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Apr 29, 2019 • 0sec

Jim Rogers: The Coming Global Financial Crisis Will Be The Worst In Our Lifetime

Geopolitics & Empire · Jim Rogers: The Coming Global Financial Crisis Will Be The Worst In Our Lifetime #106 Renown investor Jim Rogers joins Geopolitics & Empire to discuss the coming global financial crisis, what central banks will do to delay the inevitable, the dollar and de-dollarization, the Eurozone, gold, China and the Asian Century, President Trump and the political divisions in America, and what the American Empire's wars abroad mean for the world and the USA. *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: Patreon https://www.patreon.com/empiregeopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate Websites http://jimrogers.com Publications https://www.amazon.com/Jim-Rogers/e/B000APBT14?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1554475087&sr=8-1 About the Guest James Beeland “Jim” Rogers, Jr. is a Singapore based business magnate of American origin. Regarded by the business world as a brilliant investor, Rogers is also an author and financial commentator. He co-founded the global investment partnership, Quantum Fund, along with George Soros, another equally brilliant businessman. He also created the Rogers International Commodities Index (RICI) and is the Chairman of Rogers Holdings and Beeland Interests, Inc. The astute businessman displayed his business acumen from an early age. He was just five years old when he started his own “business” of selling peanuts! He studies economics, philosophy and politics at the Oxford University and joined the investment bank Arnhold and S. Bleichroder where he would meet his future business collaborator, George Soros. Even though he was very skilled at investing and managing money, he was not obsessed only with making money. There is a lot more to this interesting personality—he had a longstanding dream of motorcycling all over the world which he fulfilled during the period 1990-92. He is also a prolific writer and contributes frequently to ‘The Washington Post’, ‘The New York Times’, ‘Forbes’, ‘Fortune’ and ‘The Wall Street Journal’. One of his other interests is teaching and he has served as a professor of finance at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Apr 2, 2019 • 0sec

Jim Jatras: NATO Becomes GATO in Expansion to Latin America

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AdPZ8B-kXU Jim Jatras discusses NATO's expansion into Latin America via Brazil and the big picture of what he sees happening in Venezuela, considering Russian and Chinese broader interests. We also examine NATO in light of its 70th anniversary and Foreign Minister Lavrov's comments on the "reluctance of the United States and its western allies to agree that the 500-year-long period of western domination in world affairs is coming to an end." *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: Patreon https://www.patreon.com/empiregeopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate Show Notes Is NATO Going South? https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/03/23/is-nato-going-south.html Trump eyes South American country as eligible for NATO privileges https://www.defensenews.com/global/the-americas/2019/03/19/trump-eyes-south-american-country-as-eligible-for-nato-privileges/ U.S. to upgrade military ties with Brazil https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-brazil-ally/us-to-upgrade-military-ties-with-brazil-during-visit-next-week-sources-idUSKCN1QV33K Colombia’s demining centre joins NATO network https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_164677.htm Brazil Isn’t Ready for Trump’s Invitation to NATO https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-23/brazil-isn-t-ready-for-trump-s-invitation-to-nato Venezuela Agreed To Let Russia Set Up A Bomber Outpost On This Caribbean Island https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/25570/venezuela-agreed-to-let-russia-set-up-a-bomber-outpost-on-this-carribean-island-reports Russia tells Trump its troops will stay in Venezuela for 'as long as needed' https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/russia-trump-venezuela-us-military-troops-latest-a8844546.html Lavrov warns that Moscow won't tolerate Western ultimatums http://tass.com/politics/994251 Debbie Wasserman Schultz Gets Russia-Venezuelan Threat Mitigation Act Through the House http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/story/debbie-wasserman-schultz-gets-russia-venezuelan-threat-mitigation-act-through-house Website https://twitter.com/JimJatras http://www.jimjatras.info About Jim Jatras Jim Jatras is a Washington, DC-based attorney, political analyst, and media & government affairs specialist. He formerly served as a senior foreign policy adviser to the US Senate Republican leadership, and before that served as a diplomat in Mexico, the Office of Soviet Union affairs, and the Office of the Under Secretary for Political Affairs. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Mar 23, 2019 • 0sec

