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Beyond the assassination attempt, India is set to have

Rajiv Lall, Former managing director of IDFC Bank, joins us to give his expert analysis and predictions.

This is Part 1 of 2. In the next episode we will be discussing leadership.

The death toll from the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria has now topped 50,00 people, and the humanitarian aid response has been unbelievably fractured. This is staggering.    How could such a catastrophe occur???   Our guests on this week's episode of Samanthropolitics will help us dive into the myriad of reasons - politics, terrorist groups, corruption, gender inequality, economics, ethnic discrimination, and beyond.  What exactly happened that made things so bad? What will it take to rebuild the countries and people's lives? And how can you help?   Our all star panel of female experts break it down for us.  

A Political Analysis of Syria w/Ruwan AlRujouleh - Syrian Middle East Analyst 

How You Can Help w/Raksha Vasudevan - Humanitarian  

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The death toll from the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria has now topped

50,00 people, and the humanitarian aid response has been unbelievably fractured. This is staggering.

How could such a catastrophe occur???

Our guests on this week's episode of Samanthropolitics will help us dive into the myriad of reasons - politics, terrorist groups, corruption, gender inequality, economics, ethnic discrimination, and beyond.

What exactly happened that made things so bad? What will it take to rebuild the countries and people's lives? And how can you help?

Special Guests:

Professor Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan - Turkish economist, University of Maryland

Professor Seyla Benhabib - Turkish political scientist, Yale University

Peru’s President staged a coup in an attempt to grab unilateral power in the country. Though the coup failed, the country has now cascaded into civil unrest as its fourth President in the last year has been sacked. Amidst the chaos, the country's first female president has risen to power. What is happening in Peru and what can we expect moving forward?

Maria Fernanda Bozmoski, Deputy Director of the Latin America Center at the Atlantic Council joined us to give her expert input.

Olivia Logan, political consultant and head of Logan Strategic Solutions, joins us to give us her predictions on key swing state races, her thoughts on why it is important to "build the bench," and her thoughts on what it takes for women to run for office.

Texas, once a solidly red state, is now venturing into purple territory. With Roe v. Wade now overturned, the composition of state legislatures has become critically important to combatting draconian laws and saving women's lives. Yet the Texas State Senate is majority male with an average age of 62 and 18 Republicans versus 13 democrats. Women running for office are looking to change that makeup - and one of those is Gwenn Burud, a public school teacher running to replace Kelly Hancock, an anti-choice, anti immigration stalwart of the conservative party. 

Burud joins us in this episode of Samanthropolitics to talk about the issues she cares about, the sad state of the education system in Texas, and why she decided to run for office for a second time to take down Hancock. 

To support Burud's campaign, visit www.burudfortexas.com.

This episode was sponsored by the Women's Leadership Challenge, www.womensleadershipchallenge.com.  

The death of Mahsa Amini in police custody has spurred the biggest protests in Iran since the 1970s. Women and men are storming the streets, publicly burning their hijabs and calling for an end to the Iranian regime. The regime has responded with brutality. Where did this come from, what is the latest,  and what will happen next?    

Presenter of BBC’s “Out of the Shadows,” a documentary about Iran and Israel, Suzanne Kianpour, joined Samanthropolitics LIVE from the Middle East to break it all down for us.

The Balkan wars were brought to a shaky close in 1995 with the Dayton accords.Only 4 years later, a US led NATO force bombed Serbia in 1999 in response to Serb aggression against Kosovo. Since then a tenuous peace existed in the region - until now. Threats of invasion, secession, and separation have only become louder with Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. What will happen next? 

Balkan expert Professor Tanya Domi joins Samanthropolitics to break it all down.

It's a worst case nightmare scenario for women in America - Roe v. Wade has been overturned. 

Since then, there have been a plethora of states that have outlawed abortion even in cases of rape, incest, and danger to the life of the mother. In some states, the "trigger" laws enacted date back to the 1800's, creating a dystopian future from an archaic past. Lawsuits are being filed against some of these, with a dizzingly difficult path to follow of what is going on, what is permitted, what isn't, and beyond.  

What is the effect that we are seeing since the overturn of Roe? What are the differences between states? 

What has this done to the legal system? What are the other shocking supreme court decisions that have come out, and what are those implications? What exactly does Biden's executive order do? Besides voting, what else can people do?    Stephanie Schmid, former US Congressional candidate and former US Foreign Policy Counsel for the Center for Reproductive Rights & Molly Karlin, US federal public defender, Arizona, join us to discuss.

A TikTok Trump Like Candidate faces off against a left leaning Petro in Colombia’s presidential elections- both with very different visions for the future. Organized crime, drug trafficking, a fresh wave of violence, and a fragile peace process lay in the balance.  Mariana Diaz Kraus, Colombian activist and founder of Movilizatorio, explains to us what's at stake in this week's episode of Samanthropolitics.