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#231 – Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights

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The Invasion of Iraq

I was going to be an engineer actually and then in 2003 we invaded Iraq and I got very interested in why we did that as a nation. And so I kind of went down the kind of political science, democracy, rabbit hole and ended up getting a job at the Human Rights Foundation. So that I'm a very much a child of like 9-11 and the Iraq war. Those are the two really formative events for me personally.

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