The Geopolitics & Power Podcast

🎙️: https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/share Curious Worldview Podcast - #172 w/ Michael Hilliard On Apple Curious Worldview Podcast - #172 w/ Michael Hilliard On Spotify Follow me on Instagram - @ryanfhogg Watch on Youtube - https://youtu.be/ZzsFPOUzlHg Micheal Hilliard is a geopolitical analyst host and creator of 'The Red Line Podcast'… and! a fellow Aussie coming to us today from Australia’s glorious West coast capital, Perth. Micheal and his team with the 'Red Line' take a deep fortnightly dive into a eclectic mix of narrow geopolitical topics … everything from the second hand market for nuclear weapons to the growth of Chinese private military groups... And so therefore, and needless to say, the 'Red Line' is brilliant and if you have anything geopolitical populating your new episodes feed you'd be smart to too add the red line to your subscriptions. This is michael’s second appearance on the pod… in his first appearance he hinted a time in his life when he was living in Kazakstan ghostwriting geopolitical analysis and this tidbit has been on my mind ever since. Therefore this pod we do Michael Hilliard… Touring as a bass player in a rock n roll bandTid bits on TurkmenistanTop to bottom the world of geopolitics ghostwritingIndonesia from Australia’s perspectiveSerendipity… and much more Curious Things Mentioned During The Episode Geopolitics Starter PackMichael Hilliard First Appearance 🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg

🎙️: https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/share Curious Worldview Podcast - #170 w/ Ernest Scheyder On Apple Curious Worldview Podcast - #170 w/ Ernest Scheyder On Spotify https://atlasgeographica.com/ernest-scheyder/ 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 consuming the carbon rich oil into our atmosphere… but it also means that we are going to need way more other stuff from the under the ground than we currently even know about. It will require mining 100’s of more sacred sites and 100’s of more beautiful vistas. Copper, lithium, cobalt and literally 100’s of other rare earths are all necessary components of batteries, electric cars, trucks, boats, even leaf-blowers… and this for a scale for 8 billion, soon to be 9 billion people… If a sacred religious sight is built atop enough copper to secure your domestic supply… should you mine it? If thousands of tonnes of lithium is built under a unique flower, almost certain to go extinct if you extract… should you do it? And if you decide to play by environmental rules while everyone doesn’t… are you doing what’s right in the short term at the cost of whats best in the long? These questions consume the book, and as well, this conversation. So here is a veteran energy journalist for Rueters, and author of the War Below… Ernest Scheyder. War Below – Ernest Scheyder Curious Things Mentioned During The Episode Geothermal Starter PackErik Townsend – Energy TransitionInvestigative Journalist Starter PackInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ 🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg

🎙️: https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/share Curious Worldview Podcast - #169 w/ Jon Lee Anderson On Apple Curious Worldview Podcast - #169 w/ Jon Lee Anderson On Spotify https://atlasgeographica.com/jon-lee-anderson/ 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 the best was a combination of all three! Well, in Jon Lee Anderson we have an exemplar for all three of those labels. Listens past 10 minutes and you will see the adventurer, listen to the details of how he put together Che’s biography and you will understand the journalist but then to top it all off, read anything Jon Lee’s written and you will understand the great writer. This was a mighty moment for the podcast. I managed to hide my nerves behind a facade of professionalism… but Jon and I ended up spending more than 4 hours together as we inhabited a closed, cold, empty drinkers club on a January London morning. Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker Staff Writer Che: A Revolutionary Life Christopher Hitchens Curious Things Mentioned During The Episode Journalist Starter PackExplorers Starter PackDavid Grann – Lost City Of Z, New YorkerInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ 🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg

🎙️: https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/share Curious Worldview Podcast - #168 w/ Patrick Watts On Apple Curious Worldview Podcast - #168 w/ Patrick Watts On Spotify ✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe https://atlasgeographica.com/patrick-watts/ The following is with Patrick Watts who is one hell of an interesting fella, this was a really fun episode to record! The podcast is about the themes from his debut book, The End Of The American Empire. The End Of The American Empire – UK Amazon The End Of The American Empire – US Amazon It’s just come out in US and UK markets, so don’t hesitate a second to go and get it. Amazon link is in the description… this is a self published book from Patrick, so my hope is that the curious worldview audience will really make a difference in moving the needle here. Curious Things Mentioned During The Episode Geopolitics Starter PackJohn Perkins & Confessions Of An Economic Hitman🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/

