Angry Planet Subscriber Feed (private feed for richard.pearce42@gmail.com)
News:News Commentary
This episode is for subscribers. It’s a commercial free version of the mainline episode. If you’d like to listen for free, but with commercials, go here.
WNBA star Britney Griner is imprisoned in Russia and, apparently, the U.S. is making Russia an incredible offer to get her out. Last week Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that America had “put a substantial proposal on the table.”
That proposal? The return to Russia of convicted international arms dealer Viktor Bout. This so-called Merchant of Death’s story is an amazing one. It even inspired a 2005 Nicolas Cage movie, some six years before Bout’s arrest.
With us today to talk about it is Sean Williams. Williams is a journalist and the co-host of the excellent Underworld Pod, a show about the worldwide phenomenon of organized crime.
image: DEA photo
Why War Never Changes
How a 21-Year-Old Edgelord Stole Pentagon Secrets
Why the West Loves 'ISIS Brides'
Reagan's Failed Attempt to Put Lasers in Space
Fascist Youth Groups Are Back in Style
The Drones Above Ukraine
Ukraine: Back to the Front One Year On
What's a Planet Worth?
50 Years Since the Draft
It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a... Balloon?
The Rise of South Korea
The Complexities of China’s Liberal Nationalism
What a War Game Tells Us About Taiwan
The Long Weird History of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle
Israel's New Coalition from Hell
The Wagner Group Gives Putin Implausible Deniability
The Precarious Nature of Being Jewish
Talking Russia with the CIA's Former Eurasian Bureau Chief
The History of 'Putin's Wars'
ICYMI: A Timothy Snyder Double Feature
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The Tucker Carlson Show
The Glenn Beck Program
The Matt Walsh Show
Mark Levin Podcast
The Michael Knowles Show