Podcasts about Fortress America

Mike Shelby of Gray Zone Research and Early Warning Network discusses the current domestic and global situation, describing it as a time of generational change and concern. Shelby warns of potential low intensity conflict, such as violent social movements, terrorism, and color revolutions, rather than a conventional civil war in the U.S. He comments on the decline of Pax Americana, the new restructuring toward a Fortress America, and the ongoing conflict with China. He offers some excellent advice on weathering the storm. Watch on BitChute / Brighteon / Rumble / Substack / YouTube Geopolitics & Empire · Mike Shelby: Fortress America, Civil War 2.0, & World War 3.0? #550 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.com Donate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donations Consult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! Above Phone https://abovephone.com/?above=geopolitics easyDNS (15% off with GEOPOLITICS) https://easydns.com Escape Technocracy course (15% off with GEOPOLITICS) https://escapethetechnocracy.com/geopolitics PassVult https://passvult.com Sociatates Civis (CitizenHR, CitizenIT, CitizenPL) https://societates-civis.com Wise Wolf Gold https://www.wolfpack.gold/?ref=geopolitics Websites Gray Zone Research https://grayzoneresearch.substack.com Early Warning Network https://www.earlywarningnetwork.com X https://x.com/grayzoneintel About Mike Shelby Mike is a former Intelligence NCO and contractor with overseas deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. He covers civil unrest and low intensity conflict. *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)

In this episode of Soar Financially, Brent Johnson, CEO of Santiago Capital and the mind behind the “Dollar Milkshake” theory, returns to unpack the escalating global financial war.From capital controls to Fortress America, Brent reveals why the dollar will rise, why Europe is in trouble, and what comes next for gold, bonds, and global trade.We dive deep into the EU's €1 trillion gamble, Trump's real strategy, the future of swap lines, and why capital is fleeing both directions.#dollar #europe #gold ----------Thank you to our #sponsor MONEY METALS. Make sure to pay them a visit: https://bit.ly/BUYGoldSilver------------

Before addressing the news of the day, Will & Kath catch up with Felix on their re-watch of beloved series BANSHEE, which segues nicely into discussion of the baffling firebombing of the Pennsylvania governor's mansion. We then move on to the increasingly horrific and blatantly illegal renditions of American residents into foreign prisons, and the further construction of Fortress America. We also look at potential democratic responses, from Cory Booker's filibuster, to Kamala slowly stepping back into the spotlight, and finally Bernie & AOC's recent rally in LA.  Find EEPHUS streaming on VOD and new Eephus merch at: www.eephusfilm.com

Financial Consultant Laurent Lequeu discusses the story behind the tariffs, how Washington is attempting to weaken the Russia-China-India bloc, and gives his opinion on whether he thinks Trump will be successful. The world financial center will shift to the Global South and he explains in particular where he thinks that may be. He expects the U.S. to retreat to Fortress America and dedollarization to continue. He talks gold, CBDCs, bitcoin, and inflation. The EU seeks war to scapegoat its own incompetence, instability, collapse, and tyranny. Watch on BitChute / Brighteon / Rumble / Substack / YouTube Geopolitics & Empire · Laurent Lequeu: Tariffs Attack BRICS, Finance Moving to Global South, EU Seeks War #541 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.com Donate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donations Consult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! Above Phone https://abovephone.com/?above=geopolitics easyDNS (15% off with GEOPOLITICS) https://easydns.com Escape Technocracy course (15% off with GEOPOLITICS) https://escapethetechnocracy.com/geopolitics PassVult https://passvult.com Sociatates Civis (CitizenHR, CitizenIT, CitizenPL) https://societates-civis.com Wise Wolf Gold https://www.wolfpack.gold/?ref=geopolitics Websites Substack https://themacrobutler.substack.com LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurent-lequeu- X https://x.com/TheMacroButler About Laurent Lequeu Laurent Lequeu is an independent financial consultant and writer of The Macro Butler, which aims to deliver concise yet comprehensive macroeconomic insights that impact global and regional markets, analyzing key indicators and trends to provide actionable and timely investment recommendations to all kind of investors. *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)

In this episode we talk about a phenomenon that has surfaced after President Trump took office: A cooling of travel demand to the U.S. from Canada. And as we’re seeing now, the demand drop may be deeper than originally thought. On this discussion, Natasha Lair-McKenty, the managing editor of TravelPulse Canada, and McKensie McMillan, a travel advisor at Vancouver-based The Travel Group, about what some Canadian travelers are thinking and why, the importance of the Canadian market to the U.S. travel businesses, where they’re going instead of the U.S. and how advisors are coping with the change. Episode sponsor: This episode is sponsored by TTC Tour Brands Related links: Canadians stay away from U.S. travel amid political backlash https://www.travelweekly.com/North-America-Travel/Canadians-stay-away-from-US-amid-political-backlash Canada-U.S. air bookings down over 70% through summer, OAG says https://www.travelweekly.com/North-America-Travel/Air-travel-from-Canada-drops-for-key-summer-season Tariff talk seems to chill some travel from Canda to the U.S. https://www.travelweekly.com/North-America-Travel/Tariff-talk-effect-travel-Canada-to-USA Arnie Weissmann's column "Welcome to Fortress America!" https://www.travelweekly.com/Arnie-Weissmann/Welcome-to-Fortress-America Travel Pulse Canada https://www.travelpulse.ca/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Trump is taking liberties with our country's role in the world as a land of hope and opportunity by summarily locking up and deporting law-abiding immigrants—including people with legitimate asylum claims, people here on proper visas, and people with minor errors in their paperwork. And it's all being done with intentional cruelty to convey the message: Don't even think of coming to Fortress America. Meanwhile, his tone-deaf billionaire treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, is mocking Americans for wanting cheap TVs. Plus, Schumer postpones his book tour as Democrats look elsewhere for a fighter, and Trump throws a late-night tantrum about Biden's pardons. show notes: White House sizzle reel of immigrants being sent to penal colony in El Salvador Bill's 'Bulwark on Sunday' conversation with Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

A version of this essay was published by firstpost.com at https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/shadow-warrior-what-zelenskys-debacle-says-about-us-newfound-clarity-13867967.htmlThe tongue-lashing received by Vladimir Zelensky in the Oval Office, in full view of the media, was a point of inflection. It highlighted something that we had suspected: the end of the ‘European Century' (or two or three), wherein they had risen to be the Masters of the Universe. Trump is emphasizing that the Atlantic was a 19th century story; with the rise of the US, the Pacific was the story of the 20th century; and the 21st finds the Indian Ocean rising.Zelensky's debacle was not the only pointer: Keir Starmer of the UK, despite some polite talk about the mythical ‘special relationship', was told sharply by Vance that there is no more free speech in the UK, and that it affects American technology companies and citizens. Let us remember also how Elon Musk lambasted the UK for its Pakistani rape gangs, and the limp-wristed reaction of its authorities. Trump also told Starmer “That's enough!”JD Vance, again, spoke some home truths to the Europeans at the Munich Security Conference, telling them their problems are home-grown: excessive migration, lack of democratic values, and censorship.All this is shocking to the supercilious elites of Europe, who are now seeing their cozy world collapse in front of their eyes: no more free-loading, no more Uncle Sam to the rescue. Suddenly, NATO is meaningless, and decades of Greta Thunberg and V-dem style lecturing, virtue-mongering and pontification are coming back to bite them on the backside.They must be recalling William Blake's apocalyptic vision in The Second Coming. Their world is indeed falling apart.Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity.It's hard to blame the Europeans. They have forgotten how it was only yesterday, as it were, that they were being hounded by the Barbary pirates, enslaved and turned into janissaries by the Turks. I read how the author of Don Quixote had been himself captured, enslaved for five years, and ransomed in 1580 for 300 gold coins, worth some $40,000 today.The European Century has made Europeans, and us, Fourth Worlders or those formerly colonized by them (as V S Naipaul put it), forget that Europe is just a backwater, a mere peninsula, an appendage, to Asia. It is now reverting to just “Northwest Asia”. For most of recorded history, Europe was an uncivilized land of savages; it was only the lucky accident of the Industrial Revolution that gave it the wherewithal to dominate the world.But that is in the past: the economic center of gravity of the world has indeed moved from the Atlantic to Asia.Source: The Economist.comThe illusion that America is obligated to support Europe, and also to fight Russia to the bitter end as part of the Cold War, was nurtured by Atlanticist Eastern Europeans exercised by an age-old blood feud: that between the Russian Orthodox Church on the one hand, and Catholics and other Protestant churches on the other hand.Those certainties are now falling by the wayside, as Trump pivots to the Pacific and Indian Oceans, as well as back to isolationist Fortress America. As Zelensky did mention in his tirade, America has the good fortune to have two oceans around it, a serious moat. The US has been gaslighted for a long time by nose-in-the-air Europeans, most especially the mischief-makers at the UK's Whitehall (who are the real Deep State). But that's wearing off, and the blinkers are falling from their eyes. Sadly for Zelensky, he will be the first one affected by this new-found clarity.Zelensky also made several rookie mistakes. First, you don't go to your benefactor's lair (ie. the US Oval Office) dressed in a sweatshirt. Second, you don't talk over Trump. Third, you don't get into a shouting match in English with native speakers when English is your second language: you might miss the nuances of “you don't hold any cards”, for instance. Fourth, and most importantly, you don't trust Starmer, Macron, etc. and take up cudgels with Trump.The near-simultaneous “toolkit” tweets from a lot of EU grandees suggests they gaslighted Zelensky into his suicidal bit of bravado against Trump in the Oval Office. They used the exact same words! And Trump doesn't take slights lightly.The implications are dire. The Ukraine War is as good as over, because the Europeans alone cannot (or will not) supply Zelensky with enough weaponry to hold off Russia indefinitely. The most likely outcome is a ceasefire followed by a standstill agreement: what Ukrainian territory Russia currently holds it will continue to hold; Ukraine will be de jure partitioned. The rest is negotiable.If the Europeans had any sense, they would patch up with Russia. NATO as we know it will come to an end, and EU+Russia is a pretty powerful force, and neither will have to kowtow to China. With the US out of the picture, divided EU and Russia will both fall into the dhritarashtra alinganam of sweet-talking China. To their ultimate detriment, of course.It is good to contrast Trump's treatment of all these Europeans with his much gentler treatment of the Japanese PM Shigeru Ishiba, and the Indian PM Narendra Modi, both Quad partners. He was polite and businesslike with them. Also, when a reporter asked about AUKUS, the brain-dead partnership with the UK that Biden dragged another Quad partner, Australia, into, his response was: “What's that?”There were early glimpses of a Trump foreign policy taking shape, as I mentioned in two prior columns: Chronicles of a Foreign Policy Foretold and Trump's America and Modi's India. Now things are clearer: there's a new Sheriff in town, and things are going to be different. But, William Blake notwithstanding, it's not the end of the world. We will all carry on.1000 words, 1 Mar 2025 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/subscribe

