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Joining us for the first time on Geopolitics and Empire is former intelligence NCO and contractor

Mike Shelby of Grayzone Research.

He's also founder of Early Warning Network.com.

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Welcome to the podcast, Mike.

Hey, good afternoon. Thanks for having me. I've been a fan of your work. I'm happy to

have you on. And before throwing questions at you, tell us about the work that you do at

Gray's Zone research in early morning. Yeah, well, we are trend analysts.

I think everyone is just very concerned about where the United States is headed domestically,

where the world is headed from a geostrategic, geoeconomic perspective.

Lots of things are changing. We're on the cusp, the front edge of generational

change. And so we try to make sense of that as best we can. At Early Morning Network, it's more

focused on emergency preparedness, disaster response, information sharing at the local level.

But, you know, we produce an intelligence report every day for early warning.

And we look at domestic political conditions.

We look at civil unrest, what's going on with the protests and maybe something far worse.

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