Early in the Great War Britain decided to dismantle the Turkish Empire and made promises to Arab leaders of independence if they would rebel against Britains Turkish enemy. While one British leader w

By the end the World War had mobilized 65 million troops, killed 20 million people and wounded 21 million more. The money was supposed to run out in a year, the armies were big but never that big. How

Solo episode discussing Nasrallahs speech about the war on the Israel-Lebanon border and an analysis of the 2006 war based on a US military analysts paper titled, We Were Caught Unprepared.

Germans use poison gas on the battlefield at Ypres, British lose 60,000 and Germans 40,000. French attack at Artois with casualties of 100,000 and German 75,000. Russians lose 2 million casualties fig

Our usual group gets together to talk about the Gaza War but this time were joined by Lara, an actual therapist, who guides us through as we try to understand where things stand on Day 78 of the war.

World War 1 goes global in 1915, as Japan takes advantage to seize more territory in Asia; Turkey fatefully aligns with Germany; Italy joins the Entente.

Joined by Nora and Jon from The Brief / Electronic Intifada to talk about the War in Gaza. More information emerges about what happened on October 7; New atrocities committed since Refaat Alareers mu

Our usual group gets together to talk about the Gaza War, this time we all share some words about literature prof, teacher, poet and hero Refaat Alareer, assassinated by Israel a couple of days ago. S

Russia invades Germany and loses badly at Tannenberg. Austria-Hungary fights Serbia. The Russian losses in 1914 force a reevaluation of the whole strategy pursued by the Russia-France-England alliance

Nora, Matteo, Rania, and Alex are gathered to talk about what were seeing and trying to make sense of on Israels War on Gaza after 8 weeks, a couple of days after the end of the humanitarian pause