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All Episodes

Frontlines and Backrooms — 54 episodes

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Timothy Lynch | Trump and the Illusion of US Policy Change

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Elijah Magnier | Iran's Red Lines, Hezbollah's 44,000 Men, and Netanyahu's Failure

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DR. BILJANA VANKOVSKA | THE BALKANS — EU HOSTAGES WITH STOCKHOLM SYNDROME

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Dr. Roger Higginson | The West’s Fatal Miscalculation

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OMER BARTOV | Israel, Zionism, and the Battle for Historical Memory

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James D. Boys | The Madman Theory: Nixon’s Secret, Trump’s Playbook, and Why the World Is Hooked

7

Samira Mohyeddin | Israel, Iran, and the Collapse of Western Credibility

8

Dr. Abdullah Fahimi | Climate Wars, Migration, and the Future of Global Conflict

9

Peter Schwartzstein | Climate Change, Migration, and the Wars of the Future

10

Kristin Diwan | Gulf States After the Iran War — Is Stability Just an Illusion?

11

Hussein Banai | This Is Not Just a War With Iran — It’s About Power Inside the United States

12

From the Vatican to Strait of Hormuz | Power, Faith, and War Across the Middle East

13

Mouin Rabbani | Iran, Israel, the U.S. — and the War Reshaping the Middle East

14

Randa Slim | Hezbollah, Lebanon, Iran, and the Collapse of the Middle East Order

15

Iran–US Talks in Islamabad: A Real Deal or Just a Pause Before the War Resumes?

16

Roger Higginson | On War in Iran and the Middle East — Why the West Doesn’t Understand Its Enemies

17

OONA HATHAWAY - IS THE IRAN WAR ILLEGAL? | ON TRUMP, INTERNATIONAL LAW & THE UN CHARTER.

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Trump's Iran War Speech Explained — What It Said, What It Hid

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Joseph Cirincione | Iran War: Nuclear Risk, U.S. Strategy, and What Comes Next

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No Negotiations, Only Demands | Iran War, April 6 Deadline & Israel in Lebanon

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Richard Falk | Why International Law Doesn’t Restrain Power

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The Day America Stopped Leading | NATO, Hormuz, and the Cuba Shock

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Is International Law Still Relevant? | Mona Ali Khalil

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Hormuz Is Closed: Oil Shock, China’s Dilemma and a War Spreading Across the Gulf

25

Iran — The Next Iraq or Something Far Worse? | Frontlines & Backrooms Brief

26

BRIEF #11 | Trump’s State of the Union and Europe’s Strategic Crisis

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Nathan Brown | The Palestinian Leadership Crisis Explained

28

Brief #10 | Jesse Jackson, Munich Security Conference, and Gaza as Real Estate

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Rebecca Gould | Erasing Palestine – Free Speech, Censorship, and the Gaza Debate

30

Awni Etaywe | Incitement to Genocide in Gaza & Forensic Linguistics

31

John Quigley | Genocide, Intent, and International Law at the ICJ

32

Brief #9 — Reconstruction Without Legitimacy, Portugal’s Warning, and the Politics of Attention

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Gaza Explained — How It Became a Permanent Political Exception

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Brief #8 — Iran on the Edge, Trade Without Trust, and a World Re-aligning

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Brief #7 — Private Messages, Public Pressure, and the Gaza Board

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Brief #6 — Iran on the Edge, Gaza Phase Two, and the Greenland Illusion

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The Gaza Exception (Part II): Mouin Rabbani

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The Gaza Exception (Part I): Tamer Qarmout

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The Age of Precedents Without Consequences

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2026: The End of Illusions — Frontlines & Backrooms Brief

41

Echo Chamber: Media, Language, and the Gaza War (Part II) | Dina Matar

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Echo Chamber: Media, Language, and the Gaza War (Part I) | Sharif Abdel Kouddous

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EP2 Teaser — Echo Chamber: The Media and the Gaza War

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Frontlines & Backrooms Brief — Greenland, Gaza, Ukraine & the New Rules of Power

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Frontlines & Backrooms Brief - Framing the Dead

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Bonus: Benny Morris on Palestinian Disillusionment with the Two-State Solution

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Bonus: Life and Power in the West Bank — Nadina Malicbegovic

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Bonus: Media, Law, and the Reluctance to Name Genocide — Zachary Foster

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Gaza: Politics of Survival (Part 2)

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Gaza: Politics of Survival (Part 1)

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Frontlines & Backrooms Brief — Gaza, Ukraine and the Politics of Survival

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Teaser 3 — Gaza: The Politics of Survival

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Teaser 2 — The Human Reality of Gaza

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Frontlines and Backrooms — Official Teaser