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1 Romanian Light, Rocket From The Crypt, Authoritarians For Democracy 57:00
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedNo one imagined that Romanian elections would become a big spectator sport, but they’ve really proved us wrong. Remember the TikTok Secret Police Election? Well now Romania is back with a sequel: Ethno-Nationalist Hooligan for President. The question smart observers are asking is: why can the powers that be live with one, not the other? The smartest are keeping the answer to themselves. Meanwhile, if you’re passing through Ben Gurion International Airport, hang onto your drink. You wouldn’t want a slice of Houthi rocket in your arak. But bad news for the duty free counter is even worse news for the next twenty years in the global air defence industry. Finally, the AfD has been officially designated as 'right-wing extremist' by Germany’s spy agency. It’s eyes down for a full ban. Who knows, one day, Germany could even aspire to the democratic standards of Romania? You can get special paywalled premium episodes of Multipolarity every month on Patreon: https://patreon.com/multipolarity…
1 Premium Edition Teaser: 51st State of Mind, You Bloody Bastard, Wanging On 13:56
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedThree months ago, Pierre Poilievre was going to take 50 per cent of the total vote, a historic generational landslide. Now, he’s a pub trivia question. What happened in Canada? Did it warp beneath the enormous trade gravity of the Trump Presidency? And why did Canadians think that turning to a milquetoast former central banker would turn off the US electromagnet dismantling their country one bolt at a time? India and Pakistan are at it again. Early in the week, reports were of World War 3. Vishnu and Allah duking it out with nukes at the gates of hell. So far, it’s all sparks and no light, but this week’s rift shows how the region is both increasingly important and ever more a pawn of bigger powers. Finally, on Saturday Foreign Ministers from five central Asian countries met with China’s Wang Yi to talk over deepening trade ties. It may seem like just a bunch of bros jawing over the agree-to-agree communiquê, but this is the dawning of the Middle Corridor. You can get special paywalled premium episodes of Multipolarity every month on Patreon: https://patreon.com/multipolarity…
1 Moon Age Daydream, Iran So Far Away, The Empire Strikes Back 56:23
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedGold is going to the moooooooon. Fantastic news for gold bugs. Until someone works out that this is a short against America, and the Wall Street types celebrating are effectively blowing the kazoo for the end of their own industry. After all, if gold remains on the moon, they’ll have to figure out whether they still need financial services consultants in space. Meanwhile - it’s a day ending in Y so someone in the Pentagon must be plotting an attack on Iran. It seems incredibly illogical and stupid. Which makes it all the more probable, by Pentagon standards. Finally, China has raised tariffs on American goods to 125 %, restricted the supply of rare earth metals, stopped investment in US private equity, and cut off its natural gas terminals. Tit has given way to tat - we’ll be weighing up who has cut off more of their nose to spite their face. You can get paywalled episodes of Multipolarity on https://www.patreon.com/multipolarity…
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedThis week we scrubbed the decks and sounded the five bell alarm. Donald Trump had only gone and done it. Tariffs. Thousands of them. What could the greatest regression from the norms of globalisation since 1945 mean for a show called Multipolarity? Even better: what would it mean for the world? With the MAGA base both boisterous and uneasy in the face of this dawning reality, we wargamed out the answers. Until, at 20:10 local time, news came of a stunning reversal...…
1 Special Edition: The Coming Bear Market and Fortress Europe 54:18
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedComing up this week: an audio essays special edition. Philip and Andrew, going head to head, a half hour each, on two big stories that have a more medium-term feel than the usual weekly news pegs. In the red corner, Mr Pilkington takes on the bear market. Is an icy wind coming for global stocks? How it could play out? From the bottoming out of NVIDA to the coming age of tariffs, what are the key triggers? Then, Andrew Collingwood will be taking on medium-term Europe. As the US shrinks from its hegemonic duties, will the EU seize the moment, to attempt to federalise through the stalking horse of re-armament? And given recent trends, could this laager mentality also come with a doubling-down on its own unique brand of autocracy?…
1 Premium Edition Teaser: Jeffrey Has Entered the Chat Man-Who-Kuo?, Fight for Your Reich to Party 10:40
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWas the editor of the Atlantic actually accidentally included in some rangy groupchat among bros that included a denunciation of European defence policy? Are you stupid? Have you recently had an aneurysm? Leaving aside this obvious straw dog, what is Washington actually signalling here? Meanwhile, the Chinese, Japanese and South Koreans are getting together to sign declarations of mutual support: pledging increased economic co-operation – and gently letting the whole Taiwan thing slide. When nations with rape slaves level of historical beef are making nice, you know something is shifting. Finally, is Martin Bormann alive and well and living in Argentina? No. But as Milei’s government releases the papers on the Third Reich, the historical mythology of World War 2 is under attack as never before. What happens when the post-1945 world order has to deal with the messy reality of the pre-1945 world? All coming up this week, only for the people who pay. You don’t pay, you don’t get. That’s the brutal economic logic behind 1 in 4 episodes of Multipolarity. Spend five Euros, Pounds or Dollars, and join the beautiful people. Just go to Patreon.com and put in your details. You can cancel any time. https://www.patreon.com/multipolarity…
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedThe British right is starting to fracture on the Ukraine issue. Where once they would reliably be called upon to paint themselves blue and yellow and raise a whip-round down the dog & duck for more MANPADS – now, as the endgame approaches, a group of the plugged-in are leaving the big tent. The civil war that follows may be its own Donbas. Meanwhile, further evidence is in that US firms are quietly reorienting their capital expenditure away from data centres and chips, and towards efficiency gains. Some say this is down to the DeepSeek effect. So will the hardware lite business model this implies end up driving a slow puncture into Silicon Valley? Finally, have you heard of the Trump Put? A backstop against the crazy risks the Trump regime might be running. One that relies entirely on assuming that at some point the government intervenes to arrest a Wall Street bloodbath. It worked in the Greenspan era. But is this a bungee cord without a tether?…
