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The Exploding Head
by Justina Poskeviciute
"I think my head's about to explode" is what I say to myself when something too grotesque, absurd, horrible, or insanely hypocritical is happening - and I think it's how many of us feel when witnessing injustice.In my podcast, to deconstruct that feeling, I talk about interconnected systems of oppression. Militarism, imperialism, colonialism, and several other -isms are inevitably there.My political commentary has been about Palestine since the beginning and is mostly on Gaza these days.You can read more about my projects here: http://www.justinaposkeviciute.com/
Episodes
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Three Years of Genocide: How Do We Emerge?
In my episode, I share a quote I saw many years ago on the apartheid wall in Bethlehem. It's a quote that has stuck with me ever since. It's also what I have been thinking a lot about in the past years and especially in the past days, as the third anniversary of the Gaza genocide approaches. It...
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Interview with War Report Luca Steinmann
Luca Steinmann is an independent journalist, war reporter, political analyst, and author. He was also one of the few Western journalists reporting from the Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine. I met with Luca to ask for his perspective on how wars are reported, what is being missed, the role of...
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The Desire for Normalcy by Those Who Have Normalised Inhumanity
We already know what Aaron Bushnell said — “This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal” — and how it looks. We can see with our own eyes what our own governments have normalised. As I open the seventh season of my project, I invite you to keep your rage and to actively point out how…
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Settler Violence, State Violence: The Daily Terrorism in Palestine
Israeli settler violence has always been state violence: because you don't send your army to protect just anyone. In addition to this violence being on the rise for at least three years now, see how this violence has exploded (even more) in the past few days. #Israel #Palestine #FreePalestine...
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On The Discomfort And The Cognitive Trap Zionists Tend to Fall into
We live in strange times - because we live in the world with an Israel in it. Here, in 2026, notice how an open declaration to be against the mass murder of children makes some people uncomfortable. And, at the same time, see what kind of admission that discomfort shows.
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On The Targeting of Children And The Yoga to Treat One's PTSD afterwards (The Zionist Universe)
You might have seen both pieces of news of very unequal importance this week: Israeli soldiers doing yoga (a video released on Yoga Day), and the findings of the UN inquiry, concluding that the genocide in Gaza continues as the Israeli army is deliberately targeting children. Here are my comments...
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What Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya's Lawyer Reminded Us by Appearing in Israel's Supreme Court
This is not your regular trial. This is not your usual court. Because this is not a normal country. In my video, I invite you to zoom out and remember what we're actually seeing when Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, is being represented by his lawyer: we're...
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Israel: When Words Become Both The Representation And The Represented
You might have noticed how the words of condemnation by our leaders towards Israeli treatment, not even necessarily kidnapping, of the Global Sumud Flotilla participants carry zero weight. These are the words that mean absolutely nothing, as they are backed by no action (with the exception of...
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On The Global Sumud Flotilla, and What The World with Israel in It Looks Like
The kidnapping from international waters of Thiago Avila and Saif Abu Keshek from the Global Sumud Flotilla by Israeli forces, as well as their illegal detention in Israel, is yet another example of the horrors that the world has allowed. And this is only one example of what the world of Israel...
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How Did Jon Stewart Miss The Greatest Piece of Satire on His Show?
Choosing to interview someone like Germany's former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Annalena Baerbock, who history - and, hopefully, the International Court of Justice - will remember as a war criminal and a genocide enabler is very much not cool. And, ironically, there's also the missed opportunity...
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What, According to My Government, Other Countries Can Learn from Israel
The fall of my government into a moral abyss, together with Israel, is, indeed, endless. I've been documenting it for two and a half years now, with no lack of shameful instances to comment on. My video is an example of how that fall looks and why the rage it generates might seem familiar to you,...
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What Israel's Destruction of Lebanon Is Showing Us Painfully Clearly
The new scale of Israel's destruction of Lebanon should have shocked and shaken everyone. And in a world where morals play a role in politics, we would have seen outrage, condemnation, and the cutting of ties - years too late, I know - with Israel. Now, what we're seeing is not just ("just")...
