The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack

The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack


Latest Episodes

Dignity for Palestine – Help Us Feed Our People
September 28, 2025

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In this podcast I am joined from Nuseirat, Gaza by a very tired Dr Musallam Abukhalil, to discuss the latest developments on the ground, his day job in the

Drone Strikes on the Flotilla as Gaza City is Destroyed
September 26, 2025

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Chris Andrews is a Sinn Fin Senator and he's taking part in his fifth Gaza Flotilla. His ship was struck four times last night by Israeli drones. Despite t

‘We’re Gonna Burn Things’
September 24, 2025

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Paddy Maguire is the (mad?) man behind the viral RareWitch-PetalReaction videos that excoriate the media, politics, racist movements and liberal doggies of

Flags, Race Riots and How Rising Inequality is Fuelling Hate
September 22, 2025

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Belfast Green Party Cllr and Community Worker, Brian Smyth has never been shy about calling a spade a spade. Unfortunately the rise in racist attacks (inclu

Erasing the West Bank
September 19, 2025

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Senator Patricia Stephenson has just returned from the West Bank, Palestine and she joined me to discuss the apartheid regime she witnessed, the sanitising

Chasing My Dream in a Genocide
September 17, 2025

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Ahmad Abushawish is a 19-year-old writer and activist from Gaza. He has successfully conveyed his voice and the stories of his people through several presti

RFK Jnr, Vaccines and Public Health in the 2nd Trump term
September 14, 2025

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Dr Niall Conroy is a consultant in public health medicine and adjunct professor of public health in UCC. He's also a person who has fought epidemics and pan

Journalism Is Not A Crime – Al Jazeera Correspondent, Hani Mahmoud
September 12, 2025

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack We Tell Our Stories Hani Mahmoud decided 23 months ago to shift from academia and to stand in front of the camera in order to tell the story of Gaza and its

Gaza City under siege – Nour’s Story
September 11, 2025

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Nour Abo Aisha is a writer, journalist, and translator from Gaza. She writes about living under the siege, memory, displacement, and survival; from her own

‘Drone Strike on the Global Sumud Flotilla’ – Paul Murphy in Tunis
September 09, 2025

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack Late last night an incendiary device was fired at the Global Sumud Flotilla's Steering Committee's ship (full video podcast here:https://www.patreon.com/pos