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Revista 5W
Larga Distancia #00: Guerra, paz y periodismo

Revista 5W

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2025 105:49


En este episodio piloto hablamos de guerra, paz y periodismo con Patricia Simón y Jon Lee Anderson. Una abandera el periodismo con enfoque de derechos humanos, escribe sobre las consecuencias de la guerra, pero también sobre los caminos que llevan a la paz. El otro ha dedicado buena parte de su carrera a documentar los grandes conflictos posteriores a los atentados del 11-S y retratar a algunos de los personajes que han moldeado parte de la historia del siglo XX y principios del XXI.

Intelligence Squared
What Did Twenty Years of Western Intervention in Afghanistan Achieve? With Jon Lee Anderson

Intelligence Squared

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2025 37:06


For more than 40 years, world-renowned foreign correspondent Jon Lee Anderson has been reporting on wars, crises and revolutions, from Latin America to the Middle East and Africa.  Throughout his career he has made countless visits to Afghanistan, bearing witness to the Soviet invasion and the subsequent US interventions from 9/11 to the present day. His new book, To Lose A War, contains his reporting on the 20-year US military presence in Afghanistan, its disastrous and chaotic end and the return of the Taliban.  In this episode he sits down with foreign correspondent Hannah Lucinda Smith to discuss how the US mission lost its way, the resourcefulness and resilience of Afghanistan's people and his hopes and fears for the country's future under a resurgent Taliban. To Lose A War: The Fall and Rise of the Taliban by Jon Lee Anderson is available now. If you'd like to become a Member and get access to all our full conversations, plus all of our Members-only content, just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more. For £4.99 per month you'll also receive: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared episodes, wherever you get your podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series - 15% discount on livestreams and in-person tickets for all Intelligence Squared events  ...  Or Subscribe on Apple for £4.99: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series … Already a subscriber? Thank you for supporting our mission to foster honest debate and compelling conversations! Visit intelligencesquared.com to explore all your benefits including ad-free podcasts, exclusive bonus content and early access. … Subscribe to our newsletter here to hear about our latest events, discounts and much more. https://www.intelligencesquared.com/newsletter-signup/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Realignment
568 | Jon Lee Anderson: Was Afghanistan the Graveyard of America's Empire?

The Realignment

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2025 60:38


REALIGNMENT NEWSLETTER: https://therealignment.substack.com/PURCHASE BOOKS AT OUR BOOKSHOP: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignmentEmail Us: realignmentpod@gmail.comJon Lee Anderson, New Yorker Staff Writer and author of To Lose a War: The Fall and the Rise of the Taliban, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Jon discuss the legacy of America's 20-year war in Afghanistan, how policymakers and the military struggle to define "victory" during wartime, why post-WWII conflicts and the end of the norm of "total war" has made it harder to "win," and why, despite achieving the goal of ending the country's status as a safe haven for terror, eliminating Osama bin Laden, and initially removing the Taliban from power, the U.S. still lost the war.

Poured Over
Jon Lee Anderson and Scott Anderson on TO LOSE A WAR and KING OF KINGS

Poured Over

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2025 64:37


Scott and Jon Lee Anderson — award-winning journalists, bestselling authors, and brothers — both have new books out this month. The Anderson brothers join us to talk about their new books, King of Kings and To Lose a War, the evolution of communication, studying language, living against the backdrop of war and more with host Miwa Messer. This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.                     New episodes land Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays) here and on your favorite podcast app. Featured Books (Episode): King of Kings by Scott Anderson To Lose a War by Jon Lee Anderson Che Guevara by Jon Lee Anderson The Lion's Grave by Jon Lee Anderson The Quiet Americans by Scott Anderson Lawrence in Arabia by Scott Anderson Fractured Lands by Scott Anderson

Newshour
Condemnation of Israel's killing of Al Jazeera journalists

Newshour

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2025 47:28


Funerals have been held in Gaza City for five journalists from the news channel Al Jazeera who were killed in a targeted Israeli strike on Sunday night - including the prominent reporter Anas al-Sharif. The BBC understands before the war, he worked for a Hamas media team, but Israel accuses him of posing as a journalist, while serving as the head of a Hamas cell. We'll speak to war correspondent Jon Lee Anderson about the killings.Also on the programme: Donald Trump says he's sending in the National Guard to regain control of the hell-scape that he says Washington DC has become; And we'll hear about the beachside solution that's being offered to inveterate snorers.(Picture:Palestinians inspect the destroyed tent of the Al Jazeera team following an Israeli strike, outside the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, 11 August 2025. Credit: Photo by MOHAMMED SABER/EPA/Shutterstock)

A vivir que son dos días
Corresponsales | Jon Lee Anderson: "Trump es el síntoma del deterioro de la democracia en el mundo"

A vivir que son dos días

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 23, 2024 46:41


Reunimos a nuestros corresponsales Sarah Morris, Mathieu de Taillac, Hans-Günter Kellner e Íñigo Domínguez para analizar las últimas noticias de actualidad. Se suma a la conversación el periodista Jon Lee Anderson que publica próximamente su libro He decidido hacerme marxista (editorial Debate).

