War is Stupid: An Anti-War Podcast About War

War is Legal? with War Crimes Lawyer and Comedian Jess Salomon

Host Orli Matlow sits down with Jess Salomon (The Tonight Show, The Hague) for a wide-ranging conversation that includes the war crimes lawyer to comedian pipeline, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the Rwandan genocide, Zionist crashouts, and the future of the Jewish story.
Follow Jess:
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https://salomonsays.substack.com/
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Personal Fundraisers from Friends of Friends in Gaza: 
Support Majdy's family farm: http://givebutter.com/majdy   
Support Salah's family farm: http://givebutter.com/salah   
Support Moath's family & education initiative: http://givebutter.com/moaath   
A new NGO founded by doctors buying formula for babies and offering vital nutrition and education to children in Gaza:  https://www.thechildrensvillagegaza.org/   
A small NGO providing sanitary needs and shelter:  https://www.cleanshelter.org/ 

War Makes You A Man? with Comedian Freddy G

Host Orli Matlow sits down with comedian and host of The Vanquished podcast Freddy G to talk men, masculinity, and militarism. The wide-ranging conversation includes tea on Sigmund Freud (a man), wrestling (drag shows for straight men), Alexander the Great (a man…and a nepo baby), Kurt Vonnegut (a man), Barbie (a doll/woman), Taylor Swift (a woman) and Travis Kelce (a man), the pro-war candidacy of John Kerry (a man), the pro-war presidency of Joe Biden (a man) and the pro-war candidacy of Kamala Harris (a woman).
Correction: Beau Biden served in Iraq during the Iraq War, not the Gulf War. War is Stupid regrets this error!
 
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Listen to The Vanquished:
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Personal Fundraisers from Friends of Friends in Gaza: 
Support Majdy's family farm: http://givebutter.com/majdy 
Support Salah's family farm: http://givebutter.com/salah 
Support Moath's family & education initiative: http://givebutter.com/moaath 
A new NGO founded by doctors buying formula for babies and offering vital nutrition and education to children in Gaza:  https://www.thechildrensvillagegaza.org/ 
A small NGO providing sanitary needs and shelter:  https://www.cleanshelter.org/ 

War Frees Hostages? with Tamar Glezerman, Co-Founder of Israelis For Peace

Host Orli Matlow sits down with Tamar Glezerman, co-founder of Israelis For Peace, to debunk the myth that war frees hostages—a myth that is promptly disproven by the numbers. They talk Israelis For Peace's work in New York and its hecklers, reflect on the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, spill tea about the Netanyahu crime family, and provide practical ways to help people in Gaza right now.
Follow Tamar:
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Personal Fundraisers from Friends of Friends in Gaza: •   
 Support Saher and Salwa: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-saher-and-salwa-in-gaza    
Support Shahed and Abdullah’s family in Gaza: https://gofund.me/c0e35076
Support Khitam’s family: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-khader-and-his-family-survive-after-war
Support Yousef's Legacy Fund:
http://givebutter.com/7P5GCX  •    Support Majdy's family farm: http://givebutter.com/majdy  •    Support Salah's family farm: http://givebutter.com/salah  •    Support Moath's family & education initiative: http://givebutter.com/moaath  •    Support Reham’s family: https://www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-appeal-help-evacuate-and-support-my-family  •    Support Baby Eileen and her parents: https://chuffed.org/project/135402-gaza-emergency-milk-diapers-meds-needed-for-newborn-baby-eileen  •    Support the Ahel Family:  https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-ahel-family-survive 
A Couple Known and Vetted NGOs:
A new NGO founded by doctors buying formula for babies and offering vital nutrition and education to children in Gaza: •    https://www.thechildrensvillagegaza.org/ 
A small NGO providing sanitary needs and shelter: •    https://www.cleanshelter.org/ 

War Liberates Women? with Danaka Katovich, National Co-Director of CODEPINK

Comedian Orli Matlow sits down with Danaka Katovich, National Co-Director of CODEPINK: Women For Peace. 
They break down the myth that war liberates women, covering Gaza, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Danaka shares her personal journey to activism, her experience heckling Joe Biden, and what the world could look like if America didn't spend a trillion dollars on weapons—with a cameo from the fighter jets of the Chicago Air and Water Show. 
Donate to Medical Aid for Palestinians: https://www.map.org.uk/
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War Is Romantic? with Comedian Penina Beede

Comedian Orli Matlow explores how the military is romanticized and sexualized, with a diversion ranking the Magic Mike Cinematic Universe. She is then joined by comedian and IDF dropout Penina Beede, whose solo show Slack Off: Losing My Pants In The Israeli Army is running this summer in New York City.
Donate to Medical Aid for Palestinians: https://www.map.org.uk/
Learn more about A Land For All: https://www.2s1h.org/en 
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World War 2 Was 'The Good War'?

Comedian Orli Matlow tackles the myth that launched a thousand Oscars: that World War 2 was a humanitarian war waged humanitarianly for humanitarian reasons. The way we talk about World War 2 comes more from Steven Spielberg than from soldiers and survivors.
 
Further reading:
"The Destruction of the European Jews" by Raul Hilberg
"The Good War" by Studs Terkel
"Looking For The Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness" by Elizabeth D. Samet 
"Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice" by Howard Zinn
"Armageddon in Retrospect" and "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
 

War Benefits The People? ft. World War I

Comedian Orli Matlow breaks down the myth that "war benefits the people" by exploring World War I—that time approximately 40 million people died because a bunch of cousins wanted to flex. 

Welcome to War is Stupid: An Anti-War Podcast About War

Welcome to War is Stupid: An Anti-War Podcast About War. It's the ultimate true crime podcast, taking murder and killing to its largest possible scale. In this short intro episode, we meet host Orli Matlow and also the military-industrial complex.