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Unf*cking The Republic® (UNFTR) is a series of audio essays on the grand American experiment lovingly curated and presented by a quasi-anonymous political writer.
Each essay reflects on a singular topic that is generally misunderstood or purposely obfuscated by the so-called “powers that be.” As we know, history is written by the victors and can be perilously manufactured to favor destructive world views. These views become intractably ingrained in the public consciousness and pervert public policy, oftentimes with horrific results.
As of this podcast’s founding, we find ourselves living in a true kakistocracy. The disconnect between what we believe and what is actually happening below the surface or in plain sight is where this podcast lives.
Together we’ll upend conventional wisdom, blow up narratives on the left, right and center and use magical devices like facts, logic and reason to explain how exactly we arrived in bizarro America, the funhouse mirror version of what was originally intended. #UNFTR
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The 3 Men Who Will Defeat Biden: A UNFTR Quickie.
Today’s Quickie predicts the three men who will combine to beat Joe Biden next November. Can you guess any one of them?
Chapters
Intro: 00:00:12
Subject One: 00:01:12
Subject Two: 00:06:35
Subject Three: 00:11:30
Outro: 00:17:51
Sketch: 00:19:54
Post Show Musings: 00:22:26
Resources
The Guardian: ‘Steve Bannon is watching us closely’: Naomi Klein on populists, conspiracists and real-world activism
Esquire: In the War Room with Steve Bannon
The Conference Board: Economic Forecast for the US Economy
PBS: U.S. may need slower economic growth to beat inflation, Fed chair says
The Hill: Democrats nearly double Republicans in October fundraising
Politico: The generational divide over Israel and Palestine is widening
The Nation: Biden’s Quagmire: Israel, Gaza, and Those Really Scary Polls
Book Love
Jeanna Smialek: Limitless: The Federal Reserve Takes on a New Age of Crisis
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Unf*cking the Republic® is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com). The show is written and hosted by Max and distributed by 99.
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Show Notes [Palestine: Part Three + Epilogue, and Phone A Friend: Rashid Khalidi.]
This week's Show Notes has Max and 99 catching up on the last three episodes; they cover more Palestine series feedback from the Unf*ckers, and announced some exciting holiday merch!
Resources
Holiday Merch
Shop Coffee
UNFTR Bookshop.org Shop
UNFTR Episode Resources
Palestine: An Introduction. The Land Imperialism Left Behind.
Palestine: Part One. The Jewish Question.
Palestine: Part Two. The Palestinian Cause.
Palestine: Part Three. Two states, one state, none.
Phone A Friend: Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine.
Palestine: Epilogue. “Never Forget.”
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Buy yourself some Unf*cking Coffee® at shop.unftr.com.
Subscribe to Unf*cking The Republic® at unftr.com/blog to get the essays these episode are framed around sent to your inbox every week.
Check out the UNFTR Pod Love playlist on Spotify: spoti.fi/3yzIlUP.
Visit our bookshop.org page at bookshop.org/shop/UNFTRpod to find the full UNFTR book list, and find book recommendations from our Unf*ckers at bookshop.org/lists/unf-cker-book-recommendations.
Access the UNFTR Musicless feed by following the instructions at unftr.com/accessibility.
Unf*cking the Republic® is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com). The show is written and hosted by Max and distributed by 99.
Podcast art description: Image of the US Constitution ripped in the middle revealing white text on a blue background that says, "Unf*cking the Republic®."
Support the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/unftr
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Palestine: Epilogue. “Never Forget.”
The epilogue to the Palestine series is an essay from Max that draws upon personal experience and reveals what he learned from putting together these episodes. The conclusions are far from uplifting. In fact, they’re dire.
Resources
Marxists.org: Leon Trotsky on Zionism
Council on Foreign Relations: What to Know About the Arab Citizens of Israel
PBS: Parallel Realities - Resolution 242 And The Aftermath Of 1967 | Shattered Dreams Of Peace
Wikipedia: Six-Day War
Opinio Juris: The Biden Administration and the Golan Heights
Al Jazeera: Mapping Israeli occupation | Infographic News
Jewish Virtual Library: Vital Statistics: Jewish Population of the World
Christopher Hitchens on Antisemitism
BBC News: Golan Heights profile
The Baffler: Unmaking the Myth of Ben-Gurion
My Jewish Learning: Sephardic, Ashkenazic, Mizrahi and Ethiopian Jews
JCPA: Ben-Gurion’s Concept of Mamlahtiut and the Forming Reality of the State of Israel
Council on Foreign Relations: The Sunni-Shia Divide
Council on Foreign Relations: What Is U.S. Policy on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?
Council on Foreign Relations: How Evictions in Jerusalem Led to Israeli-Palestinian Violence
NPR: This is how the Republican Party became so strongly pro-Israel
The Jewish Agency: Modern Zionist Aliyot
The Weiner Holocaust Library: How did the Holocaust happen?
