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The First Wave.

I'm joined again by @irc_nic as the Belgian Autumn begins.
 
Prince Albert and the Belgian business class over-promise and under-deliver in a trade deal with the Saudis. The resulting financial scandal exposes a vice network, blackmail operations and massive embezzlement. The Belgian establishment scrambles to cover it all up, but things take a dramatically darker turn when a psychiatrist files for divorce and his wife decides to share explosive secrets about extremely powerful people.
 
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I'm joined by Belgian researcher Nic (@irc_nic) to talk about the post-war far-right in Belgium: what it believed, what it did, how it ensured loyalty, who profited...and who didn't. Paramilitary groups, Gladio, cults, dirty cops, gangsters and crooked spooks. They formed subterranean networks of mind-warping size that covertly influenced the course of modern Belgian history and planned everything from coups to terror attacks. Before us looms The Belgian Autumn.
 
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We conclude our time in Congo by discussing how they killed Lumumba, colonial ghosts returning to the imperial core, and the politics of forgetting.
 
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Leopold. Congo. Belgium. The neo-aristocracy and generational suffering. The Belgian X-Files 2.
 
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We look at Belgium under Nazi occupation and the Royal Question, then discuss the assassination of Communist Party leader Julien Lahaut and the hidden networks in the Belgian establishment.