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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How Riyadh moved from proxy confrontation and blockade politics toward selective detente, while new tensions with the UAE exposed the limits of Gulf unity.
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.
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.
How oil, gas, finance, military signaling, and nuclear technology turned a post-Cold War alignment into a durable but asymmetric anti-Western partnership.
From post-war bilateral alliances to an interlocking architecture spanning defence, nuclear trade, and critical minerals
How One Man Dismantled a Republic Over Twenty Years
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.
From Safe Harbor to Tech Sovereignty — Two Decades of Structural Exposure
How India stayed dependent on imported crude while becoming one of the world's major suppliers of refined petroleum products.
Hundreds of billions of barrels remain either geologically undiscovered or technically proven but locked away by sanctions, conflict, and underinvestment
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.
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.
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.
How Chinese state enterprises armed Pakistan, North Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Syria with ballistic and cruise missile capability
From Ottoman reform to Section 377, Iran's revolutionary penal code, and modern digital entrapment — how layered legal systems became tools of persecution.
The AUKUS pact was announced as a strategic upgrade.
Four decades of cost-driven outsourcing, subsidy gaps, and delayed industrial policy weakened US capacity in rare earths, semiconductors, solar, pharmaceuticals, and steel.
Five decades of strategic exemptions for Islamabad and maximum pressure on Tehran reveal a policy driven by alliance value, not nonproliferation principle.
What official crime statistics, court records, and policy documents establish — and where the evidence ends
