Can the Subaltern Starve? (Re-Air)

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4.8 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Note: This episode was originally released August 28th and is being re-aired today as the article we discuss in the episode has come back under public scrutiny. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice and Artie discuss a disturbing set of arguments that evidence of famine in Gaza—and genocide deaths themselves—can be invalidated by showing that the victims had “pre-existing conditions” or “underlying health conditions,” most brazenly demonstrated in a recent Free Press piece called “They Became Symbols for Gazan Starvation. But All 12 Suffer from Other Health Problems.” Donate links for projects mentioned in the episode: Gaza Funds - https://gazafunds.com/ Sameer Project - https://linktr.ee/thesameerproject Medical Campaign x Sameer Project - https://chuffed.org/project/136892-medical-campaign-x-sameer-project South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water (Sameer Project) - https://chuffed.org/project/113222-tent-campaign-the-sameer-project The Refaat Alareer Camp (Sameer Project) - https://chuffed.org/project/113327-refaat-alareer-camp-the-sameer-project North Gaza: Food, Water & Other Distributions (Sameer Project) - https://chuffed.org/project/help-us-deliver-vital-aid-to-gaza-families-in-need Gaza Municipality's Artificial Limbs and Polio Center - https://mogaza.org/campaign/2 Workshops for Gaza - https://www.workshops4gaza.com/workshops Workshops for Gaza Bookstore - https://open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/workshops-4-gaza-bookstore Crips for eSIMs for Gaza - http://cripsforesimsforgaza.org/ Show Links: Health Communism is now out in paperback! Find it here or order at this link to add a donation to Sameer Project: https://open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g-adler-bolton-beatrice-artie-vierkant-health-communism Find Tracy's book, Abolish Rent, here: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2443-abolish-rent Outro by Time Wharp: https://timewharp.bandcamp.com/track/tezeta As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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1:05.4	I'm Beatrice Siler Bolton, and today I'm here with my co-host, R.D. Veer Kant.
1:09.1	Hello.
1:10.0	And today we're going to be talking about the subject of famine as a tool of genocide
1:13.4	and the coordinated effort in the media to obscure downplay or outright deny the evidence
1:18.3	that famine is being deployed against Palestinians in Gaza.
1:21.8	This is not an abstract debate, nor is it a question of differing interpretations.
1:25.6	It is a struggle over whether the deaths of Palestinians living under genocidal
1:29.6	settler colonial occupation in Gaza will be recognized as crimes of empire or dismissed
1:34.7	as mere accidents of biology.
1:37.1	We've seen a flood of coverage in recent months that alleges that famine in Gaza is either
1:40.9	exaggerated or just plain not happening at all.
1:45.1	Some of the most egregious examples include the free press, Barry Weiss's propaganda outlet, which published an article
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