Exactly a month into his new term, President Donald Trump's latest major pick, Kash Patel, has been appointed as the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation after a grueling confirmation in the US Senate. Tulsi Gabbard had earlier been confirmed as the Director of National Intelligence. Both these are positive from India's point of view: they signal that the sinister Deep State may well be reined in, after decades of anti-India activism on its part.Over the last week or two, there have been revelations after revelations of bad faith on the part of the disgraced US establishment, most notably in the shadowy USAID agency, which, it appears, was the absolute “Heart of Darkness” of the Deep State, neck-deep in covert operations, election interference, and general mayhem all over the world, and certainly in India.Trump himself emphasized that $21 million in covert funds had gone towards affecting election outcomes in India. Presumably the reduced majority Modi got in 2024 could be traced back to this. Fortress AmericaThe general contours of Trump's foreign policy are beginning to emerge. I predicted a month ago, before Trump had taken over, in ‘Greenland, Canada, Panama: Chronicles of a Foreign Policy Foretold', that Western Europe, and the United Kingdom in particular, would find themselves treated as irrelevant to the new order to come. That has happened.In fact, things have gone beyond what I anticipated. In a nutshell, Trump is downgrading the Atlantic, and his focus will be on the Americas, the Middle East, and the Indo-Pacific. Which, from a historical perspective, makes sense: the world's economic center of gravity is moving towards Asia; trade flows in the Pacific and the Indian Oceans are increasingly more important than in the Atlantic; and a few centuries of European domination are pretty much over.Sorry Europe, Atlanticism is at an endTo put it bluntly, the vanity that Europe is a ‘continent' is now being exposed as hollow: to be precise, it is merely an appendage, an outpost, to vast Asia. Europe is at best a subcontinent, like India is; it should probably be renamed as ‘Northwest Asia'. The saga of ‘Guns, Germs and Steel' post the Industrial Revolution is winding down rapidly. There is some schadenfreude in that the UK becomes even more irrelevant: just a small, rainy island off NW Asia.The Putin-Trump dialog suggests that Ukraine, and even NATO, are now superfluous. Atlanticism has been a constant in US foreign policy, mostly pushed by two forces:* Eastern European-origin State Department officials who have inherited a blood-feud with Russia from their ancestors, eg. Brzezinski, Albright, Nuland, Blinken, Vindman* an ancient intra-Christian schism between the Eastern Orthodox Church and (for a change) an alliance of Roman Catholics and Western Protestants like Lutherans, Anglicans and Calvinists.It is time that the Americans realized they've been turned into cats'-paws by these forces, and turned their backs on these ancient animosities, which have almost no relevance today. In fact one could argue that a NATO-Russian alliance is the right solution in the medium term, because otherwise both could become puppets of China. Bringing the Ukraine war to an end is a start.The general tone of the Trump White House implies a Fortress America. In practice, this seems to mean that instead of being Globocop, the US focuses on a) the Americas, North and South, b) the Pacific Ocean, d) the Indian Ocean, in that order.A new Monroe Doctrine in the AmericasThe attention being paid to Canada and Mexico over and above the tariffs issues suggests that there is a plan to create a stronger and more unified North American entity; the noises about “Canada the 51st state” and “Gulf of America” suggest that maybe a new NAFTA-style agreement could be inked, especially now that the warming Arctic Ocean makes the thawing tundra of Canada more appealing.It is true that there is no immediate thrust for a Monroe Doctrine-style exclusive US ‘sphere of influence' in South America, but I suspect it is coming. Already, there have been positive vibes between Trump and Argentina's Milei, and Salvador's Bukele: the former for his DOGE-style chainsaw-wielding that's showing results, and the latter for his strong law enforcement.The Island Chains and other red lines in the PacificIn the Pacific, there has been pushback against China's moves on the Panama Canal: there are two Hong-Kong-based entities (read proxies of the Chinese government) controlling ports around it: Balboa on the Pacific side, and Cristobal on the Atlantic side.On the other hand, there is increasing global support (with the judicious use of Chinese carrots such as BRI) for the annexation of Taiwan by China, including, if necessary, by force. A Lowy Institute study (“Five One Chinas: The Contest to Define Taiwan”) suggests that some 119 UN member states accept the official Chinese position on ‘reunification'. Only 40 countries are not on board with China's claim of sovereignty over Taiwan.It is very likely that there will be a showdown between the US and China over Taiwan, within the next two years. It is said that Xi Jinping has given a timeframe of 2027 for all this. It will be interesting to see how many states that condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine will condemn China's future attack on Taiwan. Chances are that many will be strategically silent.Japan, Australia, South Korea and other friends of the US will have a hard time keeping the peace in the Pacific. The “Three Island Chains” act as increasingly critical red lines to contain an aggressive China. In fact, the Asia Maritime Initiative is speaking of five island chains (“China's Reach Has Grown, So Should the Island Chains”), including those in the Indian Ocean (remember the “String of Pearls” intended to tighten around India's throat).The three island chains: 1. Taiwan, Japan, Philippines; 2. Guam, Marianas; 3. Hawaii(Source: China is making waves in the Pacific, Alexandra Tirziu, Jan 2024 https://www.gisreportsonline.com/r/china-pacific-conflict/)Meanwhile, in a show of aggression far from its shores, three Chinese warships indulged in “live firing” in international waters between Australia and New Zealand, and commercial aircraft were warned to keep away. This is a warning to Australia, which, thanks to AUKUS foolishness, cancelled French submarines and now await British submarines… in the 2040s.The increasing relevance of the Indian Ocean and the Middle EastMuch of the world's trade, including 75% of global maritime trade and 50% of its daily oil shipments, go through the Indian Ocean.The main issues will be the control of the Straits of Malacca and Hormuz, and the alternative routes being explored by China via the Isthmus of Kra in Thailand, possible use of Coco Islands and other Myanmarese ports including Sittwe and (a bit of a stretch for China) access to Chittagong. There are also troublesome pirates, including Houthis, that make for perilous journeys leading to the Suez Canal, the Gulf of Aden, and the Red Sea.Interestingly, the US is making moves in the Indian Ocean that will support both the IMEC (India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor) and I2U2, the India-Israel-UAE-US economic partnership. IMEC is the old Spice Route, revivified.There is also the proposed Ben-Gurion Canal through the Negev Desert in Israel that would benefit Saudi Arabia as well (its futuristic NEOM city is nearby), and this would be made feasible by Trump's proposed transformation of Gaza. It would be an alternative to Suez.Following up on the Abraham Accords, Trump 2.0 would like to bring the Gaza war to an end, and create an environment in the Middle East where Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE et al will form a counter and a buffer to the machinations of Iran and Turkey.The Indo-US joint communique is a statement of intentIt is in this global context that we need to analyze the joint communique between the US and India after the Trump-Modi summit. Both nations will be attempting to advance their own strategic doctrines. The US would like India to become a non-treaty ally. India would like to keep its multi-alignment policy going, along with Atmanirbharatha. These may make any bilateral progress a little rough but some give and take will work.There are a few specific areas of interest:* Defense* There is an effort by the US to wean India away from its dependency on Russia for weapons. The most evident carrot here is the F-35 advanced fighter jet, which has now been offered to India for the first time, along with other conventional weapons such as Javelin anti-tank missiles, Stryker infantry combat vehicles, as well as the P8i Poseidon anti-submarine patrol aircraft, and various drones* The P8i is already in service in India, and it would help keep an eye on the southern Bay of Bengal with its proximity to China's submarine pen on Hainan Island* The F-35 raises some questions. In the Bangalore Air Show it was pitted against the Russian Su-57, which is a lot less expensive. Also, the F-35 needs extraordinary levels of maintenance for its ‘stealth' coating. Finally, should India invest in building its own AMCA 5th-generation fighter jet rather than buying?* Even though there will be co-production agreements, the US is a whimsical supplier (remember Tarapur), and there will be little transfer of technology, so military procurement and cooperation must be carefully thought through by India* Trade and Investment* The goal is to reach $500 billion in bilateral trade by 2030, which would involve a doubling from current levels ($200 billion in 2023). Besides, the Trump doctrine of reciprocal tariffs and zero trade imbalance may make some of this difficult* Indian firms are planning to invest $7.35 billion in the US* Energy* India will now get access to US civil nuclear technology, but there's a small twist: the clauses invoking civil liability for nuclear damage will be deleted. This is reminiscent of Pfizer's covid-era contract with developing countries: Pfizer was assured of indemnity (with the local governments being liable) in case of injury or death caused by its vaccine. This sounds like a bad idea* India will increase its purchases of US oil and natural gas. This is a win-win: it will increase US imports to India, thus reducing the trade deficit, and India will be assured of additional supplies* Technology and Innovation* A whole raft of actions have been proposed, including a tie-up between the US National Science Foundation and the Anusandhan National Research Foundation in India, a program called TRUST, another called INDUS innovation, and one in the area of space collaboration, titled NISAR* Multilateral Cooperation* The Quad, IMEC and I2U2 figured in communique, but also something called the Indian Ocean Strategic Venture. I note this nomenclature progress with approval: there used to be the Asia-Pacific, then it was the Indo-Pacific, and now the Indian Ocean is being singled out* In the area of counter-terrorism, the communique explicitly named Pakistani entities such as Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Toiba, among others. This is a welcome change from the shadow-boxing indulged in by the Biden administration and others, whereby Pakistani terrorists were treated as ‘assets'* The extradition of Tahawwur Rana, a Pakistani-Canadian now in a Los Angeles jail, to India for investigation into his role supporting David Headley, in the 26/11/2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, is a welcome sign, after the curious Biden exertions in the Pannun case* People to people links* Indian parents are spending $8 billion a year to support 300,000 Indian students in the US. This amounts to a sort of ‘foreign aid', and also incidentally supplies a lot of especially STEM graduates to the US economy* Facilitating visas, which have become frustratingly difficult for Indian business and leisure travelers to the US. Last year, the wait for just a visa interview was 452 days in Chennai (as compared to 15 days in Beijing), which probably was the result ot the Biden State Department ‘punishing' India for refusing to toe their Ukraine sanctions line* The legal movement of students and professionals between the two countries is to be eased.Overall, this is a statement of intent: both Modi and Trump are laying their cards on the table, and they will both (as they should) bargain hard to benefit their own nations. But India is no longer being treated as a pariah as it was since the Pokhran blasts, the denial of cryogenic rocket engines (via, yes, the Biden Amendment), and so on.As Trump moves towards the inevitable multipolar world, he does not wish to leave Asia to eager hegemon China; as he wishes to move the US out of military entanglements in far-off places (for which he expects Europe and others to bear the burden of their own defense), it is natural for him to want India to punch its weight in Asia.A mutually beneficial relationship free of the supercilious lectures by previous Democratic administrations (eg Daleep Singh on Ukraine sanctions, and he was, ironically enough, the great-grand-nephew of Dalip Singh Saund) would be welcome from the Indian point of view. Having a counterweight to China, and a G3 instead of a G2, would likewise be useful from the US point of view. Thus, there are glimpses of a possible win-win situation.2222 words, 22-02-2025 This is a public episode. 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Steve Schlesinger, Fellow at the Century Foundation in New York City, authored "Act of Creation: Founding of the United Nations," and is an expert on the UN and international issues. Over the past 8 decades the UN has expanded its mandate and development programs to reduce conflicts, combat diseases and climate change, develop maritime and aviation safety, move ships, mail and weather information worldwide. We have not experienced a major world war since 1945. The modern, interconnected world could not exist without the UN. Although the US is one of the major beneficiaries of UN programs, the Republican House of Representative voted to cut off funding to the UN, which would be devastating for many US foreign policies. The polls show that the public supports American involvement in the UN. Project 2025 is a blueprint for an isolationist, Fortress America that is dangerous for both the US and the world.  

