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What happens when the crisis you're covering suddenly swallows you whole?

From the Lower East Side to the West Bank, CRISIS REACTOR tells the story of investigative journalist Jeremy Loffredo — a rare voice of conviction in an age of careerist striving.

When American journalist Jeremy Loffredo was arrested and detained by Israeli authorities on trumped-up charges of espionage, Poolhouse was outraged; not only by the shocking action of a close U.S. ally, but by the eerie silence that followed. Much of the so-called "dissident” niche media class, offered little more than a shrug. And perhaps most disturbingly, the US State Department offered virtually no public comment.

In this groundbreaking conversation, Loffredo joins Poolhouse to retrace the long road of a short but courageous career. From his coverage of the medical freedom movement in the post-COVID era to his nuanced reporting on Russia’s domestic response to the war in Ukraine, Jeremy has consistently gone where the corporate media refuses to tread, providing rare glimpses into how the media product is truly assembled.

Loffredo does not serve the American political duopoly. Instead, he directs his critique at the power structures that rule over it—and that may be exactly what made him a target of state repression. But Jeremy Loffredo could not be broken. When crisis called, he met it with the same tenacious mindset that drove him to pursue journalism in the first place.

CRISIS REACTOR has it all: an interrogation of the media machine, the corporate-state superstructure it serves, and the social-psychological architecture of the realities it manufactures.

It’s a breathtaking story of a reporter drawn into the heart of darkness, and a meditation that illuminates the perspectives most often obscured by the dissonance that permeates our mediated world.

And above all, it’s an eye-opening tale about choosing a fearless path in pursuit of what is true and what is just.

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Program Notes

Jeremy Loffredo on medical coercion at Mercy Hospital for Rebel News [link] and with Riley Vuyovich for CHD-TV [link]

Loffredo on the ground at the Gaza border with all them Jewish Israeli nationalists [link]

More on the Israeli teacher (Meier Baruchin) held in solitary confinement for posting concerns about Gaza that was mentioned on the program [Link]

Post on the Judea and S