Podcasts about Balkan Wars

Maritime security profoundly influences state sovereignty, territorial integrity, and economic stability. This study highlights the critical role naval power played during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913), emphasizing how Greece's naval dominance significantly contributed to the Ottoman Empire's territorial losses in the Eastern Aegean. Greece's effective maritime blockade and strategic island occupations underscore naval superiority's decisive impact. The Ottoman Empire's failure to strengthen its naval capabilities due to internal disagreements and financial constraints further intensified its vulnerability. Historical analysis reveals naval power as a vital component of national defense, illustrating contemporary implications for Türkiye's maritime strategy and defense policy in the Aegean.Link : ⁠https://avim.org.tr/en/Analiz/NAVAL-STRENGTH-IN-THE-AEGEAN-STRATEGIC-LESSONS-FROM-THE-BALKAN-WARSWeb page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://avim.org.tr/en⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Telegram Channel:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://t.me/s/avimorgtr⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://avim.org.tr/en⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Linkedin: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/avimorgtr/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠VKontakte: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://vk.com/public202374482⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Youtube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcIfEGNM3308QoLbCDJIFuw⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Dailmotion: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.dailymotion.com/dm_0ea263f63bb5aee7d8770d1ec13cfe8b⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instgram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/avimorgtr/IntroductionIntroduction⁠

On The Literary Life Podcast today we bring you a special “Literary Life of…” episode featuring author and journalist Peter Hitchens. After sharing their commonplace quotes, Angelina and Thomas dive into the interview with Mr. Hitchens, first asking about his memories of books and reading in his childhood. In this wide-ranging conversation, our hosts and Mr. Hitchens discuss such topics as the George Orwell's lesser known works, the Spanish Civil War and the Balkan Wars, oft overlooked 20th Century authors, ghost stories, losing our literary tradition, and so much more! The seventh annual Literary Life Online Conference is coming up April 23-26, 2025! Please visit HouseofHumaneLetters.com to sign up for that as well as all the other upcoming webinars of this year. Be sure to visit https://theliterary.life/271 to view the full show notes for this episode, including links to all the books mentioned in this conversation. 

February 14th 2025 Yuriy provides a powerful reminder of the enduring importance of dignity, freedom, and resistance against oppression. We delve into historical parallels and current threats, reinforcing the necessity of standing with Ukraine against tyranny and occupation. Here is a link to the substack article he mentioned in this episode: https://yuriymatsarsky.substack.com/p/middle-eastern-tortuga  You can email Yuriy, ask him questions or simply send him a message of support: fightingtherussianbeast@gmail.com    You can help Yuriy and his family by donating to his GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-yuriys-family   Yuriy's Podbean Patron sign-up to give once or regularly: https://patron.podbean.com/yuriy   Buy Yuriy a coffee here: https://bmc.link/yuriymat  Subscribe to his substack: https://yuriymatsarsky.substack.com/  ----more---- TRANSCRIPT: (Apple Podcasts & Podbean app users can enjoy accurate closed captions)      It is February 14.  Today, I just want to remind you what a deal in which dignity, freedom, and human lives are measured in dollars is a very bad deal because there are things more variable than dollars.  Let me remind you that the war will not end as long as there is even a single inch of occupied land in Ukraine. Because even if the guns fall silent, the torture chambers and concentration camps will not disappear. And every day, just like now, people will be tortured and murdered there. So, leaving towns and villages under occupation while saying what the most important thing is to prevent people from dying is hypocrisy and a lie. People will continue to die.   It is strange but it has to be repeated in the 21st century. But I will remind you anyway: Nazis are scum, occupation is a crime, and appeasement of an aggressor never works. "Blessed are the peacemakers said Jesus," but he did not mean those who give the aggressor everything they desire and when, call it peace.  The other day, my brother in arms said that the West is now in the same position as Ukraine was during the Balkan Wars of 1990s. Back then we were all going about our lives, not even thinking that one day, we too could face a siege like Sarajevo or mass executions like in Srebenica. Right now, you are not thinking about it, but the threat of war escalating is very real. I will finish today on a somewhat solemn note, but forgive me for that. Before the start of Second World War, Winston Churchill said that a nation that chooses shame over war will get both shame and war. Do not choose shame. Stand with Ukraine. Stand for freedom and dignity.  

Hosted by Mike Simmons. - Mirjana, born and raised in Serbia during the Balkan Wars, now works on inspiring students, especially women and girls, across Africa. - Focuses on countries in crisis, using astronomy to bring hope and education. - **Highlight:** Discover her journey and the profound impact of her work on young girls aspiring to enter STEM fields.   Mike Simmons is the founder of Astronomy for Equity ( https://bmsis.org/astro4equity/ ). Others on the team, including people around the world in astronomy and space exploration, authors and philosophers, designers and artists and more will be added as the website is developed.   We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs.  Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too!  Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit http://www.redbubble.com/people/CosmoQuestX/shop for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations.  Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) ------------------------------------ The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by the Planetary Science Institute. http://www.psi.edu Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org.

An Inspiring Reprise Episode From Season One:Human trafficking is a $150 billion-a-year business that thrives in war zones and is arguably more lucrative than arms sales. Lurata Lyon joins HBH and bravely tells her unimaginable story of survival during the Balkan Wars across Eastern Europe in the 1990s.Lurata was kidnapped into human trafficking as a teenager when the war engulfed her home country of Serbia. She was destined for a life of sex-trafficking and organ-harvesting. Miraculously, she escaped, only to find further horrors waiting for her in the same war zone.Lurata is a profoundly inspirational person. Beyond her heroism to survive, she continues to speak out for those who were not as fortunate.

“It's quite clear to me that he was trying to recreate the hillside of Haifa with the gardens... It comes from somebody being ripped out from their home.” Syrian Jewish Playwright Oren Safdie, son of world-renowned architect Moshe Safdie, who designed Habitat 67 along with much of modern Jerusalem, knows loss, regret, and longing. Oren and his father explore their Syrian heritage and their connection to the Jewish state that has developed since Moshe's father left Aleppo, Syria and moved, in the mid-20th century, to what is modern-day Israel. Oren also knows that being Jewish is about stepping up. Describing his frustrations with modern anti-Israel sentiments and protests that harken back to 1943, Oren is passionately combating anti-Israel propaganda in theater and academia.  Abraham Marcus, Associate Professor Emeritus at University of Texas at Austin, joins the conversation with historical insights into Jewish life in Syria dating back to Roman times. —- Show notes: Sign up to receive podcast updates here. Learn more about the series here. Song credits:  Al Fadimem, Bir Demet Yasemen, Fidayda; all by Turku, Nomads of the Silk Road Aleppo Bakkashah  Pond5:  “Desert Caravans”: Publisher: Pond5 Publishing Beta (BMI), Composer: Tiemur Zarobov (BMI), IPI#1098108837 “Oud Nation”: Publisher: Pond5 Publishing Beta (BMI); Composer: Haygaz Yossoulkanian (BMI), IPI#1001905418 “Arabic (Middle Eastern Music)”: Publisher: Pond5 Publishing Beta (BMI), Composer: Andrei Skliarov, Item ID #152407112 “Fields Of Elysium”; Publisher: Mysterylab Music; Composer: Mott Jordan; ID#79549862 “Middle Eastern Dawn”: Publisher: Victor Romanov, Composer: Victor Romanov; Item ID #202256497 “Ney Flute Melody 01”: Publisher: Ramazan Yuksel; Composer: Ramazan Yuksel; P.R.O. Track: BMI 00712367557 “Uruk”: Publisher: Pond5 Publishing Beta (BMI); Composer: Marcus Bressler; Item ID: 45886699 “Suspense Middle East” Publisher: Victor Romanov, Composer: Victor Romanov; Item ID: 196056047 ___ Episode Transcript: OREN SAFDIE:  I've sort of wanted to shine a light on North American Jews being hypercritical of Israel. Because I've spent a lot of time in Israel. And I know what it is. It's not a simple thing. And I think it's very easy for Americans in the comfort of their little brownstones in Brooklyn, and houses in Cambridge to criticize, but these people that live in Israel are really standing the line for them. MANYA BRACHEAR PASHMAN: The world has overlooked an important episode in modern history: the 800,000 Jews who left or were driven from their homes in the Middle East and North Africa in the mid-20th century. Welcome to the second season of The Forgotten Exodus, brought to you by American Jewish Committee. This series explores that pivotal moment in history and the little-known Jewish heritage of Iran and Arab nations. As Jews around the world confront violent antisemitism and Israelis face daily attacks by terrorists on multiple fronts, our second season explores how Jews have lived throughout the region for generations despite hardship, hostility, and hatred, then sought safety and new possibilities in their ancestral homeland. I'm your host, Manya Brachear Pashman. Join us as we explore untold family histories and personal stories of courage, perseverance, and resilience from this transformative and tumultuous period of history for the Jewish people and the Middle East.  The world has ignored these voices. We will not.  This is The Forgotten Exodus. Today's episode: leaving Aleppo. MANYA: Playwright and screenwriter Oren Safdie has had just about enough of the anti-Israel sentiments on stage and screen. And what irks him the most is when it comes from Jewish artists and celebrities who have never spent time in the Middle East's one and only democracy. Remember film director Jonathan Glazer's speech at the 2024 Academy Awards? JONATHAN GLAZER: Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people. Whether the victims of October the … [APPLAUSE] MANYA: Yeah, Oren didn't much appreciate his own Jewishness being hijacked in that moment. Drawing a moral equivalence between the Nazi regime and Israel never really sits well with him. OREN: I do feel like they're very selective in their criticism of Israel. You know, it's very easy to say, ‘Oh, well, they didn't do that. They don't do this.' But it's a complicated situation. And to simplify it, is just to me beyond, especially if you're not somebody who has spent a lot of time in Israel. MANYA: Oren Safdie has penned more than two dozen scripts for stages and screens around the world. His latest film, Lunch Hour, starring Alan Cumming, is filming in Minnesota.  Meanwhile, The Man Who Saved the Internet with A Sunflower, another script he co-wrote, is on the festival circuit. And his latest play Survival of the Unfit, made its North American debut in the Berkshires this summer, is headed to Broadway. And by the way, since an early age, Oren Safdie has spent quite a bit of time in Israel. His father Moshe Safdie is the legendary architect behind much of modern Jerusalem, Ben-Gurion International Airport, and the Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum.  Oren's grandfather, Leon, emigrated from Syria. OREN: I'm sort of a synthesis of the two main parts that established Israel because my mother came from Poland, escaped the Holocaust. And my father's family came from Syria. So, I'm a half breed.  I've never been asked about my Sephardic side, even though that was really the dominant side that I grew up with. Because my mother's family was quite small. I grew up in Montreal, it was much more in the Syrian tradition for holidays, food, everything like that. My grandfather was from Aleppo, Syria, and my grandmother was from Manchester, England, but originally from Aleppo. Her family came to Manchester, but two generations before, had been from Aleppo. So, they're both Halabi Jews.  MANYA: Halabi refers to a diverse group of Jews from Aleppo, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world that has gone by several names. The oldest? Haleb.  Halabi Jews include Mizrahi Jews -- the name for Jews who call the Middle East or North Africa home; and Sephardi Jews, who fled to the region after being expelled from Spain in the 15th Century.  Jews are believed to have been in what is now Syria since the time of King David and certainly since early Roman times. ABRAHAM MARCUS: It's a community that starts, as far as we can record, in the Greco-Roman period. And we see the arrival of Islam. So the Jews were really the indigenous people when Arabs arrived. MANYA: Abraham Marcus, born to parents from Aleppo, is an internationally renowned authority on the city. He served as director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. For the past 16 years, he has been working on a book about the history of Aleppo's Jews that goes well beyond what has been previously published. As part of his research, he examined thousands of documents from the Syrian national archive and the Ottoman archive in Istanbul. He also did extensive fieldwork on the ground in Aleppo, documenting the synagogues, cemeteries, residential districts, and workplaces.  MARCUS: One of the synagogues, the famous ancient synagogue of Aleppo, which dates to the 5th Century, meaning it predates the arrival of Arabs. It is a remarkable structure. Unfortunately, what is left of it now is really a skeleton. MANYA: Abraham is referring to the Great Synagogue or Central Synagogue of Aleppo, which functioned as the main house of worship for the Syrian Jewish community for more than 1,600 years. For 600 of those years, its catacombs safeguarded a medieval manuscript believed to be the oldest, most complete, most accurate text of the Hebrew Bible, known as the Aleppo Codex. The codex was used by Maimonides as a reference for his magnum opus, the Mishneh Torah, or Jewish religious legal code. In the 7th Century, Aleppo was conquered by Arab Muslims and a Great Mosque was built. For the next four centuries, the Byzantine Empire, Crusaders, and various Muslim rulers fought to gain control of Aleppo and the surrounding region. A savage Mongol invasion, a bout of the Black Death and another invasion took its toll on the city, and its Jews.  For most of this time, Muslim rulers treated them as dhimmis, or second-class citizens.  MARCUS: There were restrictions on dress, which were renewed time and again. They could not carry arms. They could not ride horses. MANYA: After half of Spain's Jews converted to Christianity following the pogroms of 1391, the Catholic monarchs issued the Alhambra Decree of 1492 – an edict that expelled any remaining Jews from the Iberian Peninsula to ensure their descendants didn't revert back to Judaism.  As Jews fled, many made their way to parts of the Ottoman Empire. In 1516, Aleppo became part of that empire and emerged as a strategic trading post at the end of the Silk Road, between the Mediterranean Sea and Mesopotamia, or modern-day Iraq. As was the case in other parts of the Ottoman Empire, Jews lived relatively comfortably, serving as merchants and tax collectors.  MARCUS: The policy of the Ottoman Empire was to essentially welcome the Sephardic Jews. The Sultan at the time is reputed to have said, ‘I don't understand the King of Spain. But if he's thinking at all, giving up all this human capital, essentially, we can take it.'  Many of the successful Jews in Aleppo and Damascus–in business, as leaders, as rabbis–were Sephardic Jews. They revived these communities, they brought new blood and new energy to them, a new wealth. MANYA: This was not always the case throughout Ottoman Syria as persecution and pogroms erupted at times.  By the mid-19th Century, Aleppo's Jewish population was slightly smaller than that of Baghdad, by about 2,000. In 1869, the opening of the Suez Canal shifted trade away from the route through Syria. Aleppo lost much of its commercial edge, motivating many Jews to seek opportunity elsewhere. MARCUS: The story of Aleppo is one of a society gradually hemorrhaging, losing people. They went to Beirut, which was a rising star. And Egypt became very attractive. So they went to Alexandria and Cairo. And many of the rabbis from the 1880s began to move to Jerusalem where there were yeshivot that were being set up. And in effect, over the next several decades, essentially the spiritual center of Aleppo's Jews was Jerusalem and no longer Aleppo.  MANYA: Another turning point for Aleppo came in World War I when the Ottoman Empire abandoned its neutral position and sided with the Central Powers–including Bulgaria, Austria-Hungary and Germany.  Many wealthy Jews had acquired foreign nationalities from countries that were not allies. Now considered enemy citizens, they were deported and never came back. In addition, Jews and Christians up to that point could pay a special tax to avoid serving in the army. That privilege ended in 1909. MARCUS: Because of the Balkan Wars, there was a sense that the empire is going to collapse if they don't essentially raise a large force to defend it. And there was a kind of flight that really decimated the community by 1918, when the war ended. MANYA: Besides those two wartime exceptions, Abraham says the departure of Jews from Syria was almost always motivated by the promise of better opportunities. In fact, opportunity might have been what drew the Safdie family to and from Aleppo. MANYA: Originally from Safed, as their name suggests, the Safdie family arrived in Aleppo sometime during the 16th or 17th centuries. By that time, the Jewish community in Safed, one of the Four Holy Cities in Judaism located in modern-day Israel, had transformed it into a lucrative textile center. So lucrative that the sultan of the ruling Ottoman Empire ordered the forced deportation of 1,000 Jewish families to Cyprus to boost that island's economy.  It's not clear if those deportations or the decline that followed pushed the Safdie family north to Aleppo. Most of them stayed for roughly three centuries–through World War One and France's brief rule during the Interwar period. But in 1936, amid the Great Depression, which affected Syria as well, Leon Safdie, the ninth of ten children born to textile merchants, moved to Haifa and set up his own trading business. Importing textiles, woolens, and cottons from England and fabrics from Japan and India.  A year later, he met his wife Rachel who had sailed from Manchester to visit her sister in Jerusalem. She spoke English and a little French. He spoke Arabic and French. They married a month later. OREN: My grandfather lived in Haifa, he was a merchant like many Syrian Jews were. He imported textiles. He freely went between the different countries, you know, there weren't really so many borders. A lot of his people he worked with were Arab, Druze, Christian, Muslim. Before independence, even though there was obviously some tension, being somebody who is a Syrian Jew, who spoke Arabic, who spoke French, he was sort of just one of the region. MANYA: Moshe Safdie was born in 1938. He says the onset of the Second World War created his earliest memories – hosting Australian soldiers in their home for Shabbat and making nightly trips into air raid shelters. Every summer, the family vacationed in the mountain resorts of Lebanon to visit aunts and uncles that had moved from Aleppo to Beirut. Their last visit to Lebanon in the summer of 1947 culminated with all of the aunts, uncles, and cousins piling into three Chrysler limousines and caravanning from Beirut to Aleppo to visit their grandmother and matriarch, Symbol. MOSHE: I remember sort of the fabric of the city. I have vague memories of the Citadel of Aleppo, because it was an imposing structure. I remember her – a very fragile woman, just vaguely. MANYA: While most of Moshe's memories of Aleppo are vague, one memory in particular is quite vivid. At that time, the United Nations General Assembly was debating the partition plan that would divide what was then the British Mandate of Palestine between Jews and Arabs. Tensions ran high throughout the region. When Moshe's uncles noticed Moshe wearing his school uniform on the streets of Aleppo, they panicked.  MOSHE: They were terrified. We were walking in the street, and we had khaki shirts and khaki pants. And it had stitched on it, as required in our school, the school badge, and it said, ‘Thou shalt be humble' in Hebrew. And they saw that, or at least they noticed we had that, and they said: ‘No, this is very dangerous!' and they ripped it off.' MANYA: It would be the first and last time Moshe Safdie visited Aleppo. On the 29th of November, the UN voted on a resolution to divide Palestine into two states, one Arab and one Jewish. The news arrived in Aleppo the following morning. MARCUS: This was New York time, in the evening, when the decision was made. So already, people started planning demonstrations for the next day, in support of the Palestinians. And that next day began with what was a peaceful demonstration of students, and then all kinds of people joined in and before long it became an attack on Jewish property. The synagogues were set ablaze. Many Jewish homes were burned, businesses were looted. And so the day ended with the Jews really in a state of fright.  MANYA: The mob looted the Jewish quarter and burned the Great Synagogue, scattering and desecrating the pages of the Aleppo Codex. The caretaker of the synagogue and his son later returned to the ashes to salvage as much as they could. But most of the community's leadership took a train to Beirut and never looked back.  Of course, as previously mentioned, Aleppo had already witnessed a steep decline in its Jewish population. The numbers vary widely, depending on the source, but by 1947, on the eve of the Jewish exodus from Syria, Iraq, and other Arab countries, Aleppo had anywhere between 6,000 and 15,000 Jews, whereas Baghdad had between 75 and 90,000. MARCUS: More than half the population left within a month. The community after that, in the next two, three weeks, was in a situation in which some people decided that was the end.  They took possessions that they could, got on buses and left for Beirut. That was the safe destination to go to. And there was traffic between the two areas.  Some people decided to stay. I mean, they had business, they had interest, they had property that they didn't want to leave. You can imagine the kind of dilemmas face people suddenly, the world has changed, and what do I do? Which part of the fork do I go?  MANYA: Those who left effectively forfeited their property to the Syrian government. To this day, the only way to reclaim that property and be allowed to sell it is to return and become Syrian citizens. Those who stayed were trapped. Decimated and demoralized, Aleppo's Jews came under severe travel restrictions, unable to travel more than four kilometers from their homes without permission from the government, which tracked their comings and goings. MARCUS: The view was that if they leave, they'll end up in what's called the Zionist entity and provide the soldiers and aid to the enemy. So the idea was to keep them in.  So there's a reality there of a community that is now stuck in place. Unable to emigrate. That remained in place until 1970, when things began to relax. It was made possible for you to leave temporarily for a visit. But you have to leave a very large sum as a deposit. The other option was essentially to hire some smugglers to take you to the Turkish or the Lebanese border, and basically deliver you to another country where Jews had already networked. The Mossad had people who helped basically transfer them to Israel. But that was very risky. If you were caught, it's prison time and torture.  Over the next 45 years, many of the young left gradually, and many of them left without the parents even knowing. They will say ‘I'm going to the cinema and I'll come back'. MANYA: On May 14, 1948, Israel declared independence. But the socialist politics of the new Jewish state did not sit well with Leon Safdie who much preferred private enterprise. He also felt singled out, as did many Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews in Israel at the time.  OREN: In some ways, it almost created some tension for him on several fronts, right? First of all, between him and his clients, who he had been doing business with in the Arab world, for many years. All of a sudden, those relationships are called into question. And as my grandfather was an importer of textiles, it was considered a luxury good. And when you're in wartime, there were rations.  The high tariffs really killed my grandfather's business. So, he wanted to stay in Israel. He helped with the war effort. He really loved the country and he knew the people, but really for three years, he sat idle and just did not have work. He was a man that really needed to work, had a lot of pride. MANYA: In 1953, Leon and Rachel sought opportunity once again – this time in Montreal – a move Moshe Safdie would forever resent. When in 1959 he married Oren's mother Nina, an Israeli expat who was trying to return to Israel herself, they both resolved to return to the Jewish state. Life and phenomenal success intervened. While studying architecture at McGill University, Moshe designed a modern urban apartment building [Habitat 67] that incorporated garden terraces and multiple stories. It was built and unveiled during the 1967 World's Fair in Montreal, and Moshe's career took off.  OREN: It's quite clear to me that he was trying to recreate the hillside of Haifa with the gardens. And it's something that has sort of preoccupied him for his whole career. It comes from somebody being ripped out from their home. Those kinds of things I think stay with you. MANYA: Eventually, in 1970, Moshe opened a branch of his architecture firm in Jerusalem and established a second home there. Oren recalls visiting every summer – often with his grandfather Leon.   OREN: And I remember going with him when he'd come to Israel when I was there, because we used to go pretty much every summer. He would love to go down to Jericho. And we'd sit at the restaurants. I mean, there was a period of time, you know, when it was sort of accepted that Jews could travel to the West Bank, to Ramallah and everything. And he loved to just speak with the merchants and everything, he loved that. He felt so at home in that setting. It was not dangerous, as it is today, obviously. I think everyone back then thought it was a temporary situation. And obviously, the longer it goes, and the more things happen, it feels more permanent. And of course, that's where we are today. But that time, in my head, sort of just is a confirmation that Jews and Arabs have a lot more in common and can get along … if the situation was different. MANYA: As the son of an Israeli citizen, Oren is considered an Israeli citizen too. But he concedes that he is not fully Israeli. That requires more sacrifice. In 1982, at the age of 17, he signed up for Chetz V'Keshet, at that time a 10-week program run in conjunction with the Israel Defense Forces for American and Canadian teens and designed to foster a connection to Israel. The program took place during the First Lebanon War, Israel's operation to remove terrorists from southern Lebanon, where they had been launching attacks against Israeli civilians. OREN: So this was a mix of basic training, where we trained with artillery and things and did a lot of war games. And from there, you know, their hope was that you would join the military for three years. And I did not continue.  I guess there's a part of me that regrets that. Even though I'm an Israeli citizen, I can't say I'm Israeli in the way that Israelis are. If the older me would look back, then I would say, ‘If you really want to be connected to Israel, the military is really the only way. I'd say at that young age, I didn't understand that the larger picture of what being Jewish, what being Israeli is, and it's about stepping up. MANYA: Now in his early 50s, Oren tries to step up by confronting the anti-Israel propaganda that's become commonplace in both of his professional worlds: theater and academia. In addition to writing his own scripts and screenplays, he has taught college level playwriting and screenwriting. He knows all too often students fall prey to misinformation and consider anything they see on social media or hear from their friends as an authoritative source.  A few years ago, Oren assigned his students the task of writing a script based on real-life experience and research. One of the students drafted a script about bloodthirsty Israelis killing Palestinian children. When Oren asked why he chose that topic and where he got his facts, the student cited his roommate.  Oren didn't discourage him from pitching the script to his classmates, but warned him to come prepared to defend it with facts. The student turned in a script on an entirely different topic. OREN: You know, there were a lot of plays that came up in the past 10 years that were anti-Israel. You'd be very hard-pressed to find me one that's positive about Israel. No one's doing them. MANYA: Two of his scripts have come close. In 2017, he staged a play at the St. James Theatre in Old Montreal titled Mr. Goldberg Goes to Tel Aviv– a farce about a gay Jewish author who arrives in Tel Aviv to deliver a blistering attack on the Israeli government to the country's left-leaning literati.  But before he even leaves his hotel room, he is kidnapped by a terrorist. Investors lined up to bring it to the silver screen and Alan Cumming signed on to play Mr. Goldberg. But in May 2021, Hamas terrorists launched rockets at Israeli civilians, igniting an 11-day war. The conflict led to a major spike in antisemitism globally.  OREN: The money people panicked and said, ‘We can't put up a comedy about the Middle East within this environment. Somebody is going to protest and shut us down,' and they cut out. MANYA: Two years later, an Israeli investor expressed interest in giving the movie a second chance. Then on October 7 [2023], Hamas launched a surprise attack on 20 Israeli communities -- the deadliest attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust. More than 1,200 Israelis have been killed, thousands of rockets have been fired on Israel, and more than 100 hostages are still in captivity. OREN: Mr. Goldberg Goes to Tel Aviv collapsed after October 7th. I don't think anybody would have the appetite for a comedy about a Hamas assassin taking a left-wing Jew hostage in a hotel room. MANYA: Another play titled “Boycott This” was inspired by Oren's visit to a coffee shop in Oaxaca, Mexico in 2011. The walls of the cafe were plastered with posters urging boycotts of Israel and accusing it of blood libel. Oren and his daughter created their own posters and stood outside the coffee shop calling on customers to boycott the cafe instead. But the father and daughter's impromptu protest is just one of three storylines in the play, including one about the 1943 boycott of Jews in Poland–where his mother spent part of her childhood in hiding during the Holocaust.  The third storyline takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where Iran has succeeded in wiping Israel off the map. A Jewish woman has been forced to become one of the enemy's wives – a threat some hostages taken on October 7 have reported hearing from their captors.  OREN: It was really my attempt to try and show how the boycotts of Israel today, in light of, you know, 1943, were really not different.  MANYA:  Even now, Oren has not been able to convince a college or theater to stage “Boycott This,” including the Jewish museum in Los Angeles that hosted his daughter's bat mitzvah on October 7, 2023.    OREN: I've sort of wanted to shine a light on North American Jews being hypercritical of Israel, which I guess ties into BDS. Because I've spent a lot of time in Israel. And I know what it is. It's not a simple thing. And I think it's very easy for Americans in the comfort of their little brownstones in Brooklyn, and houses in Cambridge to criticize, but these people that live in Israel are really standing the line for them. MANYA: When Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton finally secured a legal way for Syrian Jews to leave between 1992 and 1994, most did. The last Jews of Aleppo were evacuated from the city in October 2016. MARCUS: They took all the siddurim and everything, put them in boxes. It was just essentially closing shop for good. They knew they're not coming back. MANYA: The food, liturgy, music, the traditions of hospitality and social welfare endure, but far from the world of which it was part. Walk into any synagogue in the Aleppo tradition after sundown on Shabbat and be treated to a concert until dawn – a custom called baqashot. MANYA: Before Oren's grandmother Rachel passed away, his cousin Rebecca did a piece for Canadian Broadcast News featuring their 95-year-old grandmother in the kitchen.  RACHEL SAFDIE: When we were children, we used to love all these dishes. My mother used to make them all the time and it's very, very tasty. Anything made, Middle East food, is very tasty. OREN: It's 10 minutes for me to see my grandmother again, in video, cooking the mehshi kusa, which is sort of the stuffed eggplant with the apricots and the meat. And there's really a great moment in it, because they're doing it together and they put it in the oven, and at the end of this 10-minute movie, they all come out of the oven, and like they're looking at it and they're tasting, and my grandmother points … RACHEL: I know which ones you did. You did this one.  CBN INTERVIEWER: How do you know?  RACHEL: I know. And this recipe has been handed down from generation to generation. OREN: It's so much like my grandmother because she's sort of a perfectionist, but she did everything without measuring. It was all by feel. The kibbeh, beans and lamb and potatoes and chicken but done in a different way than the Ashkenaz. I don't know how to sort of describe it.  The ka'ake, which were like these little pretzels that are, I'd say they have a taste of cumin in them. MARCUS: Stuffed aubergine, stuffed zucchini, tomatoes, with rice, pine nuts and ground beef and so forth. Meatballs with sour cherries during the cherry season. MANYA: Oren would one day like to see where his ancestors lived. But according to Abraham, few Aleppo Jews share that desire. After the Civil War and Siege of Aleppo in 2012 there's little left to see. And even when there was, Aleppo's Jews tended to make a clean break. MARCUS: People did not go back to visit, the second and third generations did not go back. So you see, for example, here Irish people of Irish origin in the United States, they still have families there. And they go, and they take the kids to see what Ireland is like. Italians, they do the same, because they have a kind of sense, this is our origin.  And with Aleppo, there wasn't. This is a really unusual situation in terms of migrations of people not going back to the place. And I think that probably will continue that way. MANYA: Syrian Jews are just one of the many Jewish communities who, in the last century, left Arab countries to forge new lives for themselves and future generations.  Join us next week as we share another untold story of The Forgotten Exodus. Many thanks to Oren and Moshe for sharing their story. You can read more in Moshe's memoir If Walls Could Speak: My Life in Architecture. Too many times during my reporting, I encountered children and grandchildren who didn't have the answers to my questions because they'd never asked. That's why one of the goals of this project is to encourage you to ask those questions. Find your stories. Atara Lakritz is our producer. T.K. Broderick is our sound engineer. Special thanks to Jon Schweitzer, Nicole Mazur, Sean Savage, and Madeleine Stern, and so many of our colleagues, too many to name really, for making this series possible.  You can subscribe to The Forgotten Exodus on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts, and you can learn more at AJC.org/theforgottenexodus.  The views and opinions of our guests don't necessarily reflect the positions of AJC.  You can reach us at theforgottenexodus@ajc.org. If you've enjoyed this episode, please be sure to spread the word, and hop onto Apple Podcasts or Spotify to rate us and write a review to help more listeners find us.

