204. Occupation and Forever Wars: Is US Media Propaganda Finally in Collapse? w/ Assal Rad

Subscribe to https://www.rfemedia.com/ for ad-free episodes and exclusive content. In this episode we discuss the recent socio-cultural backlash against the war with Iran and Dr. Rad’s new book “Don't Say Palestine: How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide.” Are we finally, as a population, gaining a modicum of media literacy? Assal Rad is a historian of Middle East history and a Nonresident Fellow at Arab Center Washington DC and DAWN. She works on research and writing related to U.S. foreign policy issues and the Middle East. She is the author of The State of Resistance: Politics, Culture, and Identity in Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and Don’t Say Palestine: How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide (Vintage, 2026). Assal completed a PhD in History from the University of California, Irvine in 2018.Links to the book here:https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/834977/dont-say-palestine-by-assal-rad/https://www.audible.com/pd/Dont-Say-Palestine-Audiobook/B0H4RTFV8W?srsltid=AU7gw4V5CgpfTLQ1m3_RJ0UAB2EYPX8zcoFssW1cWlg33XVstlAwWcxGYou can follow Assal here:https://x.com/AssalRad