Welcome to Crimetown, a series produced by Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier in partnership with Gimlet Media. Each season, we investigate the culture of crime in a different city. In Season 2, Crimetown heads to the heart of the Rust Belt: Detroit, Michigan. From its heyday as Motor City to its rebirth as the Brooklyn of the Midwest, Detroit’s history reflects a series of issues that strike at the heart of American identity: race, poverty, policing, loss of industry, the war on drugs, an ...
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This week Angry Planet turns its attention to Canada. Global News investigative journalist Stewart Bell joins us to walk through his two latest pieces and give Matthew a crash course on Canadian history. What do outlaw motorcycle gangs, extrajudicial assassinations, an Indian separatist movement, and a resurgent Islamic State all have in common?
Canada.
Bell is here to explain it all.
- The pros and cons of extremists recruiting on social media
- Are you talking to a fed?
- Remembering Air India Flight 182 or Matthew learns Canadian history
- The Khalistan movement
- What makes a 14-year-old interested in Islamic State?
- Eric Hoffer on what makes a True Believer
- Spreading ideologies with an answering machine
- The budding new era of political violence
- Visas as a tool of foreign interference
- Using gangs to assassinate your political enemies
- The ups and downs of hiring biker gangs for intelligence work
- India’s superpower glow up
ISIS arrests are spiking in Canada and youths are driving the resurgence
Investigation: Visas have become an Indian foreign interference tool
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