Dan Perry, formerly of the Associated Press, is here to explain everyone's 'kooky fundamentalists beliefs.'

The war between Israel and Hamas, which began on Oct. 7 when terrorists overran the Gaza frontier and killed more than 1,200 Israelis, is now more than six months old. More than 100 Israeli hostages are still being held in Gaza. Israel, in return, has killed more than 30,000 Palestinians, with two thirds of that number likely to be civilians, including women and children. There are negotiations for a ceasefire going on—at least sporadically—but Dan Perry, former Associated Press bureau chief in the region, says that Hamas isn't playing by the same rules as Israel, or anyone else. Hamas, according to Perry, welcomes the deaths of Palestinian civilians. Anyone and everyone can be a martyr for Hamas's cause, which is not peace, but a complete destruction of Israel. Whoever must be sacrificed in the process, well, other people's live are a price Hamas is willing to pay. Angry Planet<a href="http://angryplanetpod.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> has a Substack!</a> Join to get weekly insights into our angry planet and hear more conversations about a world in conflict.

An Insider's Critique of Israel

Sign up at <a href="https://angryplanetpod.com/subscribe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">angryplanetpod.com</a> to get instant access to the full episode. <a href="https://angryplanetpod.com/p/crawl-out-through-the-fallout" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A direct link to the episode on Substack</a>. A successful TV adaptation of the Fallout video game franchise has everyone excited about the post-apocalypse again so we thought it was a good time to finally do a bonus episode we’ve been threatening for a long time. Cultural critic, journalist, and YouTuber Noah Caldwell-Gervais comes on this episode of Angry Planet to discuss all things Fallout. It’s a long episode, we dive into a lot of topics including <ul><li>Jason’s globe from 1937</li><li>The peculiar pleasure of vacuum tube technology</li><li>Cold War memories</li><li>The anxiety of worrying about dying in a nuclear blast</li><li>West Coast vs East Coast Fallout&nbsp;</li><li>In defense of Fallout 76</li><li>Power armor and Soviet Tanks</li><li>Vault-Tec the ultimate villain</li><li> </li></ul>Full spoiler warning for all of the Fallout video games and the entire TV show.

TEASER: Crawl Out Through the ‘Fallout’

<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/face-off-the-u-s-vs-china/id1734890307" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Go here to listen to Face-Off</a> Jane Perlez is a veteran foreign correspondent, the former Bejing Bureau Chief for The New York Times, and host of the new podcast “Face-Off.” She’s on Angry Planet today to talk to us about the show and her experiences reporting on China. “Face-Off” is all about America’s complicated relationship with China. Perlez says she started the show because she was tired of the hysterical conversations she hears about Beijing in Washington.In this episode we learn … <ul><li>Why On the Beach is Perlez’s favorite nuclear war movie.</li></ul> <ul><li>What it’s like to visit China for the first time at the height of the Cultural Revolution.</li></ul> <ul><li>What “Communism” means in a country with a growing bourgeoisie.</li></ul> <ul><li>What it takes for someone to lead China.</li></ul> <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/khrushchev-in-water-wings-on-mao-humiliation-and-the-sino-soviet-split-80852370/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">When Mao and Khrushchev Went Swimming</a>

What Happens to the World When China and the U.S. ‘Face Off’?

Violence thrives in countries where political solutions to conflict have failed. On this episode of Angry Planet, Jeffsky Poincy comes on the show to walk us through the origins of Haiti’s gang problems and lay out the complicated history that gave rise to them. Poincy, who is Haitian, is a program manager at PartnersGlobal, an NGO that helps foster democratic conflict resolution. Poincy’s perspective on the violence in Haiti is that it will require complicated and lengthy political solutions. The gangs thrive, he says, because of their place in a complicated transnational criminal network. It’s a local problem that requires local solutions. A <a href="https://apnews.com/article/kenya-haiti-un-police-gang-violence-542869c4b67e02dbba97bd8f6235ae75" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">thousand Kenyan soldiers</a> on the ground in the devastated country won’t provide long term relief. Real political change will. Recorded 4/5/24 Angry Planet <a href="angryplanetpod.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">has a Substack!</a> Join to get weekly insights into our angry planet and hear more conversations about a world in conflict.

The Origins of Haiti’s Gangs and What Comes Next

The root cause of many of Haiti’s problems can be laid at the feet of the U.S. Now, can it do anything to help?

Sign up at <a href="https://angryplanetpod.com/subscribe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">angryplanetpod.com</a> to get instant access to the full episode. <ul><li>Recorded 4/4/24</li></ul> The U.S. State Department has been <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/desperation-rises-americans-still-haiti-scramble-find-ways-escape-rcna145524" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">working hard</a> to get Americans out of Haiti. The island nation’s government is in shambles and gangs run much of the urban center of Port-au-Prince. Haitians have struggled for hundreds of years at the hands of gangs, brutal authoritarian dictators, and colonial rule. One of its biggest problems has always been its nearest Imperial neighbor: America. On this episode of Angry Planet, we get America’s side of the story. Keith Mines is the Vice President for Latin America at <a href="https://www.usip.org/people/keith-mines" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">U.S. Institute of Peace</a>. If you’ve never heard of the USIP, you aren’t alone. As Mines says in the show, it is bad at branding. Part of a Congressional initiative from 1984, the USIP was founded to pursue peaceful resolutions to worldwide conflict. Mines has a storied career of government service. He’s worked for the State Department and been all across the world. His unique point of view gives listeners a window into the mind of a member of the U.S. political establishment. Mines has a deep knowledge of Haiti and a deeper understanding of how badly America has screwed up its efforts to help.