🎙️: https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/share Curious Worldview Podcast - #167 w/ Bill Browder On Apple Curious Worldview Podcast - #167 w/ Bill Browder On Spotify ✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 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. Bill discusses the very real threat of assassination by both Putin and China. He lays out his Rouges Gallery of both nations and individuals and offers what is a rather desolate and grim picture of the Russian culture and economy. Bill Browder is the author of Red Notice & Freezing Order. Red Notice is one of my favourite autobiographies. It is an incredible story from how Bill went from the descendent of one of America’s most famous communists to becoming one of the most famous capitalists in Russia. At Hermitage Capital’s peak (Bill’s investment firm) he was the largest source of Western Capital in Post-Soviet Russia… his experiences around the voucher system alone make the book a must read. Or podcast a must listen ;) Curious Things Mentioned During The Episode Jim HenryDesmond Shum - Red RouletteJohn PerkinsNic ShaxsonBradley HopeNathan LynchOliver BulloughOffshore Finance🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/

🎙️: https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/share Curious Worldview Podcast - #135 w/ Anna Sundberg On Apple Curious Worldview Podcast - #135 w/ Anna Sundberg On Spotify ✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 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 stereotype of a blonde swede with blue eyes, became radicalised in Islam and ultimately married the jihadist terrorist leader, Said Arif, who was captured by the Syrian secret police and had included in his network, the likes of Osama Bin Laden. This is the first time she’s ever told this story in english and following the central timeline of her experiences she answers questions about why Islam was even compelling at all the first place, secular Sweden, how steeply and quickly one can become radicalised, a day in the life of a jihadist wife, living in Chechnya, Syria, Berlin, being an extremist muslim in all these places and Sweden, re-entry into Sweden, De-Radicalisation, culture and more. 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/anna-sundberg/ Curious Things Mentioned During The Episode Diamant SalihuMartin SchibbyeInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ 🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg

🎙️: https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/share Curious Worldview Podcast - #158 w/ Magnus Ranstorp On Apple Curious Worldview Podcast - #158 w/ Magnus Ranstorp On Spotify ✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 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 on modern terrorism and political violence. He was also the first author to seriously map out the Lebanese Hezbollah and its connection to Iran, Syria and international terrorism. And so, the insights and experience Magnus brings to the current moment are extremely valuable. Curious Things Mentioned During The Episode Magnus Ranstorp Memoirs🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/

🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 ✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 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 and was just the most incredible guest to have had on the show. The podcast starts in Kyrgyzstan and then moves onto religion and what Marlene thinks is a global wave of de-secularisation… we then move up into Murmansk and the frozen tundra cities of Siberia’s north to then Marlene’s thoughts on Russian demographics and finally she lays out the current state of affairs in the Russian-Ukraine war. Curious Things Mentioned During The Episode https://marlene-laruelle.com/https://www.illiberalism.org/https://therussiaprogram.org/🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/

🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 ✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/heidi-blake/ 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 greenwashing schemes at its core. In this podcast we cover top to bottom Heidi’s story in the New Yorker, details about the characters involved, greenwashing, offshore finance, south pole, and the huge potential but also gaping flaws of carbon offsetting. Curious Things Mentioned During The Episode Duncan Mavin – Lex Greensill ScandalOliver Bullough – Moneyland 🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/

🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 ✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/matthew-friedman/ 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 human trafficking and modern slavery. In this conversation, Matthew reveals unsettling story after unsettling story of human trafficking, modern slavery and scams. And in and among it all, he explains how it could be possible that today there are more slaves than has ever been before. Time Stamps For Matthew Friedman 🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg Curious Things Mentioned During The Episode Investigative Journalism Starter PackMartin Schibbye - Cards Of Qatar

