The longest running independent international affairs podcast features in-depth interviews with policymakers, journalists and experts around the world who discuss global news, international relations, global development and key trends driving world affairs. Named by The Guardian as "a podcast to make you smarter," Global Dispatches is a podcast for people who crave a deeper understanding of international news.
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Culture Jamming! Flash Mobs! Occupations! A series of podcasts hosted by Pablo Kala on the rich variety of resistance against injustice taking place around the world.
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Catch Rania Khalek's Dispatches for insight, analysis, investigations, interviews and on the ground reports on global issues from a left perspective.
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With more than 100 global partners, Via is reimagining public mobility. Each week, a new leader in transportation sits down with us for a brief conversation about what's next in transit, and what they're doing to reinvent how the world moves. Questions? Email [email protected].
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A weekly news podcast bringing you the latest updates on the struggles that define our world from the people's perspective. Your favorite hosts, Zoe Alexandra, the editor of Peoples Dispatch, Indian journalist Prasanth R., and international editor at Morning Star Roger McKenzie move across continents and issues in this weekly 30 minute round-up. Artwork: Tings Chak Producer: Vyshakh T Audio Editor: Devin Martinez
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Our weekend programme comes live from Monocle’s radio studio in Zürich, where Tyler Brûlé and a panel of special-guest thought leaders discuss key topics in front of a studio audience.
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We’re living through a climate emergency; addressing this crisis begins by talking about it. Co-Hosts Greg Dalton, Ariana Brocious and Kousha Navidar bring you empowering conversations that connect all aspects of the challenge — the scary and the exciting, the individual and the systemic. Join us. Subscribe to Climate One on Patreon for access to ad-free episodes.
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The New Humanitarian brings you an inside look at the conflicts and natural disasters that leave millions of people in need each year, and the policies and people who respond to them. Join TNH's journalists in the aid policy hub of Geneva and in global hotspots to unpack the stories that are disrupting and shaping lives around the world.
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Whetstone Audio Dispatch is a series of remarkable one-off episodes about global foodways exploring community, climate, activism and politics brought to you by journalists and reporters from around the world. Think of it as a storytelling popup, a one-pot feast serving up fresh ideas and best-in-class reportage about current events, food sovereignty, seed keeping, food origins, ancestral recipes and culinary anthropology. Hosted by Whetstone founder Stephen Satterfield. Whetstone Audio Dispa ...
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Welcome to Diplomatic Dispatch, a new podcast series by Radio Canada International. My goal is to bring you insights into Canada’s foreign, defence and development policy. I’ll discuss Canada’s global role through interviews with policy makers, former and serving diplomats and soldiers, academics and think tank experts, humanitarian workers, civil society activists and entrepreneurs. What is Canada’s foreign policy? How should Canada conduct its foreign policy? Who should conduct that policy ...
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Policy Dispatch: The FORESIGHT podcast on the policies underpinning the energy transition
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From FORESIGHT Climate & Energy, Policy Dispatch is a podcast all about the policies that underpin the energy transition. This is what will make or break the global decarbonisation effort. Through biweekly, short-but-sweet episodes, the Policy Dispatch will aim to explain what governments in the globe’s key markets are doing to boost clean energy and create sustainable ecosystems. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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We take an irreverent look at daily global events from a uniquely American perspective. While most podcasts cover domestic drama and clickbait, we provide real stories worth actually caring about. Your host Vic has traveled to 105 countries, holds a BA in international relations, and MBA, and been a contributor to Soldier magazine. He uses credible foreign sources to discuss major international stories before they become headline news at CNN or Fox. Tune in daily to find out what's really go ...
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Join Jason Poblete, international law, policy and national security expert, as he breaks down the legal, policy, and geopolitical battles shaping our world. From defending political prisoners to confronting authoritarian regimes, Poblete Dispatches delivers sharp analysis on human rights, economic security, and the rule of law. Whether you're a policymaker, legal professional, or someone who cares about freedom, this podcast offers insightful conversations and actionable intelligence on the ...
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Dispatches with Hollie McKay is where on-the-ground reporting meets real talk, no fluff, no agenda—just raw, unfiltered stories from the far corners of the world. Every week, I dive into the headlines that should be making news, the hidden humanitarian crises, and the extraordinary resilience of people too often forgotten. Alongside risk analyst Dennis Santiago, we’ll unpack global events, challenge narratives, and throw in a few personal picks—because sometimes, after covering war zones, yo ...
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Distinguished speakers from government, academic organizations, and the business community present timely lectures on international events affecting our lives. For more information: www.waccharleston.org
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Science, history, adventure, politics, and technology converge on the Antarctic Report podcast. Each week you’ll hear from an international expert with a compelling story on Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.