Take our Listener Survey You could try playing out the four-dimensional chess game of how the global order will shift in the next 10-15 years for yourself, or you could hire Velina Tchakarova. Founder of the consultancy FACE, Velina is a geopolitical strategist guiding businesses and organizations to anticipate the outcomes of global conflicts, shifting alliances, and bleeding edge technologies on the world stage. In a globe-trotting conversation, Tyler and Velina start in the Balkans and then head to Russia, China, North Korea, and finally circle back to Putin's interest in the Baltics. She gives her take on whether the Balkan Wars still matter today, the future of Bulgarian nationalism, what predicts which Eastern European countries will remain closer to Russia, why China will not attack Taiwan, Putin's next move after Ukraine, where a nuclear weapon is most likely to be used next, how she sources intel, her unique approach to scenario-planning, and more. Read a full transcript enhanced with helpful links, or watch the full video. Recorded May 20th, 2024. Other ways to connect Follow us on X and Instagram Follow Tyler on X Follow Velina on X Sign up for our newsletter Join our Discord Email us: cowenconvos@mercatus.gmu.edu Learn more about Conversations with Tyler and other Mercatus Center podcasts here.

Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat discusses his excellent new book on the art of diplomacy. Our world today has become multipolar and is beset with conflicts seemingly incapable of resolution. Diplomacy is needed more than ever and his book provides examples and models of what has worked in the past. He provides examples of where the U.S. faltered (e.g. JCPOA with Iran) and where the U.S. succeeded in being reliable (e.g. SALT II). He describes the new world order as the postwar Bretton Woods "rules-based international order". He looks back at the Balkan Wars, the roots of the current Ukraine crisis, the failure of sanctions, and comments on the Israel-Gaza situation. He says you have to remain optimistic otherwise there's no sense in getting out of bed! Watch on BitChute / Brighteon / Rokfin / Rumble / Substack Geopolitics & Empire · Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat: World On Brink, Diplomacy Needed More Than Ever #430 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.comDonate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donationsConsult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! Above Phone https://abovephone.com/?above=geopoliticseasyDNS (use code GEOPOLITICS for 15% off!) https://easydns.comEscape The Technocracy course (15% discount using link) https://escapethetechnocracy.com/geopoliticsPassVult https://passvult.comSociatates Civis (CitizenHR, CitizenIT, CitizenPL) https://societates-civis.comWise Wolf Gold https://www.wolfpack.gold/?ref=geopolitics Websites The Art of Diplomacy: How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements that Changed the World (Rowman & Littlefield) https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538167991/The-Art-of-Diplomacy-How-American-Negotiators-Reached-Historic-Agreements-that-Changed-the-World The Art of Diplomacy: How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements that Changed the World (Amazon) https://www.amazon.com/Art-International-Diplomacy-Stuart-Eizenstat/dp/1538167999 About Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat Stuart E. Eizenstat has served as U.S. Ambassador to the European Union and Deputy Secretary of both Treasury and State. He is also the author of President Carter: The White House Years (2018), The Future of the Jews: How Global Forces are Impacting the Jewish People, Israel, and Its Relationship with the United States (2012), and Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II (2003). He is an international lawyer in Washington, DC. *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)

Antonija Ivkovic, ACC, is an ICF holistic healing and business coach specializing in trauma-skilled coaching. Originally from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Antonija moved to Croatia as a child during the Balkan Wars. After completing her M.A. in English literature and Philosophy, she relocated to Germany and began working with refugees. Experiencing trauma from an early age, she acquired various skills and tools to help both herself and her clients. Her mission is to destigmatize the concept of trauma, raise awareness about it, and provide trauma-informed knowledge to professionals, enabling them to maintain a grounded state and offer their clients a safe space for transformation. More information:   https://www.antonijaivkovic.com/

55 MinutesPG-13Thomas777 is a revisionist historian and a fiction writer.Thomas joins Pete to conclude a short series on the 1990s Balkan Wars. Thomas talks about the fallout and legacy of the conflict.Thomas' SubstackThomas' Book "Steelstorm Pt. 1"Thomas' Book "Steelstorm Pt. 2"Thomas on TwitterThomas' CashApp - $7homas777Get AutonomySupport Pete on His WebsitePete's PatreonPete's SubstackPete's SubscribestarPete's VenmoPete's Buy Me a CoffeePete on FacebookPete on TwitterBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-pete-quinones-show--6071361/support.

60 MinutesPG-13Thomas777 is a revisionist historian and a fiction writer.Thomas joins Pete to continue a short series on the 1990s Balkan Wars. Thomas talks about the hostilities, Slobodan Milošević, Franjo Tuđman, and others.Thomas' SubstackThomas' Book "Steelstorm Pt. 1"Thomas' Book "Steelstorm Pt. 2"Thomas on TwitterThomas' CashApp - $7homas777Get AutonomySupport Pete on His WebsitePete's PatreonPete's SubstackPete's SubscribestarPete's VenmoPete's Buy Me a CoffeePete on FacebookPete on Twitter Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-pete-quinones-show--6071361/support.

We have no idea what the gremlin noise is in the beginning of the video82 MinutesPG-13Thomas777 is a revisionist historian and a fiction writer.Thomas joins Pete to continue a short series on the 1990s Balkan Wars. He goes back to the Balkan era during World War II to explain how what happened then explains the future conflict.Thomas' SubstackThomas' Book "Steelstorm Pt. 1"Thomas' Book "Steelstorm Pt. 2"Thomas on TwitterThomas' CashApp - $7homas777Get AutonomySupport Pete on His WebsitePete's PatreonPete's SubstackPete's SubscribestarPete's VenmoPete's Buy Me a CoffeePete on FacebookPete on TwitterBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-pete-quinones-show--6071361/support.

56 MinutesPG-13Thomas777 is a revisionist historian and a fiction writer.Thomas joins Pete to start a short series on the 1990s Balkan Wars. He begins talking about Croatia's "Homeland War."Thomas' SubstackThomas' Book "Steelstorm Pt. 1"Thomas' Book "Steelstorm Pt. 2"Thomas on TwitterThomas' CashApp - $7homas777Get Autonomy19 Skills PDF DownloadSupport Pete on His WebsitePete's PatreonPete's SubstackPete's SubscribestarPete's VenmoPete's Buy Me a CoffeePete on FacebookPete on Twitter

After the conclusion of what is rightfully called the "first national catastrophe" it's worth looking back at the scale, scope, and meaning of the Balkan Wars to understand their importance to Bulgaria, Europe, and the world. Supporters like you make this podcast happen! Check out www.patreon.com/bulgarianhistorypodcast to see the great perks you can get for supporting us. You can find images for this episode at: www.bghistorypodcast.com/post/200-balkan-wars-retrospect

To learn more about the South Florida Greek Film Festival, including sponsorship information and how to submit a film, visit: https://hellenicculturalsocietyofsouthflorida.orgSaturday October 14Savor Cinema: 503 SE 6th Street, Ft Lauderdale6:00pm red carpet6:45pm movie 123 minFollowed by reception sponsored by Souvlaki.gr (http://souvlaki.gr/) Eftihia: The story of songwriter Eftyhia Papagiannopoulou (1893-1972), who escaped the burning of Smyrna and journeyed to Athens, Greece, where she became a major figure in Greek popular music. Her lyrics have become some of the greatest and most timeless hits, such as "Perasmenes mou agapes", "Oniro Apatilo", "Ime aitos horis ftera”, "Iliovasilemata", "I fantasia", "Ise i zoi mou", "Mandubala", "St ‘ Apostoli to koutouki", "Petradaki, petradaki", "Mou spasane ton baglama", "Dio portes ehi izoi" ("To telefteo vradi mou"), "Rihte sto giali farmaki”.Direction: Angelos FrantzisScreenplay: Katerina BeiStarring Kariofilia Karabeti, Katia Goulioni, Pigmalion Dadakaridis, Thanos Tokakis and Dina Michailidou Sunday October 15Savor CinemaSavor Cinema: 503 SE 6th Street, Ft Lauderdale2:00 PM"Venizelos: the struggle for Asia Minor”Eleftherios Venizelos, one of Greece's greatest statesmen, faces challenges that test his diplomatic and humanitarian skills during the critical decade from the Balkan Wars and World War I, up to the Asia Minor Catastrophe and the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne. His struggle is told through dramatized scenes, rare archival material, and expert interviews.Nikos Dayandas is a Greek director, writer, researcher, editor, and producer who has worked on international co-productions for broadcasters such as NATGEO, ARTE, and ZDF. He also collaborates with the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.Episode Music: Panayiotis League

Joe and Dexter actually kinda sorta talk about a Grayzone article about the war in Bosnia, but end up so stuck in the details that we only really get to it tangentally.| That article is here: https://thegrayzone.com/2022/12/30/declassified-intelligence-files-bosnian-war/ If you are an Ustaše enjoyer, please email in your thoughts to Joe at thegaslighthour@gmail.com Deep Soy's stuff can be found here and on Lovecrypt: https://soundcloud.com/deepsoy

In the First Balkan War, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Montenegro attacked the moribund Turkey to take its remaining territories and get Turkey out of Europe. In the Second Balkan War, they fought one another over those same territories. The Balkan Republics model themselves after Italy and Germany and hope to unify their nations at the … Continue reading "World War Civ 21: Balkan Wars 1912-1913"