TEASER: Haiti. Life in Empire's Shadow

Yemen has become a battlefield of technological firsts. The Houthis have turned the Red Sea into a proving ground for Iranian weapons, and Tehran is learning what works and what doesn’t. It’s become a place where the Khamenei and his crew can test new technologies and new strategies. It’s a win for Iran and a win for the Houthis in the short-term, but missiles on their own don’t win wars. On this bonus episode of Angry Planet, Fabian Hinz of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London comes on to tell us about the technological capabilities of the Houthis. Recorded on 3/21/24 <ul><li>A quick and dirty history of the Houthi movement</li><li>Its mysterious founder</li><li>Jason learns about lasers</li><li>Matthew learns about Manhattan allergies</li></ul>

TEASER: The Shockingly Sophisticated Arsenal of the Houthis

Defense contractors and governments can run a thousand simulations, but the data they get will never be as good as what’s generated on a battlefield. When Russia invaded Ukraine, tech companies saw an opportunity. A land war in Europe presented a unique chance to test cutting-edge technologies. That’s why, a few months after the 2022 invasion, Palantir CEO Alex Karp drove into the capital to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.&nbsp; TIME Senior Correspondent <a href="https://time.com/author/vera-bergengruen/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Vera Bergengruen</a> is here on Angry Planet to tell the story. She traveled to Ukraine herself to see how tech companies have turned the country into a test bed for AI and other advanced technologies. As the war grinds on, Kyiv is singing the praises of the companies that help keep it safe. But wars aren’t forever and what becomes of some of the more invasive technology like facial recognition when the fighting stops? <a href="https://time.com/6691662/ai-ukraine-war-palantir/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Tech Giants Turned Ukraine Into an AI War Lab</a> <a href="https://youtu.be/XEM5qz__HOU" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Palantir-published tech demo</a>

How Palantir Is Using AI in Ukraine

Sign up at <a href="https://angryplanetpod.com/subscribe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">angryplanetpod.com</a> to get instant access to the full episode. Writing, even fiction writing, about war provides a clear-eyed and honest view of conflict that the best movies and television shows can’t replicate. Civilians and soldiers on all sides of conflicts have always turned to poetry and prose to express feelings that are hard to articulate any other way.&nbsp; On March 10, the literary magazine Guernica published a personal essay from British-Israeli writer Joannna Chen about the Israel-Hamas War. After a backlash to the essay that came from both inside and out, Guernica pulled the piece. “Guernica regrets having published this piece and has retracted it. A more fulsome explanation will follow,” the literary magazine published <a href="https://www.guernicamag.com/from-the-edges-of-a-broken-world/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">in place of the essay</a>. As of this writing, that more fulsome explanation has not arrived. On this bonus episode of Angry Planet, author, journalist, and veteran Matt Galagher comes on to the show to walk us through the Guernica dustup and the importance of war writing. He talks to us about his recent trips to Ukraine, his relationship with the literary world, and his new novel: Daybreak. In Daybreak, Gallagher tells the story of American veterans who travel to Ukraine looking to fight a war that isn’t their own. Recorded on 3/14/24 <a href="https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/03/18/from-the-edges-of-a-broken-world/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">“From the Edges of a Broken World,”</a> republished by Washington Monthly.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/looking-back-on-the-spanish-war/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">“Looking Back on the Spanish Civil War” by George Orwell</a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Daybreak-Novel-Matt-Gallagher/dp/1501177850/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.NWB_uwl_P9CEBNzqQujfocJZ8A3US27cJ9WKx4hKJRQ-Kjx0QEDStlDeV_5dTxacJvaDUvXvfeP6sYjcw-zIe-PdbbeSgpJbz0gs4-tUW-4_NTKBAGfb98BfCfpa4R84kwGrLS8Kats3jDk9BPOZD5VyoMxbycP9u5oSJuqKG0PRTH5t8uA0JOj7YdkPxl6JHwHCpUf0Ok3CqTu0rmQCxxLHcGbmb0UTjSyre3q4r8A.Y8q4oiB-m2O_OdmUz2bO0zMEHWnQFCXLDtFCIwh3XbY&amp;qid=1710947679&amp;sr=8-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Buy Daybreak here</a>.

TEASER: War Literature as Culture War Fodder

The U.S. is <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inside-the-1-5-trillion-nuclear-weapons-program-youve-never-heard-of/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">spending $2 trillion</a> to overhaul its nuclear weapons. China is building <a href="https://fas.org/publication/a-closer-look-at-chinas-missile-silo-construction/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ICBM silos</a> in the desert. Russia has spent the last ten years talking about its <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/russias-new-nuclear-missiles-squeeze-response-time/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">fancy new</a> nukes. After decades of drawdown, the world’s great powers are reversing course and rebuilding their nuclear arsenals. We have forgotten the power and terror of these weapons. W.J. Hennigan of The New York Times wants the world to remember.&nbsp; On this episode of Angry Planet, Hennigan discusses the Time’s new series: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/07/opinion/nuclear-weapons-nytimes.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">At the Brink</a>. He’s spent the last year interviewing experts about the threat of nuclear war. His reporting asks its reader to imagine the unimaginable. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/07/opinion/nuclear-weapons-nytimes.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nuclear War Is Called Unimaginable. In Fact, It’s Not Imagined Enough.</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/07/opinion/nuclear-weapons-nytimes.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How America Made Nuclear War the President's Decision</a>

Nuclear War and Imagining the Unimaginable 

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