Exit Strategy

Exit Strategy

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Exit Strategy episodes

  • 006 - Joseph Uscinski - The American Conspiracy Theory

    Joseph Uscinski is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami who studies public opinion and mass media, with a focus on conspiracy theories and related misinformation. He is coauthor of American Conspiracy Theories (Oxford, 2014) and editor of Conspiracy Theories and the People Who Believe Them (Oxford, 2018).

    His website is https://www.joeuscinski.com/ and can be reached on Twitter @Joeuscinski.

    46 min
  • 005 - Alex Gladstein - Bitcoin and Human Rights

    Alex Gladstein is the Chief Strategy Officer of Human Rights Foundation (#HRF) who believes #Bitcoin "will tear authoritarian countries apart." We speak to him about the intersection of Bitcoin and geopolitics, Human Rights, and what this means for dissidents around the world. 

    Listen to Gladstein's interview with #Twitter and Square CEO, Jack #Dorsey, about Bitcoin adoption, and a particularly interesting interruption by far-right activist, Laura Loomer, who demands to know how Dorsey can endorse an anti-censorship currency like Bitcoin while taking the throne as "King of Censorship" at Twitter. https://hrf.org/alex-gladstein-interviews-square-and-twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey   #Gladstein makes an interesting case for Bitcoin. In his latest article he writes: "Money and currency are buried beneath the surface in the global human rights movement. They hardly ever come up at human rights conferences, and are rarely discussed among activists. But ask a democracy advocate from an authoritarian regime about money, and they will tell amazing and tragic stories. Demonetization in Eritrea and North Korea, hyperinflation in Zimbabwe and Venezuela, state surveillance in China and Hong Kong, frozen payments in Belarus and Nigeria, and economic firewalls in Iran and Palestine. And now: monetary colonialism in Togo and Senegal. Without financial freedom, movements and NGOs cannot sustain themselves. If their bank accounts are shuttered, notes demonetized or funds debased, their power is limited and tyranny marches on." His other articles can be found here:   CHECK YOUR FINANCIAL PRIVILEGE
    While those comfortable in the dollar bubble deride Bitcoin, the stories of three emerging market users demonstrate why it is so important.

    https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/check-your-financial-privilege

    FIGHTING MONETARY COLONIALISM WITH OPEN-SOURCE CODE
    France still uses monetary colonialism to exploit 15 African nations. Could Bitcoin be a way out?

    https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-a-currency-of-decolonization  
    36 min
  • 004 - Aye Min Thant - Reporting from Myanmar's Latest Coup

    We speak to Aye Min Thant (@the_ayeminthant), Features Editor of Frontier Myanmar (@FrontierMM) and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Burmese-American who has been covering ongoing developments in Myanmar. We speak about what happened in Myanmar prior to its latest coup, how the country's security forces have targeted journalists, activists, other others in civil society, and what is happening on the ground there today. 

    45 min
  • 003 - Amy Mackinnon - Wagner Group, Russia's Blackwater?

    We speak to Amy Mackinnon (@ak_mack), National Security & Intelligence Reporter at Foreign Policy. We speak about Wagner Group, a Russian Private Military Company (PMC) and paramilitary organization widely believed to be an armed unit of the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) and/or the GRU in disguise, used by the Russian government in conflicts where deniability is needed. It is believed to be owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a businessman with close links to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

    39 min
  • 002 - Dawit Kebede - An Exiled Journalist on Ethiopia and the Tigray Conflict

    We speak to Dawit Kebede (@dawitawramba), managing editor of Awramba Times and recipient of the Center to Protect Journalists 2010 International Press Freedom Award. Kebede shares a story about his life as a reporter in Ethiopia, and provides an update on the Tigray War, a conflict he believes began under the guise of the COVID-19 pandemic response.

     
    43 min
  • 001 - Zack Kopplin - A Corrupt Afghan Deal by a US military Contractor

    We speak to Zack Kopplin, investigative journalist with the Government Accountability Project about a corrupt deal involving a US military contractor and the Afghan government.

    Read Kopplin's report at: https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/how-afghanistans-president-helped-his-brother-secure-lucrative-mining-deals-with-a-us-contractor

    48 min

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EXIT STRATEGY is a podcast about geopolitics, conflict, and the illicit political economy.