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badlands podcast by borzou daragahi
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badlands podcast by borzou daragahiA New Generation Rises, Challenging Assumptions Worldwide (S01E181)
Thursday, October 29, 2026, Paris Days before the US midterm elections, Donald Trump seemingly mocked the struggles of ordinary Americans and boasted about how…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiA Shaken Saudi Arabia Struggles To Navigate Dangerous Crossroads (S01E180)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit borzou.substack.com Wednesday, October 28, 2026, Paris Just a few months ago, it looked as though…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiElections In The Shadow Of War, Economic Crisis (S01E179)
Tuesday, October 27, 2026, Paris Two Trumpian, MAGA-backed rightwing stalwarts were defeated in recent days in major elections. Serbia’s incumbent Prime…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiEscalating Protests And Terrorist Violence Rattle France (S01E178)
Monday, October 26, 2026, Paris A shocking act of violence in a western suburb Paris has further rattled France amid ongoing protests and calls for a general…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiWhat The Media Tells You About Iran Is Wrong (S01E177)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit borzou.substack.com Friday, October 23, 2026, Costa del Sol, Spain Treasury Secretary Scott…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiWhy Saudi Arabia Fell Back Into The Yemen Trap (S01E172)
Friday, October 16, 2026, Paris The war between Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Ansar Allah has escalated dramatically, undermining the Arabian Peninsula’s financial…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiThe Ugly Age Of Empires That Is Now Returning (S01E176)
Thursday, October 22, 2026, Gibraltar Right now Gibraltar is known mostly as a sunny getaway for UK pensioners, a British enclave on the Iberian Peninsula with…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiBombshell: Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Ambitions Began Under The Shah (S01E169)
Tuesday, October 13, 2026, Paris Why is the US buying diesel fuel from Russia while supporting Ukraine? Why is the Saudi Arabia hiding images of the damage…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiThe Real Relationship Between Iran And The Houthis (S01E175)
Wednesday, October 21, 2026, Costa del Sol, Spain The war between Yemen’s Ansar Allah and Saudi Arabia continues to rage, with the city of Taiz under siege and…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiInside Iran’s Machinery Of Death And Torture (S01E167)
Friday, October 9, 2026, Paris Iran continues to execute political dissidents at an unprecedented rate, flouting its laws and international standards in…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiTaking On Marco Rubio’s Middle East Delusions (S01E174)
Tuesday, October 20, 2026, Costa del Sol, Spain Marco Rubio recently gave an interview to the rightwing Breitbart News prompted by his October 7 speech in…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiHow The Gulf Plays Both Sides In The Ukraine-Russia War (S01E166)
Thursday, October 8, 2026, Paris Earlier this year, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tried to convince Gulf countries to join the effort to counter…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiIran’s Wrestlers Of Mass Destruction Smuggled Into Las Vegas (S0E173)
Monday, October 19, 2026, Costa del Sol, Spain A team of Iranian Greco-Roman wrestlers sneaks into Las Vegas, competing at the World Championship without…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiThe Inside Story Of How Saudi Arabia Was Transformed (S01E163)
Friday, October 2, 2026, Istanbul For more than a decade, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has undertaken effort to transform Saudi Arabia from a staid welfare…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiIt Will Take A Lot More Than Elections To Bring Down Trumpism (S01E171)
Thursday, October 15, 2026, Paris It appears that Donald Trump is about to face some measure of accountability—or at least comeuppance—for his actions. His…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiWar, And Rumors of War Across The Middle East (S01E170)
Wednesday, October 14, 2026, Paris We’re on the precipice of a major escalation in the Middle East, drawing in numerous regional countries and global powers…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiThe Kids Are Right: Why France’s Protests Are Spreading (S01E168)
Monday, October 12, 2026, Paris Student protests continue to expand across Europe, shaking France, Spain, and Belgium and revealing the underlying crises that…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiIran’s Economy Crushed Under Sanctions, Blockade, Mismanagement (S01E162)
Thursday, October 1, 2026, Istanbul Tehran tech entrepreneur Hamidreza Ahmadi joins badlands from Tehran to discuss the state of the economy inside Iran. He…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiGermany’s Israel-Friendly Ex-Spy Chief Busted In Espionage Scandal (S01E165)
Wednesday, October 7, 2026, Paris Α messy divorce case in Germany led to the discovery of evidence that the country’s former intelligence chief is was…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiWhy Saudi Will Likely Lose Its New War Against Houthis (S01E164)
