Geopolitics & Empire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioiO6E-Gesc James and I met in the scenic San Miguel de Allende to discuss his work with Borderless as well as topics such as international living and diversification, the economic crisis, expatriation and living in Mexico. Show Notes Borderless Interview with Guadalajara Geopolitics James Guzman Interviewed by the Nomadtopia Podcast Websites borderlessblog.com itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/borderless-podcast/id938410733# youtube.com/user/jamesguzman1 facebook.com/pages/Borderless-Blog/203137143180027 twitter.com/jamesguzman8 About James Guzman James Guzman is a American born writer and investment consultant specializing in non-conventional markets and countries.  He is a native of San Diego, California but as the son of a sailor in the US Navy spent his youth around many different cultures and areas. Growing up as a third culture kid has made him accustomed to working with people from many different backgrounds. James joined the US Navy straight out of high school and was stationed onboard the USS Bataan from 2004-2008 during which he took part in Operation Enduring Freedom and Hurricane Katrina Relief. He then used the GI Bill to go to Saint Louis University in Madrid, Spain and graduated with a Bachelors degree in International Business. He also studied Economics, Philosophy and Political Economy at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. Since graduating he has worked as a broker for Euro Pacific Bank, real estate agent from Coldwell Banker Premier in Mexico and content contributor to many publications. He currently lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and helps people with many things pertaining to buying real estate, immigration issues and online marketing. He has been to over 17 countries and lived and worked in six and in addition to investments is also knowledgable of citizenship/residency laws. *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)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AXJgm4Hftg From time to time I have the opportunity to meet with great minds in person. That happened to be the case recently in the historic Mexican city of Guanajuato where I joined American cultural historian, social critic and academic Morris Berman for breakfast to discuss his work related to the decline of America. We mused on America and discussed his trilogy The Twilight of American Culture, Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire and Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline as well as touching on his most recent work on Japan, Neurotic Beauty, and where do we go from here. Show Notes America Floats Between Modernity and Collapse Website morrisberman.blogspot.com Books amazon.com/Morris-Berman/e/B001HCWOWM About Morris Berman Morris Berman is well known as an innovative cultural historian and social critic. He has taught at a number of universities in Europe and North America, and has held visiting endowed chairs at Incarnate Word College (San Antonio), the University of New Mexico, and Weber State University. During 1982-88 he was the Lansdowne Professor in the History of Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Berman won the Governor’s Writers Award for Washington State in 1990, the Rollo May Center Grant for Humanistic Studies in 1992, and the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity (from the Media Ecology Association) in 2013. He is the author of a trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness–-The Reenchantment of the World (1981), Coming to Our Senses (1989), and Wandering God: A Study in Nomadic Spirituality (2000)–and in 2000 his Twilight of American Culture was named a “Notable Book” by the New York Times Book Review. Dr. Berman relocated to Mexico in 2006, and during 2008-9 was a Visiting Professor at the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico City. *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)

Geopolitics & Empire · Xander Dal Riata: Overview of Global Geopolitical Crises #009 Former US Marine and IT Specialist Xander Dal Riata discusses Information Warfare, the Pentagon strategy of "Full Spectrum Dominance", US foreign policy, the troubles of the American Empire and the global positioning of China. We also discuss a number of other current events and global crises and a few things people should do to better prepare. About the Guest FSD was created by Xander Dal Riata, a disabled veteran of the United States Marine Corps - to provide a focus outlet during his re-cooperation from severe injuries sustained while serving during the Global War on Terror. He currently works in the field of consumer and business IT solutions specializing in security application methods. FSD is best described as an open-source counter-doctrine dynamism docking station for information which isn't widely followed. FSD has grown to reach readers from all over the world; focusing on -- but not limited to -- economic and technology related news. Updates are published multiple times a day, everyday. Full Spectrum Dominance Website full-spectrum-dominance.com Related Links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CT9i5VsKkY *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)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdWUBpCk_Ls Dr. Filip Kovačević and I discuss the current geopolitics of the Balkans, the strategy of US-NATO-EU towards the region and we examine country by country, including Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania and Macedonia, how they are managing to keep the former