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An Ugly World Order Takes Shape (S01E26)
Tuesday, March 17, 2026, Istanbul
One million people have been displaced by the Israli invasion of southern Lebanon. This puts enormous pressure on the fragile government in Beirut, where missiles struck near the country’s only international airport.
Meanwhile, Israel claims it killed or tried to kill Iran’s Supreme National Security Council secretary Ali Larijani, a longtime Tehran regime fixture seen as a relative pragmatist.
Joe Kent, a longtime US spy, resigned from his high-ranking post at the US Directorate of National Intelligence over the Iran war. He said in his extraordinary…
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