Popular Front Podcast // 23. The Pop Culture of Nuclear Apocalypse
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It's Halloween, so we're doing something a bit different. For this episode we teamed up with the guys from @War_College to have a chat about how nuclear war has so often influenced the pop culture around us.
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We speak to journalist and filmmaker Khabat Abbas, a local born and raised in Qamishli, NE Syria (or Rojava). She refuses to leave as the Turkish invasion of Rojava gets ever more brutal.
Khabat takes us through the last week and a half, explaining what she's seen on the ground as Turkey and its mercenaries try to destroy what the Kurds have built in NE Syria.
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In Cameroon a conflict between English speaking Cameroonian rebels and the French speaking #Cameroon state forces is rapidly getting worse. Whole villages are being burned, civilians are being killed, and young men are forming militias. There's little coverage in the media about this conflict so far, so we spoke to the only reporter who's been on the ground with the Anglophone militias to find out what's going on.
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A first person account from reporter Sean Williams (New Yorker, Harpers) of what it was like inside the battle of Marawi, where ISIS fighters in the #Philippines laid siege to the island city in 2017 for six months.
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We speak to researcher Nathan Ruser about how the Chinese government is violently oppressing the #Uighurs of Xinjiang province.
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The conflict in East #Ukraine has become a slow but constant battle from the trenches. Young soldiers are killed almost every week and the #Russian backed separatist held regions are still under the rule of an iron fist, yet the media, both in Ukraine and internationally, seems to have forgotten that Ukraine is still at war.
We got some updates on the current state of the conflict from Radio Free Europe's Christopher Miller, who's been covering the conflict from the start.
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Hundreds of thousands of anti-government protesters have been clashing with police and rebelling against the Chinese system in #HongKong every week since June 9th. To get an idea of who these people are, and what they're fighting for, we spent time with them on the frontlines of the protests.
This is part one of our documentary.
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We speak to researcher and author Frederic Wehrey as he returns from the frontlines of the recent conflict in Libya, between General Haftar's forces and GNA militias. He explains what's going on, why it's happening, and what the war looks like on the front.
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