{"podcast":{"title":"The Whistleblowers","slug":"the-whistleblowers-7101397","podcast_index_feed_id":7101397,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6042504/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-whistleblowers--6042504","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/93302f09c72a87f042746e5d39893715.jpg","author":"Jay Roc","episode_count":106,"summary":"In The Whistleblowers, former CIA agent John Kiriakou brings you some of the bravest men and women fighting for justice. John himself knows what it’s like, having blown the whistle on CIA torture, paying the price with years in prison, and lawsuit upon lawsuit. On The Whistleblowers, John Kiriakou sings the praises and brings to light the people we rely on to keep our government and institutions in check. © Autonomous Nonprofit Organization “TV-Novosti”, 2005–2026. All rights reserved.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-whistleblowers-7101397"},"episode":{"title":"A world on fire: Aaron Bushnell","slug":"a-world-on-fire-aaron-bushnell","published_at":"2026-05-17T20:45:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-whistleblowers-7101397/a-world-on-fire-aaron-bushnell","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-whistleblowers-7101397","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-world-on-fire-aaron-bushnell--72043992","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72043992/apr_27_2024.mp3","summary":"Apr 27, 2024 06:25 A world on fire: Aaron Bushnell On February 25, 2024, a young active duty airman by the name of Aaron Bushnell went to the Israeli Embassy in Washington, declared that as a member of the US Air Force he could not be party to a genocide against the Palestinian people, doused himself with kerosene, and set himself on fire. He shouted “Free Palestine” five times until finally collapsing. He died later at a hospital. He was only 25 years old. On this episode of the Whistleblowers, John Kiriakou asks journalist and podcaster Esha Krishnaswamy if Aaron Bushnell’s death was a bold political statement, or a simple suicide by someone suffering from mental illness.","meta_description":"Apr 27, 2024 06:25 A world on fire: Aaron Bushnell On February 25, 2024, a young active duty airman by the name of Aaron Bushnell went to the Israeli Emba…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1662,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-whistleblowers-7101397/episodes/a-world-on-fire-aaron-bushnell/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-whistleblowers-7101397/a-world-on-fire-aaron-bushnell.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}