Victoria Cumberbatch describes herself as “a passionate facilitator and community developer”. Because she has traveled extensively throughout the world she has gained some insightful and fascinating views of community and how all of us live and function within the community arena. We had a great discussion about how people view themselves and how they all too often permit others to control how they feel in their skin. Victoria owns her own coaching and consulting company where she works tirelessly to guide people through self-discovery to help them “uplevel” and design their lives. I hope you listen to this fascinating discussion and that it will give you a bit of a different perspective on the world and how we all live in it. I found a lot of nuggets of information that I will ponder and put to use. I hope you will do so as well. About the Guest: Victoria Cumberbatch As a strong, compassionate, exuberant leader with nearly a decade of experience in creating engaging and dynamic experiences; I will successfully guide individuals and groups towards greater self-awareness, cultural empathy, and ways to lessen overwhelm. I am a passionate facilitator and community developer with a wealth of experience in leading sessions that promote self-discovery as a way to uplevel and design your life. I believe in the power of connection and collaboration, and I strive to create spaces where individuals can come together to grow, learn, and get on the path toward their goals. Over the years and through a multitude of workshop types, I have honed my skills in creating engaging and dynamic experiences that encourage participation, collaboration, and creativity. I am known for my exuberant, coaching leadership style + my ability to create a safe and supportive environment for the space. My values of integrity, honesty, trust, and rigor - drive me to continuously improve, receive training, and make a positive impact in the lives of those I work with. I am committed to creating meaningful and impactful experiences that empower those ready to reach their highest vision. My exuberant leadership style and commitment to excellence [neè perfection] have allowed me to successfully guide individuals and groups towards greater self-awareness and cultural understanding, resulting in more productive and fulfilling lives. Ways to connect with Donald: Website: adventuresofcommunity.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/victoriaMC Workshop Booking: [https://tinyurl.com/speakervmc] *If you'd like to request something custom, please reach out here: V@adventuresOFcommunity.com* Monthly Newsletter: tinyurl.com/aicnewsletter Podcast: [https://anchor.fm/community-alchemy] VIP Day for Engagement: [https://hello.dubsado.com/public/form/view/63c18dfd8d61d06a1fd639df] Attend my retreat: [tinyurl.com/DRetreat23] About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app. Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts. Transcription Notes Michael Hingson ** 00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i  capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:21 Well, hello once again and I'd like to thank you for joining us here on unstoppable mindset wherever you happen to be. We're glad you're with us. Today we get to interview and I hope I pronounced that right Victoria Cumberbatch. Did I pronounce that right?   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 01:33 beauteous pronunciation? Thank you for that.   Michael Hingson ** 01:37 What a deal. And Victoria. Welcome to unstoppable mindset.   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 01:41 Thank you. Thank you for having me. I'm Joy is Victoria is   Michael Hingson ** 01:45 known for creating communities helping people really understand a lot about being more self aware. And other things that we're going to talk about. I don't want to give it all away because she gets to talk about it. But you just got back from doing being part of a workshop in San Francisco. I'm jealous. I love the Bay Area. And we lived there for 12 years. But you did happen to be there and a lot of the rain.   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 02:11 All the rain pretty much all the rain start to finish. So yeah, not not the best if I just say, but I was inside. So   Michael Hingson ** 02:18 no, there. Yeah, yeah, me. Me too. I don't mind we had a little bit of rain here. But not nearly what the Bay Area is had not nearly when other parts of southern California has had, but I just have never understood people. Yesterday morning, I was watching the news. And there was a reporter who was at this place where a bunch of cars had tried to drive through this deep sort of created lake of water from all the rain and got stuck in this one guy pulls up to it stops, looks at everybody looks at the water and then force it and tries to go through and of course Mark Federalists the reporters going there he goes, he's gonna get he got us. Ah, yes, Lee. You know, there's no logic and doing that. And anyway, even Jimmy Kimmel had a video of it last night I understand so   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 03:17 well, that that is our the impatience of our society right there that yeah, we an example that.   Michael Hingson ** 03:25 I remember when we moved to New Jersey. We were not where it was before we were building a home. My wife was in a wheelchair her whole life. And so we built a home in Westfield. But they were back, she and her parents came back, we were checking on the house and then doing some other stuff. And we were looking at, we were on Route three and looking at this big lake of water in front of us. And we stopped because we knew that there was no way that we were going to get through and it took about a half hour 35 minutes before the rain led up enough for us to be able to then go through like crazy world.   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 04:03 Yeah, and in New Jersey. That's unusual.   Michael Hingson ** 04:08 Yeah. Yeah. What do you do? Well, tell us a little bit about you. I'd love to hear kind of your story growing up where you're from, and all that sort of stuff to sort of set the stage and we'll go from there.   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 04:19 Wow. Okay, so a robust background knowledge. Let's see, I am a only child to a set of interracial parents, moms, Irish dads, Asian Barbados. Shout out Rihanna. In New Jersey in North New Jersey, not to be confused with the rest of the state which is not New Jersey. I'm ready to hear from the people that have something to say about that. And yeah, my mom was a teacher. My dad was a cop. All the men in my family were first responders at 911. And just after you know that I went to college at the University of Maryland to study international development and and conflict management, focusing on the Balkan Wars. Because I had a really standout professor Dr. Friedel, who's Croatian, we got some really deep conversations about that, and very full story is that now my boyfriend of four years is from Montenegro. And came came here to emigrate to this country, in that last bit of the Balkan Wars, actually, so would have ever thought that would have come full circle in that way. So I can't speak their language, but I certainly can empathize with their plight. And from there, I had always, well, actually, let me pause for a second, I graduated into the recession. So there was not much opportunity for me to capitalize on all the internships that I had, and so on. So I did go back home and I got certified to teach history actually, there's kind of like a last ditch effort to be a functioning citizen world. And it was with much chagrin, although history is my favorite. Just discipline of study and being a teacher is certainly an admirable profession, but I didn't think it was for me, so.   Michael Hingson ** 06:17 So that recession was 2008. It was 2008.   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 06:20 I graduated in 2011. And, and like, nobody was hiring a bachelor of arts like that was cute. I certainly didn't know what I'd be getting myself into into the real world. And so I was home for a while. And what I ended up doing was I would take long term substituting position, so maternity leave, things like that. He was a classroom for quite a while. And then I would backpack, Central America, South America, Watkins throughout Europe for like eight to 10 months at a time. So I would do that back and forth, back and forth, probably till about 26 When I had my first big girl job at Stephen Siller, tunnel to towers foundation in Staten Island, first responder organization. And that was when I started being officially in community. But of course, I was off the title that I had. It's like program development or something. And then I lasted for about a year, got my dream job at a place called Remote year, where I oversaw a group of 50 adults who worked remotely digital nomads, and we traveled around the world together as a group as a community. And we moved every month for a month around the world. So we went to 12 countries in that timeframe. And I think that was my like, executive community and business course. Doing that in a year. That was intense. After that, I made a web series, which you can find online still, I traveled some more. And then I did voiceover and community management at osmosis and medical education startup, which has now been acquired by a company called Elsevier, er, and the pandemic. So we're like, um, I am just fast forwarding. So during the pandemic, I just my boyfriend who I just spoke up to Sean, we did van life that we traveled throughout the US in a van and I stepped down from my full time position and maintained my role at osmosis as a consultant, I'm still with them as a consultant doing facilitation and mentorship and development of some leadership roles within their org. And I also contribute to the transformational leadership community by coaching at those trainings, you know, landmark ask, in my TTS coffin Institute type of training. So that brings us to currents.   Michael Hingson ** 08:50 That's a pretty full life. No doubt we allow different ways. Well, so I do want you to talk about osmosis. I also want to tell everyone, Victoria is not a shy person, because soon after we met, she said, I read about you and know your story a little bit. Would you be willing to speak to people from osmosis and do a virtual presentation? So how do I how can I see no, so I did. Like I said, she is not shy about asking, which is great. People should ask what's on their mind and talk about what's on their mind. So that works out really well. So you, you, you have certainly been through a lot needless to say, and I appreciate what you said about the whole issue with the recession. I know that when I worked for Kurzweil Computer Products back in the late 70s and into the 80s, which was purchased by Xerox and Kurzweil was run by Ray Kurzweil, who developed the first time the font optical character recognition system, and all of the salespeople. Once the Xerox acquired the company all the Kurzweil salespeople were kind of made to go away All the people selling their commercial products, which included B, I was the last person to be let go. And they said, Well, you're just not selling as much as you weren't, well, we had a major recession going on in it, and nobody was buying. And in fact, I had sold a product the day before. But you know, this is amazing what what people did, but I've always called Xerox did what a lot of companies do. They just want the technology, they don't want the people but all the real tribal knowledge and intelligence and knowledge is with the people not the product. So yeah, what do you do? Yes. But anyway, be that as it as it may. So, so you, you have you have done a lot in developing communities, and so on overall, how do you define yourself? How if somebody says, well, well, what are you who do you what do you do? How do you describe or define yourself?   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 10:51 Yeah, so thank you for this question. This is something that I am, or have more recently been delving into, because I'm definitely a product of my millennial, stern societal, I identify with what I do in the world, as opposed to how I show up in the world. So I have been, you know, migrating from the doing to the being. So I like to now describe myself, if someone were to say, well, who are you, you know, what do you bring to the table, I am on the page of a strong, compassionate, exuberant leader, that's like my first that's how I view myself. And that's how I want to be viewed the world. And if there is misalignment with that, I would want people to let me know there's a gap. I also identify as biracial, as you heard, as an only child, I click those are two separate communities of people. I identify as a woman identify, as, you know, the sacred titles of daughter and soul sister are like really deep, connected friendship that goes beyond the superficial kind of wax surface friendship. So that's how I define myself, I really try not to define myself by what I do, because my hope is that what I do comes through, like, I hope that you can pick up what I do by how I show up on this podcast, or how I show up on a call you and I have or only show up in socials, you know,   Michael Hingson ** 12:14 find that for me a little bit more when you talk about how you what you do in the world, as opposed to how you show up in the world. Yeah. So I think it's a very important topic that it's worth defining and understanding better.   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 12:28 Thank you. Yeah, I agree. So So I am a recovering perfectionist, if I do say, so maybe others would say I'm not recovering, but we'll see. And from that, I have realized a few things about myself. One is I have this pretty long standing story or belief that I am inadequate, that I am not enough. And so I need to prove my worth, I need to deserve accolades, I need to deserve people's attention, I need to do more in order to be seen or be given attention or be told, you know, great job, you know, pat on the back. And that has helped that has been up to current really how I perceived myself in the world. People like to say, what do you do when you go out to a networking event? What do you do? What do you do? What do you do? And I always struggled with that. And instead, really, what I want to know, what makes you up? What qualities what characteristics what ways of being get to show up that are true to you as a person, and then the rest gets to come later, like the doing part comes later. So I have really been on this page of how can I be more and do less being for me, strength, compassionate exuberance. Patients? Collaborative, right, these these, they were just like, latent words flippin flippantly said. And now I view them as the lens through which I look at the world.   Michael Hingson ** 14:09 You said something that I want to delve into a little bit he talks about us feeling a little bit inadequate and so on. And I'm not used specifically but why is it that so many of us feel inadequate, or somehow get this mindset that we're inadequate?   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 14:28 I don't have the answer. I don't know why, but I do know. So I'm hosting retreat, actually the end of this month slash beginning of the month, so April 1 to the sixth and the whole idea is that it's about disconnecting from the imposter syndrome, the overwhelm the stress the language to reconnecting to myself as I am my whole wherever I am, I am meant to be so honest. And my co facilitator and myself where I want to say just counted, but really, I guess we weren't that much at how many responses, it was unanimous responses that I'm not good enough. I have to deserve my my place in the world basically, is what we found from doing this research that we have with other people. And just like strangers, like just strangers responded to this, so and they were varied and age varied and all the demographic categories. And I've really feel like, I don't know exactly, but technology, social media has a pretty like, at percentage piece of that I am sisterly comparing myself to others in my field, in my age range when I went to high school with and I could see them instantaneously 24/7 365. There's no you only get, you know, on Sundays, page six, what people are doing, you don't only get to see who's doing what once a year or at your high school reunion after 20 years, we know what's happening. And there is the this there is this facade, and I'm gonna keep it real with you. To me there is this facade, the societal facade of I'm doing more than what's actually happening. And I have to also maintain and upkeep this persona that I am, you know, jazz hands, I'm, I love what I'm doing, and I'm passionate about it. And I, I love what I do, but that may not be true. So why are we even saying that? Just found there's a lot of disconnection and and inauthenticity.   Michael Hingson ** 16:34 Yeah. It's It's unfortunate that we we judge so much. And we insist that everyone has to live up to some standard. The problem is, we don't necessarily do it ourselves. But we want everyone else to do it. It's the old do, as I say, not as I do, and 100%. And that's so unfortunate that we see that in the world. And I think that contributes a lot to it. And we had it before social media, but certainly it's a lot worse, worse with social media that now everyone has to be so tied into all of this.   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 17:17 Yeah, and I think the piece there that that is, you know, reading between the lines is accountability, and being accountable for how you show up being accountable for the things you say, and the impact that that leaves, be accountable to having hard conversations and accepting oof, damn, I messed up on that one, I really get to either acknowledge or apologize here. They're those things. I don't see those things happening. I don't see them happening to startup culture. I don't see them happening in my like, millennial, you know, populate population culture, I don't see those things. So to to be outstanding, as an individual. Accountability gets to be a part of that. Yeah. And it doesn't seem to be in my perspective,   Michael Hingson ** 18:07 I think that's really the issue is that accountability isn't really there. And again, we don't hold other people to the same standards that we live at. Right. However you deal with that. And right, the bottom line of all of that is that we, we tend to make people crazy. And we also want such instant gratification about every single thing, that then when people aren't necessarily wired to do that. They're less than we are.   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 18:40 Yeah, yeah, there's that comparison point, which again, it's just that is not serving that isn't serving us, as individuals, as community members, as you know, partner is spot on a lot. It's not serving to be accountable is to be an upstanding and outstanding citizen. In my honest perspective, I asked to be something that gets added to like school curriculums and stuff. Yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 19:03 And it's, it's unfortunate, but it is something that we definitely have to figure out how to deal with in one way or another. But it just was a question that popped up. And I just thought it was worth exploring, because I think you're right, that so many of us feel inadequate, rather than accepted for who we are.   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 19:23 Right? Right. And that gets to start with us. I heard recently. The level with which you are intimate with yourself is the capacity with which you can be intimate with other people. You know, an intimacy doesn't necessarily only mean in the bedroom, of course, it means you know, depth of conversation showing up in tears, right, like all these authenticity and vulnerable moments. So I think that that's also just really important to know, we get to be accountable with ourselves first, and then we can ask others to show up to   Michael Hingson ** 19:55 Yeah, yeah, absolutely. It's kind of one of the things too to think about, and the problem is that when we feel inadequate, we also don't really have as much confidence in ourselves, nor do we necessarily respect ourselves. And until we can get over that, it's hard to move on in a lot of different ways.   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 20:18 Yes, absolutely. There's nothing to add there. That's absolutely true. If that's the hurdle, we all get to jump over or find a way around. Yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 20:27 Well, that gets back to something else you've you've talked about before, which is do you carve out your space in the world, or you just fit into a space?   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 20:37 Yeah, that is, yeah, that's a big one that I've been considering as well. And I thought and had been migrating and navigating the world as though I have to fit into what is here. So I need to figure out ways to put my, you know, whimsical, exuberant, bouncy energy into a linear box. And I got into when I, when I first started dating D, my boyfriend, who will now be known as D and not his full name. I, we I remember, specifically, this moment very vividly, we were on a snowy hike in Vermont. And I said something like, oh, you know, don't How do you feel like you fit in the world? How have you ensured you have fit in the world, and he's, he's six, five. So he's like a big guy, right. And he didn't even turn around to look at me. To him, this was flippant, it was like right on top of his head. And he said something like, I will never work to fit into the world, because I'm just too big physically, mentally and emotionally. So I have always felt that I get to consistently carve out my space. And I adjust my space, as I see it. And I actually have to stop moving, because I just felt like I got hit with this profound thought it was the first time I considered that, like, oh, lemon, how I get to carve out my space, I can be big and take up space. And that doesn't take away space from anyone else. Because there is nothing but like this infinite space, basically, for us all to thrive and be in and figure ourselves out. It was just really big for me. So I can't say it's defaulted yet that I don't, you know, care about how I fit into the world. But I do now. Try to consider I get to carve.   Michael Hingson  22:36 Yeah, and that's a, that's a good thing. There's, there's a lot to be said, for carving, as opposed to just fitting. And sometimes, though, it's okay to just fit. And it's really important to know the difference and know the merits of both.   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 22:50 Yeah, and I think that's it is, again, it's with these things that we're talking about it takes Blyden yield me individually sitting with ourselves to reassess the beliefs we have lived with. That's really what it's about is like, what are my beliefs around fitting in the world? What does fit what does it? Where can I accept just fitting and where do I have to carve? And I just, again, back to the like social media, to do sing, to sing after seeing in order to prove my worth. Always doing never being? When do people really sit down and just talk to themselves about what they believed? I mean, that's where the goodies come from.   Michael Hingson ** 23:32 Well, and the other part about carving is, it's okay to carve. But don't carve, just to carve, carve, because there's a reason to carve a specific unique state with a tenant with intention, right? Yep, absolutely. And it's something that we don't just tend to, to see as much as we see it. Well, you know, you've experienced a lot. So if I were to quote Oprah, what do you know for sure. I love that question.   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 24:04 I love that question. And I think about it often now okay, still things I   Michael Hingson ** 24:08 know for sure I do as well.   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 24:11 Things I know for sure. Rest will never be overrated. Vulnerability is a superpower connection and ships of all kinds relationships, friendships, right, like work ships, all ships are what make the world go round, and they get to be prioritized. And then my last one is Harry Potter, any film any book, and the greatest showmen will always get me into a better boat even if I'm in the absolute despair.   Michael Hingson ** 24:42 Here I have to acknowledge that I've read Harry Potter a number of times and love it and I tend to watch the movies although the books are better than the movies and I'm scheduled because yep, I listen to I have both the British versions and the and the American versions tonight and but I love Jim Dale As a reader, yeah to reach the the American version. Yeah, he is absolutely great. Yeah, yeah. He's a great reader. I know for sure that I have abilities, and I'm going to do my best to achieve them and meet them and use them to help others. I know that these podcasts are a lot of fun to do. I know that when I progress and go beyond this world, I will have at least contributed something and how much I've contributed will really as much as anything be up to other people, but I know I've done the best that I can do.   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 25:41 Absolutely, yeah. Delicious.   Michael Hingson ** 25:45 And I think that's as good as it gets, you know, I know that I am as much a human being and as capable as anyone else. And that the whole idea of disabilities, for example, is so totally wrong and misunderstood because disability does not mean a lack of ability. Everyone has a disability of some sort, disabilities or characteristics and you know, you're one of yours is he you see light, you know, you don't do well without light. Right? That's okay. We love you for it anyway. But the bottom line is that we, we all have challenges and we all have gifts, and I know I have gifts, and I love to sometimes find new ones. And that's okay, too.   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 26:27 That's definitely okay, too. And when you find the gifts, and you stumble a little bit and figuring out how to do this thing, experimenting, testing yourself, possibly making mistakes, like let's normalize making mistakes, well, let's normalize failure for you know, lack of a better term, because that is how we get to grow. And that is coming from someone who's a recovering perfectionist. So I'm clearly telling you what I am trying to have be a part of my life. But I wish that that sort of normalization would be part of it. And when you were speaking about Sorry, I just want to say when we're speaking about disability, the it doesn't mean lack of ability. It made me think of terms like fearless or shameless. Were, like fearless doesn't mean there's, there's no fear, it just means that there's less fear. So I think we often use a lot of these words incorrectly. And as misnomers.   Michael Hingson ** 27:21 Well, it's not even less fear as much as it is learning to control it and use it in a positive way. And God lead as easier as mutation. Right, and not letting fear overwhelm you.   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 27:33 Yeah, exactly. That's what came up for me when you shared that about disability.   Michael Hingson ** 27:36 Yeah. And I think that's a very important concept to, you know, to really deal with. But we, we have a lot to learn as a people as a race and as individuals. And ultimately, I think one of the, the biggest things that I think I know for sure is that I have said something wrong for years, which is, I'm my own worst critic. I listened to my speeches. And I've always said, I'm my own worst critic, I will criticize me more than anyone else. And it took me a long time to realize that wrong thing to say, actually, I'm my own best teacher. And that completely changes the paradigm. And the reality is, it's the way it should be you were talking about mistakes and failure, what are those, those are just ways of learning and encountering experiences that will help us grow. So failure, we shouldn't necessarily be judged for that. Unless we don't subscribe to Einstein's theory. You know, when he talks about insanity, which is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different results, if we if we subscribe to that concept, then that's our problem. But if we don't subscribe to that and we have challenges, then what we need to do is analyze it every time something happens that is unexpected for us and see if it was a good thing or a bad thing in our own view, but more important how we then adjust and deal with it.   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 29:06 Yeah, that's huge the your viewpoint and essentially the lens with which you look through the world has shifted based upon her choice of your mindset. That was a choice you made. However, going along this belief of yourself and Herbalife that, you know, I'm really hard on myself and I should be because that's how I get better. Whereas changing it to be in a bow, I'm a really great teacher of myself, I am my best teacher and look at all these opportunities I get to experiment with and improve that completely changes the game for you as a person, which then what almost lightens your load right now. It's not so now the the idea of getting it wrong is not so heavy. It's just part of the process. So yeah, yeah. Phil, you on that?   Michael Hingson ** 29:55 Yeah. And again, getting them wrong. What is that? Right So the bottom line is So we need to get away from worrying about getting it wrong. The thing we need to do is to worry about getting it. And we'll, we'll go we'll work through it.   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 30:12 Yeah, that's a great distinction. It's not about right or wrong, good or bad. It's about being in the process doing it, getting it having new understandings being an experiment or be a river, like, like the Ernest Shackleton's of older, like, even even up it's a mango, oh my God, what's his name, Leonardo da Vinci. They will like multi passionate, multi hyphenate sorts of people they were not pigeon holed into one thing, I do this one thing, I am this thing. They were multi, they were constantly exploring themselves, their knowledge, what they knew to be true what they didn't. And they were supple and pliable and adjusting it up yet we look to those sorts of people as heroes and so on have, and it's just not replicated here. So I wonder what, I wonder what that gap is?   Michael Hingson ** 31:03 Well, it's, it's a gap that may be different for different people. But it is something to think about. And maybe you will find a way to verbalize that to help other people analyze their own gaps or their own connections, which is always good.   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 31:21 Yeah, that's, that is the hope. I mean, that's why we do things like this, right? having these conversations so that we can get what we think out of ourselves, and hopefully to touch others, but also leave even we understand old things differently. Now sharing them with each other, right?   Michael Hingson ** 31:37 Absolutely. Well, for you, what are some experiences you have had, that have kind of altered how you you that you show up or that you're existing in the world?   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 31:49 Oh, well, we'll all shared most of one that just happened, which I just told you about. So you already know, this one's coming. But I had the privilege of volunteering or staffing, basically a transformational leadership cohort program. And so essentially, you know, you're in a rural, there's a group of people, 5060 people, and they're going through a set of processes in order to understand their own limiting beliefs, you know, strip off some trauma, rip off some baggage and almost re upholster themselves, like a phoenix rising from the from the ash, right. Like, essentially, that's how I would illustrate it. And my so this, this is only I'm only a few days out of this experience. So it's like very top of mind. But some words are terms that have a new meaning for me, and I am being intentional about adding them into how I show up in the world include Potter, like, honor, you know, that was a word that I would think of as Oh, honorable samurai are like honorable these these people in these groups that were super disciplined from from ancient times, when in fact, I was honored to be in this room with people in their most real, raw, authentic or verbal states. And it felt, I mean, I felt it, the collective room was almost throbbing, right? It's just unbelievable. And with honor, also the real definition of honesty, which is less about truth, telling, and more about honoring thy self. So again, it goes back to self esteem, it goes back to work, it goes back to advocacy for myself, it goes back to all these things we spoke about earlier. So just the word honor has come from coming with new meanings. For me, the term rigor and being rigorous with that I want otter to be an intention in my life that I want to share with the world, it becomes rigorous to hold myself accountable because no one else is or has proven themselves to to that so I'm going to do that. Like, that's rigorous, and that feels right, for me. The other one is dignity. You know, and that still kind of stems off of honor and self esteem and worse than how I view myself and how I view the world. And then the last one is around the idea of bearing witness. And yeah, it was being in that room, and having the privilege to bear witness to people falling apart, essentially fallen fully apart in a way they may not have ever was anyone else in their lives, partners, spouses, exes, children, anyone and it's a really privileged space to be able to be in there and hold people to that. So that experience is altered the meshoppen world and also it has emphasized how much being in contract You shouldn't or being of service, it needs to take up more space in my in my life that that comes to be that gets to be at the top.   Michael Hingson ** 35:08 I think you've covered, I think you've covered a little of it. And I want to, I want to ask you, if you'll tell us another one. But before we do that. So I think you've talked about this a bit because of what you've just said. But what did you really learn from the experience of being on the other side? And, and all of the experiences that you had? And what will you take forward from that?   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 35:29 Well, the thing that comes to my mind is right now and that question is when I went through the prep, so the only way that we can come back to coach or staff, this process is if we have gone through it ourselves and graduated as such. And I graduated in October of last year. And being in the room this time, as staff, I have dissociated, numbed out and blacked out, I was throughout my entire process because of how consistently was triggered and how consistently, I was stressed about not knowing the answer, not feeling in my body and knowing how to answer the question like, how do you feel? You know, I don't know. I think I feel like this, I didn't have such a vocabulary of feeling. I didn't know how things felt in my body, I was very logical. Now I'm testing out, like literally saying feelings out loud. Think I'm angry. And I think I'm angry. And it feels like this in my body like this, because this just happened. And I'm doing that specifically with D who like knows that I'm trying to click on this. So even that feels really supportive. That's probably the biggest thing that I've learned is associated and what actually be present. And attentive, and an active hearer less listener, actively hearing what people are saying, the way you actively hear what I'm saying. And you have follow up questions based upon what I'm saying, as opposed to whatever it's listed before, right? Like that's, those are things that get to be practiced, I don't think they're just a knee.   Michael Hingson ** 37:10 What's another experience, there are key you have one that you can point to where you have had something that happened to you or whatever it may have altered your view of how you show up or in the world and other experience with Sr. RB, you have more than one,   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 37:28 I do have more than I have on top of my head. It's way more tangible for those that are like that was too ethereal. So when I was in college, there's something called law at the University of Maryland, at least there was something called Alternative Spring Break. So you could go on a spring break trip, but it was more service based. And I went with a small group to Atlanta, Georgia, and we were going to be working with the homeless community. And you know, like we to a furniture depot or like a third like thrift store going to a men's homeless shelter speaking with the men, and they're going to women's homeless shelters be with women, they're going to soup kitchens being in service, okay. All that stuff. So this was when I was you know, 1933 now, but it's still very vivid. And I got into a few conversations with some of the bad in the men's homeless center, going into it with fear going into it with judgment, going into it with prejudice, and coming out of it. Feeling confused. Honestly, I didn't realize how, one of a variety of reasons as to why people get down on their luck. And they're not an all most people are not mentally ill all whose people are not dry protected. All holes, people are not all these blanket statements and judgments as a society we've put on homelessness, some people have their homes foreclosed, and we're ashamed to tell their family members. So instead of asking for help, they went to a homeless shelter until they could get themselves on their two feet. To me that was and I was speaking to one particular man. He had three daughters all poem, doctor, lawyer and a teacher, they could have housed him, they could have helped him and he was so embarrassed and humiliated and ashamed. And that really broke me apart because I thought Damn, if either of my parents if that ever happened to them, they couldn't know that on their first call. And yeah, my mindset certainly shifted on homelessness, and also on phone. Just like the blanketing of prejudice. We do unconsciously put on people. And I do have to say it was unconscious because I didn't even know how I didn't even know how I felt about the homeless until I went into that experience. I hadn't even took time to think about it, you know,   Michael Hingson ** 39:48 any notion why he didn't reach out to his daughters or his children at all? And this went the other way was embarrassment or   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 39:57 he was yeah, he said that he was embarrassed and ashamed, he said he was embarrassed. And as an 18 year old girl, I was like fuck conned your girls don't you know, I didn't really share what he was saying, which was then basically he was crying out was like I, I didn't ever think I'd be in this spot in my life. And now that I'm here, I am humiliated. And I don't want anyone to know about my humiliation. That was like, very sad to me.   Michael Hingson ** 40:26 That's a as a good point.   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 40:29 Yeah. Because really, if we don't have community, or even a tiny support system of like three people in our life you can rely on and what do we have? 10? What do we have? And that just made it very clear to me, like, we need our people around us for real, we got to be honest with them.   Michael Hingson ** 40:47 And once again, we live in this world where everyone judges us, and we oftentimes aren't confident enough to just be able to say, look, this happened, and I'm going to seek whatever help I need to move forward.   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 41:06 Right? Right. So I, you and I get to be change agents in every day that we live in our intention of sharing what we know to be true in the world and working on our own selves. I   Michael Hingson ** 41:22 I think you're absolutely right. I think everyone can be change agents. I'm I'm a great fan of Gandhi's comment above Be the change that you want to see in the world, without a   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 41:33 doubt, without a doubt. And I think that, you know, I'm just because I'm a bit more of a realist, I try not to be on the pessimistic side. But I would say, definitely a realist. Everyone is not doing that right now. But everyone does have the capacity to to be changed they want to see in the world. And I think I have I emphasize you and me, because I really can only speak for my own personal perspective. But sure, once you know, like, once I become aware of some of the things we spoke about today, particularly the accountability piece, now I get to hold up how I'm accountable to myself, and I get to model that in every relationship and every community in every space I fill up. And now my hope, my intention is that that impact is mirrored, at minimum, right at least, oh, wow, she really upholds herself to a certain level. And, you know, look at look at these things that she's been able to do. Look how she shows up, look at how joyous and exuberant she is. I I'd like some of that. That's, that's my hope, at least. Yeah.   Michael Hingson  42:41 That makes sense. And ultimately, ultimately, we can only do what we can do, and we should not judge ourselves, much less allow other people to judge us if we're not adhering to or living up to some potentially artificial standard. Because we all have gifts, we all have challenges. And our gifts are not all the same. And that's okay.   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 43:09 And what a beautiful point, diversity makes it all work beautifully. So if we were all the same, that would not work like life, everything would have words that we know new ideas, there'd be no new innovations, there'd be no money thing. But I have a question for you. Do you find that was your renewed lens out the way you look through life as you are your greatest teacher, not your freedom, critic, that you still have to kind of coach yourself into believing that or is it defaulted now? And that's what you think?   Michael Hingson ** 43:42 Oh, it is absolutely what I think one on once I realized it, and went, Oh my gosh, why am I calling myself my own worst critic, how negative that is. And I suppose someone could come along and find some better thing to say. But until they do know, I don't even have to coach myself. I don't even think about it anymore. And I will always say I my own best teacher now comes from a background of loving to teach. And I should have realized that a lot sooner and changed my vocabulary. But that's okay. This is it out though. Yeah, right. And I'm glad I did. I think it is absolutely important. No one should ever call themselves their own worst critic where you are your own best teacher, because the reality is, you cannot teach me anything. Period. You can give me information. But I have to ultimately be the one to teach myself to accept that and to then move forward with it and teach myself that that's a great idea or that's appropriate or whatever. Ultimately, only I can teach me, everyone else that all my teachers in school could show me how to do things. But ultimately I had to teach myself which also gets back to I had to learn it, but I can't learn it. If I'm not teaching myself, which also says we're probably better teachers, ultimately that we think we are.   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 45:06 Sure there's a ton of like repressed suppressed gifts and capacities we each have because of fear, you know, or, or just unconscious defaulted movements and blah, blah, blah.   Michael Hingson ** 45:19 So we were talking about diversity and all that. And I know this is only one part of diversity and disabilities get left out of diversity, but we won't worry about that discussion right now. What's cultural awareness for you? And how did you decide what you think cultural awareness is?   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 45:35 Yeah, cultural awareness is definitely my thing these days. So it came, before I go into like the nitty gritty, I will say, in a larger sphere, I have been fortunate to grow up traveling, like immersive traveling since I was about four months old. So that's been a part of my life, my whole life. And my mom instilled it in me. So I've been in 65 countries and counting, you know, it's it's very important to me to engage with a variety of cultures around the world because I am just so invigorated by all the activities that happened within culture, you know, as small as having an espresso after dinner in Latin America or or in the Balkans to as grand as you know, San Gennaro festival or festival here or there or Holi festival in India right like those big things. And I've read recently read a book called the Culture Map by Erin Meyer and it i for graciously read it, it is nonfiction. And it was, it was it almost was like I wrote it from my own experiences and what you know, across cultures in the world and being across traveling across cultures in the world, and how people differ based upon the lens through which they look so like, it goes back to this conversation we've been having. So for me, it's two things. So culture in my own definition, is the accumulation of shared deals, understandings, rhetoric, cuisine and history that are attached to a group with meaning. So all those things can be separated and if they have no meaning, they don't necessarily equate to culture that because meaning is attached, I think it becomes culture and then awareness to me is conscious incompetence. I don't know if you know like the four stages of competence but there is that and one of them is called conscious incompetence. And to me that's just the like the recognition of something combined with not yet knowing much about it. So it's like more than the stillness of observation and before full knowledge so basically cultural awareness is a pivot point. It's before d pi is before Diversity Equity and Inclusion underlying it is okay I have just become aware fat my coworker is a Jamaican immigrant from a single parent household you know, that grew up in religion. I have just finally found that out about my coworker and now I can better empathize with the lens through which they look at hierarchy at work through and because of that, now I get to make a choice now No, no, I haven't like a like enough information to determine Alright, I'm gonna delve deeper into this like relationship based co working or I am not an either of those are absolutely beautiful, whichever they choose, but you at least have some knowledge behind it. So that's how I look at it.   Michael Hingson ** 48:47 Will Tell me what do you do today? What's your your day job? What kind of work are you doing? And you're you're somewhere I can hear things in the background. So what is it you do?   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 48:56 If I couldn't be at home I have to apologize. There's construction on my house and then a coffee shop. So I was doing the best I can for you. I   Michael Hingson ** 49:04 hope it's got good coffee. Anyway. It sure   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 49:06 does have good coffee, at least I'm a little jittery, lol, but I am a community development consultants. So what that means is for one on one mentorship packages, like for newbie, or creating community managers, as well as VIP days for those people that that oversee or manage that community already and want to supercharge their engagement. So I do offer that now. Also advising. What I am spending much more of my time in is facilitating workshops along a lot of what we spoke about definitely cultural awareness, definitely personal development, professional development, employee engagement. And I'm on a trajectory to become a certified leadership coach. So that's where I'm trending toward at this time.   Michael Hingson ** 49:55 So you basically are working for yourself, do your own business, you're not working for an intercompany or anything like,   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 50:01 I'm correct? That's correct. Yeah, no,   Michael Hingson ** 50:02 that's okay. That's okay. Yeah,   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 50:04 I should have started with that.   Michael Hingson ** 50:05 Yeah, no, no, no, no, that's okay. Because I didn't ask it in a way that would lead you to do that necessarily, which is fine. But that's cool. So you're, you're really trying to help people. And I know you're wanting to, and you've been helping people to create communities, but create self awareness, which is, I think, extremely important, we all need to be more aware of ourselves. And you were asking me earlier, whether I have to coach myself about be my own best teacher. But there are other things that I do have to watch. Because in our world today, there are so many challenges very, very frankly, I get very frustrated with a lot of what I see our politicians doing. And and I have to remind myself, you don't have any control over that right now. And you need to not worry about what you don't have control over when you do have control is at elections. And that's the time to deal with it. But I am amazed at what people do. And don't do. I was hearing on the news a little while ago, about in this state, there has been a lot of discussion about the gas prices being so high and that the governor wants to deal with getting the legislature to to pass laws about the amount that that they can profit that the gas and oil companies and so on can profit and all that. And then negotiations broke down? Why should that be a problem? Given the fact that we all know the gas prices are very high, and that the oil companies get all sorts of subsidies and all that, and they continue to raise prices? And nobody is doing anything about it? Where's the conscience? You know, where's the moral compass? And it's not there, which, which is what really frustrates me there's a there's a lack of a moral compass. But I don't have control over that, except for me.   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 51:55 Correct. And you get to choose how upset or not you're going to be I've Well, I   Michael Hingson ** 51:59 can that I can learn to not be upset. And that's the big challenge, because there's so many forces that try to make you upset.   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 52:06 Yeah. Yeah, that is billion percent true. And I'm sure that if people listen to this, there's certainly going to be a school of thought where you can't get to choose like, this is happening at me, and I'm reacting, and that's what it is. But   Michael Hingson ** 52:21 so we're gonna count. And there's the key right there. You're reacting, correct. Look, I had no control over those terrorists attacking the World Trade Center. Right? Yeah, what I did have control over is how I dealt with it. And so, so many things come to mind, I met a guy how, several months later, he joined the police. Because his brother had been killed at the World Trade Center. And he wanted to do in all those terrorists. Very common. Yep. You know, and that's, that's not constructive. Now, doesn't mean that there aren't ways to, to help try to create environments to not have this happen again. But hatred doesn't need to be one of them. And he had control over how he reacted. And I have control over how I reacted to the World Trade Center, and how I deal with everything that I do and so to you. And the reality is that we need to use our moral compass to help us react in the best way possible, to whatever situations we face.   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 53:31 Yeah. And something I just recently learned, which is, this is going to be a dicey one. But all events are neutral. And your response, your your meaning that you give to your audience is what is essentially what gives it its weight for you. So yep, that's, that's difficult to hear, because there are really egregious events that happen in our world. And, you know, I think an easy example is like, like female genital mutilation, that in one culture is viewed as an initiatory be sorted that needs to happen in their culture. And for them, it is right. Those of us that are not in that culture, we may find it to be completely opposite. Who was right, who's wrong? What is right or wrong? I think it gets, it gets dicey. And that's why it's an interesting view to think that all events are neutral. The rest is up to you.   Michael Hingson ** 54:28 Well, I don't know that I would say that the events are necessarily neutral. But I do believe that ultimately, the effect is neutral for you until you react to it in some way. And that's what we have to deal with. I mean, it's really difficult to say that the terrorist attacks we're on the World Trade Center were neutral, they were very destructive. And killed a lot of people but for me, it was even being there a neutral event, until I decided how to react to it.   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 55:01 Right. And I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm just noting that that because you view that event as deleterious for our culture and abysmal, does not necessarily mean that that everyone else felt the same way. There were certain things that were very, very far from the East Coast that don't remember exactly where they were that days. Sure, what they were, you know, it just doesn't have the same level. So they   Michael Hingson ** 55:29 it goes deeper is like it goes deeper to, because there are people who absolutely celebrated what happened that day. Absolutely. And so we get back to what's the moral compass do with. And I think that there is a moral compass that we all have access to. And I think that that's something that we have to deal with. But even if you decide it was a horrible event, that's still doesn't determine how you necessarily personally, emotionally, and effectively deal with the event. And that's the big issue.   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 56:06 That is the biggest issue. Right? Then there's still that next step of okay, what am I going to do about this? There's still the choice now, someone going to be a cop? Is someone to go the military? Is someone going to, you know, talk to their children about what this was? And what it meant is what's going to happen now? Yeah, I hear that. Yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 56:24 Well, if people want to reach out to you and learn more about you, and maybe get some coaching or whatever, how do they do that?   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 56:31 They do that by going to Adventures of community.com. Or finding me, Instagram is one of my most used socials. So that's Adventures of V as in Victoria. And I'm also on LinkedIn. So those are the three most common places I'm at. And that's just Victoria Cumberbatch. Cool.   Michael Hingson ** 56:31 Well, I hope people will, in fact, reach out I think you have a lot to offer. And you've got some good perspectives that I think people can learn a lot from. So I hope that they will. And I hope they'll react positively to our podcast, because we really appreciate you being here. And we appreciate you all listening out there. And please give us a five star rating. We love it. Conversations are always stimulating when we get to have a good deep conversation about something not everybody will necessarily buy into it exactly. But that's okay. It's all about learning and understanding. And so I hope that everyone liked it. Please give us a five star rating. I'd love to hear your thoughts. Yeah. And I'd love to hear your thoughts. If you want to email me at Michaelhi at accessiBe A C C E S S I B E.com. Or go to Michael Hingson H I N G S O N.com/podcast. Where you can check out other episodes and you can leave comments there as well. But we hope that you will. But Victoria, once again, I want to thank you for being here. This has been absolutely fun. And let's do some more.   Victoria Cumberbatch ** 58:01 Yeah, thank you so much. My goal is an absolute joy and pleasure to speak deeply with someone thank you for the opportunity.   Michael Hingson ** 58:14 You have been listening to the Unstoppable Mindset podcast. Thanks for dropping by. 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An analogy often given to the Balkans leading up to the First World War is a tinderbox, awaiting a flame to ignite it and set off a major conflagration across Europe. In fact, the region suffered a large-scale conflict already two years before the First World War began.Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro had all acquired their independence from the Ottoman Empire over the course of the 19th century. None of them, however, were happy with the territory under their control. Each aspired to lands still under Ottoman rule in Albania, Macedonia and Thrace. www.patreon.com/historyeuropewww.historyeurope.netMusic composed by Frederic Chopin (The Polish Dancer)Picture - King George I of Greece and Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria at Thessaloniki Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joe and Dexter are supposed to talk about a Grayzone article about the war in Bosnia, but just end up talking about the history of the Balkans instead. We mostly talk about Serbia and Croatia. There will be a part 2. If you are an Ustaše enjoyer, please email in your thoughts to Joe at thegaslighthour@gmail.com Dexter had some audio recordings, but it recorded at least. Deep Soy's stuff can be found here and on Lovecrypt: https://soundcloud.com/deepsoy

