TEASER: Haiti. Life in Empire's Shadow
Sign up at angryplanetpod.com to get instant access to the full episode.Recorded 4/4/24The U.S. State Department has been working hard to get Americans out of Haiti. The island nation’s government is ...
8 Apr 202410min
TEASER: The Shockingly Sophisticated Arsenal of the Houthis
Yemen has become a battlefield of technological firsts. The Houthis have turned the Red Sea into a proving ground for Iranian weapons, and Tehran is learning what works and what doesn’t. It’s become a...
29 Mar 202411min
How Palantir Is Using AI in Ukraine
Defense contractors and governments can run a thousand simulations, but the data they get will never be as good as what’s generated on a battlefield. When Russia invaded Ukraine, tech companies saw an...
26 Mar 202458min
TEASER: War Literature as Culture War Fodder
Sign up at angryplanetpod.com to get instant access to the full episode.Writing, even fiction writing, about war provides a clear-eyed and honest view of conflict that the best movies and television s...
20 Mar 202412min
Nuclear War and Imagining the Unimaginable
The U.S. is spending $2 trillion to overhaul its nuclear weapons. China is building ICBM silos in the desert. Russia has spent the last ten years talking about its fancy new nukes. After decades of dr...
18 Mar 20241h 2min
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 Steven Cook of the Council on Foreign Relations explains, there are plenty of reasons why there hasn't been ...
13 Mar 202459min
America’s Fight in the Red Sea
Since the middle of December, a U.S.-led coalition has been trading munitions with Houthis in Yemen. The day after Christmas, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower began participating in strikes against targets al...
11 Mar 20241h 6min
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 influence of great powers have far greater control over their destinies than it would appear. If the rece...
29 Feb 202458min
