The Geopolitics & Power Podcast
Interviews with geopolitical analysts, investigative journalists & authors from all over the world - But this podcast is but a side quest... The main show is 'A Curious Worldview Podcast' - link to the show here - https://open.spotify.com/show/61wcpA8fkOQCAGrOfHgkig - and the accompanying newsletter here: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe
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Curious Worldview Podcast - #170 w/ Ernest Scheyder On Apple
Curious Worldview Podcast - #170 w/ Ernest Scheyder On Spotify
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Ernest Scheyder runs directly towards the impossible trade-offs of mining in the ‘War Below’...
The electrification of the economy is on the one hand very good. It means we can move away from co...
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Curious Worldview Podcast - #169 w/ Jon Lee Anderson On Apple
Curious Worldview Podcast - #169 w/ Jon Lee Anderson On Spotify
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I once responded to a question in a grant application that the people I admired most were great adventurers, great writers and great journalists… the kicker naturally being, that t...
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Curious Worldview Podcast - #168 w/ Patrick Watts On Apple
Curious Worldview Podcast - #168 w/ Patrick Watts On Spotify
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The following is with Patrick Watts who is one hell of an interesting fella, this was a really fun episode to record!
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Curious Worldview Podcast - #167 w/ Bill Browder On Apple
Curious Worldview Podcast - #167 w/ Bill Browder On Spotify
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Bill Browder is back for his #2 appearance on the pod!
This was recorded in his London offices, and builds upon the themes from our first conversation.
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Curious Worldview Podcast - #135 w/ Anna Sundberg On Apple
Curious Worldview Podcast - #135 w/ Anna Sundberg On Spotify
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Anna Sundberg co-authored a book of memoirs titled ‘My Beloved Terrorist’.
This book is an incredible and rare story of how a young woman from Halmstad, who is otherwise your ABBA ste...
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Curious Worldview Podcast - #158 w/ Magnus Ranstorp On Apple
Curious Worldview Podcast - #158 w/ Magnus Ranstorp On Spotify
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Magnus Ranstorp is a Swedish academic, hostage negotiator, teacher and author who has been researching and writing about terrorism for more than 30 years.
He is an encyclopaedia o...
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Marlene Laruelle is a Research Professor of International Affairs and Political Science at George Washington University in Washington DC.
She is an expert on the culture and anthropology of Russia and many of the Stan central asian countries. She’s written 10 books on these subjects...
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New Yorker Article - Great Carbon-For-Cash Hustle
Heidi Blake is a writer at the New Yorker, author of two books, and recently wrote the most amazing magazine piece about the carbon offsetting market and some of the gr...
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This is a podcast about human trafficking and modern slavery.
The guest is Matthew Friedman, and he is the CEO of the Mekong Club, which is an organisation that mobilises the private sector to take action against ...
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The following is with David De Jong who is the Middle East Correspondent for the Dutch Newspaper, FD. He lives in Israel, and has been reporting from the ground since the early hours of October 7th.
Some of you may recognise him from an earlier appearance he made ...
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After climbing the peak of China's Elite, Desmond Shum had to flee his country of birth out of fear of being disappeared.
He was on the inside of the political apparatus along with his former wife, a multi billionaire who would later go on to be disappeared, and toget...
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Tim Butcher returns to the podcast with another incredible journey through an African nation.
The first time Tim appeared he spoke about his adventures through the Congo, weaving a story of an incredibly rich and beautiful country that is nonetheless un-developing.
It remains easily ...
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This is his third appearance – he is the king of geography writing, he is the great and powerful Tim Marshall.
This interview covers everything from Tim on what makes good writing, the success of prisoners of geography, a prisoners of geography observation of Sweden, the lo...
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Norman Ohler is a German screenwriter, author and journalist.
Norman is most widely known as the author of Blitzed, an incredible book that documents the role of Pervatin (methamphetamine) and drugs during Nazi Germany and WWII.
In this podcast with Norman, you can expect to hear abou...
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The following is with Ed Conway, who has written one of the most intensely curious books, it is called Material World and looks at some of these raw ingredients that have shaped the world we live in.
Namely, these materials are sand, salt, copper, oil, iron and lithium.
Nothing will ...
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Gateway By Project Brazen - Listen Now
Mitchell Prothero is a war correspondent and two time bureau chief in Iraq for both UPI and McClathcy Newspapper’s. He is a senior writer at VICE news, has written for Buzzfeed, and is now, the host of gateway, Project Brazen’s latest ...
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The following is with Paddy Manning an Australian journalist who has just published an unauthorised biography of Rupert Murdochs oldest son – Lachlan Murdoch
This is such a good book. The story of the Murdochs is even better and more dramatic than succession would have you believe. T...
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The following is with John Perkins.
This is John’s second appearance on the podcast, he has just published a new edition of the Confessions of an Economic Hitman, this time with a heavy emphasis on the role of China’s debt traps and chicanery among the belt and road initiative.
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When I started this podcast I made a list of 20 or so names that were titled ‘Dream Guests’.
Erik Townsend has dipped his toe into several disparate worlds. He made millions as a software entrepreneur in the 90s, retired onto a yacht in his 30s, has lived all over the world, ev...
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The following is with Miki Mistrati – a Danish investigative journalist who has spent a career uncovering cases of child slavery and the child labour rife throughout the chocolate supply chain.
He just released his new film on the matter titled ‘Chocolate Wars’ which is available on Am...
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