Geopolitics and Empire is joined by David Fleming, the founder of the COVID Assembly,

the Together Declaration and most recently not our future. He's doing a lot of great work.

Welcome to geopolitics and empire, David.

Thanks, Ravi. Good to be on.

Great to have you on. And we've been chatting for a while on the internets. And I think you first reached out to me. And again, you're doing a lot of great work.

And I don't know you were behind it initially. I'm just curious. How did you come across

the geopolitics and empire podcast? I forget, but it was, it would have been, you know,

like a year, a year and a half ago, maybe.

And probably I was looking up someone I'd already been listening to on something else and found him on you.

I don't know, or it was suggested and I just looked at it. But it was probably somebody key, but I can't remember who it was.

You know, one of your, like, I don't know, I might be wrong. But Catherine Norson Fitts, have you. No, I haven't interviewed her. I met her. I haven't interviewed her. But, you know, C.J. Hopkins, Robin Monotti, Pierce Robinson, while a lot of those folks early on. Yeah.

I mean, yeah, and they're all signed on with another future as well.

So it's like one of those, yeah.

And then I probably stuck with you because I liked what you did.

Okay.

Yeah, cool.

Thanks for finding me.

And when I have a guest on for the first time,

especially dealing with the topic

that we're dealing with today, which is one of the main topics because, I mean, I had a guest,

Hanna Maria that I met here in Mexico recently, and she used the term in like a neo-pharmacy,

sort of like a neo-imperialism, what's going on? And I really like that term. And so I wanted to get sort of your take, your perspective, on what's going on, on this new form of imperialism. We're being subjected to under the guise of health and environment, these so-called pandemics and so-called weather, right? Climate were being subjected

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