Foreign Office with Michael Weiss
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Foreign Office #40. Our Own Worst Enemy
31 augustus 2021 · 52 min
Atlantic contributor and USA Today columnist Tom Nichols discusses America's political and cultural dysfunction, and why there may not be a cure. Lees meer
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Foreign Office #39. The Geopolitics of the New Afghanistan
30 augustus 2021 · 31 min
A scholar and expert on Afghanistan Kamran Bokhari explains how various countries will respond to the Taliban takeover, and what to do about ISIS-K. Lees meer
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Foreign Office #38. ISIS-K and the Taliban: It's Complicated
28 augustus 2021 · 42 min
Former US Army intelligence officer Michael Pregent on the terrorist threat from Afghanistan in the wake of two horrific suicide bombings. Lees meer
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Foreign Office #37. Crisis and Credibility
20 augustus 2021 · 33 min
Mike Nelson, a U.S. war veteran and visiting fellow at the National Security Institute at George Mason University, discusses the pullout from Afghanistan. And America's place in the world. Lees meer
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Foreign Office #36. America's Abandoned Allies
18 augustus 2021 · 37 min
Journalist and author Wesley Morgan explains how Afghans integral to the U.S. war effort have been left to a grim fate in a Taliban-run country. Lees meer
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Foreign Office #35. Afghanistan, Before and After the Americans
17 augustus 2021 · 52 min
Afghanistan scholar and professor at the US Naval Postgraduate School Thomas Johnson explains how America bungled its longest war. Lees meer
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Foreign Office #34. Why Vladimir Milov Is Optimistic
13 augustus 2021 · 48 min
Russia's former deputy energy minister discusses the political situation in Russia, and why Putin isn't as strong as he looks. Lees meer
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Foreign Office #33. Tales from Odessa
11 augustus 2021 · 32 min
Author Vladislav Davidzon on a decade of writing about (and for) Ukraine. Lees meer
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Foreign Office #32. The Biden-Russia Conundrum
4 augustus 2021 · 42 min
Veteran Russia expert James Sherr discusses the recent policy pivot on Nord Stream 2, and what the West doesn't understand when dealing with Moscow. Lees meer
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Foreign Office #31. Sorge's Way
21 juli 2021 · 50 min
Historian and biographer Owen Mathews on how Soviet master spy Richard Sorge infiltrated the Third Reich. Lees meer
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Foreign Office #30. The Silent Weapon
21 juni 2021 · 38 min
Former CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos on being a victim of directed energy attacks, U.S. Russian relations, and his new book. Lees meer
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Foreign Office #29. The View from Vilnius
26 mei 2021 · 32 min
Former Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicious discusses Belarus's hijacking of a commercial plane, and what the West needs to do about Minsk (and Moscow). Lees meer
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Foreign Office #28. A KGB Kidnapping
24 mei 2021 · 29 min
Andrei Sannikov, a former Belarusian presidential candidate, explains Alexander Lukashenko's crazy plot to arrest a journalist by hijacking a RyanAir plane. Lees meer
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Foreign Office #27. Microwaves and Bounties
19 mei 2021 · 41 min
National security reporter Tom Rogan on why the CIA isn't giving up on the GRU 'bounties' claim, and on alleged directed energy attacks against Americans. Lees meer
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Foreign Office #26. Explosions and Expulsions
5 mei 2021 · 36 min
Czech analyst Jakub Janda on how Russian state terrorism on NATO soil has upended Prague's relationship with Moscow. Lees meer
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Foreign Office #25. A 21st Century SMERSH
4 mei 2021 · 27 min
Bellingcat's Christo Grozev on what the latest disclosures out of Bulgaria and Czechia tell us about GRU Unit 29155. Lees meer
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Foreign Office #24. The Professor and “Ivan”
26 april 2021 · 46 min
Nerma Jelacic, director of External Relations and Communications at Commission for International Justice and Accountability, explains how her NGO unmasked a Russian-back disinformation network on Syria — by pretending to be a Russian spy. Lees meer
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Foreign Office #23. Of “Kostya” and Collusion
19 april 2021 · 40 min
RFE/RL’s Mike Eckel explains how the latest US sanctions on Russia advance what Mueller alleged about the Trump campaign’s ties to Moscow. Lees meer
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Foreign Office #22. Will Russia Invade Ukraine (Again)?
