Brig Barker is a retired FBI counterterrorism agent with extensive overseas deployments as a member of the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). We discuss his experience interrogating over 500 jihadists on their own turf, his time in Egypt as an investigator in the months after 9/11, and how the nature of security has changed with the introduction of AI.

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Dan Cohen is an investigative journalist, documentarian and founder of Uncaptured News. We discuss his experiences as a journalist in Gaza, Israel's ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, and how Zionism successfully seized the Jewish identity.

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Tamara Lich is a founder and lead organizer of the Freedom Convoy: the largest civil rights movement in Canadian history that gained global notoriety during the Covid-19 pandemic. We discuss the prospect of facing seven years in prison for her role in the trucker protest, the ongoing propaganda campaign against her, and the lasting impact of the convoy in Canadian politics and society.

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Sam Cooper is an investigative journalist and publisher of The Bureau. We discuss the suspicious circumstances around a stay of charges against a Chinese scientist caught with large amounts of MDMA precursor in Richmond, BC, the melding of CCP linked organized crime with Mexican cartels in Canada, and the politicians who appear to be complicit in a vast criminal conspiracy that has caught the attention of the Trump administration in the US.

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Steve Robinson is an investigative journalist whose documentary, High Crimes: The Chinese Mafia’s Takeover of Rural America is available now on the Tucker Carlson Network. We discuss the invasion of Chinese organized crime in the State of Maine, the devastation it’s brought to both residents and local economies, and the many striking similarities between Maine and China’s previous capture of Vancouver, BC.

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Matthew Horwood is a journalist and reporter for Epoch Times. We discuss tensions around Canada’s growing migrant crisis, China’s capture of the Canadian economy, and the politically motivated trial of Freedom Convoy organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber.

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JJ Carrell is a retired southern US border Deputy Agent in Charge, author and host of Truth with JJ Carrell. We discuss President Trump's Jeffrey Epstein catastrophe, the dissolution of the MAGA movement and America’s continued illegal immigration crisis.

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John-Paul Berg is a political commentator and host of the Dumb the Wiser podcast. We discuss the fracturing of the conservative right, the various interests fighting for influence over Trump and his administration, and the deeper spiritual conflict driving western societies to a moral reckoning.

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A video version of my essay, Communists, Fascists and Algorithms read by yours truly.

Our lives are busy and many of us don’t have time to read. So if you missed my latest essay you can listen to it here in full with some added context and commentary at the end.

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Peyman Askari is a former federal electoral candidate, political commentator and host of the In Lay Terms podcast. We discuss the west’s out of control immigration crisis, Trump’s sudden turn as a neoconservative warhawk, and the global instability caused by Israel’s growing conflict with Iran.

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