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The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack

Tortoise Shack Media

Ireland’s original independent left leaning news, politics, and culture podcast that doesn’t take itself too seriously and still punches well above its weight. Join critically acclaimed & derided hosts, Martin McMahon and Tony Groves as they delve into the news of the day, pull apart the spin and challenge you to be an activist. This is the non-corporate, ad free, non-plastic-podcast reality that the medium is made for. There will be shenanigans!

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1119. Israel-Palestine – “Maybe it is the last time...

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2023/10/13

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this podcast you'll hear from an emotional Mahmoud Mushtaha about the incredible cruelty of the Israeli military's bombardment and orders to evacuate. We discuss in a very broad and (probably) clumsy way some of the events that led to this catastrophic conflagration, the maddening reporting by much of international media, the insular reporting of Irish media and then we update you on the lived experiences of some familiar voices from the area. This is

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1117. Israel – Palestine: An SOS to the World

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2023/10/12

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Joining me for the first time on the podcast from Gaza, Palestine, is 21 year old English Literature Student and volunteer with wearenotnumbers.org, Afaf Al Najjar. She outlines the situation inside Gaza right now, the crumbling infrastucture, the shortagrs of electricity, wifi and now water and the need for the fighting to stop. This is a must listen first person testimony to live under the blockade (we are even interrupted at one point by the noise from

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1116. Israel – Palestine “Running For Our Lives”

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2023/10/10

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It has been another bloody and brutal 36hrs in Israel and Palestine, with the destruction of schools, homes and hospitals and air strikes leaving hundreds of people dead and thousands more injured. Joining us to discuss the this, the events that led to Operation Al-Aqsa Storm and the reaction of the international community is journalist Hannah McCarthy, who has only recently returned from a visit to the area. Warning: We discuss topics that some

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1111. Exclusive: Second Tree – Justice for Fatmata

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2023/10/08

Please join us at patreon.com TW: Contains subjects that people may find upsetting. But please listen. It was a great to be rejoined on the podcast by co-founder of secondtree.org Giovanni Fontana, to get an update on the campaign to get justice for Fatmata, who was shot and killed in April by a border police officer. There is, thanks to the work of Giovanni and others, some good news and a trial now looks likely. But the path to here has been exceptionally difficult, including the morgue asking for

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1114. Israel – Palestine: Operation Al-Aqsa Flood –...

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2023/10/07

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The Hamas - Islamic Jihad 'Operation Al-Aqsa Flood' caught almost everyone by surprise, including Gaza-based journalist Mahmoud Mushtaha, who rejoined us under very trying circumstances to talk about what is an escalation of enormous proportions and has triggered Israeli President Bini Netanyahu to declare that Israel is "at war." Mahmoud gives the latest from on the ground in Gaza, the context of why it is happening and the currently non-existent hopes

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1106. Sweet Anna Liffey

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2023/10/04

Please join us at patreon.com/tortosieshack It's not that long ago that the Liffey was a thriving salmon fishing river. But in only a few decades, and despite improvements in the water quality, the stocks of fish have fallen from several thousand to around 300. Why and what can be done to fix it? Can we let one of the main sources of Dublin's drinking water become lifeless? What is lost to the city and further up river if we don't act? Joining me is Director of Liffey Salmon Project, Mark McAndrew,

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1110. Naomi Klein – Doppelganger

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2023/10/02

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It was a pleasure to be rejoined in the tortoise shack by academic, author and activist, Naomi Klein for what is a deep-dive into the worlds she discusses in her new book, Doppelganger. We talk about the doppleganger phenomenon in the era of people building personal brands, the wellbeing to far right pipeline, following the white rabbit, liberalism versus leftism, the nonsense that is horseshoe theory and the need for soft borders (in ideology and in

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1108. There Is No Hope – Mahmoud Mushtaha in Gaza

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2023/09/30

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Listeners would be aware of one of our regular contributors, the young journalist in Gaza, Palestine, Mahmoud Mushtaha and his reports on the events in the area. He rejoined us to bring us up to speed on the latest impacts of the conflict, the growing problem of food insecurity (40% don't know where their next meal is coming from) and the increase in (illegal) settler violence. We had some problems with Mahmoud's line, but please bare with it. His

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1104. Micheál Martin in Israel and Palestine

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2023/09/26

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Longtime listeners would know journalist and friend of the pod, Hannah McCarthy, for her previous podcasts with us from Afghanistan, Lebanon and Ukraine. Well this time in a rare treat she was back in Dublin and joined me in the tortoise shack to tell us all about her recent trip accompanying Tanaiste Micheal Martin in Israel and Palestine. Hannah, as always, spoke to some great sources and has great insights on the trip, Ireland's position, Israel/EU

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1107. The Barbarians are at and Inside the Gates

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2023/09/24

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack For the last few years we've done a member-only wrap of the week Sunday Show for our members. This week we've decided to lift the paywall and share the madness with you all. Joining us is Shrapnel cohost and future leader of lefty Irish twitter, Sam Mcilwaine. We talk libraries unable to buy books, the Stormont stalemate that's driving the case for reform, the gallows outside the Dáil and the main enablers within the status quo, the neoliberal "we need

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1099. Wealth Taxes – Theory vs Reality with Prof...

