Patrick Lovell started in Hollywood balancing working inside the machine while pursuing an Indy writing career. After a TV show he was working on collapsed in the wake of the 2008 financial crash, Patrick began to look deeper, eventually going on to produce The Con… In the gripping original five-part docu-series The Con,…
Tag: US Politics
Chatter #274 – Jenin Younes – Pandemic Censorship: Taking Silicon Valley & the US Govt To Court
Jenin Younes is a Litigation Council at the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) and former New York City Defender. Jenin is working on the lawsuit that has been filed by Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and Missouri AG Eric Schmitt in partnership with the NCLA, two of the three authors of the anti-lockdown…
Chatter #255 – Scott Horton – The US War Machine: From Iraq and Afghanistan to Ukraine
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. HELP ME CROWDFUND MY GAMESTOP BOOK. Go to https://wen-moon.com to join the…
Chatter #151 – Sophie Zhang – Whistleblowing On Facebook: Fake Engagement and Election Manipulation
Sophie Zhang is a data scientist and whistleblower who formerly worked at Facebook. From 2018 to 2020, while she was investigating “fake engagement” at Facebook, she uncovered abusive political manipulation and opposition harassment networks in 25 countries. Zhang reported that most of these subversive networks use Facebook’s organization pages, configured with human names…
Chatter #115 – Oli Dugmore on Memes, Journalism, and the Influence of Social Media on Politics
Oli Dugmore, head of News and Politics at Joe Politics, was my guest on today’s show. In this conversation we went deep on the power of the meme, the GameStop saga, and the power of social media to influence politics. We also covered a number of issues that I cover in my book,…
Chatter #91 – Tim Elliott on America, the Late Roman Republic, and Populism
Tim Elliott, an ancient historian researching populist politics in the Roman Republic, was my guest on today’s show. We had a really interesting conversation discussing an article he wrote that alludes to comparisons between the late Roman Republic and the current state of US politics, most intriguingly between Donald Trump and Julius Caesar….
