Never Let a War Go to Waste
Drilled
Pushkin Industries
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Lots of people are talking about the similarities between Iraq and Iran, but in this episode we place the two in the context of another war—World War I—and the historical arc of fossil fascism.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. |
| 0:09.0 | If you listen to Drilled, you know this kind of story. |
| 0:13.2 | A harm everyone warned about. |
| 0:15.6 | A system that failed to act. |
| 0:17.7 | And people left paying the price. |
| 0:20.5 | Now imagine it's not oil or emissions, it's your |
| 0:23.4 | drinking water. Safe to Drink is the new four-part podcast investigating one of the largest |
| 0:30.0 | contamination events in New Hampshire's history. From the Pulitzer Prize finalist |
| 0:34.8 | document team at New Hampshire Public Radio, this series |
| 0:38.0 | is about a town that discovers its water is contaminated with PFAS, the so-called |
| 0:43.4 | forever chemicals. Officials say it's safe, families getting sick aren't convinced. Hosted by |
| 0:51.0 | NHPR climate change reporter Mara Hoplamasian. |
| 0:55.3 | Safe to Drink examines what happens when contamination is slow, science is uncertain, and accountability keeps slipping away. |
| 1:05.2 | It's about regulatory failure, corporate influence, and environmental harm hiding in plain sight. |
| 1:11.2 | If you care about why these crises keep happening, |
| 1:14.5 | follow Safe to Drink on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you're listening now. Lots of people have been drawing comparisons between the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the attacks on Iran in 26. |
| 1:40.3 | Analysts point to similarities like claims about nuclear weapons. |
| 1:44.4 | Tulsi Gaffert testified in March that the intelligence community said Iran wasn't building a nuclear weapon. |
| 1:50.2 | What she said, I think they were very close to happen. |
| 1:53.4 | I take the threat very seriously. |
| 1:57.1 | I take the fact that he develops weapons of mass destruction very seriously. |
| 2:05.4 | And the preemptive nature of these attacks. |
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