Cyprus
country in the Mediterranean Sea
Episodes
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#5791: How to Become an Honorary Consul for a Tiny NationA retired consultant in Wales represents Kiribati from his house. Can you engineer that on purpose? The playbook, the vetoes, and the plaque. -
#5250: Building a Shortwave Monitoring Stack on LinuxWhat it actually takes to scan, capture, and crowdsource HF radio from a Linux box — and where automation hits a wall. -
#5199: Shell Companies Over Shell CompaniesWhy covert networks stack shell companies in layers — and why the structure itself is the weapon. -
#5190: How Iranian Rugs Reach Israeli ShelvesTunisian olive oil with French labels, Iranian rugs in Jerusalem shops — how goods actually move around sanctions and enemy-state bans. -
#5809: What If Israel Had Never Fallen? A 2,000-Year Thought ExperimentHannah's question: what would Israel look like if it had stayed under Jewish rule for 2,000 years — and was antisemitism structural or circumstantial? -
#5736: The UK's 14 Overseas Territories, From Pitcairn to ChagosFourteen territories, three Crown Dependencies, and one fight that won't end: why the Chagos Archipelago dispute keeps going. -
#5649: Who Actually Controls Europe's B61 Bombs?The US parks B61 bombs in six allied countries — but never hands over the keys. How nuclear sharing is engineered to not require trust. -
#5631: The Incense Recipe Nobody Could CopyEleven spices, 368 maneh, and one pinch of smoke-raiser that even Alexandria's scientists couldn't crack. -
#5566: Venice: The City That Was a Supply ChainVenice wasn't romantic — it was a logistics problem with a paint job. How a lagoon empire survived 1,100 years. -
#5510: Six Churches, One Roof, 270 Years of DeadlockSix churches share Jerusalem's holiest sites — and none can move a chair without the other five agreeing. Here's how that happened. -
#5309: What Imports-to-GDP Actually Tells YouImports-to-GDP doesn't measure trade balance — it measures openness. Here's what the 50% line really separates. -
#5197: Flags of Convenience: Ships, Planes, and Olive OilA Maltese-registered Arkia plane and Tunisian olive oil at Osher Ad turn out to share one mechanism: the legal costume of nationality.