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It's very fitting, actually.

Hello and welcome to state of play on Mint Press News, your bi-weekly geopolitical news stream,

where we will be talking about journalism in the face of unconscionable war crimes,

and we will be asking the fundamental question,

is journalism as a formal institution dead? It seems like objective truth is completely subservient

to elite corporate and political interests, and nowhere is this more exemplified than in the targeting

of journalists in the Gaza Strip. I'm your host, Greg Stoker. We're going to be joined by a conflict journalist who went into Fallujah in Iraq in 2004, sorry, independently

to film a documentary. She's also done a lot of other work, and we're going to be talking about

what happened to the Ghazan journalist, Anas al-areef and his Al Jazeera colleagues yesterday.

What does it mean going forward?

And yes, the world as a whole is a lot less safe.

By the way, if you're watching the video,

I know you guys are a lot of audio listeners because now we are on all podcast platforms.

But my actual fancy camera isn't working, so you're just going to have to deal with

a bad video quality. Apologies. I usually don't do my military bio, but since we might have

some new folks around here, I'll restate it. I am a former U.S. Army Ranger with a background in

special operations and human intelligence collection. I conducted four combat deployments to Afghanistan,

and now I'm an anti-imperialist activist and journalists. This is relevant because we're going to

be discussing the airstrike that killed these journalists yesterday, how it was effectuated,

the technology used, and examine the military propaganda used to justify it. Essentially,

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