Novara Media Podcast
1) Downstream: ‘Gaza Is Over, It’s Gone. There’s Nothing Left’ w/ Norman Finkelstein
Norman Finkelstein is one of the west’s leading anti-Zionist scholars. The son of Holocaust survivors, he has spent his life studying and critiquing Israel’s assault on Palestine, decades before it be...Show More
2) Downstream: The Truth About Hamas, October 7th & Israel’s Ongoing Genocide w/ Tareq Baconi
Since Hamas launched its assault on October 7th, 2023, the group has become synonymous with evil in large parts of the Western media. Condemnation has come at the expense of critical engagement with t...Show More
3) Downstream: The Plan is to Make the Internet Worse Forever w/ Cory Doctorow
Did you know that the standard of Google searches has actually gotten worse over recent years? Once you think about it, it makes sense. Highly effective search means fewer searches overall. And fewer ...Show More
4) Downstream: How to Create A Revolution w/ Roger Hallam
Whether you love or loathe his tactics, it’s hard to deny the disruptive impact that Roger Hallam has had on British politics via the activist organisations he has led, Extinction Rebellion and Just S...Show More
5) Downstream: Zack Polanski Is Coming for Starmer and Farage
Support for the Green party in Britain has been steadily rising for the past few decades. However, few predicted that when Zack Polanski took office as Green party leader in September, membership woul...Show More
6) Downstream: Ex-World Bank Insider on Western Decline & the Chinese World Order w/ Branko Milanovic
At Novara, we focus on the trends that are remaking the world and affecting our lives: technological development and automation, multipolarity, the demise of an American-led world order and the rise o...Show More
7) Downstream: The Dark Truth About Starmer’s Rise to Power w/ Paul Holden
Investigative journalist Paul Holden has spent the last four years digging into the political machinations that brought Keir Starmer’s Labour Party into office – findings that propel his powerful 2025...Show More
8) Downstream: Putin’s War in Ukraine Has Ancient Roots w/ Serhii Plokhy
In 1989, Francis Fukuyama, then a very young political scientist, declared that history was over. He wrote a book with the same title just a couple of years later. The Cold War had finished, the USSR ...Show More
9) Downstream: The West Misunderstands Iran w/ Vali Nasr
Iran has been in the news a lot in 2025. Over recent decades, it has been a variable in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Palestine. But during the Twelve Day War with Israel in June of t...Show More
10) Downstream: Kidnapped at Sea by the Israeli Military. The Full Story w/ Kieran Andrieu
The Gaza Strip, home to 2.2 million people, is a tiny land mass about the same size as the Isle of Wight. Yet in terms of munitions by weight, Gaza has been subjected to more than all of the bombs dro...Show More