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 been aided by elaborate war games. SIGMA, the Cold War Game, and the Millenium Challenge are just some of th...
9 Jan 202457min
What, Exactly, Is the Military Industrial Complex?
When President Dwight David Eisenhower left the stage as president of the United States in 1961, he warned of the military-industrial complex he was leaving behind. Sounds ominous, right? And that com...
15 Des 202338min
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 After, and it depicted life in Kansas and Missouri after a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union. More ...
4 Des 20231h 5min
How Tom Clancy Explains America
Here’s an episode for anyone who thinks art can’t change the world. Tom Clancy topped the best seller charts for decades. He’s so popular that even his death couldn’t stop sales, and the flow of new p...
24 Nov 20231h 9min
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 on this show) sympathy for the Jewish State is drying up around the world amid horrific losses among Pal...
17 Nov 202357min
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 an emergency room doctor in Gaza. Loubani helped pioneer the use of 3D printers in Gaza to produce low-...
15 Nov 202350min
AI and Propaganda in the Israel-Hamas War
This episode was recorded on 10/10/23.Every war comes with a fog that makes it hard, if not impossible, to tell what’s going on while it’s being fought. The Israel-Hamas War is no different. What sets...
6 Nov 202343min
Causes and Consequences of War In Gaza
This week’s episode is a long conversation with Joey Ayoub about Gaza, Palestine, and Israel.We cover a lot of ground and we’ve got a lot of show notes that accompany this episode.Show notes from Joey...
25 Okt 20231h 32min
