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Africa's Demographic Surge: Youth, Technology, and the Race Between Transformation and Instability
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 Afr...
Critical Minerals and the New Resource Competition: Africa's Leverage or Another Extraction Cycle?
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 reali...
North-South Conversation on Africa and Its Future
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 assu...
From Timbuktu to Tehran: Why American Leaders Keep Misreading the Landscape
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 wr...
India, Israel & 50K Workers: What happens to the Palestinians?
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 ...
The American Offset Model: We offset our mining. Our emissions. Our standards. Our conscience.
Disclaimer:The Unpopular View with Michael Brown is independently owned and produced by Michael Brown. PulsePoint Media Atelier LLC serves solely as the distribution a...
America’s Copper Contradiction
Disclaimer:The Unpopular View with Michael Brown is independently owned and produced by Michael Brown. PulsePoint Media Atelier LLC serves solely as the distribution a...
From Somali Gunpoint to MN Welfare Fraud: The Oversight Failures We Repeat
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 l...
Bridging Boomers, Gen Z & the Global Realities We Ignore
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, M...
