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The Economic Hit Man Presidency (with John Perkins)
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On PREVAIL, a weekly interview podcast, the author and columnist Greg Olear discusses politics, world news, history, national security, foreign affairs, organized crime, dirty money, global corruption, and the fight for democracy with authors, journalists, academics, diplomats, researchers, and other expert guests. Every Friday.
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- The Economic Hit Man Presidency (with John Perkins) · 42 min · Episodio 97John Perkins is the author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, which spent over seventy weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, sold over 1.8 million copies, and was…
- As Times Goes By: The Odyssey, Casablanca, Birth of a Nation, and Southern Horrors (with Joseph Kelly) · 1 h 22 minIn this far-reaching conversation, Greg Olear talks to Joseph Kelly, a professor and director of the Irish & Irish American Studies program at the College of Charleston, and the…
- An Empire Problem: On the Ground in Southern Lebanon (with Courtney Bonneau) · 52 minWhat began, officially, as a mission to attack Hezbollah leadership and military strongholds is now indisputably much larger and, by all indications, more imperial. Israel is…
- The Economy of Secrets (with Brooke Harrington) · 57 minGreg Olear speaks with the economic sociology professor Brooke Harrington, author of “Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism,” about journalistic omertà, bodily…
- Golden Ticket: The Hidden Life of Roald Dahl · 55 minYou’re familiar with his books: Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, James & the Giant Peach, The BFG, Matilda. But how much do you know about the author? Greg Olear speaks with…
- The Ultimate Transgression: Offshores, Kompromat Culture & the Competitive Depravity Olympics (with Brooke Harrington) · 1 h 19 minRich people are not like us–they have more money. And mega-rich people? They not only have more money, but they hide it “offshore,” to avoid detection by the tax man, law…
- The German Spies at Pearl Harbor? Those Were My Grandparents (with Christine Kuehn & Mark Schiponi) · 1 h 4 minWhat happens when you discover that the reason your father never speaks about his parents or his childhood growing up in Hawaii is because his mother, father, and older sister…
- American Contradiction: Revolution and Revenge (with Paul Starr) · 1 h 0 minIn this conversation with Greg Olear, Paul Starr discusses his book “American Contradiction: Revolution and Revenge from the 1950s to Now,” exploring the complex themes of…
- United States of Florida: The Secret History of the Evil, Racist, Homophobic Johns Committee (with Robert W. Fieseler) · 1 h 9 minAs Florida goes, so goes the country. The indefatigable investigative journalist Robert W. Fieseler talks to Greg Olear about a state-sponsored persecution of Black and gay…
- Ground Zero For Our Nation’s Pain (with Ronlyn Domingue) · 1 h 20 minOn the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the publication of her hit debut novel THE MERCY OF THIN AIR, Ronlyn Domingue talks to Greg Olear about the story’s timeless…
- The Horror, the Horror: Yevgeny “Putin’s Butcher” Prigozhin, the Mr. Kurtz of Russia (with Candace Rondeaux) · 1 h 9 minGreg Olear talks to Candace Rondeaux about her book “Putin’s Sledgehammer,” which delves into the Wagner Group mercenary group and the complexities of Russia’s political landscape.
- The Musicality of Learning & the Cacophony of State-Sponsored Ignorance (with former U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King, Jr.) · 53 minGreg Olear talks to John B. King, Jr., former U.S. Secretary of Education and current SUNY chancellor, about what the Department of Education actually does; what proposed cuts to…
- Roberto Calvi & the Briefcase of Secrets: The Vatican, the Mafia, the Italian Deep State, and the Mystery of the Dead Banker (with Nicolo Majnoni) · 56 minGreg Olear talks to Nicolo Majnoni about his new podcast, 'Shadow Kingdom, God's Banker,' which delves into the mysterious death of banker Roberto Calvi and the intricate…
- The Great Reshuffle: Land and Power (with Mike Albertus) · 53 minWho owns the land? Who DECIDES who owns the land? Who has the power to redistribute land ownership? If land ownership IS redistributed, who gets to take possession and who…
- Has It Verve? A Discussion About “Severance” Season Two (with Stephanie St. John) · 1 h 5 minTo, ahem, sever himself from the news, Greg Olear brings on his wife, Stephanie St. John, a huge fan of “Severance,” to discuss the second season. Cold Harbor, fetid moppet…
- The Ocean Is Inside the Drop: Navigating the Overwhelm (with Claudia Black) · 1 h 47 minThe Overwhelm: Trump, Musk, stupidity, banality, artlessness, lack of decency, betrayal by our leadership, rage, fear, grief from what we’ve lost. We are living through a period…
- Money, Lies, God, and the Taxonomy of Reactionary Nihilism (with Katherine Stewart) · 1 h 7 minKatherine Stewart is the author of The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism, the award-winning book upon which the documentary feature, God &…
- Mayor of the Night, President of Darkness (with Christopher Steele) · 1 h 14 minChristopher Steele began his twenty-two-year career as an intelligence professional and Russia expert within the British government in 1987, soon after graduating from Cambridge…
- American Dream, Georgian Dream (with Alex Hall Hall) SEASON FINALE · 47 minFor more than 30 years, Alexandra Hall Hall worked as a diplomat in the British Foreign Office, with postings in Washington, Bangkok, Delhi, Bogota, and Tbilisi, where she was…
- The Fascism Episode / America the Stupidful · 1 h 28 minMany times in the last two years, we have warned about the grim consequences of allowing a wannabe dictator–who attempted to overthrow the government on his way out the door four…
