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For My Friends, Everything; For My Enemies, The Law
Season 1 Episode 320
Venezuela has become the flashpoint for a new era of American hard power - not just a regime change, but a raw assertion of dominance over the "backy…
4 hours ago
Bye Bye Maduro, You Gone Now
Season 1 Episode 319
Jacob takes on the U.S. seizure of Nicolás Maduro and what it reveals about American power, imperial strategy, and hemispheric priorities. This was l…
5 days, 23 hours ago
Money and Control
Season 1 Episode 318
What if the money in your pocket wasn’t a tool for freedom, but a mechanism for control? Inflation, surveillance, and financial exclusion actively sh…
1 week, 4 days ago
Right Wing Ascendant
Season 1 Episode 317
Elohim Monard joins The Jacob Shapiro Podcast to discuss Latin America.
A massive geopolitical integration in LatAm is quietly underway, fueled by a …
2 weeks, 4 days ago
The Return of Imperial Strategy
Season 1 Episode 316
Power gets loud when it’s insecure. Strategy becomes theater. And ideology sneaks in wearing policy jargon. The White House's newest U.S. National Se…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
The Geography of a Missing Daughter
Season 1 Episode 315
Book episode!
What happens when a policy meant to shape a nation reaches into the most intimate corners of a family’s life? Journalist Barbara Demick…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Geopolitics of Personalized Money
Season 1 Episode 314
As global finance strains under shifting power structures, author and fintech thinker Emmanuel Daniel, founder of TAB Global, argues that the real di…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Demand Shock
Season 1 Episode 313
Tariffs promise protection but unleash deeper shocks - reshaping demand, distorting prices, and testing the resilience of an already-strained economi…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
"What the West Should Learn from China"
Season 1 Episode 312
China’s rise is often framed as a geopolitical contest, but Kaiser Y Kuo, host of the Sinica Podcast, pushes us to confront something deeper: what if…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
“The Longevity Dividend, or, Why You Shouldn’t Bathe in the Blood of Virgins”
Season 1 Episode 311
Aging quietly shapes everything - our economies, our politics, our families, and the horizon of what nations can become. Jacob and longevity expert D…
1 month, 3 weeks ago