INTEROCEPTION: THE SIXTH SENSE WE USE TO READ HIDDEN SIGNALS FROM OUR BODY

Fri 12 January 2024: At every moment, your body’s internal organs are sending signals to your brain. You’ll be mostly unaware of them, but sometimes they cut through: for example when you’re hungry, or when you need to go to the bathroom. Our ability to tap into these hidden signals is called interoception – sometimes […]

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DEBANKING: HOW UK MUSLIMS FOUND COMMON CAUSE WITH NIGEL FARAGE

Fri 22 September 2023: The UK is investigating bank account closures – and British Muslim groups say their community is hit hardest. A bank account can be everything in an increasingly cashless society. In the United Kingdom, banks closed more than 343,000 accounts in the last financial year. The practice is known as “debunking”, and […]

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PODCAST: WILL THE GLOBAL ELECTRIC CAR MARKET CAUSE A GEOPOLITICAL BATTLE?

Sun 17 September 2023: An auto workers’ dispute in the U.S. underlines Washington’s struggle to become competitive in the global electric car market. While the EU and China clash over subsidies. Are East and West revving up for another geopolitical battle?   Join Host Sami Zeidan  Guests:  Steven Erlanger – Chief Diplomatic Correspondent in Europe, The New […]

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HOW ISRAELI TECHNOLOGY TURNS OCCUPATION INTO PROFIT

Wed 09 August 2023: The Israeli military-industrial complex has turned the occupied Palestinian territory into a testing ground for advanced weaponry and surveillance technology, which it exports worldwide. From powerful tools like the Pegasus software, which was used to hack the phones of high-profile individuals such as Jeff Bezos and Jamal Khashoggi, to selling drones […]

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INVESTIGATION UNRAVELS ALLEGATIONS OF CORRUPTION AT SAFA

  South African Football Association (SAFA) president Danny Jordaan. Fri 21 July 2023: The South African Football Association (SAFA) is under the spotlight. A series of articles by an investigative journalist have unravelled allegations of corruption, mismanagement, theft and infighting at the nation’s football governing body. “Over the past year, a number of whistleblowers came to me […]

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CAPTAGON, THE DRUG FUELING THE RISE – AND FALL – OF SYRIA’S WAR

Wed 12 July 2023: Captagon, a stimulant mainly produced in Syria which has become particularly popular with users in Gulf countries, has received a lot of press. While it seems clear that its trade is now one of the Syrian government’s main sources of income, less understood are its effects on users. Ever-larger seizures by […]

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PODCAST: WHY BIDEN IS ROLLING OUT THE RED CARPET FOR INDIA’S MODI

Thu 22 June 2023: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is joining the ranks of Benjamin Netanyahu, Nelson Mandela, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Winston Churchill and Yitzhak Rabin – the only other world leaders to have addressed the US Congress twice. It is part of his state visit to the United States, which is being hailed as a […]

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PODCAST: THEY REPORTED ON MAHSA AMINI’S DEATH. NOW, THEY’RE ON TRIAL

Thu 15 June 2023: In Iran’s Kasra Hospital, the parents of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini embraced in a hallway, grieving their daughter who died after being detained by the morality police. Journalist Niloofar Hamedi captured the moment in a photo and tweeted it out. Within the week, she was arrested. A week later, journalist Elaheh Mohammadi […]

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