Around The Empire

Kyle Anzalone (Conflicts of Interest) and Joanne Leon (Around the Empire). We talk about some global finance aspects of the ongoing hybrid war, the invasion of Ukraine and geopolitics.

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Recorded on March 23, 2022. Music by Fluorescent Grey.

Reference Links:

1. Reuters: Rouble firms past 100 vs dollar after Putin announces gas currency switch
2. Putin Misunderstands History. So, Unfortunately, Does the U.S., Niall Ferguson, Bloomberg
3. IMF: Foreign Policy Live with Kristalina Georgieva and Gita Gopinath
4. 'Countries may cut dollar holdings after Russian reserves frozen' – IMF

Guest: Iain Davis. We talk about his article titled: "Technocracy: The Operating System For The New International Rules-Based Order." We discuss the western international rules-based order vs a new international laws based order proposed by China and Russia and the governing mechanism of global technocracy. We also talk about global stakeholders, public-private partnerships, UN sustainable development goals, Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030 and more. In a bonus segment we speculate about the likelihood that a world war would advance the goals of global technocracy and whether that's the situation we are in right now.

Iain Davis is an independent investigative journalist based in the UK. His focus is upon widening readers awareness of evidence that is not commonly reported by the so-called mainstream media. He writes for the UK Column, Unlimited Hangout and on his blog In This Together. His work has been featured by the Corbett Report, the OffGuardian, Lew-Rockwell, Zero Hedge and other independent news outlets.

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Recorded on March 3, 2022. Music by Fluorescent Grey.

Reference Links:

1. Technocracy: The Operating System For The New International Rules-Based Order, Iain Davis, Unlimited Hangout
2. Book: Pseudo Pandemic: New Normal Technocracy, Iain Davis
3. United Nations: Agenda 21
4. United Nations: Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
5. Book: Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time, Carroll Quigley
6. Book: Tragedy and Hope 101: The Illusion of Justice, Freedom, and Democracy, Joseph Plummer
7. Book: Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Remarkable True Story of the American Capitalists Who Financed the Russian Communists, Anthony Sutton
8. Book: Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, Anthony Sutton
9. World Economic Forum
10. The World War I Conspiracy, Corbett Report

Guest: Dr. Isa Blumi. A wide ranging discussion where we discuss the various wars within wars in Yemen and other areas. We talk about the turmoil in Lebanon, competition between the Gulf states, Europe's gas supply and the gas fields in Eastern Mediterranean and more.

Dr. Isa Blumi is an historian, an author and Professor of Global History, Islamic World, Ottoman Empire, Yemen, Albania. His most recent Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us about the World tells the story of the wars in Yemen but also "ultimately tells an even larger story of today's political economy of global capitalism, development, and the war on terror as disparate actors intersect in Arabia." He also authored the book Ottoman Refugees, 1878-1939: Migration in a Post-Imperial World

We recorded this in February, 2022.

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Guest: Mary Dejevsky. We talk about the recent communications between US, NATO and Russia with a realistic view of Russia and Ukraine. In a bonus segment we talk about why the UK establishment is hostile toward Russia.

Mary Dejevsky is a veteran journalist and columnist, a former foreign correspondent in Moscow, Paris, Washington and a special correspondent in China. She has written about the collapse of the USSR from inside Moscow and she is an expert on relations between Russia and the western world. She now writes for several media outlets across the political spectrum.

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Recorded on January 29, 2022. Music by Fluorescent Grey.

Reference Links:

1. Zbigniew Brzezinski at the Wilson Center June 2014: Mutual Security on Hold? Russia, the West, and European Security Architecture
2. Ukraine's president is the voice of reason in stand-off with Russia, Mary Dejevsky, The Independent
3. What Putin really wants, Mary Dejevsky, Spiked Online
4. What the US and UK get wrong about Ukraine, Mary Dejevsky, Spiked Online
5. 5,000 helmets and Germany's dark history in Ukraine, Mary Dejevsky, The Spectator

Guest: Mark Sleboda. We talk about the likelihood of Russian intervention in Ukraine, the options available to them, and the overall situation with the standoff between NATO and Russia.

Mark Sleboda is an International Affairs & Security Analyst, a US Navy veteran, a university lecturer and a foreign policy realist.

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Recorded January 26, 2022. Music by Fluorescent Grey.

Reference Links:

1. Around the Empire: Ep 213 Ukraine Escalation feat Mark Sleboda
2. Around the Empire: Ep 157 Crisis of Confidence in Ukraine feat Mark Sleboda
3. Around the Empire: Ep 120 Ukraine Political Transformation? feat Mark Sleboda
4. Around the Empire: Ep 99 Ukraine feat Mark Sleboda
5. Around the Empire: Ep 141 Maidan Massacre in Ukraine feat Ivan Katchanovski
6. A Year After 1/6, Ukraine's War Draws U.S. Far-Right to Fight Russia, Train for Violence at Home, Tom O'Connor, Naveed Jamali, Newsweek

Swapcast with the hosts of Conflicts of Interest Podcast: Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman. We talk about the crisis in U.S.-Russian relations. This roundtable first covers Washington and NATO's written responses to Moscow regarding last month's Russian security proposals and then we discuss the threat of war, the potential scope of such a war, why Russia is likely no longer concerned about further U.S. sanctions, the role of CIA paramilitaries on the front line, the shutdown of the Ukrainian opposition, and the increasing influence of Nazis and Nazi adjacent elements in Ukraine's power structures.