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Stories are all around us. Digital media has changed the landscape for creators, media professionals, journalists, marketers, and YOU, worldwide. Welcome to Digital Narrative. On this podcast, we discuss compelling case studies and empathy-driven storytelling techniques that create real-world impact. Join this hub for intentional conversation, focused on surfacing best practices and innovative new takes on the most elemental forms of human communication: storytelling and visual arts. In each ...
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"Embrace the Challenge, Ignite the Triumph" Meet Todd Blyleven: TEDx Speaker, former athlete, and heroic Las Vegas mass shooting survivor. Hosting 'I'm Going In' and co-hosting 'Walking Tall Movement' podcasts, Todd invites inspiring guests to share stories of resilience. His mission? Empower those knocked down by trauma, break mental health stigmas, and spread global resilience. Join Todd's transformative journey from the baseball field to facing tragedy, and discovering the strength to ris ...
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Bad Table Manners pushes the boundaries of food storytelling in South Asia. Despite a universal love of delicious food, South Asian communities’ narratives and food practices maintain social hierarchies, caste inequalities, and racial and gender discrimination. In spanning both “high” and “low” food cultures, this podcast deconstructs monolithic notions of South Asian or “Indian” food by diving into micro contexts of households, restaurants, neighborhoods, streets and communities. It also re ...
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Ink & Irony by EditorialCartoons.ai delivers the day’s top stories—one cartoon at a time. Powered by EditorialCartoons.ai, this daily podcast dives into the boldest, funniest, and most thought-provoking editorial cartoons from around the world. From politics to pop culture, we break down how artists are drawing the lines that shape public opinion. Whether you’re a news junkie, satire lover, or visual storytelling enthusiast, join us each day for a sharp dose of commentary with a sketch of wit.
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The Bear Market Brief (BMB) podcast explores politics, economics, and their intersection in Russia, Ukraine, and the post-Soviet space. bearmarketbrief.substack.com
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When Treaties Work | The Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court
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39:33In 1998, 120 countries came together to adopt the Rome Statute, creating what would become the International Criminal Court. Four years later, that treaty entered into force, and the ICC officially opened its doors as a permanent court tasked with prosecuting individuals accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Now, looking around the wor…
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Festive discussions, live from Monocle’s London Christmas market
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58:01Nina dos Santos, Simon Brooke and Andrew Tuck join Emma Nelson live at the Christmas market in London. We also hear from Tyler Brûlé in Zürich. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Monocle
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Jonathan Foley: 2025 Schneider Award Winner
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1:01:16Project Drawdown is the world’s leading science-based guide to climate solutions. According to Jonathan Foley, Project Drawdown’s Executive Director, they aim to be the Consumer Reports for climate change. “We synthesize every paper ever written in science, engineering, technical, economic literature, all the data, and bring it together and say, ‘H…
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2025 was a year of global protests. More than 70 countries across every region of the world experienced anti-government demonstrations. Some of these movements — such as those in Nepal and Madagascar — led to the toppling of governments; others emerged in countries with little history of protest, like Tanzania. Many were youth-led, with Gen Z prote…
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International law is failing us. What now? | Rethinking Humanitarianism
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1:01:29When countries can commit genocide or invade neighbours with few repercussions, it's clear that international norms and laws are not working. On the podcast, three legal experts discuss the problems and some steps forward, from decentralised ways of enforcing criminal law, to including non-state actors, to erasing the legal loopholes used to justif…
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#16 – Youth Arts Activism and Climate Justice in South Africa – African Climate Allian
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12:55In the third of a series of short podcasts from South Africa, Pablo Kala talks with Letago Kgomoeswana from the African Climate Alliance Links: https://www.africanclimatealliance.org https://wellworn.org.za https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/performance/staff/504/prof-aylwyn-walsh https://rocketreach.co/alex-sutherland-email_209638921 Music: Nkosi Sikelel’ iA…
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Can DSA Hold Mamdani Accountable? Its Co-Chairs Respond
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47:40A DSA member just won one of the most significant left-wing electoral victories in recent memory with Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York — despite red-baiting, anti-Palestinian smears, and a full-on campaign to demonize socialism. But that victory has raised big questions: Why keep Jessica Tisch as NYPD commissioner? Why discourage a primary again…
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Inside the Search for Syria's Missing Persons
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18:58Over the course of Syria's fourteen-year civil war, around one million people went missing, presumably killed. Among them was the father of my guest today, Maryam Kamalmaz. Maryam's father was an American psychotherapist who traveled to Syria on a humanitarian mission when he was detained and disappeared by the Assad regime. She campaigned for his …
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The week in review, live from our Paris Christmas Market
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58:49Live from Monocle’s first Paris Christmas Market, Tyler Brûlé, Emma Nelson and guests look back at the week’s news. We also hear from Petri Burtsoff in Helsinki and Fernando Augusto Pacheco on nations boycotting the Eurovision Song Contest. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Monocle
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It’s been ten years since Pope Francis issued his landmark encyclical on climate and caring for our common home, Laudato Si’. With the election of the new Pope Leo XIV, many are hopeful he will follow in Francis' path. Three-quarters of the global population follow a major religion. And the Catholic Church is far from alone among religious institut…
