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….
Category: Politics
Chatter #241 [Live] – Johnny Vedmore: Who Are Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum?
The World Economic Forum is a group that has been at the centre of numerous wild theories and speculation regarding digital ID, CBDCs, and the global pandemic response. Johnny Vedmore is a Writer, Investigative Journalist & Phunter. He’s also Musician & a #420 Free Wales advocate! I wanted to get Johnny on the…
Chatter #240 – Jeffrey Peel: England Lifts All Restrictions, NI Protocol, and the WEF
Jeffrey Peel is a former Conservative politician who worked to try to bring the Tories to Northern Ireland. 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…
Chatter #237 [Live] – Greg Foss – Truckers vs Trudeau: The Story Of The Canadian Freedom Convoy
I always thought the phrase “the revolution will not be televised” was a cliche, until 2022 and the Canadian Truckers. There is something approaching a soft revolution happening in Canada right now, truckers, farmers, and other supporters drove a convoy of 10s of thousands across Canada to the capital and have blockaded the…
Chatter #235 – Mark E. Thomas on Corruption, Oligarchy, and the NHS Health And Social Care Bill
I think I mention the work of Mark E. Thomas on this show almost as much as I reference Naomi Klein and The Shock Doctrine, so it was a pleasure to have Mark back on the show. In this episode we talked through the privatisation of the NHS, the implications of the Health…
Chatter #231 – Andrew Feinstein on Neoliberalism, South Africa, and the Global Arms Trade
Andrew Feinstein is Founding Director of Shadow World Investigations (formerly Corruption Watch), an NGO that undertakes path-breaking investigations into cases of grand corruption, corporate malfeasance and militarism, predominantly but not exclusively in the global arms trade. Andrew was a former African National Congress (ANC) Member of Parliament in South Africa for 7 years…
