Last Born In The Wilderness

403 / The Complicit Lens / Robin Andersen

Media scholar Robin Andersen joins me to discuss her impeccably researched book, The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza, published by OR Books and the Institute for Palestine Studies. The Complicit Lens is a meticulously documented, searing indictment of the US legacy media’s direct complicity in the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Andersen identifies the propagandistic frame venerable liberal outlets, like The New York Times, Washington Post, and LA Times, as well as their broadcast outlet contemporaries, report within to carry water for the US-backed Israeli bombardment of Gaza since al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/robin-andersen // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast [ EP 403 / REC 04.20.2026 / REL 05.08.2026 ]

Preview / The Complicit Lens / Robin Andersen

Media scholar Robin Andersen joins me to discuss her impeccably researched book, The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza, published by OR Books and the Institute for Palestine Studies. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

402 / Scapegoat / Clare Follmann

Clare Follmann, M.E.S., joins me to discuss her new book, Scapegoat: What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong, from AK Press. Follmann examines the invasive species story, identifying the language and metaphors used to categorize certain sets of species as “invasive”—as invading and destroying habitats—often framed in the militaristic and xenophobic rhetoric of border nationalism and racial purity. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/clare-follmann // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast [ EP 402 / REC 03.28.2026 / REL 04.16.2026 ]

Preview / Scapegoat / Clare Follmann

Clare Follmann, M.E.S., joins me to discuss her new book, Scapegoat: What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong, from AK Press. Follmann examines the invasive species story, identifying the language and metaphors used to categorize certain sets of species as “invasive”—as invading and destroying habitats—often framed in the militaristic and xenophobic rhetoric of border nationalism and racial purity. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

401 / Sycophantic AI and the Attack on Iran / Peter Byrne

Journalist Peter Byrne joins me to discuss the burgeoning and sprawling military AI industry, its consortium of players, and its relationship with the warmaking and surveillance powers of the United States government, explicated in his extensive 10-part Military AI Watch series for Project Censored. Furthermore, Byrne elucidates how AI systems are being used in the now weeks-long US-Israel war on Iran, both in the decision to launch this war and in the day-to-day decision-making of military strategists. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/peter-byrne // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast < EP 401 / REC 03.18.2026 / REL 03.27.2026 >