12 april 2021 · 42 min
USIP Russia Director Don Jensen weighs the possible reason for Russia’s military buildup. Lees meer
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Foreign Office #21. Strategic Miscommunication
29 maart 2021 · 42 min
Analyst Monika Richter explains how Chinese government threats got an EU report on COVID-19 disinformation censored. Lees meer
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Foreign Office #20. Disinformation and Its Discontents
22 maart 2021 · 51 min
Johns Hopkins scholar and “Active Measures” author Thomas Rid on the DNI report on Russian meddling and how 2020 is different from 2016. Lees meer
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Foreign Office #19. When a Hack is not an Attack
15 maart 2021 · 48 min
Wired journalist Andy Greenberg on the SolarWinds hack and why cyberespionage is not cyber warfare. Lees meer
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Foreign Office #18. The Pipeline from Hell
8 maart 2021 · 46 min
Benjamin Schmitt, an energy security expert, argues Nord Stream 2 can and should be cancelled. Lees meer
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Foreign Office #17. Canceling Navalny
25 februari 2021 · 34 min
Russian journalist Yevgenia Albats — on Amnesty International’s decision to revoke Navalny’s prisoner of conscious status. Lees meer
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Foreign Office #16. Mr. Jones and Me
23 februari 2021 · 42 min
Andrea Chalupa, screenwriter of "Mr. Jones," on what inspired her to memorialize the journalist who uncovered Ukraine's terror-famine. Lees meer
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Foreign Office #15. What the Borrell Was He Thinking?
15 februari 2021 · 35 min
Senior Fellow at the European Values Center for Security Policy Nathalie Vogel on why the EU let the Kremlin humiliate it — again. Lees meer
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Foreign Office #14. Beirut Blues
8 februari 2021 · 38 min
The deputy editor of Newlines magazine Faysal Itani on the murder of Lebanese activist Lokman Slim and what America can and cannot do in the Middle East. Lees meer
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Foreign Office #13. The KGB's "Confidential Contacts"
4 februari 2021 · 41 min
Former CIA Officer John Sipher discusses the grey area between Russian informant and Russian agent. Lees meer
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Foreign Office #12. The People v. Julian Assange
14 januari 2021 · 39 min
Journalist Marcy Wheeler explains the U.S. government's charges against the Wikileaks founder, and why Britain refused to extradite him to America to face them. Lees meer
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Foreign Office #11. How to Catch a Russian Assassin
19 december 2020 · 53 min
Christo Grozev, the Bellingcat journalist who unmasked Alexey Navalny’s hit squad, explains how he did it, and what it says about Putin’s security state. Lees meer
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#10. America in a Post-Trump World
17 december 2020 · 49 min
Foreign policy analyst Damir Marusic on why a Biden presidency won't necessarily change much.
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#9. Resets, Be Gone!
8 december 2020 · 28 min
Former Biden adviser and Russia expert Michael Carpenter discusses his coauthored articles with President-Elect Joe Biden and what to expect from the new administration.
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#8. Unfrozen Conflict
1 december 2020 · 28 min
Award-winning journalist Simon Ostrovsky reports from Nagorno-Karabakh
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#7. The View from Europe
11 november 2020 · 46 min
As Joe Biden crept to victory, Estonia's former President Toomas Henrik Ilves explained how much of Europe saw this election -- and what it expects and (doesn't expect) from America going forward
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#6. Thumping Out Sandworm
26 oktober 2020 · 33 min
FireEye's John Hultquist explains the U.S. government's newly unsealed indictment about the GRU's devastating hacking operations.
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#5. CIA v KGB: How American and Russian political warfare differs -- and how it doesn't
19 oktober 2020 · 23 min
Tim Weiner, the acclaimed historian of the CIA, discusses his new book on American-Russian political warfare, from the Cold War till now.
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#4. Second Time As Farce: How a Russian-Backed Operation in Ukraine to Sway the 2020 U.S. Election Came Undone
12 oktober 2020 · 28 min
Time magazine's Simon Shuster discusses the ongoing Kremlin disinformation campaign involving individuals sanctioned by the U.S. Government
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#3. Double Trouble: Who and What Poisoned Vladimir Kara-Murza?
1 oktober 2020 · 28 min
In this episode, Vladimir Kara-Murza, vice president of Free Russia Foundation, recounts his own poisoning (twice) while traveling in Russia and what the FBI will has and hasn't told him about what it knows.
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#2. Russia's history of poisonings
28 september 2020 · 31 min
Russian journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan discuss Russia's history of poisonings in light of the Navalny case and why the use of a signature toxin such as Novichok implicates Vladimir Putin.
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#1. How Austria became Europe’s spy capital
21 september 2020 · 24 min
In our pilot episode, Michael interviews Anton Shekhovtsov, an expert on the European far-right and the Russian government's ties to it. They discuss their jointly written essay for The Daily Beast, drawn from a still-classified KGB training manual, about the false-flag recruitment of an adviser to the Austrian chancellery in the late 1950s and early 1960s by a particularly resourceful Soviet double agent "Safo." Also, the stunning revelations about a Wirecard executive, Austria's first expulsion of a Russian intelligence officer, and why Vienna has the well-earned reputation of being the spy capital of Europe.
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