Podcasts about deputy national intelligence officer

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about U.S. foreign policy and starting with a little test the so-called Space Force recently did that you probably heard nothing about, preparing for a nuclear war. Our guest, returning to the program, is our friend the terrific peace activist Elizabeth Murray who was once the U.S. Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East in the National Intelligence Council. She specialized in Middle Eastern political and media analysis, and has lived and traveled extensively in the region. Elizabeth Murray is a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity  and the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence. In 2018 and 2024 she was an activist aboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. She has been a Member-in-Residence at the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action in Washington State.

Atul Singh and Glenn Carle return to discuss what's going on in Israel, the reasons why, and what the consequences will be in the Middle East and beyond.  In The Dialectic, Atul and Glenn give you their unique perspectives on world affairs. Atul is the founder, CEO & editor-in-chief of Fair Observer, an independent media organization that has published more than 2,500 voices from around the world. Glenn retired as the Deputy National Intelligence Officer after more than two decades in the CIA and is the author of The Interrogator. Learn more about Atul and Glenn, and read their work on the two links below: https://www.fairobserver.com/author/atul-singh/ https://www.fairobserver.com/author/g-carle/ You can follow Fair Observer on social media: LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/company/fair-observer YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FairObserver Twitter: https://twitter.com/myfairobserver Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fairobserver/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fairobserver

  An armed rebellion in Russia led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the private military company (PMC) Wagner, shocked the world and amounted to the most significant challenge to Putin's rule in over two decades. Although the revolt was short-lived, new questions about Putin's hold on power remain. Michèle Flournoy, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Teneo's partner firm WestExec Advisors and Chair of the Center for a New American Security; Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Senior Advisor at WestExec Advisors and former Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council; Andrius Tursa, Central & Eastern Europe Advisor for Teneo, join our host Kevin Kajiwara for an important update on Russia's war against Ukraine, the weakening of Putin's grip on power and how a period of instability in Russia might impact Ukraine and the rest of the world

In the follow-up to their first discussion, Atul Singh and Glenn Carle dissect the consequences of the War on Terror, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In The Dialectic, Atul and Glenn give you their unique perspectives on world affairs. Atul is the founder, CEO & editor-in-chief of Fair Observer, an independent media organization that has published more than 2,500 voices from around the world. Glenn retired as the Deputy National Intelligence Officer after more than two decades in the CIA and is the author of The Interrogator. Learn more about Atul and Glenn, and read their work on the two links below: https://www.fairobserver.com/author/atul-singh/ https://www.fairobserver.com/author/g-carle/ You can follow Fair Observer on social media: LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/company/fair-observer YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FairObserver Twitter: https://twitter.com/myfairobserver Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fairobserver/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fairobserver

Atul Singh and Glenn Carle look back on 9/11, the Taliban, Al Qaeda and the Iraq War, and the US foreign policy approach that would become the War on Terror.  In The Dialectic, Atul and Glenn give you their unique perspectives on world affairs. Atul is the founder, CEO & editor-in-chief of Fair Observer, an independent media organization that has published more than 2,500 voices from around the world. Glenn retired as the Deputy National Intelligence Officer after more than two decades in the CIA and is the author of The Interrogator. Learn more about Atul and Glenn, and read their work on the two links below: https://www.fairobserver.com/author/atul-singh/ https://www.fairobserver.com/author/g-carle/ You can follow Fair Observer on social media: LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/company/fair-observer YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FairObserver Twitter: https://twitter.com/myfairobserver Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fairobserver/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fairobserver

Valerie Rozman recently joined The Asia Group as Director of Research and Analytics and as a Principal, co-leading the Southeast Asia practice. She served in the U.S. government for nearly two decades, primarily in the intelligence community. She was inducted into the CIA's Senior Analytic Service and served in a number of senior Asia-focused positions, including as Deputy National Intelligence Manager at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and Deputy National Intelligence Officer for East Asia at ODNI. She has briefed numerous senior U.S. and foreign officials, including the U.S. President and U.S. and foreign Cabinet-level officials, on East Asia issues.

