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Are foreign aid, climate policy, and global governance actually working — or are they propping up a broken system? The Unpopular View cuts through partisan noise with evidence-based analysis on the politics and economics of international development, foreign aid reform, climate policy, natural resource governance, and global corruption. Host Michael Brown is a social and environmental risk analyst and former NGO founder with three decades of field experience across more than 35 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific. He has worked on corruption investigations, community-led development, conservation, mining governance, and climate mitigation — on the ground, not from a think tank. Each episode combines first-hand field stories with hard data to challenge policy myths from both left and right. Topics include USAID and foreign aid accountability, the Washington consensus, resource extraction in the Global South, Africa's demographic and economic future, climate finance, and why outsider-driven development keeps failing communities. If you follow global affairs, international development, foreign policy, or geopolitics — and want analysis that goes beyond the headlines — this is the show for you. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever you listen.
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Sixty years of winning. Four franchises. More championships than any city has a right to expect. But has Boston's run of dominance — from the Celtics of Russell to the Patriots of Brady — turned healthy pride into someth
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Every development program claims its goal is to leave. None of them do. In the 1960s, the Green Revolution turned India from a country facing famine into a food exporter — and then it ended, because it succeeded. Nothing
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AIDS arrested. Ebola contained. Malaria deaths cut in half. That wasn't charity — it was the international system protecting everyone, including Americans. You don't defund the firebreak while the forest is still burning
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In 1953, the CIA overthrew Iran's elected government because outsiders decided they knew best. In 1961, Western intelligence helped assassinate Patrice Lumumba in the Congo — same logic, different method. The Cold War en
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Episode 9 of The Unpopular View, Michael Brown, is a the conclusion of this 3/3 sit down with longtime colleague Koffi Kouakou in a first “North–South dialogue” on African realities, American assumptions, and the China f
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Episode 8 of The Unpopular View, Michael Brown, is a part 2/3 of his sits down with longtime colleague Koffi Kouakou in a first “North–South dialogue” on African realities, American assumptions, and the China factor. The
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In Episode 7 of The Unpopular View, Michael Brown sits down with longtime colleague Koffi Kouakou in a first “North–South dialogue” on African realities, American assumptions, and the China factor. In this 3 part convers
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Episode 6 is a critique of how U.S. leaders and institutions repeatedly misread societies they intervene in—because they rely on the wrong frameworks and reward the wrong metrics. Michael lays out an “operating framework
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This episode argues that one of the most consequential developments in the Israel–Palestine landscape isn’t a headline-grabbing battle or speech—it’s a “boring” labor agreement that quietly reshapes incentives on the gro
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Disclaimer: The Unpopular View with Michael Brown is independently owned and produced by Michael Brown. PulsePoint Media Atelier LLC serves solely as the distribution and promotional partner for this podcast. All content
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Disclaimer: The Unpopular View with Michael Brown is independently owned and produced by Michael Brown. PulsePoint Media Atelier LLC serves solely as the distribution and promotional partner for this podcast. All content
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In 1983 Somalia, I discovered systematic aid fraud that nearly got me killed. That taught me how oversight collapse—not any one group—creates fraud at scale. 40 years later, Minnesota's Somali community is taking heat fo
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This is The Unpopular View: Challenging the Narratives Dividing Boomers, Gen Z, and the Global South. I'm Michael Brown. I've spent 50 years in 80+ countries—Somalia, Mali, Congo—working on development, conservation, and
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