Today, I'm joined by writer Ausma Zehanat Khan to discuss how she explores the scope and horror of nationalism, Islamophobia, and racism in page-turner detective novels. As a Muslim woman and former immigration and human rights lawyer, Ausma draws on her professional and personal experiences to craft enticing storylines around topics like criminal justice reform and race relations. In our conversation, we unpack themes and details of her most recent book, Blackwater Falls, and Ausma provides insight into what inspired her to pursue this story. We also touch on some of Ausma's earlier work, including her decade-long research on The Balkan Wars that informed her debut novel, The Unquiet Dead.Ausma has a unique perspective on American politics as a Canadian living in rural Colorado. She sees first-hand the impact of systemic racism and xenophobia on BIPOC communities in her area. Set in a similar town to where Ausma currently lives, Blackwater Falls illuminates the nuances of how ultra-nationalist movements gain traction and eventually erase multiculturalism. Through the heavy topics, Ausma also artfully weaves in elements of romance, family dynamics, and small town drama. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Castbox, or on your favorite podcast platform.Topics Covered:●      What sparked Ausma's investigation on military intervention and war crimes of The Balkan Wars●      Using crime fiction as a way to communicate about systemic injustices ●      The identity challenges that many BIPOC law enforcement officers face ●      Ausma's thought process behind the three main power structures in Blackwater Falls●      The signs and consequences of ‘incrementalism' in American politicsGuest Info:●      Ausma's Website ●      Ausma's Instagram ●      Ausma's Facebook ●      Ausma's Twitter  Follow Me:●      My Instagram ●      My LinkedIn●      My Twitter●      Art Heals All Wounds Website●      Art Heals All Wounds Instagram●      Art Heals All Wounds Twitter ●      Art Heals All Wounds Facebook●      Art Heals All Wounds Newsletter

In retrospect, how important were the Balkan Wars of the 1990s?Geopolitical analyst Nebojša Malić breaks down how NATO's bombing of Serbia in the 1990s was not only a geopolitical travesty, but also established a nasty trend of NATO-sponsored interventions. Malić also makes the case that the Balkan Wars were the first set of conflicts used to send a hostile message towards the Russian Federation. Follow Nebojša's content here:Antiwar.com: https://original.antiwar.com/author/malic/RT: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/nebojsa-malic/Telegram: @TheNebulator Twitter: https://twitter.com/NebojsaMalicBuy My Book "The 10 Myths of Gun Control" TodayIf you're serious about changing the gun control status quo we live in, this book is a must.After reading this text, you will be able to hold your own in any debate with your anti-gun friends, family, or associates. No questions asked.And heck, you will have a solid foundation in championing issues like gun rights should you take your activism to the next level.Knowledge is power and the foundation for any worthwhile endeavor. With this next-level information at your fingertips, the sky is the limit.So make today the day you say NO to the gun control status quo by taking action NOW.The full retail price for The 10 Myths of Gun Control is $6.Get Your Copy TodayBookmark my Website For Direct ContactIn the era of Big Tech censorship, we can't rely on just one or two platforms to keep us connected. Bookmark my website today so you always know where to get the true, unfiltered information about the news and views that matter to you.Subscribe to my Premium Newsletter TodayThe Niño FileIf you're serious about changing the authoritarian status quo we live in, make sure to join the Niño File on Patreon for as little as $5 a month. This is the premier source for dedicated and passionate leaders who want to not just “move the needle”, but actually win and change the landscape ahead of us.The Niño File is bringing you the necessary and concise ways to help you identify and train strong candidates, kill bad legislation while actively passing good bills, keeping incumbents accountable and knowing how to replace them when push comes to shove. Those are just the tip of the iceberg, the only way to get so much more is to join today!Don't Forget to Follow me on Twitter @JoseAlNino This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit josbcf.substack.com/subscribe

Greetings from Dubrovnik! Wade Goddard is a photojournalist originally from New Zealand and living in Dubrovnik, Croatia. He covered the breakup of former Yugoslavia and the multiple wars for independence and land that took place during that time. His work shows the realities and harshness of war, and it helps to demystify war in popular culture. Wade shared his incredible and heartbreaking stories in this episode. Check out Wade's gallery in Dubrovnik: https://www.warphotoltd.com/ War Photo Limited's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/warphotolimited/ Support TVTV on Patreon: www.patreon.com/thevoyagesoftimvetter TVTV Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thevoyagesoftimvetter/

Izabela Lundberg escaped Yugoslavia as a teenager during the Balkan Wars and survived genocide, torture, and war trauma. She journeyed across 5 countries as a refugee with her sister before eventually arriving in the United States. What Izabela experienced in her home country is eerily similar to the current war taking place in Ukraine. How... The post Episode 119: Izabela Lundberg appeared first on Kevin + Steph.

No end in sight to the war in Ukraine, but some refugees are heading home - The horror revealed after the Russian retreat - Ukrainian conflict draws comparisons with the Balkan wars. Also: A portrait of a nation as the French vote in presidential elections - Election results in Serbia and Hungary indicate President Putin has friends in the West - Ferrari celebrates 75 years in the fast lane.

Human trafficking is a $150 billion-a-year business that thrives in war zones and is arguably more lucrative than arms sales. Lurata Lyon joins HBH and bravely tells her unimaginable story of survival during the Balkan Wars across Eastern Europe in the 1990s.Lurata was kidnapped into human trafficking as a teenager when the war engulfed her home country of Serbia. She was destined for a life of sex-trafficking and organ-harvesting. Miraculously, she escaped, only to find further horrors waiting for her in the same war zone.Lurata is a profoundly inspirational person. Beyond her heroism to survive, she continues to speak out for those who were not as fortunate.

As the war in Ukraine rages on, there are several troubling historical similarities between this conflict and the Siege of Sarajevo in the early 1990s. In today's episode we examine a few of them. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/revisionisthistory/support

What would it be like to return to the village your ancestors called home, to walk in their footsteps, and try to recover their stories and culture? Ladino singer and songwriter Sarah Aroeste did just that for her seventh album, which honors what was once the largest Jewish community in the country now known as North Macedonia. In the mountainous city of Bitola, formerly known as Monastir, 98% of the Jewish population that remained after the Balkan Wars was deported in 1943, and murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators. To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Aroeste talks about her experiences in Monastir, explains why Sephardic culture is Jewish culture, and performs her song “Mi Monastir.” Then, Manya Brachear Pashman talks about the challenge of confronting and processing the antisemitic attack on a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas. ____ Episode Lineup: (0:40) Sarah Aroeste (27:53) Manya Brachear Pashman ____ Show notes: Episode photos, courtesy of Sarah Aroeste:  Sarah Aroeste's cousin Rachel Nachmias (bottom left) and family, c. 1922.  Nahmias family, c. 1922. Songs in this episode are from: Monastir. Listed in order of appearance: Espinelo Jovano, Jovanke (feat. Odelia Dahan Kehila and Gilan Shahaf) Mi Monastir  Liner notes for Monastir, with lyrics and translations   Listen to our most recent episodes:  AJC CEO David Harris on the Deborah Lipstadt Holocaust Denial Trial and AJC's Critical Role in the Fight Inside the Colleyville, Texas Synagogue Hostage Crisis: Hear from 3 Local Jewish and Muslim Leaders on What It Was Like on the Ground   Don't forget to subscribe to People of the Pod on your favorite podcast app, and learn more at AJC.org/PeopleofthePod   Tune in next week for a tribute to slain Jewish reporter Daniel Pearl, 20 years after his death.   You can reach us at: peopleofthepod@ajc.org   If you've enjoyed this episode, please be sure to tell your friends, tag us on social media with #PeopleofthePod, and hop onto Apple Podcasts to rate us and write a review, to help more listeners find us.

Episode 17: Three prominent US Computer Scientists who immigrated from Yugoslavia in the 1980s and 90s describe the effect of the Balkan Wars (1990s) on their and their family's lives. A remix episode from Season 1.

Here is the hard question…where is America right now on the sliding scale of disaster? Michael takes a shot at answering that question and discusses the implications of that answer. MichaelBane.TV - On the Radio episode # 84. Scroll down for reference links on topics discussed in this episode. Disclaimer: The statements and opinions expressed here are our own and may not represent those of the companies we represent or any entities affiliated to it. Host: Michael Bane Producer: Flying Dragon Ltd. More information and reference links: The Organic Prepper/Daisy Luther SHTF School/Selco Begovic Books by Selco Begovic on Surviving the Balkan Wars https://www.amazon.com/SHTF-Survival-Boot-Camp-Wilderness-ebook/dp/B08NS8M5PM/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=the+dark+secrets+of+SHTF+survival&qid=1629823478&sr=8-5 https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Secrets-SHTF-Survival-Violence/dp/1792159226/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=the+dark+secrets+of+SHTF+survival&qid=1629823478&sr=8-2 https://www.amazon.com/SHTF-Survival-Stories-Memories-Balkan/dp/B084DGF9QD/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=the+dark+secrets+of+SHTF+survival&qid=1629823478&sr=8-3 Surviving in Argentina: Life After the 2001 Crisis/Fernando “FerFAL” Aguirre Books by Ferfal https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Survival-Manual-Surviving-Economic/dp/9870563457/ref=sr_1_3?crid=UMBDNFXYYGY6&dchild=1&keywords=ferfal%2C+surviving+the+economic+collapse&qid=1629823820&sprefix=Ferfal%2Caps%2C198&sr=8-3 https://www.amazon.com/Street-Survival-Skills-Tricks-Tactics/dp/8409134179/ref=sr_1_4?crid=UMBDNFXYYGY6&dchild=1&keywords=ferfal%2C+surviving+the+economic+collapse&qid=1629823820&sprefix=Ferfal%2Caps%2C198&sr=8-4 https://www.amazon.com/Bugging-Out-Relocating-Staying-Option-ebook/dp/B00LLJWJ5S/ref=sr_1_5?crid=UMBDNFXYYGY6&dchild=1&keywords=ferfal%2C+surviving+the+economic+collapse&qid=1629823820&sprefix=Ferfal%2Caps%2C198&sr=8-5 Matt Bracken Website “Enemies Foreign and Domestic”/Matt Bracken “Unintended Consequences”/John Ross Henry Repeating Arms Long Rangers GREAT DEALS ON HENRY REPEATING ARMS AT MIDWAY USA! The Music of Anthony Vega The Music of Bar Halevy

