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476 episodes transcribedConquerors and nations have been trying to rebuild Afghanistan in their own image for thousands of years. The U.S. is just the latest to fail.The Sovi...
America is leaving Afghanistan. President Joe Biden has set a September 11th withdrawal date and things are continuing apace. As America packs up its...
Are we living in a declining empire in need of renewal? Maybe.But one thing to keep in mind? Romans thought the same thing centuries before the great...
Life in Haiti has rarely been easy. It’s the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Corruption is rampant. And it’s been invaded more than once si...
When I was a kid I learned about the Alamo. It’s 1836. Houston said to Travis, fortify the Alamo. Volunteers came from across the continent to fight a...
Afghanistan, the site of America’s longest war, is changing. The Taliban is gaining ground in the North while peace talks stall. The U.S. continues it...
It doesn’t take high technology to kill someone. Simple chemicals propel pieces of lead out of steel tubes. Other simple chemicals are placed in large...
So far, in the political battles at the heart of our democracy, they have been AWOL. Just as they should be.The military is an expressly non-political...
Over the past few months the world watched as the conflict between Israel and Palestine flared up. I’m not interested in litigating the facts of that...
For the last two decades, America has been possessed with a Global War on Terror. The threat of militant Islam has funded the security state and given...
When you hear the word Sparta, there’s an immediate association with war and the military. Of the Greek City States, it’s the one most associated with...
There’s a maxim that says “No two countries that both have a McDonald’s have ever fought a war against each other.” This so-called Golden Arches...
In the summer of 2020, violent riots broke out across America between ordinary citizens and police. These riots led to groups finding ways to develop...
Literally recorded as missiles hit and news broke.Guest: Noga Tarnopolsky, a reporter on Israel and Palestine.Angry Planet has a substack! Join the In...
Russia and Ukraine have been fighting ever since Little Green Men invaded Crimea in 2014. That wasn’t enough for Russia. The former evil empire then a...
“From mud, through blood, to the green fields beyond.” The tank was meant to push through entrenched enemy lines and put an end to the stale-mate of t...
The Taliban - we all know them, few of us love them, and it looks like they’re going to rule Afghanistan - again.So, what was it like the first time t...
When Islamic State’s capital, Raqqa, finally fell in late 2017, America wasn’t really paying close attention. We’d had nearly a year of turmoil here a...
Guns, guns, guns. America loves them and their use is enshrined in the second amendment. It’s such a big deal here that an entire culture has grown ar...
Billions of people eat fish every day and as the global population has exploded, so too have human efforts to catch more and more fish. As more people...