In this episode, your hosts, Atul Singh and Glenn Carle, discuss the New World Order championed by China, and its potential implications. In The Dialectic, Atul and Glenn give you their unique perspectives on world affairs. Atul is the founder, CEO & editor-in-chief of Fair Observer, an independent media organization that has published more than 2,500 voices from around the world. Glenn retired as the Deputy National Intelligence Officer after more than two decades in the CIA and is the author of The Interrogator. Learn more about Atul and Glenn, and read their work on the two links below: https://www.fairobserver.com/author/atul-singh/ https://www.fairobserver.com/author/g-carle/ You can follow Fair Observer on social media: LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/company/fair-observer YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FairObserver Twitter: https://twitter.com/myfairobserver Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fairobserver/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fairobserver

On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation” – a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. With an intense humanitarian crisis, inflationary shocks, staggering energy prices and disruptions to global trade, impacts from the war in Ukraine continue to reverberate across world regions. Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Senior Advisor at WestExec Advisors and former Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council and Jeffrey Edmonds, Research Scientist at the Center for Naval Analyses and expert on Russia and Eurasia , join our host Kevin Kajiwara for their perspectives on the state of the war as the one year anniversary nears and what comes next as Russia commences its latest offensive.

In this episode, your hosts, Atul Singh and Glenn Carle, discuss Glenn's trip to India, and whether the country is on track to become a great power. Read about Glenn's trek in the Himalayas here: https://www.fairobserver.com/world-news/india-news/a-magical-tale-not-trekking-in-the-himalayas/ In The Dialectic, Atul and Glenn give you their unique perspectives on world affairs. Atul is the founder, CEO & editor-in-chief of Fair Observer, an independent media organization that has published more than 2,500 voices from around the world. Glenn retired as the Deputy National Intelligence Officer after more than two decades in the CIA and is the author of The Interrogator. Learn more about Atul and Glenn, and read their work on the two links below: https://www.fairobserver.com/author/atul-singh/ https://www.fairobserver.com/author/g-carle/ You can follow Fair Observer on social media: LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/company/fair-observer YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FairObserver Twitter: https://twitter.com/myfairobserver Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fairobserver/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fairobserver  

In The Dialectic, Atul Singh and Glenn Carle give you their unique perspectives on world affairs. In this episode, they discuss the state of Britain after Brexit. Atul is the founder, CEO & editor-in-chief of Fair Observer, an independent media organization that has published more than 2,500 voices from around the world. Glenn retired as the Deputy National Intelligence Officer after more than two decades in the CIA and is the author of The Interrogator. Learn more about Atul and Glenn, and read their work on the two links below: https://www.fairobserver.com/author/atul-singh/ https://www.fairobserver.com/author/g-carle/ You can follow Fair Observer on social media: LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/company/fair-observer YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FairObserver Twitter: https://twitter.com/myfairobserver Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fairobserver/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fairobserver

With the conclusion of the Chinese Communist Party's 20th National Party Congress last week, Xi Jinping has now secured a precedent-breaking third term as general secretary. The Congress was also notable for Xi's moves to replace the Politburo Standing Committee with a slate of his most committed loyalists, cementing his authoritarian grasp on power. Against the backdrop of these events, E.U. leaders met last week in Brussels to discuss their approach to Beijing, raising concerns over Europe's continued dependence on China for technology and raw materials. How has the war in Ukraine impacted European attitudes and policies toward China? Will German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's planned visit to the PRC this week pose a risk to future European cohesion on China? Bonnie Glaser and Dave Shullman join Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend to unpack the party congress and what a third term for Xi means for Europe.  Bonnie Glaser is director of the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. She was previously senior adviser for Asia and the director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, while also serving as a nonresident fellow with the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia, and a senior associate with the Pacific Forum.  Dave Shullman is senior director of the Global China Hub at the Atlantic Council, where he leads the council's work on China. He has served as one of the US Government's top experts on East Asia, most recently as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for East Asia on the National Intelligence Council, where he led the IC's strategic analysis on East Asia.

