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by Matthew Gault and Jason Fields
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Dreams of War in Space
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit angryplanetpod.com Air Force Secretary Troy Meink casually dropped the news that America had space-based weapons during the keynote address at a cyber conference. “We are increasing readiness against existing threats, and the United...
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Human Decisions Are Behind Every ‘Rogue’ AI
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit angryplanetpod.com A lot of people are afraid right now. I’ve lost track of the times OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta have announced they lost control of their AI. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wants to “pace the frontier” and Bill Gates is...
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Waking Up After September Ends
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit angryplanetpod.com On this episode of Angry Planet, mysterious producer Kevin Knodell and former US Army Ranger turned journalist Marty Skovlund Jr join me to talk about 25 years of 9/11. Kevin originally pitched coming on the show to...
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The Cult of the American Military Academy
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit angryplanetpod.com Journalist Jasper Craven joins the show today to talk about his new book God Forgives, Brothers Don’t. The book is a deep dive into the history of the American military academy and how it has shaped the country’s...
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The Art of the Losing the Iran Deal
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit angryplanetpod.com As the nation celebrates its 250th anniversary I feel it’s my miserable duty to remind us that we’re still, technically, at war. The Memorandum of Understanding is here and a peace is being negotiated (hopefully in…
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‘Truman Was the Most Important Anti-Nuclear President of the 20th Century’
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit angryplanetpod.com When I was a kid my father told me that America dropped the atomic bomb on Japan to prevent a ground invasion which would have led to more deaths. My grandfather, a soldier in the Pacific theater, would have been…
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If You Must Fight a Trade War, Fight to Win
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit angryplanetpod.com The world I grew up in no longer exists. The decades after World War II were boom times for free trade lovers. During the Pax Americana it seemed that most diplomatic problems could be solved by exporting blue jeans...
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Iran Won Because America Is Stuck in the ‘Smart Bomb Trap’
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit angryplanetpod.com America’s war against Iran has gone on for more than two months and the United States has achieved none of its political objectives. American power has diminished, its munitions stockpile is low, and Iran now…
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Navigating Reality and War During the Age of AI Propaganda
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit angryplanetpod.com On the morning of April 21, Trump posted an image of eight women on Truth Social, claimed they were Iranian dissidents set to be executed, and demanded that Tehran release them. Detractors, and several Iranian…
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Christianity Shaped North Korea’s Cult of Personality
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit angryplanetpod.com Kim Song Ju, the man who would become Kim Il Sung, was born to devout Presbyterian parents. Billy Graham’s wife was born to christian missionaries in China and went to high school in Pyongyang. American protestants...
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Making the Case America Is Winning in Iran
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit angryplanetpod.com Last week an article published in Al Jazeera by an academic at the University of Doha in Qatar proposed something that felt crazy to some western war watchers: America and Israel’s strategy in Iran is working.On this...
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Neutralizing Iran’s Nuclear Material During a War Is ‘Nearly Mission Impossible’
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit angryplanetpod.com America went to war in Iran, we’re told, because the idea of the country developing nuclear weapons was intolerable. Nukes are complicated and technical weapons that require scientists and experts to build, maintain,...
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America and Iran’s Long and Complicated History
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit angryplanetpod.com When the President said America had been at war with Iran for 47 years he mischaracterized fifty years of history. After World War II America envisioned Iran as a regional hegemon that would act in US interest. It...
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The ‘AI as Nuclear Weapons’ Obsession
AI enthusiasts love to say that the technology is as revolutionary and important as nuclear weapons. Even the Trump administration has adopted the metaphor. The President and the Department of Energy have repeatedly referred to the development of AI in the US as “Manhattan Project 2.0.” But is…
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A Killer True Crime Fandom & Islamic State’s Digital Caliphate
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit angryplanetpod.com Things have gotten very surreal in the dark corners of the internet. AI-generated prophets are preaching jihad in Facebook groups, Minecraft servers host digital caliphates, and school shooting fandoms gather to…
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When Americans Became ‘Splendid Liberators’
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit angryplanetpod.com America spent most of the 19th century at war with itself. It conquered its western expanse then collapsed into civil war. Once the North beat the South, partisan politics consumed the country for a generation. A...
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Puffins, Zyn, and ‘Polar War’
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit angryplanetpod.com Greenland fever has faded for now but it will return. The world’s polar region, you see, is pretty damn important. As the planet heats and the ice melts, what was once an impassible warren of ice and snow has become…
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Online Culture Is the Whole Culture
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit angryplanetpod.com There was a time, just before the pandemic, when folks would say “Twitter isn’t real life” as a means of dismissing the horrors of social media. This was a cope, a way to ignore the worst political and cultural…
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How We Thought the First Year Would Go
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit angryplanetpod.com On January 28, 2025, I sat down with Aram Shabanian to talk about how we thought the first year of the Trump administration would go. I put the audio in a vault and didn’t listen to it until now. We focused on...
