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All the King's researchers w/Asa Winstanley and Kit Klarenberg

The East is a Podcast

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The Secular and Cyclic Nature of Violence

The world is a crazy mental like prison that we live in when we think about the world and political violence. The state then uses that as or doesn't use that because it was doing it anyways but it becomes the context through which you know the machine the state security or whatever or just the country as a whole kind of response right? It's such a weird world we're in academics play a key like like directorial role like they help sell regime change operations as like liberation they help sell this sort of bonkers news cycle. People still feel the need to say to themselves that other places have it bad, he says.

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