A look at the year so far with a focus on Venezuela, Iran and the Freedom Movement.

The Ashes - A Secret History of War by Other Means

In Victorian England, it was decided that it would be best for the human desire for conflict to play out on the sports field rather than in the streets of the colonies. They called this Rational Recreation, and cricket became the way to instill into their subjects 'British Values' of gentlemanly conduct, sportsmanship and most importantly.. knowing that you can and will always be beaten by the English.

But what happens when the master gets beaten in his own house? He is cremated, condemned to a tiny little urn. Rational Recreation becomes an Irrational Obsession to fight for ownership of that urn every two years for eternity.

WARNING: The following is an extremely bias Australian take on the worlds fist and oldest sporting rivalry, the bi-annual series of test cricket played between Australia and England known as The Ashes.

In the third chapter of our investigation, we map the birth of the modern privatized intelligence networks. This is the story of "The Men Who Sold The World."

From 1995 to September 10th, 2001, a new form of power consolidated itself in the shadows. Elite spies from MI6 and the CIA left the public sector to found corporate intelligence empires like Hakluyt and Diligence, becoming the unaccountable army for a global oligarchy centered around firms like The Carlyle Group.

We follow their trail of manufactured chaos, from the terror of the Moscow apartment bombings to the deep, tangled relationships between their patrons in the Khashoggi network and the rising threat of Osama bin Laden. We expose how this same machine executed a political coup in Florida during the 2000 election, ensuring their man was in the White House for the crisis they knew was coming. And we are forced to ask: where was Jeffrey Epstein in all of this? Was his network of sexual blackmail merely a coincidence, or was it the social and political glue that held this entire dark enterprise together?

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