Filip Kovačević: Will China Have Final Say on Next UN Secretary-General?
Geopolitics & Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
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🗓️ 8 March 2016
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Filip Kovačević discusses the latest news on NATO’s progress in Montenegro, how 2016 will be an important election year in the Balkans and for the United Nations, which will select a new Secretary-General. His thesis is that the new appointment may come from the Balkans and that China has a big role to play in the decision-making process. We also discuss Newsbud and the Kickstarter launched by FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds hoping to start a new, vibrant and independent news media organization.
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About Filip Kovačević
Filip Kovačević is a geopolitical author, university professor and the chairman of the Movement for Neutrality of Montenegro. He received his BA and PhD in political science in the US and was a visiting professor at St. Petersburg State University in Russia for two years. He is the author of seven books, dozens of academic articles & conference presentations and hundreds of newspaper columns and media commentaries. He has been invited to lecture throughout the EU, Balkans, ex-USSR and the US. His other blogs are Critical Geopolitics: Open Source Investigations and Otpor & Pobuna: Protiv sile i nepravde (in Montenegrin). He can be contacted at fk1917@yahoo.com
*Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)
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| 0:00.0 | Dr. Philip Kovachovitch is joining us on this podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | He is a geopolitical author, a university professor teaching at the University of San Francisco. |
| 0:11.0 | He is also the chairman of the Movement for Neutrality for Montenegro. |
| 0:15.0 | And he's also part of civil admin team at the Boiling Frog Post and their new initiative, which is Newsbud, for which they |
| 0:23.4 | have a Kickstarter active at the moment. Welcome, Dr. Kovacovic. Thank you very much, Hervoy. I'm glad to be |
| 0:31.9 | back. First of all, I'd like to tell you about the great initiative that Sebel Edmund has started |
| 0:42.3 | together with her partners. |
| 0:44.4 | It's called NewsBud. |
| 0:46.6 | And it is going to be completely independent, non-partisan media project. |
| 0:57.0 | And you've got an impressive team there with Pepe Escobar and a whole bunch of other folks. |
| 1:04.0 | The Kickstarter is live. |
| 1:07.0 | And can you tell us a bit more about what Newsbud will be in hopes to achieve? |
| 1:14.5 | Definitely. |
| 1:16.3 | NewsBad has great ambitions. |
| 1:20.3 | NewsBad wants to be a major media network but run completely independently from the corporate sponsors. |
| 1:30.3 | NewsBad will have no ads. |
| 1:32.3 | NewsBad will be financed by the people like us, by ordinary people. |
| 1:38.3 | It will be media of the people, by the people and for the people. And this is why we have a very important Kickstarter campaign. |
| 1:49.0 | We need to raise money in order to run this project. |
| 1:54.0 | We need about $1 million in two months in order to have this service provided, |
| 2:01.6 | not only for the citizens of the United States, |
| 2:04.6 | but for all free people in the entire world. |
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