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedTesla is tanking. On the NASDAQ, the Magnificent 7 have become merely the 7. The talk is all of quarterly earnings in Musk towers. But is this just a smokescreen for the fact that DeepSeek has DeepFound Silicon Valley in DeepDooDoo? Meanwhile, in Europe, the dream of rearmament is still alive and well. Two weeks in, we’ll have a report, direct from the frontlines of an unreachable fantasia. Finally, do Jihadis make good pets? For a few Washington and Brussels liberals, they have become the accessory du jour. But after the appalling scenes from Syria this week, well it turns out that befriending beheaders in flatbed trucks might not be such a good idea. More as we get it. *** You can get exclusive paywalled episodes of Multipolarity on Patreon. It's 5 bucks a month, and cancellation is easy. https://www.patreon.com/multipolarity…
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedAs the world blows up, again, Andrew Collingwood has a dread cold. Gavin Haynes fills in as best he can, with a soft Newcastle brogue. We cover everything - from the rumble in the White House to the cultural amnesia coming up the pike. *** You can get paywalled episodes of Multipolarity on Patreon. https://www.Patreon.com/multipolarity It's cheap and you can cancel any time.…
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedIn Germany, there’s been an election. And The Reichstag is on fire - with a new cohort of AfD members . Will Keiser Merz see this as his opportunity to seize total control? After all, on Saturday, the incoming Chancellor decided that Germany can quote go it alone. Whatever that means. Is the real threat to European democracy about to come from besieged Christian Democrats? Meanwhile, what exactly is Donald Trump up to? In the past few weeks, America’s Sun King has sprayed the geopolitical flak a mile high. From Gaza-a-lago to dropping his piledriver on Zelensky. In four years everyone went from assuming him merely mad to assuming method in all his madness. Still, no one has yet discerned exactly what that method is. Of course, this is a PayWall edition. So if you’re not feeding us coins, not only will you be left with a vague miasma of guilt, you’ll also be leaving us in 15 minutes time. That means leaving without 45 minutes of primo audio in which we reveal, plain as day, the TRUTH of Trump’s grand strategy. Would be a hard one to miss out on. You’d really feel kinda bummed.…
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1 Save The Aid, The UK Art of The Deal, If I Speak I Am In Trouble 54:46
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedThey say sunlight is the best disinfectant. But what if you’re a germ? As the USA.I.D demolition continues, we’re beginning to see the outlines of what might be a network of real corruption - and it's not just the tinfoil hats saying it. How will the US public deal with having the wool pulled from their eyes? And will the Beltway liberals ever recover? Meanwhile, Britain has agreed to the deal of the century. The Mauritians get: £18 billion. We get: to give them a strategically important series of islands. The Chagos saga must already rank as the most tawdry fiasco since Suez. What no one can understand is: why? Finally, while it’s retreating from aid, the US imperium is once again reasserting itself over the periphery when it comes to tech. With the Silicon Valley set signed up behind Trumpism, Europe is being asked to bend the knee, not just on market access, but on their much eroded rights to online free speech. What can you say?…
1 Born in the USAID, Deep Deep Trouble, Customs of the Natives 1:03:29
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedUSAID is being dismantled brick by brick, the bricks are being pulped, the pulp is going in the blower, the dust is being scattered to the four winds. R.I.P, U.S.A.I.D. We’ll be sharing the surprising implications for independent anti-government bloggers in Moldova. Meanwhile, DeepSeek has beggared the US stock market and set NVIDIA on fire. Have the Chinese pulled off their Sputnik moment? Or just the ordinary shooting of a fox? Finally, the frenzied abandon of Donald Trump’s tariff blitz often feels like a version of Oprah’s You Get A Car. Except: You Don’t Get A Car. But is this more than a phoney war of sound and fury?…
1 Special Edition: Glenn Diesen on Trumpism, Ukraine, and the Hegemon's End 1:02:12
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedNo European who saw it would have avoided a pang of dread, when a meme appeared online this week, in the wake of the DeepSeek AI phenomenon. It pictured three dragons. One, ferocious, on its chest the logos of OpenAI, MetaAI, Gemini AI, and the US flag. The other, just as ferocious: featured the Chinese flag, and the logo of DeepSeek. The third, looking like the kid in primary school who eats the crayons, featured the EU logo, and the emblematic grafted-on plastic water bottle lid that has become totemic of the EU’s failure to do anything but regulate itself out of existence. The message was clear. Europe is increasingly at a crossroads. Between the coming eastern powers, and the declining western powers. And if it isn’t at the table, it will be on the menu. Which way, European man? Glen Diesen is professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway. He has a very popular Substack, and is a regular guest on a range of podcasts, including The Duran. We’re very glad to have him here today, to talk about Europe, Trumpism, the end of the Ukraine War, and beyond.…
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1 Pardon?, Little Red Note, Shall We Tell Peter Zeihan? 17:07
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedThis week is a paywalled premium episode. *** Joe Biden spent his final week minting pardons like Mugabe minted bank notes. In fact, his last act in office was to pardon his entire family. What does this unprecedented use of the seal of office portend for America’s future – and what has it got to do with the Russian word for roof? Meanwhile, it’s been a rollercoaster week for zombie-eyed American Zoomers. TikTok was shut down. Then it was reprieved by Trump. In between, Red Note gave them a glimpse into the parallel universe of zombie eyed Chinese Zoomers. Many of whom seemed to have better standards of living in their communist hellhole. What are the geopolitical implications of this collision of worlds? Finally, after looking at the quality of Chinese youth, we’re discussing the quantity. New demographics numbers are in. And they paint an extraordinary picture. Those Zoomers are humping. Join us as we find out more. *** To subscribe to Multipolarity and receive every new premium episode, plus our vast back catalogue, simply go to Patreon and type in multipolarity. It's 5 Pounds, Euros or Dollars a month. You can cancel any time.…
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1 Trump Regime Detonates UK?, Biden's AI Chips Ban, Trussification Part 4 52:30
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedBritain is under attack by the world’s two worst entities - rape gangs and bond market speculators. As Starmer mounts a last stand, we’re reporting from the tattered remnants of old blighty. Is Musk just messing with Starmer’s tiny mind - or are the Americans serious about sinking HMS Britannia. Meanwhile, just as the world is thirsting for AI, the Biden regime has decided it will titrate the market for the specialised NVIDIA graphic chips that are vital to building AI systems. It’s like sanctions - but for everyone else in the world. So will this make America more friends? Finally, we’re revisiting a Multipolarity tin foil hat classic: Trussification – the process of targeted financially dynamiting of a political regime. As Biden squeezes the oil market, is he looking to leave a tightly coiled inflation turd on the desk of his successor? *** Be excellent to each other, and - Get us on Twitter. https://www.x.com/multipolarpod On Patreon. https ://www.patreon.com/multipolarity Or on our Substack. https://substack.com/@multipolaritypod…
