Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIsrael at a defining moment
Israel’s government is pressing ahead with an overhaul of the judicial system which would curtail the power of the Supreme Court, and give the govern…
3 years, 1 month ago
Wagner’s revolt: The world takes stock
Russia's once shadowy private military company Wagner hit the headlines around the world when the group’s leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, ordered his men …
3 years, 1 month ago
Putin’s media marathon
The gradual dismantling of independent media in Russia, from the colour and vibrancy under Boris Yeltsin in the 90s, to the extreme crackdown under V…
3 years, 1 month ago
Bulgaria’s Russia conundrum
The fault line in Bulgarian politics helping Moscow’s interests in Europe. Kremlin narratives have been dividing politics in this arms-producing EU c…
3 years, 1 month ago
Russia’s propaganda firehose
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine intensified the Kremlin’s propaganda push. While independent media was defanged, TV talk shows multiplied to beam the st…
3 years, 2 months ago
Ukraine’s media at war
Journalism under military censorship and state PR. The Russian invasion has dramatically transformed Ukraine’s media landscape. Speaking truth to pow…
3 years, 2 months ago
TikTokking for God (and power)
Latin American evangelical preachers have been taking their conservative politics to TikTok. The mix can be dynamite. Left-wing parties have dominate…
3 years, 2 months ago
Russian flag operations in Mali
The African influencers amplifying Kremlin propaganda and disinformation. Russian influence operations have expanded from the CAR to Mali and other c…
3 years, 2 months ago
CAR’s Wagner trouble
Russia looking for new friends in Africa spells new trouble for a turbulent region. The Central African Republic has in recent years become one of Mo…
3 years, 3 months ago
Masculinity with Chinese characteristics
The Communist Party weighs in on sexual politics, making noises about what it means to be a man. It says it needs to push back against foreign influe…
3 years, 3 months ago