What Happens to the World When China and the U.S. ‘Face Off’?
Go here to listen to Face-Off Jane Perlez is a veteran foreign correspondent, the former...
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The Origins of Haiti’s Gangs and What Comes Next
Violence thrives in countries where political solutions to conflict have failed. On this episode...
TEASER: Haiti. Life in Empire's Shadow
Sign up at angryplanetpod.com to get instant access to the full episode. Recorded 4/4/24...
TEASER: The Shockingly Sophisticated Arsenal of the Houthis
Yemen has become a battlefield of technological firsts. The Houthis have turned the Red Sea into...
How Palantir Is Using AI in Ukraine
Defense contractors and governments can run a thousand simulations, but the data they get will...
TEASER: War Literature as Culture War Fodder
Sing up at angryplanetpod.com to get instant access to the full episode. Writing, even fiction...
Nuclear War and Imagining the Unimaginable
The U.S. is spending $2 trillion to overhaul its nuclear weapons. China is building ICBM silos in...
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What Would an End Game Look Like in Gaza?
It's easy to say the words "two-state solution" between Israel and the Palestinians, but as...
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America’s Fight in the Red Sea
Since the middle of December, a U.S.-led coalition has been trading munitions with Houthis in...
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It’s Time to Retire the Term ‘Proxy War’
One of the persistent themes of Angry Planet has been that smaller countries in the spheres of...
Can You Fight a Moral War in a Tight Space?
Retired Colonel John Spencer, who is a combat veteran who now teaches at West Point, joins...
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Oil makes the world go ‘round, for now. But rare earth minerals such as lithium are increasingly...
Joining your faithful Angry Planet crew this week are Rose Gottemoeller and Michael Ryan,...
Vice News reporter Any Hayward spent the better part of the last year in Russia reporting on the...
A Throw of the Dice: Games the Pentagon Plays
Welcome to the new year at Angry Planet. For the last 100 years, American defense policy has...
What, Exactly, Is the Military Industrial Complex?
When President Dwight David Eisenhower left the stage as president of the United States in 1961,...
The Movie That Scared Ronald Reagan Into Nuclear Détente
Forty years ago, a made for TV movie aired on ABC that changed the world. It was called The Day...
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How Tom Clancy Explains America
Here’s an episode for anyone who thinks art can’t change the world. Tom Clancy topped the best...
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Ever More War: A Conflict Without End
The war between Israel and Hamas shows no sign of slowing. More and more (just as was predicted...
What It's Like to Work in a Gazan Hospital
This week on the show we talked with Canadian-Palestinian doctor Tarek Loubani about his work as...
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