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This weeks episode is a solo Xan exclusive looking at medical misogyny, male contraception and how AI manages to make everything worse.

Xan and Koshin bring you breaking news a little bit too late about the developing story from the UK involving 5 men arrested after allegedly trying to attack a miliary base. Do these military bases make people safer? Tune in to find out! The Wodonga politics in the pub event Xan mentions in the episode can be found here!

Time to start stocking up on beans everybody, things are about to get even worse. Xan and Koshin bring an update on the escalating interconnected conflicts from West Asia down to the Horn of Africa. We focus on the developments in Yemen and some of the background leading up to this recent explosion in fighting.All views expressed are our own!

Well folks, They're calling it the worst episode of Uprise Radio ever produced. Join Koshin on a journey through his own mind as he attempts to connect too many dots and forgets to play any Community Service announcements. If you've ever felt like the world is just getting weirder and weirder, this episode is for you.All views expressed are our own!

The 60 day Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the United States and Iran has come to a close. Did negotiations go well? Has peace been achieved? There is only one way to find out. Listen in!All views expressed are our own!

Rather than sticking to discussing one region this week Xan and Koshin look at some developments in South East Asia with Tech billionares reinventing colonialism before taking a peak at West Africa to get an update on Burkina Faso. We fail to say conclusively if Ibrahim Traore is good or bad but we remain committed to our promise to provide you with an answer in the future.All views expressed are our own!

Following the Labor party conference of 2026, Xan and Koshin take a look at the current state of the Labor party both federally and in Victoria. The conversation gives an overview of the lack of debate within the conference and how the event has transformed from an arena of genuine internal party dialogue, into a ceremonial coronation of the current leadership.All views expressed are our own!

Uprise Radio returns to the Democratic Republic of the Congo with a story about one of our favourite things: Maps! Xan and Koshin look at the evolving fight between the DRC, Belgium and a host of other interested parties over colonial era geological maps that could reveal the location of Trillions of dollars worth of mineral wealth. We look at similar stories from the region and the politics around resource wealth in Africa.

For this weeks episode Xan and Koshin take a trip down memory lane to bring you a review and analysis of the classic film "First blood" about returned Vietnam veteran John Rambo.Is this movie based or cringe? Listen to find out!

Xan and Koshin reunite to discuss the recently released Papal encyclical: Magnifica Humanitas. Pope Leo has released a text outlining the Catholic attitude towards emerging AI technologies and the hosts of Uprise dig in to explain the good and the bad.Is the reaction to this manifesto on the left justified? Are there lessons to be learned? Will Xan do the reading for the episode? All of these questions and more are answered in this weeks episode.Don't forget to buy your tickets to the Uprise Radio Trivia night on July 22nd at Hardout bar before they sell out at: https://events.humanitix.com/uprise-trivia

This week is a special Koshin solo discussing the US-China summit that took place in May. The episode goes over the key outcomes of the trip and the key goals for each party. The second half of the episode is Koshin trying desperately to cram the entire history of modern Taiwan into ten minutes.

This week Xan and Koshin read through the recently released manifesto outlining the ideology of the tech giant Palantir.

Following the most recent assassination attempt on Donald Trump and the announcement by Labor that the NDIS would be slashed, we decided to do a two for one episode.The first half is focused on the rise of radical centrist violence in the US and why everybody hates FBI director Kash Patel. We then move to the more serious topic of Labors announcement that the NDIS budget will be cut with a particular emphasis on reducing spending on cases relating to Autism.

On this weeks episode Xan and Koshin look at the ongoing national debate about whether past warcrimes should be punished or celebrated, before looking at current warcrimes and the impacts they're having. We also look at the reports of religious influence in the US military, what this all means for the ongoing peace talks, and much more! If there are any questions please get in touch at [email protected]

There are too many topics to discuss this week, so for this episode we changed up the format a bit to bring a quick overview of a few developing stories. We talk about Iran warning tech companies that they are valid military targets, those tech companies involvement in the military industrial complex, and Australia attracting AI investment back home. We also look at Israels newly unveiled apatheid laws, Penny Wong's strategy of asking Israel nicely not to occupy Lebanon, and who benefits from Australian "national interests". As always you can get in touch with us at [email protected] if you have any questions or suggestions for future shows. In fact send us an email just to say hi, we love to hear who is tuning in!