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On Spectacles of Cruelty
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit angryplanetpod.com On the last Angry Planet of 2025, novelist and Marine Corps veteran Phil Klay returns to reflect on a year of spectacle and cruelty. Between the Pentagon’s boat strikes and the administration’s constant barrage of...
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Google’s Former CEO Is Dancing in Ukraine
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit angryplanetpod.com Earlier this year journalist Ben Makuch caught a glimpse of Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, dancing at a club in Kyiv. It was a surreal moment, a snapshot of a tragic war that the West thinks is defining the...
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‘Capitalism Is a Series of Regime Changes’
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit angryplanetpod.com Another week and another Angry Planet about the horrifying systems that rule our lives.Is there a depressive theme running through the work right now? Possibly. I promise we’ll soon replace it with rage. This week on...
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Vanessa Guillén and the Importance of Speaking Up
Hey there Angry Planet listeners, Matthew here.I want to take a minute at the top of the show because something strange happened during the recording. The episode is about Vanessa Guillén, a US soldier who was murdered at Fort Hood in 2020. She also experienced sexual harassment while in the...
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A History of the Iranian Nuclear Program
Sometimes it’s good to back up and ask the basic questions: How do we know Iran was even developing nuclear weapons? On this episode of the show, the Arms Control Wonk Jeffrey Lewis walks us through the history of the Iranian nuclear (weapons and energy) program. It’s got it all: diplomacy,...
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A Calm Conversation About Israeli Settlements and Blame vs Responsibility
WARNING: This episode contains nuance in the discussion of subjects usually left to screaming and violence! This week we get into a bunch of stuff around Israel that we normally avoid. Settlements. Blame versus responsibility. The definition of colonialism. The social media posts of IDF soldiers....
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Ukraine: Back to the Front One Year On
This week, Angry Planet talks with Caleb Larson who has been working as a journalist in and around Ukraine’s Donbas region where much of the war is currently being fought. He paints a picture of the situation on the ground and tells us where to buy groceries in time of war. This is a public...
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What's a Planet Worth?
As the planet slowly broils, we keep hoping that some technological revolution will save us. Not just carbon capture or seeding the oceans with iron to grow algae that will drink in all the carbon dioxide right out of the atmosphere, but solutions that we can power our homes with and drive…
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50 Years Since the Draft
In 1973, as most American troops left Vietnam, President Richard M. Nixon ended compulsory military service for males over the age of 18. It was an end of system that had been in place since the Second World War and came in answer—at least in part—to an ever-growing anti-war, anti-draft movement....
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It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a... Balloon?
What’s the biggest Chinese threat to the United States? Well, if you ask security expert Stephanie Carvin, it’s not a balloon—no matter how large and how many missiles it takes to shoot down. So, what should we really be worried about from China’s security apparatus? Well, you could start with…
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Saying Goodbye to Afghanistan
Afghanistan. U.S. troops have been leaving for years, fast, then slowly, then fast again. There is some kind of peace deal between the United States and the Taliban, but it doesn’t involve peace. The Afghan government isn’t even a party to it. Russia—which lost its own war in Afghanistan a...
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Fake Journalists Are the Latest Disinformation Twist
Last week The Daily Beast broke some bizarre news. Several news outlets, including The Washington Examiner, RealClear Markets, and The National Interest, had been running op-eds of journalists that did not exist. AI generated photos attached to profiles and credentials that, once scrutinized,...
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How Cocaine Fuels America’s Longest War
Cocaine is the second most popular illicit drug in the world and it’s controlled by a black market regulated by violence. As America’s drug war edges close to its fiftieth birthday, there is no end in sight, the conflicts it fuels have expanded to an unprecedented scale and cocaine remains...
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The Robot Revolution Is Already Here
This week we’re joined by P.W. Singer, co-author of Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution. The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed. Stray thoughts on the Bonus Army. The future of policing might be AI and that’s terrifying. Domestic terrorism is about to get even weirder…
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European Policing From the Carabinieri to the Stasi
Elisabeth Braw is a Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies in London. RUSI is the oldest defense think tank in the world and Braw leads its Modern Deterrence program. She’s also a columnist at Foreign Policy and the host of the On the Cusp...
