About this episode

Rachel Donald discusses the complexities of opposing US intervention in Iran while navigating war propaganda and journalistic integrity.

Episode 384 of RevolutionZ has as guest Rachel Donald, a journalist at the site Planet Critical. Rachel suggests that war propaganda thrives on simple stories, and shows how the left sometimes helps that along without meaning to. She then considers a hard question: how might we best oppose the US war on Iran without falling into the trap of treating any US target, no matter how authoritarian, as our ally? Our enemy's enemy is not necessarily our friend. We must oppose intervention and war, of...

People in this episode

Host: Michael Albert

Guest: Rachel Donald

Topics covered

• war propaganda
• journalism
• US intervention
• resistance
• political discourse

Keywords

• war propaganda
• journalism
• US war on Iran
• effective resistance
• political discourse

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Planet Critical

Places: US, Iran

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