Podcast Episodes

10. ISIS International

Season 1 Episode 10

Hear Pawel Wojcik talking about how ISIS has gone international, spreading its jihadist Caliphate across the world, setting up effective cells in Libya, Afghanistan, Nigeria, and East Asia. Find out …

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09. Aum Shinrikyo: A Japanese Death Cult's Apocalyptic Terrorism

Season 1 Episode 9

Independent Aum Shinrikyo researcher Sarah Hightower tells us how the Japanese death cult became a terrorist organisation with more than 10,000 members. They produced Sarin gas, they built their own …

Published on 7 years, 4 months ago

08. Inside the Battle of Marawi

Season 1 Episode 8

A first person account from reporter Sean Williams (New Yorker, Harpers) of what it was like inside the battle of Marawi, where Filipino ISIS fighters laid siege to the island city in 2017 for six mo…

Published on 7 years, 4 months ago

07. The "Christian Militias" of Iraq and Syria

Season 1 Episode 7

A very detailed introduction to the many different facets of the so-called "Christian militias" fighting in Iraq and Syria, talking about the history and motivations of the Assyrian/Syriac/Chaldean c…

Published on 7 years, 5 months ago

06. MS-13 and the WhatsApp Death Squads

Season 1 Episode 6

After recently returning from El Salvador, journalist Danny Gold tells us about the violence of MS-13 and how evangelical Christianity is tying to quell it. He also explains how paramilitary death sq…

Published on 7 years, 5 months ago

05. Nagorno-Karabakh: Armenia's Powder Keg War

Season 1 Episode 5

Aram Shabanian tells us why the forgotten "frozen conflict" between Armenia and Azerbaijan could explode into a full blown war that pulls in everyone from Russia to India. 

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Published on 7 years, 5 months ago

04. The ISIS Car Bomb Production Line

Season 1 Episode 4

All about ISIS and their suicide cars (or SVBIEDS—suicide vehicle borne improvised explosive devices) in Iraq, from the switches they use to tricks they played in Mosul.

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Published on 7 years, 6 months ago

03. Portrait Photography on the Rojava Frontlines

Season 1 Episode 3

Portrait photographer Joey L went to war for the first time in Northern Syria to capture the fight of the Kurdish YPG, documenting the culture in a way he says photojournalists can't.

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Published on 7 years, 7 months ago

02. The All American Militias

Season 1 Episode 2

Find out from Hampton Stall, the guy who runs "Militia Watch", all about US militias and their love for guns, liberty, and often Donald Trump. 

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Published on 7 years, 7 months ago