Why Japan succeeded post WW2

Trevor Bell — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 09:00:00 +1000

In this podcast, I look at a paper by Professor H. Wade titled "Escaping the Periphery".

Few non-western countries have reached the general prosperity of Western Europe and North America in the past two centuries ...The clearest exceptions are ... Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea ... How did they do it?

The IFVG Evergreen podcast is a greatest-hits collection of evergreen content from the weekly show.

To financially support the Podcast you can make:

a per-episode donation via Patreon or
one-off donation via credit card; or
one-off or regular donations via Paypal or
if you are into Cryptocurrency you can send Satoshis.

We Livestream every Monday night at 8:00 pm Brisbane time. Follow us on Facebook or YouTube. Watch us live and join the discussion in the chat room.

You can sign up for our newsletter, which links to articles that Trevor has highlighted as potentially interesting and that may be discussed on the podcast. You will get 3 emails per week.

We have a website. www.ironfistvelvetglove.com.au

You can email us. The address is trevor@ironfistvelvetglove.com.au

You can send us a voicemail message at Speakpipe

Ciaron O'Reilly on Life, Prisons, Religion and Julian Assange

Trevor Bell — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 09:00:00 +1000

In this episode, I speak with Ciaron O'Reilly.

Ciaron has had a unique life as an anti-war protester and social justice campaigner.

His philosophy involves a unique blend of Catholic faith and social justice activism.

He has broken into US and British defence facilities and disabled military

aircraft and facilities. He has been imprisoned in Australia, the USA, England and Ireland.

He was part of the Pitstop Ploughshares who attacked a US Navy warplane in Ireland

but were acquitted in a famous case in 2006 on the basis of a "lawful excuse" defence.

In this episode, he discusses his life, his philosophy and his thoughts about the future of Julian Assange.