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This week on Angry Planet writer David Faris joins us to talk about his time in Syria and life in America.

• David’s travels from Lebanon to Syria
• When people hoped Bashar al-Assad would change Syria
• What a real totalitarian state feels like
• The nightmare that follows the collapse of a dictatorship
• Once again, the ugly legacy of colonialism rears its head
• The post-Assad players
• After 15 years, everyone is tired of war
• Turning to domestic politics
• Don’t panic
• “Trump will govern very corruptly.”
• Talking politics with children
• The Trump Cinematic Universe
• “We need billionaires to fight billionaires.”
• The collapse of the liberal intelligentsia

The McDonald’s bombing in Beirut

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This week Angry Planet turns its attention to Canada. Global News investigative journalist Stewart Bell joins us to walk through his two latest pieces and give Matthew a crash course on Canadian history. What do outlaw motorcycle gangs, extrajudicial assassinations, an Indian separatist movement, and a resurgent Islamic State all have in common?

Canada.

Bell is here to explain it all.

• The pros and cons of extremists recruiting on social media
• Are you talking to a fed?
• Remembering Air India Flight 182 or Matthew learns Canadian history
• The Khalistan movement
• What makes a 14-year-old interested in Islamic State?
• Eric Hoffer on what makes a True Believer
• Spreading ideologies with an answering machine
• The budding new era of political violence
• Visas as a tool of foreign interference
• Using gangs to assassinate your political enemies
• The ups and downs of hiring biker gangs for intelligence work
• India’s superpower glow up

ISIS arrests are spiking in Canada and youths are driving the resurgence

Investigation: Visas have become an Indian foreign interference tool

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On today’s episode, I talked to Kollen Post about how and why Silicon Valley markets their drones as “battle tested in Ukraine.” We recorded it on Thanksgiving, Jason was busy spending time with his family, and Post and I went down some weird philosophical rabbit holes.

• Impromptu drone developers
• The Western image of the Ukrainian drone operator
• Open source is king
• The decentralized nature of Ukrainian society
• Fundraising for war
• The ignorance of the American people
• Trump’s promise: You can forget it
• Americans want to be heroes
• Palmer Luckey is selling drone piece loot crates
• iPhone vs. Linux
• Jamming with Github
• Onshoring the drone manufacturing process

‘Battle-tested in Ukraine’ — How US drone makers turned Ukraine into a tagline to sell west

Ukraine’s drones have a reputation for low cost. Buntar Aerospace wants to make them boutique

How Palantir Is Using AI in Ukraine

The Anduril merch store

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