Ted Galen Carpenter: U.S. Support of Authoritarian Regimes, NATO, & North Korea

Geopolitics & Empire · Ted Galen Carpenter: U.S. Support of Authoritarian Regimes, NATO, & North Korea #104 Dr. Ted Galen Carpenter of the Cato Institute joins us to discuss his research on U.S. foreign policy and support for authoritarian regimes and how these policies contrast starkly from American founding principles of non-intervention. We also discuss NATO expansion, the New Cold War, Russian maneuvering in Latin America and the renewed Monroe Doctrine, and North Korea. *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: Patreon https://www.patreon.com/empiregeopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate Show Notes Ted Galen Carpenter at National Interest https://nationalinterest.org/profile/ted-galen-carpenter Ted Galen Carpenter at American Conservative https://www.theamericanconservative.com/author/ted-galen-carpenter Websites & Books Ted Galen Carpenter at Cato Institute https://www.cato.org/people/ted-galen-carpenter https://www.amazon.com/s?i=digital-text&rh=p_27%3ATed+Galen+Carpenter&s=relevancerank&text=Ted+Galen+Carpenter&ref=dp_byline_sr_ebooks_1 About Ted Galen Carpenter Ted Galen Carpenter is senior fellow for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. Carpenter served as Cato’s director of foreign policy studies from 1986 to 1995 and as vice president for defense and foreign policy studies from 1995 to 2011. He is the author of 12 books and the editor of 10 books on international affairs, including Perilous Partners: The Benefits and Pitfalls of America’s Alliances with Authoritarian Regimes, The Fire Next Door: Mexico’s Drug Violence and the Danger to America, Smart Power: Toward a Prudent Foreign Policy for America, America’s Coming War with China: A Collision Course over Taiwan, The Korean Conundrum: America’s Troubled Relations with North and South Korea, Bad Neighbor Policy: Washington’s Futile War on Drugs in Latin America, The Captive Press: Foreign Policy Crises and the First Amendment, Beyond NATO: Staying Out of Europe’s Wars, and A Search for Enemies: America’s Alliances after the Cold War. Carpenter is contributing editor to both the National Interest and American Conservative, serves on the editorial boards of Mediterranean Quarterly and the Journal of Strategic Studies, and is the author of more than 800 articles and policy studies. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the National Interest, World Policy Journal, and many other publications. He is a frequent guest on radio and television programs in the United States, Latin America, Europe, East Asia, and other regions. Carpenter received his Ph.D. in U.S. diplomatic history from the University of Texas. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Mar 21, 2019 • 0sec

