Pleased to Meet You, Hrvoje Morić Hrvoje Morić is a Croatian-American and naturalized Mexican citizen, a former Peace Corps volunteer in Mongolia, and a graduate of the Geneva School of Diplomacy. He is a former International Relations professor, a former TNT Radio host, and the founder of the Geopolitics & Empire Podcast. Interview Outline & Timestamps: Further below, you can find Hrvoje Morić’s own written answers to our standard ‘Getting to Know the Dissident Voices’ questionnaire. Combined with the video interview, you now have extensive insights into exactly who Hrvoje Morić is and what his research represents. However, if you want the opportunity to ask him a question yourself—perhaps even directly face-to-face—here is your chance: Sign up for our premium membership. Dissident Crossfire In September, Hrvoje will return alongside our other featured guests for our exclusive, unscripted live debate: The Dissident Crossfire. By upgrading to a Paid Subscription on our Substack today, you unlock our premium archives, live text chat access during the broadcast, and the right to submit your topics directly into the debate. If you join as a Founding Panel Member, you secure a permanent seat backstage with live speaking rights to challenge the panel face-to-face. Click the link below to claim your 20% launch discount on our annual plan today. You will maintain this discount for the full duration of your subscription. Join now before this special offer expires! QUESTIONNAIRE: Getting to Know Hrvoje Morić 🎬 Intro & Background * What is your name, where are you from, and where in the world are you currently based? My name is Hrvoje Morić, I’m originally from Chicago, and am a proud national of the United States, Croatia, and México. At times I’ve tended to float around the planet, but currently I’m based somewhere in México. * What is your professional background, and what occupies most of your time today? I have an undergraduate degree in History and Education from Northeastern Illinois University, followed by a stint in Mongolia as a Peace Corps volunteer, then went on to obtain a graduate degree in International Relations from the Geneva School of Diplomacy. Previously, I have taught high school and university at one of the top institutions in México (Tecnológico de Monterrey) and Kazakhstan (Nazarbayev Intellectual School). From 2022 to 2024 I hosted my own live daily show on TNT Radio. Since 2024 I have been working full-time, for the first time in my life, on my Geopolitics & Empire Podcast, which had its genesis in 2012. Up until 2024 Geopolitics & Empire had been a moonlight hobby. 🤐 Taboo of the Week * What is a mainstream media topic, or an overlooked story, that you believe we are not allowed to discuss honestly—and why does it deserve our focus today? I might suggest the use of new AI technologies in the World Cup matches. In my opinion, it is another normalization of technocracy. Otherwise my main topics of interest are globalism-world federation-world government (the regionalization of nations a la EU) and algocracy-technocracy. 🧭 Becoming a Dissident * When and how did you transition into becoming an outspoken voice within the alternative media landscape? In the early 2000s I “went down the rabbit hole”, going through all the motions of 9/11, Alex Jones, G. Edward Griffin and the Federal Reserve, deep politics (e.g. Daniele Ganser, Peter Dale Scott), you name it, etc. I spent a number of years reading voraciously and watching countless documentaries. I would say also that the Bible and prophecy was my conspiracy gateway drug as a teenager. I first read the Bible in its entirety three times repeatedly and consecutively from cover to cover. Prophecy teaches that one day a dark force, a beast, Satan, will subjugate the entirety of humanity which can only logically imply some form of world totalitarian government or dictatorship. By the late 2000s you can say I was maturing into a dissident, especially during my time in Geneva 2008-09. I was able to get a glimpse of the belly of the beast (e.g. UN, WHO, Lucis Trust). I met more dissidents along the way such as Aymeric Chauprade who had been blacklisted in academia. I had volunteered for Ed Griffin’s newsletter in 2008 and he eventually ended up taking me to lunch when I passed through LA in 2011. In 2012 I started my first YouTube channel “Dissident Thinker” where I Skyped experts into my classroom, the very first being Corporal Jesse Thorsen who had been illegally renditioned to a psych ward by the American secret police. My 2022 podcast guest John Whitehead was the lawyer who freed him. Three years later I re-branded to “Geopolitics & Empire” * Was there a specific catalyst or an exact moment you realized you could no longer subscribe to the mainstream narrative? Yes, in the 2000s, when I gradually learned how the government and virtually all institutions lie about everything. This particularly