Al Bawaba Spoke with Sean McFate, an expert on mercenary warfare, on how war itself is becoming commodified, and why people are ignoring this development.

China has been interning its ethnic and religious minorities by the thousands and subjecting them to 're-education.' But now, what has been a local story of AI-powered surveillance and an emerging police state is slowly going global thanks to a illustrative new enterprise. Al Bawaba spoke with one of the world's leading experts on the issue, Adrian Zenz, to understand what is happening.

On May 17, 2018, Gina Haspel was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the director of the CIA. To understand what a Haspel-led CIA looks like, Al Bawaba spoke with John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer who blew the whistle on the CIA’s use of waterboarding.