Geopolitics & Empire

*Original Air Date: July 10, 2019 Best-selling author Marc Friedrich discusses his thoughts on the global financial crisis, collapse, and debt bubble. He thinks a recession is imminent and that the Euro is ultimately doomed, how no monetary union has ever been successful in history. He gives tips on how to prepare (e.g. real assets) and describes what he thinks the future monetary system will look like...some type of asset-backed digital currency. He thinks that China definitely is set to become the primary global power and gives his thoughts on how that dynamic might play out with the United States. *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/geopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate Websites https://friedrich-weik.de https://www.twitter.com/marcfriedrich7 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSiFC1DCXr3p1YDzyu9rogA Book The Crash is the Solution https://www.amazon.com/Crash-Solution-Ultimate-Collapse-Protect-ebook/dp/B01M8MM32Z/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=marc+friedrich&link_code=qs&qid=1562792667&s=gateway&sourceid=Mozilla-search&sr=8-1 About the Guest After studying international business, Marc experienced first-hand the Argentinian state bankruptcy in 2001 and its ruinous consequences for the country and its citizens. He already gained international work and life experience as a young man. Together with Matthias Weik (his friend from kindergarten days), for the past decade he has been holding seminars and specialist talks on the topics of precious metals, EU, the euro, Industry 4.0, digitalisation, Bitcoin & crypto currencies, blockchain and decentralisation at national and international companies, associations and foundations, and at congresses and specialist conferences around the world, as well as at universities and colleges. Marc Friedrich is an enthusiastic connoisseur of whiskey. He recommends selected single malts as a mixer (!) for both balanced investment portfolios and balanced meals. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

*Original Air Date: July 7, 2019 Sune Hojgaard Sorensen joins us again to talk about his new in-depth report which examines the rise of the China-centric world. The report includes collaboration from Harald Malmgren and Millenial Macro Research. Four key areas are examined which include: trade, technology, the financial system, and the military. Sune provides an extremely well-researched and objective geopolitical macro examination of where China stands in the world today and in coming years. The 142-page report can be freely requested from Librarium Associates here: https://www.librariuminsights.com/our-research *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/geopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate Websites https://www.librariuminsights.com https://www.twitter.com/LibrariumViews https://www.bficapital.com/leadership About the Guest Mr. Sune Hojgaard Sorensen founded Librarium Associates as a vehicle from which to explore the world, drawing on; his varied experiences around the globe, his intellectual curiosity, a driven pursuit of variant perceptions from a wide array of sources, a deep bench of diverse contacts across continents and industries and over fifteen years of experience in the investment industry in a multitude of roles and across asset classes, in order to consistently be able to provide unique insights that frame path probabilities, developments and future trends into clear and defined ideas that in turn enable sophisticated investors to make superior decisions. Mr. Hojgaard Sorensen is an Advisory Board Member of our partners at BFI Capital Group (www.bficapital.com). Where he works with this distinguished group of individuals on matters pertaining to identifying global risks and opportunities and distilling investable insights for the development of long term investment strategies for a select group of global accredited investors. Mr. Hojgaard Sorensen is a partner and an advisor to the Orbis28 Family Office Solutions platform (www.orbis28.com/family-office/). Where he - together with a group of top tier experts on matters pertaining to global investing, wealth management and estate & financial planning - provides insights, research and advice to global entrepreneurs & other HNWIs & UHNWIs. You can learn more by accessing our ‘SOLUTIONS’ section of the site or by contacting us with any questions you may have or to schedule a conversation. shs@librariuminsights.com *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

*Original Air Date: July 3, 2019 Danny Haiphong discusses the dangers of "American exceptionalism" and how it attempts to justify and enable illicit actions of the U.S. Empire around the world, including regime change wars and double standards when it comes to diplomacy and human rights. *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/geopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate Websites https://blackagendareport.com https://twitter.com/spiritofho Book American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News―From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror https://www.amazon.com/American-Exceptionalism-Innocence-News_From-Revolutionary/dp/1510742360 About the Guest Danny Haiphong is a socialist activist, writer, and political analyst. For the last five years, Haiphong has been a weekly contributor to Black Agenda Report. His articles have also appeared in publications such as MintPressNews, Counterpunch, The American Herald Tribune, The Center for Global Research (Canada) and The Herald (Zimbabwe). Haiphong has frequently appeared on Black Agenda Radio, CPRNews with Don Debar, The Taylor Report, RT, and Sputnik International. His work was recently featured in former Congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney’s latest book How the U.S. Creates “Sh*thole Countries (2018). *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

*Original Air Date: June 13, 2019 Michael Pento joins us to discuss the causes of the ongoing financial crisis, the inevitable bursting of multiple debt and asset bubbles, how a wise investor can protect themselves, and the fact that war remains a possibility at the end of economic cycles that run concurrent with the decline of great empires. *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/geopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate Websites http://pentoport.com https://twitter.com/michaelpento Book The Coming Bond Market Collapse: How to Survive the Demise of the U.S. Debt Market https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Bond-Market-Collapse-Survive/dp/1118457080/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=michael+pento&link_code=qs&qid=1560447461&s=gateway&sourceid=Mozilla-search&sr=8-1 About the Guest Michael Pento is the President and Founder of Pento Portfolio Strategies with more than 27 years of investment experience. He was the portfolio creator and consultant to Delta/Claymore's commodity portfolios that raised in excess of $3 billion, distributed through Claymore/Guggenheim's sales network. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

