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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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Just World Podcasts is an innovative podcast series on international affairs. In November 2023, we launched a new series titled "PalCast", which is a collaboration with Tortoise Shack Media in Dublin, Ireland. Our host for this series is Yousef AlJamal, and Helena Cobban is co-host. Tony Groves of Tortoise Shack is also part of these timely conversations. JWP is run by the publishing house Just World Books and Just World Educational.
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Reboot Republic we talk once more to award winning journalist and podcaster with the Guardian, John Harris about the tensions, achievements and neoliberal technocracy of the new Labour Government in the UK. We dig into the disconnect between the big parties and ordinary people. We also talk about a…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Echo Chamber podcast we are rejoined by our Russian-Irish, US-based Prof of Economics listener favourite, Constantin Gurdgiev for what is an absolute belter of a conversation. We talk US presidential election drama, its ridiculousness and the potential results and outcomes. We look at the booming e…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Reboot Republic we talk once more to award winning journalist and podcaster with the Guardian, John Harris about the tensions, achievements and neoliberal technocracy of the new Labour Government in the UK. We dig into the disconnect between the big parties and ordinary people. We also talk about a…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackAbubaker Abed is a sports journalist in Gaza but since October last year he had to change his scope to cover an ongoing genocide by Israel in the Gaza Strip. He opens up to PalCast hosts about the trials and tribulations of existing in Gaza today.He says, despite the unbearable atrocities has he seen, he h…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackThousands of Irish people head to the Canaries for their holidays. Most are blissfully unaware that the waters they swim in are arguably the deadliest to migrants anywhere in the world. Rejoining us in the tortoise shack is Madrid-based journalist, Eoghan Gilmartin, who visited the area and brings us up to…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIt is a constant head scratcher to us that the brilliant journalist and writer Jon Schwarz continues to put up with our madness. He rejoins us just 21 days out from the US Presidential election to talk all things political, societal in a presidential race that has ranged from the crazy to the absurd. We al…
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Please join us at patreon.com/toroiseshackIn this Reboot Republic podcast, Rory discusses a new approach to addressing both climate and inequality - in changing the narrative and moving towards transformative changes, such as public investment in warmer green homes for everyone, with Dr Ciaran O'Caroll, Lecturer in TU Dublin and climate analyst. We…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackDr. Nour Naim holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence. In this episode of PalCast she talks about the use of AI techniques during the genocide in Gaza by Israel. Naim notes that what is lethally dangerous about Israel’s use of AI in Gaza which started in 2019, long before October 7th, and how AI has turned …
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this very special podcast we are joined by Nadim Nashif, who is the director of https://7amleh.org/ and Taysir Mathlouthi, who is EU Advocacy Officer with 7amleh.They describe the online human and digital rights battle for Palestinians in ways that we had never imagined. We delve into the fatally danger…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackWe do weekly member-only podcasts where we talk openly about information we are privy to and some stories that often didn't get enough traction that stay forever behind the paywall. But given that Brian Stanley has resigned from Sinn Féin in controversial circumstances and that we have had dealings with hi…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn his latest Gist:https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-a-free-speech/ solicitor and Digital Rights Expert, Simon McGarr revealed his concerns about the new Online Safety Code and how it has by accident or design, created two seperate legal requirements to introduce age verification by designated platforms, and…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIt has been a year since October 7th. The world has changed, but the world of Palestinians has changed beyond imagination during this fateful year. Much of Gaza has been destroyed, 42,000 Palestinians have been killed, 10,000 others are still under the rubble of their homes. Their bodies unburied as a crue…
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Please join us on patreon.com/tortoiseshackA previous guest, solicitor Fred Logue, referred to the new Planning Bill as the 'greatest act of self-harm the Irish state has ever imposed in itself'. Our guest today, Environmental Law expert and advocate, Attract Uí Bhroin thinks it is much worse than that.This is a call to action to listeners. If this…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackThe only thing “historic” about the European Court of Justice’s Apple Tax ruling was how historically quickly the government and its allies in the media moved away from the illegal tax evasion and on to the “how will we spend it?” question.Not so fast, boys. On this episode we talk with Economist and autho…
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Please join us on patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Reboot Republic, Rory dissects Budget 2025 with Michael Taft, economist , and Susanne Rogers of Social Justice Ireland and they find more tokenism than transformation,We discuss how the Budget was actually regressive - those on higher incomes gained more - it failed to take transformative action on…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackNever was so much opportunity for so many squandered by so few. Joining us on the podcast is Economist with NERI, Ciaran Nugent and we go deep into what was in #Budget25, asking was it enough to sway undecided voters, explaining the lack of vision given the amount of money at the Governments disposal and s…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackAyah Arafat has been organizing for Palestine in the Washington DC Metropolitan area for over 7 years. She has been organizing with the Palestinian Youth Movement and Students for Justice in Palestine. She joins PalCast co-hosts to talk about how the organizing landscape works but also changes in the US in…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this Reboot Republic podcast Rory discusses the crisis in childcare and how a public system of Early Childhood Education and Care would work, with Orla O Connor and Eilish Balfe of the National Women's Council of Ireland, and Lynette Monk, manager of a Community Childcare and Afterschool Service, who wa…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackWith the death toll now over 1,100 is less tan two weeks and with almost 1,000,000 people displaced, not too mention the fears of the Israeli ground invasion, people in Lebanon are deeply concerned about the what is being called 'the Gaza-fication' of their country.Rejoining us to talk about the situation …
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackAsem Alnabih is an engineer and a PhD candidate from Gaza. He currently serves as a member of the emergency committee, the spokesperson and the Director of Public Relations and Media at Gaza Municipality. He speaks to PalCast about the role the Gaza municipality plays during the genocide, his close relatio…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackThis week this very podcast triggered several Parliamentary Questions to Ministers about illegality in the "gig-economy". So we're lifting the paywall so as many people as possible get to hear what is for workers an important and must-listen podcast.This was recorded in front of a live audience in the Suga…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackn this Reboot Republic, Rory alongside Adam Boyle, Solicitor with the Mercy Law Centre, factcheck Taoiseach Simon Harris' claims that "homelessness numbers are heavily impacted by the fact we are seeing many people seek protection in our country, seek asylum in our country". We highlight how asylum seekers…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this packed podcast US-Based, Russian-Irish Professor of Economics (and listener favourite) Constantin Gurdgiev talks Trump v Kamala, the broader context of US politics, the Apple Tax in the US and Ireland, his thoughts on Sinn Féin's housing plan, Ireland's ongoing corporate tax take, the BRICS working…
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIt was a great pleasure to be rejoined on the pod by Dr Musallam Abukhalil, from Dignity for Palestine in Gaza and activist-artist Adam -SpiceBag- Doyle, to talk about the incredible work the volunteers do on the ground and the importance of art and Irish solidarity to their work.Thank you to everyone who …
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Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshackIn this podcast Rory discusess the issues of rising deprivation and homelessness amongst Ireland's children, with Tanya Ward, Director of the Children's Rights Alliance.The number in children experiencing enforced deprivation has increased from 200,000 to 257000 between 2021 and 2023, while the number of c…
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