Today we are talking to Lieutenant Abbakar Affan, a Nigerian Special Operations Forces soldier who has been fighting the Islamic State since 2017. I’d been following him for over a year on his Instagram before reaching out to hear about this largely forgotten conflict. Although ISIS in Syria are in shambles compared to the caliphate at the height o…

Today we are talking to Yuri, a history museum worker turned wartime anarchist organizer helping his countrymen fight the Russian invasion. Yuri is working with Operation Solidarity, a grassroots anti-authoritarian collective working to provide military gear to Ukraine's Territorial Defense fighters and aid refugees fleeing Russian aggression. www.…

Danny Gold is an esteemed writer, filmmaker, and war correspondent who has reported from all over the world for outlets like Vice, Netflix, the Guardian, HBO and many others. Danny has reported on the infamous El Salvadorian gang, MS-13, made an award winning documentary about the Ebola outbreak, and was one of the few journalists inside the ISIS b…

Today we are talking to Janet Basurto, a Mexican analyst, researcher, and managing director of a geopolitical risk and analysis firm with expertise in the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. We discuss the state of the Mexican governments war on the drug cartels. A war that has been ongoing for over 14 years and has claimed hundreds of thousand…

Today we are talking to Johnny, a British volunteer/veteran of the YPG's war on ISIS who left civilian life to become a soldier in the Kurdish militia that has been instrumental in defeating the Islamic State. After two stints on the Syrian frontlines, Johnny went to Ukraine and became an airborne Ukrainian Marine to fight Russian backed separatist…