I speak with Julia Muraszkiewicz (@jmuraszkiewicz), a Human Rights lawyer based in Amsterdam and Practice Manager at Trilateral Research.  Her domain expertise include: human trafficking, criminal law, human security, gender, ethics and human rights. In these fields she enjoys defining, conceptualising and empirically studying problems to find innovative remedies, including their relationship with innovations such as AI.

Toby Muse is a British-American writer and foreign correspondent. He lived in Bogota, Colombia for more than fifteen years, reporting across South America and the endless drug war. His first book is Klio: Inside the Deadliest Cocaine Cartels―from the Jungles to the Streets. We talk about his time travelling through Colombia, his interactions with everyone from the farmers to members of the cartel, members of FARC, and more. His website is: https://www.tobymuse.com.

I speak with Chase Baker, content curator of The Filthy American (2.0) on Instagram and other social media platforms. Baker is a new and aspiring and media curator on Instagram. We talk about this strange medium, his relationship with Instagram who has already banned him once, and the ever increasing blurring of lines between content creation, journalism, and war porn aficionado. See his stuff at: https://www.instagram.com/thefilthyamerican2.0/

I speak to Oliver Dodd (University of Nottingham) who recently penned an article in Jacobin titled 'Colombia’s Mercenary Industry is Behind the Haitian Coup' (https://jacobinmag.com/2021/07/colombia-mercenary-industry-haitian-coup-assassination-president-jovenel-moise-right-wing-paramilitaries-retired-armed-forces/). We talk about Colombia's militarism, its mercenary industry, the Haiti connection, and some niche topics around Central and Latin American geopolitics.

I speak with Dr. Robin Renwick, Research Analyst with Trilateral Research. Continuing from the conversation I had about the intersection of Bitcoin and Human Rights, Renwick provides his critical perspective of this subject area, and speaks about his time at Human Rights Foundation's Oslo Freedom Forum.

I speak with Dr. Alessandro Arduino, the Co-Director of the Security & Crisis Management programme at the Shanghai Academy of Social Science (SASS-UNITO). We discuss Primate Military Companies in the style of Blackwater and Wagner Group, and whether China will be next to export its own version.

I speak with Alexander Lekhtman, a journalist and writer who covers the policy, science, and culture of drugs for Filter Magazine (@Filtermag_org). We discuss drug policy, the international drug trade, illicit trade routes, and have an informal conversation about the basics around heroin and meth production and trade around the world.  Read one of his articles, 'Support. Don’t Punish—A Call to Reject the World’s Brutal Drug War' here: https://filtermag.org/support-dont-punish-drug-war/

In this episode I speak with Jacob Shapiro (@JacobShap), a former analyst with Stratfor and Geopolitical Futures who has now founded Perch Perspectives (@PerchSpectives), a (geo)political risk and consultancy firm. Shapiro lists his top four geopolitical issues and concerns in a post-COVID world, and we speak about risk analysis and the risk analysis industry.

I speak to Allison Fedirka, Director of Analysis at Geopolitical Futures, a political forecasting firm founded by George Friedman. We discuss the latest demonstrations in Cuba and what they mean, Cuba's unique geopolitical situation in the world, and why understanding Cuba's geopolitics depends heavily on understanding the political turmoil of the countries that surround this fascinating North Caribbean island.

I speak to Kjetil Tronvoll (@KjetilTronvoll), a peace and conflict studies researcher specializing in Eritrea, Ethiopia and Zanzibar. As of 2021, he is a professor of peace and conflict studies at Bjørknes University College and heads a consultancy firm Oslo Analytica. This episode was recorded on 07/20/21 as PART 2 of a two-part series that goes in depth over the Tigray War, the actors involved in that conflict, the resulting human rights abuses, and what's to come for Ethiopia.