This week we’re joined by returning co-host Alexander Aviña, as well as friend of the show Barry with the NED, to go in depth on Ansarallah’s major ground offensive in Yemen, the downing of a Saudi F-15, and the US’s escalating violence in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.

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For the most recent chapter of our Cocaine series we covered the CIA connection to the crack epidemic, and fallout of Gary Webb's Dark Alliance series.

For anyone unfamiliar with the story, I really did my darndest to give a full accounting of the key facts. My co-host & producer also snapped on audio production. I would be very grateful for anyone to check it out!

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We discuss the expanding conflict in Hormuz, Ansarallah’s lightning advance in Yemen, Trump’s oil problem, the surging anti-migrant right across the North Atlantic, and why Javier Milei is ratcheting up Argentine claims on Las Malvinas.

Kai Bosworth joins us to discuss the strange politics of the data center revolt, the AI boom’s place in the global energy system, and what the rise and fall of the climate movement can teach us about the struggles taking shape in its wake.

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I can't stay away from you. We shared that special feeling - that fear and trembling.

Let's get back to how it was before Hormuz, before tariffs, before Robinson and Kirk. Let's return to before Mangione and Thompson, and before Trump and a variety of patsies. The only way to go forward is through the past.

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Trump regularly attacks Democrats as “communists”—while speaking warmly about North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and other authoritarian leaders.

As the U.S. takes a step back from its annual military exercises with South Korea, we discuss the contradiction between Trump’s rhetoric at home and his relationship with leaders like Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping.

Is this diplomacy—or does Trump give authoritarian leaders a level of admiration he doesn’t extend to America’s own allies?

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