The World Unspun

Mar 04 2025 7 ep. 33 mins 24

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Truth and Treaty in Australia, with Aboriginal Senator Lidia Thorpe

Mar 04 2025 30 mins

Following the defeat of a 2023 referendum on an Indigenous advisory body to Australia's parliament, our latest issue scrutinizes the ongoing denial of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sovereignty. In this episode, guest editor Zoe Holman talks about how she commissioned this Big Story and interviews Senator and Indigenous activist Lidia Thorpe about today's rallying call for T

Why we must back the Kurds, and Syria's political future post-Assad, with Matt Broomfield and Leila Al-Shami

Feb 11 2025 35 mins

In the years since Syria’s civil war began in 2011, the country has been slowly drifting away from the mainstream media spotlight. But on 8 December, everything changed.Turkish-backed opposition forces declared Syria liberated from the 24-year rule of President Bashar al-Assad, capturing the capital Damascus in what seemed like the blink of an eye.So what does the future hold for

Why the West picks guns over diplomacy, with Vijay Prashad

Jan 14 2025 33 mins

The West may be losing control over the world’s resources but it still dominates weapons systems and information. Vijay Prashad explains why some world leaders are effectively arms dealers and how this influences diplomacy.Read NI553: The Arms TradeHost: Maxine Betteridge-MoesCredits: Maxine Betteridge-Moes (Producer, Digital Editor), Amy Hall, Bethany Rielly, Conrad Landin, Nick

Showing up for Palestine with Samar Alkhdour

Dec 17 2024 29 mins

For this week’s #TheWorldUnspun, we met with Samar Alkhdour, a Palestinian activist in Montreal whose campaign against the obstructive and discriminatory Canadian immigration system has been met with nothing but police repression and silence from the government.#NI554 Palestine: From Occupation to Uprising#NI546 Surveillance: Spying on DissentHost: Paula LaceyCredits: Paula Lacey

How Haiti became the 'poster child' for reparations, with Harold Isaac

Nov 28 2024 38 mins

Haiti, the land of the only successful slave uprising in history, was also an experiment in neocolonialism. As the country once again makes global news headlines for all the wrong reasons, we spoke to independent journalist Harold Isaac to better understand how Haiti's complex history of colonization, slavery and its crippling ‘independence debt’ to France contributed to the cr

The fascist face of neoliberalism with Ece Temelkuran

Nov 15 2024 32 mins

Fascism is a popular term in political discourse today. For the Turkish journalist and writer Ece Temelkuran, that’s a good thing — except that it comes too late. So how can we recognize a country's descent from democracy into fascism and what does resistance look like?Host: Maxine Betteridge-MoesCredits: Maxine Betteridge-Moes (Producer), Amy Hall, Bethany Rielly, Conrad Landi

Entering the matrix of misinformation with Nanjala Nyabola

Nov 04 2024 35 mins

There's a lot of money to be made in the internet. People with good intentions and bad intentions are being driven by profit. So how does this shape our information ecosystem and where does the scope for action lie?Read #NI552: DisinformationHost: Maxine Betteridge-MoesCredits: Maxine Betteridge-Moes (Producer), Nazik Hamza (Audio Editor), Mari Fouz (Logo Design), Amy Hall, Bethany