Tommy and Ben discuss plans for delivering aid to Gaza through a maritime route and floating pier, US “red lines” over an Israeli invasion of Rafah and the public war of words between Biden and Netanyahu in weekend interviews. They they talk about Viktor Orban’s visit to Mar-a-Lago, concerns from the intelligence community about giving Trump classified briefings during the election, the debate over banning TikTok, election news in Portugal and Turkey, a mass kidnaping in Nigeria, a failed constitutional amendment vote in Ireland, and the photoshop scandal that is fueling even more rumors about the Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton. Then Ben does a deep dive on the deteriorating situation in Haiti, which has become overrun by gangs, with Renatta Segura, Deputy Program Director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the International Crisis Group.
Spyware for profit
An assassination in Haiti and protests in Cuba
World’s worst space race
Private mercenaries and naked sunbathers
Iranian elections and Justin Bieber’s state visit
Bye bye Bibi!
Joe's Eurovision 2021
Boris elopes, Bibi on the ropes (with Afua Hirsch)
Belarus hijacks a plane (and Samantha Power)
Time to call for a ceasefire in Gaza
Clashes in Israel and Gaza
Talks with Iran and covid in India
Fighting climate change, coronavirus, and capitalism
Putin's Power Plays
Biden ends one war, will Israel and Iran start another?
Should America boycott the 2022 Olympics?
Israel Deadlocked, Suez Unblocked
Biden versus Putin
Vaccine diplomacy and Kushner bashing
Oprah upends the British Empire
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