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A version of this essay was published by rediff.com at https://www.rediff.com/news/column/rajeev-srinivasan-hamas-war-is-an-immediate-setback-to-india/20231017.htmIt can be argued on several grounds that the 2023 Israel-Hamas war is a point of inflection indicating the general eclipse of the West, and in fact I have done so in an essay. What is unclear is how the end of this era will play out in the medium term and the long term. The best analogy I can think of is the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria by a Serbian nationalist in 1914 or so, and how that set in motion a chain of events that, among other things, ended the European and Ottoman empires over the next forty or fifty years, and more immediately caused the so-called Great War, now re-framed as World War I.Chaos theory at work: as the saying goes, the flapping of a butterfly's wings in Brazil setting off a tornado in Texas. There is the obvious concern that the Israel-Hamas war could set off World War III, especially given that there are many nuclear weapons in the possession of the belligerents and their friends. Iran has recovered from the debacle of the Stuxnet computer worm that caused their Uranium-enrichment centrifuges to blow up (in what was then lauded as an unacknowledged triumph of American and Israeli cloak-and-dagger and technical know-how). Then there is Pakistan and its rapidly growing arsenal, no doubt helped along by screwdriver assembly of Chinese components, and perhaps knocked-down kits. Pakistan is one of the most vocal supporters of Palestine as an Ummah cause, which is ironic considering that Pakistani soldiers (and maybe irregulars) seconded to Jordan in 1970 during the Black September uprising may have been responsible for the deaths of thousands of Palestinians. The specter of an encompassing World War III is sobering, and just as the crumbling League of Nations was unable to fend off earlier editions of world wars, the toothless United Nations is now unlikely to be able to prevent a new one. It hasn't been able to prevent all the smaller conflicts, such as the Ukraine war, and it is obvious that major powers simply don't care about the UN's exertions and bloviations. Therefore, one of the biggest fears is that the Hamas attack might seed a larger conflagration. Of immediate concern, though, is that a nascent process of normalization in West Asia may now grind to a halt. This can have global consequences. It is likely that the earlier edition of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Yom Kippur War of 1973, led directly to the Arab oil embargo followed by the shock of their quadruplication of oil prices. This caused inflation in the US, but more seriously, it precipitated a massive transfer of wealth from developing countries, which set them back by decades, compounding human misery.There are thus unforeseen consequences to what happens in West Asia, which, barring some miracle, will continue to dominate energy supplies for the next couple of decades, even if the most optimistic Green initiatives come to fruition. Things are obviously different from 1973, with West Asians (especially Saudi Arabia) much more self-confident, immensely richer, and also cognizant of the fact that their oil/gas bonanzas will run out sooner or later. They need to diversify their economies, and possibly make some new friends, other than those who are dazzled by their petro-dollars.It is this realization that led to the landmark Abraham Accords, whereby several Arab nations normalized their relations with Israel. The general expectation has been that Saudi Arabia would follow suit, and Mohammed bin Salman has been signaling that he is willing to do this (but also, in his own national interest, willing to embrace China and the proposed BRICS+ currency, both of which would be setbacks for the US and the collective West). The biggest geopolitical casualty of the Hamas war is that this normalization will be put on hold.  Saudi Arabia simply cannot appear to be mindless of the plight of the largely Muslim Palestinians, even if they are nervous about the decidedly fundamentalist Hamas, who, in an interesting twist, may well be aligning themselves with Shia Iran, the principal regional foe of the Sunni Saudis. However, what is also worth noting is that the Saudis, as well as Egyptians and other Arabs, are all reluctant to resettle Palestinians in their largely empty, and rich, countries. There might be two reasons for this: one, perhaps it is still the ambition of the Arab States to eliminate Israel and wipe it off the map altogether (which is what they, and Iran, proclaimed loudly in the past, although it is not clear this is actually feasible any more). If so, maintaining Palestinians as an aggrieved quasi-nation, which would supply an endless stream of militants to the Hamases and Hezbollahs of the region, is a viable, if brutal, strategy.Two, Arab States may not actually want Palestinians as refugees because they might cause all sorts of domestic problems. This always puzzled me, because on average the Palestinians of 1948 were much better educated than most other Arabs, and could have contributed to other Arab nations. My conjecture is that, given the examples of Pakistani migrants in Britain, the Black September Palestinians in Jordan, and more recent Syrian etc refugees in Europe – easily radicalized and prone to blood-curdling rhetoric and possibly action against their host nations – Arab States want to keep them out. This could be the real reason Egypt refuses to open the border for the fleeing residents of Gaza.. It is a bit like the Rohingya of Myanmar. They have a reputation for being troublesome radical Islamists, and so nobody wants to take them in: not Bangladesh where they originally hail from, not any Arab States, not Pakistan (although some Westerners suggested that India and China should take them. China laughed in their faces, but India dutifully did so). Given all this, and the growing clout of Israel under the American security umbrella, chances are that the Palestinian cause would have become increasingly less relevant to Saudis and other Arabs. And that is precisely what might have motivated Hamas and friends: with the emergent normalization of ties with Israel in the region, and initiatives like i2u2 (Israel, India, US, UAE) and IMEC (India Middle East Europe Corridor), there would be commercial and trade ties that would bind.After all, a major part of these trade corridors would be the infrastructure links (railway lines through Saudi Arabia, the Israeli port of Haifa) that would offer alternative trade routes to Europe from India and Southeast Asia. This would offend China too, because its grand Belt and Road Initiative and trans-European railway links would see less business. Thus, in passing, China also is a winner in this Great Game as West Asia goes on the boil, along with usual suspects Iran, Qatar and Turkey. Thus, from several points of view, this Hamas war is an immediate setback to India: it is one of the few countries in the region that enjoys good relations with both Israel and Saudi Arabia, and IMEC would allow it to recreate the old Spice Route to Europe, which was highly lucrative over millennia. All this is in jeopardy now. The strategic and under-construction Vizhinjam container transhipment port in Thiruvananthapuram is a key part of this ambitious trade route.India also has interests in Iran: the Chabahar port could enable India to create an alternative route to Central Asia and Russia called the INSTC (International North South Transport Corridor) bypassing trouble-prone Pakistan and Afghanistan (although that long-pending logistics link is years behind schedule). India cannot allow its relations with Iran to be affected by the war in Gaza. More broadly, if world trade collapses and/or a war begins now it would be unfortunate timing for India. This is the very moment India is ready to finally leave behind the bitter legacy of colonialism, which looted enormous wealth from India (I have argued it was $10 trillion, but economist Utsa Patnaik puts the figure at $45 trillion). A collapse in the procedures of the ‘liberal, rules-based international order', however biased it is in favor of the West, is unfortunate for India in the medium term, although it would probably be fine in the longer term. There are two other aspects of the response to Gaza that are notable. The first is the rise of ugly anti-Jewish sentiments in many parts of the West. This is of concern to Indians, specifically Hindus, because Hindu-hatred is anti-semitism 2.0 and Hindus cannot wish it away.On the other hand, the Left was startled by the dramatic reaction from American Jews to standard Left positioning of moral equivalence between Hamas and the Israeli Defense Forces. For instance, several Harvard student groups released statements about their support for Palestine and/or Hamas, which probably was seeded by Pakistani and, alas, woke Indian-origin students in their ranks. Retribution was swift: Bill Ackman, a billionaire hedge-fund manager, in effect asked fellow CEOs to blacklist these students. There was furious backpedaling as many students, worried about their job prospects, protested that the statements were made without consulting them. This is positive. The Woke Left in the US is splintering. That may mean the Democratic Party tactic of uber-wokeism may now backfire on them, especially notable as elections are looming in the US. The less the wokeism around, the better for India (see Justin Trudeau's Khalistan antics).The weakening of Western power and resolve vis a vis China is another problem for India. The West simply cannot supply munitions for multiple wars (Ukraine, Gaza, and possibly Taiwan), partly because the US has been deindustrialized. What we might see in the medium term is the deprecation of US power in the Indo-Pacific, and indeed a fallback to isolationism and Fortress America. This would encourage a China that is just waiting to rampage. The current Israel-Hamas war is a net negative for India; the issue of Western Hindu-hatred is a topic for another day. 1650 words, 16 October 2023 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com

