Hosted by Luis · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 12 episodes
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The Axis is a weekly podcast that explores the shifting balance of global power. From Washington to Moscow, Beijing to New Delhi, each episode dissects the strategies, rivalries, and alliances shaping our world. Blending clear analysis with accessible language, The Axis connects breaking news with long-term geopolitical trends, helping listeners understand not just what is happening, but why it matters.
Luis hosts The Axis, a news show with 12 episodes published.
In this episode of The Axis , we look at the deeper lesson of the Iran war: the rise of Hormuz as a political actor. The Strait of Hormuz is no longer just a route for oil tankers. It has become a symbol of the new geogr
In this episode of The Axis , we examine why the U.S.–Iran “truce” should not be understood as real peace, but as an architecture of fear. The agreement may stop direct confrontation for now, but it does not resolve the
In this episode of The Axis , we ask a different question about the conflict in the Persian Gulf: not who is winning militarily, but who is winning symbolically. The United States may hold the stronger military hand, but
In his first Cuenta Pública, José Antonio Kast does more than report on the state of the nation: he constructs a political fantasy of order. Chile appears as a wounded body, damaged by disorder, crime, migration, economi
In this episode of The Axis , we examine the U.S.–Iran oil crisis as a symptom of a deeper imperial fragility. The barrel of oil appears on market charts as a price, but behind that number lies a hidden architecture of s
This week on The Axis, we examine the symbolic meaning behind the departures of Tulsi Gabbard, Pam Bondi, and Kristi Noem from the orbit of Donald Trump. Beyond the headlines, the column explores what these resignations
A psychoanalytic reading of the Iran war’s hidden grammar: inflation, Trump’s dismissal of Americans’ economic pain, and the reported Israeli clandestine outpost in Iraq are treated not simply as political events, but as
A symbolic reading of the upcoming Trump–Xi meeting in Beijing, where diplomacy becomes theatre and power is performed as much as negotiated. The analysis argues that the summit matters not only because of possible agree
A joke, a gunshot, and a president speaking the language of war: the Kimmel–Trump episode reveals how unstable the border between satire, symbolic injury, and political violence has become. Kimmel’s “expectant widow” jok
This column draws a parallel between the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 and the challenges faced by modern naval power in asymmetric warfare. By linking religious symbolism, Lacanian theory, and contemporary geopol
In the aftermath of the Islamabad talks, diplomacy appears to proceed even as escalation deepens. This episode explores how negotiations, symbolic acts, and religious language operate within the same strategic field. Dra
Description A clear and accessible analysis of the Iran conflict as a political and symbolic test for Trump. The piece argues that the issue is not immediate defeat, but a growing tension between his message of control a
Description This column explores how governments can become trapped in their own frameworks of rationality, losing sight of the realities they claim to manage. Drawing on Lacan, Bataille, and Alien, it argues that overco
Chile’s fuel price increase is being framed as an unavoidable economic reality. But this framing hides a deeper tension. The government is acting rationally in economic terms—reducing subsidies and maintaining fiscal dis
The debate over MEPCO, the fuel price stabilization mechanism, in Chile is not just economic—it reveals a deeper political logic. While mechanisms like MEPCO buffer global volatility, today’s politics increasingly operat
The possibility of a U.S.-Israel strike on Kharg Island marks a dangerous turning point in the Iran war because it would shift the conflict from military confrontation to full-scale energy warfare. As the main terminal h
The war with Iran is beginning to reshape global geopolitics in unexpected ways. As instability in the Middle East pushes oil prices upward, the United States has quietly eased some sanctions on Russian oil shipments in
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