Curious Worldview Podcast
Levison Wood | The Discipline To Take Big Risk: Life in Adventure, Serendipity, Writing & Photography

Curious Worldview Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2024 106:45


Levison Wood is an author, journalist, tv star, photographer, film producer, script writer, fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and as well to top it all off… former Officer in the British Army's Parachute Regiment.If you've never heard of Levison Wood, he's written books that have taken us all across the world. He was propelled into fame with his debut 'Walking The Nile' back in 2015 which serendipitously parlayed into a documentary, and then the momentum took and he's never looked back. Lev is for me the archetypal guest that I look for with this podcast. That delicate combination of writer and adventurer. The discipline to take a big risk, and then return with clean prose. I'd group this interview right alongside my high watermark for the show which was #169 with Jon Lee Anderson, #66 with Tim Butcher way back and any of the Tim Marshall appearances as well. Youtube - https://youtu.be/jP2HR443Pb0Subscribe To The Curious Worldview NewsletterLevison Wood Website----00:00 - Levison Wood01:040 - Jocko Willink04:25 - All Explorers Seem British?06:08 - Luck & Serendipity21:43 - The Surprise Success & Big Decade33:00 - Rough Times For Lev38:08 - Opportunity Cost: Family Vs Career44:40 - Lev's Mount Rushmore Of GOAT Explorers55:40 - Romanticising Indiana Jones & Thoughts On Graham Hancock59:20 - Rory Stewart1:02:23 - Great Current Explorers1:10:30 - Lev Having An Incredible Decade1:14:10 - Thinking About Risk1:22:55 - Milling - Wild Hazing In Parachute Regiment1:30:10 - How Has The Nature Of Travel Changed?1:43:25 - What Great Expedition From History Would Lev Join?

Rádio Novelo Apresenta
Cartões postais do fim do mundo

Rádio Novelo Apresenta

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2024 73:43


Recados da crise migratória e das profundezas do planeta. No primeiro ato: um grupo de imigrantes buscam outra vida na selva da morte. Por Carol Pires. No segundo ato: qual mensagem esse "arauto da desgraça" traz dessa vez? Por Vitor Hugo Brandalise. Os episódios do mês de outubro são um oferecimento de Jiveworld, um aplicativo que ensina o inglês do mundo real, com histórias dos melhores podcasts americanos. E você, que é ouvinte da Rádio Novelo, tem 30% de desconto na assinatura do aplicativo. É só acessar o site: https://www.jiveworld.com/pt/a/radio-novelo/ Conheça o podcast Fio da Meada, novo original da Rádio Novelo, em que Branca Vianna conversa com convidados que têm o que dizer sobre os mais diversos assuntos, pra inspirar você a tecer seu próprio ponto de vista. Toda segunda-feira no Spotify e nos outros apps de áudio: https://encurtador.com.br/WUDSO Palavras-chave: No Vengan, tampão do Darién, Natalie Gallón, Boom, Jon Lee Anderson, imigração, biologia marinha, superstição, azar Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Underworld Podcast
The Warring Prison Cartels Carving up Ecuador

The Underworld Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2024 70:23


Jon Lee Anderson is an author and staff writer at The New Yorker. Anderson recently profiled Ecuador's young president Daniel Noboa for a piece entitled “Ecuador's Risky War on Narcos”. Jon Lee spoke about his weeks long visit to the embattled nation, its place in the wider drug world, and how political movements across Latin America have metastasized into the biggest and most violent underworld on the planet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

WorldAffairs
How Cocaine Blew Through the Island of Peace

WorldAffairs

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2024 29:57


Ecuadorian journalist Jorge Imbaquingo says that his country used to be, “an island of peace.” But now it's caught in the middle of Latin America's bloodiest drug war. In our last episode, we heard about Ecuador's historic vote to stop oil extraction in the Amazon. Today, we'll hear about why its President, Daniel Noboa, nixed those plans to fund his war against the country's drug cartels. First, producer Mateo Schimpf and El Diario del Comercio reporter Jorge Imbaquingo share why Ecuador has become a target for Latin America's drug cartels. Then writer Jon Lee Anderson talks with Ray Suarez about his recent New Yorker profile of Daniel Noboa, and why the young leader is standing up to the narcos. Guests: Jorge Imbaquingo, politics reporter, El Diario del Comercio Jon Lee Anderson, staff writer, The New Yorker Mateo Schimpf, producer, On Shifting Ground  Host:   Ray Suarez If you appreciate this episode and want to support the work we do, please consider making a donation to Commonwealth Club World Affairs. We cannot do this work without your help. Thank you.

The New Yorker: Politics and More
Elon Musk's Pivot from Online Troll to Political Machinator

The New Yorker: Politics and More

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2024 28:56


The New Yorker staff writer Jon Lee Anderson joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss how Elon Musk has once again found himself at the center of a geopolitical dustup—this time in Venezuela, where strongman Nicolas Maduro has accused Musk of hacking the nation's electoral council. Although the allegations are unsubstantiated, Maduro's worries about Musk meddling in the affairs of other countries “are not without foundation,” Anderson writes. His latest piece, “Elon Musk's Surging Political Activism,” explores Musk's metamorphosis into a geopolitical power broker. This week's reading:“Elon Musk's Surging Political Activism,” by Jon Lee 

¡No Vengan!
¡No Vengan!

¡No Vengan!

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2024 78:22


Presentado por la reportera colombo-americana Natalie Leticia Gallón, ¡No Vengan! es un documental en audio que acompaña durante los días 13 y 28 de abril de 2024 a la travesía de cientos de migrantes por el peligroso Tapón del Darién. Ubicada entre Colombia y Panamá, la jungla era considerada intransitable hasta que cientos de miles de migrantes, huyendo de la violencia en sus países, abrieron camino a través del barro intentando llegar a la frontera norteamericana.  El podcast es producido por BOOM y por Rádio Novelo. Dirección de Carol Pires. Producción ejecutiva de Jon Lee Anderson y Carol Pires. Edición de Paula Scarpin y Flora Thomson-DeVeaux. La reportería completa, con textos y videos, está en www.boom.press

¡No Vengan!
¡No Vengan! - Trailer

¡No Vengan!