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1 Special Edition: Dissident Former Diplomat Ian Proud on UK-Russia Relations 42:40
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedIan Proud was once Britain's man in Moscow. A career diplomat of 24 years, he got to look in directly upon the withering relationship between the United Kingdom and Russia, in the crucial period from 2014 until 2019. In fact, he rebuilt embassy staffing structures following the mass expulsion after the March 2018 Salisbury nerve agent attack. Since then, Proud has been outspokenly critical on questions of UK-Russia relations. This week, Philip and Andrew are trying to get into the British diplomat mindset as relations approach a crucial juncture. *** Be excellent to each other, and - Get us on Twitter. https://www.x.com/multipolarpod On Patreon. https ://www.patreon.com/multipolarity Or on our Substack. https://substack.com/@multipolaritypod…
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1 Special Edition: Steve Hsu on China, Tech, and Trumpism 2.0 1:13:00
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedTrumpism 2.0 offers both danger and opportunity. Trumpism 1.0 was built around being tough with China. And while that is no longer a rhetorical priority for the big man, much of what was started in 2016 has since become the accepted wisdom in DC. Today, Trumpism 2.0 is as much about American competitiveness – in an international market that has slipped further away from its hegemon across the last eight years. It’s about deregulation, DOGE, and developing strategic dominance in the emerging fields of AI, weapons tech, and genetics. We’re in for four years of great power competition with China - against a background of a new focus on US competitiveness. Almost no one spans these subjects as elegantly as Steve Hsu. A professor of theoretical physics, startup founder and one of the most prominent members of the new counter-elite that has recently emerged from the high tech world of America's west coast to challenge the status quo in Washington DC Steve's research has included black holes and quantum information, dark energy, quantum gravity, and quark matter. He has also contributed to the field of genetics, especially on the construction of genomic predictors of complex human traits. Steve has founded several startups, including Othram, a company that uses DNA sequencing to help solve hot and cold criminal and missing persons cases, Genomic Prediction, which pioneered polygenic screening for embryos in IVF, and most recently Superfocus, an enterprise GPT that uses Large Language Models for language capability. Somehow, he finds time to host Manifold, one of the world's most interesting podcasts and a must-listen for all those who wish to keep abreast of the ideas and knowledge of the Silicon Valley and VC world. ***…
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1 Premium Episode Teaser: Syria's Big Comeback, Georgia's Last Colour Revolution, Vive Le 6ieme Republique! 12:38
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedDon’t call it a comeback! Four years after the last embers appeared to have been snuffed out, this week, the Syrian Civil War shocked fans by announcing it’s getting the band back together. Is the world’s most confusing conflict about to get explicable? Not entirely. We’ll be explaining why the situation in Aleppo is not something you’ll brush up on soon. Meanwhile… The fireworks guns have been a great special effects innovation. Madam President is certainly giving a hammy turn of character acting. But the script is stale. The dialogue is dreary. Frankly, the franchise is dying. Is this the last of the colour revolutions? Finally, The French can’t pass a budget. The Prime Minister is about to resign. The President himself is running around the middle east gladhanding potential bond buyers. Two and a half months on from his bold gambit, things are looking positively pre-revolutionary in the Elysee Palace. Macron has kicked the can down the road – now the can is kicking back. This is a Premium Episode. Available through Patreon to subscribers. Subscribing is quick and easy. Go to Patreon.com. Search Multipolarity. Pay $5 or £5 or €5 a month. Get this episode - and many more.…
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1 Special Edition: The First Medium Range Ballistic Missile Ever Fired In Anger 49:03
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedAs the first every intermediate range ballistic missile to be fired in anger lands on Ukraine, it is more than just a world historic event in the evolution of arms. It’s a shot across the bows for the broader West. How do we style this one out? Right now, our leaders are a gorilla holding a ming vase. Given their overall skill levels, will we make it through the present crisis without losing our eyebrows in the white heat of a nuclear blast? In part one of this week’s special edition we’ll be considering the US-Ukrainian Missile attacks that kicked off the present round of tit for tat. In part two, we’ll be considering the retaliatory threat of the Russian Oreshniks. And in part three, we’ll be considering the overall playbook for World War Three. *** Be excellent to each other, and - Get us on Twitter. https://www.x.com/multipolarpod On Patreon. https ://www.patreon.com/multipolarity Or on our Substack. https://substack.com/@multipolaritypod…
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1 We Didn't Start The Fire: Multipolarity is 100 1:22:28
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedIn a very special episode, we’re celebrating our hundred with a walk back along the yesteryears of Multipolarity. Two yesteryears in particular - 2023 and 2024. That’s right: we’re old enough to remember the Multipolar world back when it was a glint in Xi Jingping’s extreme-UV lithography factories. Back when American decline was just a gobbet of drool on Joe Biden’s chin. Back when the Middle East wasn’t entirely on fire, and Germany hadn’t yet totally fallen off a cliff. Before the Houthi rockets, the BRICS bank notes, and Tucker Carlson’s Moscow hamburger. Back then, on January 10, 2023, there was a brand new podcast, but one sophisticated enough to have registered its own web domain . Now, after 100 episodes, we’re taking some time, letting our belts out, pouring a glass of Macallan Lalique, putting some of our own classic grooves on the record player, and getting a bit wisftul . We’ll be going on an audio tour of Multipolarity world. You’ll hear a clip from an original show - then you’ll hear us, reviewing it. What it meant then, what it means now. Where our predictions were off base - and where we were bang on target. We’ve charted the rise of a new multipolar world order. Now, we’re charting the charting… *** Be excellent to each other, and - Get us on Twitter. https://www.x.com/multipolarpod On Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/multipolarity Or on our Substack. https://substack.com/@multipolaritypod…
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1 Post Election Special: Question Marco, Queen of the Ashes, Straw Polls 1:00:33