*Original Air Date: May 28, 2019 Cory Doctorow discusses the oligarchic or monopoly power amassed by Big Tech (e.g. Facebook, Google, Amazon), their business model of surveillance capitalism, the need for anti-trust reform, the futility of using alternative systems, the EU Copyright Directive, and the Chinafication of the internet. He also discusses his fascinating science fiction work. *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/geopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate Websites https://craphound.com https://boingboing.net/author/cory_doctorow_1 https://www.eff.org/about/staff/cory-doctorow https://twitter.com/doctorow About the Guest Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.net), and a contributor to many magazines, websites and newspapers. He is a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. He holds an honorary doctorate in computer science from the Open University (UK), where he is a Visiting Professor; he is also a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate and a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of South Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science. In 2007, he served as the Fulbright Chair at the Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California. His novels have been translated into dozens of languages and are published by Tor Books, Head of Zeus (UK), Titan Books (UK) and HarperCollins (UK). He has won the Locus, Prometheus, Copper Cylinder, White Pine and Sunburst Awards, and been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards. His recent books include RADICALIZED (2019) and WALKAWAY (2017), science fiction for adults; IN REAL LIFE, a young adult graphic novel created with Jen Wang (2014); and INFORMATION DOESN’T WANT TO BE FREE, a business book about creativity in the Internet age (2014). His latest young adult novel is HOMELAND, the bestselling sequel to 2008’s LITTLE BROTHER. His New York Times Bestseller LITTLE BROTHER was published in 2008. His latest short story collection is WITH A LITTLE HELP, available in paperback, ebook, audiobook and limited edition hardcover. In 2011, Tachyon Books published a collection of his essays, called CONTEXT: FURTHER SELECTED ESSAYS ON PRODUCTIVITY, CREATIVITY, PARENTING, AND POLITICS IN THE 21ST CENTURY (with an introduction by Tim O’Reilly) and IDW published a collection of comic books inspired by his short fiction called CORY DOCTOROW’S FUTURISTIC TALES OF THE HERE AND NOW. THE GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL TOMORROW, a PM Press Outspoken Authors chapbook, was also published in 2011. LITTLE BROTHER was nominated for the 2008 Hugo, Nebula, Sunburst and Locus Awards. It won the Ontario Library White Pine Award, the Prometheus Award as well as the Indienet Award for bestselling young adult novel in America’s top 1000 independent bookstores in 2008; it was the San Francisco Public Library’s One City/One Book choice for 2013. It has also been adapted for stage by Josh Costello. He co-founded the open source peer-to-peer software company OpenCola, and serves on the boards and advisory boards of the Participatory Culture Foundation, the Clarion Foundation, the Open Technology Fund and the Metabrainz Foundation. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

*Original Air Date: May 23, 2019 Dr. Oswaldo Zavala discusses his book "The Cartels Don't Exist" in which he examines the questionable narrative that the Mexican drug cartels are in control of the government. In fact, he points to evidence that it is the U.S. and Mexican security state apparatus managing the drug cartels. He deconstructs how the state's false narrative of being the victim of the cartels then is reproduced by mass media, ambitious but naive journalists, film (e.g. Netflix's Narcos, Sicario, Infierno), popular literature, telenovelas and soap operas. *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/geopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate Websites https://twitter.com/Oswaldo__Zavala https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Latin-American,-Iberian,-and-Latino-Cultures/Profiles/Oswaldo-Zavala https://www.proceso.com.mx/585253/el-fascismo-inimaginable-la-casa-blanca-en-las-series-de-television-en-la-era-de-trump Book Los cárteles no existen. Narcotráfico y cultura en México https://www.amazon.com/CARTELES-EXISTEN-NARCOTRAFICO-CULTURA-MEXICO/dp/8417081518/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=oswaldo+zavala&link_code=qs&qid=1558634395&s=gateway&sourceid=Mozilla-search&sr=8-1-fkmrnull About the Guest Oswaldo Zavala (Ciudad Juárez, 1975) is Professor of contemporary Latin American literature and culture with a joint appointment at the College of Staten Island and at The Graduate Center, both institutions part of the City University of New York (CUNY). His work explores post-national imaginaries, representations of violence at the US-Mexico border, and the exhaustion of discourses on modernity in the Latin American narrative of the last two decades. He is the author of "Los cárteles no existen. Narcotráfico y cultura en México" (Malpaso 2018), "Volver a la modernidad. Genealogías de la literatura mexicana de fin de siglo" (Albatros 2017) and "La modernidad insufrible. Roberto Bolaño en los límites de la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea" (NCSRLL 2015). He also co-edited: with Magdalena Perkowska (Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY), "Tiranas ficciones: política y poética de la obra de Horacio Castellanos Moya" (Pittsburgh: IILI, Antonio Cornejo Polar Series, 2018); with Viviane Mahieux (University of California at Irvine) "Tierras de nadie. El norte en la narrativa mexicana contemporánea" (México: Tierra Adentro, 2012) and with José Ramón Ruisánchez (University of Houston) "Materias dispuestas: Juan Villoro ante la crítica" (Barcelona: Candaya, 2011). His article "Imagining the US-Mexico Drug War: The Critical Limits of Narconarratives," obtained the 2015 award for Best Essay in the Humanities granted by the Mexico Section of the Latin American Studies Association. He received an honorable mention in Mexico's 2017 National Journalism Award for his essay "Nada que ver en la frontera del narco. Los imagentextos de Julián Cardona." *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

*Original Air Date: April 5, 2019 Renown investor Jim Rogers joins Geopolitics & Empire to discuss the coming global financial crisis, what central banks will do to delay the inevitable, the dollar and de-dollarization, the Eurozone, gold, China and the Asian Century, President Trump and the political divisions in America, and what the American Empire's wars abroad mean for the world and the USA. *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/geopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate Websites http://jimrogers.com Publications https://www.amazon.com/Jim-Rogers/e/B000APBT14?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1554475087&sr=8-1 About the Guest James Beeland “Jim” Rogers, Jr. is a Singapore based business magnate of American origin. Regarded by the business world as a brilliant investor, Rogers is also an author and financial commentator. He co-founded the global investment partnership, Quantum Fund, along with George Soros, another equally brilliant businessman. He also created the Rogers International Commodities Index (RICI) and is the Chairman of Rogers Holdings and Beeland Interests, Inc. The astute businessman displayed his business acumen from an early age. He was just five years old when he started his own “business” of selling peanuts! He studies economics, philosophy and politics at the Oxford University and joined the investment bank Arnhold and S. Bleichroder where he would meet his future business collaborator, George Soros. Even though he was very skilled at investing and managing money, he was not obsessed only with making money. There is a lot more to this interesting personality—he had a longstanding dream of motorcycling all over the world which he fulfilled during the period 1990-92. He is also a prolific writer and contributes frequently to ‘The Washington Post’, ‘The New York Times’, ‘Forbes’, ‘Fortune’ and ‘The Wall Street Journal’. One of his other interests is teaching and he has served as a professor of finance at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