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2024 3:11


¡No Vengan! es un documental en audio producido por BOOM y por la Rádio Novelo. Presentado por la reportera colombiano-americana Natalie Leticia Gallón, donde sigue a un grupo de migrantes de múltiples nacionalidades que atraviesan el Tapón del Darién, en una peligrosa y extenuante travesía dentro de la jungla entre Colombia y Panamá que se ha convertido en una ruta migratoria para aquellos que intentan llegar por tierra a la anhelada frontera norteamericana. El podcast es producido por BOOM y por Rádio Novelo. Dirección de Carol Pires. Producción ejecutiva de Jon Lee Anderson y Carol Pires. Edición de Paula Scarpin y Flora Thomson-DeVeaux. La reportería completa, con textos y videos, está en www.boom.press

Programmed to Chill
Premium Episode 141 - United Fruit Company, Blood Bananas and the Guatemalan Genocide pt. 8: Origins of the Civil War and the Guatemalan Phoenix Program

Programmed to Chill

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2024 68:44


[originally published on Patreon March 15, 2024] Most stories of the 1954 coup end shortly thereafter. We continue with Guatemala barreling right into the Guatemalan Civil War. I start with the Justice Department's antitrust case against United Fruit Company in the immediate aftermath of the 1954 coup.  From there, I go into the curious case of Carlos Manuel Pellecer, a "communist firebrand" who was causing problems for the Arbenz government. Before the coup, I found declassified CIA documents showing Pellecer's seance to contact the ghost of Josef Stalin. In the wake of the coup, it eventually became clear that Pellecer was a longtime CIA informant.  [note: I didn't realize when writing these episodes but the Jon Lee Anderson biography of Che  laid out Guevara's suspicions of Pellecer, of which I was unaware. Che clocked Pellecer, too, lol] In November 30, 1960, a faction of left-leaning Guatemalan military officers began an uprising which is generally viewed as the start of the 36-year Guatemalan civil war. They were responding to Bay of Pigs training bases in Guatemala as one of several direct instigations.  Meanwhile, various other groups were beginning their respective wars against the Guatemalan government including the frequently-banned Guatemalan Labor Party. Eventually, this would coalesce as the FAR, (Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes, or Rebel Armed Forces) which received Cuban support. In response, President Kennedy signed off on a pacification plan which would escalate to near-Vietnam proportions. A series of increasingly right-wing presidents would then take office, each one with the novel premise of taking a hard line with the rebels. Formal death squads began to form, and US counterinsurgency troops coincidentally appeared around the same time. Each power base in Guatemalan society had their own respective death squads, and foreign fascists also appear to have blooded combatants in extrajudicial killings in Guatemala. Finally, I discuss what appears to be a bust-out of UFC at the hands of strange con men and mafia elements including Eli Black (Leon Black's father) and Carl Lindner Jr. (Ohio ice cream billionaire), eventually acquired by Chiquita. Songs: The American Way by Sacred Reich Banana Phone by Raffi

A vivir que son dos días
A vista de Lobo | Haití, un país sumido en el caos y el Tribunal Supremo de Brasil investiga a Elon Musk

A vivir que son dos días

Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2024 38:08


Haití se encuentra sumido en una aguda crisis política y social. Analizamos las causas con la ayuda del periodista Jon Lee Anderson. A continuación, la periodista Valeria Saccone explica por qué el multimillonario Elon Musk está siendo investigado por el Supremo de Brasil por posible delito de obstrucción a la justicia.

Mission Implausible
Havana Syndrome: Part One

Mission Implausible

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2024 32:53 Transcription Available


Who has it? Where did they get it? Is it real?  (with Jon Lee Anderson)

Curious Worldview Podcast
169: Jon Lee Anderson | From Liberia to Havana: A Life in Adventure, Conflict Zones & Journalism

Curious Worldview Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2024 123:42


✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribehttps://atlasgeographica.com/jon-lee-anderson/I once responded to a question in a grant application that the people I admired most were great adventurers, great writers and great journalists… the kicker naturally being, that the best was a combination of all three!Well, in Jon Lee Anderson we have an exemplar for all three of those labels.Listens past 10 minutes and you will see the adventurer, listen to the details of how he put together Che's biography and you will understand the journalist but then to top it all off, read anything Jon Lee's written and you will understand the great writer. This was a mighty moment for the podcast. I managed to hide my nerves behind a facade of professionalism… but Jon and I ended up spending more than 4 hours together as we inhabited a closed, cold, empty drinkers club on a January London morning. Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker Staff WriterChe: A Revolutionary Life00:00 – Who Is Jon Lee Anderson02:20 – On The Same Stage Julian Assange Launched Wikileaks.05:50 – 13 Year Old Runaway Vagabond In East Africa.22:15 – Is Risk Necessary For It To Be An Adventure?26:03 – Discovering A Part Of The World For The First Time.32:44 – Serendipity & Jon Lee On Religion & Evil.40:20 – First Bi-Line At The Lima Times.47:37 – Jon Lee Reflects On His Upbringing & How He Thinks About Being A Father.53:54 – Che Guevara.1:24:00 – There's No More Revolutionaries, Only Narcos…1:32:45 – Haiti.1:35:48 – What Does Jon Lee Admire Most & Least About Che Guevara?1:45:48 – What Doors Do The New Yorker Open?1:46:47 – Christopher Hitchens.1:51:50 – Next Generation Of Journalists & Media Landscape They Inherit.1:58:07 – Jon Lee Anderson Autobiography.2:00:24 – Country Jon Lee Is Bullish On.Curious Things Mentioned During The EpisodeJournalist Starter Pack – All Journalists Who Have Appeared On The PodcastExplorers Starter Pack – All Explorers Who Have Appeared On The PodcastDavid Grann – Lost City Of Z, New YorkerInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/