Peter Ford: The “Permanent Government” Imperial War on Syria & World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph44p4SMWBQ Retired British Ambassador to Bahrain and Syria Peter Ford discusses the Syrian War and its latest developments, including attempts to try Bashar al-Assad at the ICC. He describes the "permanent government" of the U.S. which is a key driver of the war, as well as America's European counterparts such as France and Britain, who still cling to the coattails of their imperial past glory. Ambassador Ford believes Gulf unity is shattered and that Syria will remain weak, but will slowly rebuild in the coming years. *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: Patreon https://www.patreon.com/empiregeopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate Transcript Podcast: This is the Geopolitics and Empire podcast, and we're talking to retired British diplomat and ambassador to Bahrain and Syria, Peter Ford. He is also the Director of the British Syrian Society. We will be discussing the war in Syria, the US and European foreign policy of regime change, the media propaganda that enables it, and what we can expect to see in the future. Podcast: It's great to have you on, Ambassador Ford. Peter Ford: Thank you for having me, I look forward to our dialogue. [spoiler] Podcast: Yes. And let's get started with the different narratives that exist of the Syrian War. Because the prominent narrative is that it's a civil war, but you recently gave a speech in the House of Lords, which you sent me a copy, and you explained that in effect, the war is part of a multi-decade long war on Syria by the West. We know we have declassified files that go back to 1957, I believe, where the CIA had the plan to overthrow Syria. I believe in 1983, in the 80s there were other documents, and Wikileaks in the 2000s as well released such documents. Podcast: So can you give us a frank explanation of what really the Syrian War was, or is, all about? Peter Ford: Well, you'll recall in 2011, when everything kicked off in Syria, there had been a genuine popular uprising in some other Arab countries, beginning with Tunisia, and across North Africa, spreading through Libya and Egypt. And to a large extent, I believe those were genuine domestic uprisings. The case of Syria was always going to be different. While those countries in North Africa, the sectarian issue hardly applied, because the people were almost all Sunni Muslim. Syria is a social and religious mosaic. It was always likely that in the event of any uprising with religious factors, social factors would come into play. Peter Ford: So Syria was always destined to be different. It was also destined to be different because the West, particularly the United States, has had this anti-Syrian agenda going back several decades, and has been constantly looking for opportunities to destabilize Syria and remove the Damascus regime, as they would call it. And such an opportunity arose in 2011, and the Western powers lost no time in piling in on the back of some limited local demonstrations, particularly in southern Syria, in Daraa, and in no time, for example, the US Ambassador was marching up with his French colleague to Hama to participate themselves in demonstrations there. Peter Ford: So the die was cast from a very early stage, and what may have begun as local demonstrations quickly escalated. Islamist fighters began to appear. Very quickly they were armed by the United States, and other powers, particularly Gulf powers acting in cooperation with America. And in a very short time indeed, the conflict had become essentially another episode in the West's war against Syria. Podcast: Since you brought up some of these fighters, these proxy fighters, I'm gonna jump ahead to one of my questions. Tell us a little bit of how this war was fought, so, you know, some people say they're proxy fighters, mercenaries, these moderate rebels, jihadists. We have declassified documents that say the US knew what it was doing.

Mar 11, 2019 • 0sec

Yves Engler: Canadian Imperialism & Foreign Policy in Venezuela & Beyond

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XBu-EidDrI Canadian author Yves Engler discusses how Canadian foreign policy is an extension of US foreign policy, how the myth and image of Canada as a benevolent nation is destroyed by its violent regime change of Haiti in 2006 and current involvement in the Venezuelan coup, as well as its role subservient to Washington and its wars of the 20th century. *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: Patreon https://www.patreon.com/empiregeopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate Show Notes Canadian ‘aid’ to Venezuela part of plan to overthrow government https://yvesengler.com/2019/02/23/canadian-aid-to-venezuela-part-of-plan-to-overthrow-government The United States in Canadian Foreign Policy https://www.international.gc.ca/odskelton/gotlieb.aspx?lang=eng Canadian Amb. Allan Gotlieb: North American Politics and Integration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_xEyhL3Lh0 Yves Engler and the Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uBoVv-37Rs Websites https://yvesengler.com Books https://yvesengler.com/yves-books https://www.amazon.com/Yves-Engler/e/B001K8LTWO?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2&qid=1552317512&sr=8-2 About Yves Engler Former Vice President of the Concordia Student Union, Yves Engler is a Montréal-based activist and author. He has published ten books: Left, Right — Marching to the Beat of Imperial Canada; A Propaganda System—How Canada’s Government, Corporations, Media and Academia Sell War and Exploitation, Canada in Africa — 300 Years of Aid and Exploitation, The Ugly Canadian — Stephen Harper’s Foreign Policy, Lester Pearson’s Peacekeeping — The Truth May Hurt, Stop Signs — Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay (with Bianca Mugyenyi), The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy (Shortlisted for the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non Fiction in the Quebec Writers’ Federation Literary Awards), Playing Left Wing: From Rink Rat to Student Radical and (with Anthony Fenton) Canada in Haiti: Waging War on The Poor Majority and Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid. Yves was born in Vancouver, where he grew up playing hockey. He was a peewee teammate of NHL star Mike Ribeiro at Huron Hochelaga in Montréal before playing in the B.C. Junior League. After being suspended from Concordia University, he turned to research and writing, but he’s still a fan of the great Canadian sport. To contact Yves email Yvesengler(at)hotmail.com Yves first became active in Canadian foreign policy issues in the early 2000s. Initially focused on anti-corporate globalization organizing, the year he was an elected vice president of the Concordia Student Union Benjamin Netanyahu was blocked from speaking at the university. The protests sparked a massive backlash against student activism on campus. Later in the school year the US invaded Iraq. In the lead-up to the war Yves helped mobilize students to attend a number of massive antiwar demonstrations and co-founded a small collective called Block the Empire, which organized an early morning blockade of the US consulate in Montréal. Later Block the Empire organized a number of events targeting arms manufacturers, including a tour of Montréal’s weapons industry. While these efforts challenged Canadian foreign policy, it was only after Ottawa helped overthrow the democratically elected Haitian government in 2004 that Yves began to seriously question Canada’s peacekeeper self-image. As he learned about Canada’s contribution to violent, anti-democratic policies in Haiti Yves began to directly challenge this country’s foreign policy. Over the next three years he traveled to Haiti and helped organize dozens of marches, talks, actions, press conferences, etc. critical of Canada’s role in the country. Yves also co-authored Canada in Haiti: Waging War Against the Poor Majority and helped establish the Canada Haiti Action Network.