A version of this essay was published by firstpost.com at https://www.firstpost.com/opinion/requiem-for-a-japanese-statesman-who-loved-india-abe-shinzo-10896211.htmlAbe Shinzo will be remembered as Asia’s greatest 21st century statesman. He recognized early that the Indo-Pacific will (re)occupy center stage as it did throughout most of history, barring a brief Atlanticist interregnum. And then he did something about it, by proposing the Quad and the “free and open Indo-Pacific”. He realized that China would revert to imperialism, and would have to be contained.Abe-san understood that America would withdraw into its comfort zone (“Fortress America”) as its economic and military dominance diminished. It was up to Asians to defend themselves, and not depend on cross-Pacific partnerships. This may have driven his nationalist sentiments. Japan, with its proud history, could not forever be anybody’s junior partner. It would have to assert itself, and it could no longer be hobbled by the pacifist Article 9 imposed by the US, that prevented it from arming itself. All of this has come to pass, more or less. After Obama’s content-free “pivot to Asia”, Biden’s obsessions with Russia, Ukraine and AUKUS, and China’s consistent saber-rattling along its entire periphery, it is evident that the old “liberal, rules-based international order” with its Euro-American bias can no longer protect Asia’s democracies. A muscular Quad, or even an ‘Asian NATO’ is necessary.This is critical for India’s very survival, and Abe helped turn around Japan’s official attitude towards India. Even his grandfather, former Prime Minister Kishi Nobusuke, had been positive towards India, but Abe-san turned out to be a true friend. Under him, relations bloomed; and from a stance of anger at India’s Pokhran blasts, Japan has now become India’s most, and in fact only, trusted partner. This endeared Japan’s longest-serving PM, Abe-san, to many Indians. He believed in India, and it showed. So much so that some of us are in personal mourning. India has lost its best friend, and in a world where it has no friends, that is a tremendous loss: even after he resigned the PM position on health grounds, Abe-san continued to generate goodwill for Indo-Japanese partnerships. The last time the death of a foreign leader affected Indians so much was when John F Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.Prime Minister Modi put it well in a personal note, “My friend, Abe-san” https://www.narendramodi.in/my-friend-abe-san-563044. He also declared a day of national mourning. Among his greatest gifts to us and his most enduring legacy, and one for which the world will always be indebted, is his foresight in recognizing the changing tides and gathering storm of our time and his leadership in responding to it. Long before others, he, in his seminal speech to the Indian Parliament in 2007, laid the ground for the emergence of the Indo-Pacific region as a contemporary political, strategic and economic reality - a region that will also shape the world in this century.There is a starkly different, and possibly grossly unfair, characterization of Abe-san in the US media, as some kind of ultra-nationalist. The left-leaning NPR was positively churlish. But then this goes back to the Manichean/Abrahamic “with us or against us” dualism put about by US sources. They portray Japan as being particularly wicked, with Pearl Harbor as Original Sin, and the “Yellow Peril” as being particularly dangerous, deserving of the ultimate horror of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Remarkably enough, this was along the same lines as the vitriol from China.I can understand China being extraordinarily mean. That’s just par for the course. But an American outlet saying this is a little surprising, that too a public-sector, publicly-funded, non-commercial entity. Are there wheels within wheels?But wait, here’s more:Growing up in India, I too was subject to this negative barrage, but I had the advantage of reading Malayalam translations of Tanizaki, Kawabata and Lady Murasaki in my teenage days. I understood Japan as a unique but Dharmic civilization with integrity and codes of honor. Later, I read about Subhas Bose’s perspective on imperial Japan, and its support for the Indian National Army. Many years later, I went to Nair-san’s Indian restaurant on the Ginza in Tokyo: he had been Rash Behari Bose’s interpreter. The dichotomy of reactions persists. The Western-Chinese narrative against Japan was one of convenience; on the one hand, the Chinese realized that they just needed to shout “Rape of Nanjing”, and the Japanese would give them money to shut them up. On the other hand, the famous “liberal rules-based international order” (see my deconstruction thereof at ) consistently tried to keep Japan down as a low-caste vassal even when it was the world’s second largest economy.There was an enormous fuss about the fact that Abe-san visited the Yasukuni Shrine, the memorial to Japan’s war dead. I could never quite understand this. Every country is entitled to remember its warriors, and most do, with gratitude. Why is it that Japan, alone, was prohibited from doing so? In 2019, I visited the shrine myself. It is a stately, mournful, quiet place of introspection. It has a magnificent torii, a museum, and a shrine. It is pure gaslighting to claim this place is somehow loathsome.And it has a memorial to Justice Radhabinod Pal, the Indian jurist who was part of the War Crimes Tribunal post World War II. He was the only dissenting voice in what he more or less said was a kangaroo court. Its intention, from the victors’ point of view, was to extract revenge rather than to arrive at the truth about the war. If some Japanese military men were deemed war criminals, were William Calley of My Lai and Henry Kissinger who ordered the carpet-bombing of neutral Cambodia any less?It was an honor for me to stand before Justice Pal’s memorial. Many older Japanese are grateful to Justice Pal for what he did then; Abe-san, though he was born a few years after the trials, may have heard from his grandfather Kishi-san about it. There are several other connections to India. I used to visit Japan frequently on business in the 1990s, and I found a number of links old and new. Kabuki, for example, is rather similar to Kathakali in concept. Sanskrit is still chanted in Japan’s Buddhist temples, and they write it in the Siddham script that is extinct in India, but seen in temples in Japan.I found actual Devanagari written on the Peace Bell in Hiroshima: it is one of the sutras that constitute prayers for the dead. In Nara, where Abe-san was assassinated, there is the famous great bronze Buddha in the Todaiji temple. In the adjacent park, where a lot of tame deer roam, there is also a reproduction of the Ashoka Stambha, the Lion Capital of Sarnath, the emblem of the sovereign republic of Bharat/India.The links between India and Japan go back a long way, at least to Daruma, or Bodhi Dharma, the preceptor of the Zen school of Buddhism, who took kalari payat and Buddhist philosophy to the Shaolin monastery in China, around 500 CE. He was reputedly a Pallava prince, who embarked from Muziris or Kodungallur in Kerala. There is the famous Zen koan, “Why did Bodhi Dharma go east?”.Is that why Abe-san came west to India? To repay an ancient debt? Moksham praptirastu, Abe-san. You were a good man. We miss you. 1150 words, Jul 9, 2022 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com

