The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Oct 12, 2026 · 44 min · 10 segments
Independent journalist and sexual assault forensic examiner Jennifer Koonings discusses Arbaeen in Iraq, meeting bereaved families from Minab, Bosnia, support for Palestine and her account of the…
Jennifer KooningsGuestThe Piaz HostHost
They are like technically they're nonprofit, but these are like hospitals and everything that they're doing is, is a massive money-making operation, especially in New York.

And I think, especially in the U S with what's happening with technology and especially with quote unquote, artificial intelligence, The people's ability to resist is the window of opportunity to be able to do that is closing every single day, every single day that we offshore our ability to even have free thought and to think and to question when we use artificial intelligence.

So actually coming back to the US and seeing like the level of, it's something that we all have to resist against, but it's necessary.

But I don't know if most people are capable of it at this point of resisting this, these addictions that are being force fed on us with technology, with artificial intelligence, with social media, with all of this, because They want us to be distracted.

One of the first things that I did when I came back to New York, Zaina was actually in New York for a wedding and we met up on Saturday and we went to Malcolm X's grave and that's in White Plains, New York.

And so it was a great reminder to go to a great Americans where he's laid to rest and learn more about his story and just study him and listen to his words and understand how much we've lost.

the 60s when you listen to his speeches you're just blown away by the way that people especially someone like malcolm x is able to to speak and to critically examine and to connect the dots on all of these issues people have completely lost this ability and i believe that it's it's from technology of course and just the on continuous onslaught of basically the quote-unquote modern world and modern society.

So I think that those of us who really want to defeat this, I don't know, Zionist institution, like we're living under Zionist rule, we're living under Zionist occupation.

That was like literally the last thing he wrote about Zionism before they killed him.

And as much as we can not engage with their technologies and maintain our cognitive abilities, because that's the last frontier, actually.

They are like technically they're nonprofit, but these are like hospitals and everything that they're doing is, is a massive money-making operation, especially in New York.

And I think, especially in the U S with what's happening with technology and especially with quote unquote, artificial intelligence, The people's ability to resist is the window of opportunity to be able to do that is closing every single day, every single day that we offshore our ability to even have free thought and to think and to question when we use artificial intelligence.

So actually coming back to the US and seeing like the level of, it's something that we all have to resist against, but it's necessary.

But I don't know if most people are capable of it at this point of resisting this, these addictions that are being force fed on us with technology, with artificial intelligence, with social media, with all of this, because They want us to be distracted.

One of the first things that I did when I came back to New York, Zaina was actually in New York for a wedding and we met up on Saturday and we went to Malcolm X's grave and that's in White Plains, New York.

And so it was a great reminder to go to a great Americans where he's laid to rest and learn more about his story and just study him and listen to his words and understand how much we've lost.

the 60s when you listen to his speeches you're just blown away by the way that people especially someone like malcolm x is able to to speak and to critically examine and to connect the dots on all of these issues people have completely lost this ability and i believe that it's it's from technology of course and just the on continuous onslaught of basically the quote-unquote modern world and modern society.

So I think that those of us who really want to defeat this, I don't know, Zionist institution, like we're living under Zionist rule, we're living under Zionist occupation.

That was like literally the last thing he wrote about Zionism before they killed him.

And as much as we can not engage with their technologies and maintain our cognitive abilities, because that's the last frontier, actually.
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