This week's Random Routine comes from bestselling Tim Marshall. He came on the show back in November 2018.Tim Marshall worked for some years as the Diplomatic Editor for Sky News, travelling and living all over the world to get the stories. His book 'Shadowplay: The Overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic' is widely regarded as one of the best accounts of life in the former Yugoslavia. Tim reported in the field from Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia during the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, and has since found huge writing success for his book 'Prisoners of Geography'. It looks at how maps of the world can predict political situations, it's the first of a trilogy of books that discuss the affect of nationalism on identity politics - his others look at flags and walls.His newest book is The Power of Geography, which looks at what maps really mean. Grab a copy of it here - https://amzn.to/3CzkWVWSupport the show at Patreon.com/writersroutine.@writerspodwritersroutine.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Episode Notes In this episode, Margaret talks to Liza Kurtz about disaster studies and elite panic. The guest, Liza Kurtz, is a a PhD candidate in disaster studies who studies the impact of disaster on society, specifically how class and other antecedent conditions make people vulnerable to disasters. She is @semihumanist on twitter, and you can email her at liza.c.kurtz@gmail.com. The host, Margaret Killjoy, can be found on twitter @magpiekilljoy or instagram at @margaretkilljoy. You can support her and this show on Patreon at patreon.com/margaretkilljoy. Transcript 1:07:41 SPEAKERS Margaret, Liza Kurtz Margaret   Hello, and welcome to Live Like the World is Dying, your podcast for what feels like the end times. I'm your host, Margaret Killjoy. I use she or they pronouns. And this week I'm talking with Liza Kurtz, who is a PhD candidate in disaster studies who studies essentially the impact—well, the impact of disaster upon society. And we talk about a lot of stuff, we cover a lot of ground in this episode. But primarily, we're talking about the ways in which people do and don't respond to disaster. And basically, are trying to kind of bust the myth of that everyone runs around and, you know, murders each other or whatever. And also we get to talk about elite panic which is the idea that basically the people who are invested in the system are the ones who panic during times of extraordinary crisis. This podcast is a proud member of the Channel Zero Network of anarchist podcasts, and here's a jingle from another podcast on the network. Da daaaaa. Jingle Speaker 1 Kite Line is a weekly 30-minute radio program focusing on issues in the prison system. You'll hear news along with stories from prisoners and former prisoners as well as their loved ones. You'll learn what prison is, how it functions, and how it impacts all of us.  Jingle Speaker 2 Behind the prison walls, a message is called a kite. Whispered words, a note passed hand-to-hand, a request submitted the guards for medical care. Elicit or not, sending a kite means trusting that other people will bear it farther along until it reaches its destination. Here on Kite Line we hope to share these words across the prison walls.  Jingle Speaker 1 You can hear us on the Channel Zero Network and find out more at kitelineradio.noblogs.org. Margaret   Okay, if you could introduce yourself with your name, your pronouns, and then also just kind of, like, what you do, like, what do—you know, why did I bring you on this show? Liza   Sure thing that sounds great. So my name is Lisa Kurtz. I am a PhD candidate at Arizona State University. I use the pronouns she and her. And my research really focuses on specifically heat and power outages in the southwest. That's what my dissertation will be about. But in general, I am grounded in disaster sociology as a discipline, looking at it from sort of a conflict theory lens, which is a fancy way of saying, I look at class struggle and how antecedent conditions of disaster make people vulnerable to what we perceive as these, like, natural events that cause great harm. Margaret   Okay. What does that mean? That last part.  Liza   Sure, yeah. That's a good question. So basically I think we have a tendency, and certainly there's a tendency in popular culture and in the media to perceive any kind of disaster as—the term you'll hear used in legal circles, and sometimes in the press, is an "act of God," right? Like something no one could have predicted that just happens, that's nobody's fault. And it causes great suffering, but that suffering often isn't really drilled down on to see why did this happen. And so what disaster sociology and disaster studies try to do really is pick that apart and really trouble the implication that these things are just natural and just happen. Because they don't. And so if you look at who suffers most from disasters, if you look at why disasters happen at all, really all they are these natural events make a lens that that focuses and amplifies what's already going on in society. So if you have inequality, you have injustice, disaster brings all of that to the fore. But there's a temptation to think of it as coming out of nowhere, when in reality, we create the conditions that make suffering happen during a disaster. So Katrina is a great example of this. You can say, "Oh, it was, you know, a hundred-year storm, nobody could have predicted a hurricane that large." And there's some element of truth to that, but there's more elements of truth to how we built the city of New Orleans reflects, like, the racial injustice of its history and the poverty that we've allowed to flourish there. And all of that can get hidden behind the idea that this storm just happened. Margaret   Yeah. It's interesting, because one of the things that I focus on when I pay attention to disasters is actually the almost—the inverse consideration as far as it goes, as far as class—not in terms of like, clearly, people who are oppressed in society along numerous axes are far more likely to suffer during disasters. But I guess I like, I put a lot of my energy into thinking about how people come together during disasters. And the main thing that I've been learning slowly and I kind of want to talk to you about is this idea that, like, everyone except the elite come together and, like, work on shit together during disasters. Is that— Liza   Oh, man. Margaret   Is that true? Is that, like—that's my conception, right. Liza   That is certainly. Yeah, that's pretty spot on in a lot of cases. Yeah. And you're right certainly that people who suffer disproportionately during disasters, the folks who are vulnerable, who take the hardest hit, whether that's health or money or property damage, that doesn't make them not incredible at self-organizing and incredible at building community and responding to those events. It just makes—means they take a disproportionate amount of damage. And yeah, you're super right in the sense that we see—so, to really talk about this I'm gonna have to backup, and maybe this isn't that interesting, but I hope it is. I'm not sure if you know anything about the history of disaster studies. Margaret   I do not. Liza   Okay, so a lot of disaster studies came out of World War Two, like, civil defense ideas. The idea that there might be air attacks or even a land invasion of the United States by Axis forces or, right afterward and during the Cold War by Russia. And so there was this—oh, yeah, of course. Like it all goes back to the Cold War if you look hard enough, right.  Margaret   Yeah.  Liza   So there was this enormous interest in what the civilian response would be if something like that happens, and how we can encourage regular civilians to take the stress off of military forces that might be forced to respond by becoming self-reliant. So that's where you see this, like, advertising in glossy magazines about, like, build your own fallout shelter kind of thing. All the stuff that you see in video games now, all that was super real during the Cold War, and before that it was it was air raid shelters during World War Two. And it was really to take the pressure off of military and humanitarian forces who might be forced to respond. The idea was, you didn't want to be part of the problem. And so there was this massive wartime militaristic interest in what civilian populations would do and how we could train them to be self-sufficient. And so part of that was a ton of interest in and research into—that was funded by the military and a lot of cases—into how people would behave if something went really, really wrong. Like, would they panic? Would there be mass chaos? Would they turn on each other? And the perception that still lingers to this day in the media, if you see any bad disaster movies, and they're pretty much all bad—although some of them are bad and fun and some are just bad. If it's got the Rock, I'm there and I don't care. Margaret   Yeah, no, that's just natural. Liza   Yeah, so the perception and the expectation was that civilian populations would panic. That if there was an air raid, or a bombing, or something went wrong, there would be this mass panic. And then, as you get researchers starting to look into this, what they find actually is that people are usually pretty good at self-organizing in response to an immediate crisis. And so even though the perception is still, in the media, that if anything goes wrong it will be immediately a Walking Dead kind of scenario, as one of my interviewees put itrecently—that's not really true. Especially not among, like, middle class and lower class communities that live side-by-side with each other all the time. And we'll go into elite panic a little bit more. So that's where there started to be the seed of dispelling the myth of disaster panic was then. And that research happened in the 70s and the 80s, and the late 60s a little bit. And that has since been borne out by most of the available data, that people are really good at self-rescuing, that the real first responder is your neighbor most of the time or a family member, and that folks are pretty good at making the best of terrible, terrible situations and making life easier for each other. Now, where you see that start to fall apart is in elite panic, which is when affluent communities or communities that tend to be racial enclaves—like all-white suburbs, and things like that—get that fear of the other bite, because their perception is that as soon as anything breaks bad, it's going to be a Walking Dead scenario and everyone is going to come for their stuff. And I don't know what goes on in their head. It seems like a very, like almost a wild west, like, take your wives and children kind of mentality. Yeah. Which is really, I mean, the more you unpack that and really think about it, the more fucked up it gets. Um, and so the elite panic can be super dangerous. Margaret   I mean, on some level, I might be coming for their stuff. Liza   Yeah, well, fair. Yeah, absolutely.  Margaret   Like, I might come for their stuff. I mean, you know, they have too much of it and they're not sharing. I mean, not to tie into their own fears. It's just, you know, the billionaires of this world like... Liza   No, that's real. I've never confirmed this. But there's anecdotal reports in the Balkan Wars of people who stockpiled supplies because they sort of saw things going poorly becoming extreme social pariahs and sometimes even the targets of violence because of their, their hoarding tendencies, stockpiling goods in advance and keeping other people from getting them. So apparently that was like a severe social crime at the time, although I've never confirmed that in the literature. I've just heard that anecdotally. And it's, it's easy to understand why, like, if you're taking it and not sharing, then I can certainly see something similar happening here. I mean, I often tell preppers—when people ask about preppers in my work, I tell them preppers are going to die alone in a bunker full of goods because it's great you have all that stuff, but there isn't much you can really do with it if you don't have the social connections to make social life happen. I think prepping in particular is a particular—a particularly elite and American form of the myth of individualism taken to the most dramatic extreme Margaret   Well it's interesting thoughbecause it—if it comes from this idea of us being asked to self-rescue, us being asked to be resilient, you know—I know maybe it's like I'm always, like, trying to, like, salvage what I can out of prepping because in my mind, yeah, like the the bunker mentality—which I talk shit on, and probably every single episode—because I basically find people who are, like, functionally know a lot about prepping but don't call themselves preppers for a lot of good reasons. The bunker mentality is obviously just going to get you killed, whether it's by disease or, you know, there's like—but, but it's interesting when this idea of like being resilient, being prepared, rather than being like "a prepper" maybe. I don't know. Liza   Yeah, absolutely. And I want to draw the distinction here between what I would probably call if I, in academic speak, like the practice of prepping, which is the knowledge and the goods and knowing how to do basic survival tasks if needed, and sort of the classic American dominant culture of prepping, which is that hyper-masculinized, hyper-muscular Christianity, like, it's just going to be me and my family and my guns and a bunker full of food kind of thing. So when I talk about prepping in a derogatory way, I definitely mean the culture and not the practice. Yeah, no, I think—I have a really complicated relationship with the idea of resilience because, on one hand, I think resilience can be used to recognize how incredible some communities are at self-organizing and taking care of themselves in the face not just a disaster but of tremendously difficult conditions. Like, it is truly astonishing what people can do to find ways to survive. And here especially we see that a lot. In Phoenix, air conditioning—which is where I am—air conditioning is really not a luxury like it is in many other places. It is 110%, a survival skill or a survival tool because it is not uncommon for summers to be 115 here, which is, if you can't cool off that can be extremely detrimental to health. And so the people who have to live without air conditioning, in my work, have a tremendously creative number of strategies. Now, should they have to use them? No, of course not. They should, they should be able to have access to air conditioning for equity and health reasons. But that doesn't make the things that they do any less creative or impressive in doing so. And what's interesting to me is that sometimes we talk about prepping and the failure of systems or natural hazards can sometimes invert the relationship of who is most—how would I put this—of who is, like, doing the best in the sense that in my work in Phoenix, people who live without air conditioning are far more prepared for blackouts. So they may be more at risk in the everyday scenario as opposed to having air conditioning, but if the city's grid failed, they already have the culture and practice of staying cool without access to air conditioning down in a way that somebody who like me, honestly, who can afford air conditioning and uses it all the time really doesn't. Margaret   Just as a tangent that I'm curious about, what do people do without AC in severe, like, in severe heat. Like what do you recommend to people in power outages in the southwest?  Liza   Oh, boy. Well, yeah, that's a complicated question. But we've been very fortunate here in Phoenix to never have a truly widespread power outage. And so generally when there are smaller scale outages here, it's possible to seek indoor cooled shelter in another part of the city. But my dissertation focuses on asking residents what they would do during a three day power outage where the entire metro area does not have power. And I think I definitely ruined some people's days asking them that because it's one of those things that's uncomfortable to consider, for sure. But people who don't have power really talk about very, very smart ways. And what's especially interesting is they tap into knowledge that was present prior to the city having electricity. So these really old practices of things like hanging wet blankets over doorways so that your humidifying the air that comes into your house for greater evapotranspiration is one of them. Fairly straightforward things that most of us might think of, like wearing lighter-colored clothing, or staying out of the sun. But then also some really amazing stuff like knowing, you know, knowing which structures in the town are adobe and were built prior to air conditioning and are designed to stay cool. So if you're in a modern house in Phoenix now when you don't have AC, the temperature inside the house will rise very quickly. But many adobe structures were built prior to air conditioning or even, like, swamp cooling which is another thing we use here which is basically a giant humidifier prior to those being accessible. And so adobe structures will stay cool significantly better than modern buildings. Margaret   Yeah, I like—then you also have the problem how dry it is because, yeah, the thing that immediately strikes me as evaporative cooling, like, I would be like, oh, can you like, you know, I don't know, build, like, water catchment on the roof that holds water on the roof so it evaporates instead of transferring heat or whatever. I don't know. But that's dependent on a very different ecosystem. And also just some bullshit that I made up right now. Liza   I mean, if you think about it, that's how all survival strategies started, right? Like, hey, I wonder if this works? Yeah, no, water is a huge, a huge cooling strategy here. And it's funny because I'm originally from Tennessee, and I literally until I moved here did not know it was possible to buy humidifiers. I'd never seen anything but dehumidifiers. And so when I got here I was like, why would you want to put water in your house? And then my first summer I was like, oh, I get it. Yeah, water is hugely important in everyone's cooling strategies here. And that's another issue with blackouts in particular, because certainly if you go and ask many people who are responsible for critical infrastructure systems, they will tell you that power outages will not cause water treatment and pressure issues. But if you look at the history of citywide blackouts, the United States, there's almost always somebody who is having to cope without household potable water at the time. And so it seems like these systems are not as resilient as we would like in terms of critical infrastructure. And here, if you don't have access to household water, a huge number of your cooling strategy is, like, you know, just slam dunking yourself in a cold bath if you need to—suddenly become less tenable. And that can be really, really a problem. Margaret   Yeah. Let's talk about—I kind of accidentally derailed you or intentionally derailed you while you're talking about elite panic. But I'm really interested in that, because I'm really interested in this idea—like, again, the the working understanding that I've had, just from my my layman's perspective or whatever, is that during disasters, overall, people like essentially self-organize—not in a utopian way inherently, but often in a way that people kind of miss when things go back to normal. But then when everything gets really fucked up seems like when the existing power—the previous power structures attempt to reassert themselves. That's like been my observational understanding of, like, talking to a lot of people involved in disaster relief and things like that. But it seems like that ties into elite panic, this idea that people who are actually invested in the previous power relations, and especially property relations, are maybe the ones who can't handle the idea of everyone suddenly taking care of each other and shit. Liza   Yeah, absolutely. I think that's spot on. And I think you really see this sort of that—well, you might almost call it like a pivot point, or an inflection point where things could turn one way or the other in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. And you really see that reflected in the practice of disaster capitalism. So I think sometimes we overlook—because it seems so inevitable—that disasters have poor outcomes, and they do for many people. Disasters can also be an opportunity to say, "Hey, business, as usual, is what got us to this outcome. How can we do things differently?" Because there's sort of a shock to the system, whether the system is you as a resident or the household or the town or the county or the state, like, they're really, they're a shock point. And so they provide an opportunity to stop and say, like, okay, business as usual—the everyday practice of how we run things—got us here? How do we make sure this doesn't happen again? And if you really start engaging with how does this not happen again, that means transforming those everyday practices that got you there. So I think you're spot on with that idea that elites and people on the top who have an interest in preserving the status quo see the inflection point and sort of grab it and pull as hard as they can in the other direction. And so it's not just that there's, I think, a desire to go back to the way things were and preserve the power structure and the property relationships and everything else of the place before the disaster happened. In a lot of cases, they're perceived as opportunities, which is extremely messed up and amoral, but it's true that really these things are seen as, here is a great opportunity to restructure things towards a more capitalist, a more stratified, a less just system. And one of the things that I think you can see right now with that is because COVID closed public school systems, which is a good thing, like, kids don't need to be spreading COVID. Like, I'm broadly supportive of the public health need to close school systems. It provided this vacuum for all these alternatives, and these think pieces to crop up, etc. And these companies to start pitching like, well, do we really need public schooling anyway?  Margaret   Oh, shit, uhuh.  Liza   Can this be replaced by a different system that's more private, that's more controlled by capital, that's less interested in the public good, that is more about profit. And that's a classic, classic example of what's called disaster capitalism, where something goes wrong and suddenly it becomes an opportunity for someone somewhere to restructure things so they can make more money. Margaret   Yeah, and that's, I mean, you know, Amazon, Jeff Bezos, all that shit. Like, with COVID now, everyone buys everything online. I buy everything online. I'm terrified of COVID and I work from home. So, you know—and then you're like, I don't know, just watching. society restructure itself to buy everything online. And online is kind of, it—I don't know whether it's naturally or it's designed that way by evil people. But, like, overall, the internet is so good at decentralizing things and yet in terms of, like, commerce, it seems like it's really good at centralizing. It's like really good at having the everything store. You know? Liza   Yeah. And I don't know enough about the architecture of the internet and economics therein to say, like, if that's by design, or just a function of the way it works. But yes, it does seem to be—seems to be so good at creating monopolies in that way. Margaret   When you're talking about adobe houses, you know, and how, okay, the old houses are actually built with adobe or whatever. You know, it just—it really strikes me about how completely arrogant the colonial and industrial system is, in that it's like, well, whatever works in New England is what should work in Arizona. And it's so baffling to me, you know, because it's like, well, there's so obviously, like, a steep pitched roof exists that way to shed snow, you know, and then people were like, "Oh, we'll just put these steep gables everywhere." And like— Liza   Right. Margaret   It's just... I mean, I say that as someone who lives in a a-frame somewhere where there's no snow—well, not no snow, but not much snow. But in my defense, I actually just built it that way because it's the cheapest and most structurally sound way for someone who doesn't know how to build a house to build a house is have fewer walls, more roof. I don't know, it just, it—it depresses me to think about.  Yeah, no.  This the centralizing urge. Go ahead. Oh, I just, I think you're so right. And I think it's, it's—maybe there is something to the idea that accelerated consolidationist capitalism makes everything sort of a bland universalism in much of the way that Amazon is a bland universalism. Because I do think one of the things that we've really lost that is super helpful in the practice of preparing for disaster is local knowledge. Just localization in general is such a huge thing. Whether it's knowing where in your landscape the water is, or knowing what kind of house does best without AC. And certainly here in Phoenix I have been known to just, like, scream a little bit in my car driving around because there is a massive fad for pulling out old, beautiful 50s Ranch homes and putting in—I've heard them referred to as "McModerns." So houses that take up the entire lot, that look, like you say, very much New England-y. They're often two storeys which is dumb in the desert, they have no green buffer around them at all to help cool anything, they're made of, like, the cheapest possible, like, wood and sheet rock and very little insulation, very large windows that face, you know, like east and west, often. And so you just look at these buildings that are literally the worst possible choice for this environment. And they are building them constantly and it really like it is tremendously painful to see in these beautiful neighborhoods that were originally orange groves. And so when people started building houses there, they would leave the orange trees around their houses, and so there was significant shade and food in your front yard, and then they will just rip them all out and replace them with these. And what really gets me—and this is like such a classic example of a thing people think they're doing for a good reason that is actually worse —s many of them have astroturf lawns, which I understand from the perspective of not wanting to use water or like your grass always being green. But you've replaced, like, not that I support suburban lawns, but you've replaced something that is at least a plant, even if it's a monoculture, with plastic. And sure it doesn't use water. But the thing that gets me the most is my colleagues study surface temperature, and astroturf is the worst thing you could put down for heat. Margaret   Yeah. Okay.  Liza   Like, it's worse—you might as well have paved your yard. Margaret   Yeah. Liza   And it's also carcinogenic. And so there's this, like, pseudo-greenwashing that's actually just absolutely the worst thing you could do for everyone involved, all these horrible McModerns that are the worst thing you could build for the desert. And we have—and I think it really all just comes from a desire for, I want to live in a place that looks like every other place. And we've come so far from, like, the localized knowledge of knowing adobe is better and xeriscaping is better and all of that. Margaret   Xeriscaping?. Liza   Oh, sorry, X-E-R-I. Xeriscaping is desert landscaping. So it's the practice of planting your yard in a way that is congruous with, like, the natural environment of the Sonoran Desert that we're in here. Margaret   Yeah, it's this arrogance that I almost can't handle. Because it's, like, if you build your life around, I assume that I will always have a gas line and a power line and, you know, I will always just have as much electricity as I could possibly want. You know, it's like, now that I live somewhere where I generate my own electricity—I mean, a solar panel generates the electricity for me. It, which isn't, you know, carbon neutral, either, you know. But I'm so aware of, like, how incredibly not necessary wasteful AC is, because you kind of need it in a lot of circumstances. It's not a waste. But it's not exactly this, like, low power device. You know? And, I don't know, just the things that we take for granted, it confuses me sometimes. Liza   For sure. And you shouldn't have said solar panel, because in my head it was just you biking furiously on like a bike generator to keep the computer on while we do is so you could have had me there. No, absolutely, I think—yeah, I mean, an AC is one of those things where, I don't know, it's almost like putting a band aid on a bullet wound here a little bit in the sense that I'm not going to argue that centralized air conditioning is the single most effective intervention for saving people from dying from heat, which is a huge problem here. About 500 people in the state died last year from heat-related causes last year, which is not an insignificant number. And actually, extreme heat kills more people in the United States than any other weather-related hazard. So you know, when you worry about hurricanes or tornadoes or things like that, it's really heat that's the major killer of people. And so I would never say, like, don't have central AC for ecological reasons, because it is a huge and immediate public health intervention that saves lives. But also, it doesn't solve this fundamental problem which is, part of the reason we need AC so badly is we built the city in a really stupid sort of 70s-thinking kind of way, which is there's tons of uncovered pavement, and really tall buildings that, you know, like, the urban heat island here is very, very real, it doesn't cool off overnight. And so the need for AC is great, but the need to think beyond AC and think about how do we look into the future and actually reduce the need for this, like, immediate public health triage of just get in a cool environment so you don't die right away? Margaret   Well, okay, so the the need to fundamentally restructure huge parts of our society seems very apparent and increasingly apparent to more and more people, especially as, you know, climate change barrels down on everyone, even if you were willing to ignore all of the systemic oppression that people face. And I think sometimes—and I know I do this, and I wonder whether—you talk about how capitalists look at disaster as opportunity, and that's a problem. And I'm like, so do revolutionists, and so do people who want society to be fundamentally different. Because you have this, some level of like wiping the slate clean, and there's a certain amount of opportunity to restructure society. And it seems like very often capitalism is better at this than us. But there are also these, like, you know, like watching mutual aid networks pop up all over at least the United States last year in a way that like—and I wouldn't, you know, I don't want COVID to have happened, right? But when people look at that and say, well, we actually need to learn how to take care of each other and build these, like, networks by which to take care of each other. To me, that's the beauty of it. But then it's—now I wonder whether I'm doing the same kind of ambulance chasing that capitalists are. Do I let myself off the hook just because I think what I'm doing is good and what they're doing is bad, right? Like, they think the opposite. But I'm right. Liza   Well, yeah, I mean, I don't think it is—if it's ambulance chasing, you're only chasing the ambulance, to help stop the bleeding as opposed to charge the patient. So I think that there's a fundamental value difference there. And so yeah, no, you're you're absolutely correct in the sense that they're are opportunities, and there are opportunities, whether we want them to be or not, so we might as well seize them. But I think part of the problem is about how—not just in media, but even to each other-how we storytelling around disasters as, like—it's very hard to hold the tension in your mind. Like with COVID, it's very hard to hold the tension in your mind between so many people, particularly people of color and otherwise vulnerable folks have paid this horrible price for our inability to cope with an epidemic. And at the same time, this sort of—and that's, there's nothing good about that, that is massively negative. And at the same time, we are being presented with this opportunity that could allow us to build something better, like these mutual aid networks that you mentioned. But it feels–it's very hard to talk about, in a way that feels respectful and honorable—to say like, this is an opportunity for something better to be born out of the ashes of this enormous tragedy. And so I think it's easy for those conversations to get derailed, one because of how we talk about disasters as, you know, like always negative with the panic and everything like that—the mythology around disasters makes it hard. And then two, the difficulty of respectfully talking about this. But I would certainly argue that if we want especially—and I'll use COVID, as the example here—if we want to honor the people who died unjustly of COVID, there is no better way to do so, than taking this opportunity and seizing it to make a system and a world where that won't happen again. Margaret   Yeah, that's a—that's a good way to put it. And I wonder, you know, it's like, I mean, what we should be trying to do—and what people do try to do is just that the systems of power we're up against are rather good at what they do of maintaining their power—is do this anyway. You know, it's like, there's been mutual aid networks for—well, ever, obviously—just assigning a word to it in the 19th century, or whatever. But, you know, we need to restructure things anyway. And if you were to take Phoenix as an example, it's like—I mean, I kind of, I have to admit, I look at Phoenix as like this just grand arrogance in the desert, that, like, probably shouldn't be there. And I know that that's not fair to the actual individual people who live there, you know. And so I don't want to be like, get rid of Phoenix or whatever, right. But like—but instead it's like, well, probably the slow, hard work of restructuring needs to happen anyway. Like the slow, hard work of figuring out how to rebuild the city in such a way that it isn't just, like, waiting for disaster. I don't know. Liza   Oh, yeah. I think you've touched on something there that I always try and challenge people with when they talk about Phoenix as a grand experiment in inevitable failure—building I think at this point the fifth largest city in the United States—or the fifth largest metro area, actually—in the desert which is—I don't necessarily disagree that that is not an immediately intuitively good idea. But now that it's here, I like to think of Phoenix as the perfect testbed and sandbox because it's the hottest large metro area in the United States. And if we can turn this thing around, and we can make Phoenix in the next 30 years cooler and more livable and more just and more sustainable, than it can be done anywhere. We're the edge case, and so this is the perfect place to find those solutions, and then take the lessons learned and the things that worked and export them to less extreme environments where they might be useful. So in that sense, even a little victory in Phoenix might be a big victory in somewhere else. Margaret   Yeah. Okay. So, to go back to disaster studies, we've talked about how the mainstream, like, certainly the media conception of disaster is, you know, the Walking Dead scenario is the everyone running around, like, you know, everyone for themselves scenario. And—but, but disaster studies, it seems like even though it came from this, you know, kind of shitty background, it seems like—have the people who study disaster academically, have they kind of known this entire time, that's bullshit? And if so, why isn't that getting out? Like, why aren't more people aware of the fact that everything we know about how people respond to disaster is wrong? Liza   That is a great, great question. And I'm not sure I have, like, a perfect answer for you. But I can certainly offer some thoughts. So yes, you're right that disaster studies, even though it came out of this very militarized and military-funded background, really starting with a wonderful scholar named E. L. Quarantelli who was active in the 60s to the 90s really started questioning those views and pushing on this idea of panic and other things like that. And so, disaster studies in general as a field—not all of it, but for a long time—has been very justice-oriented in its approach. So if you've heard the words "social vulnerability," a lot of that is coming out of disaster studies. If you've heard the words, you know—or heard talking about the concept of resilience as applied from the top down being a way of almost victim blaming—which certainly it can be, you know. Like, why aren't you—it's a repackaging sometimes of the idea of like, why aren't you self reliant? Why are you making us help you? Kind of thing. All of that is really coming out of a disaster studies. The problem is, unfortunately, that you almost have two separate silos of disaster studies, because disaster scholars are not the people who respond to disaster. They're not the people preparing for it. They're not the people deciding what mitigates it. Those people are part of what I would broadly call sort of the emergency management class, at least here in the United States, they are. And many of them are emergency managers, but that also includes things like crisis communications and information officers, or Public Information Officers, and fire chiefs and firefighters, and EMS first responders, and in many cases public health officials as well. And that is a professional class that has existed for a long time—and this is slowly starting to change—that has really stayed rooted in that military idea. So it's not directly connected to the military, although sometimes it is. But it's a militarized service. It's very about hierarchy—so I was a firefighter, I was a volunteer firefighter in Tennessee for about two years. So you have a commanding officer, you know, it's structured like the military, basically. In a lot of cases it works very closely with law enforcement and the military, like National Guard, for instance. Here in Arizona, I think it's very indicative that our agency is DEMA, which is the Department of Emergency and military affairs. And how you became an emergency manager, or fire chief, or someone who is really directly involved in the world of preparing for and responding to disasters, was you started as, like, a frontline law enforcement, frontline fireman, frontline-and I say men because they generally are, although starting to change too—and you worked for 20 years. And eventually you worked your way up the chain, much like the military, to becoming someone who was making all of these strategic decisions, etc. And so, disaster studies has a very hard time talking across the gap to practitioners. And it's a little disheartening sometimes how white and male disaster practitioners still tend to be, and how stuck in a particularly militaristic frame of mind. And that's something that's really been troubling me lately and something I've talked about colleagues with because—I don't know if I've said this publicly yet but I've certainly said it to colleagues—as a queer woman with a trans partner who is deeply interested in racial and social justice, even though my degree sets me up for it, I don't feel like at this point I can, in good conscience, take a standard Emergency Management job.  Margaret   Yeah. Liza   It's too wrapped up with law enforcement and militaristic ideas of what disaster response means and who deserves what and why people do things and where aid goes. And it's just—and, you know, like, FEMA is still housed in the Department of Homeland Security, which is a whole other issue that we could talk about for another hour—which really no one who studies disasters is—or very few people—really support that model. It offers tremendous problems. And so you have this gap. And so that's part of the reason these things still exist is the practice of emergency management really looks pretty similar to the 1950s in some ways, and the study of disaster is much more radical, much more diverse thing. Margaret   Okay, so hear me out. If already in terms of disaster management you have the militaristic system, the official governmental system, and then you have these, like, incredibly complex and interesting disaster relief organizations—especially the, like, the nonhierarchical, the mutual aid focused ones, right. So you all should just get up with those peoplea nd basically, like, I don't know, I get really excited about this, like, okay, so like, create a counter structure, right? Like, and these—that already is starting to exist increasingly. And so I think we call if y'all got up with them, and maybe you all already do. Yeah, one of the—okay, so like thinking about the terrible ways that people manage disaster, like the government's managed disaster or whatever, I am curious if you know of this: I've been hearing this phrase from people I know who do disaster relief, especially coming from anarchist spaces, that there is a specific written thing that the priority of the government in disasters above all else, including the actual rule of law, like the application of laws, is COG—is continuance of governance. Basically, like, this is the justification for like shooting looters and things like that, because it's absolutely illegal to shoot looters, right. Like, by the existing right structure. But the reassertion of control as, like, the absolute baseline priority. Does that hold up with your understanding? I know it's now in a different silo than your silo but... Liza   Yeah, so I would be surprised if that is specifically written down anywhere in that way. Certainly Continuity of Operations as it's called—COOP plans—and Continuity of Governance—COG plans—exist. And they play a very important role in how, on paper, we prepare for disaster as, like, large government institutions prepare for disaster. It is certainly not supposed to be held above rule of law. Now, is it? Probably quite a bit. And things like shooting looters is really hard to unpack because you have things operating on so many different levels. So first off, people who—like you have the personal prejudice level of the people doing the shooting, right? Like that particular person or police officer or resident might be especially racist, as you saw in Katrina. And it might be, like, if a Black person comes through this neighborhood, I'm going to shoot them. Certainly that happened a lot. You also have policy that structures itself in ways that we know is not necessarily reflective of reality. So you may have contingency plans that place law enforcement officers to prevent looting, for instance, when actually law enforcement officers need to, like, exacerbate the situation, right? And so you end up creating these situations which lead to other bad situations. So really, there's so many operational—and then you have the storytelling mythology level where, like, because even among people who do this professionally, you will still find the myth that mass panic is going to happen. You have the drive of, like, well I'm expecting it and therefore I overreact when I see something that might be it. And that's even leaving aside the category of who is a looter and who is resourcefully scavenging resources. There's been a lot of studies done—again, mostly Katrina, but in other contexts as well—about how media presents people taking survival requirements like water and food from stores and how the economic status and skin color of those people really determines the headline they get. Which is, you know, perhaps not a surprise, but it's good to have that data. So you have all these things building on each other to create—if you'll pardon the disaster-related upon—sort of a perfect storm situation where everything works to prop up the system. But whether there's a single origin point of policy pushing for that in writing, I don't know. And I would be surprised if there is. I think it's more complex than that. Margaret   Okay. Yeah, that—it makes sense to me if, like, basically, like, a COG or continuous governance or whatever was like part of this larger framework, and then just gets exaggerated. One of the things that gives me hope is all of the, like, the weird human element parts of it when it actually hits the ground of, like, you know, I remember hearing from a friend who worked with the Common Ground Collective in Katrina in New Orleans basically talking about how, like, National Guardsmen would, like, give the anarchists supplies. Because they would be like, well, if I take this where I'm supposed to take it, it's gonna sit in a warehouse for two weeks, and it's needed right now. And it's just like, I don't know, I get—the things I've talked about before on the show—the stuff that makes me like the most hopeful is when certain unbridgeable chasms are bridged between different types of people. And— Liza   Yes. Margaret   But then on the other—you have the exact opposite of the, like, yeah, the people who seem to go wild. The people who seemed to go the wildest in Katrina seemed to be the white racists. But, yeah. Liza   Yeah, I think there is... Man. And it's hard to talk about and frustrating to talk about incremental progress, because I think there has been some recognition in the system that things are not working, and that you need to rely on local expertise and local knowledge and local abilities to get things done—which is sort of the bigger scale version of the guardsmen giving supplies to anarchists because they know they're going to sit in a warehouse and anarchists can get them into the hands of people who need them right away. The problem there is, it's a little bit like being, I don't know, like a mouse trying to steer an elephant. Like we have built this system of disaster response that is so large and so cumbersome, that it's really beyond any single person's ability to fundamentally change. And so there's a lot of attention being paid—or more attention than there has been previously anyway, I don't know, but a lo— to the idea that we need to be supporting communities at, like, the higher level institutions—that macroscale institutions need to be supporting communities and the work that they're already doing. We just need to enable the anarchists to have more stuff to go out and distribute that kind of thing. Now, whether or not that's going to make a significant difference in the long run definitely remains to be seen. But certainly there seems to be more interest in that. Now I personally have some mixed feelings about that because in a lot of cases here in Phoenix when we're talking about especially like heat relief, or disaster relief, or who's going to help you pay your power bill if you can't, there's been a significant—I think we all know that since the 80s, there's been a significant replacement of state services with more localized things. And there's nothing inherently wrong with that. But a lot of the localized assistance now is through churches. And to me that raises some troubling questions about, like, who gets helped? Who gets left out? What are the conditions of help reliant upon? And so we've sort of replaced this ineffective state aid with this may be more effective but differently discriminatory aid that's at the local level. And so I think you really have to pay close attention to the idea of localism as a panacea as the remedy for all injustice because sometimes localism just means enacting injustice on a smaller scale. Like handmade artisan home grown fuck you instead of like a fuck you from the state. Margaret   Okay, well, so that ties into something you were talking about earlier at the very beginning when you're talking about the history of disaster studies, was kind of to create a culture of prepping—as in, to get people away—to take the power—take pressure off of the elites who, like, ostensibly should be providing our needs, by having us provide for ourselves, but in a way that doesn't actually fundamentally free us. It's kind of an interesting trap around—it's something that I've seen mutual aid groups struggle with for years is like, well, we always say, we're mutual aid not to charity, right? And like Food Not Bombs, you know, with it's, like, free food program that's been going on for decades. And now, I think that, like, there are just ways to do that local level stuff without like—like Food Not Bombs, like, unlike a, most church feeds that, you know, I'm aware of—most church feeds it's like, take a number, stand in line, like, you know, it's very—it replicates a lot of disempowerment, right. And, you know, like Food Not Bombs is ostensibly more like, it's a picnic in the park and you're invited, because you exist. And of course it's gonna have its own informal problems, right? I'm not trying to claim it's perfect. But there's always this worry about how much do activists make—like, how much do we empower oppression just by solving the problems that oppression creates? You know, like, if we're feeding— Liza   Oh, boy.  Margaret   Yeah. And if we're feeding people without fundamentally challenging the system that has left people without food... I don't know. For me it's just, like, you just—I think that the answer is that the problem with this bespoke oppression that you're talking about, the localist oppression, is it just needs to be tied into challenging things at a larger scale. Wh I say just, it's easy. Everyone could just do this, it would fix everything. No problem. No one will have any. Liza   This is a problem I'm intimately familiar with on a personal level because when I graduated from undergrad and suddenly the stress of college was no longer upon me, I discovered that I am a stress junkie and I needed something to do because I was going out of my mind. And so I joined the local volunteer fire service thinking, like, oh, this will be, like, I'll learn skills, I'll be able to help people, and I'll be stressed out enough to be happy. It turned out even that was not enough and I had to go to graduate school, but that's a story for another time. And this is like the fundamental tension of a volunteer fire service. I mean, think about what that means, right? So the city I was in had a professional fire service because it was considered a population density sufficient enough. But the county, which is a very large and populated county, was all volunteer-run. And it's sort of the same problem, like, you don't want people's houses to burn down, so someone needs to go put them out. But at the same time, if you're rural, you are fundamentally getting a worse class of service than the professionals. And the volunteer fire department enabled its own perpetuation by the fact that eventually most people's houses got put out. And I always used to joke, like, don't have a house fire between the hours of 8am and 5pm when we're all at work. Because it was one of those things where, if people's houses had just burned down, there probably would have been significant push to have a professional fire service. But at the same time, then you have a bunch of people's houses burning down, and maybe they die in the fire too and that's awful. But because there is sort of an ad hoc fire service, there wasn't the push to have a professional one. Even though—andI don't think people knew this, right. But we were using equipment that was out of date, that hadn't been tested. I think our jaws of life for rescuing people out of car wrecks were like some of the first models ever made from the 80s because we didn't have funding. And it's like, you know, we were saving lives but also perpetuating the system that was probably really harming people. So what's the trade off between, like, that long term harm and the short term, everybody's house burns down, but people get a professional fire service in the end? And I don't know what the solution is besides, as you said, sort of making sure we're plugging into troubling the larger structure and advocating for larger structure. The fire service is a particularly tricky one because people's lives depend on it so immediately. For something like Food Not Bombs I would say it's possible they're already doing some of that work by having people show up and having that picnic in the park feeling and just letting people know that receiving assistance doesn't have to be total drudgery and shame. And so maybe for things like that, where there can be joy and comradeship and true connections on social scale, maybe the next person that—the next time that person needs to go to a church handout line or an unemployment office, there is that seed of like, well, why isn't this like that? I think sometimes you can really—you can plant the revolutionary seed in people by showing them joy just as much as by showing them tragedy. Margaret   Yeah, that's a really good note I think maybe to kind of wind down on—to think about. What—I guess the questions I want to ask to kind of close this out. One, I kind of want to ask, what do you worry about personally? What do you prepare for? What is—how is working with disaster studies—how has it influenced your own life? Liza   Sure, yeah. Well, I will say I worry much more about long term trends than I do about any particular single incident. So for Phoenix, I'm worried about what the temperature profile of the city looks like in the next 50 years, because I might—I might be like one of the few people on record ever saying this—but I really love Phoenix. I think it's got a really cool art scene and there's wonderful people here. And it has a surprisingly revolutionary spirit and a fighting spirit for being a blue town and a very red state. And also, it's nice to be in Arizona, because in many ways, we're at this political tipping point. So if you're here and you're willing to get engaged, you can really make a difference. So I don't want to see Phoenix fail. She like there's a lot of people who do to sort of make a point about climate arrogance, but I'm not one of them. And so for me, I worry about these really boring things that unless you're in the weeds, you probably don't think of. So I worry about what are our overnight temperatures going to be in the next 50 years, because we know that overnight temperatures have a significant effect on human health, they're a really good indicator of the urban heat island. And one of the things that's hopeful is that thus far the science shows that if we really buckled down and redesigned the way we did the city of Phoenix, we would be able to offset most of the regional and global climate warming in the region through localized efforts. So Phoenix in 50 years could be cooler than it is today. There's nothing that's stopping us from doing that. But we have to raise the political will and reach out and seize that opportunity. I don't worry as much about our regional—or rather a city-wide blackout, even though that's what I talk to people about—partially because I know our utility companies and how they function and that is something they're thinking about. It's—I worry more about it in areas that don't think about extreme heat on their grid. Like, we have it so often, it's regular here, that I think we're better prepared than many other places. So in that sense, extreme heat could be worse in, say, like, the Northeast of the Northwest than it could be here because those grids are not regularly stress tested in the same way. Margaret   Right. Liza   And then I also worry about—and this kind of ties back with what we're talking to you about disaster panic—I worry about—its maybe—and this is—at the end of the interview is the wrong time to bring this up, but this is fun. It's not completely true that there's never violence and looting after disasters.  Margaret   Right.  Liza   It does happen, and primarily where you see it happen is after some blackouts. And it tends to be blackouts in cities that are already have a very wide divide between rich and poor and are undergoing a lot of racial tension. And you can really see, like, why. One is they aren't perceived in the same way as an act of God because blackouts—it's easier to see human culpability. Like, the electricity company that I pay to maintain my power has failed in their job and I am angry about it. And then also, they're perceived as an opportunity of, like, the system is failing us, we should go out and express that it is failing us and we are angry about it and take advantage where we can of the opportunity to gain more resources. So it's all extremely understandable. But I really—I worry about our next disaster—next major US disaster—acute disaster, I should say. Because COVID is a disaster, it's just a slower moving one. Our next acute disaster response, because of growing injustice, because of factionalization in society, because of this awakened beast of white rage in the nation—I worry that our next disaster response is going to look more like the cops at Black Lives Matter protests than mutual aid groups. Margaret   Yeah, I bet it'll be both. Liza   Probably. And yeah, of course mutual aid groups will be they're doing what they can, but I really worry that we're creating a perfect storm for disaster response to be hyper militarized because cries for justice are perceived as unrest.  Margaret   Yeah. No, it's interesting. And yeah, there's a lot to dig into with you more some time. Okay, my final question is just, where can people engage more with your work? Or do you even want or have any kind of public profile around the work that you do? Liza   I do. I am on Twitter. I'm at semi humanist, S-E-M-I-humanist on Twitter. I love chatting with people about my work and things like that. Everyone's also free to email me and you can put this in the show notes if you like at liza.c.kurtz@gmail.com. I do speak at academic conferences. But if anyone is listening and really wants me to come talk a little bit in a digestible way—hopefully about what disaster research says—to a mutual aid group or an anarchist book club or any of those fun venues where knowledge can be a little freer than stuffy academia sometimes, I'm really always happy to talk to those folks. I think probably the most important work I do is closer to things like this than academic publications, which circulate to other scientists, which is very personally satisfying to engage with other scientists, but not—probably not tremendously socially helpful. And it's also just a great check of, like, I think it's easy as an academic to get wrapped up in such a way that you can talk to other academics but not people in your field. And I try hard to avoid that at all costs. Margaret   Yeah. I found everything that I've—you know, from talking to you before we did the show—very approachable. So I highly recommend anyone who's listening to take Liza up on that. Alright, well, thank you so much for being on the show.  Liza   Oh, yeah, no problem. Thank you so much for having me. Thank you so much for listening. If you enjoyed this episode, please tell people about it. Tell people on social media. Tell people about it in person from six feet away, unless both vaxxed or whatever. Tell people on—by liking and subscribing and writing reviews and all of that algorithmic shit, because it has a wildly disproportionate impact on how things get viewed. And if we're trying to make our content and our media reach more people, that is an unfortunately effective way to do it. So tweet about it and stuff. 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Photo: Ottoman troops with flag.  Ottoman Infantry Religious flag (Fedais Volunteers) during the Balkan Wars.The New John Batchelor ShowCBS Audio Network@Batchelorshow ". . . more assertive Turkish claims, a more aggressive stance . . ."  @BlaiseMisztal & @JINSA; Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1                                                                     Blaise Misztal is the Vice President for Policy at JINSA. His research interests include Iran and its nuclear program, U.S.-Turkey relations, countering extremism, and strategic competition. Related articles https://thearabweekly.com/turkey-hopes-better-ties-cairo-and-riyadh-will-break-its-isolation https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/550030-bidens-armenian-genocide-recognition-ramps-up-us-turkey-tensions https://jinsa.org/jinsa_report/irans-newest-nuclear-steps-wont-make-up-for-delays-caused-by-explosion/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-us-national-security-advisers-meet-in-dc-to-discuss-iran-deal/ https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/turkey-stays-mum-about-arrest-of-iranian-woman-who-left-israels-embassy-665765