*Original Air Date: May 20, 2019 Andreas Bummel discusses the historical idea of world government and how existential civilizational threats such as climate change, thermonuclear war, and systemic global financial collapse necessitate the creation of a world parliament. We discuss numerous aspects of the movement, the role of regional unions, a global currency, and criticisms which include the threat of the world state becoming a tyrannical global leviathan. He discusses the change in global consciousness needed and the movement to create a UN Parliamentary Assembly. Finally, he describes how a democratized China could become a leader in global governance. *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/geopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate Websites https://en.unpacampaign.org https://www.twitter.com/unpacampaign https://www.democracywithoutborders.org https://twitter.com/democracywb https://www.andreasbummel.de https://twitter.com/andreasbummel Book A World Parliament: Governance and Democracy in the 21st Century https://www.amazon.com/World-Parliament-Governance-Democracy-Century-ebook/dp/B07BN5N2FD/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=andreas+bummel&link_code=qs&qid=1558382328&s=gateway&sourceid=Mozilla-search&sr=8-1-fkmrnull About the Guest Andreas Bummel is known for his advocacy of a world parliament. He is co-founder and director of Democracy Without Borders and coordinator of the international Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly. He frequently writes and speaks about global democracy. His book “A World Parliament: Governance and Democracy in the 21st Century” which was published in 2018 (with Jo Leinen) provides a comprehensive overview. Andreas Bummel is a member of the Congress of the World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy in New York. UN Parliamentary Assembly Campaign The Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly is a global network that advocates democratic representation of the world’s citizens at the UN and the institutions of global governance. Supporters of the campaign include current and former parliamentarians and officials, representatives of civil society organizations, researchers, and dedicated citizens. The campaign’s mandate is based on the international appeal for the establishment of a parliamentary assembly at the UN that was published in 2007 and on subsequent declarations. Five international meetings on a UNPA have taken place so far. The campaign’s international action and strategy is coordinated by a secretariat that is hosted by Democracy Without Borders. The secretariat works closely with the campaign’s steering committee, the co-chairs of the campaign’s advisory group, and partner organizations such as the World Federalist Movement based in New York and The Hague. The overall goal of the campaign is to mobilize government support for the establishment of a UNPA. While the campaign approaches governments, it simultaneously seeks to establish parliamentary support. Democracy Without Borders Democracy Without Borders supports global democracy and a holistic approach to democracy promotion that spans from the local to the global levels and at the same time embraces the dimensions of representation, participation, deliberation and co-decision. Democracy Without Borders strives for a democratic world order in which citizens participate beyond national boundaries in shaping policy that serves their joint long-term interests. Such an order needs to be based on an equal world citizenship of all citizens as well as on the principles of federalism, subsidiarity, the separation of powers, the rule of law, fundamental human rights, and the protection of minorities. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Librarium Associates founder and BFI Capital Group Advisory Board Member Mr. Sune Hojgaard Sorensen joins us to discuss current geopolitical-macro trends and his quarterly publication "Around the World in 8 Pages." We also discuss the unique frameworks and methods he uses in successfully analyzing geopolitical and macroeconomic trends. *Download the latest edition of "Around the World in 8 Pages" HERE: http://guadalajarageopolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/AroundTheWorldIn8Pages-Q1-2019-LV.pdf *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/geopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate Websites https://www.librariuminsights.com https://www.twitter.com/LibrariumViews https://www.bficapital.com/leadership About the Guest Mr. Sune Hojgaard Sorensen founded Librarium Associates as a vehicle from which to explore the world, drawing on; his varied experiences around the globe, his intellectual curiosity, a driven pursuit of variant perceptions from a wide array of sources, a deep bench of diverse contacts across continents and industries and over fifteen years of experience in the investment industry in a multitude of roles and across asset classes, in order to consistently be able to provide unique insights that frame path probabilities, developments and future trends into clear and defined ideas that in turn enable sophisticated investors to make superior decisions. Mr. Hojgaard Sorensen is an Advisory Board Member of our partners at BFI Capital Group (www.bficapital.com). Where he works with this distinguished group of individuals on matters pertaining to identifying global risks and opportunities and distilling investable insights for the development of long term investment strategies for a select group of global accredited investors. Mr. Hojgaard Sorensen is a partner and an advisor to the Orbis28 Family Office Solutions platform (www.orbis28.com/family-office/). Where he - together with a group of top tier experts on matters pertaining to global investing, wealth management and estate & financial planning - provides insights, research and advice to global entrepreneurs & other HNWIs & UHNWIs. You can learn more by accessing our ‘SOLUTIONS’ section of the site or by contacting us with any questions you may have or to schedule a conversation. shs@librariuminsights.com *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

*Original Air Date: April 23, 2019 Dr. Julian Dierkes joins us to discuss Mongolian President Battulga's new amendments to the judiciary which seem to signal a slight move toward authoritarianism. We also talk about the economy and geopolitical positioning of Mongolia between Russia, China, and North Korea. *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/geopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate Show Notes The Likelihood of Political Renewal http://blogs.ubc.ca/mongolia/2019/party-reform-birth Genghis Khan's Biggest Fan Is Testing Mongolia's Democracy https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-04-16/genghis-khan-s-biggest-fan-is-testing-mongolia-s-democracy Mongolia’s President Is Slicing Away Its Hard-Won Democracy https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/03/29/mongolias-president-is-slicing-away-its-hard-won-democracy Mongolian foreign affairs delegation in Pyongyang for talks https://www.nknews.org/2019/04/mongolian-foreign-affairs-delegation-in-pyongyang-for-talks-kcna Websites https://twitter.com/jdierkes http://blogs.ubc.ca/mongolia Publications https://brill.com/view/title/21276 About the Guest Julian Dierkes is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia’s Institute of Asian Research (IAR) and School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA). He co-ordinates the IAR’s Program on Inner Asia and is a frequent visitor to Mongolia. Dr. Dierkes is a sociologist by training (PhD Princeton). In addition to contemporary Mongolia, his research interests focus on supplementary education, especially in Japan (see e.g. Jukupedia – Shadowing Education). He has also developed an interest in Digital Diplomacy. In UBC’s Master of Arts Asia Pacific Policy Studies (MAAPPS) program and now the Master in Public Policy and Global Affairs (MPPGA), Dr. Dierkes has co-supervised graduate projects on mining regulation in Mongolia with colleagues in mining engineering. In 2017 he taught a seminar on Mongolian politics at Humboldt University in Berlin. He has served as an election observer in the 2008 parliamentary, 2009 presidential, 2012 parliamentary and 2013 presidential, and 2017 presidential elections in Mongolia. He has written about Mongolia for Asia Pacific Memo, East Asia Forum, the FT’s beyond BRICS, The Diplomat and elsewhere, and also consults on political risk in Mongolia. He tweets at twitter.com/jdierkes, including frequent tweets on Mongolia. Dierkes is easily mistaken for a socialist, but at least he’s an expert! *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