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedFrom Marco Polo to Marco Rubio – the West keeps rediscovering that China is a big Asian landmass with a mind of its own. So is Trump’s hawkish new Secretary of State about to get himself tangled in a Chinese finger trap of tariffs? Meanwhile, back on the Europe thing, Multipolarity’s pet punching bag Ursula von der Leyen is about to be put through four years of BDSM, as the Trumpists resile from the European frontier even while picking fights with its leadership. Is Ursula’s post-election pledge to buy more US natural gas just the first of many times she will be called upon to kiss the Don’s rings? Finally, we’ll be raising a glass to the death of the polling industry, long predicted on Multipolarity. Far from dining out on their prowess, the Nate Silvers and Anne Seltzers of this world will have to figure out whether they can eat excuses. Is there a grift still to be had in a world where the alleged experts can’t just +4 for the Shy Trump Effect? *** Be excellent to each other, and - Get us on Twitter. https://www.x.com/multipolarpod On Patreon. https ://www.patreon.com/multipolarity Or on our Substack. https://substack.com/@multipolaritypod…
At the centre of the Global American empire, a storm is coming. But it’s in the European periphery that the effects will be the most acute. Can anyone steer a path through the rocks? We’ll be looking at chaos in the German auto industry - as Volkswagen overruns its cost budget by 20 per cent. At chaos in the European Union - as a heavily dug-in Von der Leyen regime goes full bunker mentality. And chaos in merrie ol’ England, as the wet wobbler Keir Starmer brings down the final curtain on the Special Relationship. Between one world and the next, between a rock and a hard place, it is America that decides, but it is Europe that is going to have to choose a new future.…
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1 Special Episode: Warwick Powell on How To Build A New Global Currency 1:10:35
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedAfter the BRICS meeting in Kazan, a picture of a bundle of fake BRICS banknotes began to circulate online. Right up to a picture of Putin holding one, like a mobster holds a cigar. The intent was mocking. But while the end goal of the kind of paper that rappers shove into g-strings is still a long way off - in the background, the bureaucratic elves of BRICS were chipping away at the dense, dull, paperwork of a new payments system. This was never going to be a big bang. More like popping the world’s biggest roll of bubble wrap. After all, like the nuclear secrets themselves, the mechanism for making a new international method for the settlement of accounts is an obscure and technical thing. And it is eighty years since anyone tried to do it from scratch. Few people are better placed to be the Robert Oppenheimer to this kind of project than Warwick Powell. Powell is Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology and the author of "China, Trust and Digital Supply Chains”, and "Dynamics of a Zero Trust World". At his Substack, he blogs about China, trade, and the dense subterranean plumbing network that underlies the global payments system. This week, he joins us… to explain how to make a new global currency. *** Be excellent to each other, and - Get us on Twitter. https://www.x.com/multipolarpod On Patreon. https ://www.patreon.com/multipolarity Or on our Substack. https://substack.com/@multipolaritypod…
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1 Moldova Joins The Club, Chindia, Keir There And Everywhere 54:32
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMoldova has voted to join the EU – A referendum won by less than a single percentage point. It’s less clear when the EU’s citizens get their vote on whether they want to house a very poor, seriously divided, minority-Russian post-Soviet state. Surely this is the moment the eastwards expansion runs aground in the geopolitical reality? Meanwhile, China and India have quietly settled their long-running border dispute in the Himalayas. Far from the recent era where rival troops would run at each other with sticks - or even the notorious 2020 microwaving incident - this bizarre superpower friction seems to have been cleared up inside a few paragraphs. Is this proof positive that the BRICS are turning their attentions outwards? Finally, the story that the Trump campaign has launched a complaint against the British Labour party has spooked the Starmer regime. Staffers campaigning for their Democratic Party cognates seemed like a cute idea and a nice holiday. But if these naive limeys wanted to know how strictly Americans take their electoral laws, they should have dropped a dime to Steve Bannon’s prison cell. Is this the greatest example yet of how the disinformation NGO blob is rapidly destroying its handlers? *** Be excellent to each other, and - Get us on Twitter. https://www.x.com/multipolarpod On Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/multipolarity Or on our Substack. https://substack.com/@multipolaritypod…
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1 Pouring Oil on Troubled Waters, First Come First Serb, Strait Talk 51:08
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedOil might be about to fall out of bed, because of an almighty concatenation of the US elections, the Houthis in the Red Sea, the Israelis striking Iran, and the Iranians striking The Strait of Hormuz. If it pushes toward $300 a barrel, they’ll be laying it down like Chateau Lafite. Meanwhile, Serbia says it might be joining the BRICS rather than entering the EU. Is it really that important to get away from Croatians? Or is it more to do with the increasingly centripetal force of its Russia relationship? Luckily, Great Power competition in the Balkans has very few bad historical connotations. Finally, 153 Chinese military aircraft, plus drones and warships encircled Taiwan on Monday, as the Chinese python gave its rebel province a friendly squeeze. But this is more than just another shot across the bows. It’s a clue that far from the Private Ryan D-Day fantasy, the Chinese would choose to take the island by siege. *** Be excellent to each other, and - Get us on Twitter. https://www.x.com/multipolarpod On Patreon. https ://www.patreon.com/multipolarity Or on our Substack. https://substack.com/@multipolaritypod…
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1 Special Edition, feat. Malcom Kyeyune: Helene Is A Disaster, The Foam Dome Bursts 58:52
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedSomething a little bit different. In a crowded news week, we’re bringing you only two stories - but three hosts. Katrina, Sandy, Helene. In the annals of hurricane disasters, the latest storm is looking like it might post a new high score on the leaderboard. But the response has been little short of a new low score from the creaking US federal bureaucracy. Malcom Kyeyune has been tracking the fallout. He thinks it’s the perfect example of an end of empire US elite prioritising foreign aid over domestic help. Finally, not long after the bombs fell over Lebanon, the Iranian bombs began to fall over Tel Aviv. And no information blackout could hide the multiple online clips of strikes. It was fine for Hamas bottle rockets, but now that big regional players are showing their technological hand, the Iron Dome seems more like a porcelain potty. But beyond the he-said she-said of the Israeli wars. Is there something seismic happening here? Are we in fact witnessing a massive real-time evolution in the eternal balance between missile defence and missile attack? *** Be excellent to each other, and - Get us on Twitter. https://www.x.com/multipolarpod On Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/multipolarity Or on our own Substack. https://substack.com/@multipolaritypod…
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1 The Grand Opening of the Northern Front, The Lebanisation of Lebanon, The Hungaro-Austrian Empire… 10:01
