In this hard-hitting State of Play, host Greg Stoker asks the fundamental question: Is journalism as a formal institution dead?

With award-winning conflict journalist Tara Sutton, Stoker examines the targeted killing of Palestinian reporter Anas al-Sharif and his colleagues in Gaza, breaking down why this was no accident and how Western media enables such war crimes. The conversation ranges from Gaza to Iraq to the culture of Western newsrooms — exposing the colonial mindset, propaganda, and systemic silencing of voices from the Global South.

They also discuss the U.S. National Guard’s deployment against unhoused people in Washington, D.C., the bipartisan consensus on war and repression, and how journalists on the ground in Gaza are reshaping the global conversation on Palestine.

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In this explosive episode of State of Play, Greg Stoker dissects Donald Trump’s bizarre Turnberry announcement, in which he promises “aid centers” in Gaza with “no fences, no boundaries.” But behind the humanitarian sheen lies a familiar blueprint—Biden’s failed Gaza aid port, reborn as a campaign spectacle.

Greg exposes how both administrations have weaponized aid as propaganda while maintaining unwavering support for Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign. He breaks down the contradictions in Trump’s statements on Hamas and Netanyahu, and revisits the grotesque history of U.S.-sponsored “help” in Gaza.

Also in this episode:
– The CIA pushes new Epstein cover stories
– Trump pressures Putin on Ukraine
– American progressives go mute on Gaza

🔊 Nothing changes because the system demands this outcome. Welcome back to empire.

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This episode of State of Play connects the dots between Gaza’s deepening crisis and the militarization of immigration enforcement in the U.S.

Host Greg Stoker is joined by Murad Awawdeh, head of the New York Immigration Coalition, who offers a powerful firsthand account of ICE raids and surveillance tactics in immigrant communities.

From Israeli-designed predictive policing to famine being recast as "humanitarian success," this episode breaks down how displacement has become a global strategy of state repression.

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