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Evidence-first documentary podcasts from Zero Agenda News. Each episode adapts an Evidence-Graded Timeline into a concise audio briefing, separating documented fact from inference and interpretation, with the full source-linked paper available at zeroagendanews.com.
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Saudi Arabia's Regional Reset: Iran, Yemen, Qatar, the UAE, and the New Gulf Balance
How Riyadh moved from proxy confrontation and blockade politics toward selective detente, while new tensions with the UAE exposed the limits of Gulf unity.
Russia-Ukraine War: Claimed Losses on Both Sides
A wartime casualty record is always a battleground. This paper collects what each party claims, what open-source investigators have verified, and what Western analysts estimate — without adjudicating between them.
India–France: Seven Decades of Strategic Partnership
From early French combat-aircraft purchases to submarines, Rafales, and industrial roadmaps, how two non-aligned powers built one of the world's most durable bilateral partnerships.
Russia and China: Strategic Partnership, Unequal Dependency
How oil, gas, finance, military signaling, and nuclear technology turned a post-Cold War alignment into a durable but asymmetric anti-Western partnership.
Australia's Strategic Ties with Quad Allies: United States, India, and Japan
From post-war bilateral alliances to an interlocking architecture spanning defence, nuclear trade, and critical minerals
Erdoğan's Turkey: From Secular Democracy to Islamist Autocracy
How One Man Dismantled a Republic Over Twenty Years
BRICS and the Multipolar World Order: From Investment Thesis to Geopolitical Bloc
How a Goldman Sachs acronym became the institutional framework for the Global South's challenge to US-led unipolarity — and why its internal divisions constrain how far it can go.
Captured: How Europe Lost Its Digital Infrastructure to the United States
From Safe Harbor to Tech Sovereignty — Two Decades of Structural Exposure
India's Oil Paradox: Crude Dependence, Refining Power, and the Green Pivot
How India stayed dependent on imported crude while becoming one of the world's major suppliers of refined petroleum products.
The World's Untapped Oil and Gas: Frontier Reserves and Stranded Resources
Hundreds of billions of barrels remain either geologically undiscovered or technically proven but locked away by sanctions, conflict, and underinvestment
Killed for Their Work: Journalist Murders in Europe and North America
From an unsolved Canadian shooting to a Malta car bomb to a Las Vegas stabbing, the record shows both convictions and a persistent mastermind gap.
How Western Democracies Quietly Dismantled Press Freedom After the Cold War
From the PATRIOT Act to Belmarsh Prison to Helsinki's courtrooms — a documented pattern of national security law used to criminalise journalism across the United States, United Kingdom, France, Canada, and the Nordic.
How Dutch Centrifuge Designs Reached Pakistan and Iran
The A. Q. Khan affair was an industrial-security failure that moved URENCO knowledge from Amsterdam to Kahuta, then through a black-market network to Iran, Libya, and North Korea.
China's Missile Technology Transfers: Five Decades of Documented Proliferation
How Chinese state enterprises armed Pakistan, North Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Syria with ballistic and cruise missile capability
LGBTQ Criminalisation in Muslim-Majority States: Colonial Law, Sharia Claims, and Modern Repression
From Ottoman reform to Section 377, Iran's revolutionary penal code, and modern digital entrapment — how layered legal systems became tools of persecution.
AUKUS: How Australia's Submarine Bet Became a Capability Risk
The AUKUS pact was announced as a strategic upgrade.
How America Became Dependent on China-Centered Strategic Supply Chains
Four decades of cost-driven outsourcing, subsidy gaps, and delayed industrial policy weakened US capacity in rare earths, semiconductors, solar, pharmaceuticals, and steel.
The Nuclear Double Standard: Pakistan, Iran, and the West
Five decades of strategic exemptions for Islamabad and maximum pressure on Tehran reveal a policy driven by alliance value, not nonproliferation principle.
Sexual Violence in Europe: The Immigration Data Record
What official crime statistics, court records, and policy documents establish — and where the evidence ends