8/17/23 Brad Pearce on the Coup in Niger and the Troubling State of West Africa

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🗓️ 19 August 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Scott was joined by Brad Pearce on Antiwar Radio this week to discuss what’s happening in West Africa. Pearce has been following the region closely. He puts the recent coup in Niger in context and explains some of the current geopolitical dynamics in the broader region. Discussed on the show: The Wayward Rabbler “France never stopped looting Africa, now the tables are turning” (The Cradle) “The Last Domino Falls in the Sahel” (The Wayward Rabbler) “Rumors of War in West Africa” (The Wayward Rabbler) Brad Pearce is a writer focused on international relations and politics. He writes at The Wayward Rabbler. Follow him on Twitter @WaywardRabbler This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	For Pacifica Radio, August 17th, 2023.
0:05.0	I'm Scott Horton.
0:08.0	This is anti-war radio. All right, Shell, welcome the show.
0:13.0	It is anti-war radio. I'm your host Scott Horton.
0:25.6	I'm the editorial director of anti-war.com and author of the book Enough Already.
0:31.0	Time to End the War on terrorism. You can find my full
0:33.6	interview archive, not quite 6,000 of them now going back to 2003 at
0:38.7	Scott Horton.org at YouTube.com slash Scott Horton show and all the other video sites and stuff like that.
0:44.9	And you can follow me on Twitter if you dare at Scott Horton Show.
0:49.4	All right, introducing Brad Pierce. He writes a great blog over at Substat called
0:55.9	The Wayward Rabbler and has a couple of really great pieces about what's been
1:01.3	going on in West Africa and the Sahel lately.
1:05.2	Welcome to the show Brad how are you doing sir?
1:07.2	Oh I'm doing well thank you so much for having me on.
1:10.2	Now very happy to have you here so tell us what is going on in West Africa and the
1:15.0	Sahel and why is it all John McCain and Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden and David
1:20.6	Petraeus' fault? Well you are completely correct about that, though let's not forget the amount of blame
1:26.6	that Nicholas Sarkozy holds for this as well.
1:29.3	Oh yeah.
1:30.5	And David Cameron for that matter.
1:32.4	And I left out Obama, I don't know why, but he's the leader of the pack there.
1:37.0	Yeah, that was actually really was directed out of Hillary Clinton State Department.
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