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Stories of Resistance is a new podcast featuring vignettes pulled from journalist https://therealnews.com/author/michael-fox's 20 years of interviews, research, and reporting from across the Americas. Each week, we’ll bring you stories...
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Stories of Resistance is a new podcast featuring vignettes pulled from journalist Michael Fox's 20 years of interviews, research, and reporting from across the Americas. Each week, we’ll bring you stories of resistance. Inspiration for dark times.
Each episode is an example of investigative journalism, prose, poetry, historical memory, reflection on struggle—and, above all, story. Stories that remind us of the struggles that have come before, and the ones we are living now. Stories about workers' struggles; resistance to dictatorship; alternative media; Indigenous and environmental organizing; and more. Eduardo Galeano-inspired vignettes for a Trump 2.0 world.
Stories of Resistance is co-produced by The Real News Network and Global Exchange.
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Each episode is an example of investigative journalism, prose, poetry, historical memory, reflection on struggle—and, above all, story. Stories that remind us of the struggles that have come before, and the ones we are living now. Stories about workers' struggles; resistance to dictatorship; alternative media; Indigenous and environmental organizing; and more. Eduardo Galeano-inspired vignettes for a Trump 2.0 world.
Stories of Resistance is co-produced by The Real News Network and Global Exchange.
Become a member and join the Stories of Resistance Supporters Club today!
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4 MAR 2026 · This is a preview for Season 2 of Michael Fox's podcast Under the Shadow, about Trump's onslaught on Venezuela and in Latin America.
On January 3, 2026, the United States invaded Venezuela and kidnapped president Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. It was the first US invasion of a Latin American country since the 1989 invasion of Panama.
The United States fired missiles and bombs that blew out windows and hit residential apartment blocks. Helicopters. Explosions. Firebombs. They cut electricity. They destroyed a medical supplies warehouse. Testimonies say helicopters fired on innocent people. They traumatized thousands, if not millions, of Venezuelans.
The aftermath for everyday Venezuelans has been completely ignored. The voices of those on the ground—the voices of the victims—have been largely silenced in the international press and then forgotten as the news cycle hurtles on and our attention shifts elsewhere—to Greenland, Minneapolis, Iran, Gaza, or whatever Trump happens to be blustering about on social media.
We head to Caracas to speak to people who experienced the invasion firsthand, whether sheltered in place in their homes or running for their lives in the streets of their city. We’ll hear their stories of Trump’s “impressive” attack, their messages for the US, and how they’ve promised to resist the ongoing attack on their sovereignty.
https://therealnews.com/under-the-shadow is an investigative narrative podcast series that walks back in time, telling the story of the past by visiting momentous places in the present. Season 2 responds in real time to the Trump administration’s onslaught on Latin America.
Follow Under the Shadow on https://open.spotify.com/show/6himo5Ut5LtLx88A2ldpA5?si=d525ac7c55ff4c01 and https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/under-the-shadow/id1708093945
Resources
- Today’s episode features filmmaker Angel Palacios. Below are some links to his documentary films:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ9jE1c0XPE (en Español)
- https://vimeo.com/40502430 (in English)
- Angel’s film serieshttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq5QeLqAy31fJpDSLBoHYvehSKpw_vX5_(en Español)
- Under the Shadow Season 1
- https://therealnews.com/the-beginning-monroe-and-migration-under-the-shadow-episode-1
- https://therealnews.com/panama-us-invasion-under-the-shadow-episode-13
- https://therealnews.com/he-legacy-of-monroe-under-the-shadow-bonus-episode-4
- Michael Fox’s recent reporting on the boat strikes and the ramp-up for war in Venezuela:
- https://www.thenation.com/article/world/venezuela-trump-air-strike-monroe-doctrine/
- https://truthout.org/articles/caribbean-leaders-call-for-unified-latin-american-resistance-to-us-attacks/
- https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-monroe-doctrine-2-0-outlines-imperial-intentions-for-latin-america/
- You can check out Michael’s https://therealnews.com/thousands-march-against-trump-war-venezuela about the protests against US intervention in Venezuela.
- NACLA’s https://nacla.org/a-curated-guide-to-the-us-attack-on-venezuela/
- Truthout’s ongoing reporting on https://truthout.org/section/war-and-peace/ and the US invasion of Venezuela
- Visit https://therealnews.com/ for all of TRNN’s coverage on this and so much more
Hosted, written, produced, mixed and edited by https://www.patreon.com/mfox.
Script editing by https://www.heathergies.com/.
Translator and freelance journalist Coromoto Jaraba Pineda helped with reporting for this episode. You can find her on https://www.facebook.com/coromotojp/ and https://www.instagram.com/coritoj/.