Atul Singh and Glenn Carle get to grips with the furore caused by Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, how it has incited the fury of a thin-skinned Chinese regime, and what this game of chicken between world powers could mean for the future.    In The Dialectic, Atul and Glenn give you their unique perspectives on world affairs. Atul is the founder, CEO & editor-in-chief of Fair Observer, an independent media organization that has published more than 2,500 voices from around the world. Glenn retired as the Deputy National Intelligence Officer after more than two decades in the CIA and is the author of The Interrogator. Learn more about Atul and Glenn, and read their work on the two links below: https://www.fairobserver.com/author/atul-singh/ https://www.fairobserver.com/author/g-carle/ You can follow Fair Observer on social media: LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/company/fair-observer YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FairObserver Twitter: https://twitter.com/myfairobserver Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fairobserver/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fairobserver

July 7, 2022 0:00 - Dan & Amy sort through the latest on the Highland Park shooter and his confession 31:46 - Steven Levin, Highland Park resident familiar the Highland Park shooter's family, wants to set a few things straight about the Father and Uncle 46:48 - Nicholas Spyridon Kass, served with the U.S. Government for 31 years, retiring on January 20, 2021. Most recently he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Director for European Affairs (twice) and Director of Intelligence Programs at the White House/National Security Council, and Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Europe at the National Intelligence Council - and all this while being John Kass' brother - shares Lessons From A Turkish Coup 01:03:05 - Executive Director of Illinois Right to Life, Amy Gehrke: “Illinois will not stand for abortion extremism.” Join Amy and Illinois right to life this Saturday July 9 for a Dobbs Rally + March - for more info visit  marchforlifechicago.org 01:21:20 - Associate Editor for Commentary Magazine, Noah Rothman, shares his new book  The Rise of the New Puritans: Fighting Back Against Progressives' War on Fun 01:35:13 - Policy Correspondent for FEE, contributor to the Washington Examiner and Co-Founder of BASEDPolitics, Brad Polumbo, gave away $2.38 gas—and the reaction was truly priceless. You can follow Brad on twitter @brad_polumbo. 01:52:16 - Dan & Amy sort through the latest on the Highland Park shooter and his confession See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The invasion of Ukraine has sent shockwaves around the world, causing many to reassess the global order. Are we headed towards a tribal bipolar world? Is this the beginning of the end of globalisation? In this episode, your hosts, Atul Singh and Glenn Carle, discuss the effects of the war in Ukraine across the globe. In The Dialectic, Atul and Glenn give you their unique perspectives on world affairs. Atul is the founder, CEO & editor-in-chief of Fair Observer, an independent media organization that has published more than 2,500 voices from around the world. Glenn retired as the Deputy National Intelligence Officer after more than two decades in the CIA and is the author of The Interrogator. Learn more about Atul and Glenn, and read their work on the two links below: https://www.fairobserver.com/author/atul-singh/ https://www.fairobserver.com/author/g-carle/ You can follow Fair Observer on social media: LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/company/fair-observer YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FairObserver Twitter: https://twitter.com/myfairobserver Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fairobserver/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fairobserver

Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Senior Advisor at WestExec Advisors and former Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council; Carsten Nickel, Teneo Managing Director and expert on Europe; Orson Porter, Teneo Senior Managing Director and government affairs expert; and Andrius Tursa, Teneo's Central & Eastern Europe Advisor join our host Kevin Kajiwara for the latest on the Russia-Ukraine war and the ramifications for financial markets, geopolitics and the business world.

