Mega Prisons and Bitcoin in El Salvador
It’s 2023. It’s time for authoritarian leaders to update their aesthetic. Sure a stuffy military uniform used to lend an air of authority, but today’s young leaders are looking more and more like sili...
22 Touko 202341min
Talking Turkey Ahead of the Vote
There are authoritarians and there are tyrants, and sometimes they’re the same person. But would a true tyrant put himself up to face the people in an election that could be free and maybe even fair?W...
12 Touko 202345min
Teaser: Why UAPs Are So Hard to Talk About
It’s a subscriber only episode of Angry Planet where we sit down with drone and UAP journalist Kelsey Atherton to deliver on an old promise: making up for a balloon-related episode from February some ...
9 Touko 202320min
Why War Never Changes
You may have noticed that we end our show with a snippet of the video game Fallout (my favorite). “War - war never changes.”What if that’s both true and not true? You have to love a dichotomy. Anyway,...
1 Touko 202345min
How a 21-Year-Old Edgelord Stole Pentagon Secrets
How is that a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman posted government secrets to a private Discord group for almost a year before anyone noticed? On today’s episode of Angry Planet, Bellingcat’s Aric Tol...
24 Huhti 202354min
Why the West Loves 'ISIS Brides'
The Islamic State has largely fallen out of the western press with the weird exception of ISIS brides. And when we talk about the Islamic State, western press often ignores its broader crimes. The pli...
17 Huhti 202352min
Reagan's Failed Attempt to Put Lasers in Space
In 1983, President Ronald Reagan stood before the American public and promised to put lasers in space. The Strategic Defense Initiative was meant to be the ultimate bulwark against communist intercont...
5 Huhti 202344min
Russia's Fascist Youth Groups
Dictatorships of the last century had some famous youth groups. Hitler had his Youth, Lenin had his Young Pioneers, and Mussolini had his Opera Nazionale Balilla.Such groups once attracted huge follow...
29 Maalis 202347min
