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59:50

Spider Microbiomes

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2026/02/14

Ecotoxicology /Ethnic Cleansing in PalestineAnyone who’s flown across Canada, coast to coast, knows the country is blanketed in lakes and rivers. To a greater or lesser extent, like everywhere else on planet Earth, Canadian surface waters contain chemically pollutants. Industrial effluents are the major source, right? Think again. The largest source of surface water pollution in Canada are domestic sinks and toilet bowls, and storm waters draining across urban streets and green spaces, all flushing

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58:12

Greenland Lust

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2026/01/24

Israel-USA & Palestine — Free Speech ChilledGPM # 110 Donald Trump wants Greenland, he repeatedly declares, and will seize control of the largely frozen island “one way or the other.” Military force is a clear option. “We won’t get anything unless I use excessive strength and force,” Trump told a packed room at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week. Trump’s rationale for such a move, in blatant odds with the UN Charter, not to mention the 1949 North Atlantic Treaty,

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59:38

The Bending Cross

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2026/01/08

GPM # 108One in four Canadians live in households experiencing food insecurity. That’s the finding of a report from Statistics Canada, released in December 2025. Over the last five years, the rate of “severe food insecurity,” situations in which Canadians skip meals, has doubled. Food insecurity is highest in Nunavut – 60-70% of households experience it there — and the lowest in Quebec. For insight into the nature and drivers of food insecurity in Canada, the GPM reached out to Valerie

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57:01

Island of Hope in a Sea of Oppression

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2025/07/27

In brutalized Palestine -- an oasis of liberation and hope. The GPM speaks with Mazin Qumsiyeh, founder/director of the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity & Sustainability. And, fainter hope – that Western leaders will bring depraved Israeli crimes to a halt. Look to Europe, not Israel's conjoined twin, Israel-USA. Europe is where the Zionist mess began. So says Israeli historian Ilan Pappe.

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58:56

Criminal Kingpins

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2025/07/13

Criminal arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant; more charges and warrants in the pipeline. A conversation about the ICC with British barrister Toby Cadman. And, a conversation with Francesca Albanese, about US-Israeli crimes, impunity, and justice

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Malpractice or Complicity?

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2025/07/06

US-Israeli genocide in Gaza -- corporate media whitewash in the US, Canada, UK, France and Germany, where devotion to genocidal, apartheid Israel is absolute. Voices from a media panel at the People's Tribunal on Gaza.

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53:03

Sex Is Complex

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2025/04/19

Transgender rights versus women’s rights, and last week's landmark British Supreme Court ruling on what the words “woman” and “sex” mean. The GPM speaks with Canadian human rights lawyer Robert Wintemute, author of a soon-to-be-released book entitled "Transgender Rights vs. Women’s Rights: From Conflicts to Coexistence."

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54:09

The End of Law

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2025/04/10

The rule of law, the end of law, lawyering, and Dimitri Lascaris. Another conversation with Dimitri Lascaris.

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59:59

Activist Arrested, Gets To Talk About It

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2025/03/02

Montreal-based author and guerilla-style political provocateur Yves Engler talks about his recent arrest and subsequent imprisonment in Montreal's Bordeaux Prison (something police originally tried to block him from doing), and what he'd rather talk about than his five days and four nights of forcible confinement. And, another Canadian’s account of the funeral of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, brutally assassinated by apartheid Israel. Another conversation with Dimitri Lascaris

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Domicide

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2025/01/19

Ceasefire in Gaza: respite for those who’ve survived Israel’s genocidal onslaught – perhaps. And homeless, amid the ruins left behind by US bombs and missiles. The GPM speaks with Paula Gaviria Betancur, UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons. And, an intensive care pediatrician tells the UN Security Council about Israel's destruction of Gaza's health care system.

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50:49

Crime, Accountability & Punishment

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2024/12/11

Voices & stories from the 23rd session of the Assembly of State Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, in The Hague.

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46:37

Nuking Paradise

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2024/12/01

Eighty years after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the real reasons for America’s hideous assault have been unearthed by a small army of scholars. Among these – a guy named Glenn Alcalay, Associate Professor of Anthropology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, at City University of New York.

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56:46

Scholasticide

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2024/11/01

Scholasticide: bombing schools, libraries and cultural centers. Killing students and teachers. Sound like genocide? It is. The GPM speaks about Israeli scholasticide in Gaza with the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education, and with a Palestinian academic doing top-drawer scientific research in the West Bank, against all odds. And, we play back voices at the International Court of Justice, in The Hague, talking about Israel's attempt to pulverize the foundation of Palestinian society, its

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37:14

Israel’s War on Lebanon

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2024/10/17

Recently returned from his latest trip to Lebanon, Canadian lawyer, activist and journalist Dimitri Lascaris speaks with the GPM about Israel's war on its northern neighbor, on Gaza, and the Palestinian people.

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Oceans of Energy

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2024/09/07

Tapping Earth’s largest source of clean energy -- its oceans. Ocean waves, tides and heat. A massive resource. Then, there’s salt gradient energy. Wherever fresh river water flows into salty seas, electricity can be generated, with zero carbon emissions.

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59:20

Wages of Impunity

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2024/09/01

A conversation about Palestine-Israel with Dutch-Palestinian commentator Mouin Rabbani. The GPM met up with Rabbani in The Hague for an extended discussion about Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, the Palestinian people's depleted, divided and leaderless 'national liberation movement', the much-touted 'Axis of Resistance', and about what the future holds – for the Palestinian people, Israel and the wider Middle East.

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59:32

Staatsräson

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2024/08/17

Almost a million uncommitted US voters want Kamala Harris to stand up for an arms embargo on Israel, and an end to the Gaza genocide. The GPM speaks about this, and more, with CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin. And, why does Germany criminalize pro-Palestine discourse? It’s not about Auschwitz, it’s about NATO. The GPM speaks with Wieland Hoban, Chairman of Germany's Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East -- Jüdische Stimme.

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Original Child Bomb

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2024/08/10

Commemorating the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: a nuclear scientist remembers. A historian paints a different picture. And, the Pacific Island nation that paid the other ultimate price, turning America into a nuclear-armed superpower.

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Base Nation

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2024/08/04

Israel’s 57-year military occupation of Palestine is unlawful, the World Court rules, and must come to end. Will Israel abide by the ruling? Will countries like Canada enforce it? Washington certainly won’t. The GPM speaks about Canada's response with Ottawa commentator Peter Larson. And, perpetual occupation of other people’s lands is an activity the US supports, defends and engages in, all around the world. The GPM speaks with United States of War author David Vine.

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58:52

Mobile Petri Dishes

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2024/07/28

Mobile phones -- smart, incredibly useful. Life support systems. They’re also mobile Petri dishes! The GPM speaks with a microbiologist who knows. And the roots of the US anti-abortion movement; misogyny, racism, hatred toward immigrants. A conversation with American academic Lauren MacIvor Thompson.

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