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In this episode of the Essential Geopolitics podcast series from RANE, the conversation turns to Iran's cyber warfare strategies. Emily Donahue asks Senior Global Analyst, Matthew Bey how Iran's cyber attack strategy has evolved in recent years. In recent months, Iran targeted Israel’s water and sewage facilities. Israel retaliated with its own attack on a major Iranian port. What does the move to cyber warfare mean for US businesses and allies in the region? Subscribers of RANE Worldview can read Matthews assessments and analysis of Iran’s cyber capabilities and much more. Get started today at https://www.ranenetwork.com/worldview-subscribe. 

In this episode of the Essential Geopolitcs podcast series from Stratfor, a RANE company, the conversation turns to Iran's cyber warfare strategies. Emily Donahue asks Senior Global Analyst, Matthew Bey how Iran's cyber attack strategy has evolved in recent years. In recent months, Iran targeted Israel’s water and sewage facilities. Israel retaliated with its own attack on a major Iranian port. What does the move to cyber warfare mean for US businesses and allies in the region? Subscribers to Stratfor Worldview can read Matthews assessments and analysis of Iran’s cyber capabilities and much more. There’s a special subscription discount for podcast listeners at stratfor.com/podcastoffer.

In this episode of the Essential Geopolitics podcast from RANE, Emily Donahue speaks to Asia Pacific Analyst, Evan Rees. It has been a busy few weeks on the Korean Peninsula. After weeks North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un keeping a low profile, there's been several tactical and strategic maneuverings from that regime toward South Korea, and by extension, the US. Evan Rees discusses what is going on, what has provoked North Korean anger at South Korea and why is this happening now. Subscribers to RANE's premiere geopolitical publication, RANE Worldview, can read Rees' evaluations, strategic forecasting, and much more. Get your Worldview subscription started today at https://www.ranenetwork.com/worldview-subscribe. 

In this Essential Geopolitics podcast from RANE, Emily Donahue speaks with Senior European analyst, Adriano Bosoni. Most of the data coming from Europe suggests that the continent’s economic outlook is quite negative. Bosoni answers questions including: What are the continent’s main challenges in the coming months? Is Europe’s reaction to the COVID-19 crisis different from what the governments and institutions did during the financial crisis a decade ago? And whether his crisis will have political or social repercussions.  

Subscribers to RANE Worldview can read all of Bosoni's analysis of European economies, responses to COVID-19 and more. Get started with your Worldview subscription today at https://www.ranenetwork.com/worldview-subscribe. 

In this episode of the Pen and Sword podcast from RANE, Emily Donahue speaks to William Craig Reed about an event that happened twenty years ago, after the Cold War had ended, and a few months before the US and Russia sent the first crew to the international space station.

The event was the explosion that sent the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk to the bottom of the Barents Sea. William Craig Reed says the tragic accident wasn't the whole story of that event and we can learn much from what happened today. Reed is the former navy diver and fast-attack submariner, and the author of Red November. You can read original geopolitical analysis of the Kursk event, as well as the relationship between Russia, China and the U.S. today on RANE Worldview, the premiere geopolitical publication from RANE. Subscribe today at https://www.ranenetwork.com/worldview-subscribe. 

In this episode of the Essential Geopolitics podcast from RANE, Emily Donahue speaks with Sim Tack, Senior Global analyst. The topic: The US has announced talks with Russia on the New START nuclear arms control treaty in Vienna on June 22. Russia had long been asking for talks to extend the treaty but the US had refused to do so --- unless a new treaty included China. What's changed?

Sim Tack writes for RANE's premiere geopolitical publication, RANE Worldview, where you can access thousands of articles on geopolitics and security. Sign up for RANE Worldview today at https://www.ranenetwork.com/worldview-subscribe. 

In this episode of the Essential Geopolitics podcast from Stratfor, A RANE company, Emily Donahue speaks with Sim Tack, Senior Global analyst for Stratfor. The topic: The US has announced talks with Russia on the New START nuclear arms control treaty in Vienna on June 22. Russia had long been asking for talks to extend the treaty but the US had refused to do so --- unless a new treaty included China. What's changed? Sim Tack writes for RANE's premiere geopolitical publication, Stratfor Worldview, where you can access thousands of articles on geopolitics and security. Podcast listeners get a discounted subscription rate. Go to stratfor.com/podcast offer to sign up for full access to all our podcasts, content and videos.

In this Essential Geopolitics podcast from RANE, Emily Donahue speaks with RANE's Director, Global Energy and Middle East, Greg Priddy about the Saudi currency peg. As Priddy writes in his RANE Worldview article on the topic, "The current collapse in crude prices is again fueling questions over the durability of the hard U.S. dollar currency peg used by Saudi Arabia. Despite the economic shock of the COVID-19 pandemic, the peg is likely to survive in the near term. But structural changes in both the global oil market and the Saudi economy means Riyadh will likely devalue its currency at some point in the next five years."

Subscribers to RANE Worldview can read this and many more articles daily from the world's leading geopolitical intelligence team. Get started with your own subscription today at https://www.ranenetwork.com/worldview-subscribe.

In this episode of the Pen and Sword podcast from RANE, Emily Donahue speaks with author and journalist Sierra Crane Murdoch about her book Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country. It's a wide ranging conversation about a Native American woman's search for justice. It is the story of Lissa Yellow Bird, who took on her tribe, the courts and her family to uncover the truth about a missing person.

In this episode of the Essential Geopolitics podcast from RANE, Emily Donahue speak with global security analyst, Ben West about the impact of COVID-19 and the economic crisis on social protests about racial injustice. Protests were not prompted solely by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Factors intensifying the unrest in 2020 include years of building frustration over police violence against African Americans, extremely graphic video of the initial incident and protests that beget a cycle of shared content that prompts further protests. and  pent up frustration over the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing lockdowns, and inconsistent messaging from leaders about efforts to manage the crisis. All of which contribute to social unrest.

Subscribers to RANE Worldview can read decades of analysis of eaves of social unrest in the US as well as the global community. Subscribe today at https://www.ranenetwork.com/worldview-subscribe.