The Threat Podcast
The Threat podcast will analyze and discuss the most pressing, yet not always so visible, threats to global security and the movements and ideologies that fuel extremism and terrorism. We’ll take listeners to the frontlines of these battles, both at home and abroad, and we’ll talk with the key players in law enforcement, intelligence, diplomacy, and academia who are working to counter these threats.
Episodes
12 episodes
The Millionaire Marxist: Inside the Fergie Chambers Case
On July 10th, Spanish police arrested Fergie Chambers — heir to the Cox Enterprises empire, self-proclaimed Marxist-Leninist, and one of the most prolific funders of radical causes worldwide — while he vacationed with his family in Ibiza. The U...
Al-Qaeda's Comeback: How a Terror State Is Rising in West Africa
Most people think Al-Qaeda died with the 9/11 era. It didn't — it's arriving exactly where it always intended to go. In Mali, an Al-Qaeda affiliate known as JNIM has encircled the capital, choked off its fuel supply, and now controls roughly ha...
The Enemy Within: How Extremists Go From Hashtags to Terrorism
An upstate New York mother of two is arrested for allegedly raising $30,000 for Palestinian Islamic Jihad. American activists travel to Tehran and chant "death to America" on Iranian state TV. A pop-up extremist group called Dample appears onli...
Flipping the Script on Hezbollah: Inside the Lebanon-Israel Peace Breakthrough
A trilateral framework agreement signed by the US, Lebanon, and Israel has done something that seemed unthinkable just a few years ago — and it's put Hezbollah on its back foot. For decades, the group justified its weapons as the only way to pu...
When Technology Becomes the Target: The Rise of Anti-Tech Extremism
A man throws a Molotov cocktail at the home of OpenAI's CEO. Gunshots are fired at a lawmaker's house over a data center. Extremist groups with names like the Volcano Group are forming across Europe and Latin America — all united by one thing: ...
Beijing’s Long Reach: How China Exports Repression Beyond Its Borders
How far is the Chinese Communist Party willing to go to silence critics overseas? In this episode of The Threat Podcast, Jay Solomon and Hagar Chemali speak with pro-democracy activist and Hong Kong Democracy Council Board Chair Anna K...
Cuba on the Brink? Inside Trump’s Pressure Campaign Against the Castro Regime
As tensions between Washington and Havana escalate, The Threat Podcast examines whether the Cuban regime is facing its most dangerous moment in decades.Hosts Jay Solomon and Hagar Chemali sit down with investigative journalist and ADN C...
Inside the Mind of a Lone Wolf Assassin
On April 26th, 31-year-old software engineer Cole Tomas Allen allegedly attempted to assassinate President Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C. Despite having no known history of violence and recently being named ...
A “Pop Up” Terrorism Network Has Ensnarled Europe
Since the U.S. war on Iran broke out in late February, a rash of terrorist attacks have struck Europe and primarily targeted Jewish communities. Western intelligence agencies believe Iran is likely behind these operations. But London-based coun...
Inside Hezbollah: A Voice They Tried to Silence
In this episode, we discuss with expert and journalist Hanin Ghaddar the threats posed by Hezbollah - a terrorist group, Iranian proxy, and organized crime syndicate based in Lebanon.Hanin Ghaddar is the Friedmann Senior Fellow at the Wa...
I Built the IRGC: Inside Iran’s ‘Monster’ Machine
This week on The Threat, Jay and Hagar sit down with Mohsen Sazegara, an Iranian dissident who, in his earlier life, helped create Iran’s most lethal military force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, as a top aid to the Islamic Republic’s ...