There is also conversation on the Biden-Putin relationship, the malign influence of the Victoria Nuland circle, and the recently resumed Normandy Format style talks with the Russians, the Ukrainians, the French, and the Germans.

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Recorded on January 26, 2022, 2021. Music by Fluorescent Grey.

Guest: Hrvoje Morić, host of the Geopolitics and Empire podcast. About a week after the protests and unrest in Kazakhstan in early January, Hrvoje and I got together for a chat about the questions we still had about the situation and our skepticism about the immediate claims of color revolution. Some things have changed in the past two weeks since we recorded this but for me, many questions still remain.

Hrvoje Morić is a podcaster and an educator. He lived in Kazakhstan from 2017 to 2020 while he worked as a teacher at Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools. He is also a professor of International Relations. He served with the Peace Corps in Mongolia and has traveled extensively.

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Recorded on January 13, 2022. Music by Fluorescent Grey.

Reference Links:

1. After Kazakhstan, the color revolution era is over, Pepe Escobar
2. After Kazakhstan Crisis, China Will Reassess Its Influence in Central Asia
3. Documentary: 9 Days: From My Window in Aleppo

Guest: Kit Klarenberg. Kit Klarenberg returns to the show, again with leaked documents related to information and psychological warfare. We discuss his Grayzone article titled: "Leaked files expose Syria psyops veteran astroturfing BreadTube star to counter Covid restriction critics." In this case a state-sponsored influence operation was created to undermine critics of coronavirus policies and they're covertly using at least one prominent YouTube personality as their media conduit for elite, establishment, imperial narratives. In a bonus question we talk about strategies for finding genuine media sources and channels.

Kit Klarenberg is an investigative journalist who explores the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions and he has been published by numerous media outlets including The Grayzone, Cradle, Electronic Intifada, RT and more.

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Reference Links:

1. Leaked files expose Syria psyops veteran astroturfing BreadTube star to counter Covid restriction critics, Kit Klarenberg, Grayzone
2. ProDemocracy Pod: Episode 19: Breadtube Exposed with Kit Klarenberg and Caleb Maupin
3. Around the Empire: Ep 210 Information Warfare Networks feat Kit Klarenberg & Mohamed Elmaazi

Guest: Jeffrey Kaye. We talk about his research and writing on the Korean War and the biological warfare that was waged. HIs work is based on years of experience and research including in depth research of the depositions by prisoners of war and other materials that required laborious and expensive efforts to obtain. In a bonus segment we talk about how the US biowarfare operations have changed since the offensive bioweapon programs were officially ended during the Nixon administration when the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention was ratified.

Jeffrey Kaye is a retired psychologist. For nearly 10 years he worked part time with Survivors International in San Francisco, conducting both assessment and psychotherapy of torture victims. After 9/11, he joined others in protesting the activities of psychologists in the CIA and Department of Defense, some of whom who helped develop interrogation programs that have widely been exposed as including torture and other forms of cruel treatment of prisoners. He is also a blogger and an author of the book "Cover-up at Guantanamo". His articles have been published for many years on various media outlets including Counterpunch, The Guardian and Al Jazeera.

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Reference Links:

1. Secret History: U.S. Air Force, Marine Corps Flyers' Confessions on Use of Biological Weapons in the Korean War, Jeffrey Kaye
2. CIA, MKULTRA and the Cover-up of U.S. Germ Warfare in the Korean War, Counterpunch, Jeffrey Kaye / Insurge Intelligence
3. "A Real Flood of Bacteria and Germs": Communications Intelligence and Charges of U.S. Germ Warfare During the Korean War, Jeffrey Kaye, Counterpunch
4. New Revelations on Germ Warfare: It's Time for a Reckoning with Our History from the Korean War, Jeffrey Kaye, Counterpunch
5. The Schnacke Affidavit: U.S. Admission of Offensive Germ Warfare Capability During the Korean War, Jeffrey Kaye, Counterpunch
6. Censored: North Korea Accused U.S. of Working with Unit 731 War Criminals on BW Attacks, Jeffrey Kaye
7. A Concealed War Crime: U.S. Anthrax Bombings of China During the Korean War, Jeffrey Kaye
8. REVEALED: The long-suppressed official report on US biowarfare in North Korea, Jeffrey Kaye

Guest: Teodrose Fikremariam. An in depth discussion of the civil war in Ethiopia. This is a swapcast with Kyle Anzalone of the Conflicts of Interest podcast.

Teodrose Fikremarium, is the co-founder and editor of the Ghion Journal and host of video shows on the Ghion Journal channel. Originally from Ethiopia, he is a published author, a prolific writer, a consultant in the defense industry and a former community organizer and political activist.

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Recorded on December 16, 2021. Music by Fluorescent Grey.

Reference Links:

1. Why Is Ethiopia at War With Itself?, New York Times
2. Around the Empire: Ep 93 Weaponized Identity & Malcolm X Warnings feat Teodrose Fikre
3. Around the Empire: Ep 193 Sudan and Red Sea Region feat Isa Blumi