Reveal
Havana Syndrome

Reveal

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2023 50:20


A sharp sound. Followed by body numbness. Difficulty speaking. Extreme head pain. Since 2016, U.S. officials across the world – in Cuba, China and Russia – have reported experiencing the sudden onset of an array of eerie symptoms. Reporters Adam Entous and Jon Lee Anderson try to make sense of this confusing illness that has come to be called Havana syndrome. This episode is built from reporting for an eight-part VICE World News podcast series by the same name.   The reporters begin by tracking down one of the first people to report Havana syndrome symptoms, a CIA officer working in Cuba. This “patient zero” explains the ways Cuban intelligence surveil and harass American spies working on the island and his own experience of suddenly being struck with a mysterious, painful condition. When he reports the illness to his bosses at the CIA, he learns that other U.S. officials on the island are experiencing the same thing.   A CIA doctor sees reports from the field about this strange condition happening in Cuba. He's sent to Havana to investigate the cause of the symptoms and whether they may stem from a mysterious sound recorded by patient zero. But during his first night on the island, the CIA doctor falls ill with the same syndrome he is there to investigate. In the third segment, the reporters head to Havana to visit the sites where people reported the onset of their symptoms, looking for answers. The team shares reporting-informed theories about who and what could be causing Havana syndrome.  This is an update of an episode that originally aired in April 2023. Support Reveal's journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/weekly Connect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram

Il Mondo
Sarà il Kenya a guidare la missione di sicurezza dell'Onu ad Haiti. In Francia esplode la psicosi per le cimici dei letti.

Il Mondo

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2023 23:05


L'obiettivo è aiutare la polizia haitiana a contrastare le bande criminali che hanno fatto precipitare Haiti nel caos. Nelle ultime settimane a Parigi e in tutta la Francia si sono moltiplicate le segnalazioni di punture di cimici dei letti, un piccolo insetto che si annida tra le lenzuola e pizzica gli esseri umani.CONCamilla Desideri, editor di America Latina di InternazionaleFrancesca Sibani, editor di Africa di InternazionaleGianumberto Accinelli, entomologo LINKIl discorso di Ruto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87kZ2tdHj3kL'articolo di Jon Lee Anderson: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/24/haiti-held-hostageVideo Francia: https://tvmag.lefigaro.fr/programme-tv/actu-tele/j-ai-ete-insulte-harcele-diffame-pascal-praud-reagit-a-sa-question-polemique-sur-l-immigration-et-les-punaises-de-lit-20231002Se ascolti questo podcast e ti piace, abbonati a Internazionale. È un modo concreto per sostenerci e per aiutarci a garantire ogni giorno un'informazione di qualità. Vai su internazionale.it/podcast Scrivi a podcast@internazionale.it o manda un vocale a +39 3347063050Consulenza editoriale di Chiara Nielsen.Produzione di Claudio Balboni, con Vincenzo De Simone.Musiche di Tommaso Colliva e Raffaele Scogna.Direzione creativa di Jonathan Zenti.

On the Media
Mysteries of Sound

On the Media

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2023 50:46


In late 2016, American diplomats in Havana, Cuba started hearing a mysterious buzzing sound and experiencing debilitating symptoms. On this week's On the Media, why the government now disputes theories that it was a secret Russian weapon. Plus, what the electric hum of your refrigerator and the uncanny hearing ability of pigeons reveal about the world we live in. 1. Adam Entous, staff writer at The New York Times, Jon Lee Anderson, staff writer at The New Yorker, and Robert Bartholomew, sociologist and author of Havana Syndrome: Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria, on the investigation into the mysterious affliction that spread across the globe. Listen. 2. Jennifer Munson, OTM Technical Director, and Nasir Memon, New York University professor of computer science and engineering, on the obscure technology called electrical network frequency analysis, or ENF, and the world of audio forensics. Listen. 3. Robert Krulwich [@rkrulwich], co-creator and former co-host of Radiolab, and John Hagstrum, a geophysicist emeritus at the U.S. Geological Survey, on the mysterious avian disappearance that rocked world headlines. Listen. Music:Meet Tina - Havana SyndromeHistory Lesson - Havana SyndromeOkami - Nicola CruzElectricity - OMDWallpaper - Woo

On the Media
Mysteries of Sound

On the Media

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2023 50:39


In late 2016, American diplomats in Havana, Cuba started hearing a mysterious buzzing sound and experiencing debilitating symptoms. On this week's On the Media, why the government now disputes theories that it was a secret Russian weapon. Plus, what the electric hum of your refrigerator and the uncanny hearing ability of pigeons reveal about the world we live in. 1. Adam Entous, staff writer at The New York Times, Jon Lee Anderson, staff writer at The New Yorker, and Robert Bartholomew, sociologist and author of Havana Syndrome: Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria, on the investigation into the mysterious affliction that spread across the globe. Listen. 2. Jennifer Munson, OTM Technical Director, and Nasir Memon, New York University professor of computer science and engineering, on the obscure technology called electrical network frequency analysis, or ENF, and the world of audio forensics. Listen. 3. Robert Krulwich [@rkrulwich], co-creator and former co-host of Radiolab, and John Hagstrum, a geophysicist emeritus at the U.S. Geological Survey, on the mysterious avian disappearance that rocked world headlines. Listen. Music:Meet Tina - Havana SyndromeHistory Lesson - Havana SyndromeOkami - Nicola CruzElectricity - OMDWallpaper - Woo

Gone To Timbuktu
Ep 12: Jon Lee Anderson

Gone To Timbuktu

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2023 28:19


Sophy Roberts in conversation with author and journalist Jon Lee Anderson about his life of reportage, from Central America to Liberia to singing to reindeer in Alaska.    

On the Media
Boom!