Monday, October 5, 2026, Paris As if the Middle East didn’t have enough troubles, as if energy markets weren’t already constrained, Saudi Arabia declared a…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiThe Stalemate In The Middle East Won’t Last (S01E160)
Tuesday, September 29, 2026, Istanbul More and more oil is getting out of the Strait of Hormuz, helping the Trump administration bolster its argument is…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiNeocons Still Lusting After Iran War ‘Wins’ (S01E161)
Wednesday, September 30, 2026, Istanbul Most normal people would be relieved when a reports of a possible terrorist attack turns out to be a false alarm. Not…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahi‘Ponzi Scheme’: Massive Financial Scandal Engulfs Turkey (S01E159)
Monday, September 28, 2026, Istanbul Turkey is being rocked by one of the worst financial scandals in its history, with some estimated that $19 billion in…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiThe Iran War Redraws The Rules (S01E157)
Thursday, September 24, 2026, Istanbul Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly that the Middle East…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiWhy The Relationship Between The US And Iran Is So Bizarre (S01E158)
Friday, September 25, 2026, Istanbul America has long had adversaries, but it has also communicated with those adversaries. It staffed its embassy in Nazi…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiNeocon Wars Have All Been Failures. Will Iran Be Different?
Tuesday, August 25, 2026, Istanbul US Secretary of State Scott Bessent launched the Trump administration’s “D-Day” sanctions on Iran to much fanfare. In the…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiEconomic War Against Iran: Will It Work? (S01E136)
Monday, August 24, 2026, Istanbul After full-throttled war and half-hearted diplomacy, the administration of Donald Trump has settled on sanctions as away of…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiTrump Threatens To Annihilate Iran. World Shrugs (S01E156)
Wednesday, September 23, 2026, Istanbul Donald Trump’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly was filled with lies and bluster. It was in part a…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiOn Ukraine, What If Everyone Is In The Wrong? (S01E155)
Tuesday, September 22, 2026, Istanbul The war between Ukraine and Russia appears locked in a deadly stalemate with few signs of either side gaining major…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiUS Close To Fusing And Escalating Wars In Iran And Yemen (S01E154)
Monday, September 21, 2026, Istanbul The US is signaling that it could once again escalate its war with Iran, prompted in part by advances by Tehran’s Yemeni…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiICE Continues To Wage War On America (S01E153)
Friday, September 18, 2026, Istanbul America under Donald Trump has become a darker, scarier place. In this edition of badlands, College of DuPage professor…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiLeaks Expose Iran War Damage, Iranian Capability (S01E152)
Thursday, September 17, 2026, Istanbul Several leaks reported in media in recent days showcased just how badly the US has been lying about the impact of the…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiYemen Crisis Another Consequence of Neocon War (S01E151)
Wednesday, September 16, 2026, Istanbul Unintended consequences of the US decision to attack Iran now include the destabilization of the Syrian government as…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiA Political Earthquake In Yemen (S01E150)
Monday, September 14, 2026, Istanbul Yemen’s Ansar Allah seized control over huge swaths of the country, defeating Saudi-backed forces in an extraordinary…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiA World Still Haunted By The Shadow Of September 11 (S01E149)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit borzou.substack.com Friday, September 11, 2026, Istanbul It was 25 years ago today that I watched…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiHow Do I Deceive Thee? Let Me Count The Ways (S01E148)
Thursday, September 10, 2026, Istanbul For months the US claimed that its war against Iran was a success because it had “degraded” Iran’s military and nuclear…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiA New Hope: Fighting Back Against Israel’s Extremism (S01E147)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit borzou.substack.com Wednesday, September 9, 2026, Istanbul Iran launched dozens of ballistic…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiAmerica Needs An Intervention (S01E146)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit borzou.substack.com Tuesday, September 8, 2026, Istanbul Canada is finally standing up to…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiSacrifice American Lives, Wealth For Israel’s Regime Change War In Iran (S01E145)
