#029 Does Even The Establishment Know Anarchy Is The Answer? (with Carne Ross)

Under The Skin with Russell Brand

Russell Brand

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🗓️ 28 September 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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This week I'm joined by Carne Ross, a former high-flying diplomat and Middle East adviser who lost his faith in western democracy but put his trust in people power and is now putting forward the case for anarchism.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Under the Skin with me Russell Brand. This show is sponsored by my new
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0:30.1	Welcome to Under the Skin with Russell Brand. Today on Under the Skin I'll be talking to
0:46.8	Khan Ross. Khan Ross is a former senior British diplomat author and journalist. Having resigned
0:52.4	from the British foreign office after giving secret testimony to an official inquiry into the
0:57.0	Iraq war he then set up the world's first independent diplomatic advisory group independent
1:02.2	diplomat and nonprofit organization that provides diplomatic advisory services to governments
1:09.0	and political and international political affairs because I'm doing your re-write of your own
1:13.5	intro. Government and political movements. Government and political movements. Government and
1:19.2	political movements left out of international diplomacy. He's written about international
1:24.7	and political affairs for a wide variety of publications and is the author of two books
1:29.1	independent diplomat dispaches from an unaccountable elite and the leaderless revolution.
1:35.8	How ordinary people will take power and change politics in the 21st century. This year also saw
1:42.4	the release of the documentary about him accidental anarchist. Welcome, Khan Ross to Under the Skin.
1:50.0	Thank you. You are the first person I think that has collaborated both vocally and literally on
1:58.1	the construction of their intro. I'm a control freak. And yet you believe in the dissolution of power
2:05.6	systems. Isn't there the very heart of you as a man? A massive contradiction, Khan? Yes.
2:12.9	How are we going to deal with that? Well, the first is contradictions. Yes, I suppose. Yes,
2:17.8	evolution itself, individual versus environment, subject versus object. Now we'll start off with
2:22.6	this diplomacy business. You had an extensive career in international affairs. Could you explain
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