Selling the war: Purges, polygraphs and propaganda

With the US midterm elections conscionable weeks away, Donald Trump’s medication is trying to enactment a affirmative rotation connected a warfare with Iran that shows nary motion of letting up.

Climbing substance and market prices, the president’s provocative societal media posts and the Pentagon’s combative narration with the media are making that communicative harder to sell.

Contributors: 
Laicie Heeley – Editor-in-chief, Inkstick
Mark Kimmitt – Former US Assistant Secretary of State
Negar Mortazavi – Host, The Iran Podcast
Samira Mohyeddin – Founder, On The Line Media

On our radar

Revelations from Israeli paper Haaretz astir what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knew earlier the October 7 attacks person ignited a firestorm successful the country. Netanyahu calls the reporting fabricated and is threatening to sue.

Ryan Kohls reports.

How COVID sum broke spot successful the US

Six years connected from the commencement of the pandemic, COVID-19 is backmost successful the headlines – and truthful are questions astir however newsrooms covered it.

The Listening Post’s Nicholas Muirhead connected however the pandemic broke spot successful the US.

Featuring: 
Amesh Adalja – Infectious Disease Physician, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Frances E Lee – Co-author, In COVID’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us
Jeanne Lenzer – Investigative Medical Journalist