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
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
The Drones Above Ukraine
You know, we wanted to talk about European (and especially German) views of the war in Ukraine today. And we still will. What’s an IRIS-T, for example. What’s up with those Leopard tanks? But then a R...
21 Maalis 202346min
Ukraine: Back to the Front One Year On
This week, Angry Planet talks with Caleb Larson who has been working as a journalist in and around Ukraine’s Donbas region where much of the war is currently being fought. He paints a picture of the s...
13 Maalis 202349min
What's a Planet Worth?
As the planet slowly broils, we keep hoping that some technological revolution will save us. Not just carbon capture or seeding the oceans with iron to grow algae that will drink in all the carbon dio...
6 Maalis 202354min
50 Years Since the Draft
In 1973, as most American troops left Vietnam, President Richard M. Nixon ended compulsory military service for males over the age of 18. It was an end of system that had been in place since the Secon...
27 Helmi 202328min
