Israel's New Coalition from Hell
Benjamin Netanyahu is back and he's brought a right-wing coalition like nothing Israel has seen.Dan Perry knows the game and all the players and and he joins Angry Planet to talk about what might be t...
9 Jan 202335min
The Wagner Group Gives Putin Implausible Deniability
The shine has come off Russia’s regular armed forces. We’ve all seen the pictures in Ukraine of burned out vehicles and crashed drones, everything already starting to rust. Casualties for the Russian ...
19 Dec 202236min
The Precarious Nature of Being Jewish
Or: Why Jason has a Velcro mezuzah.An episode about Kanye West and violent family histories.Angry Planet has a substack! Join the Information War to get weekly insights into our angry planet and hear ...
12 Dec 202253min
Talking Russia with the CIA's Former Eurasian Bureau Chief
We’ve talked a lot on this program about electronic intelligence—the amazing stuff you can do with satellites, user generated content and sophisticated software.Nice.But we’ve left out all the men and...
5 Dec 202242min
The History of 'Putin's Wars'
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s reign has been defined by constant conflict. From Chechnya to Ukraine and many other wars in between, Putin’s Russia has constantly been pushing at its borders and s...
25 Nov 20221h
ICYMI: A Timothy Snyder Double Feature
We’re running our Thanksgiving break episode a week early. We’ll be back next week to talk with Mark Galeotti about Russia, Kherson, and the missiles that just hit Poland.This week, we’re going far ba...
17 Nov 202259min
The Pentagon's Scary New Nuclear Plan
Today it’s all about the bomb. Nuclear weapons are back in a big way and everything about the Cold War suddenly feels very fresh. Nukes are strange things. They’ve only been used twice and the languag...
11 Nov 202241min
Likewar and the Weird National Security Implications of Musk's Twitter Takeover
I’m sorry, we have to talk about Elon Musk one more time. Or, as Jason said. “Twitter: Now With More Musk!”But seriously. This episode is about more than Musk. It’s about how conflict has gotten … wei...
4 Nov 202245min
