Geopolitics and Empire is joined by Josh Friedman, who's an American journalist, traveling the world, producing reports on international news and geopolitics.

You can find him all over the place at freemanpost.com, nomadic journalism.com over it.

We are changed on Twitter at Freeman Reporter on YouTube at Josh Friedman FMP.

Good to have you on Geopolitics, Sam, and Empire, Josh.

Thank you, Heroya. Very nice to join you. Yeah, I've been following your work for a while with

We Are Change and your independent work and you're all over the place, but you've been busy traveling

everywhere, U.S., Ukraine, I think, Turkey, has it been difficult

traveling in the age of the crown virus?

I was going to say less so over the past couple years, or maybe at this point it's been a few

years, less so over the past two, three years have I been traveling everywhere.

But yeah, there have been a lot of difficulties.

Not as much in recent weeks, although maybe we'll touch a bit on inflation.

The prices of air travel and, I mean, just about everything are skyrocketing.

So that's been the latest wrinkle but yeah

during uh during peak COVID restrictions travel was not nearly as fun as it had been for me in

years past lots of difficulties but I managed yeah I can I that I And, you know, one of the first things I wanted

to ask you about was your coverage of Bilderberg. I think it was a few months ago. And I've been

following Bilderberg reports, as have many for over a decade now. And during the pandemic,

Bilderberg didn't meet. But then earlier this year in

2022, out of the blue, they got together, I think, in Washington. And I believe you were there.

I saw a clip with you and Max Blumenthal among perhaps a few others. But I didn't really see many

in the independent media covering it. It was kind of sad to

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