Capitalism is the story every modern economy tells about itself. But is anyone actually living it? From prehistoric obsidian traders to trillion-dollar bailouts, this episode traces the real history of capitalism — the version Adam Smith theorised, the version Karl Marx feared, and the version governments quietly practice while publicly preaching the free market gospel. We go inside the 2008 financial crisis, the 2020 pandemic stimulus, and the uncomfortable truth that in America, France, and China alike, the rules of capitalism apply rigorously to the small — and get suspended gracefully for the large. True capitalism may be the biggest myth the modern world has ever agreed to believe.

capitalism, free market, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, 2008 financial crisis, Federal Reserve, stock market, geopolitics, economic history

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Every human civilisation that has ever existed invented gods. Not the same gods - but gods. The Sumerians, the Egyptians, the Vedic poets of ancient India, the Greeks, the Norse, the Aztecs — all of them looked up at the same sky and came back with completely different stories about who made the world, and why.

In this episode, we ask the oldest question: why do humans worship at all? We move from the Enuma Elish of ancient Babylon — the world's oldest creation myth — through the gods of Egypt, the Rigveda's radical Hymn of Creation, the psychology of William James and Carl Jung, the neuroscience of religious experience, and the philosophical traditions that tried to answer the question of meaning without a god at all.

We cover: Mesopotamian mythology, Egyptian religion, Vedic gods, monotheism, Buddhism, Stoicism, the psychology of belief, and what the human brain does when it prays.

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Every bird that flies over a border does so without a passport. Every river that crosses one does so without permission. So why do humans — alone among all living things — build walls, draw lines, and die for the invisible?

This episode traces the full arc of one of humanity's most powerful and peculiar inventions — the nation-state. From the first walled settlements of ancient Mesopotamia, through the empires of Rome, the Islamic Caliphates, and the courts of Kautilya and Ibn Khaldun, to the Peace of Westphalia, the age of European colonialism, and the founding of the United Nations — Fault Lines asks where the idea of a country actually came from. And whether it was ever really real.

Along the way: why the nation and the state are not the same thing, what happened when European powers drew borders across Africa and the Middle East they had never walked, and what sovereignty actually means in a world too interconnected to be truly Westphalian.

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Petrified European leaders are trying hard, very hard, to tray and so-called TRUMP PROOF Nato and their proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.

How and WHY?

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I ask the all important questions.... must world leaders be clinically evil and brutal?

Even western liberal democratic world leaders must be EVIL.

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Myanmar *formally known as Burma* is in a state of civil war. Its been in civil war since the year 2021. The civil war, like all civil wars, is a brutal conflict. A central military government versus a bunch of ethnic groups across the country.

The region is strategic to both India and China as well as the ASEAN countries.

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Haiti

Haiti is a country of former slaves. It is the most successful slave revolution in history!!!

I update you on some brief history to explain the current problems in the country.

Is the country in anarchy? A failed state?

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I look at the recent terrible terrorist attacks in a concert hall is a Moscow suburb.

What happened. How did it happen and above all who could have been responsible?

DEVELOPING STORY

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Why have India and China done so well out of the Gaza and Ukraine wars. India in particular due to excellent diplomacy.

The India story has been great. While China has been rebuilding itself after COVID

How did this happen?

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