*Original Air Date: April 19, 2019 Author and journalist Joanna Lillis discusses her book "Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan". We talk about the history of Kazakhstan before, during, and after former President Nursultan Nazarbayev. We look at the Russian influence, ethnic dynamics, the effects of Soviet nuclear testing, the economic situation, political corruption and scandals, and Kazakhstan in the New Great Game between Russia, China, and the United States. Finally, we look into the future of post-Nazarbayev Kazakhstan, including who might be the next president. *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/geopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate Website https://twitter.com/joannalillis Book https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Shadows-Inside-Secret-Kazakhstan/dp/1784538612 About Joanna Lillis Joanna Lillis is a Kazakhstan-based journalist reporting on Central Asia whose work has featured in the Guardian, The Economist and the Independent newspapers, the Eurasianet website and Foreign Policy and POLITICO magazines. Prior to settling in Kazakhstan in 2005, she lived in Russia and Uzbekistan between 1995 and 2005, and worked for BBC Monitoring, the BBC World Service's global media tracking service. While completing a BA in Modern Languages at the University of Leeds, she studied Russian in the Soviet republics of Belorussia and Ukraine before the collapse of the USSR, and has an MA in Interpreting and Translation from the University of Bradford. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

*Original Air Date: April 12, 2019 Vietnam veteran, author, and investor Bob Moriarty joins us to discuss his thoughts on American Empire. He says military adventurism signals a clear decline. We also talk false flag operations and media propaganda. Finally, he discusses the inevitable debt bubble, civil unrest, precious metals, cryptocurrencies, and some investing basics. *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/geopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate Websites http://321gold.com http://321energy.com Publications https://www.amazon.com/Robert-Moriarty/e/B01A9I4TJU?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1555083549&sr=8-1 About the Guest Robert Moriarty was born in New York state in 1946. He began training as a military pilot in 1965 and became the youngest Naval Aviator during the Vietnam War in 1966. With two years in Vietnam and some 832 missions in combat, he left the Marine Corps in 1970. He worked in computers for a few years before beginning a 2nd career as a ferry pilot delivering small airplanes all over the world. He made over 240 ocean crossings mostly in single engine airplanes.He and his wife of 25 years were computer consultants and began one of the earliest online computer retail outlets in 1995 before retiring in 2000. He began another career running a financial website in 2001 specializing in resource companies. He continues to travel the world looking for the next great mineral discovery and writes in his spare time. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

*Original Air Date: April 2, 2019 Jim Jatras discusses NATO's expansion into Latin America via Brazil and the big picture of what he sees happening in Venezuela, considering Russian and Chinese broader interests. We also examine NATO in light of its 70th anniversary and Foreign Minister Lavrov's comments on the "reluctance of the United States and its western allies to agree that the 500-year-long period of western domination in world affairs is coming to an end." *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/geopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate Show Notes Is NATO Going South? https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/03/23/is-nato-going-south.html Trump eyes South American country as eligible for NATO privileges https://www.defensenews.com/global/the-americas/2019/03/19/trump-eyes-south-american-country-as-eligible-for-nato-privileges/ U.S. to upgrade military ties with Brazil https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-brazil-ally/us-to-upgrade-military-ties-with-brazil-during-visit-next-week-sources-idUSKCN1QV33K Colombia’s demining centre joins NATO network https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_164677.htm Brazil Isn’t Ready for Trump’s Invitation to NATO https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-23/brazil-isn-t-ready-for-trump-s-invitation-to-nato Venezuela Agreed To Let Russia Set Up A Bomber Outpost On This Caribbean Island https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/25570/venezuela-agreed-to-let-russia-set-up-a-bomber-outpost-on-this-carribean-island-reports Russia tells Trump its troops will stay in Venezuela for 'as long as needed' https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/russia-trump-venezuela-us-military-troops-latest-a8844546.html Lavrov warns that Moscow won't tolerate Western ultimatums http://tass.com/politics/994251 Debbie Wasserman Schultz Gets Russia-Venezuelan Threat Mitigation Act Through the House http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/story/debbie-wasserman-schultz-gets-russia-venezuelan-threat-mitigation-act-through-house Website https://twitter.com/JimJatras http://www.jimjatras.info About Jim Jatras Jim Jatras is a Washington, DC-based attorney, political analyst, and media & government affairs specialist. He formerly served as a senior foreign policy adviser to the US Senate Republican leadership, and before that served as a diplomat in Mexico, the Office of Soviet Union affairs, and the Office of the Under Secretary for Political Affairs. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

*Original Air Date: March 23, 2019 Dr. Ted Galen Carpenter of the Cato Institute joins us to discuss his research on U.S. foreign policy and support for authoritarian regimes and how these policies contrast starkly from American founding principles of non-intervention. We also discuss NATO expansion, the New Cold War, Russian maneuvering in Latin America and the renewed Monroe Doctrine, and North Korea. *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/geopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate Show Notes Ted Galen Carpenter at National Interest https://nationalinterest.org/profile/ted-galen-carpenter Ted Galen Carpenter at American Conservative https://www.theamericanconservative.com/author/ted-galen-carpenter Websites & Books Ted Galen Carpenter at Cato Institute https://www.cato.org/people/ted-galen-carpenter https://www.amazon.com/s?i=digital-text&rh=p_27%3ATed+Galen+Carpenter&s=relevancerank&text=Ted+Galen+Carpenter&ref=dp_byline_sr_ebooks_1 About Ted Galen Carpenter Ted Galen Carpenter is senior fellow for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. Carpenter served as Cato’s director of foreign policy studies from 1986 to 1995 and as vice president for defense and foreign policy studies from 1995 to 2011. He is the author of 12 books and the editor of 10 books on international affairs, including Perilous Partners: The Benefits and Pitfalls of America’s Alliances with Authoritarian Regimes, The Fire Next Door: Mexico’s Drug Violence and the Danger to America, Smart Power: Toward a Prudent Foreign Policy for America, America’s Coming War with China: A Collision Course over Taiwan, The Korean Conundrum: America’s Troubled Relations with North and South Korea, Bad Neighbor Policy: Washington’s Futile War on Drugs in Latin America, The Captive Press: Foreign Policy Crises and the First Amendment, Beyond NATO: Staying Out of Europe’s Wars, and A Search for Enemies: America’s Alliances after the Cold War. Carpenter is contributing editor to both the National Interest and American Conservative, serves on the editorial boards of Mediterranean Quarterly and the Journal of Strategic Studies, and is the author of more than 800 articles and policy studies. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the National Interest, World Policy Journal, and many other publications. He is a frequent guest on radio and television programs in the United States, Latin America, Europe, East Asia, and other regions.Carpenter received his Ph.D. in U.S. diplomatic history from the University of Texas. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