John Perkins is the author of the updated New York Times Bestseller, “New Confessions of An Economic Hit Man”—updated after 9/11, and chillingly close to home. But he offers solutions and hope regarding the haunting problems that he helped to create—as well as tools to help fight back.As a former economic hit man, John Perkins shares new details about the ways he and others cheated countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Then he reveals how the deadly Economic Hit Man cancer he helped create has spread far more widely and deeply than ever in the US and everywhere else—to become the dominant system of business, government, and society today.   Economic hit men are the shock troops of what John calls the corporatocracy, a vast network of corporations, banks, colluding governments, and the rich and powerful people tied to them.If the EHMs can't maintain the corrupt status quo through nonviolent coercion, the jackal assassins swoop in. In his updated book he exposes the fact that all the EHM and jackal tools—false economics, false promises, threats, bribes, extortion, debt, deception, coups, assassinations, unbridled military power—are used around the world still today exponentially more than during the era Perkins originally exposed over two decades ago.Perkins reveals the secret history of events that have created the current American Empire, including: How the defeats in Vietnam and Iraq have benefited big businessThe role of Israel as Fortress America in the Middle EastTragic repercussions of the IMF's Asian Economic CollapseThe current Latin American revolution and its lessons for democracyU.S. blunders in Tibet, Congo, Lebanon, and VenezuelaFrom the U.S. military in Iraq to infrastructure development in Indonesia, from Peace Corps volunteers in Africa to jackals in Venezuela, Perkins exposes a conspiracy of corruption that has fueled instability and anti-Americanism around the globe, with consequences reflected in our daily headlines.     As dark as the story gets, our reformed EHM also provides hope. Perkins offers specific actions each of us can take to transform what he calls a failing Death Economy into a Life Economy that provides sustainable abundance for all, with an inspired plan to turn the tide for future generations.

In recent decades the term “mass incarceration” has been closely associated with the disproportionate growth of the prison population in the United States. When we review what percentage of the US population is incarcerated, the figures reveal some staggering results. The United States represents only 5% of the global population, yet holds nearly 20% of the world's prison population, meaning that 1 in 5 incarcerated individuals in the world are from the United States. The issue of mass incarceration has gradually established itself within the vocabulary of mainstream political discourse in the United States and has become a widely contested issue. This is because it has a disproportionate effect on marginalized communities. In addition, the prison system is now heavily funded by capital from large private corporations, But, there is still a high cost to tax-payers. Furthermore, there has been an steady upscale in the operation of private prisons since the early 1980s, leading to intense scrutiny of the US criminal justice system arising from issues such as the use of poorly trained staff and widespread lobbying. This episode examines the dramatic changes in the American prison system that resulted from privatization and deregulation. Using the framework of neoliberalism this episode will focus on the important transformation that resulted in a dramatic increase in privatization of prisons. This rapid transformation first began during the 1970s and 1980s due to advocation that private companies could perform public tasks cheaper and more efficiently, using the framework of neoliberalism, an all encompassing ideology which favours individual responsibility based on market forces, as opposed to collective or state intervention. These rapid changes are a clear reminder that the large scale expansion of prisons in the United States, is merely one component of the neoliberal framework, referred to as the globalization of capital.

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Send Message Please support our Podcast by clicking the link below. Thank You! https://anchor.fm/theaudiobookspodcast/support   Summary: From the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, comes an exposé of international corruption, and an inspired plan to turn the tide for future generations   With a presidential election around the corner, questions of America's military buildup, environmental impact, and foreign policy are on everyone's mind. Former Economic Hit Man John Perkins goes behind the scenes of the current geopolitical crisis and offers bold solutions to our most pressing problems. Drawing on interviews with other EHMs, jackals, CIA operatives, reporters, businessmen, and activists, Perkins reveals the secret history of events that have created the current American Empire, including:   How the defeats in Vietnam and Iraq have benefited big business The role of Israel as Fortress America in the Middle East Tragic repercussions of the IMF's Asian Economic Collapse The current Latin American revolution and its lessons for democracy U.S. blunders in Tibet, Congo, Lebanon, and Venezuela   From the U.S. military in Iraq to infrastructure development in Indonesia, from Peace Corps volunteers in Africa to jackals in Venezuela, Perkins exposes a conspiracy of corruption that has fueled instability and anti-Americanism around the globe, with consequences reflected in our daily headlines. Having raised the alarm, Perkins passionately addresses how Americans can work to create a more peaceful and stable world for future generations. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theaudiobookspodcast/support

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Send Message Please support our Podcast by clicking the link below. Thank You! https://anchor.fm/theaudiobookspodcast/support   Summary: From the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, comes an exposé of international corruption, and an inspired plan to turn the tide for future generations   With a presidential election around the corner, questions of America's military buildup, environmental impact, and foreign policy are on everyone's mind. Former Economic Hit Man John Perkins goes behind the scenes of the current geopolitical crisis and offers bold solutions to our most pressing problems. Drawing on interviews with other EHMs, jackals, CIA operatives, reporters, businessmen, and activists, Perkins reveals the secret history of events that have created the current American Empire, including:   How the defeats in Vietnam and Iraq have benefited big business The role of Israel as Fortress America in the Middle East Tragic repercussions of the IMF's Asian Economic Collapse The current Latin American revolution and its lessons for democracy U.S. blunders in Tibet, Congo, Lebanon, and Venezuela   From the U.S. military in Iraq to infrastructure development in Indonesia, from Peace Corps volunteers in Africa to jackals in Venezuela, Perkins exposes a conspiracy of corruption that has fueled instability and anti-Americanism around the globe, with consequences reflected in our daily headlines. Having raised the alarm, Perkins passionately addresses how Americans can work to create a more peaceful and stable world for future generations. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theaudiobookspodcast/support

Send Message Please support our Podcast by clicking the link below. Thank You! https://anchor.fm/theaudiobookspodcast/support   Summary: From the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, comes an exposé of international corruption, and an inspired plan to turn the tide for future generations   With a presidential election around the corner, questions of America's military buildup, environmental impact, and foreign policy are on everyone's mind. Former Economic Hit Man John Perkins goes behind the scenes of the current geopolitical crisis and offers bold solutions to our most pressing problems. Drawing on interviews with other EHMs, jackals, CIA operatives, reporters, businessmen, and activists, Perkins reveals the secret history of events that have created the current American Empire, including:   How the defeats in Vietnam and Iraq have benefited big business The role of Israel as Fortress America in the Middle East Tragic repercussions of the IMF's Asian Economic Collapse The current Latin American revolution and its lessons for democracy U.S. blunders in Tibet, Congo, Lebanon, and Venezuela   From the U.S. military in Iraq to infrastructure development in Indonesia, from Peace Corps volunteers in Africa to jackals in Venezuela, Perkins exposes a conspiracy of corruption that has fueled instability and anti-Americanism around the globe, with consequences reflected in our daily headlines. Having raised the alarm, Perkins passionately addresses how Americans can work to create a more peaceful and stable world for future generations. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theaudiobookspodcast/support

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www.RussellCorey.com - Chapter 26 - The world slowly changes with the sudden, unexpected appearance of the ZONES, black rectangular doorways that randomly appear all over the world. No one knows where you go, when you go in a ZONE, because every time someone goes all the way in a ZONE, they never come back.

