East meets West with Olga and Tara

Olga and Tara welcome reporter Steve Sweeney for an eyewitness account of the escalating conflict in Lebanon and the personal cost of reporting from the front lines. We break down the harrowing details of the Israeli strike on Sweeney’s press...

Olga and Tara sit down with former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney to dismantle the “chimera” of America’s two-party system and financial interests driving global conflicts. We explore how identical funding sources ensure that US...

Olga and Tara are joined by former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl to discuss the unraveling of the global diplomatic order and the shifting front lines of energy security. We examine the current escalation in Iran and beyond, asking...

Olga and Tara are joined by Iranian journalist and international relations expert Elham Abedini, reporting directly from Tehran after the strikes by Israel and the US that killed Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, among many...

Olga and Tara welcome former foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump, George Papadopoulos, and former legal adviser to the European Parliament, Simona Mangiante, to break down the most recent whirlwind of global diplomacy. We assess the recent rounds...

Olga and Tara sit down with Ambassador Dmitry Polyansky, Russia’s appointed permanent representative to the OSCE. After years at the UN in New York City, the ambassador has transitioned to Vienna, and he’s here to give us an unfiltered...