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Writer/journalist James Pogue comes on to discuss his recent stint in central Africa as it undergoes one of the biggest gold rushes in human history plus:

contracting Malaria in a CAR prison and your hotel getting shot up, diamond heists, geiger counters, JD Vance and the Anti-American NatCon right, the Wagner groups activities in the Sahel, the strange reconfiguration of the political spectrum, the return of gold, pastoral industrial policy, Bernard DeVoto and the end of the Wild West, the American Experiment from a left wing anarchist perspective, the legacy of Thomas Sankara, + much more

Continuing on the subject of natural resources and geopolitics

Read James's recent articles here