Patron Exclusive: Cuba's Humanitarian Crisis, Colombia's Presidential Election and the World Cup

Patron Exclusive: Cuba's Humanitarian Crisis, Colombia's Presidential Election and the World Cup

The Cuba humanitarian crisis shames the world. Yet not even their allies or nearest neighbours are helping in any meaningful way. Joining me to discuss this is journalist with el Pais, Mexico-based, Colombian journalist, Nicholas Dale Leal. We also have some potentially good news in Colombia and some eye-raising news about the CIA in Mexico.

Patron Exclusive: Lough Neagh and Gold in the Hills

Longtime listeners will be well aware of the environmental disaster that is Lough Neagh and the work of journalist, and returning guest, Tommy Greene, in exposing it. Tommy talks us through the latest Lough updates and then tells us about a story that links a US mining company, King Charles, Peter Mandelson and the Sperrin Mountains in Tyrone. A real eye opener. More on the Sperrin’s:https://thedetail.tv/articles/royal-family-make-millions-sperrins-gold-mine-dalradian-inquiry Preorder Tommy’s book here:https://www.irishacademicpress.ie/product/troubled-waters/

Patron Exclusive: The bye-bye, By-Elections Special-ish

Tá an ghrian ag scoilteadh na gcloch, so of course we're inside looking at what just happened in Dublin Central and Galway West. So I am delighted to be joined by Mr irishelectionprojections.com [https://irishelectionprojections.com] Harry McEvansoneya and Data and Digital Rights expert, solicitor, Simon McGarr, to dig into the results, the data, the party positions and what can (and won't) be learned from the outcomes. This is a bumper podcast with two of the best guests and one very underwhelming host.

JWE: The Iran Crisis - The China-US Agenda

On May 20, JWE president Helena Cobban sat down with Dr. Yingnan ("Chris") Yi, a Research Fellow at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University in Beijing, to discuss the role that China has played and can play in finding a speedy, lasting, and equitable end to the U.S.-Iran war. This conversation came just a few days after the end of Pres. Trump's trip to Beijing where he held a notable series of summit-level meetings with Pres. Xi Jinping. This conversation took the distinctive form of an interactive dialogue, in which Dr. Yi. and Ms. Cobban each had the chance to pose some questions to the other. It also ranged broadly over a number of key items on the China-U.S. agenda, in addition to matters related more directly to the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and Israel's assaults against Lebanon, Gaza, and the West Bank. The two scholars also assessed the broad changes in power dynamics that the world is seeing today.

Patron Exclusive: On Violence #JusticeForYvesSakila

Journalist in Stockholm, Philip O'Connor, is a longtime Brazilian Jiujitsu practitioner. So when he wrote his piece below, On Violence, and outlined the hard reality of what took place on Henry Street, we decided we'd have a wider conversation about it all. Philip ties together all of the strands from policing, to security, to media framing and to systemic racism. Do listen. Philip's piece:On violence [https://philipoconnor.com/on-violence/]