Summary Volko Ruhnke (Website; Twitter) joins Andrew (Twitter; LinkedIn) to discuss his life and career in the CIA as an analyst and designer of board games. He is a former World Board Game Champion. What You'll Learn Intelligence Designing board games to teach CIA analysts Moonlighting as an award-winning board game designer while working at CIA Similarities and differences between intelligence analysis and board-games  The difference between role-play games and board-games in training national security professionals Reflections Humans are good models of humans  Volko's journey from Virginia to the CIA via William & Mary and the U.S. Army And more… Episode Notes  Volko Ruhnke is a helluva interesting guy. He grew up as an avid board gamer raised on stories of the French and Indian War, which led him to design the 2001 winner of the best pre-WWII boardgame Wilderness War. His time at the CIA after 9/11 then led him to design the 2010 winner of the best post-WWII boardgame Labyrinth, where players were immersed in the operational and ideological aspects of the Global War on Terror. It doesn't stop there, though, he has also designed a series of counter-insurgency games such as Andean Abyss, which focused on 1990's Columbia, and Fire in the Lake, a multi-faction treatment of the Vietnam War. While teaching a new generation of intelligence analysts, Volko combined both of his passions to help them understand the complexity and open-endedness of the real-world via board games. As an analyst himself, Volko looked at the Soviet & Russian military and counter-proliferation, before going on to be Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Science and Technology at the National Intelligence Council, and then on the Presidents Daily Brief (PDB) staff to brief cabinet level officials.  And… Volko is now a commercial board game designer, and you can get quite a few of his games here – but not all of them. One day historians, one day… Quote of the Week "Games allow you to get inside and operate the machine yourself and do experiments and pull a lever or push a button and see what happens. And because it's happening on the tabletop, rather than say, in a computer program, you, you can understand it very well. You can see exactly why what just happened. So, I became among others, a promulgator of, of that particular medium for teaching as well as for analysis." - Volko Ruhnke Resources SpyCasts Intelligence Analysis in the 21st Century - Mark Lowenthal Modern Intelligence Analysis: From Art to Science? Books Storytelling in the Modern Boardgame, A. Arnaudo (McFarland, 2018) White King & Red Queen: Cold War on the Chessboard, D. Johnson (Mariner, 2008) Best Books on Play (Five Books) Articles All the World's a Game, C. Hadavas, Foreign Policy (2021) Digital Version of Counter-Terror Game Labyrinth, J. Bolding, PCGamer (2020)  Winning Edge: Board Game Used by the U.S. Army, P. Suciu, National Interest (2020) Why the CIA Uses Board Games to Train Officers, S. Larson, CNN (2017) The CIA Uses Board Games to Train Officers, S. Machkovech, ArsTechnica (2017) Making Board Games for the CIA, C. Hall, Polygon (2017) Political Board Games Change View of World, M. Thrower, Guardian (2015) Volko Ruhnke Has Become a Hero, J. Albert, WaPo (2014) Video We Review CIA's Classified Board Game, Two Bats Gaming, (YouTube, 2018) Primary Sources Kingpin: The Hunt for El Chapo (CIA, 2018) Collection Deck (CIA, 2017) Whodunnit? (Wapo, 1985) Wildcard Resource Lego ® Serious Play ® Game Used by Fortune 500 companies, unleasher of talent, and serious fun!

Your hosts, Atul Singh and Glenn Carle, dive deep into an analysis of Vladimir Putin in this episode of The Dialectic. Read their article on this topic here: https://www.fairobserver.com/politics/making-sense-of-vladimir-putins-long-game/   In the The Dialectic, Atul and Glenn give you their unique perspectives on world affairs. Atul is the founder, CEO & editor-in-chief of Fair Observer, an independent media organization that has published more than 2,500 voices from around the world. Glenn retired as the Deputy National Intelligence Officer after more than two decades in the CIA and is the author of The Interrogator. Learn more about Atul and Glenn, and read their work on the two links below: https://www.fairobserver.com/author/atul-singh/ https://www.fairobserver.com/author/g-carle/ You can follow Fair Observer on social media: LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/company/fair-observer YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FairObserver Twitter: https://twitter.com/myfairobserver Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fairobserver/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fairobserver