Harvard historian Jill Lepore on the long and tortured history of the U.S. immigration debate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elaine Tyler May joins Sam to discuss her book, "Fortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy." Elaine Tyler May on how our obsession with security has made citizens fear each other and distrust the government, making America less safe and less democratic. Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com Check out the Brand New Majority Report Merch Shop https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ (Merch issues and concerns can be addressed here: majorityreportstore@mirrorimage.com) The AM Quickie is now on YouTube Subscribe to the AM Quickie at https://fans.fm/amquickie Make the AMQ part of your Alexa Flash Briefing too! You can now watch the livestream on Twitch Check out Socialism 2020 (SocialismConference.org), including a panel on Socialist Organization and the Capitalist State feat. Jamie Peck and Eric Blanc on Saturday July 4th at 3:30pm ET: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP-Bkm3ErE0 Check out the DSA Emerge caucus' political education teach-in, 'Emerge Presents: Mike Davis on the Rebellion for Black Lives, History of Urban Resistance, and the Future of the U.S. Left,' Friday July 3rd at 7pm ET: https://tinyurl.com/yc5r3ajk Check out today’s sponsor: sunsetlakecbd is a majority employee owned farm in Vermont, producing 100% pesticide free CBD products. Great company, great product and fans of the show! Use code Leftisbest and get 20% off at http://www.sunsetlakecbd.com Subscribe to Discourse Blog, a newsletter and website for progressive essays and related fun partly run by AM Quickie writer Jack Crosbie. https://discourseblog.substack.com/ Subscribe to AM Quickie writer Corey Pein’s newsletter at theend.substack.com Check out The Michael Brooks Show at patreon.com/tmbs and Michael Brooks Show on YouTube and the new TMBS website, TMBS.FM Check out The Nomiki Show at patreon.com/thenomikishow Check out Matt’s podcast, Literary Hangover, at Patreon.com/LiteraryHangover, or on iTunes. Check out Jamie’s podcast, The Antifada, at patreon.com/theantifada, on iTunes, or at twitch.tv/theantifada Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @_michaelbrooks @MattLech @jamie_elizabeth @BF1nn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-yaeODfeDQ  

This episode features the Harpers, board games, and the Endless Quest series but you've been talking to Elminster and he already told you all this.--Download mp3 (29.1 MB)Show linksThe HarpersTalismanHunt for Red OctoberRed Storm RisingArkham HorrorFortress AmericaScotland YardThunder RoadBattleTechCar WarsDark TowerDark Tower TV Ad!Endless Quest SeriesAGC's DriveThruRPG Picks for this episode!Mark: Maximum Metal (R. Talsorian)Brian: Apocalypse World Burned Over Hackbook (Lumpley Games)Mark: Consent in Gaming (Monte Cook Games)Purchasing through our Affiliate Links help support the show and future AGC Studios projects!Email: armorgoesclank@gmail.comFacebookTwitter: @armorgoes

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The US’ plans to formalise an international coalition against Venezuela are being justified by the Monroe Doctrine and seek to institutionalise the strategic concept of “Fortress America”.

Democrats now run the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Does it matter for Latin America? According to former Bush official José Cardenas, apart from Trump’s Wall there is remarkable bipartisan consensus on what needs to be done in hotspots like Venezuela, Nicaragua, and even Central America. On migration and border security, Cardenas argues against a “Fortress America” mentality if we want to preserve a dynamic economy. Finally, he predicts the eventual assimilation of Latin American voters into both major parties.

Recorded from War Room Studios in Albuquerque, NM : 5/1/18 This episode brought to you by Tasty Minstrel Games, BoardGameTables.com, Arcane Wonders & Meeple Realty. A bet is paid, Brandon runs from noisy car doors and our the MASHUP MEETUP at Origins 2018 is announced with Blue Peg Pink Peg! Josh takes Sea of Thieves for a test drive with High Admiral Brandon. Josh and Brandon talk about Homesteaders 10th Anniversary Edition with Seth Jaffee of Tasty Minstrel Games, finally drop their Grimm Forest Review and wrap up the show discussing IP's in board games. Coupon Code: Save 10% on your purchases with Meeple Realty by using the coupon code: bb18 Episode Timeline: 00:00:42 - Intro / Banter 00:19:00 - Then: Fortress America 00:33:35 - Now 00:51:30 - Tomorrow: Featuring Homesteaders 10th Anniversary 01:09:15 - Grimm Forest Review 01:38:35 - Grimm Forest Review - Final Thoughts 01:39:56 - Giveaway (Courtesy of Van Ryder Games and Meeple Realty) Game Timestamps: Cahoots - 00:46:43 Explorers of the North Sea - 00:42:00 Explorers of the North Sea: Rocks of Ruin - 00:42:00 Fortress America - 00:20:04 Grimm Forest Review - 01:09:15 Homesteaders 10th Anniversary - 00:53:30

Trump's not on the ballot this year, but that's not stopping Democratic women from running against him in races across the country. John Nichols reports on recent Democratic victories where female candidates in special elections in state races flipped formerly Republican seats—they show how to do it in the mid-term elections in November. Also: Fortress America is crumbling—the rise of China started long before Trump, but he's alienated allies and abandoned alliances in a way that may now make the process irreversible. Alfred McCoy explains.

Trump’s not on the ballot this year, but that’s not stopping Democratic women from running against him in races across the country. John Nichols reports on recent Democratic victories where female candidates in special elections in state races flipped formerly Republican seats—they show how to do it in the mid-term elections in November. Also: Fortress America is crumbling—the rise of China started long before Trump, but he’s alienated allies and abandoned alliances in a way that may now make the process irreversible. Alfred McCoy explains.

Trump’s not on the ballot this year, but that’s not stopping Democratic women from running against him in races across the country. John Nichols reports on recent Democratic victories where female candidates in special elections in state races flipped formerly Republican seats—they show how to do it in the mid-term elections in November. Also: Fortress America is crumbling—the rise of China started long before Trump, but he’s alienated allies and abandoned alliances in a way that may now make the process irreversible. Alfred McCoy explains. And the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber talks about white nationalism, patriotism, and Donald Trump—he’s the architect of the Forward Together Moral Monday Movement, president of the North Carolina NAACP and pastor of the Greenleaf Christian Church in Goldsboro, North Carolina.

The guys dive into one of Nathan's favorite geek topics: board games, also called tabletop games. Chris and Dallas ask him how he got started with gaming, talk about the different kinds of tabletop games, and discuss some of their favorites. They share their thoughts on the community-building aspects of gaming, and help listeners with where they can find games. Tabletop http://geekandsundry.com/shows/tabletop/ Nerdvana http://nerdvanafrisco.com/coffee/ Board Game Geek https://boardgamegeek.com Cool Stuff Inc http://www.coolstuffinc.com Miniature Market https://www.miniaturemarket.com Games we talked about: Fortress America https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/99/fortress-america updated version - http://www.amazon.com/dp/161661398X/bigfatgeekpod-20 Axis & Allies http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0734BWNV9/bigfatgeekpod-20 The original Kenner Alien board game Nathan has https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6689/alien Star Wars: Escape from Death Star https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4845/star-wars-escape-death-star-game Settlers of Catan, now just "Catan" http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0749SBM4K/bigfatgeekpod-20 Ticket to Ride http://www.amazon.com/dp/0975277324/bigfatgeekpod-20 Talisman: The Magical Quest Game http://www.amazon.com/dp/1589944623/bigfatgeekpod-20 Star Wars Destiny (Rey Starter Set) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01L1DUBDA/bigfatgeekpod-20 Star Wars X-Wing (Core Set) http://www.amazon.com/dp/1616613769/bigfatgeekpod-20 Star Wars: Imperial Assault http://www.amazon.com/dp/1616619902/bigfatgeekpod-20 Star Wars: Rebellion http://www.amazon.com/dp/B017MLIGP0/bigfatgeekpod-20 Love Letter (Boxed Edition) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00J1JLT8I/bigfatgeekpod-20 Magic the Gathering http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0742R5488/bigfatgeekpod-20 Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MU2DQAW/bigfatgeekpod-20 Fortune and Glory http://www.amazon.com/dp/0984608028/bigfatgeekpod-20 Bears Dice Game http://www.amazon.com/dp/B019INASRE/bigfatgeekpod-20 Here Kitty Kitty (Nathan's "crazy cat lady") http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AWPUCB4/bigfatgeekpod-20 Not for kids: Munchkin http://www.amazon.com/dp/1556344732/bigfatgeekpod-20 Cards Against Humanity http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004S8F7QM/bigfatgeekpod-20 Exploding Kittens http://www.amazon.com/dp/B010TQY7A8/bigfatgeekpod-20 Game companies we talked about: Fantasy Flight - https://www.fantasyflightgames.com Plaid Hat Games - https://www.plaidhatgames.com Flying Frog Productions - http://flyingfrog.net Asmadi Games - http://asmadigames.com

Barely a week after assuming office, President Donald Trump set off a worldwide firestorm when he decided to temporarily ban entry to migrants from seven Muslim-majority countries and refugees from all over the world. In response, many people are looking to the past, to see what history can teach us. But this process can fraught with psychological peril. On today's Hidden Brain, we revisit a specific incident from World War II – the American decision to refuse entry to Jewish refugees aboard the SS St. Louis – and explore how it speaks to the current mood in the United States.