On the Media

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2023 50:38


In late 2016, American diplomats in Havana, Cuba started hearing a mysterious buzzing sound, followed by debilitating symptoms. On this week's On the Media, why the government now disputes theories that it was a secret Russian weapon. Plus, what the electric hum of your refrigerator and the uncanny hearing ability of pigeons reveal about the world we live in. 1. Adam Entous, staff writer at The New York Times, Jon Lee Anderson, staff writer at The New Yorker, and Robert Bartholomew, sociologist and author of Havana Syndrome: Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria, on the investigation into the mysterious affliction that spread across the globe. Listen. 2. Jennifer Munson, OTM Technical Director, and Nasir Memon, New York University professor of computer science and engineering, on the obscure technology called electrical network frequency analysis, or ENF, and the world of audio forensics. Listen. 3. Robert Krulwich [@rkrulwich], co-creator and former co-host of Radiolab, and John Hagstrum, a geophysicist emeritus at the U.S. Geological Survey, on the mysterious avian disappearance that rocked world headlines. Listen. 

On the Media
Boom!

On the Media

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2023 50:45


In late 2016, American diplomats in Havana, Cuba started hearing a mysterious buzzing sound, followed by debilitating symptoms. On this week's On the Media, why the government now disputes theories that it was a secret Russian weapon. Plus, what the electric hum of your refrigerator and the uncanny hearing ability of pigeons reveal about the world we live in. 1. Adam Entous, staff writer at The New York Times, Jon Lee Anderson, staff writer at The New Yorker, and Robert Bartholomew, sociologist and author of Havana Syndrome: Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria, on the investigation into the mysterious affliction that spread across the globe. Listen. 2. Jennifer Munson, OTM Technical Director, and Nasir Memon, New York University professor of computer science and engineering, on the obscure technology called electrical network frequency analysis, or ENF, and the world of audio forensics. Listen. 3. Robert Krulwich [@rkrulwich], co-creator and former co-host of Radiolab, and John Hagstrum, a geophysicist emeritus at the U.S. Geological Survey, on the mysterious avian disappearance that rocked world headlines. Listen. 

Reveal
Havana Syndrome

Reveal

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2023 50:45


A sharp sound. Followed by body numbness. Difficulty speaking. Extreme head pain. Since 2016, U.S. officials across the world – in Cuba, China and Russia – have reported experiencing the sudden onset of an array of eerie symptoms. Reporters Adam Entous and Jon Lee Anderson try to make sense of this confusing illness that has come to be called Havana syndrome. This episode is built from reporting for an eight-part VICE World News podcast series by the same name.   The reporters begin by tracking down one of the first people to report Havana syndrome symptoms, a CIA officer working in Cuba. This “patient zero” explains the ways Cuban intelligence surveil and harass American spies working on the island and his own experience of suddenly being struck with a mysterious, painful condition. When he reports the illness to his bosses at the CIA, he learns that other U.S. officials on the island are experiencing the same thing.   A CIA doctor sees reports from the field about this strange condition happening in Cuba. He's sent to Havana to investigate the cause of the symptoms and whether they may be caused by a mysterious sound recorded by patient zero. But during his first night on the island, the CIA doctor falls ill with the same syndrome he is there to investigate.  In the third segment, reporters Entous and Anderson head to Havana to visit the sites where people reported the onset of their symptoms, looking for answers. The team shares reporting-informed theories about who and what could be causing Havana syndrome.  Support Reveal's journalism at Revealnews.org/donatenow Subscribe to our weekly newsletter to get the scoop on new episodes at Revealnews.org/weekly Connect with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram

Apple News Today
Sneak Peak: Havana syndrome looks very real on brain scans. Why is it still a mystery to the U.S. government?

Apple News Today

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2023 3:16


In 2016, U.S. government officials began reporting a mysterious set of symptoms. They first appeared in Havana, but then showed up in other countries around the world. For Vice World News, reporters Adam Entous and Jon Lee Anderson explain everything they’ve learned about what’s now commonly called Havana syndrome, and why the U.S. still can’t explain what causes it. On this week’s episode of Apple News In Conversation, Entous and Anderson discuss their reporting with host Shumita Basu. This is a preview of that conversation.

Apple News In Conversation
Havana syndrome looks very real on brain scans. Why is it still a mystery to the U.S. government?

Apple News In Conversation

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2023 28:16


In 2016, U.S. government officials began reporting a mysterious set of symptoms. They first appeared in Havana, but then showed up in other countries around the world. In a podcast for Vice World News, reporters Adam Entous and Jon Lee Anderson explain everything they’ve learned about what’s now commonly called Havana syndrome, and why the U.S. still can’t explain what causes it. On this week’s episode of Apple News In Conversation, Entous and Anderson discuss their reporting with host Shumita Basu.

Why Is This Happening? with Chris Hayes
The ‘Havana Syndrome' with Jon Lee Anderson and Adam Entous

Why Is This Happening? with Chris Hayes

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2023 54:21


Starting in 2016, U.S. diplomats and spies began reporting a wide range of mysterious and debilitating medical symptoms, first in Cuba and then around the world. Doctors who initially treated patients couldn't come up with a diagnosis and some just called it “The Thing.” Patients said they felt like they were hit by an invisible, directed pressure while stationed on government property, or sometimes standing in their own homes or hotel rooms. The intense health effects, which some have referred to as potentially psychogenic, included high pitched ringing in ears, vertigo, memory loss and brain zaps. The set of medical conditions became known as Havana Syndrome. Why has investigating this been so difficult? Who or what force could be behind all of this? Although the C.I.A. has maintained that it's unlikely that the cases were caused by foreign adversaries, many questions and doubts remain about the agency's findings. Award-winning journalists Jon Lee Anderson and Adam Entous explore some of these questions in a new Vice World News 8-part podcast aptly titled “Havana Syndrome.” Anderson and Entous join WITHpod to discuss the events leading up to the first reported Havana Syndrome cases, the global blame game that followed, what technology could be the culprit and more.

