The world has changed since the fall of the Berlin Wall.  It's a world that is much more wealthy and free than it was before the wall fell, but it's also a world where nationalism is growing, a new global competition is emerging between the US and China, and freedom is frailer than we thought thirty years ago.

Latin America's longest-serving president is now out and seeking asylum in Mexico.  Bolivia's passionate leftwing President Evo Morales quit, after weeks of frequently intense protests over his plausible bid to rig last month's presidential elections.

In this episode, I discuss Google's Quantum Computing breakthrough and what it means for the future of geopolitics.

All over the world, people are hitting the streets to demand changes from their governments. But one region where dissatisfaction with current leaders seems particularly widespread at the moment is Latin America. 

It's just over 12 months until the US presidential election.  November of 2020.  Yes, Mr. Trump has been the president of the United States and the Commander of Chief for almost three years.  So, how are we feeling? Well, maybe just a bit on edge? Good, because against a tense geopolitical backdrop, and with an impeachment drama playing out in the House of Representatives - as we are recording this podcasts, a series of recent headlines have left me - as of again, recording of this podcast, concerned that we could be heading for a perfect storm…of election interference and other cyber troubles.

In this episode we look at how Syria is quickly turning into US President Donald Trump's most important foreign policy mistake to date and we are almost three years into his presidency and a year away from the presidential election. It's looking like it might be for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, too.  Yes, a big foreign policy error.

I was a very busy week in Washington.  What happened?  The impeachment of President Trump has now begun. Investigators will now try to determine whether Mr. Trump attempted to pressure Ukraine's president into providing damaging information on former US vice president (and current presidential candidate) Joe Biden and his son Hunter in order to help Trump win the 2020 election.

In this episode, I discuss the growing friction between governments and big tech companies on the issue of digital currency.