# round-up ep (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover round-up ep. Page: Feed: --- ## [Gotta scan 'em all: How Pokémon Go turned its players into Pentagon cartographers](https://thecradlemedia.substack.com/p/gotta-scan-em-all-how-pokemon-go) _2026-08-21 · The Cradle_ Pokémon Go players supplied billions of street-level scans to Niantic’s mapping systems. Years later, the technology they helped build is being adapted for drones operating beyond the reach of GPS. ## ['ECONOMIC D-DAY': Can US Sanctions Achieve What War Could Not?](https://thecradlemedia.substack.com/p/economic-d-day-can-us-sanctions-achieve) _2026-08-20 · The Cradle · The Cradle_ The Cradle News Round-Up | Ep. 257 [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/212041850/f219c536090a106da9a2193d4b732ce7.mp3) ## [Lebanon’s amnesty bargain leaves justice behind](https://thecradlemedia.substack.com/p/lebanons-amnesty-bargain-leaves-justice) _2026-08-20 · The Cradle_ Beirut opens its prison doors while leaving the machinery of injustice untouched. ## [Iran’s steel Silk Road breaks the maritime siege](https://thecradlemedia.substack.com/p/irans-steel-silk-road-breaks-the) _2026-08-20 · The Cradle_ Maritime pressure is forcing Iran’s economic geography inland, where railways are becoming instruments of sovereignty. ## [The corridors remaking West Asia](https://thecradlemedia.substack.com/p/the-corridors-remaking-west-asia) _2026-08-18 · The Cradle_ Ports, railways, and data cables are reshaping regional power as competing trade routes cut across the old alliance map. ## [West Asia Slips Out of Washington's Grip. WAR Cannot Reverse That](https://thecradlemedia.substack.com/p/west-asia-slips-out-of-washingtons) _2026-08-18 · The Cradle · The Cradle_ The Cradle News Round-Up | Ep. 256 [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211754468/13635dcc82a595589216f9792edd2414.mp3) ## [Israel’s election trap runs deeper than Netanyahu](https://thecradlemedia.substack.com/p/israels-election-trap-runs-deeper) _2026-08-17 · The Cradle_ The October vote may end Benjamin Netanyahu’s rule, but those seeking to replace him remain bound to the same wars and the political order that produced them. ## [The Mecca pact and the limits of a ‘Muslim NATO’](https://thecradlemedia.substack.com/p/the-mecca-pact-and-the-limits-of) _2026-08-13 · The Cradle_ Saudi Arabia, Turkiye, and Pakistan have signed a collective-defense pact, but divergent threats, US ties, and economic interests leave its real purpose open to dispute. ## [Sanaa seizes the initiative as Riyadh reopens Yemen’s front](https://thecradlemedia.substack.com/p/sanaa-seizes-the-initiative-as-riyadh) _2026-08-12 · The Cradle_ Saudi Arabia’s return to proxy warfare in Yemen risks reviving the same battlefield it spent years trying to contain. ## [In Lebanon: ISIS prisoners released & Israel collaborators forgiven?](https://thecradlemedia.substack.com/p/in-lebanon-isis-prisoners-released) _2026-08-12 · The Cradle · The Cradle_ The Cradle News Round-Up | Ep. 255 [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210922608/9ef6860a13ec8d34a01369241f321a86.mp3) ## [Never miss a game (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/KAESdfshkxei) _2026-08-12 · **Sponsored**_ Follow any team; get an hour and one-minute web and email reminders. ## [Trouble at the Pillars of Hercules: Morocco’s Mediterranean power play](https://thecradlemedia.substack.com/p/choking-the-mediterranean-or-trouble) _2026-08-11 · The Cradle_ Was an attempted storming of a Spanish exclave in Morocco linked to the reactivation of western Eurasia’s maritime chokepoints? ## [After the invasion: Who really took Iraq’s oil?](https://thecradlemedia.substack.com/p/after-the-invasion-who-really-took) _2026-08-10 · The Cradle_ The US-led war pried open Iraq’s energy sector, but the oil order that followed did not unfold as its architects expected. Chinese firms now occupy much of the ground western majors abandoned. ## [Trump Wants OUT of his War and Iran Smells Blood](https://thecradlemedia.substack.com/p/trump-wants-out-of-his-war-and-iran) _2026-08-10 · The Cradle · The Cradle_ The Cradle News Round-Up | Ep. 254 [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210640713/80235b8170c68019e8b3044a01f1ae66.mp3) ## [Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan Join Forces... But Against Whom?](https://thecradlemedia.substack.com/p/saudi-arabia-turkiye-and-pakistan) _2026-08-08 · The Cradle · The Cradle_ The Cradle News Round-Up | Ep. 253 [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210336387/b8988b9329d0a5e6a60d2f512e573174.mp3)