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On Iran, (Ir)rationality, and Those Who Didn't See Any Destabilisation of The Region in Israel's Genocide
My video is a reflection on what and who have been presented to us as 'rational' and 'irrational' for decades. I invite you to see through this constructed narrative, as we know now that it is being used by those who have no issues to actively support an ongoing genocide. #Iran #Israel...
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On One UN Vote that The Colonisers Didn't Like And The Ones Who Don't Care About Brown Lives Abstained From
We shouldn't be surprised: Those who can't condemn the mass murder of brown children now can't do it when it comes to the pain of an unseen magnitude unleashed onto black people in the past (an injustice that's nowhere near being undone). We shouldn't be surprised -- but we should be enraged. We...
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Your Antiwar Voice Is Needed More Than You Might Think
If you can't recognize the war propaganda now, you might never be able to. See how blatant it is, how uniform, how predictable (and then, how destructive - just look at Iran and Lebanon now). In this short episode, I invite you to amplify the voices that deconstruct it, and see how important it…
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Good News: We Are on a Boat Ride Together; Bad News: It's Being Steered by Psychopaths
We're being led by psychopaths, and they're not leading us to anywhere great. What we need are more countries like Spain and Italy (former allies), saying they won't be part of the U.S. and Israel's war on Iran. What we need more of are strong antiwar voices. What we need more are all hands on…
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From Iran to Palestine: Beware Those Who Liberate by Bombing Children
No one is here to defend the Iranian regime and how it treats youth or children. But to stay silent when international law is being violated, and children are being targeted, again, by Israel, would be enabling its impunity in its mass murder of children around the whole region even further....
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From Cuba to Palestine: Beware Those Who Seek to See Hospitals Run Out of Fuel
What we're seeing in Cuba is an intensification of imperial violence by those who have been unleashing it on Palestine, too. The parallels here are many, including how the mentality of a coloniser cannot be more on display here. But the helpers are here, too. This is both who we can focus on and...
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Have You Witnessed Democratic Mechanisms Being Eroded on Live TV? Here's An Example
If you watched the U.S. Attorney Pam Bondi contemptuously deflect questions about the Epstein files in a recent hearing, you might have had a strong reaction to it in your nervous system. I had it -- for two scary reasons, one of which can be explained by political science. That's what I talk…
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From Palestine to The Epstein Files: Will You Demand Justice or Embrace Collective Amnesia?
n addition to the more obvious parallels between Israel's destruction of Gaza, the violence described in the Epstein files, and Epstein's direct connection to Israel, there's yet another parallel I want to draw your attention to here: the one of collective amnesia. Or - it depends on us - the one...
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International Law is No More, Fascism is Here: How Will You Choose to Operate in This Reality?
I think it can't be clearer that polite self-silencing, smallness, and not being unapologetically anti-fascist aren't serving us. Because even if you choose to engage with reality less, it remains the same: International law is left irrelevant because of our governments' bowing down to empires;...
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A Visual Summary of What Our Governments Have Allowed Israel to Do to International Law
As the year is ending, I wanted to comment on a video with you that I think is the perfect summary of what Israel has done - or what our spineless governments have allowed Israel to do - to international law in the most recent years.I also invite you to use that rage in 2026, too. ---Find all my...
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What Is The Opposite of Giving Israel a Gift This Holiday Season
My episode is my quick holiday message for you: for all those whose worlds have crumbled and hearts have broken in recent years, and for those who have refused to choose apathy over solidarity and compassion ❤️💔 --- I invite you to give a gift of solidarity this holiday season. Please contribute...
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How the European Broadcasting Union Just Gave Eurovision Fans an Opportunity to Show Some Spine (Thanks to Israel)
In short, Israel will be allowed to compete at Eurovision this year. What it shows is nothing shocking: that there is nothing - morals, legal consequences, human rights of European citizens themselves - that is above Europe's desire to maintain its relationship with Israel. Interestingly, what…
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What Calling Israel's Continuation of Its Mass Murder a 'Fragile Ceasefire' Shows
I think we've all had enough with a 'fragile ceasefire': a state in which Israel's crimes continue with impunity. In short, Israel's fascist regime can continue doing literally anything it wants -- and still control the narrative about what and who breaks a ceasefire.
