Americans love shrimp. They love it so much they don’t think too hard about where it comes from—or the virtual slaves who are farming them. Joshua Farinella doesn’t have that luxury. A few years ago, Farinella took a job working for a shrimp production company in India. The money they were paying would set his family up for a long time to come, but what he saw when he landed in the country made him realize the cash wasn’t worth it. He chose to blow the whistle. On this episode of Angry Planet, Farinella sits down with us to talk about what he saw in the shrimp factory. It all starts one fateful night when he receives a WhatsApp message telling him that one of the plant’s workers was caught in the place’s water treatment facility. “She was searching for a way out of there,” the message said. “Her contractor is not allowing her to go home.” After Farinella decided to blow the whistle, he began to document what he saw at the plant. Video, audio, and documents he secured can be viewed at The Outlaw Ocean Project.&nbsp; Read <a href="https://www.theoutlawocean.com/investigations/india-shrimp-a-growing-goliath/the-whistleblower/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Whistleblower</a> at The Outlaw Ocean Project <a href="https://www.theoutlawocean.com/investigations/india-shrimp-a-growing-goliath/documents/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Read through the documents</a>.Support this show <a target="_blank" rel="payment" href="http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege">http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege</a>. <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

The Horrors Behind Your Frozen Shrimp

Sign up at&nbsp;<a href="https://angryplanetpod.com/subscribe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">angryplanetpod.com</a>&nbsp;to get instant access to the full episode. <a href="https://angryplanetpod.com/p/russian-murderers-who-go-to-war-and" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A direct link to the episode on Substack</a>. The big picture in Europe doesn’t look good. Russia is moving to encircle key cities in Ukraine and is shaking its nuclear saber at the West. Ukraine’s nearest neighbors are, understandably, concerned about Moscow’s aggression and militarizing at an alarming rate. This summer, NATO will conduct Operation Steadfast Defender, a military exercise the Pentagon said is the <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3656703/nato-begins-largest-exercise-since-cold-war/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">largest since the Cold War</a>. To Moscow, an enormous military exercise on its border could seem a tad aggressive. Add to this Russia’s recent nuclear rhetoric and <a href="https://twitter.com/ArmsControlWonk/status/1793074692913549770" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">missile exercise</a> and the geopolitical situation is looking a bit tense. On this episode of Angry Planet, Aram Shabanian stops by to talk us through the troubling signs he’s seeing about a brewing conflict between Russia and NATO. Shabanian is the Open-Source Information Gathering Manager at the <a href="https://newlinesinstitute.org/people/aram-shabanian/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">New Lines Institute</a>. We also get into what happens when you mix Coke and Pepsi, how Reagan navigated a similar situation, and when it’s OK for everyone to stop worrying about the bomb. (Never.)Support this show <a target="_blank" rel="payment" href="http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege">http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege</a>. <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

TEASER: The Case for World War III Breaking Out This Summer

A lot goes into keeping a navy afloat. There’s ship husbanding, maintenance, and buckets of haze gray. The U.S. used to be good at this, but it hasn’t been on an active war-footing for a long time and the manufacturing base that created its massive navy has seen better days. So what happens if there’s a war and America doesn’t have enough welders, let alone drydocks, to build out its fleets? Gil Barndollar is a senior analyst at Defense Priorities and the co-author of a recent piece in Foreign Policy about America’s <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/05/17/us-navy-ships-shipbuilding-fleet-china-naval-race-pacific/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">inability to build new ships</a>. Barndollar sounds the alarm on a number of different issues facing the U.S. military: the recruitment crisis, manufacturing issues, and sailors pushed to the limits of their physical abilities. We might even talk about arming container ships with missile batteries to augment existing forces. <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/05/17/us-navy-ships-shipbuilding-fleet-china-naval-race-pacific/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The U.S. Navy Can’t Build Ships</a> <a href="https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2019/january/converting-merchant-ships-missile-ships-win" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Converting Merchant Ships to Missile Ships for the Win</a>Support this show <a target="_blank" rel="payment" href="http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege">http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege</a>. <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Ships: America Doesn't Build Them Like It Used To (Or at All)

