Hello and welcome to Red Minnis. My name is Allison. I'm here with my co-host, Brett, and we have another current events-based episode coming your way. We've, you know, done a lot of different stuff on the podcast lately, but so much is happening right now that I think it's worth addressing some stuff.

One thing I want to say is I know we kind of go back and forth between more topical and the

more current events. We are planning some work around a discussion of the years of lead in

Italy and, you know, trying to unpack what happened there. People have been throwing around

that time period as analogous to the U.S.

to a large extent recently. So we're going to have some conversation about that in some upcoming

work that we're putting together. Hopefully that's of interest to people. I think the term gets

thrown around a lot without like a very historically deep dive into that time period. So we're

hoping to be able to provide that as we move

forward. So that said, though, for this week, we're going to talk about a couple of different things.

Obviously, the situation in Gaza with a C-spire is very important right now, but there's so much

that is just kind of happening as the contradictions of capitalism, both globally and domestically,

just continue to

intensify in these very extreme ways that I think it's worth just taking some time to do that

analysis. So to start that off, I think, you know, the first thing that we're going to talk about

is the ceasefire agreement that has been made between Hamas and Israel.

And this agreement, obviously, is a thing that Trump is pointing to right now as an

example of his commitment to diplomacy and peace and all of these things.

And for us, it's very relevant because we've talked fairly extensively about the genocide

and the resistance to the genocide that is occurring.

And there's this question now of,

is this the end of, you know, not necessarily the genocide. I think the genocide has been happening since the Nakhba, but of this very acute phase of, you know, intense genocidal violence.

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