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Cynthia McKinney was the first African-American woman from Georgia elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1992. With a background in foreign policy, McKinney used her seat on the Armed Services and International Relations Committees to address human rights issues. She later left the Democratic party and ran for President as a Green Party candidate and Vice President under Jesse V...

Ted Reese is a writer and author of the new book The End Of Capitalism: The Thought Of Henryk Grossman. In this conversation we talk about Grossman, why Ted believes we are in the final stage of capitalism, what he believes might come next if we were to abandon capitalism. We also got into the morality of Marxism/Communism and whether people would continue to work and innovate without the need to...

Steven Woolfe is a former Member of the European Parliament and Director of the Centre for Migration & Economic Prosperity. Immigration can be a tricky topic to discuss, so bear with us, but Steven is making a solely economic argument against high levels of immigration to Britain. I had some contentions with his discussions but it was a really interesting discussion.  The Centre for Migration and...

Sooz Kempner is an actress, singer, and stand up comedian. Sooz became quite well known online for her parodies of Liza Minelli reading Donald Trump's speeches and Nadine Dorries - our bizarre Culture Minister.  We got into a lot of talk about the backlash against comedians like Dave Chappelle, Jimmy Carr, and Ricky Gervais, the anger directed at Jeremy Corbyn, whether the internet has really made...

Marcel Kalinovic AKA The Butcher Of Wall Street was my guest on today's show. In this show Marcel and I discussed the possibility of Taiwan being invaded by China, Executive Order #13959 and why it might trigger some mad price action around meme stocks, the GameStop saga, how he came to the GameStop Saga.  Crucially, we talked about MOASS, the stock split/dividend, the obscene printing of money an...

Zuby (AKA Zuby Music) is a rapper, podcaster, author, fitness influencer, and Twitter boss. He first came to fame after he broke the female deadlift world record in a viral video and has blown up due to his thoughts on the covid -19 pandemic. In this conversation we went deep into why Zuby believes the world has become so polarised, why "wokeness" is on the rise, why the left has lost its purpose,...

Oliver Bullough studied modern history at Oxford University and moved to Russia after graduating in 1999. He lived in St Petersburg, Bishkek and Moscow over the next seven years, travelling widely as a reporter for Reuters news agency. His last book, Moneyland was a great, if not a touch depressing, read - a thorough examination of the world of offshore and elite finance. The super-rich really liv...

Scott Horton is director of The Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of Antiwar Radio for Pacifica, 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles, California and podcasts the Scott Horton Show from ScottHorton.org. He’s conducted more than 5,000 interviews since 2003. https://twitter.com/scotthortonshow  https://scotthorton.org/  HELP ME CROWDFUND MY GAMESTOP BOOK. Go to https://wen-moon.c...

Geert Vanden Bossche received his DVM from the University of Ghent, Belgium, and his PhD degree in Virology from the University of Hohenheim, Germany. He held adjunct faculty appointments at universities in Belgium and Germany. After his career in Academia, Geert joined several vaccine companies (GSK Biologicals, Novartis Vaccines, Solvay Biologicals) to serve various roles in vaccine R&D as well...

Professor Gary Gerstle is the author of the brand new book, The Rise and Fall  of the Neoliberal Order. Gary Gerstle FBA (born 1954) is an American historian and academic. He is the Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. In this podcast, we discussed his previous book, The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, how the New Dea...

Kee Jeffreys is the CTO of Session, a fork of Signal and an encrypted messaging app. Session is a private messaging app that protects your metadata, encrypts your communications, and makes sure your messaging activities leave no digital trail behind. In this conversation we covered encryption, privacy, encrypted messaging, their cryptocurrency Oxen, and the Proof of Stake vs Proof of Work.  You do...

Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel Hannan, Jacob Rees-Mogg: Whitehall is swarming with old Oxonians. They debated each other in tutorials, ran against each other in student elections, and attended the same balls and black-tie dinners. They aren't just colleagues - they are peers, rivals, friends. And, when they walked out of the world...