Your hosts, Atul Singh and Glenn Carle, dive deep into a discussion about democracy in this episode of The Dialectic. Read Atul's article on American democracy here: https://www.fairobserver.com/region/north_america/atul-singh-american-democracy-donald-trump-joe-biden-inequality-political-divide-us-politics-history-news-19901/ In The Dialectic, Atul Singh and Glenn Carle, give you their unique perspectives on global affairs. Atul is the founder, CEO & editor-in-chief of Fair Observer, an independent media organization that has published more than 2,500 voices from around the world. Glenn retired as the Deputy National Intelligence Officer after more than two decades in the CIA and is the author of The Interrogator. Learn more about them and read their work on the two links below: https://www.fairobserver.com/author/atul-singh/ https://www.fairobserver.com/author/g-carle/ Find Fair Observer on: LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/company/fair-observer YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FairObserver Twitter: https://twitter.com/myfairobserver Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fairobserver/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fairobserver

The Dialectic is a podcast by Fair Observer. Your hosts, Atul Singh and Glenn Carle, will give you their unique perspectives on world affairs. Atul is the founder, CEO & editor-in-chief of Fair Observer, an independent media organization that has published more than 2,500 voices from around the world. Glenn retired as the Deputy National Intelligence Officer after more than two decades in the CIA and is the author of the The Interrogator. Learn more about Atul and Glenn, and read their work on Fair Observer: https://www.fairobserver.com/author/atul-singh/ https://www.fairobserver.com/author/g-carle/ You can also follow Fair Observer on social media. LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/company/fair-observer YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FairObserver Twitter: https://twitter.com/myfairobserver Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fairobserver/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fairobserver

In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell moderates a conversation among a panel of experts including former Deputy Secretary General of NATO Rose Gottemoeller, former Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia Andrea Kendall-Taylor, and former senior CIA operations officer John Sipher about the state of the Russia-Ukraine crisis and whether diplomatic options remain viable. The panel evaluates Russian President Vladimir Putin's immediate and long-term objectives and discusses how deterrent measures might be enhanced. They also discuss possible post-conflict scenarios in the European security landscape. This episode was produced in partnership with the Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security at George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In 2016 dozens of US diplomats and their family members in Cuba fell sick with a mystery illness. Since then hundreds of cases of 'Havana Syndrome' have been reported amongst US Embassy personnel around the world. Now, new cases have been reported in the American missions in Paris and Geneva. But who, or what, could be to blame? Join host Peter Dobbie. With guests: Robert Bartholomew - Honorary Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychological Medicine at the University of Auckland and co-author of 'Havana Syndrome: Mass Psycogenic Illness and the Real Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria'. Natasha Lindstaedt - Deputy Dean of Social Sciences at the University of Essex. Glenn Carle - former CIA and Deputy National Intelligence Officer.

In this week's episode, A'ndre and Ryan speak with leading North Korea expert Dr. Sue Mi Terry about the "Hermit Kingdom". Dr. Terry, who served as a CIA analyst, Deputy National Intelligence Officer, and NSC Director, provides her assessment of the Trump-Kim Summits and how the Biden Administration will approach the Kim regime. She also breaks-down the vertical of power in North Korea and outlines why Kim Jong Un and his family have maintained power since the country's inception. Dr. Terry also recounts her conversations with defectors to illustrate the extent of North Korea's repressive system and how this prevents the North Korean people from altering their political situation. The conversation concludes with an analysis of the North Korean nuclear threat and the potential for meaningful denuclearization. 

