Brian and Joel are joined by Simon Billenness, Executive Director, International Campaign for the Rohingya, for a discussion of the political chaos in Myanmar and the plight of the Rohingya.

Afiya Zia, a Pakistan-based scholar and activist, joins Brian and Joel to discuss internal politics in Pakistan, and how the Taliban has destabilized much of that politics over the years.

Brian and Joel discuss the situation in Rwanda with Claude Gatabuke, Executive Director of the African Great Lakes Network and a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Joshua Meservey of The Hudson Institute returns to join Brian and Joel in a discussion of the continuing conflict and chaos in South Sudan

Brian and Joel discuss the Israeli operation in Lebanon that detonated scores of pagers and walkie-talkies belonging to Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the legitimacy, or lack thereof, of the operation.

Professor Emeritus Robert Fatton of the University of Virginia joins Brian and Joel to discuss the deteriorating political situation in Haiti.

Brian and Joel discuss the impact of the Israel-Hamas conflict with an Israeli-American student. We discuss some aspects of the war that get less attention in the media today: the continuing attacks on Israel and their effects, the attitudes of the Israeli population to the ongoing conflict and to the Netanyahu government, and his experiences as a current university student.

Olivia Enos, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, joins Brian and Joel to discuss China's genocidal persecution of the ethnic Uyghur population in Western China. Qelbinur Aini tells the story of her sister's detainment in a Chinese "reeducation" camp, which is in fact a hard labor concentration camp.