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedHezbollah has been decapitated. As the turban falls off Hassan Nasrallah for the final time, we’ll be assessing whether anyone will pick up the crown of Jihad they find lying in the gutter. Meanwhile, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy is reportedly spending a third of his daily time planning an operation as big as D-Day to resettle displaced Lebanese in Europe. After the bombs fall, the refugee deluge dawns. After Ukraine, after Syria, can Europe even cope with the latest wave? And what does it say about Lammy that he can plan D-Day with only a third of his time? Finally, in Austria, the party that spurred Europe’s original Nazi panic, Jorg Haider’s Freedom Party, has come top of a national election, fifteen years after his death. This should be a moment of high moral drama. But in the year of Geert Wilders and Marine Le Pen, it just feels like today’s deja vu. Are we inured? And should we be? Of course, what with it being premium week and all, most listeners will be more like a European social democratic party - excluded. So get it while you can. Or get on Patreon and sign up. *** Be excellent to each other, and - Get us on Twitter. https://www.x.com/multipolarpod On Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/multipolarity Or on our own Substack. https://substack.com/@multipolaritypod…
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1 Special Episode: Philipp Mattheis on Germany's Downward Spiral 1:04:31
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedFor decades now, Germany has stood as the doughty centurion at the gates of European civilisation. A nation of recyclers, engineers, and a super-sensible, hyper-dull political class. But since 2022, German exceptionalism has taken a helluva beating. The country has been haemorrhaging its manufacturing base, and with it, the social consensus that lasted more than thirty years is beginning to unwind. What are the long roots of this crisis? This week, The Lads are joined by Philipp Mattheis to discuss Germany's downward spiral. And its future. Today, the trains literally do not run on time. So with the rise of the AfD, will the country soon hire a leader who can make those trains run on time? *** Be excellent to each other, and - Get us on Twitter. https://www.x.com/multipolarpod On Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/multipolarity Or on our own Substack. https://substack.com/@multipolaritypod…
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1 NATO's New Secretary General, The Youth In Asia, The Weeks Of The Jackal 1:00:31
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedThere’s a changing of the guard at NATO. Down comes the regimental banner of Jens Stoltenberg. Eyes right, salute, the former Dutch PM Mark Rutte. Some say the Treaty Organisation has never been more relevant. But is that a bit like the man who jumps from the 23rd floor still looking very well as he passes the 3rd floor? Meanwhile, a new OBR forecast accuses pensioners of placing too much burden on the British treasury - tripling the national debt by mid-century. At the same time, The Labour government is fast-tracking euthanasia through parliament. Is Killer Keir’s latest economic strategy just The Day of the Pillow? Finally, there hasn’t been a Trump assassination attempt in at least forty eight hours. Unless there has by now - in which case please ignore this message. What does the never-ending conga line of would-be nation-destabilisers say about the health of the US polity? *** Be excellent to each other, and - Get us on Twitter. https://www.x.com/multipolarpod On Patreon. www.patreon.com/multipolarity Or on our own Substack. https://substack.com/@multipolaritypod…
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1 Special Episode: Super Mario Is Draghi Draghi Draghi 1:00:26
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedTouted in Eurocrat circles as a document that can square the circles and circle the wagons. Praised to the hilt by the Commission, hotly anticipated by industry, to some this is Europe's last best attempt to recant and repent before it is zapped by Asian competition and the ongoing energy drought. This week, we've cleared the decks to rake over the Mario Draghi report into European competitiveness. Can this arch-insider come up with the special sauce that sets the VW plants humming? Can he weave a "European Google" out of thin air? Or how about just a European Temu? 400 pages and 170 proposals later, The Lads have their answer... *** Be excellent to each other, and - Get us on Twitter. https://www.x.com/multipolarpod On Patreon. www.patreon.com/multipolarity Or on our own Substack. https://substack.com/@multipolaritypod…
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1 Premium Episode: The Silicon Archipelago, The Silicon Archipelago Germany and the Rise of Socialist Nationalism Budget Beatdown, Turning Turk 15:12
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedAs Pavel Durov remains in French hands, we’re wondering whether Europe can finally develop its own Silicon Valley simply by mass detention of top entrepreneurial talent. Or whether perhaps this is the desperate last whelp of a society increasingly bypassed by the global tech economy. Meanwhile, in Germany, the story of the day is that the AfD have taken a great swath of Thuringia and Saxony, while Sara Wagenknecht has gobbled the rest. This is democracy in action – so can it be stopped? At the same time, the EU is redefining its central budget. For member states, that 1.2 trillion annual pocket money is no longer free - it will be conditional on economic reforms. We’re about to find out what exactly Slovenia is prepared to do for its slice. Better yet, what will Hungary do? Finally, as Turkey applies to be the latest BRIC, we’re wondering: is this the point when it’s quicker to build a new acronym from states who aren’t in the club? As you may have noticed, this week is an extended, four-story gutbuster of an episode. That’s because it’s Premium Week – and we believe in giving our Patreons a little extra on the side. And round the back. If you want to join the club, you too can sign up on Patreon to listen to the full version - it's 5 Pounds, Euros or Dollars a month. Cancel any time. Simply go to https://www.Patreon.com/multipolarity .…
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1 Special Episode: Thomas Fazi on the ECB, Pavel Durov, and America's End of Empire Moment 41:47
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedThomas Fazi has been watching the EU implode for over a decade. He's widely known as a contributor to UnHerd and Compact, and for his 2014 book: Battle For Europe: How An Elite Hijacked A Continent. His work on the corruption of European institutions stretches back to the 2011 Sovereign Debt Crisis. Multipolarity has been consistently arguing that the jesses of central bank policy are being used as political levers to keep the EU's wayward member states together - in contravention of both the letter and the spirit of its treaties. Fazi has been another voice, consistently been making a similar critique, but from a Marxist perspective. This week, the lads invite him on, to compare notes. You can find Thomas' popular Substack here: https://substack.com/@tfazi *** Be excellent to each other, and - Get us on Twitter. https://www.x.com/multipolarpod On Patreon. www.patreon.com/multipolarity Or on our own Substack. https://substack.com/@multipolaritypod…
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1 Kamala Chameleon, Biden’s Building Binge, Another BRIC in the Wall 51:57