Mar 6, 2019 • 0sec

Rico Brouwer: The EU, Pirate Party, & Fighting MSM With Podcast Journalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-avtJPz1X8M Former Dutch Pirate Party candidate, musician, and journalist Rico Brouwer of the Potkaars podcast joins me to discuss his experience as an average citizen trying to make a change in national and European politics with the Pirate Party, and his turn to podcast journalism. We talk about the problems with the establishment or mainstream media and what he calls the "Many Stream" or alternative and independent media. We also discuss the general sentiment in Europe given the political and economic crisis. *Support/Donate to Geopolitics & Empire: Patreon https://www.patreon.com/empiregeopolitics PayPal https://www.paypal.me/geopolitics Bitcoin http://geopoliticsandempire.com/bitcoin-donate Websites https://potkaars.nl/indexenglish https://www.twitter.com/ricobrouwer https://www.twitter.com/potkaars About Rico Brouwer and Potkaars Potkaars in Dutch literally means ‘pot with candle’, phonetically it’s podcasts, they shed light. We make them and look for yours. Potkaars was started in september 2018 by Rico Brouwer and Saskia Söller. Der Spiegel in 2015 offered her apologies after having published Bellingcat's lies. In 2018 they sue their own journalist Claas Relotius (CNN journalist of the year in 2014), after it became apparent that he had made up stories. In the Netherlands, the Dutch Broadcasting Foundation (NOS) as public broadcaster has been given the task of providing coverage through our national media outlets. The NOS has been given her own black-book in which their mistakes made, are documented. Former Minister Opstelten of Dutch political party VVD said 'a minister does not lie'. But he himself in 2015 resigned after it became known he had misinformed our House of Representatives. If you want real news, you have to be willing to cut through the smoke -smokes & mirrors- to get to information, and demand a controllable government. Putting information away as 'fake news' is easy. But what do you replace it with? Potkaars tells the story of people who 'have started doing things that matter'. What is wrong, how can it be done better and what do you do to achieve that? Potkaars are podcasts that shed light. We make them and look for yours. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

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Sune Hojgaard Sorensen: Geopolitical & Macro Trends & Analysis in 2019

Julian Dierkes: Geopolitics of Mongolia & Move Toward Authoritarian Rule?

Joanna Lillis: Kazakhstan & What Happens After Nazarbayev

Bob Moriarty: American Empire, Military Overstretch, & Economic Collapse

Jim Rogers: The Coming Global Financial Crisis Will Be The Worst In Our Lifetime

Jim Jatras: NATO Becomes GATO in Expansion to Latin America

Ted Galen Carpenter: U.S. Support of Authoritarian Regimes, NATO, & North Korea

Peter Ford: The “Permanent Government” Imperial War on Syria & World

Yves Engler: Canadian Imperialism & Foreign Policy in Venezuela & Beyond

Rico Brouwer: The EU, Pirate Party, & Fighting MSM With Podcast Journalism

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