On this episode of American Prestige, headlines from around the globe.
Vigil for a Polish aid worker killed in Gaza by Israeli airstrike, held on April 4, 2024.(Omar Marques / Anadolu via Getty Images)
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On this week's news episode of American Prestige, Derek and Danny return with the news. This week: In Gaza, the IDF kills members of the World Central Kitchen organization (0:31), Biden follows up with Netanyahu (6:18), more reports on the IDF’s AI targeting systems (10:35), and more; Israeli airstrikes hit Iranian IRGC officers in Syria (20:59); a drone strike in Myanmar’s capital Naypyidaw (25:04); the DPRK/North Korea tests a hypersonic missile (26:51); the results of Senegal’s election (29:01); Somalia expels the Ethiopian ambassador (31:02); a terrorist attack in Moscow (32:43); NATO discusses a Ukraine fund (35:27); a UN update on displacement in Haiti (38:42); and a New Cold War update featuring a Biden-Xi phone call (41:28).
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On this week’s news episode of American Prestige: In Gaza, the IDF kills members of the World Central Kitchen organization (0:31); Biden follows up with Netanyahu (6:18); and we have more reports on the IDF’s AI targeting systems (10:35), and more; Israeli air strikes hit Iranian IRGC officers in Syria (20:59); a drone strike targets Myanmar’s capital, Naypyidaw (25:04); the DPRK/North Korea tests a hypersonic missile (26:51); the results of Senegal’s election are in (29:01); Somalia expels the Ethiopian ambassador (31:02); Moscow suffers a terrorist attack (32:43); NATO discusses a Ukraine fund (35:27); we also have a UN update on displacement in Haiti (38:42), and a New Cold War update featuring a Biden-Xi phone call (41:28).
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On this episode of American Prestige, Abby Mullen, assistant professor at the US Naval Academy, joins the program to talk about her book To Fix a National Character: The United States in the First Barbary War, 1800–1805. We explore the conflict, American geopolitics in their infancy, the Barbary States and piracy committed on their behalf at the time, how US naval expeditions in an era without a global network of bases functioned, the myth of the war in "The Marines' Hymn", and more.
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Daniel BessnerTwitterDaniel Bessner is an historian of US foreign relations, and cohost of American Prestige, a podcast on international affairs.
Derek DavisonDerek Davison is a writer and analyst specializing in international affairs and US foreign policy. He is the publisher of the Foreign Exchanges newsletter, cohost of the American Prestige podcast, and former editor of LobeLog.