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2023/09/20

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack The have's and the have not's. Wealth inequality is the rat that has chewed up the social contract, but is a wealth tax going to address it and if not then how do we pull on the levers available in our current system to do so and perhaps most importantly, what are the implications for social cohesion if we don't? Joining us again in the tortoise shack to talk about these big questions is listener favourite, Prof Richard Murphy. We talk why what looks good

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1101. Don’t Drink the Water – Lough Neagh

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2023/09/17

Join us and keep the mics on at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Lough Neagh is one of the largest lakes in Europe and provides 43% of the drinking water for Northern Ireland. Yet it is in such a terrible state ecologically that wildlife are dying from drinking from it. So what gives? We spoke to journalist Tommy Greene, who covered this slowly unfolding disaster before it became BIG news. He tells us about the strange ownership structure of the lough, the reasons it's inhospitable to life and the need for

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1095. NAMA 2.0 and the Trumpometer

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2023/09/15

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Grab a beverage of your choice and settle in for a long but very, very good one with Irish-Russian Denver Colorado-based Prof of Economics, Constantin Gurdgiev, who returns for a chat about Housing and the Banks. But because it's Constantin and us it goes a lot broader than that. We talk about the climate change playing out in front of our eyes, NAMA 2.0, Bidenomics and the Presidential 2nd place nominee competition, his local Trumpometer and the media

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1097. The Mental Health Crisis – Have Sinn Féin got a...

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2023/09/13

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Joining us in the tortoise shack is Sinn Féin TD and his party's spokesperson for Mental Health, Mark Ward. We discuss his accidental route into politics, his treatment for MS, what he believes can be done right now to improve access to mental health services and what he thinks Sinn Féin would do if they were in government. Live Show Tickets:https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/tortoise-shack-live-tickets-698299581847?aff=erelexpmlt Global Housing Crisis pod with

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1082. The Portuguese Do It Better

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2023/09/10

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Longtime listeners will be familiar with Deputy Vice Leader of Portugal's Socialist Party, Joao Pina and his devout socialism in what is their 8th year in Government. We talk about their recent exit from the Energy Charter Treaty (Ireland needs to follow suit), their struggle to get on top of the housing crisis, how they're tackling Air BnB, continuing to increase the minimum wage, the Spanish election results and the Orcas wrecking yachts off the

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1091. RTÉ is Broke and Broken – Can We Fix It?

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2023/09/07

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It is clear that RTÉ is in business terms insolvent and as Martin said on the Sunday Show, it can't continue on in its current guise. So what next? Our guest on the tortoise shack is Solicitor, data expert and historian of RTÉ hobbyist, Simon McGarr, has an idea! He outlines a way to decouple the National Broadcaster from commercial interests, deliver public service and broadcasting and remake the institution an independent entity. And it's not a patreon

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1088. Ecuador, El Salvador and the Bitcoin Bro Autocrat

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2023/09/04

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack It's a few weeks since we talked South and Latin America, but with a Presidential election candidate assassination in Ecuador, an aspiring Bitcoin Bro dictator making moves in El Salvador and a far right mad man on the rise in Argentina, we had to get our friend in the region, journalist with El Pais, Nicholas Dale Leal, to bring us up to speed. So much to cover, both good and bad. But mostly

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1079. Whistleblower Shane Corr – Live at the Sugar Club

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2023/09/01

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack As promised here is the 3rd and final part from our Tortoise Shack Live at the Sugar Club show from Thursday July 20th, and it's a bit special. Dept of Health civil servant (currently suspended) whistleblower, Shane Corr, joined Roman and Eoghan from the Ditch onstage to talk about the treatment meted out to those who rock the boat and what it's like to be ostracised for doing what is right. A must listen conversation. Stay tuned 'till the end for a lively

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1092. ‘They fired on us like rain’ – Nadia Hardman on...

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2023/08/29

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack You might have seen the reports on Monday that Saudi Arabian border guards/soldiers had killed hundreds of Ethiopian asylum seekers who were trying to cross the border from Yemen. Read:https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/21/saudi-arabia-mass-killings-migrants-yemen-border The lead researcher and author of the report, Nadia Hardman, joined us on the tortoise shack to discuss what the 15 month report uncovered, the trauma inflicted on survivors, the

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1080. The Alternative to Eco-Austerity

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2023/08/27

Join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Terms like "just transition" have been adopted by the capitalist system as a branding exercise and it has lost all meaning. But what if we could take steps to re-democratise workplaces and local communities in ways that would benefit the majority and help make climate action more than rhetoric? Joining me from An Rabharta Glass - Green Left are Cork City Cllr Lorna Bogue and Campaigns Officer, Michael Rafferty, and they have a program document (see bleow) that

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