POPULAR FRONT

Today we speak to Zeina Dajani about her experiences on the ground in Sheikh Jarrah, the East Jerusalem neighbourhood that sparked recent conflict between Israel and Palestine.    - www.patreon.com/popularfront - www.popularfront.co - www.twitter.com/jake_hanrahan - www.instagram.com/popular.front

Today we hear from Colombia based journalist Dylan Baddour about the recent outbreak of violence in several cities across Colombia. Police have been driving around on motorbikes shooting protesters with live rounds. - www.patreon.com/popularfront - www.popularfront.co - www.twitter.com/jake_hanrahan - www.instagram.com/popular.front

We speak to journalist Sean Williams about his recent time reporting on the ground amidst the war in Tigray.  - www.patreon.com/popularfront - www.popularfront.co - www.twitter.com/jake_hanrahan - www.instagram.com/popular.front

Today we speak to journalist Baderkhan Ahmad who's been covering recent clashes between the Kurdish Asayis security forces and Assad regime militias in Qamishlo, the de-facto capital of NE Syria's Rojava region.  - www.patreon.com/popularfront - www.popularfront.co - www.twitter.com/jake_hanrahan - www.instagram.com/popular.front

Jake Hanrahan (who founded Popular Front) has a book out now. You can buy it here: www.gargoylebook.com ​ Gargoyle is a compilation of written work by British journalist Jake Hanrahan, collecting his on-the-ground reporting from all the wrong crowds. In this book he visits hidden places and speaks to tough people, from the militant hideouts in Kurdistan, to the secret safe-houses of dark web drug...

We speak to writer, researcher, and activist Joey Ayoub about the deteriorating situation in Lebanon and the possibilities of conflict that this might cause.  - www.patreon.com/popularfront - www.popularfront.co - www.twitter.com/jake_hanrahan - www.instagram.com/popular.front

This is one of the Patreon bonus episodes about the New York Times and the propaganda article they published in February, which whitewashed Turkish war crimes in Syria's Afrin. We're putting this episode out for free. Please consider subscribing to www.patreon.com/popularfront  

Today we speak to analyst and researcher Tom Lord about what's causing the new wave of political violence in Greece. - www.patreon.com/popularfront - www.popularfront.co - www.twitter.com/jake_hanrahan - www.instagram.com/popular.front

We speak to Irish researcher and artist Adam Doyle about the recent statement from Loyalist militants in Northern Ireland. They've declared that they're quitting the Good Friday Agreement which ended the war because of a Brexit sea border dispute. - www.patreon.com/popularfront - www.popularfront.co - www.twitter.com/jake_hanrahan - www.instagram.com/popular.front

Today we speak to journalist Aye Min Thant about the people's resistance to the recent military coup in Myanmar, in which several people have already been killed. - www.patreon.com/popularfront - www.popularfront.co - www.twitter.com/jake_hanrahan - www.instagram.com/popular.front  

Today we speak to researcher and activist Meaza Gidey about the many massacres currently taking place in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.  - www.patreon.com/popularfront - www.popularfront.co - www.twitter.com/jake_hanrahan - www.instagram.com/popular.front

Today we speak to Kurdish researcher and writer Abdullah Hawez. He's going into detail about the recent skirmish between the Kurdish PKK militant group and the Turkish military in the mountains of Kurdistan.   - www.patreon.com/popularfront - www.popularfront.co - www.twitter.com/jake_hanrahan - www.instagram.com/popular.front

We speak to John Ioannou and Zenonas Tziarras from www.geopoliticalcyprus.org about Erdogan's recent sabre rattling in Cyprus.  - www.patreon.com/popularfront - www.popularfront.co - www.twitter.com/jake_hanrahan - www.instagram.com/popular.front

Today we speak to Iranian human rights activist and writer Ana Diamond. Ana tells us about the time she was almost executed in Iran's notorious Evin prison. - www.patreon.com/popularfront - www.popularfront.co - www.twitter.com/jake_hanrahan - www.instagram.com/popular.front

Today we speak to journalist Jack Losh about the largely unreported conflict in the Central African Republic. The war was recently reignited and is as brutal as ever. - www.patreon.com/popularfront - www.popularfront.co - www.twitter.com/jake_hanrahan - www.instagram.com/popular.front

This was a Patreon bonus episode. We're unlocking it for everyone. We speak to analyst Aron Lund about what Joe Biden's presidential victory in the US might mean for the war in Syria. - www.patreon.com/popularfront - www.popularfront.co - www.twitter.com/jake_hanrahan - www.instagram.com/popular.front

We speak to journalist Michael Colborne about the rise of the Azov Battalion, a neo-fascist militia in Ukraine that now has a column of tanks and is a member of the National Guard. - www.patreon.com/popularfront - www.popularfront.co - www.twitter.com/jake_hanrahan - www.instagram.com/popular.front

This week we speak to writer and researcher Seán Columb about the black market trade of human organs in the midst of various different conflicts across the world. - www.patreon.com/popularfront - www.popularfront.co - www.twitter.com/jake_hanrahan - www.instagram.com/popular.front Seán's book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1503612554/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&psc=1  

We spoke to photographer Caden about what he witnessed as hardcore Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building yesterday in what some media pundits are calling an "attempted coup". - www.patreon.com/popularfront - www.popularfront.co - www.twitter.com/jake_hanrahan - www.instagram.com/popular.front

We speak to journalist Sébastien Bourdon about a proposed new bill in France that will give police more powers. Protesters feel that these new powers are authoritarian and have been clashing with police in the streets. - www.patreon.com/popularfront - www.popularfront.co - www.twitter.com/jake_hanrahan - www.instagram.com/popular.front

We speak to professor Jacob Mundy about the recent clashes in Western Sahara that've reignited a long frozen conflict between the Polisario Front and the Moroccan government. - www.patreon.com/popularfront - www.popularfront.co - www.twitter.com/jake_hanrahan - www.instagram.com/popular.front

We speak to Kurdish researcher Abdullah Hawez about the rising tensions between the ruling political party of Iraqi Kurdistan and the Kurdish militants of the PKK movement. - www.patreon.com/popularfront - www.popularfront.co - www.twitter.com/jake_hanrahan - www.instagram.com/popular.front

Plastic Defence is a documentary about illegal 3D printed firearms in Europe and the decentralised  network behind them. These guns are robust, they don't blow up in your hands, and they're untraceable. What's more, they're being made in people's bedrooms. At Popular Front, we got  access to the network designing and building these downloadable rifles. It goes by the name "Deterrence Dispensed". I...

We speak to researcher and analyst Neil Hauer who's on the ground in Armenia. He unpacks the very messy end to the war in Nagorno-Karabakh / Artsakh. - www.patreon.com/popularfront - www.popularfront.co - www.twitter.com/jake_hanrahan - www.instagram.com/popular.front

In this episode we speak to investigative journalist Ali Winston about the two boogaloo bois who actually followed through with their rhetoric and murdered two law enforcement officers this year in the US. - www.patreon.com/popularfront - www.popularfront.co - www.twitter.com/jake_hanrahan - www.instagram.com/popular.front