Morning Paranoia | English
Morning Paranoia is a weekly podcast by Our House, hosted by Olga Karach, who creates the content, research, and original voice. The English version is produced with AI voice technology from ElevenLabs. Each week, the show analyzes democracy, human rights, war, authoritarian trends, and disinformation, providing facts and context with a touch of irony. It aims to help listeners understand current events and their consequences, reminding us that paranoia might just be awareness.
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From the KGB with Love: How to Forge the Perfect Baltic Citizen
What does the perfect Baltic citizen look like?According to the logic of modern counterintelligence: trustno one, avoid suspicious conversations, don’t ask uncomfortable questions, don’t organize with others — and perhaps don’t insist too loudly on your rights. After all, anyone could potentially be a spy.In Episode 4 of Morning Paranoia, Olga Karach looks at howsurprisingly familiar Soviet counte
The War on Socks: Europe’s New Security Architecture
In the third episode of Morning Paranoia, we examine how sanctions and security policies have gradually turned into a battle against sandwiches, potatoes, socks, cosmetics, and old vinyl records.Yet while governments carefully inspect travellers’ luggage, official statistics point to a very different reality: a sharp rise in trade through Central Asian countries, potentially indicating sanctions c
The Real Spies Are Never Suspects
While Lukashenko sends the army to rescue the harvest afterhis own mass mobilization of farm workers, authorities in Khabarovsk expose "New Zealand spies," and an Estonian woman is sentenced to three years in prison for trying to take seven bottles of wine to Russia.But the most intriguing questions arise in Lithuania.Why are conscientious objectors, journalists, human rightsdefenders, t
When Democracies Speak the Language of Authoritarianism
Why is military service increasingly being used as a form of punishment? Why are more and more European countries debating nuclear deterrence? And what does the fate of a Belarusian officer sentenced to 14 years in prison for his pacifist beliefs tell us about today's Europe?In this episode of Morning Paranoia, we discuss authoritarian language, nuclear escalation, human rights and political d
