genocide in Gaza | The Listening Post
One might think that images of starving children, as political leaders withhold aid and openly call for ethnic cleansing, would be topping news agenda...
Indian media descend into war frenzy after Kashmir attack | The Listening Post
A deadly attack in Indian-administered Kashmir shattered a narrative Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has spent years constructing - that Kas...
How technocracy has become our reality
As tech billionaires infiltrate the White House, the question looms, “Who really rules us, the government or Silicon Valley?" This film examines the i...
Gaza: ‘Silence is not an option. We record to resist’ | The Listening Post
The renewal of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza has unleashed yet more death, destruction and displacement, but Palestinians remain determined to ma...
AI and doxxing sites: Trump vs antiwar activists
Over the past month, hundreds of international students in the US have either been detained, deported, or stripped of their visas for protesting Israe...
Protests in Turkiye and the role of the media there | The Listening Post
Turkiye is witnessing its largest protests in more than a decade. Millions have taken to the streets after the arrest of Istanbul’s mayor, Ekrem Imamo...
How Israel shattered the ceasefire in Gaza | The Listening Post
The ceasefire brokered by President Donald Trump in January barely lived up to its name. Despite the deal, Israel continued its attacks on Gaza, killi...
Syria: An eruption of violence and a misinformation crisis
Just months after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, Syria has been rocked by an eruption of violence. Coastal towns have turned into killing fiel...
Israel resumes its war crimes in Gaza | The Listening Post
Seven weeks into the Gaza ceasefire deal, Israel openly resumes its war crimes in Gaza - blocking humanitarian aid - with the tacit support of the int...
Israel’s genocide is expanding into the West Bank | The Listening Post
With international media’s attention on the captive exchange, the Israeli military and settlers are forcibly displacing tens of thousands of Palestini...
Germany: Will the far right beat the ‘firewall’?
The far-right AfD threatens to breach the political "firewall" that has long kept it out of power, as election disinformation from both the US and Rus...
Control through chaos: How Trump is playing the media | The Listening Post
It’s an alarming moment in US politics. Developments have been fast and furious, with Donald Trump flooding the news space at a rate journalists find...
A historic spectacle: The return to north Gaza
The return of more than half a million displaced Palestinians to northern Gaza, having survived war, siege and starvation, is a historic moment. For r...
Sudan: A savage war and toxic information battle
A year into the civil war in Sudan, the humanitarian costs have been staggering - but the news coverage has been minimal.
A conflict on t...
Genocide in Gaza: Enabled by AI, powered by Big Tech
The algorithms that Big Tech designed - and the genocide they assisted. The Listening Post explores how Israel’s killing campaign of Palestinians has...
Myth/Miracle: Dissecting the Modi government’s claims
It is election season in India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi seems set to win a third successive term in the national elections — for good reason,...
Reporting under genocide: Six months in Gaza
With international reporters locked out, Palestinian journalists have made huge sacrifices to keep the world informed of the unprecedented killing and...
The cracks are deepening in the US-Israel alliance
Six months into Israel’s devastating war on Gaza, the United Nations Security Council has finally passed a resolution demanding a ceasefire. The Unite...
India's elections are coming up...are the media up to the task? | The India Report
With India amid a national election campaign, its news media is in sharp focus. Until recently it was believed that the sheer diversity of outlets ens...
Dissecting the 'TikTok problem'
The threat to ban TikTok in the United States has prompted an online backlash. Critics question the premise that Chinese ownership poses a security ri...
The crackdown on India’s political opposition
Elections are weeks away in India and opposition parties are attempting to take on the seemingly unstoppable juggernaut of Prime Minister Narendra Mod...
Ramadan repression in the West Bank
With the global media’s attention trained on Gaza since October 7, things have worsened for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, and near impossibl...
How India came to embrace the politics of Hindutva
The politics of Hindu nationalism have played a central role in the dramatic rise of the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. As the elections have n...