Podcasts, videos, books and tweets of the week 89

The big news this week are Ukraine’s frontlines slowly collapsing and the firing of the shaman thief Shoigu, but we’ve covered them in pieces recently.

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Not much new in podcasts.

Thankfully people seem to have started talking about Gaza and Ukraine, instead of fascist cops.

Iron Mike makes his way into our book, at the beginning of one of Chris Bellamy’s chapters

Tankies are satanists

AI war crimes

More than you think

What Jews, Palestinian Israelis, and Turkish Kurds have in common.

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The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey

What Dustin is reading

Fascist Scott Ritter turns up a lot.

From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-long relationship between the United States and Saddam Hussein, and a deeply researched and news-breaking investigation into how human error, cultural miscommunication, and hubris led to one of the costliest geopolitical conflicts of our time

Our book is still out

Phil has a new book coming out soon

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