The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
Owen Jones, journalist, author of Chavs and The Establishment, or "that left-wing idiot off the telly", is fed up with the establishment media. After all, it punches down, not up, blames minorities for all the problems in society, and, let's face it, often just parrots the government line. So this podcast is offering something different: speaking truth to power, giving the marginalised a voice, offering hope - and having a laugh along the way. From Michael Sheen to Judith Butler, Prof. Devi Sridhar to Noam Chomsky, Peter Hitchens to Chelsea Manning and Gary Younge to Stewart Lee, the interviewees couldn't be more eclectic. Expect documentaries, too, exposing injustice and going to enemy territory - and discussions with experts on everything from COVID dreams about the pandemic to the history of US-backed coups. We'll learn a lot - but above all else, have our optimism in a better world rebooted. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Nov 13, 2023 • 9min
Far Right Mob Storm Cenotaph - Government And Media To Blame
Don't let them get away with this.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 13, 2023 • 19min
Suella Braverman's Unhinged Nonsense Taken Apart
Wow. She's really gone off the deep end this time. Unhinged is actually generous.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 13, 2023 • 10min
Why Israel's Onslaught Is Doomed
There's a big reason we know why Israel's onslaught will fail, and badly. This is why.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 12, 2023 • 48min
LIVE: Tories In PANIC Over Support For Palestine
- Jun Pang from Liberty, on the nonsense legal case against the Gaza protests- Dr Hosnieh Djafari-Marbini, who resigned from the Labour party over Gaza, on Keir Starmer's moral cowardiceSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 8, 2023 • 10min
Suella Braverman Humiliated: Gaza Protest Is On
They've done everything they can to cancel the protest - and so far, it's backfired. The Met can't find an excuse to ban it. But this tawdry episode tells us so much - and it is not good.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 8, 2023 • 28min
Israel Killed 23 Members Of His Family. Now He Holds The Media To Account.
Most of us have suffered bereavements: but how do you even begin to process 23 members of your family being killed, including little children, caused by unimaginable violence?Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist co-founder of We Are Not Numbers (https://twitter.com/WeAreNotNumbers): and even more horrifyingly, other family members were killed before the latest horror. But he has a crucial message - that the media shares responsibility for the massacre of Gaza. He needs to be listened to urgently.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 8, 2023 • 14min
This Israeli Was Imprisoned For Opposing The Occupation. Please Listen To Her
Atalya Ben-Abba is an Israeli conscientious objector: as a teenager, she was sent to prison for refusing to serve in the Israeli Defence Forces because of her opposition to the occupation. Now she's calling for a ceasefire - and the least we can do in response to her courage is to stand by her.Please sign her petition here: https://www.anothereurope.org/petitions/ceasefire-now/ Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 8, 2023 • 9min
Nuking Gaza Is An 'Option' - Israeli Minister
As over 10,000 have now officially been killed, we are at the stage of an Israeli minister stating dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza is an option. He was suspended from government meetings - for a few hours. It underlines a basic fact - claims that the Israeli has any respect for civilian life is a lie.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 6, 2023 • 16min
Establishment Smears Jewish Pro-Palestine Activists
Jewish peace activists have been at the forefront of many of the pro-Palestine protests that have swept Britain since the horrors began. These protests have been described as threatening to the Jewish community, as antisemitic, and there's even calls to have them banned.I speak to Em Hilton, director of Diaspora Alliance, a co-founder of Jewish peace movement Na'amod, about the truth.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 6, 2023 • 10min
‘Starmer Must Resign’ - Labour Leaders
This does not normally happen to leaders of the opposition when the government has collapsed.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