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The Security Council Goes To Syria | To Save Us From Hell
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29:29On December 4, the entire United Nations Security Council made an unprecedented trip to Syria. It is hard to overstate what a significant turning point this represents — both for the Security Council and the United Nations as a whole. For thirteen long years, the civil war in Syria was the largest and most brutal conflict in the world, and one that…
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#15 – Youth Arts Activism and Climate Justice in South Africa - groundWork
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14:59In the second of a series of short podcasts from South Africa, Pablo Kala talks with Kira Erwin from groundWork Link: https://groundwork.org.za https://wellworn.org.za https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/performance/staff/504/prof-aylwyn-walsh https://rocketreach.co/alex-sutherland-email_209638921 Music Stimela by Hugh Masekela…
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What Happens When America Withdraws? | Live From The Halifax International Security Forum With Justin Ling
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40:06The Halifax International Security Forum always includes a sizable and bi-partisan group of United States Senators who were suddenly put on the spot: Did they think Ukraine should accept this ultimatum? By Saturday afternoon, several senators issued a joint statement condemning this plan. Then something extraordinary happened. A couple hours after …
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News and cheer from Zürich’s Christmas Market
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55:06Juliet Linley and Florian Egli join Tyler Brûlé at Zürich’s Christmas Market. Plus: Prashanth Shanmugan on the Lucerne Dialogue and Katja Weber with festive updates from around the city. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Monocle
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The climate doesn’t care where emissions cuts come from; what matters is that the world transitions to renewable energy quickly and cheaply. If it’s significantly cheaper to install solar panels in India than on a rooftop in California, then isn’t that where they should be built? Similarly, transferring money directly to local people with the great…
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Who wants to be the new UN refugee chief | Rethinking Humanitarianism
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39:55The UN's high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi, finishes his term at the end of the year. As with most top UN roles, picking the next UN refugee chief is far from transparent. What's different this time around? Refugee-led organisations held rare public forums with some of the candidates. Co-organiser Hourie Tafech joins host Tammam Alouda…
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The Last of Syria's Political Prisoners are Still Languishing in Lebanese Jails
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19:23When Damascus was liberated in December of last year and Bashar al-Assad fled to Moscow, thousands of the regime's political prisoners were released from jail. Around the region, Syrians who had fled the country began returning home. It was a joyous occasion for so many who had lived as refugees in neighboring countries — including in Lebanon, whic…
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This week’s news and the latest from Helsinki
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55:15Tyler Brûlé is joined by Nico Luchsinger, Chris Luebkeman and Chandra Kurt to review the week’s news, with updates from Petri Burtsoff in Helsinki and Prashanth Shanmugan on the Lucerne Dialogue. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.By Monocle
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Zohran Rises, Trump Flexes, Europe Falls — w/ Yanis Varoufakis
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40:14As the world slides deeper into imperial rot — from Trump’s transformation of the U.S. into a Department of War state, to Europe’s political collapse, to global leaders shamelessly bowing to Washington — a socialist shockwave has erupted in New York City: Zohran Mamdani has just won the mayoral race while proudly defending Palestine. What does this…
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Diplomacy, Democracy and Regional Vectors
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33:05Amb. Jimmy Story provides a real-time perspective on prospects for democracy in Venezuela and the Western Hemisphere
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Joe Manchin: Coal, Climate, and ‘Common Sense’
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59:21Joe Manchin grew up in the coal fields of West Virginia, the grandson of a miner and the son of a small-town grocer. His worldview was shaped by a place where energy isn’t an abstract policy debate; it’s the identity of the community and vital for economic survival. Manchin was portrayed as a bit of a villain in liberal circles for his role in bloc…
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Live From Kabul — The World's First Capital Facing Total Water Collapse
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24:07Kabul is running out of water. If present trends continue, the capital of Afghanistan could run completely dry by 2030. There are several reasons for this. The first is climate change: there is less snowmelt to feed the city's aquifers. The second is aging infrastructure: pipelines are decrepit or, in some cases, non-existent. The third is manageme…
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Security Council backs Trump's Gaza plan. What could go wrong? | Rethinking Humanitarianism
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57:47The UN Security Council has passed a resolution backing US President Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza. It authorises an "international stabilisation force", and approves a "board of peace". Essentially, this would govern Gaza, and oversee reconstruction and humanitarian aid. It also follows a playbook similar to the occupation of Iraq, warns inte…
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A Brilliant New Biography Tells the Story of the Cold War Era UN Secretary General U-Thant
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34:36U Thant was a Burmese diplomat and the third Secretary-General of the United Nations. He assumed the role following the death of Dag Hammarskjöld in a plane crash in the Congo in 1961, and soon became one of the most consequential players in international affairs for over a decade. Thant's contributions to some of the key global challenges of the e…
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