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe David De Jong Twitter🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 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 on this podcast, talking about his book Nazi Billionaires, but for this episode we exclusively talk about David’s first hand experience over the last 2 and a half weeks, which includes the horror of being among the first reporters on the ground to some of the sites hit worst from October 7th through to disinformation and how to think about the media coverage of this conflict so far. 00:00 – Introduction 01:09 – Recalling The First Few Days First Hand Experience 18:24 – Sentiment Changes Among Israelis 28:38 – ‘It’s Getting Harder For Jewish & Arab Israeli’s To Live Together’ 34:00 – How Do You Get Reliable Reporting From Gaza? 36:48 – Social Stigma Among Israelis 40:54 – Dissecting The Media Coverage Curious Things Mentioned During The Episode David De Jong TwitterCurious Worldview NewsletterDavid De Jong Nazi Billionaires 🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 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 together, but in the years before they built their empire of the backs of being cosy with the most powerful elites right up the tippy top of the CCP mountains-cape. These relationships coupled with an incredible ambition and nouse for business led Desmond to multiple business deals that were not only extremely lucrative, but also interesting as a case study into the tide lifting all boats phenomenon that was a booming china ins the early 2000’s. 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/desmond-shum/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ 🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 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 one of my favourite episodes I’ve ever had the privilege to record. Tim, this time around takes us through his month long journey through Liberia and Sierre Leone. He wrote a book about it called Chasing The Devil, and as the title alludes, a big part of the journey was trying to come to terms with the voodoo, black magic and devil worship that he encounters along the way. Much like his Congo trip, Tim again is journeying in the footsteps of a great writer who had gone before him. In the case of Liberia it is the famous author and journalists, Graham Greene. 🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/tim-butcher-chasing-the-devil/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ Curious Things Mentioned During The Episode Tim MarshallTim Butcher – Blood River Through The CongoJames Robinson – Why Nations Fail

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 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 long term effects of immigration in Europe, and of course… the future of geography… space all the way down. 🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/tim-marshall/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ Curious Things Mentioned During The Episode Tim Marshall Prisoners Of GeographyTim Marshall Power Of Geography

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 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 about… 🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/norman-ohler/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ Curious Things Mentioned During The Episode David De Jong

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 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 give you a greater appreciation for globalisation and the wondrous efficiency of global trade than this book will. It is kind of a miracle that things cost as cheaply as they do, and are as ubiquitous as they are. Time Stamps For Ed Conway 🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/ed-conway/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ Curious Things Mentioned During The Episode Jos BenschopVince Beiser

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 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 series which is guns, cocaine and dirty money in Europe. This is truly one of the most fascinating and important stories happening in northern Europe at the moment. As Europe as a continent is set too, apparently, overtake the USA as the gross largest consumer of cocaine in the world. And along with the increase in consumption comes the requisite increase in violence, corruption, money laundering and other criminal networks that the scale and money behind cocaine enables. Time Stamps For Mitchell Prothero 🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/mitchell-prothero/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ Curious Things Mentioned During The Episode Bradley HopeNicky WoolfChristopher TurnerJustin ScheckGateway By Project Brazen

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 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. The drama of the deals, the personalities, the extravagances of wealth, the politics. The Murdoch empire is one of the most fascinating group of companies ever assembled and…. the subject of this podcast Lachlan Murdoch – is supposedly set to inherit it all. ----- 🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/paddy-manning/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ Curious Things Mentioned During The Episode Paul ClearyDick Smith

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 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. To hear more about John, what is an economic hitman and the key experiences that inform John’s worldview, be sure to check out his first appearance on the show. ----- Congo🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/john-perkins/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ Curious Things Mentioned During The Episode Confessions Of An Economic HitmanJim HenryOffshore Finance & Financial Secrecy Starter Pack

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: A Curious Worldview Podcast - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/1485736 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, even managed a hedge fund, and has since built one of the strongest media platforms in finance – Macrovoices. In the following conversation, the topics that we spoke about include the following… Nassim Taleb----- Geothermal EnergyNassim Taleb🍻☕: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ryanhogg ✍️: https://atlasgeographica.com/erik-townsend/ Curious Things Mentioned During The Episode Geothermal Energy Starter PackOffshore Finance & Financial Secrecy Starter PackEconomics & Economic Development Starter Pack