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedAs Ukraine punches into Kursk, and the world asks whether this is this more Kaiserschlacht, or more Ardennes Offensive, cooler heads are focused on the bigger picture. Word is Kamala Harris is going to sack Jake Sullivan. Given that Trump would have sacked him anyway, we’re now into a world where the pro-Ukraine top team is, fait accompli, gone. Which means the US pivot to Asia is increasingly nailed on. Meanwhile, two years after Joe Biden’s signature Inflation Reduction Act, it turns out the thick end of four trillion dollars buys you a huge boom in the construction of factories – but not much by way of a green economy. As new research shows many of the pop-up LLCs the IRA spawned are popping into Chapter 12, we’re sifting through the debris, looking for recycling. Finally, Azerbaijan is the latest BRIC in the BRICS. After their short and decisive war with Armenia, this rising former western ally is now binding itself to Russia. In the global carve-up bigger picture, should we really keep on getting Armenia in the divorce? *** Be excellent to each other, and - Get us on Twitter. https://www.x.com/multipolarpod On Patreon. https ://www.patreon.com/multipolarity Or on our Substack. https://substack.com/@multipolaritypod…
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1 Once Shy Twice Bitten, Domino Theory Revisited, The Ascent of Musk 53:00
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedKamala Harris is ahead in six key swing states - according to several major polls. All of which are categorically wrong. Could the ghost of the Shy Trumper be about to smite the Dems for the third election running? And why are the usual media suspects pretending it isn’t a thing, never has been, never could be? Meanwhile, in Malaysia and Indonesia, a new domino theory is starting to stack up. In the world of friendshoring and belt-and-road, the Pacific rim was always going to be the key prize - and China is gaining the upper hand. Finally, Twitter-X is being pitched into a classic royale — between the mobile forces of capital and the fixed forces of national politics. Not content with fighting a flame war against Keir Starmer, Elon Musk now being set upon by Thierry Breton - Europe’s information commissioner. Which is like being savaged by not one dead sheep, but two. In the most mobile industry in the world, thirty years of globalisation theory suggests there can be only one winner. One look at Musk’s meme game says he could still flub it. *** Be excellent to each other, and - Get us on Twitter. https://www.x.com/multipolarpod On Patreon. https ://www.patreon.com/multipolarity Or on our Substack. https://substack.com/@multipolaritypod…
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1 Premium Episode: The Japanese Stock Market Crash, Captain AnCap & The Legend Of El Dorado, The British Race Riots 48:41
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedThe bears are coming. As Japan posts the biggest one day stock market losses since Black Monday, we’re asking whether this dip is a passing blip – or the big ka-blam? Meanwhile, Argentina’s reserves include almost two million ounces of gold, valued at $4.5 billion. But lately, there’s a question that’s on everybody’s lips: where is it? The gold seems to have been transferred out of the country. But why, no one can say. Is this some sublime economic master-stroke from the wacky professor Milei? Or just the equivalent of a desperate gambler taking his wife’s gold rings up to the pawn shop? Finally, in a subscriber-only super-section, we’ll be covering the British race riots. The events of the past few days have shaken the British establishment to its core. With no clear narrative, and an increasingly balkanised society, the country’s leaders now seem clueless and visibly scared, as they face down the fruits of eighty years of immigration policy failure. For our Patrons, we’ll be taking the long view - tracing the history of British immigration; then extending into the far future - looking at the demographic realities of the UK from here on out. And, of course, we’ll be hashing through the story of the day. What can an already wobbling Starmer regime do in the face of the tectonic forces being unleashed? Be warned, this one’s a black pill so big it might be a black suppository. But to listen, you’ll need to be signed up to our Patreon. Just go to Patreon.com, search Multipolarity, and pay 5 dollars, pounds or euros a month. You can cancel any time. *** Be excellent to each other, and - Get us on Twitter. https://www.x.com/multipolar pod On Patreon. https ://www.patreon.com/multipolarity Or on our Substack. https://substack.com/@multipolaritypod…
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1 Special Edition: Gladden Pappin on Orbán's Big Speech 1:08:33
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedLast weekend, Viktor Orbán travelled to the town of Băile Tușnad, deep in the Transylvanian mountains of Romania, to attend a 'music and ideas' festival. He was on the bill. Amongst the ethnically-Hungarian diaspora who live in the region, Orbán is a regular visitor. In fact, the Tusványos festival was started by Fidesz back when the party was effectively four people. That was in the early-90s. Today, it has swelled to accommodate over 10 000 people. The place is billed as an 'open university', with talks by a range of academics, thinkers and politicians. Traditionally, Orbán gives his own 'series of lectures' , just like many of others speakers. The difference is that Orbán speaks from the main stage, in front of a crowd of a few thousand. In recent years, these speeches have become philosophical key notes to understanding the Hungarian perspective. In previous years, his talks have made world headlines, including the one where he said he regarded Hungary as an 'illiberal democracy' (though this was partly mis-translation). Rarely does a world leader get as philosophical as Orbán does in these talks. He lays out a deep vision of the future as he sees it for the upcoming year, one that connects history, economics, and metaphysics. This year's speech was among the deepest - and the spiciest -ever. Not only did it catch the headlines, with its barbs against Poland, and naming US intelligence as the saboteurs of the Nordstream pipeline, it could even justifiably be called 'historic'. Orbán talked openly of Hungary's coming pivot to China, of the decay of the Western soul, and of the shape of the peace that must come beyond the Russo-Ukraine War. Gladden Pappin is the President of the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs. A prominent academic and leading light in the post-liberal movement, Pappin is perhaps one of the hidden architects of Hungary's dynamic foreign policy. This week, The Lads ask him about the deeper meaning of Orbán's Big Talk. *** Be excellent to each other, and - Get us on Twitter. https://www.x.com/multipolarity On Patreon. https ://www.patreon.com/multipolarity Or on our Substack. https://substack.com/@multipolaritypod…
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1 Special Edition: "This Is Not A Coup" - feat. Malcom Kyeyune 1:08:32
