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who's author of the fantastic book.

I've got the digital version here,

one idea to rule them all,

reverse engineering American propaganda.

Welcome to geopolitics and empire, Michelle.

Hi, thanks for having me.

Excellent book.

And before digging into it, anything you want to tell us about yourself, your work, and how and why this book came to be?

Sure.

It's kind of an oddity in the universe, really.

I was just struck by a local unearthing of corruption, and it was really

relatively small Ant Hill. And I thought, my God, it was at that moment that you realized,

God, Washington must be just, you know, because it doesn't filter down without, you know,

that's the maximum power up there. And so I um, I just started, um, I wanted to research

propaganda. And I actually, it happened at the time that Barack Obama came to rise. And I thought,

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