In this episode of The State of Games, Dice, Darrell, and TC brave the podcast sans Jessica, and break out their berets and Van Dykes to talk about whether some board games could be truly considered art - and chat about which ones are most decidedly not. All this, plus Japanese CCGs, escape rooms, Mystery Mansion, WashingCon, Scythe, Rob Daviau, the big lawsuit of Zev vs. Dan Yarrington, FFG and Games Workshop parting ways, Fortress America, Settlers of Catan, Go, Chess, the Fidget Cube, and, of course, Yspahan. Whew.

Interview Starts 45:05   Stanton has been lecturing about the reality of UFO's for decades. He has the Lifetime UFO Achievement Award in Leeds, by UFO Magazine of the UK, Appeared at the UN twice, provided written congressional testimony, spoken at more MUFON conferences than anyone. Stanton has written many books and is willing to debate anyone including the hardest skeptics about the UFO topic. He's also a nuclear physicist and has personal experience with compartmentalized above top secret processes.    Special thanks to James Nation who joins us to co-host this interview and we chat about the state of UFOlogy and how Stanton got involved. Some of the need to know basics were discussed about Blue Book,. MJ12, and the 5 large scale scientific studies. We also chat about the tech being created in the massive labs in the US outside of acedemia, and how big secrets CAN be kept.    http://www.stantonfriedman.com/   In this longish intro we are joined by Freidrich Dean of Fringe Media to chat about their upcoming video project called Fortress America. Graham also has lots of listener email and thanks to give for all the feedback and stories of synchro's, lucid dreams and the like.    See links below from our chat with Freidrich Dean of Fringe Media: https://twitter.com/freidrichdean  http://www.fringemediagroup.com/ http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/News/Lebedbomb.html  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/russia/suitcase/comments.html  https://www.facebook.com/Bigfootstacy/  https://www.facebook.com/Money-Talks-Squad-193155714033819/info?tab=page_info http://www.thegeorgiaguidestones.com/message.htm    See below for links of stuff shared during the intro and in the interview with James Nation and Stanton Freidman:   http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Star-Maker-Audiobook/B0096TPB5K    http://www.spreaker.com/show/wild-playground-podcast   orange orb video from listener that we share in the intro.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B63cAiI6Itg&feature=youtu.be    http://www.noagendashow.com/   https://www.facebook.com/wastednationband/   http://www.theaztecincident.com/    http://www.ufohastings.com/    http://www.thephoenixlights.net/PL_Home.htm   http://ufocongress.com/    http://www.ufofestivalroswell.com/    Grimerica’s Honey DoBeDoBeDo List: !! – Please Help support the show. Grimerica is fully and solely listener supported. We adhere to the Value for Value model.  0 ads, 0 sponsorships, 0 breaks, 0 portals and links to corporate websites… just many hours of unlimited content for free. Thanks for listening!! Check out all the other donation types, and get a Grimerica email addy: http://www.grimerica.ca/support/ Leave a review on iTunes and/or Stitcher https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-grimerica-show/id653314424?mt=2# http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-grimerica-show    Sign up for our newsletter http://www.grimerica.ca/news Leave a comment, ideas and guest/topic suggestions under any episode or blog http://www.grimerica.ca/ Leave a voicemail http://www.grimerica.ca/ SPAM Graham = and send him your synchronicities, feedback, strange experiences and psychedelic trip reports!! graham@grimerica.com Tweet Darren https://twitter.com/Grimerica Send us a postcard or letter http://www.grimerica.ca/contact/   Thanks to Wayne Darnell for help with the website. http://www.darnelldigitalink.com/   MUSIC Grimerica Theme - Lock & Key Something Elated - Broke for Free Something Galactic - Broke for Free Why - Supaman

Neste episódio, Lukita e Jack Explicador comentam as notícias e os lançamentos da semana, além dos jogos que jogaram. Na seção Spice Dice, o que fazer para resistir ou aproveitar a Black Friday? Encerrando o programa, um Top 5 com jogos catastróficos! CUIDADO! RISCO DE CONTAMINAÇÃO! JOGADOS RECENTEMENTE JACK: Dungeon Twister: The Card Game http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/dungeon-twister-the-card-game Grand Austria Hotel http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/grand-austria-hotel Gunrunners Homens de Preto https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/180369/gunrunners-homens-de-preto JOGADOS RECENTEMENTE LUKITA: Thunderstone Advance: Numenera http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/thunderstone-advance-numenera Codenames http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/codenames Tikal http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/tikal NOTÍCIAS: Arcadia Quest Inferno já no Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coolminiornot/arcadia-quest-inferno Anunciada segunda expansão de TIME Stories, Prophecy of Dragons http://www.spacecowboys.fr/time-stories SPICE DICE: Black Friday TOP 5 JOGOS CATASTRÓFICOS Lukita: 5 - Eldritch Horror http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/eldritch-horror 4 - Fortress America http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/fortress-america 3 - Twilight Struggle http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/twilight-struggle 2 - Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001-? http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/labyrinth-the-war-on-terror-2001 1 - Pandemic ou Pandemic Legacy http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/pandemic Jack: 5 - Survive http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/survive-escape-from-atlantis 4 - Taluva http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/taluva 3 - Flash Point http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/flash-point-fire-rescue 2 - Dominant Species http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/dominant-species 1 - Pandemic Legacy http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/pandemic-legacy

Neste episódio, Lukita e Jack Explicador comentam as notícias e os lançamentos da semana, além dos jogos que jogaram. Na seção Spice Dice, o que fazer para resistir ou aproveitar a Black Friday? Encerrando o programa, um Top 5 com jogos catastróficos! CUIDADO! RISCO DE CONTAMINAÇÃO! JOGADOS RECENTEMENTE JACK: Dungeon Twister: The Card Game http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/dungeon-twister-the-card-game Grand Austria Hotel http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/grand-austria-hotel Gunrunners Homens de Preto https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/180369/gunrunners-homens-de-preto JOGADOS RECENTEMENTE LUKITA: Thunderstone Advance: Numenera http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/thunderstone-advance-numenera Codenames http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/codenames Tikal http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/tikal NOTÍCIAS: Arcadia Quest Inferno já no Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coolminiornot/arcadia-quest-inferno Anunciada segunda expansão de TIME Stories, Prophecy of Dragons http://www.spacecowboys.fr/time-stories SPICE DICE: Black Friday TOP 5 JOGOS CATASTRÓFICOS Lukita: 5 - Eldritch Horror http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/eldritch-horror 4 - Fortress America http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/fortress-america 3 - Twilight Struggle http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/twilight-struggle 2 - Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001-? http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/labyrinth-the-war-on-terror-2001 1 - Pandemic ou Pandemic Legacy http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/pandemic Jack: 5 - Survive http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/survive-escape-from-atlantis 4 - Taluva http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/taluva 3 - Flash Point http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/flash-point-fire-rescue 2 - Dominant Species http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/dominant-species 1 - Pandemic Legacy http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/pandemic-legacy

Neste episódio, Lukita e Jack Explicador comentam as notícias e os lançamentos da semana, além dos jogos que jogaram. Na seção Spice Dice, o que fazer para resistir ou aproveitar a Black Friday? Encerrando o programa, um Top 5 com jogos catastróficos! CUIDADO! RISCO DE CONTAMINAÇÃO! JOGADOS RECENTEMENTE JACK: Dungeon Twister: The Card Game http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/dungeon-twister-the-card-game Grand Austria Hotel http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/grand-austria-hotel Gunrunners Homens de Preto https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameexpansion/180369/gunrunners-homens-de-preto JOGADOS RECENTEMENTE LUKITA: Thunderstone Advance: Numenera http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/thunderstone-advance-numenera Codenames http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/codenames Tikal http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/tikal NOTÍCIAS: Arcadia Quest Inferno já no Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coolminiornot/arcadia-quest-inferno Anunciada segunda expansão de TIME Stories, Prophecy of Dragons http://www.spacecowboys.fr/time-stories SPICE DICE: Black Friday TOP 5 JOGOS CATASTRÓFICOS Lukita: 5 - Eldritch Horror http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/eldritch-horror 4 - Fortress America http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/fortress-america 3 - Twilight Struggle http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/twilight-struggle 2 - Labyrinth: The War on Terror, 2001-? http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/labyrinth-the-war-on-terror-2001 1 - Pandemic ou Pandemic Legacy http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/pandemic Jack: 5 - Survive http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/survive-escape-from-atlantis 4 - Taluva http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/taluva 3 - Flash Point http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/flash-point-fire-rescue 2 - Dominant Species http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/dominant-species 1 - Pandemic Legacy http://ludopedia.com.br/jogo/pandemic-legacy

Ron analysis the current state of the stock market, oil and an idea he likes to call Fortress America. All on Wednesday's episode of Insana Insights!

