The Weekly Hoon: The Middle East fuel crisis & more

About this episode

The episode discusses the Middle East fuel crisis, geopolitics, and features insights from various guests on related topics.

The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night featured co-hosts Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale in Auckland talking with regular guests Cathrine Dyer from Wellington and Robert Patman in Dunedin about geopolitics, the economy, climate change and politics. This edition also includes discussions with special guests Jonathan Lyons, PhD from Vancouver and Shamubeel Eaqub in Auckland on Iran and social cohesion in New Zealand, respectively. This week: * Bernard and Peter began with a chat about the conflict in the Middle East and the fuel crisis, along with Christopher Luxon ’s leadership vote in the National Caucus and the ensuing clash with Winston Peters . * Bernard mentioned in passing a podcast series he recently listened to on the Suez crisis and compared New Zealand’s current fuel crisis to the 1973 fuel crisis. Peter referred to a Guardian article about Donald Trump’s voter fraud claims this week. He also referred to a podcast on Israel and a collapse in US voter support for Israel mentioned in an Ed Luce article in the FT. Bernard mentioned a WSJ-$ article on the drama in Trump’s White House. * Bernard, Peter and Cathrine then talked…

People in this episode

Hosts: Bernard Hickey, Peter Bale

Guests: Cathrine Dyer, Robert Patman, Jonathan Lyons, Shamubeel Eaqub

Topics covered

• Middle East conflict
• fuel crisis
• geopolitics
• economy
• climate change
• politics
• social cohesion

Keywords

• Middle East
• fuel crisis
• geopolitics
• economy
• climate change
• politics
• social cohesion
• Joseph Tainter
• Suez crisis
• Donald Trump

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Macdiarmid Institute, Science Media Centre, Guardian, WSJ, FT

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