This event is sponsored by The Global Impact Discussion: US-East Asia Lecture Series. About the book: When Kim Jong Un became the leader of North Korea following his father's death in 2011, predictions about his imminent fall were rife. North Korea was isolated, poor, unable to feed its people, and clinging to its nuclear program for legitimacy. Surely this twentysomething with a bizarre haircut and no leadership experience would soon be usurped by his elders. Instead, the opposite happened. Now in his midthirties, Kim Jong Un has solidified his grip on his country and brought the United States and the region to the brink of war. Still, we know so little about him—or how he rules. Enter former CIA analyst Jung Pak, whose brilliant Brookings Institution essay “The Education of Kim Jong Un” cemented her status as the go-to authority on the calculating young leader. From the beginning of Kim's reign, Pak has been at the forefront of shaping U.S. policy on North Korea and providing strategic assessments for leadership at the highest levels in the government. Now, in this masterly book, she traces and explains Kim's ascent on the world stage, from his brutal power-consolidating purges to his abrupt pivot toward diplomatic engagement that led to his historic—and still poorly understood—summits with President Trump. She also sheds light on how a top intelligence analyst assesses thorny national security problems: avoiding biases, questioning assumptions, and identifying risks as well as opportunities. In piecing together Kim's wholly unique life, Pak argues that his personality, perceptions, and preferences are underestimated by Washington policy wonks, who assume he sees the world as they do. As the North Korean nuclear threat grows, Becoming Kim Jong Un gives readers the first authoritative, behind-the-scenes look at Kim's character and motivations, creating an insightful biography of the enigmatic man who could rule the hermit kingdom for decades—and has already left an indelible imprint on world history. About the speaker: Dr. Jung H. Pak is a senior fellow and the SK-Korea Foundation Chair in Korea Studies at the Brookings Institution. Prior to Brookings, she held senior positions at the Central Intelligence Agency and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, where she led the U.S. Intelligence Community's strategic analysis of North Korea as the Deputy National Intelligence Officer. Dr. Pak is the author of Becoming Kim Jong Un (April 2020), which traces and explains Kim's ascent to the world stage and draws from her deep knowledge and experience as an intelligence officer. Dr. Pak is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Colgate University, where she served as a trustee from 2009-2015. She received her PhD in United States history from Columbia University and studied in South Korea as a Fulbright scholar.

Elizabeth Murray served as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East in the National Intelligence Council (NIC), before retiring in 2010 after a 27-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency. She was a political analyst focusing on various Middle Eastern countries and also served as an editor and media analyst for the U.S. Government's Open Source Center, OSC, now known as the Open Source Enterprise. She is conversant in German, Arabic, and Spanish. A member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity and the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence, Elizabeth currently serves as Member-in-Residence at the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action located near Seattle.

Gulf states are making moves on the continent, adding another layer to Africa's increasingly crowded and complex political landscape. Zach Vertin (Brookings Doha Center), Raechel Haecker (former Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Africa), and Godfrey Musila (expert on international law and security) join Judd Devermont (CSIS) to unpack emerging Gulf-Africa dynamics. The podcast kicks off with close-ups on South Sudan's peace prospects and Gabon's ailing president.

Gulf states are making moves on the continent, adding another layer to Africa's increasingly crowded and complex political landscape. Zach Vertin (Brookings Doha Center), Raechel Haecker (former Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Africa), and Godfrey Musila (expert on international law and security) join Judd Devermont (CSIS) to unpack emerging Gulf-Africa dynamics. The podcast kicks off with close-ups on South Sudan's peace prospects and Gabon's ailing president.

John Kiriakou is a former CIA counterterrorism officer, who in 2007 became the first U.S. Government official to publicly confirm and describe CIA use of waterboarding on al-Qaeda prisoners, which he described as torture. In January 2013, Kiriakou was sentenced to 30 months in prison and was released after serving more than 23 months. Since then, he has become a tireless writer and speaker on whistleblowing, torture, and civil liberties. Kiriakou is the sole U.S. Government official to have been jailed for any reason relating to CIA torture – a victim of the Obama administration's unprecedented crackdown on government truth-tellers. When President Obama openly acknowledged at a White House press conference on August 1, 2014, “We tortured some folks,” John was in prison for having said essentially the same thing seven years earlier. Elizabeth Murray served as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East in the National Intelligence Council before retiring after a 27-year career in the U.S. government. She is a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), and of Sam Adams Associates. She writes for Consortium News. Murray and Kiriakou will be speaking at No War 2016. See http://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2016