*Original Air Date: March 21, 2019 Retired British Ambassador to Bahrain and Syria Peter Ford discusses the Syrian War and its latest developments, including attempts to try Bashar al-Assad at the ICC. He describes the "permanent government" of the U.S. which is a key driver of the war, as well as America's European counterparts such as France and Britain, who still cling to the coattails of their imperial past glory. Ambassador Ford believes Gulf unity is shattered and that Syria will remain weak, but will slowly rebuild in the coming years. Transcript: http://geopoliticsandempire.com/2019/03/21/peter-ford-the-permanent-government-imperial-war-on-syria-world-103 *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/geopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate Show Notes Peter Ford Speech, Panel Discussion, House of Lords, March 2019 http://guadalajarageopolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/EuroSCE-Panel-Discussion-March-2013-2.docx About Peter Ford Peter William Ford (born 27 June 1947) is a retired British diplomat who was ambassador to Bahrain from 1999–2003 and to Syria from 2003–2006. Ford was educated at Weston Point Community Primary School, Helsby Grammar School and The Queen's College, Oxford. Having finished his Arabic studies he worked in Beirut, Riyadh, Paris and Cairo before being appointed British ambassador to Bahrain as well as Syria from 2003-06. Retiring from the Diplomatic Service in 2006, he became Representative of the Commissioner-General of UNRWA in the Arab world. In February 2017, Ford became a Director of the British Syrian Society, alongside President Assad's father-in-law Dr Fawaz Akhras. In 2003, as ambassador to Bahrain, Ford says he sent critical memoranda to London before the Iraq War. Later, he regretted not having been more outspoken. In his time in Damascus (2003-2006), he says he distanced himself more and more from the official policies. Since 2006, he has been criticised as a defender of the Syrian government in Syria. In 2016, he suggested opposition forces were responsible for an attack on a UN humanitarian convoy in September 2016 which led to the deaths of 10 humanitarians. A UN panel of inquiry said the attack was conducted from the air, and only Syrian and Russian air forces were operating in the area. The UN panel stated "that it did not have evidence to conclude that the incident was a deliberate attack on a humanitarian target". He accused the British government of lies and political mistakes in Syria from the onstart of the uprising, thus aggravating the situation. He argued that Prime Minister David Cameron should have either committed British forces or refrained from encouraging opposition forces from mounting a campaign against the Syrian government. Ford believes that the British leaders expected an early end of the Syrian government and overestimated the strength of the moderate opposition, whom they did not provide with sufficient help. Ford argued that the fall of Assad would open a "Pandora's box", repeating the mistakes of Libya and Iraq. In his opinion, the fall of the Syrian government would lead to the massacres of Christians, Shias, Alawites, Druze and other minorities. On the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack, he commented to the BBC that "there [had] been no investigation.. not a dodgy dossier - we've not seen any dossier whatever this time". Ford argued there was no proof of the Syrian government's involvement in the attack. Ford participated in the EuroCE conference on the future of Syria from 5 to 6 April 2017 which was criticised by dissidents as pro-Assad, because among the speakers there were Syrian politicians and supporters of the Assad government. At the conference Ford described the British policy as "incoherent and grotesque", and accused the British government of being among those in the front rank of destroying Syria. He added that following the Iraq War he had been under regular instructions to remonstrate with the Syrians over the flow of jihadis into Iraq, but said he understood the Syrian government's point of view. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

*Original Air Date: March 11, 2019 Canadian author Yves Engler discusses how Canadian foreign policy is an extension of US foreign policy, how the myth and image of Canada as a benevolent nation is destroyed by its violent regime change of Haiti in 2006 and current involvement in the Venezuelan coup, as well as its role subservient to Washington and its wars of the 20th century. *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/geopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate Show Notes Canadian ‘aid’ to Venezuela part of plan to overthrow government https://yvesengler.com/2019/02/23/canadian-aid-to-venezuela-part-of-plan-to-overthrow-government The United States in Canadian Foreign Policy https://www.international.gc.ca/odskelton/gotlieb.aspx?lang=eng Canadian Amb. Allan Gotlieb: North American Politics and Integration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_xEyhL3Lh0 Yves Engler and the Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uBoVv-37Rs Websites https://yvesengler.com Books https://yvesengler.com/yves-books https://www.amazon.com/Yves-Engler/e/B001K8LTWO?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2&qid=1552317512&sr=8-2 About Yves Engler Former Vice President of the Concordia Student Union, Yves Engler is a Montréal-based activist and author. He has published ten books: Left, Right — Marching to the Beat of Imperial Canada; A Propaganda System—How Canada’s Government, Corporations, Media and Academia Sell War and Exploitation, Canada in Africa — 300 Years of Aid and Exploitation, The Ugly Canadian — Stephen Harper’s Foreign Policy, Lester Pearson’s Peacekeeping — The Truth May Hurt, Stop Signs — Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay (with Bianca Mugyenyi), The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy (Shortlisted for the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non Fiction in the Quebec Writers’ Federation Literary Awards), Playing Left Wing: From Rink Rat to Student Radical and (with Anthony Fenton) Canada in Haiti: Waging War on The Poor Majority and Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid. Yves was born in Vancouver, where he grew up playing hockey. He was a peewee teammate of NHL star Mike Ribeiro at Huron Hochelaga in Montréal before playing in the B.C. Junior League. After being suspended from Concordia University, he turned to research and writing, but he’s still a fan of the great Canadian sport. To contact Yves email Yvesengler(at)hotmail.com While Yves regularly attend rallies and demonstrations in Montreal, since the release of the Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy in 2009 the bulk of his activism has focused on organizing and coordinating hundreds of speaking events concerning the subject of his books. Through these efforts Yves has worked with antiwar, mining justice, as well as Palestine, Africa, Haiti and Latin America solidarity groups across the country. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