Today we will talk about southeastern europe and the conflicts which led to the downfall of the Ottoman Empire.

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Teamwork makes the dream work, but what happens when your mates turn against you? In this episode, Jac covers the incredible story of the Balkan Wars; where the Balkan League, a quadruple alliance, helped free territory from under Ottoman Rule and set the stage for World War 1. Check out FSO Compass here: https://fsocompass.com/hdwnkt Help us improve the quality of our podcast by contributing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/HowDidWeNotKnowThat Study Guides and Show Notes: www.hdwnkt.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hdwnkt/support

Overview of the Balkan Wars

Chances are you've mentioned them in an essay on the causes of the First World War, but what do you really know about the events of 1912-13? Ted Hooton joins us for an introduction.

Nikola Kostic, born in Serbia, has lived in Indonesia for the past 20 years. He has a passion for photography with a strong fascination for cultures in transition. With the islands of the Indonesian archipelago, and the vibrant countries of southeast Asia at his doorstep he’s never short of inspiration, and spends much of my time on the road (and on the ocean) capturing the magic of life through a series of fleeting moments. Inside the Episode: (07:58): Nikola starts us off with his experience during the conflict in the Balkans. (11:13): We make the transition to Nikola’s introduction to photography.  (21:08): Nikola shared some profound moments from his travels and photography that helped shape his philosophy on the world. With an eye for the  individual, Nikola looks for “symbols”.  (34:20): Elliot brings up the Monoliths discovered throughout the world in late 2020. This then brings us into a discussion on ancient civilizations.  (36:39): The conversation transitions to the cultural diversity and political climate of the United States and its impact on the world.  (43:16): Elliot brings up the banana duct taped to a wall..”art”. (46:00): We discuss Nikolas's experience as a photographer in Bali.  (59:52): Nikola tells us about his twelve part travel guides! (01:00:00): Nikola tells us an epic story about his experience photographing a volcanic eruption in Indonesia. Throughout his life, he’s found himself in some incredible situations, including scuba diving with Hammerhead Sharks, the transition of Bali from an undeveloped island into a mega resort-type destination, to living in Serbia during the Balkan Wars of the 90s.  Learn More About Our Guest: http://www.nikolakosticphotography.com/ (www.nikolakostic.com) https://www.instagram.com/nikolakostic_prints/ (https://www.instagram.com/nikolakostic_prints/) The Travelers Blueprint is more than just a podcast with consulting services that allow you to Become Your Own Travel Agent! Take a moment to rate us! Screenshot your review, email us the screenshot with your name and address and we will send you a FREE travel sticker! TheTravelersBlueprint@gmail.com FREE Travel Cheat Sheet! Just sign up for all the latest TTB news and guest information at http://www.thetravelersblueprint@gmail.com (www.thetravelersblueprint.com) For Travel Consulting Services w/ Bob: https://thetravelersblueprint.com/travel-consulting (https://thetravelersblueprint.com/travel-consulting) Our Private Community on Facebook is a great way to have your travel questions be heard and speak directly to us. Join here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/260677938112800 (The Travelers Blueprint Community) For less than a cup of coffee you can be a major supporter of our time and efforts in producing this podcast. Please consider becoming a Patron by signing up here: https://www.patreon.com/join/thetravelersblueprint (https://www.patreon.com/join/thetravelersblueprint) Follow Us on Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/the_travelers_blueprint/ (Instagram) - https://www.facebook.com/TheTravelersBlueprint18/ (Facebook) - https://twitter.com/ttblueprint?lang=en (Twitter) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyB8gPEriEPYP92Q1DHHkbg (YouTube) This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Support this podcast

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In the latest episode of the cancel culture saga, social media companies have taken into their own hands to censor content. Trump’s Tweets, Zero Book’s Videos, & Brad Troemel’s memes, have all been subject to the policing eye of so-called “fact checkers.” In the first part of this episode, Laurie joins Pamela to discuss the new wave of censorship under our Silicon Valley dystopia and the realignment of liberals in the Age of Trump. In the second part of the episode, we focus on how the German-speaking Left has responded to the recent terror attacks in France and Austria. Our European Correspondent, Andreas, joins Sophia and Pamela to discuss the responses by the anti-imperialist left, featuring Die Funke, the Austrian faction of the International Marxist Tendency (IMT) and Marx 21 in Germany. Second, Andreas interviews Michael Fischer, an Austrian anti-fascist and recent contributor to the anti-German publication Bahamas. Fischer present his critique of political islam and his thoughts on the anti-imperialist left today. Finally, Frankfurt Platypus member, Jan Schroeder joins us to reflect on the trajectory of the anti-German Left, from its origins through its opposition to the Balkan Wars and support for American intervention in the Gulf, and their present iteration as defenders of “class politics”. Links: Brad Troemel’s Biden-Clinton meme https://www.instagram.com/p/CI3pSqUBevY/ Glenn Greewald, “Instagram is Using False “Fact-Checking” to Protect Joe Biden’s Crime Record From Criticisms” (December 2020) https://greenwald.substack.com/p/instagram-is-using-false-fact-checking Pamela C. Nogales C., “The Cancel Wars: The Legacy of the Cultural Turn in the Age of Trump” (Platypus Review, November 2020) https://platypus1917.org/2020/11/01/the-cancel-wars-the-legacy-of-the-cultural-turn-in-the-age-of-trump/ Laurie Rojas, “The Culture Wars in the Age of Trump” (Platypus Review, November 2020) https://platypus1917.org/2020/11/01/the-culture-wars-in-the-age-of-trump/ Der Funke, “Wien: Gegen Terror und nationale Einheit” (November 2020) https://derfunke.at/aktuelles/oesterreich/11526-wien-gegen-terror-und-nationale-einheit Marx 21, “Frankreich: Muslime unter Generalverdacht” (November 2020) https://www.marx21.de/frankreich-muslime-unter-generalverdacht/ Efraim Carlbach, “The Unchanging Core of Marxism: Interview with Ian Birchall” (Platypus Review, December 2017 – January 2018) https://platypus1917.org/2017/12/02/unchanging-core-marxism-interview-ian-birchall/ Spartacist League, “For Workers Revolution in Iran: Down with the Shah! Don’t Bow to Khomeini” (Workers’ Vanguard, December 1978) https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/workersvanguard/1978/0221_15_12_1978.pdf Michael Fischer, “Die neue Rassenlehre: Moderne Rassenideologie im antirassistischen Gewand” (Bahamas 85 / 2020) http://redaktion-bahamas.org/artikel/2020/85-die-neue-rassenlehre/ Jan Schroeder, “Althusser’s Marxism” (July–August 2019) https://platypus1917.org/2019/07/02/althussers-marxism/ Jan Gerber, panelist on the “Crisis Of Neoliberalism” panel at the Platypus German Conference (January 2020) (in German) https://archive.org/details/25.01crisisofneoliberalism/25.01+Crisis+of+Neoliberalism.mp3 SPS Reflections on the 2020 German Conference can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/platypus-affiliated-society/ep22 Hosted by Pamela N., Sophia F. with European Correspondent, Andreas W. music by Tamas Vilaghy

Author Peter Giakoumis talks about his book "Forgotten Heroes of Balkan Wars" The inspiring story of Greek Americans and Philhellenes that fought in 1912-1913 during the Balkan Wars. An amazing research work that took over 7 years, this book captures the forgotten but not lost history.

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In this episode, I’m talking with Laura Hassler, Founder and Director of Musicians Without Borders. It’s a charity based in Amsterdam that uses the power of music for peacebuilding and social change, particularly in areas of war and conflict ||| There are many reasons why you’ll be interested in Musicians with Borders. From its early beginnings as a bus full of musicians bringing music to refugee camps and communities affected by the Balkan Wars, to its community music work in Palestine, Central Eastern Africa, Central America and Europe and training of music leaders. Laura herself has had a fascinating track record too, having been active in US civil rights and peace movements from an early age. She worked for social change organisations in the US and Europe before moving to the Netherlands to develop a career as a musician and link music to social causes.