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedAt 4.32pm on the 18th of August the so-called State Committee on the State of Emergency cut the lines of communication to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbacev's dacha - these included telephone communications and the nuclear command and control system. Eight minutes later Lieutenant General Yuri Plekhanov, Head of the 9th Chief Directorate of the KGB, let the group into the dacha where they demanded that Gorbachev either declare a state of emergency in the Soviet Union or resign. The previous month twelve Soviet public figures, mostly artists but also some politicians and military officials, signed a letter entitled 'A Word to the People' in the anti-perestroika newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya. The letter was drafted by the writer Alexander Prokhanov. "An enormous, unforeseen calamity has taken place," it told readers, "Motherland, our land, a great power, given to us to ward with the nature, glorious ancestors, it is perishing, breaking apart, falling into darkness and nonbeing." On July 10th 2024, the actor, director and film producer George Clooney published an essay in The New York Times entitled 'I Love Joe Biden. But We Need a New Nominee'. "The one battle [Biden] cannot win is the fight against time," Clooney wrote, "None of us can. It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe “big F-ing deal” Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate." Where Prokhanov's letter was infused with Soviet patriotism, Clooney's was shot through with party loyalty. Prokhanov pleaded with Soviet leaders to save the Soviet Union; Clooney pleaded with Biden to save the Democratic Party. Yet the functional outcome was the same: a coup - of sorts. Less than two weeks later, on the 21st of July, President Biden issued a letter stating that he would not run for president again in 2024. Everyone knew that Biden had written this against his own will. Some accepted that he had simply caved under pressure, others whispered of a backroom deal or even threats. Gorbachev survived his coup attempt, although afterwards he faded into the background as the new President of Russia Boris Yeltsin came to the fore. The coup attempt definitively sped up the dissolution of the Soviet Union, however, precisely the opposite of what the plotters had intended. Likewise, the coup against Biden will likely speed up the collapse of the Democratic Party in the United States. The leaders of this party told the American people that Biden was capable of doing his job but now, after the coup, they have tacitly admitted that he is not. This is an obvious breach of trust - and one that voters will be unlikely to forgive. But what does it matter? The collapse of a political party is nothing compared to the collapse of a great power like the Soviet Union. Another political party, perhaps. But just as the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was until 1991 the party of the state, so too is the Democratic Party of today. The Democratic Party in 2024 is the skeleton of the American ruling elite. Without it, this elite collapses into a gelatinous heap. Can the American state function without its party? Can the current world system survive if the American state starts to falter? These are questions that will be answered in the following 18 months - they are questions that are now being asked across America and the world in response to this very American coup. *** Be excellent to each other, and - Get us on Twitter. https://www.x.com/multipolarity On Patreon. https ://www.patreon.com/multipolarity Or on our Substack. https://substack.com/@multipolaritypod…
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1 Did You Enjoy The Theatre Mrs Trump?, Let's Vance, Ponzi Capital Management 53:10
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedYou were only supposed to blow his bloody head off... As Donald Trump is saved by God Almighty, we’re indisputably living in the lucky timeline. But while the country might have dodged civil war, American politics has been changed utterly by the events of Saturday. And still not for the better. Meanwhile, Trump’s VP pick is lukewarm on Britain, and positively tepid on Project Ukraine. He’s being sold as a successor. Someone who can bring real intellectual heft to the MAGA project. But isn’t the intellectual wing of a populist party rather like the library in a whorehouse? Finally, Private Equity was once sold as the honest, hard work, real-projects end of the financial services sector. Take a company. Make it better. So why are they suddenly robbing Peter to pay Paul? And what happens when Peter’s cash runs out?…
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1 To Viktor The Spoils, Girondins Meet The Jacobins, The Loveless Landslide 55:07
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedViktor Orban has been taking secret flights. Dodging the CIA’s aviation monitoring to jet into Moscow. The Hungarian honcho is now fashioning himself as a shuttle diplomat in the Russo-Ukranian War, just as his country takes the rotating Presidency of the EU Council. What was the goal of this clandestine trip? And did he still get the air miles? Meanwhile, in the French parliamentary elections, Emmanuel Macron’s calculation was effectively like the old puzzle about a man who has to get a fox, a chicken and a bag of grain from one side of a river to another. Today, he’s like a man stood on the far bank of a river watching a fox murder a chicken as it swallows all the grain. Whoops. Finally, in Britain the maths was easy. An epochal nuking for the Tories has brought Labour to power on a one-word slogan of Change. But with the coffers bare, is the change Starmer’s looking for spare? *** Be excellent to each other, and - Get us on Twitter . On Patreon . On Youtube . Or on our Substack .…
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1 Special Edition: "The First Debate Did Not Take Place" - Info Wars, Narrative Control and Modern Washington - feat. Malcom Kyeyune 1:11:52
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedIn the halls of modern government the info-wizard is king. Media consultants, political strategists, whatever title they assume they always promise the same thing: magic worked through information control; spells cast by incantation. In the first week of March 2022, only a few days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a slew of articles came out in Western publications announcing the advent of the anti-Russian infowar. To say that this infowar was launched with much fanfare would be an understatement - within days of the Russo-Ukraine war beginning various Western publications were already suggesting that victory was on the horizon. The effect was eerie, with multiple outlets running the exact same headline. "Ukraine is winning the information war against Russia", proclaimed different writers at CNBC, Slate, and The Financial Times. No doubt this proclamation of victory was itself part of the infowar that the various authors purported to analyse - a self-licking ice cream cone if there ever was one. Yet as time went on it became clear that the anti-Russian infowar was not targeted at the Russian people, much less the Russian military - rather it was targeted at a Western domestic audience. The French philosopher Jean Baudrillard once declared that The Gulf War Did Not Take Place - it was merely broadcast as a sort of simulation on television screens across the world. If only Baudrillard had lived to see the anti-Russian infowar launched in early-2022. Partisan politics in the United States had long been drowned in a bathtub of propaganda by the time the anti-Russian infowar came along. As the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal raged in 1998, the American public asked themselves whether the President did or did not have sexual relations with that woman. The question was a factual one: did he or didn't he. Today such a reference to reality seems quaint. The factuality of various political attacks barely matters anymore as everything is treated as being part of some partisan "narrative" or "talking point". And so, when some people raised the possibility that President Joe Biden might be completely incapable of doing his job due to severe cognitive impairment, the factuality of this claim was never really addressed - it was simply dismissed as an obvious partisan attack, a "right-wing talking point". Last week we saw reality climb back in through the window: the President tried to debate his opponent on television and the world saw that America is being led by a man who is clearly not in command of his faculties. In this week's episode of Multipolarity, we are joined by Malcolm Kyeyune to discuss the saturation of the information space with propaganda of various forms. Are these really the savvy tricks that consultants and strategists claim them to be? Or are they a symptom of a political system experiencing deep decline - a system that can no longer deal with reality and finds itself instead retreating into fantasy? *** Be excellent to each other, and - Get us on Twitter . On Patreon . On Youtube . Or on our Substack .…