Yugoslavia under their control. Sparks of resistance do exist in the Greek Syriza as well as one anti-imperialist Croatian former presidential candidate who came out of nowhere and won 16.5% of the vote. About the Guest Filip Kovačević is a geopolitical author, university professor and the chairman of the Movement for Neutrality of Montenegro. He received his BA and PhD in political science in the US and was a visiting professor at St. Petersburg State University in Russia for two years. He is the author of seven books, dozens of academic articles & conference presentations and hundreds of newspaper columns and media commentaries. He has been invited to lecture throughout the EU, Balkans, ex-USSR and the US. His other blogs are Critical Geopolitics: Open Source Investigations and Otpor & Pobuna: Protiv sile i nepravde (in Montenegrin). He can be contacted at fk1917@yahoo.com Filip Kovačević Website criticalgeopolitics.blog.com mnmne.org geopoliticskovacevic.blogactiv.eu boilingfrogspost.com/author/fkovacevic Filip Kovačević Books amazon.com/Liberating-Oedipus-Psychoanalysis-Critical-Theory/dp/0739111485/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1436494380&sr=8-1&keywords=filip+kovacevic Related Links The Breakdown in NATO’s Balkan Expansion Strategy: The Case of Montenegro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsiC5mUJiRs *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)

Geopolitics & Empire · John Rubino: The Dollar Collapse and the Money Bubble #007 John Rubino discusses the premise of his last two books "The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit From It" and "The Money Bubble" The U.S. and global economy are fundamentally unsound and a new and greater crisis awaits. Greece is the tip of the iceberg and people need to educate themselves. About the Guest DollarCollapse.com is managed by John Rubino, co-author, with GoldMoney’s James Turk, of The Money Bubble (DollarCollapse Press, 2014) and The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit From It (Doubleday, 2007), and author of Clean Money: Picking Winners in the Green-Tech Boom (Wiley, 2008), How to Profit from the Coming Real Estate Bust (Rodale, 2003) and Main Street, Not Wall Street (Morrow, 1998). After earning a Finance MBA from New York University, he spent the 1980s on Wall Street, as a Eurodollar trader, equity analyst and junk bond analyst. During the 1990s he was a featured columnist with TheStreet.com and a frequent contributor to Individual Investor, Online Investor, and Consumers Digest, among many other publications. He currently writes for CFA Magazine. John Rubino Website dollarcollapse.com John Rubino Books The Money Bubble The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit From It Related Links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASo4vbQPwSw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxOOksLT9K8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZBHu_NsuKE *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)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ARybQd2BsQ Dr. Daniele Ganser speaks with the class about his background and the story behind his seminal work "NATO's Secret Armies" which the CIA even cites on its own website! He also discusses the use of "false flag military operations," the use of propaganda as well as peace research with his Swiss Institute for Peace and Energy Research (SIPER). About the Guest Dr. phil. Daniele Ganser is a Swiss historian who specializes in contemporary history since 1945 and International Politics. His research topics are peace research, geo-strategy, covert warfare, resource wars and economic policy. He teaches at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) courses on the history and future of energy systems. At the University of Basel he teaches in the postgraduate course on conflict analysis with a focus on the global fight over petroleum. Daniele Ganser is founder and Director of the Swiss Institute for Peace and Energy Research (SIPER) in Basel. SIPER researches the possibility of a transition to 100% renewable energy supplies and how conflicts might be solved peacefully. Daniele Ganser Website danieleganser.ch/home.html?lang=en siper.ch/en Daniele Ganser Twitter twitter.com/DanieleGanser Daniele Ganser Books danieleganser.ch/monografien.html Related Links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGA-uw2__ZA&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EqFtAlFKuI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fUT7XgLiTY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k83L3I6Z35w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGHXjO8wHsA *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)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5SdFHVpByM We speak to Dr. Peter Dale Scott on his latest book, "American War Machine." We discuss the politically correct atmosphere in education, CIA drug trafficking, assassination, deep politics and the drug war in Mexico. About the Guest Peter Dale Scott is a Canadian-born poet, former diplomat, and former English professor at the University of California, Berkeley. A son of the Canadian poet and constitutional lawyer F. R. Scott and painter Marian Dale Scott, he has been critical of American foreign policy since the era of the Vietnam War. Scott was a signatory in 1968 of the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, in which participants vowed to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. He spent four years (1957–1961) with the Canadian diplomatic service. He retired from the UC Berkeley faculty in 1994. Scott has written