*Original Air Date: March 6, 2019 Former Dutch Pirate Party candidate, musician, and journalist Rico Brouwer of the Potkaars podcast joins me to discuss his experience as an average citizen trying to make a change in national and European politics with the Pirate Party, and his turn to podcast journalism. We talk about the problems with the establishment or mainstream media and what he calls the "Many Stream" or alternative and independent media. We also discuss the general sentiment in Europe given the political and economic crisis. *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/geopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate About Rico Brouwer and Potkaars Potkaars in Dutch literally means ‘pot with candle’, phonetically it’s podcasts, they shed light. We make them and look for yours. Potkaars was started in september 2018 by Rico Brouwer and Saskia Söller. Der Spiegel in 2015 offered her apologies after having published Bellingcat's lies. In 2018 they sue their own journalist Claas Relotius (CNN journalist of the year in 2014), after it became apparent that he had made up stories. In the Netherlands, the Dutch Broadcasting Foundation (NOS) as public broadcaster has been given the task of providing coverage through our national media outlets. The NOS has been given her own black-book in which their mistakes made, are documented. Former Minister Opstelten of Dutch political party VVD said 'a minister does not lie'. But he himself in 2015 resigned after it became known he had misinformed our House of Representatives. If you want real news, you have to be willing to cut through the smoke -smokes & mirrors- to get to information, and demand a controllable government. Putting information away as 'fake news' is easy. But what do you replace it with? Potkaars tells the story of people who 'have started doing things that matter'. What is wrong, how can it be done better and what do you do to achieve that? Potkaars are podcasts that shed light. We make them and look for yours. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

*Original Air Date: February 28, 2019 Analyst Tom Luongo joins us to discuss the global economy. We look at the U.S., EU, and China. His thesis is that all regions are on autopilot until something cracks, which he thinks will come from Europe, just as it has in the 20th century with the two world wars. *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/geopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate Websites https://tomluongo.me https://www.patreon.com/GoldGoatsNGuns About Tom Luongo Tom Luongo is a former research chemist by trade and an Austrian Economist by study and a market analyst by choice. For the past four years he has been a Senior Financial Editor with Newsmax Media publishing thoughts on where markets, central banks, gold and geopolitics meet and explode. He is now the publisher of Gold, Goats n' Guns, a monthly newsletter offered through Patreon. He has been an investor and market analyst for more seventeen years and is an astute observer in changes within the culture and the political landscape. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

*Original Air Date: February 23, 2019 Author Patrick Wood discusses the 1930s technocracy movement and how it is becoming prominent once again not only in China, but spreading around the world, including to the EU and United States. He highlights the dangers of technocracy, how it can easily turn into dystopia, and how politicians are increasingly looking to scientific elites or "technocrats" to run their governments. *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/geopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate Websites https://www.technocracy.news https://twitter.com/stoptechnocracy Publications https://www.technocracy.news/shop About Patrick Wood Patrick Wood is a leading and critical expert on Sustainable Development, Green Economy, Agenda 21, 2030 Agenda and historic Technocracy. He is the author of Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation (2015) and co-author of Trilaterals Over Washington, Volumes I and II (1978-1980) with the late Antony C. Sutton. Wood remains a leading expert on the elitist Trilateral Commission, their policies and achievements in creating their self-proclaimed “New International Economic Order” which is the essence of Sustainable Development on a global scale. An economist by education, a financial analyst and writer by profession and an American Constitutionalist by choice, Wood maintains a Biblical world view and has deep historical insights into the modern attacks on sovereignty, property rights and personal freedom. Such attacks are epitomized by the implementation of U.N. policies such as Agenda 21, Sustainable Development, Smart Growth and in education, the widespread adoption of Common Core State Standards. Wood is a frequent speaker and guest on radio shows around the nation. His current research builds on Trilateral Commission hegemony, focusing on Technocracy, Transhumanism and Scientism, and how these are transforming global economics, politics and religion. Show Notes China’s social credit system shows its teeth, banning millions from taking flights, trains https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/2186606/chinas-social-credit-system-shows-its-teeth-banning-millions The Chinese technology helping New York police keep a closer eye on the United States’ biggest city https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/2181749/chinese-technology-helping-new-york-police-keep-closer-eye-united China Is Purging Marxists and Communists https://www.technocracy.news/technocracy-rules-china-is-purging-marxists-and-communists Xi Jinping’s Vision For China Is A Global Technocracy https://www.technocracy.news/xi-jinpings-vision-for-china-is-a-global-technocracy Bank For International Settlements Declared ‘Bastion Of Global Technocracy’ https://www.technocracy.news/bank-for-international-settlements-declared-bastion-of-global-technocracy A Case for Technocracy in America https://www.fairobserver.com/politics/technocracy-america-politics-economics-us-news-42511 TECHNOCRACY IN AMERICA: Rise of the Info-State https://www.paragkhanna.com/home/2016/10/18/technocracy-in-america?rq=technocracy Is Big Tech Merging With Big Brother? Kinda Looks Like It https://www.wired.com/story/is-big-tech-merging-with-big-brother-kinda-looks-like-it 'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/20/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-google-facebook *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