Many thanks to Ricardo Vaz and Jessica dos Santos for their advice and their help.
All of the ambient sound of the invasion in this episode was taken from cell phone videos filmed and posted on social media or shared over WhatsApp on January 3, during the pre-dawn US invasion.
This podcast is produced in partnership between https://therealnews.com/under-the-shadow and https://nacla.org/under-shadow.
Theme music by Michael Fox’s band, https://open.spotify.com/artist/0nexDyQCZI89JH8zsYu5wa. Monte Perdido's 2024 album Ofrenda is available on https://open.spotify.com/album/1THq4wHHqkY8yydUMJRmWj, https://www.deezer.com/pt/album/587476202, https://music.apple.com/za/album/ofrenda/1746696244, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n1lCcdFJEQczm-VSiraOuUpGcbzLxnRXs or wherever you listen to music. Other music from Blue Dot Sessions.
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20 JAN 2026 · Today, people are protesting across the United States. They’re rallying. They’re walking off their jobs to mark the one-year anniversary of the inauguration of president Donald Trump.
It’s part of a nationwide protest called the “https://www.freeameri.ca/.” It’s organized by the https://www.womensmarch.com/, the group that led the huge women’s marches against Trump in his first term. More than 400 https://action.womensmarch.com/calendars/free-america-weekend are happening throughout the United States. People are braving the cold weather, walking out of jobs and schools and standing up.
Today also marks the one-year anniversary of Stories of Resistance. This is the last episode of Season 1 of Stories of Resistance. Stay tuned for season 2 later this year.
Please check out our new season of Under the Shadow. It’s all about Trump’s onslaught in Latin America. You can listen and subscribe here: https://therealnews.com/under-the-shadow
BIG NEWS! This podcast has won Gold in this year’s Signal Awards for best history podcast! It’s a huge honor. Thank you so much to everyone who voted and supported.
Sign up for the Stories of Resistance podcast feed on https://open.spotify.com/show/1GtnrSF03VgQCzyRIRUIAE, https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/stories-of-resistance/id1803542348, https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-of-resistance--6566893, or wherever you listen. And please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. A little help goes a long way.
The Real News’s legendary host Marc Steiner has also won a Gold Signal Award for best episode host. You can listen and subscribe to the Marc Steiner Show here on https://open.spotify.com/show/3rN9PFDr2mOZSI4cGuI2p9?si=2e2ad6febf2f455c or https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-marc-steiner-show/id1539971852.
Please consider supporting this podcast and Michael Fox’s reporting on his http://patreon.com/mfox: http://patreon.com/mfox. There you can also see exclusive pictures, videos, and interviews.
Written and produced by https://www.patreon.com/mfox.
Resources
- Real News Stories:
- https://therealnews.com/resisting-ice-immigration-stories-of-resistance
- https://therealnews.com/we-are-facing-a-tsunami-of-hate-amid-ice-crackdown-unions-and-community-groups-call-for-minnesota-shutdown-in-10-days
- https://therealnews.com/baltimore-marches-against-ice
- https://therealnews.com/ice-new-orleans-catahoula-crunch
- https://therealnews.com/iced-out-of-america
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTLioh6NSxs
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQcMfFtjPDc
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtEOX41HSeo
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlhwZuxDl-E Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-of-resistance--6566893/support.
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9 JAN 2026 · They called Ali Primera “The People’s Singer.” The Venezuelan ambassador of the Nueva Cancion, protest song, movement, which spilled across Latin America in the 1960s and ’70s, and included others like Mercedes Sosa and Victor Jara.
Ali Primera sang in solidarity. He sang for rights and for justice. He sang in defense of the people, the humble and the working class. He sang in solidarity with El Salvador in the 1980s, and Nicaragua. He sang for revolution and for peace. He sang to demand an end to US imperialism. An end to US intervention and aggression throughout Latin America.
Please check out our new season of Under the Shadow. It’s all about Trump’s onslaught in Latin America. You can listen and subscribe here: https://therealnews.com/under-the-shadow
BIG NEWS! This podcast has won Gold in this year’s Signal Awards for best history podcast! It’s a huge honor. Thank you so much to everyone who voted and supported.
Sign up for the Stories of Resistance podcast feed on https://open.spotify.com/show/1GtnrSF03VgQCzyRIRUIAE, https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/stories-of-resistance/id1803542348, https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-of-resistance--6566893, or wherever you listen. And please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. A little help goes a long way.
The Real News’s legendary host Marc Steiner has also won a Gold Signal Award for best episode host. You can listen and subscribe to the Marc Steiner Show here on https://open.spotify.com/show/3rN9PFDr2mOZSI4cGuI2p9?si=2e2ad6febf2f455c or https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-marc-steiner-show/id1539971852.
