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Never Let a War Go to Waste
Season 14
Lots of people are talking about the similarities between Iraq and Iran, but in this episode we place the two in the context of another war—World War…
8 hours ago
Drilling Deep: Karen Hao on How Big AI Is Gambling with the Planet’s Chips
Season 14
What is “artificial intelligence”? Is it a fancy technology? A management consulting buzzword? A PR effort to inflate corporate share prices? A polit…
4 weeks ago
10 Years After Berta Cáceres’s Murder, Why Is Honduras Still So Dangerous for Environmentalists?
Season 14
This week marks the 10-year anniversary of the hired hit that took Berta Cáceres’s life and robbed both the Honduran and global environmental movemen…
1 month, 1 week ago
From Question Everything: Why did ICE Lock Up this Pro-Trump Reporter? (Part One)
Season 14
Last June, journalist Mario Guevara was arrested while covering an anti-ICE protest in Georgia, transferred to ICE detention, and locked up by the fe…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Just Because the U.S. Says It's Legal Doesn't Make It So: Companies Trading in Illegally Seized Venezuelan Oil Face Legal Risk
Season 14
Fernanda Hopenhaym, member of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights walks Drilled senior global climate justice reporter Nina Lakhani thr…
2 months ago
How Climate Protest Backlash Led to Present-Day Repression
Season 14
It's easy to feel like climate "doesn't matter" as the United States descends into fascism, as if climate and democracy are somehow separate issues. …
2 months, 1 week ago
A "Green Transition"? If Only It Were That Simple
Season 14
In More and More and More, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz shows that the human history of energy is one of accumulation, not substitution. Here, he talks to r…
2 months, 1 week ago
Introducing Lawless Planet: "Surveillance and Sabotage on the Dakota Access Pipeline"
Season 14
When activists Jessica Reznicek and Ruby Montoya take drastic measures to halt construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, they have no idea that a s…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Drilling Deep: John Vaillant on Climate Change and Wildfire
Season 14
Wildfires are becoming more intense, frequent, and destructive as the climate heats up. Drilled reporter Royce Kurmelovs and Canadian author John Val…
3 months ago
The Norwegian Paradox: Norway's Fossil Fuel Dilemma
Season 14
In this bonus episode of The Black Thread, we examine a single legal case that distilles the Norwegian paradox perfectly: the planned electrification…
3 months, 2 weeks ago