International criminal organizations are more concerned about message security than the average citizen. The end-to-end encryption of WhatsApp or Signal is great, but drug traffickers are looking for a little extra. Enter services like Anom, EncroChat, Sky, and Phantom Secure— discrete messaging services that charged big bucks and promised criminals a chat experience free from the prying eyes of law enforcement. But the cops always find a way. And one of those services was actually purpose built by the FBI to act as a spying tool on the world’s criminals. In Dark Wire, investigative journalist Joseph Cox tells the story of how the FBI built and maintained a phone service just for criminals. He’s on Angry Plant today to tell us all about it. <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/dark-wire-the-incredible-true-story-of-the-largest-sting-operation-in-history-joseph-cox/20664624" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Buy DARK WIRE here</a>. You could have heard an early, and commercial free, version of this episode. Sign up for the <a href="https://angryplanetpod.com/subscribe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Angry Planet newsletter</a> to get started.Support this show <a target="_blank" rel="payment" href="http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege">http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege</a>. <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

The FBI’s Chat App and the Biggest Sting Operation In History

Sign up at&nbsp;<a href="https://angryplanetpod.com/subscribe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">angryplanetpod.com</a>&nbsp;to get instant access to the full episode. <a href="https://angryplanetpod.com/p/russian-murderers-who-go-to-war-and" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A direct link to the episode on Substack</a>. American politics was bizarre in 2016. Alt-right figures dominated many news cycles and shared pictures of cartoon frogs online. A lot of those personalities, like Baked Alaska and Richard Spencer, flamed out and vanished from the scene. But there’s always money to be made and political power to be gained by playing to people’s base fears and a new brand of online far right weirdo has risen to take their places. On this episode of Angry Planet we check in on the so-called “New Right” with investigative journalist Jason Wilson. Wilson has chronicled far-right movements for years and recently exposed some of their thought leaders in The Guardian. If you want to learn why some people care about the “longhouse” or the importance of online anonymity when spreading weird ideas online, then this is the episode for you.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/far-right-twitter-identity-revealed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Revealed: US university lecturer behind far-right Twitter account and publishing house</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/23/conservative-partnership-institute-republican-laws" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Revealed: the extremist Maga lobbying group driving far-right Republican policies</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/24/people-rights-network-oregon-elections" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">At least 66 members of far-right group in rural Oregon standing for office</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/30/us-far-right-group-influencing-anti-gay-policy-africa" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Revealed: how a US far-right group is influencing anti-gay policies in Africa</a>Support this show <a target="_blank" rel="payment" href="http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege">http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege</a>. <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

TEASER: Checking In On the Online Nazis With Jason Wilson

Listen to this episode commercial free at <a href="https://angryplanetpod.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://angryplanetpod.com/</a> No one is really sure how many nuclear weapons are out there. Every number you see is a best guess. Russia and the U.S. have the most, sitting at around 5,000 each. France has just under 200, China has about 500 (and is probably building more), and North Korea has around 50. The world’s nuclear powers love to keep the details of these weapons secret, but not too secret. It’s a complex game of signaling and secrets, one that can be difficult to parse from the outside. Matt Korda of the Federation of American Scientists is here today to walk us through the world’s nuclear powers and the wannabes. Over at the FAS, Korda spends his days looking at high resolution satellite photos of Chinese deserts, pouring over footage of Russian military drills, and reading every line of Pentagon budgets. All that information is mixed together to produce the <a href="https://thebulletin.org/nuclear-notebook/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nuclear Notebook</a>: a constantly updated inventory of world ending weapons.&nbsp; <a href="https://thebulletin.org/nuclear-notebook/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Nuclear Notebook</a> <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bj7x/nuclear-threats-are-looming-and-nobody-knows-how-many-nukes-are-out-there" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nuclear Threats Are Looming, And Nobody Knows How Many Nukes Are Out There</a> Support this show <a target="_blank" rel="payment" href="http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege">http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege</a>. <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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