How To Liberate
HowToLiberate is geopolitical analysis for people who want to understand power in order to challenge it. It moves from the anxieties of the present toward historical depth and strategic clarity.
MBS chose fear, now Saudi Arabia is paying for itHTL
Saudi dissident Abdullah Alaoudh on how Mohammed bin Salman turned a monarchy into one-man rule, and why the kingdom was built unable to defend itself.
Why can't Saudi Arabia defend itself?HTL
Houthi missiles have hit Riyadh’s airport and Aramco’s headquarters. Iyad El-Baghdadi on why decades of arms deals never gave the Gulf monarchies a way to defend themselves.
Blood without representationHTL
Why can’t Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s biggest military spenders, stop the Houthis? The answer isn’t just weapons. It’s the bargain the Gulf monarchies were built on, which is now breaking, and a decade of MBS’s absolute power that left the kingdom no way out.
Introducing How to LiberateHTL
In our inaugural episode, the team behind How to Liberate introduce themselves, the podcast, and how it will see the world.
After the American Empire: How to Build a World for All of UsHTL
In a lecture held August 19, Iyad El-Baghdadi traced the rise and decline of the American imperial system and explained the current war on Iran through a systems-change lens.
How Gaza broke the world-systemHTL
What does it mean when a system commits genocide? This lecture argues that the war on Gaza is not only a political rupture but a paradigm-breaking moment.
Will the Gulf make itHTL
Why Israel won't stop starting new warsHTL