Chapo
Havana Syndrome: A New Podcast from VICE

Chapo

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 25, 2023 41:04


Today we are sharing an episode from one of our newest series – Havana Syndrome. In 2016, a mysterious, debilitating illness begins to afflict American diplomats and spies working abroad – first in Cuba, and then around the world. Victims report crippling neurological symptoms. Some describe the feeling of being hit by an invisible, directed pressure while they were stationed on government property, or sometimes standing in their own homes or hotel rooms. Is this bizarre illness the result of a weapon? Is it mass psychosis? Or something else entirely?Award-winning journalists Jon Lee Anderson and Adam Entous take listeners to the heart of this saga in Havana Syndrome, a new podcast from VICE World News. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Havana Syndrome is hosted and reported by Jon Lee Anderson and Adam Entous, and produced and reported by Julia Nutter, Jesse Alejandro Cotrell and Ramon Campos Iriarte. Edited and executive produced by Annie Aviles and Kate Osborn. Original composition and sound design by Steve Bone. Production support from Pran Bandi.Janet Lee is Senior Production Manager for VICE Audio. Fact Checking by Nicole Pasulka. Charles Raggio is the head of VICE Audio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

VICE News Reports
Havana Syndrome: A New Podcast from VICE

VICE News Reports

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2023 41:16


Today we are sharing an episode from one of our newest series – Havana Syndrome. In 2016, a mysterious, debilitating illness begins to afflict American diplomats and spies working abroad – first in Cuba, and then around the world. Victims report crippling neurological symptoms. Some describe the feeling of being hit by an invisible, directed pressure while they were stationed on government property, or sometimes standing in their own homes or hotel rooms. Is this bizarre illness the result of a weapon? Is it mass psychosis? Or something else entirely?Award-winning journalists Jon Lee Anderson and Adam Entous take listeners to the heart of this saga in Havana Syndrome, a new podcast from VICE World News. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Havana Syndrome is hosted and reported by Jon Lee Anderson and Adam Entous, and produced and reported by Julia Nutter, Jesse Alejandro Cotrell and Ramon Campos Iriarte. Edited and executive produced by Annie Aviles and Kate Osborn. Original composition and sound design by Steve Bone. Production support from Pran Bandi.Janet Lee is Senior Production Manager for VICE Audio. Fact Checking by Nicole Pasulka. Charles Raggio is the head of VICE Audio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

La Ventana
El Club de la Escucha | 'Retrato Narrado' , una investigación sobre Jair Bolsonano

La Ventana

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2022 20:28


la periodista Carol Pires se pasó 15 años investigando a Bolsonaro y el resultado es el podcast 'Retrato Narrado' que se ha adaptado al español por el veterano periodista Jon Lee Anderson

Foreign Correspondence
*Bonus* Jon Lee Anderson on Latin America and The New Yorker

Foreign Correspondence

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2022 23:44


In this additional bonus content, Jon Lee Anderson talks about what has gone wrong with democracy in Latin America and discusses what it's like to work for the hallowed magazine The New Yorker. Jon Lee's story about Chilean President - https://bit.ly/3ukSKE5   Follow us on Twitter @foreignpod or on Facebook at facebook.com/foreignpod Music: LoveChances (makaih.com) by Makaih Beats From: freemusicarchive.org CC BY NC

Foreign Correspondence
Jon Lee Anderson - The New Yorker

Foreign Correspondence

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2022 93:12


Have Hugo Chavez and Barack Obama read your book? Jon Lee Anderson of The New Yorker can say that they have. Jon Lee tells us about his early years chronicling rebel groups and insurgents from Latin America to Asia, culminating in writing a book about the quintessential guerrilla Che Guavara. Working for The New Yorker, he has gotten to know many world leaders more intimately than most any living journalist. Countries featured: Peru, El Salvador, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti, Colombia Publications featured: Time magazine, New York Times, New Yorker   Here are links to some of the things we talked about: Jon Lee's work for The New Yorker - https://bit.ly/3R5pJpz His book about guerrillas - https://amzn.to/3yfGrtC His book about Che Guavara - https://amzn.to/3OH52hY His first story for The New Yorker on Cuba - https://bit.ly/3P0JT20 His story about Hugo Chavez - https://bit.ly/2VVD0Zu NYTimes story on Haiti reparations - https://nyti.ms/3NHRXng   Follow us on Twitter @foreignpod or on Facebook at facebook.com/foreignpod Music: LoveChances (makaih.com) by Makaih Beats From: freemusicarchive.org CC BY NC

How To Academy
Dispatches from Afghanistan

How To Academy

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2022 56:53


Bringing together leading Afghan politician and women's rights advocate Fawzia Koofi, who was a member of the recent delegation negotiating peace with the Taliban; Sunday Times chief foreign correspondent Christina Lamb; and award-winning war correspondent and New Yorker writer Jon Lee Anderson, this podcast explores both the transformation of everyday life in Afghanistan and the major humanitarian and political questions presented by the new status quo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

fiction/non/fiction
S5 Ep. 15: ‘Forget What You Know About War': Scott Anderson on What Russia's Wars in Chechnya Tell Us About the Invasion of Ukraine

fiction/non/fiction

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2022 48:35


Veteran war correspondent Scott Anderson joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss his time reporting in Chechnya. Anderson compares the First and Second Chechen Wars to Putin's invasion of Ukraine. He also reads from his nonfiction book, The Man Who Tried to Save the World, and talks about how he overcame efforts to quash a magazine article he wrote that was critical of Putin, as well as why Chechnya's conflict was scary enough to leave him with a streak of white hair.  To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf. Selected readings for the episode: Scott Anderson The Man Who Tried to Save the World Midnight Hotel Triage The Four O'Clock Murders Fractured Lands The Quiet Americans  None Dare Call It a Conspiracy Lawrence in Arabia  Others A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra Raiders of the Lost Ark  “Death of the Tiger,” by Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, Jan. 17, 2011. No Innocents Abroad: Scott Anderson and Andrew Altschul on the CIA and U.S. Provocateurs in Foreign Politics, Fiction/Non/Fiction, Season 3, Episode 25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Radio Duna - Hablemos en Off
El trabajo en la Convención Constituyente y el futuro de Ucrania

Radio Duna - Hablemos en Off

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2022


Nicolás Vergara y Consuelo Saavedra analizaron el trabajo de los constituyentes . Además, conversaron con el reconocido periodista estadounidense, Jon Lee Anderson, sobre a qué es lo que se viene en Ucrania tras el ataque de Rusia, el actuar de Joe Biden y la manera en que Donald Trump a defendido al gobierno de Vladimir Putin.

