The Ripple Effect Podcast #175 (Dr. Amir Afkhami | Drugs, Imperialism & Foreign Policy)
The Ripple Effect Podcast
Ricky Varandas
4.6 • 603 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2019
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
He has published extensively in both professional journals and mainstream media including award-winning articles in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, and Foreign Affairs. He also has a new book called, A Modern Contagion: Imperialism and Public Health in Iran's Age of Cholera.
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| 0:00.0 | believe in the ripple fact. |
| 0:25.6 | The ripple fact. I'm a I'm I'm |
| 0:38.3 | I'm |
| 0:39.3 | I'm |
| 0:40.3 | I'm your host |
| 1:08.9 | Ricardo Vrandis, also known as Ricky Vrandis, and I'm back. I know it's been |
| 1:13.0 | probably a couple weeks, a little bit of life getting in the way, a little bit of |
| 1:16.8 | just having an issue with scheduling some guests and then schedules colliding or |
| 1:21.8 | whatnot. But either way, I'm back with another great episode. Today we have Dr. |
| 1:26.6 | Amir of Kami from George Washington University's author, historian, doctor, |
| 1:32.2 | really fascinating guy, has traveled all over the world, born in Iran, spend time in France, |
| 1:38.6 | now in the U.S., really interesting background and perspectives, |
| 1:42.3 | and we had a really thought provoking conversation |
| 1:45.1 | so hopefully you guys enjoy this he's also friends with a recent guest michael suzanne who |
| 1:51.2 | wrote the book backsabbing for beginners about the whole food for oil scandal when he was working |
| 1:57.5 | for the u.n and you know became a whistleblower exposing all the people |
| 2:01.6 | who were making tons of money off this, what's supposed to be, a UN program. |
| 2:06.5 | So, definitely check that podcast out if you haven't. |
| 2:09.9 | But great conversation. |
| 2:12.3 | We talk about everything from history, addiction, drugs, depression, foreign policy, and everything. |
| 2:19.3 | And we don't, we didn't always agree and we disagreed and we, and these are the conversations |
| 2:23.5 | I love because it's, it's so important to, uh, to not just get people on you agree with |
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