Geopolitics and Empire is joined by Stuart J. Hooper, who is a lecturer with both a master's in

international politics and political science. He researches my favorite topics, the military

industrial complex, elites, war, and globalism. Welcome to geopolitics empire, Stuart.

Thank you very much for the invitation.

Great to be here and some of a relatively new listener to your show.

But like you said, we've definitely got a very real connection here in terms of the topics that we think and research.

Yeah, I like what you've been doing on YouTube. You've been on my T&T program a couple of

times and you're really like researching the topics that I enjoy that many of us enjoy the elites,

globalism and where things are headed. And so today we'll be, we'll be getting, we'll be

getting your take on the power elites, you know, the globalist,

however you want to call them.

I guess you'll be giving kind of a broad overview from an academic point of view.

So, you know, take it away.

Awesome.

Yeah.

So I come at this from somewhat of an academic perspective, like you said,

working in academia. And trying to do that can be tough, as I'm sure you and your audience are well

aware. When you try to approach the topics of politics from this elitist angle, it can often just be immediately

dismissed as conspiracy theory. However, the point that I would really like to get over today

is that this is not a conspiracy. It's not even based in the ideology of conspiracy. It has a very legitimate

background in the social sciences in particular. So I thought the first thing that we could do

is get into some of those assumptions. So for particularly anyone that works in political

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