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Power Corrupts
Does power corrupt? Absolutely. This is the podcast about the hidden—and often nefarious—forces that shape our world. Election rigging. Smuggling. Narcopolitics. Ransom. Conspiracy Theories....
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Listen to Power Corrupts, a News & Politics podcast by Brian Klaas. Stream 47 episodes in Afar, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 47 episodesSpace Wars
Is the next war going to happen in space? What are space weapons like, anyway? And why should we be worried about the space ventures of bill...
Loot
Is it a crime to steal back something that was once yours? That's the question we'll tackle this week, as we look at a string of sophisticat...
Corruptible: Audiobook Excerpt
This week's episode is an excerpt from the opening chapter of Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us. (If you pre-order the book...
Does Power Corrupt?
The title of this podcast is Power Corrupts. But is that true? In this week's episode, host Brian Klaas has the microphone turned around on...
War Criminal or Victim?
The International Criminal Court prosecutes perpetrators of horrific crimes. But what if the perpetrator is also a victim? That's the questi...
Walk the Plank
How do you capture a pirate after they've hijacked a ship? In today's episode, we look at two ingenious sting operations that managed to lur...
The Invisible Hook
Pirates can teach us quite a lot about democracy and economics. What can Blackbeard teach us about signaling theory? Why were pirates racial...
Golden Handcuffs
Can doing the wrong thing ever be the right policy? That's a question we'll tackle this week as we look at the possibility of letting some v...
Hitman for Hire
What if you hacked a hitman-for-hire website and found out the identities of people who were slated to die before the murder? How much does...
Fake IDs
Could you fake your death and get away with it? In this episode, we look at fake identities, from people who've tried to fake their own deat...
Do Not Disturb
Is going into exile safe any longer? A few years ago, a former Rwandan intelligence chief hiding out in exile was found strangled to death i...
Click Here To Kill Everybody
In early 2021, hackers infiltrated the software that controlled the city's water supply in Oldsmar, Florida. Through dumb luck, they caught...
The Billion Dollar Shack
We all know that offshore areas of financial secrecy exist. In this episode, we're going to take a look at the origin story of one of them....
The Shell Game
When it comes to understanding the underworld of corruption and criminality, you can't just look at the rich crooks. You also have to look a...
Power Corrupts Season 3: Returning 31st August 2021
They say power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. But when it comes to the underworld of corruption, murder, and greed, from d...
Biological Weapons
Pandemics are horrifying. But what if one could be unleashed deliberately? How did ancient armies from the Greeks to the Mongol hordes use g...
Revolutions
When revolutions happen, everything changes. In this episode, we'll look at why one revolution was launched when a rebel leader in southeast...
Pandemics
Pandemics are as old as human civilisation, from the Plague of Athens to mysterious diseases that ravaged armies throughout history. But the...
Catastrophic Miscalculation
Have you ever made a catastrophic mistake? What if your mistakes could cause an empire to fall, a war to start, or thirty million people to...
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