On the show this week: • Is Israel capitalising on Western media’s ‘Gaza fatigue’? • An explosion of disinformation in India and Pakistan • The questionable ethics of Ghana’s courtroom radio shows Watch now ▶️ youtu.be/EGti9zZ-7oc

Are Ghana’s courtroom shows going too far? We spoke with George Sarpong, chief executive of Ghana’s main media regulator, Oheneni Adazoa and Zakaria Tanko Musah about the issues around these wildly popular programmes. Watch the full report ⤵️ youtu.be/dqF5WkZ7-MY Produced by

On the show this week: • Trump’s gilded tour of the Middle East as bombs rain on Gaza • The assassination of Hassan Eslaih by Israeli forces • Hartosh Singh Bal on India’s tensions with Pakistan and how the media are covering it Watch now ▶️ youtu.be/SDcWwMf1KbE

The targeted killing this past week of Hassan Eslaih marked a new low in Israel’s unprecedented war on journalists. Tariq Nafi reports.

What’s stopping the BBC airing the Gaza documentary it’s been delaying for months? An open letter signed by 600 media figures say the broadcaster’s actions amount to “political suppression.” Ryan Kohls reports

On the show this week: • ‘Gideon’s Chariots’: Israel dispenses with euphemisms and intensifies the ethnic cleansing of Gaza • Why has the BBC kept a Gaza documentary from airing for more than three months? • The Pakistani military’s big PR push amidst a wave of nationalism

On the show this week: • Will Israel’s allies do anything more than pay lip service to stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza? • For doctors in Gaza, the mission goes beyond medicine. • jeremy scahill on Israel’s aid-washing and the “facade of humanitarianism to enable a genocide”

More than 600 days into Israel’s genocide, dispatches coming out of Gaza’s hospitals are increasingly desperate. Meenakshi Ravi reports on the healthcare workers that have become crucial to filling the vacuum in the news coverage.

“We know the connections to Israeli and American intelligence. This was intended to be a cutout — to allow Netanyahu to continue his war of annihilation while claiming to deliver aid.” Drop Site’s jeremy scahill spoke to The Listening Post about the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,

On the show this week: • What explains the pattern of blaming Hamas for every ceasefire collapse? • 'Operation Spiderweb' - a military push with significant messaging benefit for Ukraine • How Gen Z are reevaluating their relationship with digital technology Watch

“Hamas’s demands within these ceasefire agreements are not outside the remit of international law: the full withdrawal of Israeli forces, the uninhibited entry of aid into Gaza, and a permanent cessation of hostilities. Yet, for some reason, Western media insists on presenting

On the show this week: • Why did so many news outlets go along with Israel’s ‘pre-emptive strike’ narrative when reporting its attacks on Iran? • Phone lines down, internet cut off. Gaza faces near-total comms blackout • Trump’s made-for-TV federal intervention in LA ▶️

Were Israel’s strikes against civilian and military targets inside Iran this past Friday really “pre-emptive”? Negar Mortazavi spoke with us about how justified that claim is. Watch the full interview ⤵️ youtu.be/i0JOlh6yZg0

Was Trump’s mobilisation of federal forces in California this past week a “manufactured" crisis? We asked Will Swaim Jose Olivares & Sarah Mehta. Full report ▶️ youtu.be/Ec4WBzKnytE

In the same week that Israel waged war on Iran, it targeted and cut off communications systems in Gaza. What might unfold under the cloak of a communications blackout? Meenakshi Ravi reports.

“The Israeli argument is that the mouthpiece of the Iranian regime is a legitimate target to be bombed…would anybody consider [Israeli] channels legitimate targets? Of course not.” Assal Rad on Israel’s targeted bombing of Iran’s state broadcaster this past week. Full report

“He doesn’t understand foreign affairs, much less anything about the Middle East…I’m not surprised the Israel lobby has got to him.” Chris Hedges on Donald Trump bringing the US into Israel’s war with Iran ▶️ youtu.be/a8dzL3biesA