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How Football Reminded Us about Two Parallel Worlds Recently
Two football games took place almost simultaneously recently. And my goodness, how clearly did they show that they were not just from different teams but from different worlds. In one, in Bilbao, tens of thousands of football fans showed solidarity with the people being oppressed and undergoing a...
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How Talking About Ecocide in Palestine Helps Us Better Describe What Is Being Done - Only Possible by a Coloniser
The destruction of the environment inevitably IS the destruction of human life, too. And to describe what Israel has reduced Gaza to, we have yet another word: ecocide. It doesn't diminish the horrors of the mass atrocities committed. It actually expands the description of the formats, objects…
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Israel Is Bombing Gaza Again (The Coloniser Continues to Colonise)
Israel is bombing Gaza again -- that is in addition to now hundreds of its ceasefire violations. What does it show? Nothing new, although each new horror should be perceived as such. It only confirms that if one thinks peace can be made with a coloniser who hasn't given up its colonial ambitions;...
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To What "Peacetime" We Might Be Seeing Palestine Return
If someone thinks that Trump's Gaza Peace Plan is a roadmap to actual lasting peace - meaning, absence of oppression, and presence of justice, equality, and accountability - they are very very mistaken. And they might be mistaken about what "peacetime" has looked like in Palestine before October…
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The Global Sumud Flotilla Is Showing How The Whole World Is Held Hostage by One Fascist Regime
Have you ever seen the world governments await an act of international terrorism to happen to their citizens and do absolutely nothing? This is what we're witnessing as the Global Sumud Flotilla is being intercepted by Israeli forces. Please continue amplifying their efforts by taking any action...
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There Is No Shortcut to Collective Action -- And There Is No-One Else to Take It
Palestine has reminded us that we have nothing without collective action. Through, by, and because of the people: how much more obvious can it be that this is always how change happens. Maybe we're just not used to being in the middle (in the movement) of it. #globalsumudflotilla #Gaza...
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The Inconvenience of A Genocide
Will anything happen after the International Association of Genocide Scholars released their declaration calling Israel's actions in Gaza as constituting genocide? The grotesque "So what now?" question reveals how our governments - with the exception of a small number of countries - have been...
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It's Time to Admit The Israeli Army Is Exceptional Indeed
It's time to admit that, in the end, the descriptors Zionists tend to use for the Israeli army might as well be true. The uniqueness of the Israeli army should definitely be acknowledged and exemplified -- just not exactly how Zionists do it.
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Germany Says It Will Suspend Its Arms to Israel: Let's Put It in Context
Germany just announced it would suspend its arms to Israel - what does it mean? In short, it means the mass murder of children, journalists, health workers, and every single demographic of Gaza wasn't enough for Germany. A genocide wasn't a red line. But something that Netanyahu has now more...
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Three Updates on Violence Unleashed by Israel on Palestinian Children
These are just some of the horrors of this genocide and of Israel's illegal occupation of the West Bank. This is what supremacy, fascism, and complete impunity look like on the bodies of Palestinian children.
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Extermination of Gaza: A Reminder for When There Are No Words Left
My "recommendation" is very pragmatic and just as simple: we repeat, we repeat, we repeat.We amplify again and again informed voices of conscience ✊🏽 We talk about the same horrors all over again -- because they're still happening. And remember: Zionist propagandists aren't ashamed of repeating...
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Three Phenomena to Call Out Regarding Israel's Aggression against Iran
When it comes to warmongering, manufacturing concent, and using racist colonial narratives to justify aggression against a country that the West wants to make "obedient", we don't need to look for examples in history -- we can see what's happening to Iran. In my short episode, I invite you to...
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Gaza: On Multiple Levels of Shame -- And Heartbreak
The profound shame surrounding witnessing an extermination of a people is very real, and - I claim - has different levels (layers, if you will). This, and the continuous heartbreak, is what I address in my episode, illustrating one of those shame levels with the stance of my own country…
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Zero Tolerance for The Psychosis of Zionism
We have seen enough. We have seen too much, in fact. We have seen enough to show zero tolerance for those who still declare their loyalty to an ideology that has turned Gaza into a mass grave of children. They are out of touch with reality; they are unwell. And just like, I would assume, you show...
