FROM EP 137
Politics
What Is Fascism?
Everyone throws the word around. We go to the actual definitions — the playbook, the warning signs, and where the hysteria gets it wrong.
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THE MINISERIES
Threads worth pulling
Some stories take more than one episode to pull apart. These are the running threads — the wars, the cover-ups, and the slow-motion scandals we keep coming back to. Pick one and follow the money.
FROM EP 98
Foreign policy
Afghanistan
The graveyard of empires, twenty years of war, and a withdrawal nobody would explain honestly. We follow the money.
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FROM EP 86
Human rights
The Uighurs
China and the Uighurs — the competing narratives, and how to tell genuine reporting from information warfare.
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FROM EP 56
Latin America
Bolivia
Lithium, a coup nobody would call a coup, and Evo Morales. What actually happened, and who needed the story told a certain way.
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FROM EP 5.1
Follow the money
The Panama Papers
The biggest leak in history, the machine for hiding money offshore, and why the story quietly vanished from the front page.
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The War on Drugs
The longest, most expensive, least successful war in modern history — who profits from keeping it going, and the propaganda that sells it.
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The Syrian Civil War
Proxy wars, managed "sources," and competing narratives — we untangle who was actually fighting whom, and who needed the story told a certain way.
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The Antivax Industry
How bad science, grifters, and engagement algorithms turned vaccine fear into a business model. The studies, the "experts," and the money.
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Decoding China
Past the both-sides spin: what the headlines about China leave out, and which domestic agenda each scare story is really serving.
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Russia & Ukraine
The war, the wire reports, and the anonymous officials. We follow the footnotes back to the funding and the strategy nobody states out loud.
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The CIA Files
Coups, cut-outs, and convenient leaks — the agency's long history of writing the first draft of history, and the press that printed it.
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