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Sepsis: The Cost Of Inaction – Part 3 of 3 with Dr. Niranjan “Tex” Kissoon
The final segment turns from problem to solution. Michael Brown hands the floor to Tex to make the case for what actually works — the antibiotic pipeline, financing mo...
Sepsis: A Global Crisis – Part 2 of 3 with Dr. Niranjan “Tex” Kissoon
Sepsis isn't just a U.S. problem — it's a global crisis with a much higher body count. Michael Brown and Dr. Kissoon shift focus to sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and...
Sepsis: The Silent Killer - Part 1 of 3 with Dr. Niranjan "Tex" Kissoon
One year ago, I nearly died of sepsis after a routine biopsy — a 106.4° fever, four days at Danbury Hospital, and a near-miss that came after surviving cerebral malari...
Will It Last? Has Boston’s Sports Identity Drifted Too Far From Its Roots?
Every dynasty eventually faces the same question: what was it actually built on?Boston's sports story is told as one of loyal suffering rewarded — decades of heartbrea...
The Hubris Question: Have Boston’s Sports Expectations Turned Into Entitlement?
Hubris has toppled governments, derailed foreign policy, and wasted billions in development aid. So what happens when it takes over a sports city?For decades, Boston f...
Sixty Years, Three Bostons: From Bambino Curse to Boston Sports Dynasties – Has It Made the City Arrogant?
Sixty years of winning. Four franchises. More championships than any city has a right to expect. But has Boston's run of dominance — from the Celtics of Russell to the...
Moving From the Aid Industrial Complex to Localization That Works
Every development program claims its goal is to leave. None of them do. In the 1960s, the Green Revolution turned India from a country facing famine into a food export...
Where International Development Has Succeeded or Failed
AIDS arrested. Ebola contained. Malaria deaths cut in half. That wasn't charity — it was the international system protecting everyone, including Americans. You don't d...
The Aid Industrial Complex - Benefit or Problem for the Global South?
In 1953, the CIA overthrew Iran's elected government because outsiders decided they knew best. In 1961, Western intelligence helped assassinate Patrice Lumumba in the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