Holocaust Encyclopedia: The Evian Conference
Palquest: Interactive Encyclopedia Of The Palestine Question: Issa al-Sifri
UN: Faisal-Weizmann agreement/Non-UN document - Question of Palestine
Palquest: Interactive Encyclopedia Of The Palestine Question: Musa Kazim Husseini
Palquest: Interactive Encyclopedia Of The Palestine Question: Great Arab Revolt, 1936-1939
Fanack: Historic Palestine: The Arab Executive (1920 -1934)
MERIP: Owen, Studies in the Economic and Social History of Palestine
MERIP: Conspiracy of Praise
Just Vision: Izz ad-Din al-Qassam
The New York Times Archive: The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World since 1948
Jewish Virtual Library: Ze’ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky
Encyclopedia: Altalena
Palestine Nexus
Palquest: Abd al-Aziz Rantisi
MERIP: The War of Numbers
The Washington Post: War Casualties Put at 48,000 in Lebanon
Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute: The Reagan Administration and Lebanon, 1981–1984
Al Jazeera: Who is Israel’s far-right, pro-settler Security Minister Ben-Gvir?
Blowback: How Israel Went From Helping Create Hamas To Bombing It
HRW: Israel: Gaza Killings Unlawful, Calculated
The Hill: Trump on Israel embassy move: ‘Evangelicals appreciate it more than the Jews’
HRW: A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution
Pew Research Center: Israel’s Religiously Divided Society
The Guardian: Red Cross and Vatican helped thousands of Nazis to escape
Pew Research Center: The most (and least) culturally diverse countries in the world
Mosaic Magazine: The Looming War Over Israel’s Law of Return
The Daily: Israeli Citizenship for Non-Jews - Exploring the Naturalization Process
The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel: Discriminatory Laws in Israel
Council on Foreign Relations: What to Know About the Arab Citizens of Israel
Human Rights Watch: A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution
Reuters: How Hamas secretly built a 'mini-army' to fight Israel
Human Rights Watch: Israel: Gaza Killings Unlawful, Calculated
Wilson Center: The US Discovery of Israel's Secret Nuclear Project
Associated Press: With the world’s eyes on Gaza, attacks are on the rise in the West Bank, which faces its own war
Council on Foreign Relations: Conflict in Syria
Reuters: Lebanon economic crisis worsened by vested interests, IMF says
United Nations: Ethnic Cleansing
NPR: Half of Gaza's population is under 18. Here's what that means for the conflict
Mediaite: Former Mossad Chief Makes Shocking Claim on CNN: There’s No Such Thing as ‘Non -
Phone A Friend: Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine.
Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. Professor Khalidi received his BA from Yale in 1970, and Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford in 1974. He's co-editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies and was president of the Middle East Studies Association, and an advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli Peace negotiations from October, 1991 until June of 1993. He's the author of eight books, including most recently, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine. His research inspired a significant amount of the work in our series on Palestine, and it's a privilege to welcome him today.
Watch the video interview.
Resources
Journal of Palestine Studies
Rashid Khalidi: The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
Rashid Khalidi Online
Rashid’s Recommendations
Salim Tamari: The Storyteller of Jerusalem: The Life and Times of Wasif Jawhariyyeh, 1904-1948
Tareq Baconi: Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance
Sara Roy: Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector
Jean-Pierre Filiu: Gaza: A History
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Please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts: unftr.com/rate and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @UNFTRpod. Visit us online at unftr.com.
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Subscribe to Unf*cking The Republic® at unftr.com/blog to get the essays these episode are framed around sent to your inbox every week.
Check out the UNFTR Pod Love playlist on Spotify: spoti.fi/3yzIlUP.
Visit our bookshop.org page at bookshop.org/shop/UNFTRpod to find the full UNFTR book list, and find book recommendations from our Unf*ckers at bookshop.org/lists/unf-cker-book-recommendations.
Access the UNFTR Musicless feed by following the instructions at unftr.com/accessibility.
Unf*cking the Republic® is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com). The show is written and hosted by Max and distributed by 99.
Podcast art description: Image of the US Constitution ripped in the middle revealing white text on a blue background that says, "Unf*cking the Republic®."
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Palestine: Part Three. Two states, one state, none.
The final installment of our series on Israel/Palestine covers the Arab Revolts of the late 1930s through present day, highlighting the agreements, wars, uprisings and accords that explain how the chasm widened between Jews and Palestinians, and why every attempt at reconciling the two sides has failed. It’s a sweeping narrative that involves generational actors, imperial interests of neighboring countries and acts of violence, bravery and betrayal.
Chapters
Intro: 00:00:23
Chapter One: On the Precipice. 00:05:21
Chapter Two: No Turning Back. 00:15:31
Chapter Three: Six Days in June, Nineteen in October. 00:26:00
Chapter Four: The Politics of War. 00:30:00
Resources
Marxists.org: Leon Trotsky on Zionism
Council on Foreign Relations: What to Know About the Arab Citizens of Israel
PBS: Parallel Realities - Resolution 242 And The Aftermath Of 1967 | Shattered Dreams Of Peace
Wikipedia: Six-Day War
Opinio Juris: The Biden Administration and the Golan Heights
Al Jazeera: Mapping Israeli occupation | Infographic News
Jewish Virtual Library: Vital Statistics: Jewish Population of the World
Christopher Hitchens on Antisemitism
BBC News: Golan Heights profile
The Baffler: Unmaking the Myth of Ben-Gurion
My Jewish Learning: Sephardic, Ashkenazic, Mizrahi and Ethiopian Jews
JCPA: Ben-Gurion’s Concept of Mamlahtiut and the Forming Reality of the State of Israel
Council on Foreign Relations: The Sunni-Shia Divide
Council on Foreign Relations: What Is U.S. Policy on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?
