{"id":15989,"date":"2024-01-31T09:45:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T09:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=15989"},"modified":"2024-01-31T09:45:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T09:45:52","slug":"the-cassandra-voices-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2024\/01\/31\/the-cassandra-voices-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Believe Nothing Until it is Officially Denied! With guest Patrick Cockburn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/play.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/29715963\/height\/192\/theme\/modern\/size\/large\/thumbnail\/yes\/custom-color\/ececec\/time-start\/00:00:00\/playlist-height\/200\/direction\/backward\/font-color\/000000\" height=\"192\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" oallowfullscreen=\"true\" msallowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border: none;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The first Cassandra Voices Podcast, hosted by Luke Sheahan, features a long form interview with the veteran journalist <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/muckrack.com\/patrick-cockburn\/articles\">Patrick Cockburn<\/a><\/span>. Patrick&#8217;s father Claud, a leading British Communist member and journalist fought in the Spanish Civil War and eventually settled in Ireland. Patrick says of his father:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>He used to say the big battalion commanders want to convince the small battalions, the weaker, the less wealthy that there\u2019s absolutely no point in resisting the big powers, they might as well give up. Claude believed exactly the opposite, the big powers are always more fragile, that they had points of vulnerability and you can attack them, and that\u2019s why I have just published this book, which will be published later this year which is a biography of my father which is called Believe Nothing Until it is Officially Denied.<\/em>\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Following in his father&#8217;s footsteps, for fifty years Patrick Cockburn has been practicing the art of journalism with integrity and persistence: a specialist on the Middle East, he has written extensively on wars and political machinations from Beirut to Belfast and Baghdad.<\/p>\n<p>Within books like <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ie\/books\/about\/Saddam_Hussein.html?id=N1gWeWGvJ9MC&amp;redir_esc=y\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Occupation and Saddam Hussein: An American Obsession<\/span><\/em><\/a> (2002) (written with his brother Andrew), Patrick Cockburn has revealed the workings of Arab dictatorships and Western Imperialism alike. Over the last decade, he has also created a separate, no less distinguished profile as a memoirist: <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ie\/books\/about\/The_Broken_Boy.html?id=LfmOzgEACAAJ&amp;redir_esc=y\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>The Broken Boy<\/em><\/span><\/a> (2022) describes his survival of a Polio epidemic in 1950s Cork, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/Henrys-Demons\/Patrick-Cockburn\/9781439154717\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Henry&#8217;s Demons <\/span><\/em><\/a>(2011) co-authored with his son, immerses the reader into the pain of psychosis.<\/p>\n<p>For our conversation with Patrick Cockburn, we sought to sketch out the lives and work of two independent-minded writers: both himself and his father, Claud. As indicated, Claud\u2019s fifty-year career brought him around the world, from Civil War Spain to Wall Street during the crash of 1929,\u00a0 back to 1930s London, where his newsletter <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/primarysources.brillonline.com\/browse\/the-week-1933-1946\"><em>The Week<\/em><\/a><\/span> both documented and fought the rise of Fascism. It was only after WW2 that Claud moved to Ireland, where Patrick and his siblings would be born from the 50s onwards.<\/p>\n<p>Making use of unclassified MI5 files, and an abundance of material directly remembered from his late father, Patrick spoke to Cassandra Voices as he was preparing the final manuscript of a new memoir, covering Claud\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick also spoke out passionately about coverage of the war in Gaza:<\/p>\n<p><em>Evil becomes normalised \u2026 and a lot of the governments don\u2019t want to recognise and the papers and those outlets that support the governments don\u2019t want to go on about it. So it\u2019s perfectly reasonable that we should have a big story about the Russians firing some rockets into a city in Ukraine and half a dozen people are killed and others injured. That is wrong and that gets a lot of publicity. Then several hundred people are killed in Gaza and that&#8217;s on the bottom of the page now, if it\u2019s mentioned at all.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The first part of the podcast is freely available. You can listen to part two by subscribing on Apple podcasts. We will also be sending the second half of the show to our loyal <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/cassandravoices\">Patreon supporters<\/a><\/span> in the next few days. The decision to charge for the second half comes from our determination to maintain our independence. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Episode One: Believe Nothing Until it is Officially Denied! With guest Patrick Cockburn.<br \/>\nListen on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/cassandra-voices-podcast\/id1728086643\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> or<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/480MYNQ8BqYXUjCnKIW8gd?si=c72662fc76844823&amp;nd=1&amp;dlsi=d5ed9771d86549c7\"> Spotify <\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>Host: Luke Sheehan<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Music: Loafing Heroes: \u200b\u200b<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/theloafingheroes.bandcamp.com\">https:\/\/theloafingheroes.bandcamp.com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Produced by Massimiliano Galli: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.massimilianogalli.com\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.massimilianogalli.com<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nFeature Image: Daniele Idini<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Cassandra Voices Podcast, hosted by Luke Sheahan, features a long form interview with the veteran journalist Patrick Cockburn. Patrick&#8217;s father Claud, a leading British Communist member and journalist fought in the Spanish Civil War and eventually settled in Ireland. Patrick says of his father: He used to say the big battalion commanders want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":15997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19],"tags":[89,886,888,1337,1446,1743,1744,1778,2104,2395,3085,3392,3892,5631,5716,6703,6788,7005,7008,7009,7010,7013,7298,8500,8922,9204,9723,9893],"class_list":["post-15989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","category-society-culture","tag-with","tag-believe","tag-believe-nothing-until-it-is-officially-denied","tag-cassandra","tag-cassandra-voices-podcast","tag-claud-cockburn","tag-claud-cockburn-the-week","tag-cockburn","tag-culture","tag-denied","tag-evil-becomes-normalised-gaza","tag-food","tag-guest","tag-long-form-interview","tag-luke-sheahan","tag-nothing","tag-officially","tag-patrick","tag-patrick-cockburn","tag-patrick-cockburn-gaza","tag-patrick-cockburn-henrys-demons","tag-patrick-cockburn-the-broken-boy","tag-podcast","tag-society","tag-the","tag-the-occupation-and-saddam-hussein-an-american-obsession","tag-until","tag-voices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}