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On today’s special episode, Matt is joined again by Jacob Ware, a research fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations focusing on domestic and international terrorism. Jacob helps make sense of last weekend’s assassination attempt on Donald Trump, placing it in the larger context of political violence in the United States and the ongoing threat to the presidential election.

Read Jacob’s coverage of the Trump assassination attempt and preventing violence in the 2024 election:

https://www.cfr.org/expert-brief/trump-assassination-attempt-poses-new-test-us-democracy

https://time.com/6998930/the-trump-assassination-attempt-represents-a-dark-new-chapter-in-american-politics/

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2024-07-15/trump-assassination-attempt-poses-new-test-for-u-s-democracy

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4411720-assassination-attempts-are-on-the-rise-worldwide-is-the-us-next/

https://www.cfr.org/report/preventing-us-election-violence-2024

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On today's episode, we will examine who’s who in the new Labour-led UK government, a report on the UK’s armed services, the French elections, and a recently discovered Russian covert information campaign.

On Extra Shot, our Patreon only show we will look at NATO’s 75th anniversary, terrorists returning to Afghanistan, a Chinese spy base in Cuba and GPS under attack.

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Links to articles

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0veg88g7jyo

https://inews.co.uk/news/uk-intelligence-warning-starmer-major-security-threats-election-3152924

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/new-defence-secretary-john-healey-addresses-mod-staff/

https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/hollow-force-choices-uk-armed-forces

https://www.politico.eu/article/marine-le-pen-france-elections-2024-national-rally-paris-jordan-bardella-emmanuel-macron-europe/

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/09/business/russian-bots-artificial-intelligence-propaganda.html

On Extra Shot

https://carnegieendowment.org/emissary/2024/07/nato-summit-ukraine-russia-war

https://8am.media/eng/the-taliban-host-terrorist-groups-four-new-settlements-built-for-al-qaeda-and-ttp/

https://features.csis.org/hiddenreach/china-cuba-spy-sigint/

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/07/02/world/gps-threats.html?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20240708&instance_id=128218&nl=from-the-times&regi_id=172310860&segment_id=171610&te=1&user_id=0e295462ed2f443b418b1b6c162349bd

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On today’s episode, Chris speaks with author and journalist Mark Hollingsworth about his book Agents of Influence, which looks at how the KGB attempted to subvert Western democracies during the Cold War and how its replacement agency, the FSB, attempts to do the same now.

Check out Mark’s website for information about him, his book and his other work: https://markhollingsworth.co.uk/

And get a copy of “Agents of Influence” here: https://markhollingsworth.co.uk/agents_of_influence/

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On today’s episode, Matt speaks to former senior CIA officers and now co-founders of Spycraft Entertainment, John Sipher and Jerry O’Shea, to discuss their podcast, Mission Implausible.

In their careers with the clandestine service, John and Jerry, in a sense, created conspiracies, convincing terrorists and hostile foreign governments to believe things that were not true. Now, they’re looking into past and present conspiracy theories to assess what’s real and what isn’t and explore why so many are eager to believe the most outlandish ideas.

Listen and subscribe to Mission Implausible: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-mission-implausible-146774875/

Spycraft Entertainment: https://spycraftentertainment.com/

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On today’s episode, Matt is joined by terrorism experts Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware to discuss their book, "God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America.” Both are fellows at the Council on Foreign Relations and teach at Georgetown University. Their book examines the far-right’s long embrace of political violence as a tactic, its proliferation through social media, and provides a range of policy advice to counter this movement and extremism in democratic societies.

Purchase God, Guns, and Sedition: https://www.amazon.com/God-Guns-Sedition-Far-Right-Terrorism/dp/0231211228

Bruce and Jacob’s work for the Council on Foreign Relations:

https://www.cfr.org/expert/bruce-hoffman

https://www.cfr.org/expert/jacob-ware

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On today’s show, we are going to look at reports about private messages from the leader of Hamas, criticisms of Europe’s outdated approach to China, a former CIA officer and FBI linguist pleading guilty to spying for China, and a potential plot from ISIS-K foiled in the US.

Then we will move to our Patreon only show “Extra Shot” we will look at Europe on high alert to Russian sabotage, Russian backed online efforts to disrupt the Olympics, a Fugitive sheriff from Florida who has a new career as an online propagandist in Russia and we will wrap up looking at a piece about Chinese espionage efforts in the west.  

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Articles discussed

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/11/middleeast/sinwar-hamas-israel-ceasefire-hostage-talks-intl/index.html

https://thediplomat.com/2024/06/in-the-new-cold-war-europes-approach-to-china-is-already-outdated/

https://apnews.com/article/cia-fbi-officer-spying-china-56865d1f194b94c014afcef9c53b0b30

https://apnews.com/article/islamic-state-border-fbi-homeland-security-7088e6f665f095ad38186cafe69bbddd

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/tajikistan/new-recruiting-ground-isis

On Extra Shot we look at

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/30/europe-on-high-alert-after-suspected-moscow-linked-arson-and-sabotage

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2024/06/02/russia-cyber-bots-disinformation-2024-paris-olympics/

https://www.newsguardtech.com/special-reports/john-mark-dougan-russian-disinformation-network/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmm33rm32veo


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