We talked about Christopher Hitchens life, works, and how his internationalist politics and worldview traversed his life, from youthful #Trotskyist to playing with #neoconservatives.

Follow Ben's work here: https://jacobinmag.com/author/ben-burgis

and his YT channel/podcast, Give Them An Argument: https://www.youtube.com/c/BenBurgisGTAA

#TigrayWar #HornofAfrica #Podcast #ExitStrategy #Ethiopia #Geopolitics #Interview #EDF #TPLF #TDF #Conflict #ConflictJournalism

David Hornus is an #economic security and #risk# management #expert, and for over 15 years, has been committed to protecting the interests of his clients and helping them to carry out successful development projects.

His work has taken him to major crisis zones around the world: South-East Asia, the Caucasus, the Balkans, Africa, the Maghreb and the Middle East. 

We talk #PMCs (#Private #Military #companies), #PSCs (Private #Security Companies), their differences, and his role in regulation and the Code of Conduct for the industry known as The International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers (#ICOCA).

Neil Hauer is a journalist and analyst whose work focuses on the Syrian conflict (particularly Russia’s role), politics and conflict in the South Caucasus, and violence and politics in the North Caucasus (particularly Chechnya and Ingushetia), where he conducts regular fieldwork.

Neil previously served as senior intelligence analyst at The SecDev Group in Ottawa, Canada. He has consulted for the European Union and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on radicalization and security.

I speak to Jake Hanrahan, journalist and documentary filmmaker, and creator of niche conflict reporting media base, POPULAR FRONT. We talk conflict reporting, how he grew into this form of journalism, his previous time with VICE, his thoughts on humanity, and more.

Anjan Sundaram is an author and journalist, born in India, educated in the US, and covered a host of political and cross-border violence in Africa, most notably in the Congo. His TED talk in 2017, titled Why I risked my life to expose a government massacre, is about his reporting on remote conflicts.

Find out more about him here: https://www.anjansundaram.com/ 

I speak with Julia Muraszkiewicz (@jmuraszkiewicz), a Human Rights lawyer based in Amsterdam and Practice Manager at Trilateral Research. 

Her domain expertise include: human trafficking, criminal law, human security, gender, ethics and human rights. In these fields she enjoys defining, conceptualising and empirically studying problems to find innovative remedies, including their relationship with innovations such as AI.

Julia is also a passionate teacher, delivering trainings and workshops and ensuring course attendees acquire a comprehensive, applied understanding of the subject. She has delivered trainings to: police, border force, airport staff, civil servants, civil society, faith groups, and students.

Toby Muse is a British-American writer, television reporter, documentary filmmaker and foreign correspondent. He has reported from the front lines of the conflicts in Colombia, Iraq and Syria. He has embedded with soldiers, rebels, and drug cartels, producing exclusive reports from cocaine laboratories and guerrilla jungle camps. He lived in Bogota, Colombia for more than fifteen years, reporting across South America and the endless drug war.

His first book is Klio: Inside the Deadliest Cocaine Cartels―from the Jungles to the Streets. We talk about his time travelling through Colombia, his interactions with everyone from the farmers to members of the cartel, members of FARC, and more. His website is: https://www.tobymuse.com.

I speak with Chase Baker, content curator of The Filthy American (2.0) on Instagram and other social media platforms. Baker is a new and aspiring conflict journalist and media curator who is creating original content, collecting rare footage, and posting memes about geopolitics and conflict around the world on platforms like Instagram. We talk about this strange medium, his relationship with Instagram who has already banned him once, and the ever increasing blurring of lines between content creation, journalism, and war porn aficionado. See his stuff at: https://www.instagram.com/thefilthyamerican2.0/