Iran: Why It's An Evil Menace

"Following the death of Iran’s President Raisi in a helicopter crash, and amidst ongoing tensions in the Middle East, Fareed Zakaria examines Iran's decades-old animosity towards America, tracing it back to the 1979 embassy hostage crisis and U.S. support for Saddam Hussein's invasion of Iran."

Before you assume that Iran is innately evil, listen to this 42-minute podcast (link). The USA has blood on its hands.

A Historical Look At Revolutions

"Fareed Zakaria is the host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS and a foreign affairs columnist at the Washington Post. He joins Preet to discuss his new book Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present, and how this current moment of global political fracture mirrors societal upheavals of the past."

Click on the link below for a podcast putting today's global turmoil in perspective:

Revolutions, from 1600 to Trump

Understand More About Middle East History

"Why has the Israeli–Palestinian conflict been so intractable for so long? Fareed talks with Palestinian scholar Ahmad Khalidi, Israeli historian Benny Morris, former US diplomat Edward Djerejian, and more about the attempts, missed chances, and future prospects of establishing a lasting peace in the region."

Click on the link below for an in-depth analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from an historical perspective from experts from both sides:

The Road to War in the Middle East

A Deep and Wide Look At Foreign Affairs By A True Expert

"Fareed Zakaria is the host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS and a foreign affairs columnist at the Washington Post. He joins Preet to discuss the regional and global dynamics of the Israel-Hamas War, the appropriate role for the United States in the Middle East, the state of play in Ukraine, and the politics of the Southern border."

Click on the link below for an important podcast presenting a global down-to-a-local perspective on foreign affairs. Yes, it begins analyzing the Middle East problems but then expands into virtually all the main international issues affecting humanity:

Unraveling Foreign Affairs

A Different Take On Russia V. Ukraine

"Noting that many democracies—including Brazil, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Mexico, and South Africa—have been reluctant to join the Western campaign to sanction and isolate Russia, CNN's Fareed Zakaria argues it's better to cast Russia's war as a challenge to rules and norms in the global order, not to democracy as a form of governance."

Click on the link below for more:

Don't cast the war in Ukraine as a showdown with autocracy