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Has The Ruling Class Decided for You What Your "Normal" Is?
Have you accepted the media silence surrounding a Fascist regime, a coloniser, keeping an entire population under siege? Are you OK with a people being intentionally starved to death by a country that your country might be friends with? Have you normalised seeing country leaders with arrest...
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On Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya And What Fascism Does to The Bodies of All of Us
There are the bodies who torture others. There are the bodies who support the torture and extermination of people. There are the bodies being tortured. And then there's you. There's your body. What will YOU do? How will YOU use your body --- hopefully, in ways that are good for your soul? Here's…
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Mass Destruction by Politeness, Mass Destruction by Cowardice
It seems Antony Blinken's closing press conference was a microcosm in itself: a binary between those with a moral compass and courage and those for whom this combination is unknown. My eternal gratitude and respect for Max Blumenthal and Sam Husseini. My eternal gratitude, respect, and apologies…
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What to Keep in 2025: for Palestine And for Your Humanity
My wish for you and me came to me unexpectedly, on a graffiti tour in Oaxaca, Mexico -- in a mural that wasn't even part of the tour. It's a message that resonated deeply. A message I immediately wanted to share with you. I hope it resonates, too, and maybe it's something you've been needing to...
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On Syria And Cynicism
Assad's regime has fallen and there's an incredibly difficult task ahead for the people of Syria: to rebuild the country. In my episode, I'm inviting you to fight the potential cynicism surrounding this incredible news and not to dehumanise your Syrian friends by telling them what to think and…
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We're Not "Saving" Palestine -- Palestine Is Saving Us
I've had it wrong all those years - and not just the colonial/white feminist language for which I apologise. I've had it wrong in terms of in what direction humanity was flowing. And I didn't realise what our collective struggle - to see a free Palestine one day - has given us.
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Gaza: When Will You Choose Not to Be a Coloniser?
It is the same indoctrination, the same lens, the same dehumanising rhetoric that is mass murdering people for over five centuries: a colonised mind. A mind of a coloniser. This is what my slightly rant-like episode is about. It's about seeing the humanity of others and removing - actively,...
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Yes, States Can Engage in Terrorism: Use Correct Concepts When They Fit
There are words that can be thrown around in a misleading way, diluting, obscuring, or completely misrepresenting what they mean. The same words can be used reluctantly - knowingly - when they fit certain situations perfectly. It was high time I did an episode on terrorism, also talking about war...
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Everything and Everyone: That's What The US Has Chosen to Disregard to Support and Shelter Israel
If you think the title of this podcast episode is an exaggeration, I invite you to answer a simple question: What and who has any influence on the unconditional support that the Biden-Harris administration has been showing to Israel? --- Welcome to the fifth season of my podcast. Thank you for...
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What Is Israel Still Doing in The UN?
Why would you be a member state of an organisation whose agencies you accuse of terrorism, whose schools you bomb, whose employees you murder at historic rates, and whose court orders you don't listen to? And why should this organisation welcome you as a "normal" member? Israel is a rogue state...
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Resist Collective Amnesia: It's Kamala's Genocide, Too
To see people who describe themselves as progressive cheer for a presidential candidate whose current administration has been literally supporting a genocide has been one continuous exploding head moment for me. This is what my episode is on, with a simple deconstruction of what we need to…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
"I think my head's about to explode" is what I say to myself when something too grotesque, absurd, horrible, or insanely hypocritical is happening - and I think it's how many of us feel when witnessing injustice.In my podcast, to deconstruct that feeling, I talk about interconnected systems of oppression. Militarism, imperialism, colonialism, and several other -isms are inevitably there.My political commentary has been about Palestine since the beginning and is mostly on Gaza these days.You can read more about my projects here: http://www.justinaposkeviciute.com/
HOSTED BY
Justina Poskeviciute
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