Speak with Eve Eurydice

Chris Hedges and Eurydice Eve discuss the global Corporate Coup d’ Etat, Rentier Capitalism and Corporate Welfare, the billionaire oligarchy that is privatizing everything, controlling sources of information and AI algorithms, and the global centers of power. Modeled on the Chinese capitalist totalitarianism, politics works like the Trojan war of billionaires, a war of Corporatists vs Oligarchs. In 2024 election, the oligarchs won.

Chris Hedges is an one of a kind ethical intellectual, a Cassandra like prophet, who foresaw in his many books of the last decades (like the Death of the liberal class, Empire of illusion, The Triumph of Spectacle, America the farewell tour, The end of literacy the Christian right and The War on America), the election and triumphant reelection of a political figure like D. Trump. As the second term of the Trump administration kicks off, this is where Chris Hedges sees America going, where he sees the world in general going, and Palestine in particular, which has been a focus of his since he was a Middle East bureau chief in his career as a journalist (best known for his Balkan war coverage). Acc. to Chris, the Democrats reaped what they sowed. They deserved this loss and they deserve the retributions that may come by the Trump administration. 

The Silicon Valley social contract forced on the public by Obama, then Trump, then Biden and now Trump again is simple: We will let them become the richest people in human history and in exchange they will develop a tech industry that makes the U.S. dominant for a century. They did, built monopolies to keep out all competition rather than continue to innovate at a top level, got out-competed by Chinese companies in both AI and social media, and continue to be subsidized by US governments.

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Learning happens in Crisis. Eurydice Eve speaks with Richard Verity, Co-Founder, along with Meike Zeirvogel, of the Alsama Project which is based in the refugee camps in Lebanon and runs the four Alsama Schools, providing innovative education for refugee teenagers, primarily from Syria, in Beirut’s Shatila and Bourj al-Barajneh camps. These schools condense 12 years of education into six, focusing on literacy, numeracy, and life skills through a tailored curriculum. They also integrate activities like yoga and cricket for holistic development. The students, most of whom lacked any access to education due to displacement and cultural barriers, benefit from these programs that aim to empower them for higher studies or employment. Alsama supports students who have missed years of education by offering a condensed curriculum that compresses 12 years of learning into six. Students are grouped by ability rather than age. The curriculum focuses on Arabic, English, and Math, alongside life skills and activities like yoga and cricket. This innovative approach helps refugee teenagers overcome illiteracy and prepares them for higher education, global citizenship and potential leadership roles back home. Alsama addresses barriers such as lack of documentation and combats challenges like child marriage through psycho-social support and community outreach. Alsama supports students in developing life skills through a holistic approach that integrates serious practical education and personal growth. Students engage in teamwork, communication, planning, financial literacy, time management lessons alongside academic subjects like Arabic, English, and Math. Activities such as critical thinking exercises and leadership training through cricket further enhance these skills. Alsama uses project-based learning to teach them how to solve real-life problems, such as budgeting or sustainable energy solutions, fostering adaptability and problem-solving abilities essential for the 21st-century workforce. Alsama integrates sports, particularly cricket, into its educational curriculum to foster teamwork, leadership, and physical training. Cricket is chosen as it is a non-contact sport that allows boys and girls to play together, promoting inclusivity and collaboration. The program emphasizes values like commitment and ambition while teaching communication, planning, and resilience. Beyond physical activity, cricket serves as a platform for empowerment and leadership development, helping students build confidence and transferable skills for their future.

CORRECTION: “In this podcast, Richard describes the work of Alsama as running schools in refugee camps. For clarity these “schools” are informal education centres approved by the Lebanese government, but are different from the formal schools run by the state.”

For more, go to www.alsamaproject.com where you can donate to the project.

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Eurydice and Porochista discuss the phenomenon of Luigi Mangione, suddenly the most popular, most photographed killer in the world.

Luigi Mangione pleaded not guilty to the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. He allegedly shot him from the back outside the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan on Dec 4th at 535am. The shooting was caught on camera. The suspect got drink at Starbucks, sat on a bench, used a cellphone, stepped out between two parked cars, shot Mr Thompson from the back, fled on an e bike to Central Park with a gray backpack which had Monopoly money in it. He tossed the backpack in the park, took taxi to G W bus terminal, left the city on bus. On Dec 9, 5 days later, at 914am a worker at Altoona McDonald’s called the police and reported a man who looked like the suspect. Luigi was caught with a 9mm home-printed pistol, a silencer, a handwritten manifesto expressing hostility toward the health care industry and its executives. He was brought to NYC by helicopter in a military posse, in a show of force attended by Mayor Adams meant to intimidate anyone who might commit a copycat killing. NYC set up a hotline for corporate executives who were threatened. The police wanted Luigi in handcuffs filmed by AP. FOX news depicted Luigi as the worst of murderers, unlike Kyle Rittenhouse in 2017 who was found innocent and Daniel Penny, found innocent in 2024.