Telescopio
Jon Lee Anderson sobre América Latina, García Márquez y escribir para la New Yorker

Telescopio

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 22, 2021 53:30


Jon Lee Anderson es staff writer de la revista New Yorker y uno de los más prolíficos corresponsales extranjeros en toda América Latina. Ha escrito desde Caracas, Santiago, Buenos Aires, el Amazonas, el DF… y entrevistado a muchos presidentes, dictadores, criminales y empresarios. Tiene una visión panorámica de nuestro continente. Hablamos sobre los dictadores latinoamericanos, el Che Guevara, los tabloides británicos, Gabriel García Márquez, El adversario, viajar por el mundo, Sean Penn en Rolling Stone y trabajar en aviones.

Aristegui
La Fundación Gabo se une a la críticas contra el gobierno de Nicaragua

Aristegui

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2021 22:43


La Fundación Gabo, integrada por destacados periodistas y escritores, se sumó a los crecientes reclamos internacionales contra la detención y hostigamiento de opositores en Nicaragua. La Fundación reclamó que se respeten las libertades individuales y la libertad de prensa en el país. Carmen Aristegui entrevista a los integrantes del Consejo Rector de la Fundación Gabo, Mónica González y Jon Lee Anderson hablan del tema.Para conocer sobre cómo CNN protege la privacidad de su audiencia, visite CNN.com/privacidad

Sala de mapas - Podcast de información internacional de EL MUNDO
La democracia de EEUU, en su instante más oscuro

Sala de mapas - Podcast de información internacional de EL MUNDO

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2021 26:26


Con la toma del Capitolio, EEUU ha sufrido uno de los momentos más tensos de su historia como estado democrático, pero no se trata de un estallido puntual sino el punto álgido de un proceso de desgaste provocado por Donald Trump, pero que hunde sus inicios mucho antes. Para analizar ese proceso de polarización contamos con la opinión Jon Lee Anderson, uno de los mejores reporteros del mundo, autor habitual en la revista 'The New Yorker' y autor del libro 'Los años de la espiral' y Pablo Pardo, nuestro corresponsal en Washington. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Comics Alternative
Episode 301: Reviews of Che: A Revolutionary Life, The Lodger #1 & #2, and Die #1

The Comics Alternative

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2018 103:58


Time Codes: 00:01:32 - Introduction 00:03:42 - Our first-ever live streaming recording 00:07:13 - Thank you to new Patreon backers! 00:09:33 - Che: A Revolutionary Life 00:47:02 - The Lodger #1 & #2 01:11:39 - Die #1 01:34:22 - Wrap up 01:38:05 - Contact us This is a very special episode of The Comics Alternative, in that it's the guys' very first live recording. That's right, Sterg and Derek decided to record this week's show via Google Hangouts. Yesterday -- Tuesday, December 11 -- they scheduled a live-streaming broadcast, and fans of the show could watch the Two Guys with PhDs Talking about Comics record a show in real time. As Sterg put it on Twitter, "Come for the slow motion train wreck, but stay when it is instead a great talk about some recent comics!" And everything went off just fine. On this episode they began with a discussion of Jon Lee Anderson and José Hernández's Che: A Revolutionary Life (Penguin Press). This is graphic adaptation of Anderson's 1997 biography of Che Guevara, and as the guys discuss, Hernández does an outstanding job of illustrating the broader life story of the famous revolutionary. After that they look at the first two issues of David and Maria Lapham's The Lodger. This is the latest series from IDW's Black Crown imprint, and Derek and Sterg note that it's classic Lapham crime noir. In fact, this storyline could easily fit into the Stray Bulletsseries. Then they wrap up with a look at Kieron GIllen and Stephanie Hans's Die#1(Image Comics). This is a D&D-inspired fantasy narrative, and the guys frame this within the context of similar stories, such as Stephen King's It, the Netflix series Stranger Things, and the first Jumanjimovie. Go to The Comics Alternative's YouTube channelif you want to see the recording of the guys' live-streaming broadcast of this show!  

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Voter Suppression in the Twenty-First Century

The New Yorker Radio Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2018 31:12


In the November midterm elections, Stacey Abrams, a gubernatorial candidate in Georgia, arrived at her polling place to cast a vote for herself, only to have a poll worker claim that she had already filed for an absentee ballot. Carol Anderson's book “One Person, No Vote” explores how measures designed to purge voters rolls or limit voting have targeted Democratic and particularly minority voters. Anderson sees voter-identification laws and a wide range of bureaucratic snafus as successors to the more blatantly racist measures that existed before the Voting Rights Act; she describes the resurgence of voter suppression as an expression of white rage. “It is not what we think of in terms of Charlottesville and the tiki torches,” she tells David Remnick. “It's the kind of methodical, systematic, bureaucratic power that undermines African-Americans' advances." White Americans, she says, see themselves as trapped in a kind of “zero sum” situation, in which all advances for people of color must come at whites' expense. Plus, the staff writer Jon Lee Anderson journeys up the Madre de Dios River in the Peruvian Amazon to observe as the Mashco Piro—one of the few remaining uncontacted indigenous tribes—begin a fraught, possibly fatal engagement with the outside world.

