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The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Your independent news podcast. Daily Briefs deliver three minutes of what actually happened. The Weekend Edition is our flagship 15-minute investigative deep dive — five voices, real analysis, and the stories the headlines left out. By The Piaz.
Episodes
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — November 5, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Thursday, November 5, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. Russian President Vladimir Putin brought…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — November 2, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Monday, November 2, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. Major opinion columns across Washington are…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — November 1, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Sunday, November 1, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. Major opinion pages in Washington are pushing…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — October 31, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Saturday, October 31, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. Big technology conglomerates are escalating an…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — October 30, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Friday, October 30, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. Southern Yemen woke up to heavy strikes against…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — October 29, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Thursday, October 29, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. An Emirati court has handed down life…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — October 28, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Wednesday, October 28, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. Israeli election tallies show a complete…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — October 27, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Tuesday, October 27, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. The New Arab reports that Moscow is feeding…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — October 26, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Monday, October 26, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. Two national elections separated by six thousand…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — October 25, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Sunday, October 25, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. Fox News has aired an international broadcast…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — October 24, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Saturday, October 24, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. Heavy Israeli military bulldozers rolled…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — October 23, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Friday, October 23, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. Foreign military drones are flying low over…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — October 22, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Thursday, October 22, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. Seven commercial oil tankers are dead in the…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — October 21, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Wednesday, October 21, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — October 20, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Tuesday, October 20, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. The Turkish government has formally sent its…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — October 19, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Monday, October 19, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. The New Arab reports on the potential for…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — October 18, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Sunday, October 18, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is experiencing…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — October 17, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Saturday, October 17, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi has…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — October 16, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Friday, October 16, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. President Donald Trump has again stated that a…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
The Piaz Original: Murtaza Hussain on Minab's Children and Accountability
Murtaza Hussain of Drop Site News discusses his team's investigation of the Minab school attack, interviews with families and rescuers, targeting…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — October 15, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Thursday, October 15, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. The head of Britain's domestic intelligence…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — October 14, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Wednesday, October 14, 2026. 6 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. Merchant shipping incidents in the crucial…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — October 13, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Tuesday, October 13, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — October 12, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Monday, October 12, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. Five British men have been arrested near the R…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
The Piaz Original: Jennifer Koonings on Palestine, Minab and Speaking Out
Independent journalist and sexual assault forensic examiner Jennifer Koonings discusses Arbaeen in Iraq, meeting bereaved families from Minab, Bosnia, support…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — October 11, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Sunday, October 11, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. Mahmoud Abbas's decision to postpone elections…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — October 10, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Saturday, October 10, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. Thousands marched in London today, marking…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — October 9, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Friday, October 9, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. French labor unions successfully blocked an Elbit…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — October 8, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Thursday, October 8, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has issued a…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — October 7, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Wednesday, October 7, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. Oil exports are up, but so are reported tanker…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
The Piaz Original: Tadhg Hickey on Censorship, Comedy and Palestine
Irish comedian and satirist Tadhg Hickey discusses his YouTube ban and reinstatement, solidarity with Palestine, the power of technology companies and…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — October 6, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Tuesday, October 6, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. Children born in the Gaza Strip since two…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — October 5, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Monday, October 5, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. The Israeli military states it has eliminated…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
The Piaz Original: Batool Subeiti on Lebanon, Yemen and the Cost of War
Political analyst Batool Subeiti describes her recent visit to Beirut and southern Lebanon: daily life under Israeli drones, the survivors of the pager attacks…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — October 4, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Sunday, October 4, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. A major military operation is underway in Yemen…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — October 3, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Saturday, October 3, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. Sami Abu Shehadeh, a prominent Palestinian…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — October 2, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Friday, October 2, 2026. 8 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. A Republican Representative has received a…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — October 1, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Thursday, October 1, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. A Financial Times article today calls for…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — September 30, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Wednesday, September 30, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. Our lead story today reveals the…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Daily — September 29, 2026
The Piaz Daily Brief for Tuesday, September 29, 2026. 9 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. President Donald Trump's administration has…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Morning — September 29, 2026
The Piaz Morning Brief for Tuesday, September 29, 2026. 7 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. This development, buried in a Friday…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Evening — September 29, 2026
The Piaz Evening Brief for Tuesday, September 29, 2026. 7 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Afternoon — September 28, 2026
The Piaz Afternoon Brief for Monday, September 28, 2026. 7 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. The recusal comes without explanation…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Morning — September 28, 2026
The Piaz Morning Brief for Monday, September 28, 2026. 5 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. Three South Korean soldiers were injured in…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Evening — September 28, 2026
The Piaz Evening Brief for Monday, September 28, 2026. 1 story, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. The move by Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Afternoon — September 27, 2026
The Piaz Afternoon Brief for Sunday, September 27, 2026. 2 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. President Al-Alimi's government in Aden…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Weekend Edition: The Ignored Warnings and Weaponized Narratives — September 27, 2026
This week on The Piaz Weekend Edition, we uncover the deliberate omissions in mainstream coverage, from ignored intelligence warnings before October seventh to…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Morning — September 27, 2026
The Piaz Morning Brief for Sunday, September 27, 2026. 2 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. The decision, announced yesterday, September…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Evening — September 27, 2026
The Piaz Evening Brief for Sunday, September 27, 2026. 1 story, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. In Pakistan, a suicide bombing killed twelve…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Afternoon — September 26, 2026
The Piaz Afternoon Brief for Saturday, September 26, 2026. 7 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. A suicide bombing killed twelve people…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Morning — September 26, 2026
The Piaz Morning Brief for Saturday, September 26, 2026. 7 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. Beijing's top diplomat criticized…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Evening — September 26, 2026
The Piaz Evening Brief for Saturday, September 26, 2026. 7 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. Iran awaited an official U.S. response…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Afternoon — September 25, 2026
The Piaz Afternoon Brief for Friday, September 25, 2026. 7 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. The U. N. Human Rights Office published…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Morning — September 25, 2026
The Piaz Morning Brief for Friday, September 25, 2026. 7 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. Haaretz reports today that Israel's…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Evening — September 25, 2026
The Piaz Evening Brief for Friday, September 25, 2026. 7 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. Demonstrators blocked streets and marched on…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Afternoon — September 24, 2026
The Piaz Afternoon Brief for Thursday, September 24, 2026. 7 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. Delegates from multiple nations walked…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Morning — September 24, 2026
The Piaz Morning Brief for Thursday, September 24, 2026. 7 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Evening — September 24, 2026
The Piaz Evening Brief for Thursday, September 24, 2026. 7 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. The Trump administration has extended an…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Afternoon — September 23, 2026
The Piaz Afternoon Brief for Wednesday, September 23, 2026. 7 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. Liberman's proposal suggests Jordan…
- The Piaz — Daily Brief & Weekend Edition
Daily Brief: Morning — September 23, 2026
The Piaz Morning Brief for Wednesday, September 23, 2026. 7 stories, independent analysis, no ads and no lobby money. The High Court of Justice has postponed…