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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
The Truth connects wars, institutions, and economic systems by asking what power is for and how its consequences reach ordinary life.
The Truth treats politics as a question of systems and incentives, following current conflict into the machinery beneath it. Conversations range from defense procurement and the purpose of American military power to food production, ecological limits, economic fragility, and the…
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A clear legal-political take on Trump's court fights, with Roberts in the frame.
The conversation frames judges pushing back against Donald Trump, with Chief Justice Roberts pulled into the same line of resistance. It links that pushback to a wider pattern in year two of the administration, then moves into Trump's clash with the media and the reasons some…
A hard-edged foreign-policy rant that ties war, corruption, and wasted spending into one argument.
It casts the conflict as a widening regional war, moving from Iran and Israel to Lebanon and Iraq, then widening again to the region's strategic value, supply chains, and other powers.
A forceful look at Trump's Iran messaging, driven by contradiction, reaction, and geopolitical fallout.
The segment makes a sharp case around Donald Trump's Iran messaging, keeping the focus on the Strait of Hormuz, a coalition of the willing, and the wider reaction from Iranian officials and several world leaders.
Urgent war commentary that stays close to the facts and the uncertainty around them.
This episode moves hard through breaking developments around Iran, from the KC-135 incident over Western Iraq to the unaccounted-for crew, the medevac transfers to Germany, and the fire on the Gerald Ford.
A sharp, speculative argument about AI, extraction, and what happens when the internet shifts away from the human layer.
The episode frames a near-term future in which people could be displaced, even subordinated, by machines, and it treats AI bots taking over the internet as part of that broader shift.
A blunt war-powers discussion that pairs propaganda critique with distrust of expertise.
Anthony and Ron treat the Trump-Iran escalation as a war story only after all the polite labels run out. They move through the legal questions, the international fallout, and the steady swipe at corporate and mainstream coverage without losing the thread.
A brisk look at Trump, Iran, and the gap between war aims and reality.
This episode treats the Iran war less like a clean plan than a mess of signals, mismatched expectations, and improvisation. It keeps coming back to Donald Trump's lack of a settled path, the gap between Israeli hopes and Trump's quicker, cleaner-war instinct, and the way the…
A fast, clear look at Trump’s Iran messaging, market fallout, and the ugly optics around it.
The episode treats Trump’s Iran escalation as a foreign-policy crisis, a market shock, and a live messaging operation all at once. It follows oil pushing toward $120 per barrel, the Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P dropping, and then the sudden turn after Trump starts calling reporters and…
Nigeria's headlines, measured against daily life.
A late-night dial of strange and creative talk.
Urgent clips from political fault lines.
Car writing, narrated with bite.
Michael Popok returns to The Intersection after a Disney cruise and argues that Donald Trump’s Iran strategy is “exporting chaos” rather than solving domestic failures.
Helene Ayake and Dahlia Gabriel assess Israel's claimed strike on an Iranian nuclear site, reported civilian casualties, and the Pentagon's preliminary finding about a girls' school strike that killed more than 165 people.
Anthony and Ron of Uncovered analyze Kristi Noem’s congressional hearings, including Tom Tillis’s criticism of her handling of North Carolina’s $60 billion storm damage.
Breakthrough News's The Freedom Side opens with Eugene Puryear describing four-hour TSA lines and agents going unpaid because DHS funding is stalled over ICE and CBP reforms after the Minneapolis killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
Johns Hopkins professor Vali Nasr tells Rania Khalek that, three weeks into the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, neither Washington nor Jerusalem expected the regime to survive without a popular uprising or an internal split.
Hosts Michael Popok and Karen Freeman-Wilson analyze Tulsi Gabbard's congressionally mandated intelligence testimony, in which she repeatedly refused to confirm whether the intelligence community assessed Iran as an imminent nuclear threat before U.S.
Journalist Ash Sarkar discusses her book Minority Rule at a live event, arguing that the political right wins elections and policy battles not through cultural dominance but through capital backing, media ownership consolidation from Murdoch to Musk, and the post-2008 collapse of center-left economic models.