happened when learning about “false flag operations” and then going through history and finding verifiable academic sources pointing out how so many wars and events were manufactured (e.g. Lusitania WWI, Pearl Harbor WWII, Hitler’s Reichstag and Gleiwitz Incident), Japanese false flags in Manchuria, Northwoods, Tonkin,, JFK, MLK, Gladio, Gulf War, Moscow apartment bombings, 9/11, 3/11, 7/7). I felt it was my duty to push back against the tide of lies and corruption. Since my field and profession happened to be education, I thought I’d do my best in my area and profession, in the classroom. Eventually, podcasting became a natural extension and outgrowth of academia. * How did stepping outside the consensus impact your professional career and daily life? I suppose you could say the first real fun was during graduate school, when one of my professors, who was also a psychiatrist or psychologist, attempted to secretly psycho-evaluate me for simply having a dissident view on international affairs. Years later, at my workplace in México, I had my university courses taken from me by a new “liberal globalist” department director for one or two semesters. For being a “conspiracy theorist”. Even though I had rave reviews from students. When that department director was promoted and moved on, the replacement department director returned my courses to me. Recently, I was passed over for a teaching position, even though the school was really impressed with my CV. It’s possible that they took a look at my podcast and determined that my worldview was crazy, conspiratorial, and too unconventional. I have also been de-banked on Patreon and PayPal by the state (US DHS, and EU NATO). I’ve also received an above average number of secondary screenings when flying back home to the U.S. * How has your work affected your personal relationships with family, friends, and former colleagues? I try to espouse Christian principles and values and I generally get along with everyone, as I’m jovial and enjoy socializing and learning from others. I’ve lived all around the world and broken bread with rich and poor, from yurts in the Gobi to the hall of power at the UN. I generally haven’t had serious issues on the personal level, apart from possibly some acquaintances having distanced themselves from me of their own accord because of their “liberal globalist” religious indoctrination, as I call it. * Did other independent thinkers or dissidents guide you on your journey? If so, who stood out to you? I like to say I’ve interviewed and/or met in person virtually all of my intellectual heroes. Ed Griffin, Ron Paul, William Engdahl, Daniele Ganser, Francis Boyle, Alfred McCoy, Patrick Wood, Krešimir Mišak, Croatian Admiral Davor Domazet-Lošo, veteran Mexican journalist Rubén Luengas, and too many more to name. Of course, many of the Christian authors on geopolitics, globalism, and prophecy were of great guidance. Gary Kah, Carl Teichcrib, and Martin Erdmann come to mind, who have focused on the new age theosophic world religion and coming world federation. The influences are many and they include the good, the bad, and the ugly. Some of them I have outgrown, as I feel some have grown too lukewarm over the years and even reversed course or backslid, and others, like Alex Jones, I feel, have made Faustian bargains with the globalist deep state. I have also rubbed shoulders with a few globalists, who only further helped confirm and entrench my dissident views. I met the “father of the North American Union” Dr. Robert Pastor twice when he visited our campus, and I believe I conducted the last living interview with him just before he passed, which is on my Dissident Thinker channel. * What is something about your journey into dissent that none of us know? Honestly, you’ve got me stumped! I don’t have an answer for this question! Basically, what you see is what you get. I don’t really have any further interesting secret to reveal that I know of! Except, maybe...I did accidentally once sabotage an EU meeting as a staff assistant by plugging in my gaming computer (on which I was taking notes) into the outlet which blew the fuse and half the EU representatives were not able to use their monitors and speakers! 🛠️ Dissident Activities & Behind the Scenes * Could you describe what a typical workday looks like for you? Well, basically, I hit the computer when I hit the computer, and then proceed to do twenty jobs in one! Answering emails and messages, checking the feeds, researching new guests, sending interview requests, getting rejected, not getting rejected, doing my homework for the interview (which can sometimes mean reading an entire book), recording the interview, editing and uploading the interview on multiple platforms, cutting clips and doing marketing, producing my weekly analysis, an occasional consultation, giving interviews, finding time to brainstorm to see how I can grow the podcast, e