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The Difference Between Obedience and Deference
Our guest this week is Pauline Kaurin. Kaurin is the Stockdale Chair in Professional Military Ethics at the US Naval War College and the author of the new book On Obedience: Contrasting Philosophies for the Military Citizenry and Community. What obedience means When civil disobedience is…
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Why These Protests Are Different Than 1968
Our guest today is Rick Perlstein. Perlstein is a historian and author best known for Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America. He’s also written the forthcoming Reaganland: America’s Right Turn. This is more WTO in 1999 than it is 1968 Why we don’t remember Newark Is the...
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The Rise of The Teenage Terrorist
The neo-Nazi movement can’t keep it together. After a series of high profile outings, murders, conspiracy charges, and other assorted run-ins with authorities, the leadership of the Neo-Nazi movement has gotten younger, more online, and more extreme. Here to walk us through this today is Zaron...
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How (Not) To Plan Coup in Venezuela
Bellingcat’s Giancarlo Fiorella is here to walk us through what may go down in history as the dumbest attempted coup of all time. On May 3, American mercenaries and Venezuelan exiles attempted to enter the country with the goal of overthrowing the Maduro regime. It didn’t go well. The Associated...
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The Ecoterrorists Acting in "Feral Defense of Wild Nature"
Ecoterrorism isn’t a word you hear a lot these days and it’s usually associated with groups like Greenpeace. That might be changing. In 2011, a biotechnology researcher was shot and killed in Mexico. A group called ITS took credit. "We have said it before, we act without any compassion in the…
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Stranded in Iraq During a Pandemic
This week on War College, producer Kevin Knodell is back in the states after an extended stay in Iraq. He walks us through his journey and the impact of the pandemic on the Middle East. You can listen to War College on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or follow our RSS directly. Our website is...
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What Gold Plated AK-47s Tell Us About War
As I keep saying, war has changed. It’s the recent theme of War College. And it’s not just conflict, but the way people cover conflict. Increasingly, journalists and researchers are using open source intelligence, social media, and academic disciplines such as history and anthropology to explain...
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Turkey Is Turning Off Syria's Water During a Pandemic
War is about logistics. “An army marches on its stomach,” the idiom goes. Well, a populace can’t survive without water. One water station in Northeast Syria is the heart of a growing conflict between Turkish backed rebels and the local Kurdish population. As war rages in Syria and the COVID-19...
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Dealing With Our COVID Fear and Panic
This week we're taking a moment to work through our fear, panic, and axiety. You can listen to War College on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or follow our RSS directly. Our website is warcollegepodcast.com. You can reach us on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/warcollegepodcast/; and on...
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A Military History of Metal Gear Solid
War. War never changes. Except … that’s not exactly true is it? I’d argue that war has changed demonstrably in the past two decades. It’s gotten longer, somehow less deadly, and far weirder. Also. Despite America being engaged in multiple conflicts on multiple continents … Americans are paying…
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Space Force Is Boring
Space Force. It’s here. It’s the newest branch of the U.S. military and it’s got it’s own uniforms and a snazzy new patch that looks a lot like the emblem for the United Federation of Planets. But it’s only got one member at the moment and what, exactly, is it doing? Here to help us figure out...
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When the Allies Burned a German City to Cinders
In the closing days of World War II, the British Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Force dropped more than 3,900 tons of high explosives and fire bombs on the city of Dresden. It was not, strictly, only a military target and the story of the bombing has captured the imagination of…
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America’s Low Yield Nukes and the New Atomic Scare
From the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty to, probably, New START, all the old treaties are failing. Nuclear weapons are back in the public consciousness in a big way and old Cold War ideas that we once thought relegated to the dustbin of history are back. One of those are so-called low...
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The Fight Over 5G and Chinese Spies
There’s a battle raging for the future of the internet. No, it has nothing to do with net neutrality or broadband access. This is about 5G, the shadowy world of global intelligence agencies, and a telecom giant with $108 billion in revenue that most Americans haven’t heard of. The company is...
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What Iraq's Protestors Want and Why it Matters
Iraq. Since October of last year, a protest movement has taken hold of the country. After 16 years of conflict, Iraq is tired. Its people want political and economic reforms. America didn’t pay attention. Until, that was, a militia stormed an embassy, America killed an Iranian General, and…
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American Troops Navigate Complicated Political Realities in Iraq
This week, producer Kevin Knodell walks us through his recent reporting in Iraq. https://coffeeordie.com/american-troops-iraq/ You can listen to War College on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or follow our RSS directly. Our website is warcollegepodcast.com. You can reach us on our Facebook page:...
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