Luigi M is held in downtown Brooklyn jail where P Diddy and Sam Bankman Fried are kept.

Luigi Mangione, 26, is an Ivy League graduate from Maryland charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. A valedictorian at Baltimore’s Gilman School, he earned dual engineering degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and worked as a data engineer at TrueCar until 2023. Despite his privileged background, Mangione harbored grievances against the healthcare system, as revealed in a manifesto found during his arrest at an Altoona McDonald’s where he was apprehended in Pennsylvania with his weapon, fake IDs etc. The Federal charges make him eligible for the death penalty if convicted.

Eurydice: “There is a direct ideological line from Occupy Wall Street to Black lives Matter to Bernie, MAGA, the election results of 2016 and of 2024 to Luigi Mangione. The same DOJ that abused the justice system to criminalize Trump and Penny has indicted this alleged shooter on terrorism charges and both state and federal murder charges in a judicial overkill that those of us who despise the authoritarian state should protest.‬ An opinion cannot, by definition, be extremist if a majority of the population holds the same view.”

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Ru Freeman

Eve Eurydice speaks with Jalak Jobanputra, an

early fintech investor in the blockchain space (2013), long before its institutional adoption. Jalak started Future Perfect Ventures in 2014 to invest in decentralized technologies with a focus on crypto assets. She grew up in Nairobi, Kenya to parents of Indian descent and has been a venture capitalist in internet ventures since graduating from Wharton. She was awarded Institutional Investor’s Most Powerful Fintech Dealmakers, was cited as a Top 5 Investor Powering the Blockchain Boom and was awarded Microsoft’s VC Trailblazer Award. She has spoken at conferences and diverse news media including the Milken Global Conference, The Economist Buttonwood Gathering, SALT, Bloomberg, MIT, SXSW, CNBC, and Yahoo Finance.

The two women discuss cryptocurrency, digital assets (including NFTs), a central bank digital coin, blockchain Infrastructure that enables our Healthcare or Education Data to be mined safely & universally on Web3. Unlike fiat currencies that can become illegal tender by law or devalued by FED monetary policy and are used to manage national security via international sanctions, cryptocurrencies are borderless and decentralized. Use computers instead of printers, trust the blockchain.

A very small % of the world population is crypto-literate; unfamiliar with crypto wallets the way people were unfamiliar with email a few decades ago, billions of people await to be informed.

For more on Jalak, visit https://www.futureperfectventures.com or @jalak, or her blog thebarefootvc.com, a top 10 investor blog.

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Eurydice Eve speaks with Selina Mills, author of Life Unseen : The Story of Blindness, about the wide spectrum of individual ability and functionality. The book takes the reader on a journey through the history of blindness in Western Culture to discover that blindness is not so dark after all.

The two women writers discuss writing and life and women’s issues and the disability spectrum.

Selina Mills is an award-winning writer and broadcaster who is legally blind. Educated in the USA and the UK, Selina has worked as a senior reporter and broadcaster for Reuters, The Daily Telegraph, and the BBC. In 2019, she was awarded the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Prize for first time non-fiction writers. Her historical memoir, Life Unseen: A Story of Blindness, uses historical research over the ages to explain how we interpret blindness in the 21st century. It is a book where blind people can own their history.

In 2022 Selina Mills was listed as one of the top 100 disabled people in Britain, organized by the Shaw Power 100 disabled list.

For more on Selina, visit https://selinamills.com or @millsatwork.

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Porochista and Eurydice talk literature, uniparty, America’s reality TV politics, celebrity culture, pop culture, rape culture, Jeffrey Epstein and P. Diddy. They discuss feminism from the 90s to now, Hamptons “white parties” and NYC clubs and Palm Beach society.