Ryan and Geoff are very excited to be joined by special guest Mike Gray. Mike has a long history in the game industry, working for Milton Bradley, TSR, and Hasbro.  He designed Fortress America, Shogun, The Omega Virus, and many other classics during his tenure.  Mike gives us a fascinating glimpse into the world of the largest game publisher, including the genesis of the Gamemaster series, acquisition of Avalon Hill, and development of modern classics like Queen's Gambit. Duration: 01:14:45

Both winners of our Zooloretto Wurfelspiel Contest are announced! (1:40) and Jeff reviews Descent Second Edition at length after more than 10 plays! (3:55). Other Games discussed this episode are FFG's Fortress America (48:05), King of Tokyo (58:56), Various Haba Games (1:11:28), Macao (1:27:17), Airlines Europe & Glen More (1:35:50), St Petersburg Expansion (1:52:39), Maharani [...]

--{ Change is Good? Stifle the Fun or it's Room 101: "Fortress America, How Can You Abide This Vast Prison Camp, You Locked Inside, Hiring Those on the Fringe, Party Poopers, Elevated to Their Role of Citizen Snoopers, Ecstatically Eating Something Delicious? Interpreted by Snitches as Trifle Suspicious, Learn to Be Mask-Like, Emotionally Numb, Remember the Calibre of Informants is Dumb, Refrain from Blurting What's in Your Head, Careless Thinking May Wind You Up Dead, Pretend You're Upgraded, Politically Correct, Fawn Over Uniforms, Grovelling Respect" © Alan Watt }-- U.S. Domestic Intelligence Apparatus, Everyone Monitored, Snoops in Every Street - The Beast Comes Home - Sting Operations and Patsies. Sewage Backup causes United Nations Evacuation. Britain, Walk-in Sterilization Clinic. Postal Trucks with Sensor/Data Collection Arrays. Bertrand Russell, Synthetics Products (including Food) to Replace Natural Ones - Living Through a Script - Cost of Keeping Your Overlords (Living Like Kings and Queens) in a "Democracy" - Standardized Politically-Correct Education, Training Spies - Boasts of Psychopaths in their Memoirs. (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Dec. 22, 2010 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

--{ It's All Under Control -- Newscasters of Disasters Keep the Sheep Asleep: "Incessant News Propaganda, Will it Never Stop? Watering the Common Weeds, Promoted From the Top, Weeds Look Up in Gratitude to Givers From On High, Can't See their News is Bogus, However Hard they Try, Their Behaviour Changes Slowly with Each Daily Download, In Trusting Obedient Naiveté, Following Marked Out Road, Never Wavering at a Turn-Off, Steadily-a-going, Following All those in Front, Hoping Someone's Knowing" © Alan Watt }-- Parallel (Real) Government Running the World - Eugenics and "Superior" Genes - Wealthy Powerful Psychopathic Families - Depopulation of "Lesser" Types (No Longer Needed) - Foundations and Clubs Planning "Sustainable" Future - Immigration and Multicultural Society - Club of Rome, John Dewey, Uniting World to Fight Common Enemy. Fanatic Appointees in Govt. - John Holdren and Paul Ehrlich, calls for "Zero Population Growth" and Mandatory Sterilization - Takedown of U.S. as it Finishes its Global Military Role - Eugenicist Dr. Salk of Polio Vaccine Fame, Cancer-Causing SV40 Virus in Polio Shot - Environmentalist Movement "Earth Army", War Declared on Humanity. Fake Flu Crisis, No Protection from Flu Vaccine, Governments Spend Billions on Shots. U.S. "Stimulus Package" Money goes Overseas, India. Symbol of Nightingale. Youngsters Trained to want Brain Chip. North American Union (Agreements 2005-2010), Events to Further Integration, "Fortress America". (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Feb. 17, 2010 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

Cops as Authoritarian Bosses - Function of Police is to Lay Charges - Homeland Security, Laws, No Rights or Freedoms - Mandatory ID Cards, Canada. Lies, Damn Lies, Statistics - Internet for Controlled Society, Blacklisted Outcasts. Volunteered Information as Legal Evidence - Politicians' View of Public as Herd - Government Supercomputer Databases. John Maynard Keynes, Global Currency, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Population Reduction - Sterilization. Grid System for Satellite Tracking, Postal Codes - UN Agenda 21 - Water Ownership - Data Collection - Meter Readers, GPS. Fortress America, Amalgamated Military, EU, World Army - International ID Card. GMO Food Must-Be, Monsanto, Military-Industrial Complex, Agri-Business - UN Dept. of Agriculture, Food Rationing (Food as Weapon) - Interdependence.

--{ "How Far Will You Go for Compliance's Sake? You Know that a Bully Takes All He Can Take, All That You Own, He'll Simply Seize, While You Go On, Appease and Appease, Cowards Appease then Bend the Knee, Keep Standing Tall, Keep Thinking Free" © Alan Watt }-- Sameness, Oneness, Polls - Airports, Computer Confiscation - "New Freedom" - Laws, Tyranny - Matrix Reality, Fiction, Programming. "New World Order" - Cold War, Soviet Union and Merger with West - Worldwide "Utopia", Lobotomy - Britain, Youth "Green" Enviro-Cops, Uni-Forms, Armies. Dehumanization - Obedience, Humiliation, Creation of Apathy - "Interdependence" - Borders, Restriction of Travel, Creating a Cage. Targeting of Experimental Subjects, ELF Frequencies - Finland, Cell Phone Towers, Reading Brain Patterns and Alteration. Clockwork Weather. Concrete Barriers Along Roads, Refugees, Stopping Movement - Portable Gates. Freemasonry, Lifers, "Rite Stuff" - Stalin, "Death" of Hitler - Sworn Oaths, Self-Sacrifice. Middle East Agenda - Covert Action against Iran. Fortress America, Canada-US-Mexico Amalgamation. Scientific Indoctrination - Standardized Opinions. Fences and Gun-Boats around Great Lakes Ports. Saying NO, Enough is Enough. *Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Aug. 1, 2008 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

Food Shortages, Riots - Access to Water Supply, Water Exporting - US-Canada Military Merger, Fortress America, Rapid Deployment Forces. Soaring Prices of Books Alan Mentions, Removal from Circulation by Agencies. Symbols - 12 Stars of EU Flag, Signs of Zodiac - Point within a Circle - Torch of Light, Lucifer - Intellect over Inferior - Rebirth, New System or New Man - Horse, Tripod, Neptune - Tongue, Sword. "Millennium: Winners and Losers in the Coming World Order" book by Jacques Attali. The Labyrinth, Minotaur, Myths and Truth. War in Iraq - Use of Ongoing War - Napoleon - World War II, Joseph Stalin. Britain, Saudi Arabia. Oxford University, Oxford on the Isis. Charitable Institutions - Red Cross, Salvation Army. Government "Handouts" - Reality Shows - Conditioned Public - "New World Order coming into view" - Destruction of Family, Oral Histories. (Articles: "UN rejects water as basic human right" by Mike De Souza, Canwest News Service (canada.com) - March 25, 2008.) "North American Army created without OK by Congress" by Jerome R. Corsi (worldnetdaily.com) - Feb. 24, 2008.) "The Canada-Israel "Public Security" Agreement" by Michel Chossudovsky (globalresearch.ca) - April 2, 2008.) *Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - April 9, 2008 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

Whilst President Clinton's visit to Oslo fizzed with pomp and glory, Alistair Cooke discusses how it managed to overshadow the real reason for going; a memorial service in honour of Yitzhak Rabin. Plus, he evaluates Tony Blair's banishment of hereditary peers in the House of Lords.