The Ottomans are blindsided by the Christian states of the Balkans while still fighting a war against Italy, and the Great Powers don’t seem to care to much about maintaining the old balance of power.BibliographyThe Young Turks: The Committee of Union and Progress in Turkish Politics, 1908-14, Feroz AhmadThe Emergence of Modern Turkey; Third Edition, Bernard LewisThe Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923, Sean McMeekinThe Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, Eugene RoganThe Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire, Alan PalmerThe Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-1999, Misha GlennyA History of the Balkans, Ferdinand SchevillThe Serbs: The Guardians of the Gate, R.G.D. Laffan

Back in 2009 I had the idea to record some of my grandmother's old stories. For posterity reasons, but mainly for me to document some of the so many different stories that she used to tell us since we were kids, and over the years, during the family gatherings, be it Christmas, Easter or other holidays and celebrations. She was a natural story teller, and she was from an interesting family that lived during interesting times. ( to say the least!) Her name was Evangelia Ntina (taking the surname of my pappous {grandfather}) her family name was "Karali" -I should spell it Kar-a-lee perhaps to make sense phonetically? Ntinas by the way is pronounced "Deenas" as the letters N+T make the sound D in the Greek language.Anyway, she told us so many stories over the years; of course some of her opinions in actual historical facts contradicted what I was aware as real history, or even her stories were often confusing. I needed to have a definite record of her own words and her own world, even if it wasn't exactly absolute and real, at least it was her own reality! In any case having everything documented, forever, would have meant I 'd have the opportunity to examine her stories at a later date, share them with my uncles, aunties and cousins, and keep some family history alive, and not lost in the midst of time, and in the mouths and words of different people with different agendas! So when I had the opportunity for a short visit back home in Greece and my home town of Veria, I brought my laptop, an audio interface and a microphone with me from my studio in London and off I went to my grandmother's house! She was at that time nearly 85, so time was of the essence, I didn't know how many opportunities I'd had later on, and what would her mind be in the future, for her to give me her stories as she remembered them. And it was lucky that I did this when I did, as she sadly passed away in 2013, and the last couple of years of her life she was mostly bedridden. The whole aural documentary with my grandmother lasted about 4 hours, and I edited several bits to their own individual stories, one about her parents and grandparents, one about the second world war and civil war that followed and of course one about the diet, the foods, the cooking and eating back in the frugal pastoral daily lives of families in the mountainous central north west Greece somewhere between the prefectures of Grevena, Kozani and Trikala...So a bit of a context here: My grandma's father (from my dad's side) so my great-grandfather -which I met many times in the first 8 years of my life- was born in 1893, in what was back then the Ottoman Empire. His name was Dimitris Karalis. He subsequently became a teacher at a very young age in the local school, of the small villages in the area, age 16 (!!!), and then, later on, a priest. They lived in a village called Katakali, with the extended family his brothers and sisters and led a pastoral life mainly with sheep, pigs and some cattle, and of course cultivating the land too. No electricity, no petrol powered vehicles just donkeys, bandits roaming the mountains kidnapping people for ransom and so on...The area became part of Greece after the Balkan Wars in 1913. But, life for the peasants, the poor and the farmers didn't change significantly, nor the day to day toil...My grandmother had in total 8 siblings, some of whom died in childhood of course. As I was growing up I think I met 4 or 5 who survived to an old age.So to our story: ...And what did you eat in the big Lent periods of the year? Easter and Christmas grandma?We didn't eat oil , only on Saturdays and Sundays. In the winter we did not have vegetables such as peppers and aubergines that we have now. If we had pickled veg, like cabbage and peppers and so on, would eat these veg straight out of the jar, or we would fry them for a more tasty and salty snack. But mainly cabbages, endives, and leeks, with some wild poppies if the weather was good, which we would find growing in the fields... Chickpeas, peas and beans alongside with lentils that we used to grow, some yellow peas, and some other types of legumes ( called them "fakos" which I can't really decipher what she meant by this) we had a decent size croft/allotment around 500 square metres and we would sow one line with one type of legume, one line of another one and so on...we would not eat olive oil for the whole Lenten period... (alongside with any animal fat)-What type of oils did you use, that were common back then? Did you have olive oil?ah of course we had and used olive oil, we had always olive oil coming from south, Kalamata, Crete and so on...No bottles of course, glass bottles weren't common back then, but big tins, 16 okka in weight (this was an ottoman measurement equivalent to 400 dirhems per okka which was used by grandmothers well after WWII) This means that the 16 okka tin weights 20 litres today! A considerable size tin then, and one that had to feed a family of 7-8 for the whole yearFor the Christmas lent, we were eating fish a lot, as this was allowed. (it is not as strict lent as the 'Big Lent'; the Easter lent, which we used to only eat fish on two occasions, two big Christian celebrations that would fall in the early spring pre-Easter Sunday. This is Palm Sunday, and Annunciation of the Virgin) but of course back then especially in the mountain villages that my ancestors inhabited would have much fish to eat. Did you had rivers and did you eat sweet water fishes up there back then?"We had some small fish, from creeks and streams, but the main big river Aliakmonas was a little further away and the people back then they would throw a dynamite piece or some short of hand grenades (!!!) the fish would be stunned and they would be able to gather many with ease. One year my young brother Lambros went there to get fishes and it brought some big fishes with him which we roasted in a huge round oven dish the big ones we used to make pies in it. My mother would ask "where did you find these massive fishes then?" and Lambros answer was "we gathered them in Aliakmonas river"! It transpired though there was a family friend from a village near there, a hunter of rabbits, who had lost one hand from a previous dangerous fishing activity; He had thrown some explosive of sorts into the river and the boys went and gathered the fishes afterwards! From the shore of course, from the riverbank, whatever was coming towards them! The hunter used to bring some rabbits to our father (My great-grandfather the village priest) occasionally as a present. Our father used to bring us some small fry from the local rivulet or streams. Small but sweet fishes! Did you used to make pies?Yeah of course lots cabbage pies, cheese pies, with corn and cheese and pork fat/lard and "koolouropites" aka pies with milk eggs and butter and flour of course.We used to slaughter 100 okka pork and has 2-3 tins of fat and used it to cook with it over the summer. It was great to use, and tasty, and kept well, and preserved, as it was salted and when it was rendering in the pot over the fire... at the end when was nearly ready we also used to add a chopped onion, the onion was absorbing all the foul smells and thus it was good to use all summer long! ...Now we are afraid to eat lard ...I have a tin of it in the fridge...-Why?she laughs...Until a few years ago i used to put some in the pies...it was good!-How do you make the lard then?Look the pork meat is separated in two parts one white fat and one red the meat. the white would be separated and made in big cubes and in a pot with some salt over the fire and let it there to boil for hours until it became a golden liquid i'll saw you i'll bring you some your dad brought some here last year, look and try and smell it doesn't smell at all...!-And why you are not using it anymore? i have gall stones and getting older and all..{Sniffing the jar with the home made, well preserved lard}-Yeah it doesn't smell at all.if you take a kilo of olive oil and a kilo of this homemade lard will be in a similar texture and manner of the readymade spreads you get nowadays from the supermarkets and it's so fluffy and light in texture it feels like a feather! It's good ...Haven't used this unfortunately.(she laughs) -But the pure one you talking about rendered with salt and onion, it keeps and it doesn't go off as you say, for a year right? Then but know we have fridges...yeah of course. now with the fridges you can keep it there and it would be ok for longer. just add a little bit of that in the pies and the taste will be explosive! she laughsinstead of using spreads and margarine type...like this...people would find a way to preserve and eat everything from the animal.In the big can of this fat, we would cook big pieces of meat would be inside this fat and were kept in there throughout the winter months and during the summer time after a day in the fields would pick some and eat to give us a boost and stop the hunger. as we didn't have fridges the houses had a larder, usually cold, dark and dumb, generally underground, especially in not so warm summers, with no windows and thick stone walls, fat in these tins of preserved meat was still solid! we would take out as i said 2-3 big pieces of meat out, we were also adding salt, coarse salt, and we would cook it with wild greens and other summer greens...or make a batter or a mush with flour...Do you remember Filimon and Vavkida a myth from ancient greece.... Baucis and Philemon were an old married couple in the region of Tyana, in Phrygia, and the only ones in their town to welcome disguised gods Zeus and Hermes ), thus embodying the pious exercise of hospitality, the ritualized guest-friendship termed Xenia, or theoxenia when a god was involved.The old married couple were supposedly served them some smoked meat with bitter greens as this was the only food they had and whenever i used to eat this dish as a girl i always remembered this story...for years now i couldn't remember the names of the couple and now that i'm telling you the story their names finally felled into my lips! -And how do you make 'koolouropita' yiayia? what is it?you make dough, classic fylo, wet it with a bit of fat and spread crumbled feta, you could add beaten egg but without is good and then you make it in a spiral in the round oven dish. My mother used a massive round pie baking dish and didn't made the pie as one big spiral but rather individual loooong sticks and we used to grab one each and eat it greedily...! laughs.... usually they would make it with corn flour with a very fine sieve and and it was so so fine! and used this (she then goes on about some flour sieving techniques and number of pies which i have no clue how to translate )In essence there was a technique of making big quantities of fylo and have it ready made in the house to use when you need to make a pie and not make (or 'open' as is the grandma terminology in greek) every time from scratch ...it seems they were cooked over a griddle...then they used to 'wet' them with a little water and cheese and melted fat and some wild greens if they had and were cooking it like this. and made pies likes this!-I remember you used to make nettle pie hey?I did and still do, i did this year as well. i have some in the freezer ready to use. although your aunties had a rummage in the larder and shuffled and jumbled up my system! -What do you do with the nettles before you freeze them? How cook them?I steam or boil them till soft and tender, usually the stems of the nettles are tough and need some time to boil. one day we didn't notice how hard the stem was , from an old big plant and it wouldn't cook!We do put some leeks and some spinach as well. and we make the pies with this mix, alongside with some crumbled feta and becomes toothsome and very appetizing. Your aunty Soula made it big and fat as we were many and we only had one piece of the pie each so the filling was very generous and thick thick pieces!If you eat it greedily, fast and while it's hot straight from the oven then it's not really good for the stomach, but you can't really help yourself! -How do you make your fylo for the pie? We make little 8 dough balls for the bottom of the pie . around 6-7 for the top of the pie. we spread with butter on every fylo then we layer each one of the 8 balls. On top we brush the last fylo with a bit of oil too. That's how we did it. stuffing either nettles or wild greensI used to have nettles in the back garden back in the day and i used to prune them regularly and this made the soft and tender for the pies. -When you say "tsouknidia" you mean the actual nettles that sting right? how di you collect them?By hand as usual. they are the normal stinging nettles, it was a little painful, my mother used to collect them with the newspaper, and she was squeezing them inside them newspaper till the stems and leaves were crushed and wouldn't sting anymore. In the time of the great hunger in 1941-42, we had a family from Deskati (a village in the cluster of villages in the area that my grandmother used to live with her family) their father was a craftsman but during the war and the Nazi occupation of course there wasn't any work. as with many others they were starving. we would see the poor kids were going under the bridge in the local stream, were a lot of nettles would grow, and they were cutting the stems of the nettles, simply crushing them between two rocks with some salt and would eat just this. Sometimes thankfully the local farmers would always something little to give them even it was a bit of flour to make some bread, and this is how they survived .-In the war, nettles and snails imagine was probably all you ate right?We didn't eat many snails to be honest, but we weren't used to them and didn't eat them to be honest. The refugees used to eat them after the rains used to collect them. (the Greeks from Minor Asia after the 1922 pogroms) they were cleaning them by putting them in oats so they were cleansed and they were sauteeing them with wild greensIn the old days the locals in the area used to collect them and sell them in the local markets.Your father and his siblings didn't use to eat the snails, i was collecting them every day from the garden patch and cooking them, but everyone was refusing to touch them. I was collecting them and I was eating them by myself! The kids would even get near to them!(then talks about how to cleanse the snails from their slime)My little girls (her daughters, my aunties) used to be friends with the girls from a lady from my village and they used to put the snails on the hot ashes and cooked them this way...Your aunty Tasoula sometimes keeps telling these stories.../ENDI hope you enjoyed this regardless of the fact that is in Greek -and old grandma Greek for that matter- and for the Greek speakers amongst you, if you think I've missed something interesting from my grandmothers story do let me know and I will add it!Thanks!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-delicious-legacy. If you love to time-travel through food and history why not join us at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-delicious-legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wir haben bereits in der Episode #0211 von Merci, Cherie den Fokus auf das kleine Land gesetzt. Die beiden gebürtigen Bosnier Muhamed Mešić und Nedad Memić haben uns ihre Erinnerungen an die Beiträge erzählt. Mit Fazla, eigentlich Muhamed Fazlagić, haben wir den ersten Interpreten Bonsiens vor das Zoom-Mikrofon bekommen.Er erzählt, wie die bosnische Delegation es unter Lebensgefahr und unter abenteuerlichen Umständen es zuerst nach Zagreb geschafft haben, wo sie frische Kleidung und etwas Studiozeit bekommen haben, um den Song einzuspielen. Von dort aus ging es nach Slowenien, wo ein 'kleiner Vorentscheid' darüber entscheiden sollte, welches Land des ehemaligen Ostblocks es zu Eurovision im irischen Millstreet schaffen sollte.Das Lied "Sva bol svijeta" wurde von Fahrudin Pecikoza-Peca, dem Texter von "Lejla" und dem mehrmaligen Eurovision-Teilnehmer Dino Merlin geschrieben und beschreibt die damals andauernde Kriegssituation in Bosnien und Sarajevo im speziellen.Fazla erzählt von den positiven Erfahrungen, die die Delegation in Irland gemacht hat, von der Hilfsbereitschaft der meisten Delegationen aus den anderen Ländern, aber auch von den Animositäten mit der kroatischen Delegation, denn die Staatspolitik Kroatiens lehnte den bosnischen Staat damals ab.Fußball war eigentlich die größere Leidenschaft von Fazla, neben der Gesangskarriere war er auch professional als Spieler bei einigen internationalen Vereinen. Eine wissenschaftliche Karriere führte ihn in die USA, jetzt ist er sowohl in den USA als auch in Bosnien beheimatet.Die drei Standardfragen waren natürlich auch dabei:Fazlas Liebslingssong aus dem aktuellen Jahr 2020 ist "You" von Vasil aus Nord Mazedonien.Die Anekdote zu seinem Auftritt? An was er gedacht hat? Wer ihn sehen würde - angesichts der Stromausfälle im belagerten Bosnien kein abwegiger Gedanke.Sein Lieblingssong aller Zeiten war ungleich schwerer zu beantworten, da er einige Favoriten hat. Fazla legte sich dann auf einen Act fest, der  gleichzeitig einer der unglücklicheren Auftritte war: Azucar Moreno aus Spanien mit "Bandido" aus dem Jahr 1999.In der kleinen Geschichte am Schluss erzählt Alkis von eben jenem Vorentscheid 1993 "Kvalifikacija za Millstreet", an dem nur Länder des ehemaligen Ostblocks teilnehmen durften. Von sieben teilnehmenden Songs durften nur die ersten drei mit nach Millstreet: Slowenien, Bosnien und Kroatien kamen weiter, Ungarn, Rumänien, die Slowakei und Estland durften nicht. Das Bühne des Fernsehstudios hatte ungefähr die Größe einer mittleren Briefmarke, das Orchester musste ebenfalls noch Platz haben und so gab es nur überschaubar wenige Zuschauer. Jeder Fernsehsender hatte einen Juror, der vor Ort im Saal saß und seine Punkte durchgab.

Jim comes on to talk about the Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913 songs: BEST KEPT SECRET x ЖЛЪЧ - KURAC & Тих бял Дунав (Still White Danube Undulates) Jimcast RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/jimfrombc/feed.xml  

The guys interview Doug Kent, Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly publication Diplomacy World. Plus they talk trust for newbies and their current games. Intro The guys introduce the show, their drinks and the venue (0 mins 10 secs) Interview with Doug Kent from Diplomacy World They begin to introduce the interview (5 mins 25 secs) Amby asks about how Doug got into Diplomacy (7 mins) Amby asks about Doug’s collection of old Diplomacy zines and whether he plans to bring any of them online (11 mins) Kaner asks if he has a favorite zine or collection (12 mins 45 secs) Amby asks what came next for Doug after playing postal (14 mins 45 secs) Kaner asks about Diplomacy World and how Doug became the lead editor (16 mins 40 secs) Amby asks Doug how he feels the hobby has changed (24 mins 20 secs) Kaner asks what’s the most rewarding part of publishing Diplomacy World (29 mins 45 secs) Amby asks if Doug plays much now (35 mins 5 secs) Amby asks about Doug’s future plans for championing Diplomacy (40 mins) Amby asks if there was an article in Diplomacy World about a hypothetical game between the top players in the past 20-30 years, who would those players be (44 mins) Amby asks for Doug’s take for contributors publishing under their online game name, rather than their real name. They also discuss what goes into Diplomacy World and what doesn’t  (52 mins 40 secs)  They discuss how people can contribute and support Diplomacy World (58 mins 30 secs) Amby asks about any plans to scan older editions with optical character recognition so they’re searchable (1 hr 8 mins 40 secs) Kaner asks about Doug about preferred variants (1 hr 15 mins) The interview wraps up (1 hr 23 mins) The guys discuss their thoughts on the interview. Kaner commits to writing an article for Diplomacy World on sea lanes (1 hr 23 mins 30 secs) They talk about the Colonia variant and Kaner gives a history lesson. They discuss future interview planning. Kaner rules out WDC 2020 for him (1 hr 30 mins) They guys give their views on the Balkan Wars variant and Kaner explains Deviant Diplomacy to Amby (1 hr 34 mins) Diplomacy news  The guys discuss their drinks in the context of Diplomacy (1 hr 36 mins)  They give an update on their tournament plans for March in Melbourne and the Canetoad Classic for May (1 hr 38 mins) Newbie guide: Who can you trust? The guys kick off the segment and why trust is important (1 hr 40 mins 30 secs) Kaner explains his experience with being able to trust players, and describes the differences between face to face and online (1 hr 42 mins) Amby pauses the recording for a moment so Kaner can tell himself something off tape (1 hr 43 mins 45 secs) Amby discusses when a player is talking options with you, you start feeling trust developing. Kaner gives his counter-perspective (1 hr 45 mins) Kaner walks through an example about the English Channel and building trust (1 hr 46 mins 30 secs) Amby talks about gut feelings and players who hedge their bets (1 hr 52 mins) Kaner suggests the next Newbie segment should be Strategic considerations in discussions before Stabbing (1 hr 55 mins) Amby asks what you need to do to regain trust (1 hr 57 mins 45 secs) Amby asks how you can trust in gunboat (2 hrs 1 min 30 secs) Amby discusses how heavy joint military build ups on borders that are coordinated and create a stalemate line can also build trust sometimes (2 hrs 5 mins) Around the grounds The guys grab another drink and discuss a gunboat fog of war game Kaner is still in (2 hrs 7 mins 55 secs) They talk about the solo win by Agnaar on the Europa Renovatio map, taking the number one spot on vDip  (2 hrs 11 mins 30 secs) Kaner touches on an anonymous Europa Renovatio game he's in (2 hrs 14 mins 30 secs) Amby discusses his Cry God for Harry! game and how well the Golden Horde and Marmluks are doing (2 hrs 16 mins 45 secs)   Amby touches on his Undivided States game (2 hrs 21 mins 15 secs) Next up is Amby's 1812 Overture game being run on Discord (2 hrs 24 mins) The guys wrap up the show (2 hrs 28 mins) Venue: Empire Hotel, Brisbane Drinks of choice: Kaner - Young Henry's pale ale from Sydney Amby - Maxwell Silver Hammer shiraz from the Barossa Just a reminder you can support the show by giving it 5 stars on iTunes or Stitcher. And don't forget if you want to help improve the audio equipment... or get the guys more drunk, you can also donate at Patreon Lastly, don't forget to subscribe so you get the latest Diplomacy Games episodes straight to your phone. Thanks as always to Dr Dan aka "The General" for his rockin' intro tune.

The Greek royal family (Greek: Ελληνική Βασιλική Οικογένεια) is a branch of the House of Glücksburg that reigned in Greece from 1863 to 1924 and again from 1935 to 1973. Its first monarch was George I, the second son of King Christian IX of Denmark. He and his successors styled themselves "Kings of the Hellenes". After the overthrow in 1862 of the first king of the independent Greek state, Otto of Bavaria, a plebiscite in Greece was initiated on 19 November 1862, with the results announced in February the following year, in support of adopting Prince Alfred of the United Kingdom, later Duke of Edinburgh, to reign as king of the country. The candidacy of Prince Alfred was rejected by the Great Powers. The London Conference of 1832 had prohibited any of the Great Powers' ruling families from accepting the crown of Greece, while Queen Victoria was opposed to such a prospect. A search for other candidates ensued, and eventually, Prince William of Denmark, of the Danish Glücksburg Dynasty, the second son of King Christian IX and younger brother of the new Princess of Wales, was appointed king. The Greek Parliament unanimously approved on 18 March 1863 the ascension to the Greek throne of the prince, then aged 17, as King of the Hellenes under the regnal name of George I. George arrived in Greece in October 1863. George I married Grand Duchess Olga Constaninovna of Russia, and they had seven surviving children. After a reign of almost fifty years, George I was succeeded by his eldest son, Constantine I, who had married, in 1913, Princess Sophia of Prussia, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria and sister of Kaiser Wilhelm II. In turn, all three of Constantine's sons, George II, Alexander and Paul, would occupy the throne. The dynasty reigned in Greece during the Balkan Wars, World War I, World War II (during which Greece experienced occupation by the Axis), the Greek Civil War, and the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. Following the National Schism during World War I and the subsequent Asia Minor Disaster, the monarchy was deposed in March 1924 and replaced by the Second Hellenic Republic. Between 1924 and 1935 there were in Greece twenty-three changes of government, a dictatorship, and thirteen coups d'etat. In October 1935, General Georgios Kondylis, a former Venizelist, overthrew the government and arranged for a plebiscite to end the republic. On 3 November 1935, the official tally showed that 98% of the votes supported the restoration of the monarchy. The balloting was not secret, and participation was compulsory. As Time described it at the time, "As a voter, one could drop into the ballot box a blue vote for George II and please General George Kondylis, or one could cast a red ballot for the Republic and get roughed up." George II returned to the Greek throne on 25 November 1935. On 4 August 1936, the King endorsed the establishment of a dictatorship led by veteran army officer Ioannis Metaxas, signing decrees that dissolved the parliament, banned political parties, abolished the constitution, and purported to create the "Third Hellenic Civilization." An Index of banned books during that period included the works of Plato. George II followed the Greek government in exile after the German invasion of Greece in 1941 and returned to the throne in 1946, after a referendum that resulted in the restoration of constitutional monarchy. He died in 1947 and was succeeded by his brother Paul. The new King reigned from the time of Greek civil war until his death in 1964, and was succeeded by his son, Constantine II. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thehistoryexpress/support

In her new memoir, Samantha Power writes about the “X test.” As she describes it, “in trying for Y, the most I accomplish is X.” In other words, even if “Y” is likely to fail, what “X” can be learned along the way? Power has experienced some of those failures and made some bold moves in her life. Some weren't up to her, like moving from Ireland to the U.S. at the age of 9. As a young adult, she jumped into the fray as a reporter during The Balkan Wars, later writing a Pulitzer Prize-winning book that took the American government to task for failing to stop genocides around the world. She would later become Ambassador to the U.N. under President Obama.

Episode 429with Yiğit Akınhosted by Chris Gratien and Susanna FergusonDownload the podcastFeed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloudWorld War I brought unprecedented destruction to the Ottoman Empire and resulted in its fall of as a political entity, but war also produced new politics. In this podcast, Yiğit Akın is back to talk about his book When the War Came Home and how years of war transformed the Ottoman Empire. We discuss how the experience of the 1912-13 Balkan Wars reshaped Ottoman officials' understanding of modern warfare and informed decisions taken during the First World War. We also discuss the social history of the war for ordinary Ottoman citizens and consider how the particularities of the Ottoman case reveal new insights about WWI and its legacy. « Click for More »

Episode 429with Yiğit Akınhosted by Chris Gratien and Susanna FergusonDownload the podcastFeed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloudWorld War I brought unprecedented destruction to the Ottoman Empire and resulted in its fall of as a political entity, but war also produced new politics. In this podcast, Yiğit Akın is back to talk about his book When the War Came Home and how years of war transformed the Ottoman Empire. We discuss how the experience of the 1912-13 Balkan Wars reshaped Ottoman officials' understanding of modern warfare and informed decisions taken during the First World War. We also discuss the social history of the war for ordinary Ottoman citizens and consider how the particularities of the Ottoman case reveal new insights about WWI and its legacy. « Click for More »

Balkan Wars and a World War take us from regions within empires to one nation state

Please support Scary Mysteries! Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/scarymysteries?alert=2 - There's a lot of cool access, giveaways and even a custom episode! Buy awesome original shirts made by Scary Mysteries https://newdawnfilm.com/scary-mysteries-store/ Subscribe for Weekly Videos here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiE86yS_VM7qjiICqRPmwLQ?sub_confirmation=1 _________________________________________________________ 5 Bizarre and Unexplained Archeological Discoveries Archeology is the study of humankind’s history. But despite our technological advances – sometimes archeology throws us a curveball – leading us to ask questions we simply can’t find the answer to. The cases on this list cdisplay such anomalies. These are 5 Bizarre and Unexplained Archeological Discoveries. 5. Frankenstein Mummies It’s intersting enough to find ancient mummies, but more perplexing is to find these once mummified skeleton bones don’t even belong to the same human being. But that’s what archeologists and scientists discovered in South Uist, Scotland. Since the 80s, archeologists have identified Clad Hallan in Scotland as a special site containing ancient settlements dating back around 2000 BC. In 2001, it was business as usual for the archeologists, digging away at ancient 11th century houses over the Bronze age Village, when they discovered four preserved skeletons. One was a teenager, the other a child. The Two others were skeletons of an adult male and female. These latter two intrigued the team. 4. China Carvings Fuxian Lake in Yunnan Province, China is a huge lake featuring water so clear the ancient Chinese used to refer to it as “a large area of shining glass.” But its shimmery surface is also hiding something special underneath. On June 13, 2015, archeologists uncovered remains of an ancient structure buried under the lake. They found large stones with mysterious carvings, proving that at one time, a large complex or structure might have stood above ground or at least close to the lake. 3. Giant Footprint of Pingyan Stories of giants roaming the Earth have been told for hundreds of years. From the Bible, to the Greeks, these tales are told with awe but often dismissed as nothing but literature and legends. But a discovery of a giant footprint in Pingyan, China could change all that. 2. Macedonian Werewolf Skull Werewolves are traditionally creatures of myth. But it seems proof of their existence might have been found in Novo Selo Stipsko, Macedonia. A Bulgarian student was visiting the village while doing research on the Balkan Wars when he came across a farmer named Trayche. He told him he was digging in a new portion of his field when he discovered a buried box that was chained shut. On the inside cover of the box were Cyrillic script, commonly used in Macedonian and Bulgarian language. The text on the box roughly read as “Attention Danger Werewolf” or “Caution Danger Vrykolakas (vampire.) 1. Domestic Dinosaur Carving Thanks to Tomb Raider, the temple complex of Ta Prohm in Siem Reap, Cambodia gained so much attention it’s become one of the most visited tourist attractions in the world. Built between 1181 and 1218 A.D., the temple monastery was once used for worship by the Mahayana Buddhists. When the empire broke up, the temple then became abandoned. The forest moved in and reclaimed much of the structure until it was discovered in the 19th century. Much of the site was excavated, some restored and much of the forests and trees cleared out.