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we speak with Elizabeth Murray, former Deputy Intelligence Officer for the Near East, about her decision to leave the CIA and work for peace - including embarking on a recent peace delegation to Russia to find out just what all this saber-rattling is really about. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Elizabeth Murray was the Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East in the US' National Intelligence Council before retiring after twenty-seven years of service. She is now a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), and the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII). She is currently the member in residence for the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action in Poulsbo, WA. Related Links: Elizabeth Murray's Articles on Consortium News https://consortiumnews.com/tag/elizabeth-murray/ Join Elizabeth Murray and the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence in Washington DC this September for the presentation of the Sam Adams Award to John Kiriakou as part of the 'No War 2016' conference. Details here: http://worldbeyondwar.org/sam-adams-award-presented-nowar2016/ World Beyond War "No War 2016" Conference http://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2016agenda/ Recommended Reading On US Military Involvement in the Ukraine Events of 2014: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/breedlove-network-sought-weapons-deliveries-for-ukraine-a-1104837.html Colonel Ann Wright on US/Russia Relations https://consortiumnews.com/2016/07/05/misunderstanding-russia-and-russians/ Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Kathy Kelly on the Peace Delegation to Russia https://consortiumnews.com/2016/06/17/a-peace-journey-to-russia/ Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action http://www.gzcenter.org/ "Walk In Beauty" Episode from Echo Valley Hope http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-08-09T14_29_10-07_00 Live Share Grow: A Movement for the 100% http://www.livesharegrow.org/ Love (and Revolution) Radio Interview with Chuck Collins and Dariel Garner http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-04-12T14_00_00-07_00 Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veteran_Intelligence_Professionals_for_Sanity Music: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/

How did Elizabeth Murray go from being a New Mexico newspaper reporter fresh out of college to a CIA analyst serving as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East in the National Intelligence Council to an anti-nuclear activist? Listen to the January 21, 2016 edition of Tell Somebody and find out. ​​Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" or "save link as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the   iTunes store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us. Follow Tell Somebody  on Twitter:@tellsomebodynow  “Like” the Tell Somebody page on facebook:  www.facebook.com/TellSomebodyNow

Much of our knowledge about North Korea comes from a limited number of sources: documents made public by foreign governments, defector testimonies, correspondents in neighboring countries, and ultimately North Korea’s official news agency. But what about intelligence agencies? How do they manage to gather intelligence – and how much do they actually know about North Korea? For this interview, we had the privilege to host Dr. Sue Mi Terry who provided us with a unique look into the U.S. intelligence community and its attempts to deal with North Korea. Dr. Terry is a Senior Research Scholar at the Columbia University Weatherhead East Asia Institute and founder of Peninsula Strategies Inc., an advisory firm specializing in Korean issues. She has also served as the National Intelligence Fellow in the David Rockefeller Studies Program at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Prior to her academic and consulting career, Dr. Terry served as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for East Asia at the National Intelligence Council, and also served as Director for Korea, Japan and Oceanic Affairs at the National Security Council during the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations. Earlier in her career, she served as Senior Analyst on Korean issues at the CIA Directorate of Intelligence, where she was a top-rated Korean linguist. Dr. Terry earned her PhD in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She holds a Master’s in International Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from NYU.

Join Dr. Carlos as he chats with a former CIA agent Glenn Carle, about interrogation techniques.Glenn L. Carle served twenty-three years in the Clandestine Services of the Central Intelligence Agency, working in a number of overseas posts on four continents and in Washington, DC. Mr. Carle has worked on terrorism issues at various times since the mid-1980s. He has worked extensively on Balkan, Central American, and European political, security, and economic issues. His last position was as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Transnational Threats, on the National Intelligence Council, where his office was responsible for strategic analysis of terrorism, international organized crime, and narcotics issues.