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1 Premium Episode: EU On Manoeuvres, feat: "The ECB Plot To Rein In Europe's Rogue States" & "The Atlanticists' Diplomatic Coup" 6:26
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedThis week, it’s a double header of audio essays on Europe’s elite power-plays. One From Andrew Collingwood - on the Atlanticists and the Autonomists taking their battle for supremacy into the new EU administration. And another from Philip Pilkington setting out how a new kind of Trussification may be coming for the states within the ECB… Is Le Pen mightier than La Banque? *** It’s premium week, so if you’re not already a subscriber, head over to Patreon where for five pounds, Euros or dollars a month, you can get access to this, and all our previous premium episodes. Cancel any time.…
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1 Putin In Pyongyang, Milei Down And Die, Don't Believe Your Von Der Leyen Eyes 54:58
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedAs Vladimir Putin meets Kim Jong Un, big trade plans are afoot. Much to the chagrin of Western leaders. Seems like we’re about to answer an important question: what happens when the collective set of people you’ve sanctioned gets so large that they can all successfully trade with each other? Which invites yet another question - did no one think of this? Javier Milei decided he would rip the band aid off Argentine inflation. Now, finally, beneath that band aid, we can see… a gaping wound. Inflation is coming down - but in this case, what comes down must go up. We’ll be explaining why The Crazy One’s apparent success in containing the money supply is about to lead to another run on the peso. Finally, last week, the EU was assailed by a wave of populists. It all felt suitably dramatic. A blow against the blob. But have you ever punched a blob before? As the permanent Brussels mandarin class regroups, it's time for the Empire Strikes Back. *** Be excellent to each other, and - Get us on Twitter . On Patreon . On Youtube . Or on our Substack .…
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1 Special Episode: Mr Kyeyune Goes To Washington 47:43
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedMilitary-industrial blogger Malcom Kyeyune spends his life talking and thinking about US war preparations. So what was it like when he finally left his Swedish fortress and visited the capital of the Global American Empire, Washington DC? Malcom is just back from his first international conference. The Lads pick up on his time talking to the generals and the bureaucrats, and wonder whether the numbers match the vibes. Kyeyune is famously pessimistic. What did the DC Blob make of this Jonah commanding them to repent? *** Be excellent to each other, and - Get us on Twitter . On Patreon . On Youtube . Or on our Substack .…
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Tough decisions rattle us all to the core. But for our guests on One Decision— the choices they are up against can also shape history. No pressure! They take us through all of their doubts, emotions and—sometimes unexpected--consequences. A fresh take on foreign policy. Hear the former head of Mi6, Sir Richard Dearlove alongside international journalists as they analyse, interview, and discuss.
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America’s premier Sunday morning public affairs program. For nearly 70 years, Face the Nation has sought to help audiences understand how current events affect their lives. Today, that mission remains the same. Hear moderator Margaret Brennan’s illuminating and informative interviews with elected officials, policy experts and foreign leaders. Face the Nation airs Sundays at 10:30 AM, ET on the CBS Television Network and at 12 PM, ET on the CBS News Streaming Network. Face the Nation is also ...
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Political powerhouses Beth Rigby, Ruth Davidson and Harriet Harman unite to unravel the spin and explain what’s really going on in Westminster and beyond. Every episode, they will examine politicians, what they stand for and how they sell polices as UK politics enters a new era. They will work out which politicians are coming out on top and who is having an Electoral Dysfunction – and what it all actually means for you. WhatsApp - 07934 200444
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Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk without the boring parts, featuring the writers, activists and artists who shape the news, from a progressive perspective.
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True crime investigations from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Veteran legal affairs journalist Bill Rankin takes you inside the courtroom to break down the story and the criminal justice system. This award-winning series investigates Georgia’s most important cases with fact-based reporting. Season 10 will focus on the historic indictment of former President Donald Trump in Fulton County, Georgia, led by District Attorney Fani Willis. Co-hosted by senior reporter Tamar Hallerman and editor ...
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Since 2006, this podcast has been using history to elevate today's political debates. "The perfect antidote to bloviating talking heads, My History is thoughtful, nuanced, and highly engaging." -Columbia Journalism Review
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The UK Column is an independent news organisation analysing the information war. Operating without financial backing or external investment, we remain free from advertisers, foundations, and political parties, relying solely on support from our audience through memberships and donations.
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The Financial Times takes you into the corridors of power to unwrap, analyse and debate British politics with a regular lineup of FT correspondents and informed commentators. New episodes available every Friday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The ABC's politics podcast, Politics Now, dives into the biggest political stories in Australia and around the world, giving you a balanced look inside the strategies and decisions behind the headlines. Whenever major news breaks, we'll be in your feed with coverage you can trust. From Monday to Wednesday, Patricia Karvelas will chat to a rotating cast of the ABC's biggest political journalists about the latest news. On Thursdays, 'The Party Room' with Patricia Karvelas and Fran Kelly will d ...
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