From Putin to pandas with Karen Attiah
Pod Save the World
Pod Save the World
4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Ben and guest co-host Karen Attiah, the Global Opinions editor for The Washington Post, talk about Jared Kushner’s coddling of dictators and his trip to the United Arab Emirates, human rights in Egypt, the latest on the crackdown in Belarus and its implications for journalists, far-right protestors in Germany who threatened to storm the Reichstag, and the global impact of the late Chadwick Boseman.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Pod Save the World. I'm Ben Rhodes and the show is going to be a little |
| 0:14.4 | different this week. Tommy is out on vacation and also celebrating a landmark birthday. |
| 0:20.3 | So I will be hosting along with the Washington Post Global Opinions Editor, Karen Atia, |
| 0:25.1 | where you've heard on the pod and is really one of the truly inspiring and interesting |
| 0:29.3 | voices in journalism today. So we've got a really great show. But before we dig in, |
| 0:34.3 | there's just one piece of housekeeping I want to do. Yesterday was National Pole Worker Recruitment |
| 0:38.9 | Day. And guess what, even if your family does not mark that holiday, you can still sign up to be |
| 0:44.6 | a pole worker. When polling places don't have enough pole workers, they close, which leaves many |
| 0:49.2 | voters unheard. And this is not the election to do that. So in an election rear where voting has |
| 0:53.6 | already become more complicated by this pandemic and this president, we cannot risk losing the |
| 0:58.8 | votes we need. Votes of America is working to recruit 10,000 pole workers. So if you are healthy |
| 1:04.8 | and able, sign up to be trained and work as a pole worker at your polling location. It's literally |
| 1:10.0 | the most important thing I think you can do this election day to make sure that votes are counted. |
| 1:14.3 | Find more info on votesaveamerica.com slash every last vote. One more note this week, |
| 1:21.0 | there's a new Missing America that's dropped episode four, disinformation. You will hear the |
| 1:26.3 | unbelievable or perhaps all too believable story about how Facebook came to Myanmar and brought with |
| 1:31.9 | it, the spread of hate and disinformation and helped contribute to ethnic cleansing. But you'll |
| 1:37.0 | also hear what we can do about that. You'll hear from a lot of different voices with a lot of |
| 1:41.3 | different ideas about how to regulate big tech and make sure that disinformation is a virus that |
| 1:46.5 | we can treat instead of a virus that spreads unchecked around the world. So check out Missing America. |
| 1:51.2 | Okay, I'm very happy to be joined by the editor of the Washington Post Global Opinion section, |
| 1:57.5 | truly one of the essential resources to make sense of today's world. Karen Atiyah, thank you so |
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