Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Full conversation: nonzero.org/p/anatomy-of-a-man-made-famine-nonzero

0:00 Why Gaza’s famine is the "most intense" in decades
3:35 From food secure to starvation: How Gaza unraveled
7:01 Blinken's willful blindness to Israel's obstruction of aid
11:08 How the US muzzled its own famine warning system
14:40 The political power of the term "famine"
19:29 What starvation does to the body—and to society
24:13 The perverse logic of starvation as warfare
26:06 How the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation puts aid in Hamas's hands
29:08 Evaluating Israel's accusation against UNRWA
32:27 How many Gazans are dying of starvation?
35:51 What a real aid response would take now

Discussed in Overtime:
Has there been a surge of aid to Gaza?
How USAID cuts have contributed to the devastating famine in Sudan.
Alex's experience testifying at the International Criminal Court.
Failed US efforts to end the war in Sudan.
Why crimes of starvation are becoming more common.

Recorded August 01, 2025.

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