The New Yorker: Politics and More
Brazil's New President, Jair Bolsonaro, and the Rise of Latin American Authoritarianism

The New Yorker: Politics and More

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2018 14:27


Last week, Jair Bolsonaro was elected President of Brazil. Bolsonaro has been called Brazil's answer to Donald Trump—an outspoken populist who promises to punish his political enemies and roll back protections on minority groups in the interest of “making Brazil great again.” Jon Lee Anderson joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss what the election of Bolsonaro shows about Latin American politics, and about the contagion of authoritarianism. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The New Yorker: Politics and More
Will Donald Trump Help Andrés Manuel López Obrador Become Mexico's Next President?

The New Yorker: Politics and More

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2018 15:57


On July 1st, Mexicans will elect a new President. The front-runner is Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a progressive populist and former mayor of Mexico City. López Obrador has promised to address the country's economic problems, rein in the drug cartels, and strongly oppose President Trump's anti-Mexico policies. Jon Lee Anderson joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss López Obrador and how the Trump backlash has contributed to his political rise. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The New Yorker: Politics and More
A Rare Interview with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro

The New Yorker: Politics and More

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2018 13:48


Nicolás Maduro was an unlikely successor to Venezuela's popular and charismatic Hugo Chavez. And, since his election, the country has been wracked with devastating food shortages, a breakdown of ordinary services and medical care, and rampant violence. But, as Maduro sees it, the real problem is his political opponents, and he has taken steps to secure control over all the branches of government, in order to establish a de-facto dictatorship. The New Yorker's Jon Lee Anderson was recently granted a rare interview with the Venezuelan President, who told him of his country's economic relationships with Russia and China. Anderson tells Dorothy Wickenden that he came away from the conversation with a renewed sense of the need for greater American engagement in Venezuela. “It is going through the sewer on our watch,” Anderson says.     Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Nicolás Maduro on the Brink of Dictatorship

The New Yorker Radio Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2017 22:33


Nicolás Maduro was an unlikely successor to Venezuela's popular and charismatic Hugo Chavez. And, since his election, the country has been wracked with devastating food shortages, a breakdown of ordinary services and medical care, and rampant violence. But, as Maduro sees it, the real problem is his political opponents, and he has taken steps to secure control over all the branches of government, in order to establish a de-facto dictatorship. The New Yorker's Jon Lee Anderson was recently granted a rare interview with the Venezuelan President, who told him of his country's economic relationships with Russia and China. Anderson tells Dorothy Wickenden that he came away from the conversation with a renewed sense of the need for greater American engagement in Venezuela. “It is going through the sewer on our watch,” Anderson says. Plus, a visit to the library with Cristina Henriquez.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
A Visit with Harry Belafonte, and an Isolated Tribe Emerges

The New Yorker Radio Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2017 31:16


We take for granted that popular entertainers can and should advocate for causes they believe in. But until Harry Belafonte pioneered that kind of activism in the middle of the last century, stars largely kept their political leanings private. In the lead-up to last year's Many Rivers to Cross festival, which Belafonte helped dream up, the New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb paid a visit to the actor, musician, and civil-rights icon. Belafonte turned ninety this year and is looking to pass the torch, but he's worried about the state of the civil-rights movement and what he sees as a lack of organized response: we have a struggle, he says, but not a movement. Cobb, who covers many civil-rights and other political issues for the magazine, teases out what Belafonte means.   Plus, the Mashco Piro tribe is one of the last remaining groups to survive only by hunting and gathering with tools that its members make themselves. Residing deep in the Amazon rain forest, they are extremely isolated and, for nearly a century, have rarely been seen by outsiders. Recently, however, there have been encounters with the outside world—and members of the Mashco Piro have killed two people. In this segment, the New Yorker staff writer Jon Lee Anderson journeys up the Madre de Dios River to a remote contact point where government anthropologists are trying to establish relations with the Mashco Piro. They are charged with protecting the tribe from potentially fatal contact with drug traffickers, loggers, and epidemic diseases, and with preventing further violence.   This episode originally aired on September 30, 2016  

The New Yorker: Politics and More
Jon Lee Anderson Visits Manuel Noriega in Prison

The New Yorker: Politics and More

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2017 17:24


When Manuel Noriega died, last month, the Panamanian strongman had been in prison and out of the public eye  for a quarter century. A U.S. ally with C.I.A. ties, Noriega came to rule his country brutally, collaborated with the Medellín drug cartel, and eventually opposed the United States—symbolically waving a machete against America during rallies. The U.S. finally invaded Panama in 1989, and deposed him. In 2015, Noriega, incarcerated for decades on drug trafficking and other charges, granted a rare interview to Jon Lee Anderson. The former dictator admitted mistakes but apologized for nothing, and claimed that he had no bitterness toward his patrons turned conquerors.  Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Merchant Ivory's Gay Love Story, and a Visit with Noriega

The New Yorker Radio Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2017 55:28


James Ivory talks about E. M. Forster's “Maurice,” a gay love story with a happy ending. Plus, Jon Lee Anderson talks about the rise and fall of Manuel Noriega.

The New Yorker: Politics and More
The Syrian Cataclysm

The New Yorker: Politics and More

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2017 14:07


Last month, after five years of civil war, the Assad regime defeated rebel forces in Aleppo. Jon Lee Anderson joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss a conflict that has resulted so far in the deaths of some four hundred thousand Syrians, and the displacement of nearly half the country's population. Could the United States have made a difference, and what challenges does the Trump Administration face in the region? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The New Yorker: Politics and More
The Libyan Migrant Disaster

The New Yorker: Politics and More

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2015 15:30


Mattathias Schwartz and Jon Lee Anderson join Dorothy Wickenden to discuss the ongoing Mediterranean migrant crisis, its causes, and its effects. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

disasters mediterranean migrant libyan jon lee anderson dorothy wickenden mattathias schwartz