Author and Christian patriarchy survivor Tia Levings joins Anthony Davis to explain how different strands of Christian nationalism are shaping the Trump administration's approach to the war in Iran.
Two commentators analyze the expanding U.S.-Iran conflict, arguing it has grown into a regional war with global supply chain implications after Iran struck neighboring Gulf states, closed the Strait of Hormuz, and targeted American bases.
Iran's foreign minister warned the UK that allowing American bombers to fly from British bases constitutes participation in aggression, as Declassified UK reveals B-1 and B-52 bombers operating from RAF Fairford with 2,000-pound bombs visible on the tarmac.
The Meidas Touch hosts analyze the Trump administration's handling of the Iran conflict, arguing that fabricated claims about international coalitions and diplomatic channels are projecting desperation rather than strength on the world stage.
The Truth podcast covers the breaking rupture between the US and Israel over the war in Iran, as Israel struck South Pass gas fields in Iran, Iran retaliated by attacking Qatar's Ras Laffan LNG complex — described by the Financial Times as an Armageddon scenario for gas markets — and Trump then publicly distanced himself from Israel's actions on Truth Social, claiming the US knew nothing about the attack, directly contradicting earlier Israeli and US defense official statements.
A federal judge quashed a grand jury subpoena targeting Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, finding the criminal investigation was pretextual and driven by Donald Trump's desire to force Powell's resignation over interest rate policy.
An Israeli airstrike hits a processing facility attached to the South Pars gas field — the world's largest, shared by Iran and Qatar — sending oil prices from $101 to over $108 per barrel in a single day.
The Truth podcast covers breaking news from the US war in Iran, reporting a US KC-135 tanker going down over Western Iraq with six crew members unaccounted for, Iranian drone strikes injuring six French soldiers at a joint French-Peshmerga base in Erbil, multiple ship attacks in the Strait of Hormuz with at least one vessel fully engulfed in flames, and NBC sources citing Donald Trump ranting about market crashes and surging oil prices.
A broadcaster identified as Ben Mycelis reports on a rapidly deteriorating military situation as the US-Iran war, initiated by Donald Trump, enters a phase of cascading problems including fire damage to the aircraft carrier USS Gerald Ford, collapsing Gulf state confidence in the United States, oil prices approaching $200 a barrel as Iran's stated goal, and strategic questions about whether American military dominance has been permanently compromised.
Iran has effectively shut down the Strait of Hormuz by striking at least 16 ships in two weeks, cutting 97% of the oil that normally flows through the waterway and pushing prices above $100 a barrel.
Author Marek Pollux argues that capitalism is not merely a social system but a transcendental algorithm-like entity that is actively moving away from production, consumption, and ultimately human involvement.
The French ambassador to Oman states plainly that the US-Israeli strikes on Iran were conducted outside international law, with no UN Security Council resolution or justification for the military operation.
Economist Clara Mattei argues that austerity is not a policy failure but a deliberate mechanism that maintains capitalism by keeping workers market-dependent, drawing on her PhD research connecting post-World War I austerity programs in Italy and Britain to the rise of fascism.
Hosts Karen Freeman and Michael Popok examine the U.S.
Hosts Anthony and Ron break down the Trump administration's military campaign against Iran, arguing that the White House failed to anticipate Iran's two most consequential responses: closing the Strait of Hormuz to disrupt global oil supply, and retaliating against Gulf Arab states to turn regional allies against the United States.
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Twelve days into the US-Israeli war on Iran, Trump tells Axios the war will end soon because there is practically nothing left to target, while Israel's defense minister says operations will continue without time limit.
Two weeks into the U.S.-Israel war on Iran, hosts Aaron Bastani and Kieran Andrew examine how contradictory messaging from the Trump administration reveals genuine internal chaos rather than strategic ambiguity.
Israeli strikes on Tehran's oil depots produced black, oil-saturated rain over the city while Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz sent oil prices to $120 per barrel, threatening a global economic shock.