about the role of the "deep state" (as opposed to the "public state"). Rejecting the label of "conspiracy theory", he has used the phrase "deep politics" to describe his political concerns. His book, The Road to 9/11 (2007), deals with geopolitical context of events leading to 9/11, and argues "how U.S. foreign policy since the 1960s has led to partial or total cover-ups of past domestic criminal acts, including, perhaps, the catastrophe of 9/11." His books The Road to 9/11 and American War Machine was reviewed by Bernard Norlain, a retired French five-star General of the Air Force. In all, his books have been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, and Bahasa Indonesia. His articles have been translated into 16 languages, including Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Chinese, and Japanese. Of Scott's book, American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan (2010), Daniel Ellsberg commented: "I said of Scott's last brilliant take on this subject, Drugs, Oil and War, that 'It makes most academic and journalistic explanations of our past and current interventions read like government propaganda written for children.' Peter Dale Scott Website http://www.peterdalescott.net Peter Dale Scott Books http://peterdalescott.net/bib.html Related Links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QH9yOzhkio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjwprHd-5_g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8PIHjM34gY A discussion with risk consultant, geopolitical expert and best-selling author William Engdahl regarding his trip to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) and what he calls "The Birth of the New Russia." About the Guest F. William Engdahl is an award-winning geopolitical analyst, strategic risk consultant, author, professor and lecturer. He has been researching and writing about the world political scene for more than thirty years. His various books on geopolitics—the interaction between international power politics, economics and geography—have been translated into 14 foreign languages from Chinese to French, from German to Japanese. William Engdahl Websites williamengdahl.com twitter.com/EngdahlFW William Engdahl Books Related Links Sanctions and the Birth of the New Russia | New Eastern Outlook http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOhlb_t0QbQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ITXzH8NTdk *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)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBmM4Lqqtsg Guillermo Barba and I discuss the Austrian School of Economics, its presence (or lack theoreof) in México. We also touch briefly on his view of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), his latest interviews with experts such as Jim Rogers and Mish Shedlock, how the coming crisis might affect México and his words of wisdom for the next generation. About the Guest Guilerrmo Barba is an Austrian Economist and Mexican journalist. He is the author of the Global Financial Intelligence blog, an expert on the precious metals market and television commentator on "Proyecto 40." Guilermo Barba Websites guillermobarba.com forbes.com.mx/author/guillermo-barba twitter.com/memobarba Related Links http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0W7T1PZWJ4 *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)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ITXzH8NTdk From the Archive *Before the Guadalajara Geopolitics Institute Podcast officially began, I had conducted previous interviews in the classroom. They will eventually be re-posted here. About the Interview William Engdahl discusses the politics and the danger of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and their use as a weapon by the US Government and private interests. The main points covered: • Rockefeller Foundation funded the Nazi eugenics program (a discredited pseudo-science). *Side note: Germany in some areas actually copied the California model • Rockefeller, Dupont, Colgate developed the eugenics or genetics program, which underlies the GMO program. • Nothing good can come of GMOs; they are a poison; potential for global food supply domination. • Africa can feed the whole world with natural crops (UN suggests up to 12 billion people). • GMOs will make it impossible to feed 12 billion people. • GMO harvest yields are far inferior, create superweeds. • Monsanto forces use of "Terminator" seeds. It takes seven years to revert GM field back to GM-free field. • GMOs are a US National Security prerogative. Biotechnology is synonym for genetic modification. • Agribusiness created by Rockefellers in 1950's out of Harvard Business School to control food supply. About the Guest F. William Engdahl is an award-winning geopolitical analyst, strategic risk consultant, author, professor and lecturer. He has been researching and writing about the world political scene for more than thirty years. His various books on geopolitics—the interaction between international power politics, economics and geography—have been translated into 14 foreign languages from Chinese to French, from German to Japanese. William Engdahl Website http://williamengdahl.com William Engdahl Twitter https://twitter.com/EngdahlFW William Engdahl Books Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation http://www.amazon.com/Seeds-Destruction-Hidden-Genetic-Manipulation/dp/0973714727/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b Related Links http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69bLgOgbZVk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP_f23YTOMw