Geopolitics and Empires, joined by Stavrula Popz, who's a writer, comedian, media PhD student at the National and Capodistrian University of Athens.

Her writing has appeared in publications, including propaganda and focus, reductress al-Maadine and the Grey Zone.

You can keep up with her work by subscribing to her substack at

Stavarula pops.substack.com. The links are in the description. Welcome to Geopolitics and Empire,

Stavarula. Hi. Thanks so much for having me. You've been doing great work. I've been catching

some of your stuff over at Whitney Webb's Unlimited Hangout. And I've just discovered your

substack.

You did a great recent piece on Proton Mail.

You know, anything you want to add about yourself and the work that you're doing?

Essentially, it's what you said.

I do focus on geopolitics.

And these days, I've kind of focused a little bit more on the intersections between

geopolitics and tech, as well as geopolitics and finance, as I do believe that these are kind of

things that a lot of people get into the geopolitics space and then get a little bit intimidated

by the topic. So I think it's really critical that we focus on that

intersection as much as we can. So other than that, I'm a stand-up comedian and I just enjoy going

to open mics. I don't know. Maybe you can tell us some jokes to lighten the dark mood that we're

all in as we're facing all these tyrannical threats, right, CBDCs and whatnot. And I think you're right to focus on,

you know, tech, technocracy, and geopolitics and something that I've been focusing a lot on in the

past many years in this podcast, because I view this as the main threats coming at us. And you've been writing about CBDCs.

You had a piece as CBDCs rollout, elite back digital payment systems vye to build the global payment standard.

And so we're witnessing the building of this global infrastructure that will be used.

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