*Original Air Date: February 14, 2019 Former UN Special Rapporteur Dr. Alfred de Zayas explains the coup in Venezuela, how the U.S. is responsible for the humanitarian crisis, how civil war and U.S. intervention are possible, and more. He describes how human rights are weaponized by Washington (in the case of Caracas) and by Spain and the EU (in the case of Catalonia). Dr. de Zayas also comments on media propaganda, fake news, and the censorship he has personally experienced. *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/geopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate Show Notes Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order on his mission to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and Ecuador https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G18/239/31/PDF/G1823931.pdf?OpenElement Websites https://twitter.com/alfreddezayas https://dezayasalfred.wordpress.com http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IntOrder/Pages/AlfredDeZayas.aspx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred-Maurice_de_Zayas http://alfreddezayas.com About Alfred de Zayas Alfred-Maurice de Zayas studied history and law at Harvard, where he obtained his J.D. He practiced corporate law with the New York law firm Simpson Thacher and Bartlett and is a retired member of the New York and Florida Bar. He obtained a doctorate in history for the University of Göttingen in Germany. Mr. de Zayas has been visiting professor of law at numerous universities including the University of British Columbia in Canada, the Graduate Institute of the University of Geneva, the DePaul University Law School (Chicago), the Human Rights Institute at the Irish National University (Galway)and the University of Trier (Germany). At present he teaches international law at the Geneva School of Diplomacy. In 2009 de Zayas was a member of the UN workshop that drafted a report on the human right to peace, which was subsequently discussed and further elaborated by the Advisory Committee of the Human Rights Council. He is also a signatory of the Declaración de Bilbao and Declaración de Santiago de Compostela on the Human Right to Peace. He served as a consultant to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the issue of mercenaries. De Zayas is an expert for civil and political rights and has published nine books on a variety of legal and historical issues, including “United Nations Human Rights Committee Case Law” (together with Jakob th. Möller, N.P. Engel 2009), and has been co-author and co-editor of numerous other books, including "International Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms" (together with Gudmundur Alfredsson and Bertrand Ramcharan). His scholarly articles in the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Oxford Encyclopedia of Human Rights and Macmillan Encyclopedia of Genocide, encompass the prohibition of aggression, universal jurisdiction, the right to the homeland, mass population transfers, minority rights, refugee law, repatriation, legal aspects of the Spanish Civil War, indefinite detention, Guantanamo and the right to peace. He is fluent in six languages and has published a book of Rilke translations with commentary (“Larenopfer”, Red Hen Press 2008) and is completing the translation of Hermann Hesse’s "Das Lied des Lebens". From 2002-2006 he was Secretary-General, from 2006-2010 President of PEN International, Centre Suisse romand. He was member of several advisory boards, including of the International Society of Human Rights (Frankfurt a.M.), Zentrum gegen Vertreibungen (Berlin), the International Human Rights Association of American Minorities (Canada) and of the conseil scientifique of the Académie International de droit constitutionnel (Tunis). He has received several awards, most recently the "Educators Award 2011" of Canadians for Genocide Education. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

*Original Air Date: February 9, 2019 Daniel Estulin explains the US regime change in Venezuela and how it is part of a bigger global shifting alliance of interests, where China has agreed to let the U.S. take Venezuela in exchange for North Korea. He discusses his latest book "In the Shadows of a Presidency", and what scenarios he sees playing out beyond the coming global economic reset. *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/geopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate Websites https://twitter.com/estulindaniel https://english.danielestulin.com Publications http://www.amazon.com/Daniel-Estulin/e/B002O0C8D6/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1459468196&sr=8-1 About Daniel Estulin Dr. Daniel Estulin is a dangerous man to the status quo. Possessed, obsessed, tenacious and courageous, a 2015 Nobel Prize nominee and a multi award-winning investigative journalist, he is a man who has been in the cross-hairs of the global power brokers for almost two decades. He is our preeminent historian of the global elite, a scholar of remarkable breadth and erudition and one of the world’s most outspoken public intellectuals. Dr. Estulin doesn’t just inspire us, he informs us with his intelligence, authenticity, generosity and compassion. He provides the information, tools, and motivation necessary to inspire and catalyze strategic citizen action. In doing so, his work strengthens movements, ensures a more just system, and brings us closer to the promise of democracy. His 2015 Nobel Peace Prize nomination is a tribute and recognition for all the work in fighting, exposing and risking his life for the common good of the human race. He gave two speeches at the European Parliament in 2010 and 2012 on European Integration and financial crisis. In November 2014, Mr. Estulin was a keynote speaker at the United Nations conference in Vienna, “Strategic Tendencies of World Politics 2015-2020”. In 2015 and again in 2016, Estulin won Mexico's highest award for journalism. Between 2012 and 2014, Estulin presented and directed the highest rates Spanish language TV show in the world, Desde la Sombra (Out of the Shadows), on RT's international channel with a weekly audience of over 6 million/ episode. Since 2005, Dr. Estulin has given over 700 conferences to 500,000+ people. In his international best seller, The True Story of the Bilderberg Group, which has sold 7.2 million copies in 68 countries and been translated into 48 languages, Dr. Estulin was the first man to publicly expose this shadowy cabal of some of the world’s most powerful behind the scenes manipulators. Again and again, Dr. Estulin bravely journeys to the epicenter of hell to uncover some of the most mind-boggling crimes by the men who run the world from behind the scenes. Show Notes Colombia: A Return to War? https://sputniknews.com/radio_trendstorm/201901261071820593-colombia-a-return-to-war South America creating regional bloc to counter Venezuela: Colombia https://www.reuters.com/article/us-colombia-diplomacy/south-america-creating-regional-bloc-to-counter-venezuela-colombia-idUSKCN1P8287 Colombia probes Venezuela connection to assassination plot on President Ivan Duque https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/2180007/colombia-probes-venezuela-connection-assassination-plot Colombia: “El ELN está en Venezuela con el apoyo de Maduro” http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/mundo/colombia-eln-esta-venezuela-con-apoyo-maduro_266411 Revealed: US And Colombia Conspiring To Intervene In Venezuela https://disobedientmedia.com/2019/02/revealed-us-and-columbia-conspiring-to-intervene-in-venezuela Venezuela: Pope wants to verify will of both parties https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2019-02/venezuela-pope-wants-to-verify-will-of-both-parties.html Leaked Wikileaks Doc Reveals US Military Use of IMF, World Bank as “Unconventional” Weapons https://www.mintpressnews.com/leaked-wikileaks-doc-reveals-how-us-military-uses-of-imf-world-bank-as-unconventional-weapons/254708 As a former UN special rapporteur, the coup in Venezuela reminds me of the rush to war in Iraq https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/venezuela-crisis-coup-maduro-guaido-us-troops-un-iraq-a8767506.html Mujica sobre la crisis en Venezuela: “Si EE.UU. no tiene más remedio que intervenir, va a intervenir; el tema central es evitar la guerra” https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-47137888?SThisFB *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

*Original Air Date: February 5, 2019 Dr. Paul Robinson from the University of Ottawa explains the current state of US-Russia relations. We talk Putin, Trump, Russiagate, media propaganda, the New Arms Race, the Russian economy, and his forthcoming book on Russian conservatism. *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/geopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate Websites https://irrussianality.wordpress.com https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/members/994/profile Publications https://www.amazon.com/Paul-Robinson/e/B001HQ26YE/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3?qid=1549382146&sr=8-3 About the Guest Paul Robinson holds an MA in Russian and Eastern European Studies from the University of Toronto and a D. Phil. in Modern History from the University of Oxford. Prior to his graduate studies, he served as a regular officer in the British Army Intelligence Corps from 1989 to 1994, and as a reserve officer in the Canadian Forces from 1994 to 1996. He also worked as a media research executive in Moscow in 1995. Having published six books, he has also written widely for the international press on political issues. His research focuses generally on military affairs. In recent years, he has worked on Russian history, military history, defence policy, and military ethics. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

