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Episode #220: Antony Loewenstein (Independent Journalist, “Disaster Capitalism)

Antony Loewenstein (Independent Journalist, “Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe”) joins the show. We discuss how disaster capitalism has spread across the globe completely unchecked, and threatens every citizen on the planet.   Show Notes You can purchase

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Episode #164: Nomi Prins

Nomi Prins (“All the Presidents’ Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power”) joins the show. We discuss the intimate relationships that have developed over the years between bankers and politicians. For better or worse, Wall Street and the White

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Episode #137: Brendan Koerner

Brendan Koerner (“The Skies Belong To Us”, Wired contributing editor) joins the show. America experienced a startling rise in airplane hijackings as people in the country tried to come to grips with the social and political tension of the time.

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Episode #135: Nicholas Griffin

Nicholas Griffin (“Ping-Pong Diplomacy: The Secret History Behind the Game That Changed the World”) joins the show. We discuss the background to the landmark event as well as how table tennis grew to become so popular.   Show Notes You

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Episode #127: Marc Morris

Marc Morris (“The Norman Conquest: The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England”) joins the show. We discuss the most important event in English history.     Show Notes You can purchase The Norman Conquest wherever books are

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Episode #121: Andrew O’Shaughnessy

Andrew O’Shaughnessy (“The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire”) joins the show. We discuss the Revolutionary War from the perspective of the men in charge for Great Britain.     Show

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Episode #108: William Hogeland

William Hogeland (“Founding Finance: How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation”) joins the show. We discuss the economic clashes that forged a country, and the impact it still carries today.       Show Notes Founding

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Episode #107: Medea Benjamin

Medea Benjamin (“Drone Warfare: Killing By Remote Control”, co-founder of Code Pink) joins the show. We discuss the history of drones and their present-day controversy of being used around the globe.     Show Notes You can purchase Drone Warfare

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Episode #104: Robin Waterfield

Robin Waterfield (“Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great’s Empire”) joins the show. Many people know how Alexander the Great conquered much of the known world. Few know the story of what happened to his empire after his

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Episode #103: Jim Donovan

Jim Donovan (“The Blood of Heroes: The 13-Day Struggle for the Alamo–and the Sacrifice That Forged a Nation”) joins the show. We discuss the early history of people moving to Texas, the colonists fight for independence, the major players who

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