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Should The Koh-I-Noor Be Returned? Mamdani vs King Charles III EXPLAINED
May 01, 2026Who does the Koh-I-Noor diamond truly belong to? Why is it considered cursed? And should it be returned? The Koh-I-Noor diamond has been in the headlines this week with Mayor Zohran Mamdani stating t...
355. Liberator of Latin America: Napoleon & The Legions of Hell (Part 2)
Apr 29, 2026Who were the cowboys and Indigenous people who made up the “Legions of Hell” and why did Bolívar fear them so deeply? How did Napoleon’s invasion of Spain speed up the collapse of its empire? What was...
354. Liberator of Latin America: Simón Bolívar vs The Spanish Empire (Part 1)
Apr 27, 2026Who was the man who liberated Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia from Spanish rule? How did a privileged upper-class teenage boy become South America’s leading revolutionary of th...
353. Hezbollah, Hostages, & Exploding Pagers (Part 8)
Apr 22, 2026What lessons have been learned from Occupation? How did Hezbollah emerge in the wake of the Iranian Revolution and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon? How did Hezbollah evolve from 1982 to 2023? In the ...
352. Israel’s 1982 Invasion of Lebanon (Part 7)
Apr 20, 2026Is the current invasion of Lebanon a direct ancestor of the 1982 Israeli invasion? How did broken American promises lead to the tragedies of the Sabra and Shatila massacres? Who was Ariel Sharon and w...
351. Camp David: The Day Israel & Egypt Made Peace (Part 6)
Apr 15, 2026**Binge the entire series ad-free by joining the Empire Club at empirepoduk.com** In November 1977, Egyptian President Sadat shocked the entire Arab world by boarding a flight to Israel. After refusi...
350. 1973: The Yom Kippur War & The First Oil Crisis (Part 5)
Apr 13, 2026**Binge the entire series ad-free by joining the Empire Club at empirepoduk.com** How did the oil crisis totally transform the wealth of the Gulf states and alter the power balance of the Middle East...
What Is Life Like For Palestinians Under Occupation?
Apr 09, 2026William is joined by Raja Shehadeh, the leading Palestinian writer, lawyer and human rights activist, to discuss his experience of living under Israeli occupation in the West Bank. Raja describes how...
349. Occupation of The West Bank (Part 4)
Apr 08, 2026What happened to the Palestinians who chose not to flee the West Bank in 1967? How did Israel use old British and Ottoman laws to seize land and control the occupied territory? And what happened in Jo...
348. How 1967 Changed The Middle East Forever (Part 3)
Apr 06, 2026How did The Six-Day War redraw the map of the Middle East and establish Israel as a regional superpower? How did the catastrophic Arab defeat unleash a new wave of armed Palestinian resistance? Did th...