Monday, September 7, 2026, Istanbul An article in Israel’s Jerusalem Post last week made waves for a provocative suggestion to boost military recruitment…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiWhy Canada Is Challenging The US (S01E144)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit borzou.substack.com Friday, September 4, 2026, Istanbul It’s not just Iran and Cuba. The US seems…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiWhen Empires Meet Their Match In Iran, Ukraine (S01E143)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit borzou.substack.com Thursday, September 3, 2026, Istanbul The US has yet to overcome its hubris…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiIran Wedding Horror Sparks Waves Of Missiles At US Bases (S01E142)
Wednesday, September 2, 2026, Istanbul The war between Iran and the US continued to escalate, with the countries trading blows for the sceond day in a row. At…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiUS Wants To ‘Mow The Lawn’ In Iran. It Won’t Work (S01E141)
Tuesday, September 1, 2026, Istanbul The US appears to be floating the notion that it could manage the crisis in Iran and the Persian Gulf by adopting the…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiBack To Bombs: US Launches Fresh Attacks On Iran (S01E140)
Monday, August 31, 2026, Istanbul The US claimed it launched attacks on two missile launchers preparing to attack Persian Gulf shipping on Iran’s Larak Island…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiWho Screwed Lebanon? Iran? Israel? US? (S01E123)
Thursday, August 6, 2026, Chicago Israel continues to hammer away at Lebanon and occupy much of the country’s south, even as the US and Iran appear to be…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiUS Bases, How Low You Can You Go? (S01E139)
Friday, August 28, 2026, Istanbul It’s the six-month anniversary of the Iran war, and the conflict shows no sign of ending soon, even as fighting has…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiOil’s Well That Ends Well In The Persian Gulf (S01E138)
Thursday, August 27, 2026, Istanbul An extraordinary series of images published by Tanker Trackers showed the ship-to-ship transfers being used by the US to…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiIran Sanctions Could Tank The World Economy (S01E137)
Wednesday, August 26, 2026, Istanbul Both US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Iran Parliament acknowledged that the US is treading on fragile economic ice…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiWhy Libya Was A Neocon Regime Change War, And Why It Wasn’t (S01E112)
Tuesday, July 21, 2026, Chicago In the latest edition of badlands, Libya expert Anas el-Gomati and I examine our sympathy for the 2011 uprising that toppled…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiUS To Go Max On Iran Sanctions (S01E134)
Friday, August 21, 2026, Paris The US has begun to unveil the next phase in its campaign agaisnt Iran, and it looks a bit like previous attempts to pressure…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiIsrael Is Choking The West Bank Economy. The World Is Finally Noticing (S01E133)
Thursday, August 20, 2026, Paris The New York Times this week published a well-reported piece about how Israel is destroying the economy of the West Bank. In…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiIran Has Lots Of Secrets. Its War Plans Ain’t Among Them (S01E132)
Wednesday, August 19, 2026, Paris Iran has been warning for months that it plans to escalate its war against the US unless the Americans take steps that…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiScrewing Over Your Friends And Neighbors (S01E131)
Donald Trump plumbs new depths of dishonor and disloyalty by threatening to bomb one ally while throwing another to the nuclear-armed wolves. In the latest…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiDonald Trump Can’t Shut His Big Fat Mouth (S01E130)
Monday, August 17, 2026, Paris Lots of threats and bluster by Iranian officials over the weekend, including a warning that Iran would “cut off the legs” of…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiRogue Regimes: Governments Which Oppress, Abduct, And Brutalize (S01E129)
Friday, August 15, 2026, Paris One kidnapped innocent people and forced them into concentration camps. Another aired a forced confession live on television…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiAxing The ‘Axis': Ditching Tired Thinking On Foreign Policy (S01E128)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit borzou.substack.com Thursday, August 13, 2026, Paris Foreign policy podcaster and former US…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiDonald Trump Is Stuck In The Quicksand of Iran (S01E127)
Wednesday, August 12, 2026, Paris Recent comments by US President Donald Trump on Iran show how stuck he is in his Iran failures. In the latest episode of…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiIs A Free Syria Still Possible? (S01E126)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit borzou.substack.com Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026, Paris A Syrian court just sentenced former dictator…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiWhat It Means For The US To Lose, What It Means For Iran to Win (S01E125)
Monday, August 10, 2026, Paris American defeat over Iran can lead to a smarter, less militaristic, and ultimately more succesful US. Meanwhile, an Islamic…
badlands podcast by borzou daragahiSour Grapes: US, Israel Lose On Hormuz, Diplomatic Alliances (S01E124)
Friday, August 7, 2026, Chicago Two major developments in the Middle East this week. The US appears poised to hand over control of the Strait of Hormuz over to…