On today's Defence Deconstructed Podcast, we discuss the Royal Canadian Navy's presence throughout the South and East China Seas with CGAI Fellow Matthew Fisher. Defence Deconstructed is part of the CGAI Podcast Network and today's episode is brought to you by the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries (CADSI). Subscribe to the CGAI Podcast Network on iTunes, SoundCloud, or wherever else you can find Podcasts! Bios: Dave Perry - David Perry is the Senior Analyst and Vice President with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. Matthew Fisher - Matthew Fisher was born in northwestern Ontario and raised there and in the Ottawa Valley. He has lived and worked abroad for 34 years as a foreign correspondent for the Globe and Mail, Sun Media and Postmedia, and is a Fellow with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. His assignments have taken him to 162 countries. He has been an eyewitness to 19 conflicts including Somalia, the Rwandan genocide, Chechnya, the Balkan Wars, Israel in Gaza and Lebanon, the two Gulf Wars and Afghanistan. Related Links: - "Close Encounters During Operation NEON" by Matthew Fisher [CGAI Commentary] (https://www.cgai.ca/close_encounters_during_operation_neon) - "Canada's Transit of the Taiwan Strait" by Matthew Fisher [CGAI Commentary] (https://www.cgai.ca/canadas_transit_of_the_taiwan_strait) Book Recommendations: Matthew Fisher: Novels by Ken Follett (https://www.amazon.ca/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AKen+Follett&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1) Recording Date: July 17th, 2019 Follow the Canadian Global Affairs Institute on Facebook, Twitter (@CAGlobalAffairs), or on Linkedin. Head over to our website at www.cgai.ca for more commentary. Produced by Jared Maltais. Music credits to Drew Phillips.

Harley Schlanger, LaRouchePAC.com, IMPERIAL GEO-POLITICIANS ENGAGE IN FUTILE, BUT DANGEROUS EFFORTS TO BLOCK BRI, Belt and Road for All Nations, World Trade or World War, Defense of Earth, Future Tech and Solutions for Mankind as We Leap Off Earth to Moon Mars and Milky Way Worlds, collapsing London-directed Trans-Atlantic system,Dr Bill Deagle MD AAEM ACAM A4M, NutriMedical Report Show, www.NutriMedical.com, www.ClayandIRON.com, www.Deagle-Network.com,NutriMedical Report Show,https://harley.larouchepac.com/imperial_geo_politicians_engage_in_futile_but_dangerous_efforts_to_block_briIMPERIAL GEO-POLITICIANS ENGAGE IN FUTILE, BUT DANGEROUS EFFORTS TO BLOCK BRIBy Harley Schlanger26April 2019As the second Belt and Road Forum opened in Beijing on April 25, the defenders of the collapsing London-directed Trans-Atlantic system have stepped up their rhetorical assault and financial/military activities against the New Paradigm, which is emerging around President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). While engaging in endless repetition of bogus charges, such as that of an “aggressive and escalating Chinese military threat”, “state-sponsored spying”, “imperial ambitions” and “currency manipulation”, these war party operatives display the same lack of regard for truth that characterized their use of discredited charges of “Russian hacking” and “Trump collusion” to target President Donald Trump’s outreach to Russia and President Putin. And just as their continuing assault against Trump and Putin has been revealed to be a regime change coup organized by top elements of the British Empire—including their operatives in the Obama intelligence community and their Bush League neocon allies—there is no evidence to back the claims they now are making against China’s President Xi Jinping and his BRI.But these attack dogs are not concerned with truth, nor evidence. Instead, they wish to create a hostile environment against improved U.S.-Chinese relations, to prevent Trump from succeeding in bringing the U.S. into a coordinated relationship with the BRI, based on his often-expressed friendship with Xi. This friendship has provided a basis for productive U.S.-Chinese cooperation in addressing the North Korean nuclear threat, and has survived a rough patch of trade talks, in which the U.S. has imposed tariffs aimed at addressing the continued existence of a large trade deficit with China. The resolve of both leaders to succeed in these talks has resulted in progress, as a new round of trade negotiations begins April 30 in Beijing, with both sides saying they are nearing an agreement, which Trump has repeatedly tweeted will be “historic”.For their part, the Chinese have continued to express a desire for the U.S. to be partners in the BRI process. On the eve of the event, China’s Ambassador to the U.S., Cui Tiankai, appealed to the U.S., to accept this challenge.“Imagine the potential of China and the United States,” he said, “the world’s two largest, most vibrant economies, collaborating on the most ambitious development project in history. The scenario is no fantasy: China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which kicked off almost six years ago, will eventually connect a vast swath of the world, creating huge yields in economic activity, and wiring the world together as never before. However, the United States remains on the sidelines, and this has implications not only in terms of missed opportunities for growth in the U.S., but for the cause of global development which needs the ingenuity and the industry of the U.S.”END OF GEOPOLITICSThe unwillingness of the anti-China mob in the U.S. to respond positively to this challenge has nothing to do with fears that the Chinese are about to establish a new global empire, to threaten U.S. hegemony. Instead, it is an explicit rejection of an earlier offer made in August 2018 by President Xi, in discussing the goal of the BRI.“The Belt and Road,” he stated, “is an initiative for economic cooperation, instead of a geopolitical alliance or military league, and it is an open and inclusive process rather than an exclusive or ‘China club.'”In language which directly echoes the Schiller Institute’s Helga Zepp LaRouche, who has defined the New Paradigm as one in which “geopolitics” has been eliminated, Xi is clear that he sees the threats against achieving peaceful cooperation as coming from the geopolitical doctrines developed at the end of the 19th century by British imperial strategist Halford Mackinder. A staunch defender of the British Empire, Mackinder argued that the greatest threat to continued British world domination would be the development of new trade routes over land, utilizing rail, which would diminish greatly the dominant position in world trade, based on British sea power.Mackinder’s doctrine defined the emergence of rail connections, such as the Trans-Siberian railroad, or the Berlin-Baghdad line, as existential threats to the Empire. The precedent of Lincoln’s Transcontinental railroad in the U.S., connecting the east and west coasts of the U.S. by land, which was seen as a danger by Britain’s imperial predators, was viewed as a positive precedent by leaders in Europe. To prevent this, the British orchestrated regional wars—such as the Russo-Japanese war, and the 1912-13 Balkan Wars—and employed divide-and-rule tactics, to undermine the strategic cooperation between nations required to achieve peaceful commercial and cultural ties. The geopolitical intervention by the Empire was directly responsible for both World Wars of the twentieth century. Their heirs in today’s anti-Russia, anti-China policy gaggle are pushing a course leading toward a possible World War III, a horrific potential result, but one which does not at all deter them from provocative actions.WILL RUSSIAGATE BECOME CHINAGATE?What is not surprising is that many of those spouting nonsense about China are the same as those who previously—and still are—using Russiagate to control, or remove President Trump. A leading anti-Trump figure in the U.S. Senate, Republican Marco Rubio, is a point man against China, using his Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship to spread lies about China. This committee just released a report, “Made in China 2025 and the Future of American Industry”. In introducing the report, Rubio accuses China of “blatant industrial espionage and coercion”, adding that China intends to “steal and cheat their way to world dominance.” In an op ed he wrote on April 25, he accused the U.S. of being “stunningly naive” in pursuit of a trade partnership, a direct attack on Trump’s effort to negotiate with China. He branded the BRI as part of “an unprecedented effort to supplant America’s role as the leading economic and military power,” and warned nations not to fall into China’s “debt trap.” Note that Rubio led the Republican attack on Trump’s negotiations with Russia’s Putin at Helsinki, and has defended the FBI from charges of engaging in a coup against Trump: I have seen “no evidence” that the FBI spied on the Trump campaign, he said on multiple occasions.Rubio’s effort has bipartisan support, with Democratic Party presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren chiming in that China “has weaponized its economy” in its effort to overtake the U.S. This line, which is heard from many Democrats with ties to Hillary Clinton, is coherent with the G.W. Bush era geopolitical dogma of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), which held that, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S. must remain the unilateral power in the world. It is also reflected in the reconstitution of the Cold War Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), this time focusing on China rather than Russia. CPD-China, as it is known, held an event in Washington on April 9, featuring Sen. Ted Cruz, a former Trump opponent, Newt Gingrich, an occasional spokesman for Trump, and Steve Bannon, who worked for the Trump campaign and presidency as a “strategist”, but was later fired. Cruz said that China is “the greatest long term geopolitical risk that the U.S. faces”, while Gingrich accused the U.S. of “sleepwalking” while China asserts its new-found power. Bannon has a long history of anti-China posturing, claiming that we are in “an economic war with China”, one which “China foisted on us.”The CPD-C was set up to “inform America about the existential threat” of China. While its personnel are mostly recycled neocons from the Bush era, such as Frank Gaffney, its vice-chair, more concerning is the chorus of voices from within the Trump administration attacking China. These include Vice President Pence, who has accused China of “economic aggression”, having an “unparalleled surveillance state”, and using “‘debt diplomacy’ to expand its influence”; and Secretary of State Pompeo, whose mid-April tour of four nations of Latin America included harsh rhetoric and threats against those wishing to collaborate with China. While in Chile, Pompeo claimed that China deploys its companies abroad to “enter the house, set traps, ignore the rules and propagate disorder.” Pence, Pompeo and special Venezuela envoy Eliot Abrams have taken the point in threatening both Russia and China over what they say are unwelcome intrusions into “our hemisphere”, with their support of the Maduro government in Venezuela, which the British faction has targeted for regime change.Will such absurdly provocative allegations and threats stop China from succeeding with their “win-win” economic and strategic diplomacy? As Mrs. LaRouche has emphasized, China’s efforts are “unstoppable,” except by war, as they address needs in many nations, for infrastructure and development aid, which is not available elsewhere. This was evident in an April 20 article in “Foreign Policy” magazine, “Catching China by the Belt (and Road)”, which wrote about the newly-established U.S. government agency, the International Development Finance Corp. (IDFC), as a plan to counter the BRI. The IFDC was created, the authors posit, to prevent the developing world from falling “under China’s sway,” to “help Washington push back against Beijing’s sweeping BRI.”However, they admit that the IFDC has offered a paltry $60 billion in capital, compared to the more than $1 trillion already pledged by China. Further, the aid comes with the requirement that the IMF and World Bank be involved in overseeing the fund disbursement. Saying this is necessary to prove that China is violating “well-established norms with its lending policies”, and to “draw attention to the corruption of the BRI”, it is well known that one of the reasons so many nations have welcomed the BRI is their rejection of IMF/World Bank conditionalities, which have prevented real development from occurring, while maintaining the colonial lending practices favorable to the financial institutions controlled by the British empire.As Russiagate has crumbled, brought down by its blatant lies and increasingly transparent evidence that it was nothing but a coup, run by a foreign power—Britain—to overturn the result of the 2016 election, “Chinagate” will ultimately fail. The potential benefits of peaceful cooperation between the U.S. and China, recognized by both Presidents Trump and Xi, in light of the great success of the BRI, are a preferred outcome to trade war and military confrontation. The media may hide from the American people the dynamic story of China’s BRI, but, if the truth becomes known, it is likely that Americans would reject the McCarthyite scare mongers, as they have in the past, and embrace the possibilities in a “win-win” relationship with China. For information regarding your data privacy, visit Acast.com/privacy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Previously in Europe FYROM. On today's episode, we look at Greek politics mostly, Hugh explains something very important and complex about modern Greek politics while Ciarán deep dives into the Greek Communist party's past. Man the Balkan Wars sure were a trip. WE HAVE A T-SHIRT what a fashionable way to support our podcast We now have a website that you can find here! Feel free to send us an email at PreviouslyInEurope@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @PrevInEurope If you can please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and if you can't do that tell a friend, this stuff really helps us out Also, have you considered Matteo Renzi?

Tim Marshall worked for some years as the Diplomatic Editor for Sky News, travelling and living all over the world to get the stories. His book 'Shadowplay: The Overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic' is widely regarded as one of the best accounts of life in the former Yugoslavia. Tim reported in the field from Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia during the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, and has since found huge writing success for his book 'Prisoners of Geography'.'Prisoners of Geography' looks at how maps of the world can predict political situations, it's the first of a trilogy of books that discuss the affect of nationalism on identity politics - his others look at flags and walls.We talk about planning non-fiction, how to make big concepts and global theories relevant and accessible in writing, and why it's always nice to know the local baristas by name.You can get a top writing tip from Irish Book Award winner Liz Nugent, who wants to help you push past the tricky start. PLUS, help the 'Podcast All-Stars' take the UK's Christmas Number One with 'The Sounds of Christmas' - buy it online, and stream it here - https://open.spotify.com/album/4Er8EeydEoWMurO4vPx9NJ?si=U5zNccSgRf6iSdbrp3xRWw@writerspodwritersroutine.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Gerald Knaus is a founding member of the European Stability Initiative, ESI. He has been studying the plight of refugees and migrants since the Balkan Wars of the 1990s. We spoke to him about the challenges posed by migration and the UN migration pact.

On today's inaugural Defence Deconstructed Podcast, we speak with CGAI Fellow, and prolific Canadian journalist, Matthew Fisher about his experience observing NATO's recent Trident Juncture Exercise in Norway. Defence Deconstructed is part of the CGAI Podcast Network. Subscribe to the CGAI Podcast Network on SoundCloud, iTunes, or wherever else you can find Podcasts! Bios: Dave Perry - David Perry is the Senior Analyst and Vice President with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. Matthew Fisher - Matthew Fisher was born in northwestern Ontario and raised there and in the Ottawa Valley. He has lived and worked abroad for 34 years as a foreign correspondent for the Globe and Mail, Sun Media and Postmedia, and is a Fellow with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. His assignments have taken him to 162 countries. He has been an eyewitness to 19 conflicts including Somalia, the Rwandan genocide, Chechnya, the Balkan Wars, Israel in Gaza and Lebanon, the two Gulf Wars and Afghanistan. Related Links: - "Trident Juncture 18: NATO's Norwegian Exercise" by Matthew Fisher [CGAI Commentary] (https://www.cgai.ca/trident_juncture_18_natos_norwegian_exercise) - "RCAF's pilot shortage being felt in Romania" by Matthew Fisher [CGAI Commentary] (https://www.cgai.ca/rcafs_pilot_shortage_being_felt_in_romania) Recording Date: November 9th, 2018 Follow the Canadian Global Affairs Institute on Facebook, Twitter (@CAGlobalAffairs), or on Linkedin. Head over to our website at www.cgai.ca for more commentary. Produced by Jared Maltais. Music credits to Drew Phillips.

Mark Leonard speaks with Vessela Tcherneva and Robert Cooper about the contested result and how it might be solved. Bookshelf: Carnegie report on the Balkan wars http://www.pollitecon.com/html/ebooks/Carnegie-Report-on-the-Balkan-Wars.pdf Safe Passage - The Transition from British to American Hegemony by Tori Schake http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674975071 The Master and Margarita Reader’s Guide by Mikhail Bulgakov https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/531360/the-master-and-margarita-by-mikhail-bulgakov-a-newly-revised-translation-by-richard-pevear-and-larissa-volokhonsky-introduction-by-richard-pevear-foreword-by-boris-fishman/9780143108276/readers-guide/ The Age of Rubens: Diplomacy, Dynastic politics and the Visual Arts in Early 17th Century Europe http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503549484-1 http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503549484-1 Breaking old habits in the Balkans by Robert Cooper https://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_breaking_old_habits_in_the_balkans Macedonia’s looming war of interpretations by Vessela Tcherneva https://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_macedonias_looming_war_of_interpretations Image credit: Macedonian flag by Ruben Holsthuijsen via Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/rubenholthuijsen/22601525310/in/photolist-ArdJ3S-B9ifnR-hBx53V-6XaVMQ-Rm6T4w-f9PKqh-faJYJd-RDNzX6-nBxNXX-d4ZcGh-23WRzPH-qkGr1P-UqKyFB-6X6MkB-nb2V3z-6YdfeB-oj8YS3-fNuqBe-A5ZMU2-e8VRv6-fNuqGc-cVoknA-MFE15H-3BgS2u-oj8XyG-dXLNmF-9T1q6q-6iC1d5-6x3ocu-jbLq5-fbmTVA-5ea3NH-4ZuBCb-7qJ41z-paTrCe-fbD3wd-8Q9usv-6s31kh-mRWhf-7pSa5k-84G3fW-e4YAF7-SaDRCJ-brKzG3-5QYDen-ab8xkh-jvDRA-4RQZR6-58pjN6-Q9VL6j, CC-BY-2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

On today's 'Global Exchange' Podcast, we turn our eyes to the Indo-Pacific, as we assess Canada's naval presence in the region, and the recent deployment of MV Asterix to take part in various multilateral exercises with Canada's Pacific allies. Join our host, Dave Perry, in conversation with CGAI Fellow Matthew Fisher, as they discuss Canada's naval presence around the Indo-Pacific, Chinese military build-up throughout the East and South China Seas, the successes of MV Asterix's recent deployment in the Pacific, as well as a future for the Canadian Navy in an increasingly militarized Pacific environment. Bios: Dave Perry (host) - David Perry is the Senior Analyst and Vice President with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. He received his PhD in political science from Carleton University, where his dissertation examined the link between defence budgeting and defence procurement. Matthew Fisher - Matthew Fisher was born in northwestern Ontario and raised there and in the Ottawa Valley. He has lived and worked abroad for 34 years as a foreign correspondent for the Globe and Mail, Sun Media and Postmedia, and is a Fellow with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. His assignments have taken him to 162 countries. He has been an eyewitness to 19 conflicts including Somalia, the Rwandan genocide, Chechnya, the Balkan Wars, Israel in Gaza and Lebanon, the two Gulf Wars and Afghanistan. Book Recommendations: - Matthew Fisher: "Operation Medusa: The Furious Battle That Saved Afghanistan from the Taliban" - by Major General David Fraser & Brian Hanington (https://www.amazon.ca/Operation-Medusa-Furious-Afghanistan-Taliban/dp/0771039301/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1529345444&sr=8-1&keywords=operation+medusa) Related Links: - "Beware of the Dragon: The Challenges of China's Assertive Posture" by Matthew Fisher [CGAI Policy Update] (https://www.cgai.ca/beware_of_the_dragon_the_challenges_of_china_s_assertive_posture) - "40 Years of ASEAN-Canada Partnership, and a Strategic Agenda for Tomorrow" by Venilla Rajaguru [CGAI Policy Update] (https://www.cgai.ca/40_years_of_asean_canada_partnership_and_a_strategic_agenda_for_tomorrow) - "A World Larger Than Trump's: China's" by Ferry de Kerckhove [CGAI Policy Paper] (https://www.cgai.ca/a_world_larger_than_trumps_chinas) - "South China Sea and the New Great Game" by Marius Grinius [CGAI Policy Paper] (https://www.cgai.ca/south_china_sea) Recording Date: June 6th, 2018 Follow the Canadian Global Affairs Institute on Facebook, Twitter (@CAGlobalAffairs), or on Linkedin. Head over to our website at cgai.ca for more commentary. Produced by Jared Maltais. Music credits to Drew Phillips.

Episode 337with Kalliopi Amygdalouhosted by Michael TalbotDownload the podcastFeed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloudDuring the late Ottoman period, the diverse and vibrant Aegean ports of Izmir (Smyrna) and Thessaloniki (Salonica) experienced rapid growth and transformation through the increased interconnection of the Mediterranean world and the rise of maritime trade. But in the tumultuous final decade of the Ottoman period, both cities witnessed political and demographic upheaval as well as outright destruction by fire. With Thessaloniki permanently incorporated into Greece and Izmir into the new Republic of Turkey in 1923, the two cities seemed destined to follow different paths. Yet as our guest Kalliopi Amygdalou explains, interesting comparisons and parallels between the development of Izmir and Thessaloniki endured even after they ceased to be part of a unified Ottoman polity. In this episode, we follow the story of urban and architectural transformation in Izmir and Thessaloniki after the decade of war between the Balkan Wars (1912-13) and the establishment of the Republic of Turkey and the period that followed in the two cities under a transition from empire to nation-state.« Click for More »

Download Episode! In 1912-13, the Balkan states trounced the Ottomans one last time, before turning on each other over the spoils. Theme Music – “Charlotte” by Damiano Baldoni, licensed under CC BY 4.0 Main Maps Page Patreon

Download Episode! Today, we open the final chapter in the Balkans before the Great War, taking a tour round what's left of Ottoman territory in Europe before seeing how the Balkan nation-states competed over it. [caption id="attachment_194" align="alignnone" width="800"] Ethnic Map of Macedonia from the Bulgarian point of view. Author: Th. Weinreb / Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Macedonia_-_Point_of_View_of_the_Bulgarians.jpg[/caption] [caption id="attachment_195" align="alignnone" width="800"] Ethnic Map of Macedonia from the Serbian point of view. Author: Th. Weinreb / Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Macedonia_-_Point_of_View_of_the_Serbs.jpg[/caption]   Theme Music – “Charlotte” by Damiano Baldoni, licensed under CC BY 4.0 Main Maps Page Patreon    

Katarina Maltar and Armin Karalic work in visual and creative communications are from Croatia and Bosnia respectively. We discuss their project, Hostel People as well as the difficult history and memories of the Balkan Wars in the 90s. Check out Hostel People at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7lB0Ytpq-8qGCWtf6kjyIg

On the heels of the Italian invasion of Libya, a collection of Balkan nations declare war on the Ottoman Empire. A "very" basic map of the First Balkan War. October 1912-May 1913.

This episode is really a two part of sorts, which looks at the lead up to World War I in the Balkan Wars and the consequences that created a hostile environment in the Balkans. Russia and Austria-Hungary's relations were at a all time low because of the outcome, along with the later and Serbia. Thank you again for your continued support, here is the link to the album fundraiser, for the podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/ng/album/coolidge-metaphor-for-contradiction/id813759717 You can also find exclusive content on the show's youtube page: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYjULbrvVepZ04KaeyxjMyA Further you can leave comments on our Itunes page: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/history-with-james-ipod/id373747636?mt=2

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Nikola Madžirov, poet, essayist, and translator, reads from his many works. He is one of the most powerful voices of the new European poetry. Born in a family of Balkan Wars refugees in 1973 in Strumica, R. Macedonia, he has written poetry that has been translated into thirty languages and published in collections and anthologies in US, Europe and Asia.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Nikola Madžirov, poet, essayist, and translator, reads from his many works. He is one of the most powerful voices of the new European poetry. Born in a family of Balkan Wars refugees in 1973 in Strumica, R. Macedonia, he has written poetry that has been translated into thirty languages and published in collections and anthologies in US, Europe and Asia.

Audio revision looking at the 'Eastern Question' that affected the Balkans. Covers the impact of the Congress of Berlin in 1878, rising nationalism and Pan-Slavism in the Balkan states, the Bosnian Crisis of 1908-9, and the Balkan Wars of 1912-13.