Listen live Fridays noon to 2pm Eastern on Revolution.Radio later archived at KevinBarrett.Substack.com Today is Ramadan 5, 1445 AH. People are fasting across the Muslim world, and starving in Gaza. So it’s an appropriate day to discuss the reason behind the Ramadan fast—Qur’anic guidance—as well as potential solutions to the genocide on Occupied Palestine. First hour: Marwan Boustany is the author of Guidance According to the Qur’an. The Qur’an states (an-Nahl 89): “And We have sent down to you the Book as clarification for all things and as guidance and mercy and good tidings for those who self-surrender to God.” People have…
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LIVE RADIO! Piers Robinson on Academic Unfreedom; Mahmood OD on “One-State Solution by 2048”
Listen live Fridays noon to 2pm Eastern on Revolution.Radio later archived at KevinBarrett.Substack.com First hour: Piers Robinson of the Organisation for Propaganda Studies has noticed that propagandists don’t like it when scholars study and analyze their propaganda. His latest ruminations on “The Perils of Studying Propaganda” begins with the observation: “Acknowledging that powerful actors pour huge resources into managing the ‘information environment’, in order to manipulate perceptions, attitudes and behaviours, tends to play havoc with assumptions underpinning much of liberal political science.” The propaganda-saturated COVID era, he argues, made it even more obvious that such is indeed the case. But even absent…
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