*Original Air Date: January 30, 2019 Civil rights attorney Bill Simpich joins us to discuss the new call put forward by Kennedy and King family members as well as 50+ other prominent Americans to open new probes into the deaths of JFK, RFK, MLK, and Malcolm X. Mr. Simpich explains why the call is happening now, who is behind it, what needs to happen in the future, and why it is so important for American democracy. He explains deep politics and provides some interesting personal anecdotes along the way. *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/geopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate Show Notes Kennedy, King Families to Congress: Reopen Probes https://whowhatwhy.org/2019/01/19/kennedy-king-families-to-congress-reopen-probes Kennedy, King, Malcolm X Relatives and Scholars Seek New Assassination Probes https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/01/25/kennedy-king-malcolm-x-relatives-scholars-seek-new-assassination-probes Websites https://twitter.com/BillSimpich https://www.maryferrell.org https://jfkfacts.org/author/bill-simpich https://capa-us.org/bill-simpich https://aarclibrary.org/bill-simpich-analyzing-the-new-jfk-revelations Publications https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/State_Secret.html About the Guest Bill Simpich is a civil rights attorney in the San Francisco Bay Area. The main areas of his law practice are government misconduct, housing and toxic tort violations. A contributor to Reader Supported News, he is the author of “State Secret: Wiretapping in Mexico City, Double Agents, and the Framing of Lee Oswald.” He is analyzing CIA cryptonyms at the Mary Ferrell Foundation website. He is also reviewing the forensic evidence indicating that Oswald did not use a weapon on Nov. 22, 1963. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

*Original Air Date: January 25, 2019 Dr. Paul Craig Roberts joins us to discuss US military interventions, how the "Everything Bubble" won't pop until the dollar ceases to be the world reserve currency, the Orwellian media landscape, and how identity politics is causing a violent polarization that can lead to the disintegration of the country. *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/geopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate Websites http://www.paulcraigroberts.org Books https://www.amazon.com/Paul-Craig-Roberts/e/B001ITWVPE/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2?qid=1494260819&sr=8-2 About Paul Craig Roberts Paul Craig Roberts has had careers in scholarship and academia, journalism, public service, and business. He is chairman of The Institute for Political Economy. Dr. Roberts has held numerous academic appointments including the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy in the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He has contributed chapters to numerous books and has published many articles in journals of scholarship. He has testified before committees of Congress on 30 occasions. Dr. Roberts was associate editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal and columnist for Business Week and the Scripps Howard News Service. He was a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate in Los Angeles. In 1992 he received the Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in Journalism. In 1993 the Forbes Media Guide ranked him as one of the top seven journalists in the United States. President Reagan appointed Dr. Roberts Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and he was confirmed in office by the U.S. Senate. From 1975 to 1978, Dr. Roberts served on the congressional staff where he drafted the Kemp-Roth bill and played a leading role in developing bipartisan support for a supply-side economic policy. After leaving the Treasury, he served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Commerce. Dr. Roberts was awarded the Treasury Department’s Meritorious Service Award for “his outstanding contributions to the formulation of United States economic policy.” In 1987 the French government recognized him as “the artisan of a renewal in economic science and policy after half a century of state interventionism” and inducted him into the Legion of Honor. He is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

*Original Air Date: January 10, 2019 Professor of geopolitics Klaus Dodds explains the 'Scramble for the Poles' and how elements of stagecraft and triumphant geopolitics are used by countries such as Canada, China, and Russia to gain currency in order to better assert themselves in the Arctic and Antarctic. He explains the legal regimes that govern the regions, the Cold War military history, and what the future holds for one of the last frontiers. *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/geopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate Show Notes In 30 years the Antarctic Treaty becomes modifiable, and the fate of a continent could hang in the balance https://theconversation.com/in-30-years-the-antarctic-treaty-becomes-modifiable-and-the-fate-of-a-continent-could-hang-in-the-balance-98654 Triumphant geopolitics? Making space of and for Arctic geopolitics in the Arctic Ocean https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/triumphant-geopolitics-making-space-of-and-for-arctic-geopolitics-in-the-arctic-ocean(71b6e049-147b-4b33-8234-7291e58f7702).html It's time to draw borders on the Arctic Ocean (Vox) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx_2SVm9Jgo Putin's Arctic ambitions (Caspian Report) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbrKLnh8wLA Geopolitics of the Arctic (Caspian Report) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV67yJHoPvw The Geopolitics of the Arctic (CFR) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i2SAExt6nI China Wants to Govern the Arctic (China Uncensored) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJeQl4earvA Websites https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/klaus-dodds(fb99b223-7661-4aa1-95f6-1cd527dd0fc7).html https://twitter.com/klausdodds Publications https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&text=Klaus+Dodds&search-alias=books&field-author=Klaus+Dodds&sort=relevancerank https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/klaus-dodds(fb99b223-7661-4aa1-95f6-1cd527dd0fc7)/publications.html About the Guest Professor Klaus Dodds researches in the areas of geopolitics and security, media/popular culture, ice studies and the international governance of the Antarctic and the Arctic. He has published many authored and edited books. His newest book is co-authored with Mark Nuttall, The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know (OUP 2019). In November 2005, he was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for his achievements in the fields of geopolitics and human geography. In academic year 2010-11, he was a visiting fellow at St Cross College, Oxford and HARC fellow at Royal Holloway. In October 2012, he was elected Academician (now Fellow) of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS). In November 2016, he was awarded a Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust (2017-2020) for a project examining 'A new North? The making and remaking of the global Arctic'. In academic year 2017-18, he was a visiting fellow at St John's College, Oxford. He was editor of The Geographical Journal between 2010-2015 and is currently editorial board member of Critical Studies on Security, Geopolitics, International Journal of James Bond Studies, Marine Policy, Political Geography and Polar Record. He is also co-editor of the Routledge Geopolitics Series (with Reece Jones of University of Hawai'i). In 2018, he was appointed deputy editor of Territory, Politics and Governance and will become editor in chief in 2019. Klaus is a Council Member of the Canada-UK Council and a member of the UK Arctic Antarctic Partnership. He has worked for the UK Parliament as specialist adviser to a House of Lords Select Committe on the Arctic and the House of Commons Environment Audit Committee. He is the Director of Research for the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway and acts as REF 2021 lead. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)