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Back to SearchWhy Is the Populist Right Rising Across Europe? | Simon Heffer
Episode 52
Right-wing populist parties are surging across Europe -- and Germany is at the centre of the upheaval. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has made maj…
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John Mearsheimer: Trump’s Mideast morass deepens
Episode 51
The most revealing development in Donald Trump’s war with Iran may not be taking place in Tehran at all. It is happening hundreds of kilometres away,…
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Is Ukraine winning the war? Lieven
Episode 50
Is Ukraine really turning the tide against Russia? Western media coverage has increasingly focused on Ukraine’s drone strikes, Russia’s economic diff…
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Robert Pape: Iran Is Escalating — Is Trump Losing Leverage?
Episode 49
Iran is escalating its war with the United States — not only through direct attacks, but through its Shia allies and proxies across the Middle East.
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Jeffrey Sachs: 911, Iran & Ukraine
Episode 48
This week on Switzerland, Tom Switzer is joined by Professor Jeffrey Sachs from Columbia University.
Subjects include the 25th anniversary of the Sep…
1 month, 1 week ago
Has Iran lost? Trita Parsi & Stephen Wertheim
Episode 47
It’s been more than six months into the war with Iran, and the question that matters is becoming harder to avoid: who is actually losing this war?
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1 month, 2 weeks ago
Mearsheimer: Has the War Turned Against Iran?
Episode 46
The conventional wisdom holds that the US war on Iran has been a massive strategic blunder. As John Mearsheimer has repeatedly argued, Washington wen…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Iran at six months: Cockburn
Episode 45
Six months after Donald Trump launched his war on Iran, the regime survives, the Strait of Hormuz remains contested, and Washington is struggling to …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Eberstadt: Trump, Asia & the Koreas
Episode 44
President Donald Trump is seeking to revive his personal diplomacy with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un while substantially reducing US military exer…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Mearsheimer & Kelanic: economic D-day on Iran
Episode 43
Donald Trump has pledged to intensify the U.S. campaign of economic warfare on Tehran, but he faces serious challenges. Iran maintains its ability to…
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