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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was on a mission when he visited Greece last week: to shore up defence ties between the two countries, to make new energy routes for US LNG exports and to use Greece as an example of a model NATO ally to the rest of Europe. Greece had its own agenda: deterrence against Turkiye who recently stepped up their global positioning with a defence pact with Saudi Arabia a...

What's better - an Iron Dome or a Britannia Shield? Why should British parents refrain from sending their children on a French exchange this week? And how big can a pumpkin really be? The panel is Daliso Chaponda, Kyrah Gray, Coco Khan and Finlay Christie. With additional material by: Carywn Blaney, Adrian Gray and Cameron Loxdale Producer: Georgia Keating Executive Producer: Pete Strauss Producti...

Democracy Now! 2026-10-15 Thursday Headlines for October 15, 2026 U.S. Sanctions ICC in a Bid to Avoid "Criminal Liability": War Crimes Prosecutor Reed Brody The Midterm Battle over Data Centers: Memphis House Candidate Justin Pearson Fights Elon Musk's xAI "Hyperscale": Paris Marx on Excess of Big Tech Data Empires & His Critique of Bernie Sanders' AI Bill Download this show

Paul Merton interviews a variety of guests from the world of comedy and entertainment to find out what they would send to Room 101. Kicking off the series, Miles Jupp attempts to banish touchscreens, people who take the aisle seat on a train when the window seat is available, and people who do not park well. To hear more episodes from this series, search "Room 101" on BBC Sounds. Additional materi...

Krystal and Saagar discuss Houthis hit Saudi airport causing shutdown, Trump invents fake Russia Ukraine ceasefire, Trump ridicules his own crowd at rally.   To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show AD FREE, uncut and 1 hour early visit: www.breakingpoints.com     Merch Store: https://shop.breakingpoints.com/     See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Co-hosts John Dolan & Mark Ames

This week we go triple lock picking with Andy Burnham, Sham contract making with Manchester City, and Canal Diving with a Shark-fluencer. With Alasdair Beckett-King, Susie McCabe, Danny Finkelstein and Sam Nicoresti. Written by Andy Zaltzman. With additional material by James Farmer, Stephanie Kemp and Adrian Gray. Producer: James Robinson Executive Producer: Pete Strauss Production Coordinator: G...

In the season finale of Master Plan: The Kingmakers , we ask Democratic leaders what the next U.S. president should do with the expanded executive powers that Trump will leave behind.  Featuring exclusive interviews with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y), Rep. Ro Khanna (Calif.), Sen. Chris Van Hollen (Md.), Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I), Sen. Michael Bennet (Co.), and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Sha...

Krystal and Saagar discuss Trump plans Iran bombing before midterms, US presses Russia on lab leak, Mark Levin stepson rigs intel for Israel.     To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show AD FREE, uncut and 1 hour early visit: www.breakingpoints.com     Merch Store: https://shop.breakingpoints.com/     See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chapo All-Star Alex Nichols is back for a quick news roundup. We eulogize Dennis Hastert, speculate on another Epstein associate’s suicide, and explore Kyrsten Sinema’s ex-boyfriend’s recent house-destroying rampage. We then take a deep dive into a new conservative moral panic: parents being cut off by their adult children. What’s behind the widespread media coverage of this, from The Free Press t...

We analyze the massive escalation in Yemen as a Saudi-led coalition launches over 100 airstrikes. Despite the bombardment, Ansar Allah forces continue advancing, striking critical Saudi oil infrastructure and disrupting the Red Sea. We explore the broader geopolitical chessboard, revealing how the US and Israel use Gulf states to fund regional proxy wars. The discussion covers the conflict's spill...

We're talking Slovakia, or more specifically Bratislava. Somehow we don't mention that one woman from Katseye who thinks Bratislava is cooler than LA. It might well be. Listen to this episode before deciding. FIND OUR GUEST: https://www.instagram.com/oscareamonbrophy/ https://oscarbrophy.substack.com/

Geoff Norcott examines modern masculinity in this stand-up series for Radio 4, by creating the safe space of a working men’s club so he can speak freely about the problems men are facing and how we might go about fixing them in a way that benefits everyone. This week, Geoff looks at men’s reluctance to put on sunscreen. Why not take a simple, basic precaution against the hottest and largest thing...

Co-hosts John Dolan & Mark Ames

Co-hosts John Dolan & Mark Ames

Co-hosts John Dolan & Mark Ames

Co-hosts John Dolan & Mark Ames

Co-hosts John Dolan & Mark Ames

Follow Glenn Greenwald's writing and other journalism at Substack, where you can become a member: https://greenwald.substack.com/ Find full episodes here: https://linktr.ee/systemupdate_ Follow Glenn: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/glenn.11.greenwald/ Follow System Update: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SystemUpdate_ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/...

Who did Trump call a 'natural businessperson'? What does Ed Davey want to bring back? And why shouldn't we call young people snowflakes? It's all up for discussion on this week's News Quiz. The panel is Rachel Fairburn, Desiree Burch, Robin Morgan and Cindy Yu. Written by Andy Zaltzman. With additional material by Matt Hulme, Christina Riggs and Henry Whaley. Producer: Georgia Keating Executive Pr...

Laura Smyth speaks to celebrity guests to find out about the mothers who made them. This week Laura is joined by comedians Sara Barron and Nish Kumar and boy is it the battle of the big personality mums! We hear all about Sara’s mum’s main character energy and her mantra ‘we’re not like other girls’. We learn about Nish’s mum leading her entire family to England aged just 15, and the mic drop way...

This week on Chapo, we review The Daily Wire’s Run Hide Fight: Infidels with screenwriter Josh Olson. We did into this failing company’s newest attempt at recreating the racist 80s action movie, this time with about five minutes of Jonathan Majors thrown in. We dig into this movie’s worldview, pitch ideas for new Run Hide Fight movies, debate what even happened in this one, and wrap up with like a...

  To hear this full episode, and to get access to the entire library of American Exception, including the Gray Alliance series with Max Arvo, and the oral history with Peter Dale Scott, subscribe to American Exception on Patreon. In this episode—Part 4 of The Syndicate, the Octopus, and the Gray Alliance— we look at how the Iran-Contra scandal was part of a bigger Zionist neoconservative deep stat...

We have on Max and Ghraim on to talk about the Greenland deal and the recent Swedish elections. (This is the main feed episode but we did also release a bonus today) Listen to Brödrafolkens Podd wherever you get pods, it's mostly in some sort of North Germanic creole but there's some English episodes like this one we mentioned: https://pca.st/img69xe4

The US Federal Reserve appointed a new chair earlier this year. Kevin Warsh replaced Jerome Powell, who had been under constant fire from the Trump administration. For many, Warsh’s appointment represented a turn towards the overt politicization of monetary policy. Is the age of central bank independence coming to an end? And is it something that the Left should mourn or celebrate? Martijn Konings...