Seb Whitehouse may have one of the weirdest stories in terms of how he got to where he is today. He's former professional wrestler of seven years turned journalist! His insights into the world of WWE can definitely be applied to our politics... We spoke about a whole range of things from the ideas of trauma, therapy, personal growth, and masculinity to his time in the world of wrestling, the state...

Raffaello Pantucci is the co-author of the book Sinostan, alongside Alexandros Petersen. China's rise is changing the world. Much attention has been given to how China's geo-economic vision is playing out in the global economy, or how its technology is reshaping the planet, yet it is over its western borders, in Central Asia, that China's influence has been quietly expanding in a more pervasive wa...

Dr Craig Wright is the most controversial person I believe I have ever had on my podcast. Numerous people told me not to speak to him, that he is a crook and swindler, and so I decided I wanted to find out for myself.  Craig Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto - the creator of Bitcoin. He has appeared in numerous court cases to argue that very fact, with the result never having proven definitivel...

Nicolás Z. Moran is the host of Simply Bitcoin TV and the founder of Bitvolt.com. He called in to the show direct from the Bitcoin conference to give me his take on Bitcoin Maximalism, how the banks are going to take the next wave of financial disruption, and the path we need to take to get beyond the Fiat system - ie how we separate money and state.  https://twitter.com/BITVOLT7 https://bitvolt.c...

Mark Steadman was the founder of Podiant, an indie podcast host, and is now a prolific email composer and head of Origin. FM a new company offering podcast and audio consulting! I had a great chat with Mark about the podcast space, his work in mentoring (and taking a mentor) and how to build a business and then let it go! https://origin.fm/  HELP ME CROWDFUND MY GAMESTOP BOOK. Go to https://wen-mo...

Adam Coleman is an author and the founder of Wrong Speak Publishing. Adam was born in Detroit but raised in a variety of states throughout America. He writes openly about his personal struggles with fatherlessness, homelessness and masculinity. He is always questioning the world around him, even if they are uncomfortable questions to ask. He strongly believes that we should all have the ability to...

Christopher Leonard is the author of the new book The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy. If you asked most people what forces led to today’s unprecedented income inequality and financial crashes, no one would say the Federal Reserve. For most of its history, the Fed has enjoyed the fawning adoration of the press. When the economy grew, it was credited to the F...

Joanna Chiu has spent a decade tracking China’s propulsive rise, from the political aspects of its multi-billion-dollar “New Silk Road” global investment project to its growing sway over foreign countries and multilateral institutions through “United Front” efforts. For too long, Western societies have mishandled or simply ignored Beijing’s actions, out of narrow self-interest. Over time, Chiu arg...

Luke Mikic is the host of Fix The Money, Fix The World - a podcast where he talks about Bitcoin and how this technology is changing the world already! Luke believes that if we can fix the problems with our money supply, then we can fix a lot of our economic and political problems. In this conversation, we went deep on his case for Bitcoin, why he believes it is the best cryptocurrency to date, and...

Johnny Vedmore is a Writer, Investigative Journalist & Phunter. He's also Musician & a #420 Free Wales advocate! I wanted to get Johnny on the show to help me walk through Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum - it's a topic that keeps rearing its head in conversations about CBDCs and vaccine passports and so I wanted to do a deep dive and find out what we actually know about this shady group...

In the last week, both England and Northern Ireland have lifted their covid restrictions, including the vaccine passports, allowing us all to get back to a little more of a normal life. Despite that, we've almost got war with Russia, ongoing disputes about the NI Protocol threatening to bubble over in NI (having already brought down the Executive), and we've got more and more information coming to...

There has been a lot of discussion over the past few years about the impact of Empire, especially with the toppling of the Colston statue and the BLM protests in 2020. However, what is not as often discussed is the financial and corporate legacy left by the British and other European Empires. Kojo Koram is the author of the brand new book, Uncommon Wealth, on this very topic. In this show he walke...

Northern Irish comedian Dave Elliott was the first guest with whom I recorded video for the podcast! Now he is back, in person, to explain why we should send all the world's trolls to Madagascar, why the politicians of Northern Ireland should take part in Naked and Afraid, and why comedians should be taken more seriously than anyone else on the planet! https://twitter.com/TheDaveElliott  https://w...