Council on Foreign Relations: How Evictions in Jerusalem Led to Israeli-Palestinian Violence
NPR: This is how the Republican Party became so strongly pro-Israel
The Jewish Agency: Modern Zionist Aliyot
The Weiner Holocaust Library: How did the Holocaust happen?
Holocaust Encyclopedia: The Evian Conference
Palquest: Interactive Encyclopedia Of The Palestine Question: Issa al-Sifri
UN: Faisal-Weizmann agreement/Non-UN document - Question of Palestine
Palquest: Interactive Encyclopedia Of The Palestine Question: Musa Kazim Husseini
Palquest: Interactive Encyclopedia Of The Palestine Question: Great Arab Revolt, 1936-1939
Fanack: Historic Palestine: The Arab Executive (1920 -1934)
MERIP: Owen, Studies in the Economic and Social History of Palestine
MERIP: Conspiracy of Praise
Just Vision: Izz ad-Din al-Qassam
The New York Times Archive: The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World since 1948
Jewish Virtual Library: Ze’ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky
Encyclopedia: Altalena
Palestine Nexus
Palquest: Abd al-Aziz Rantisi
MERIP: The War of Numbers
The Washington Post: War Casualties Put at 48,000 in Lebanon
Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute: The Reagan Administration and Lebanon, 1981–1984
Al Jazeera: Who is Israel’s far-right, pro-settler Security Minister Ben-Gvir?
Blowback: How Israel Went From Helping Create Hamas To Bombing It
HRW: Israel: Gaza Killings Unlawful, Calculated
The Hill: Trump on Israel embassy move: ‘Evangelicals appreciate it more than the Jews’
HRW: A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution
Pew Research Center: Israel’s Religiously Divided Society
Book Love
Rashid Khalidi: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
Moshé Machover: Israelis and Palestinians: Conflict and Resolution
Dennis Ross: Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace
James L. Gelvin: The Israel-Palestine Conflict
Jeremy Wilson: Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorised Biography of T. E. Lawrence
Jim Newton: Eisenhower: The White House Years
Augustus Richard Norton: Hezbollah: A Short History Updated and Expanded Third Edition
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Show Notes [Palestine: Part Two.]
Today's Show Notes features more Palestine Series feedback, some punch ins from Manny Faces, and a smattering of Max and 99 tangents. Enjoy!
Chapters
Intro: 00:00:20
Headlines: 00:17:00
Emails: 00:31:02
Instagram Shout Outs: 01:06:50
Buy Me A Coffee Memberships + Donations: 01:08:37
Outro: 01:09:56
Resources
Fall Fund-Friend-Hell-Raiser:
Leave us a review. It really helps people find the podcast!
Subscribe to the YouTube channel and share the videos when they’re released.
Consider taking out a membership to the show.
If you drink coffee… Drink our coffee!
Purchase books from our bookshop.org store.
New York Times: No, Immigrants Aren’t ‘Poisoning the Blood of Our Country’
Unf*cker Recommendations
michael__mezz on Instagram: 'ecological economics'
UNFTR Episode Resources
Palestine: An Introduction. The Land Imperialism Left Behind.
Palestine: Part One. The Jewish Question.
Palestine: Part Two. The Palestinian Cause.
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If you like the pod version of #UNFTR, make sure to check out the video version on YouTube where Max shows his beautiful face! www.youtube.com/@UNFTR
Please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts: unftr.com/rate and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @UNFTRpod. Visit us online at unftr.com.
Join the Unf*cker-run Facebook group: facebook.com/groups/2051537518349565
Buy yourself some Unf*cking Coffee® at shop.unftr.com.
Subscribe to Unf*cking The Republic® at unftr.com/blog to get the essays these episode are framed around sent to your inbox every week.
Check out the UNFTR Pod Love playlist on Spotify: spoti.fi/3yzIlUP.
Visit our bookshop.org page at bookshop.org/shop/UNFTRpod to find the full UNFTR book list, and find book recommendations from our Unf*ckers at bookshop.org/lists/unf-cker-book-recommendations.
Access the UNFTR Musicless feed by following the instructions at unftr.com/accessibility.
Unf*cking the Republic® is produced by 99 and engineered by Manny Faces Media (mannyfacesmedia.com). Original music is by Tom McGovern (tommcgovern.com). The show is written and hosted by Max and distributed by 99.
Podcast art description: Image of the US Constitution ripped in the middle revealing white text on a blue background that says, "Unf*cking the Republic®."
Support the show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/unftr
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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