The Midas Touch podcast breaks down Trump's contradictory messaging on the Iran war, where he told reporters the conflict was "very complete" while simultaneously saying it could go on indefinitely, causing dramatic market swings in oil prices and stock indexes within hours.
A host on The Truth podcast interviews author Rana Desgupta about his book After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order, tracing the history of the nation state from 13th century theological foundations in France through its 20th-century universalization.
A national security expert from the Harvard Kennedy School dissects the U.S.-Iran war launched in early March 2026, arguing the Trump administration entered the conflict with no day-after plan and no attempt to rally public support.
Host Ben Meiselas reports that as many as 150 U.S.
Historian Susanna Glickman explains the quiet power struggle between legacy defense contractors like Lockheed Martin and Silicon Valley firms like Palantir and Anduril that want a share of Pentagon spending.
Donald Trump posted on Truth Social demanding Iran's "unconditional surrender" and the right to select the country's next leader, a statement Iran analyst Sina Tusi calls delusional given the realities on the ground.
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Six days into the US-Israel military campaign against Iran, the war has spread to at least 12 countries, with a new strike hitting Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan exclave near the Iranian border.
The Midas Touch podcast presents a special edition featuring interviews with Democratic governors responding to Trump State of the Union address.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi has been subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee to testify about her handling of the Epstein files, with five Republicans joining Democrats in the vote to compel her appearance.
An audio drama presents a discussion of Eric Schlosser's work on the fast food industry and industrial food production, framing his 2001 book Fast Food Nation and subsequent work as a sustained investigation into labor conditions and corporate exploitation rather than a simple anti-junk-food polemic.
California Governor Gavin Newsom appears at a live event in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, hosted by The Truth podcast, discussing his book, his fights against the Trump administration, and the firing of Kristi Noem as DHS secretary.
Host Fred Wellman, an 18-year Army combat veteran and former helicopter pilot, is joined by Dr.
Economist John Rapley argues that wealthy nations are not the resilient powerhouses they appear to be, but are in fact growing more fragile as their prosperity increases.
Legal AF hosts Karen Friedman Agnifilo and Lisa Graves break down the House Oversight Committee's bipartisan vote to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi over unreleased Epstein documents, with five Republicans joining Democrats in demanding her testimony.
Nigel Farage announced Reform UK's shadow cabinet featuring former Conservative ministers Robert Jenrick, Suella Braverman, and Nadim Zahawi, an attempt to address polling data showing that 35 percent of potential Reform voters are concerned the party lacks governing experience.
Three thinkers who fundamentally disagree on AI risk — computer scientist Roman Yampolskiy, transhumanist philosopher Max More, and Mozilla Foundation leader Nabiha Syed — debate superintelligence with university students from Qatar in a Majlis-style town hall.
The Midas Touch podcast hosts Ben, Brett, and Jordy cover the expanding U.S.-Iran conflict, the firing of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, and the economic fallout from rising gas prices and market instability.
Novara Live covers the Gorton and Denton by-election in real time, with Helena and Stephen Methven analyzing the high-stakes three-way race between Labour, the Greens, and Reform UK.
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Navarra Live host Michael Walker and commentator Ash Sarkar preview the Gorton and Denton by-election, where a new poll shows Labour, the Greens, and Reform within a single point of each other.
Capitalism has historically relied on underpriced labor, nature, and resources to produce cheap food, and this episode argues that era is ending.
Former UK ambassador Peter Mandelson was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office related to his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein after Epstein's 2008 conviction and revelations showing he forwarded confidential information while a minister.
Host Ben Mycelis delivers live breaking-news coverage of a reported U.S.
This episode of Navarra Live covers the aftermath of Prince Andrew's 11-hour police detention on misconduct charges, focusing on newly reported evidence that former British ambassador Peter Mandelson lobbied Tony Blair to appoint Andrew as trade envoy in 2001, against the objections of then-Prince Charles.