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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

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North Korean troops are fighting alongside Russian ones in Ukraine. Bringing the two together hasn’t all gone smoothly. There are language barriers, cultural barriers, and a whole lot of Russian territory to recover. The results have been mixed, but the partnership points to a deepening of the special relationship between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation.

On this episode of Angry Planet, Jenny Town is here to explain the deepening ties between Russia and North Korea. Town is a Senior Fellow and Director at the Stimson center and writes at 38 North.

• Initial reactions to the “ICBM attack” in Ukraine

• The special relationship between Russia and North Korea

• The growing anti-western sphere of influence

• What the North Korean military is doing in Ukraine

• 100,00 more North Korean troops in Ukraine?

• Is Kim Jong Un preparing for war?

• North Korea’s brand new uranium enrichment photos.

• What would it take for South Korea to get a nuclear weapon?

• Making use of the Kaesong Industrial Complex

Is Kim Jong Un Preparing for War?

First Look at North Korea’s Uranium Enrichment Capabilities

Kaesong Industrial Complex: A Tortured History and Uncertain Future

Quick Take: North Korea’s Coverage of Russian War Against Ukraine

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