Porochista Khakpour is a refugee from Iran , whose family fled the Iran-Iraq War and the Islamic Revolution , and the author of the books Sons and Other Flammable Objects, The Last Illusion, Sick, and Tehrangeles, her satirical, polyphonic, campy third novel, a tragicomic saga about the high-functioning dysfunctional Milani family of Iranian multimillionaires in LA who have a McMansion, a snack food empire, and four young daughters who live a reality TV lifestyle. The book is a critique of the untruth of social media, and the challenge of living an authentic life online.

We discuss America’s generational differences, geopolitical differences, cultural differences. Gen Z is much more sensible & conservative than media understands, having been raised in the broken marriages & narcissistic romances & messy family dynamics of boomers & Gen Xers.

For more on Porochista’s work, go to https://porochistakhakpour.com. @pkhakpour

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Solstice Episode

Paul Selig is a spiritual channel and clairaudiant medium who is a Yale graduate, an academic, a playwright, a Graduate program director & college professor for 25 years. Paul integrates the

seeming contradictions of intellected cultural mental knowledge & of soulful innate channeled knowing. He’s been Channeling for 30 years in the tradition of Quakerism, Energy healers, Hands on miracle workers, Shamans or Edgar Cayce seers. Paul hears instructions for other people when he steps into other people’s consciousness & also channels “the guides” who call themselves the Monad, the Source, One god (as in “The God Within Me who sees the God Within You.”)

The guides dictate books through him. He hears his guides not through his physical ear but his inner hearing. He calls himself a spiritual radio broadcast. This frees him from the authorial pride and ego driven literary perfectionism or the notion of solitary genius at work. Paul is the author of 12 channeled books, starting with I Am the Word. In 2009 and coming out this month with “A World Made New: A Channeled Text: Book Three of the Manifestation Trilogy.” Paul Selig Records himself in public as he is in rapid transmission and the transcripts are the books.

In this far-ranging conversation, Paul discusses many themes, personal and spiritual.

For more on Paul’s work, go to https://paulselig.com @paulselig

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Eurydice Eve speaks with Sarah Gerard, the author of CARRIE CAROLYN COCO as well as Sunshine State, the novella Binary Star, and the novel True Love. The Carolyn Bush true crime story is the modern face of femicide : a young woman doesn’t need to be married or romantically linked to be murdered by her domestic live-in. Before she was brutally stabbed to death by her roommate in 2016, Carolyn Bush was a 25 year old poet and a founding member of the nonprofit reading group Wendy’s Subway in New York City. She believed in astrology & studied at Bard College student, as did her killer, Render Stetson-Shanahan. She was a friend to many, including Sarah who gathered her text messages, emails, blog posts, poems, essays, social media, marginalia and interviewed many of her loved ones recollections of her for this book.

Render Stetson-Shanahan admitted to getting drunk and “smoking weed” with his brother before the incident. He also admitted that Bush was speaking on the phone when he asked her, “Guess what?” before he began stabbing her to death. “It was a horribly disturbing case,” said Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz. “The knife sliced into her back and neck, puncturing her heart, lungs and a major artery.” The murderer, Render Stetson-Shanahan, 29, avoided second degree murder charges in Carolyn Bush’s brutal murder in the Ridgewood apartment they shared, because his defense attorney Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma painted a picture of Stetson-Shanahan as a “kind and gentle” man, who “went crazy” the night he killed Bush because of a “marijuana induced hysteria” or psychotic break. The gruesome story made national headlines because the killer is the son of New Yorker cartoonist Danny Shanahan and of Janet Stetson, the Director of Graduate Admissions at Bard College. Queens prosecutors said Stetson-Shanahan was aware of his actions the night of the stabbing assault but Supreme Court Justice Richard Buchter rendered a verdict of guilty of manslaughter in the second degree. The verdict carries a five to fifteen year sentence which means that Stetson-Shanahan could be let free for time already served with good behavior.

For more on Sarah’s work, go to https://sarah-gerard.com @SarahNumber4

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Ru Freeman, editor of Extraordinary Rendition: American Writers on Palestine, tells Eurydice the reality on the ground inside Gaza on the 8th month anniversary on June 7 2024. Ru Freeman is the author of disobedient Girl, on Solomon Lane, she's a writer critic and academic from Shri lanka. She’s been working for the United Palestinian Appeal, the UPA, as their Director of Communications. For more on Ru, go to https://www.rufreeman.com/ For more on Eurydice, go to https://Eurydice.net or https://SpeakwithEve.com or https://youtube.com/@EveEurydice or https://substack.Eurydice.com You can financially support this podcast here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/speaksex/support Help us keep producing this content & stay ad-free.