Jun 16, 202651 minS0
The Congo has, for more than a century, been the place the world goes to dig up what it needs next — copper, uranium, and diamonds under Belgian rule; today cobalt and coltan, the metals in every smartphone battery and...
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Global Blueprint: Extraction Goes Global
Hosted by Nick Mackenzie · society · EN-US
5 episodesAudience: 1
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The extraction models perfected in Latin America — the enclave economy, corporate-state collusion, infrastructure monopolies, and violent labor suppression — became the worldwide blueprint. The global sibling to Backyard Empire: deeply researched deep-dives into Shell in the Niger Delta, the pipelines of Myanmar, King Leopold's Congo, Firestone in Liberia, the cobalt of the Congo, and more — each tied back to its Latin American predecessor. We work from primary documents and peer-reviewed scholarship and keep contested history contested. Narrated by AI voices from sourced, human-reviewed research.
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The extraction models perfected in Latin America, the enclave economy, corporate-state collusion, infrastructure monopolies, and violent labor suppression, became the worldwide blueprint.
Who hosts Global Blueprint: Extraction Goes Global?
Global Blueprint: Extraction Goes Global is hosted by Nick Mackenzie. The show has published 5 episodes to date.
What has Global Blueprint: Extraction Goes Global covered recently?
Recent episodes include "A Child's Hand in a Clean Battery: The Human Cost of Congo's Cobalt" (16 June 2026, 51 minutes), "A Child's Hand in a Clean Battery: The Human Cost of Congo's Cobalt" (16 June 2026, 51 minutes), and "From Severed Hands to Firestone: The Tire Company That Funded a Warlord" (16 June 2026, 40 minutes).
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Global Blueprint: Extraction Goes Global publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 41 minutes across 5 episodes.
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- Jun 16, 202651 min
The Congo has, for more than a century, been the place the world goes to dig up what it needs next — copper, uranium, and diamonds under Belgian rule; today cobalt and coltan, the metals in every smartphone battery and...
- Jun 16, 202640 minS0
In 1926 an American tire company rented a tenth of a country. Firestone took up to a million acres of Liberia on a 99-year lease for almost nothing and turned it into the largest rubber plantation on earth. This episode...
- Jun 16, 202640 min
In 1926 an American tire company rented a tenth of a country. Firestone took up to a million acres of Liberia on a 99-year lease for almost nothing and turned it into the largest rubber plantation on earth. This episode...
- Jun 15, 202634 minS0
For twenty-three years, one man owned a country. The Congo Free State was not a Belgian colony — it was the personal property of King Leopold II of Belgium, run as a private enterprise to extract ivory and then wild...
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- Jun 15, 202634 min
For twenty-three years, one man owned a country. The Congo Free State was not a Belgian colony — it was the personal property of King Leopold II of Belgium, run as a private enterprise to extract ivory and then wild...
- Jun 15, 202640 minS0
Off Myanmar's coast lies a field of natural gas, and to bring it ashore in the 1990s a French oil giant and an American one went into business with one of the world's most repressive militaries. This episode of Global...
- Jun 15, 202640 min
Off Myanmar's coast lies a field of natural gas, and to bring it ashore in the 1990s a French oil giant and an American one went into business with one of the world's most repressive militaries. This episode of Global...
Episode #1
Shell's Toxic Legacy in the Niger Delta
Jun 15, 202637 minS0Nigeria sits on some of the richest oil in Africa, and for most of the petroleum age a single Anglo-Dutch company pumped the largest share of it. The opening episode of Global Blueprint — the worldwide sibling to...
Episode #1
Shell's Toxic Legacy in the Niger Delta
Jun 15, 202637 minNigeria sits on some of the richest oil in Africa, and for most of the petroleum age a single Anglo-Dutch company pumped the largest share of it. The opening episode of Global Blueprint — the worldwide sibling to...
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