Please consider supporting this podcast and Michael Fox’s reporting on his http://patreon.com/mfox: http://patreon.com/mfox. There you can also see exclusive pictures, videos, and interviews.
Written and produced by https://www.patreon.com/mfox.
Resources:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvI9JDNtf-w&list=RDNvI9JDNtf-w&start_radio=1
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04wVT0vnnI8&list=RD04wVT0vnnI8&start_radio=1
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vjB_UMkYfM&list=RD6vjB_UMkYfM&start_radio=1
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5O72Zy-OkI&list=RDh5O72Zy-OkI&start_radio=1
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WS2Qdf4rJk&list=RD0WS2Qdf4rJk&start_radio=1
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13WD8DoiYUI
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_3nsmqVOWQ
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxo8ULanmFo
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysRCYcxlSOM&list=RDysRCYcxlSOM&start_radio=1
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stUtRNAjyuo
La Canción Bolivariana, presentada en dos tiempos, dos interpretaciones en vivo de esta obra que el camarada Alí grabó en nuestros corazones y sobre todo en nuestras mentes como un ideograma perpetuo de la lucha bolivariana, que es nuestra lucha pasada, presente y futura. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-of-resistance--6566893/support.
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30 DEC 2025 · On January 1, 1994, Indigenous peoples from Chiapas, Mexico, rose up. They took control of city halls in towns across the state. They took the state capital San Cristobal de las Casas. And they held them for days, despite a violent response from Mexico’s military.
This was not just any movement confined to the mountainous jungles of Mexico. It was an Indigenous uprising against injustice. An uprising against neoliberalism. An uprising against globalization and free trade agreements, and it would have deep reverberations. Inspiring people, not just in Mexico, but around the world.
***BIG NEWS! This podcast has won Gold in this year’s Signal Awards for best history podcast! It’s a huge honor. Thank you so much to everyone who voted and supported.
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Resources:
- https://schoolsforchiapas.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/1st-Declaration-of-the-Lacandona-Jungle.pdf
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBqIowBEL60
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMl00VrPExc
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqxxjWhFZ_E
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysne5iPFfJQ Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-of-resistance--6566893/support.
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22 DEC 2025 · It's late 1914. December cold in the trenches of the Western Front of World War I.
Rations are in short supply. Men shiver… dreaming of home. Wishing they were far away. For months, here in the trenches, the sounds of the machine gun fire have peppered every waking moment. The whining of the bullets. The hissing and the cracking. But this morning — Christmas morning — the guns stop. It’s not planned. It’s spontaneous. But it happens all along the front. And over hundreds of miles of trenches. Silence… And then singing. Soft at first and then louder. Carols. Christmas songs. First one side sings in German. And then the other in French or English. It’s the beginning of the Christmas Truce. 100,000 soldiers would participate in the temporary ceasefire. It remains a testament to the humanity in us all. A reminder of the resistance from men on the front lines to the savages of war. Resistance to the orders from above.
Written and produced by https://www.patreon.com/mfox.
BIG NEWS! This podcast has won Gold in this year’s Signal Awards for best history podcast! It’s a huge honor. Thank you so much to everyone who voted and supported.
And please consider signing up for the Stories of Resistance podcast feed on https://open.spotify.com/show/1GtnrSF03VgQCzyRIRUIAE, https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/stories-of-resistance/id1803542348, https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-of-resistance--6566893, or wherever you listen. And please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. A little help goes a long way.
The Real News’s legendary host Marc Steiner has also won a Gold Signal Award for best episode host. We are so excited. You can listen and subscribe to the Marc Steiner Show here on https://open.spotify.com/show/3rN9PFDr2mOZSI4cGuI2p9?si=2e2ad6febf2f455c or https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-marc-steiner-show/id1539971852.
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Resources:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KHoVBK2EVE
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikxwYYi3VFM Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-of-resistance--6566893/support.
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17 DEC 2025 · On Dec. 20, each year, people march in Panama City. They march to remember the fallen. They march to continue to demand justice for the violence, the destruction, and for those who were killed in the last US invasion in Latin America—the 1989 invasion of Panama.
BIG NEWS! This podcast has won Gold in this year’s Signal Awards for best history podcast! It’s a huge honor. Thank you so much to everyone who voted and supported.
And please consider signing up for the Stories of Resistance podcast feed on https://open.spotify.com/show/1GtnrSF03VgQCzyRIRUIAE, https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/stories-of-resistance/id1803542348, https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-of-resistance--6566893, or wherever you listen. And please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. A little help goes a long way.
The Real News’s legendary host Marc Steiner has also been in the running for best episode host. And he also won a Gold Signal Award. We are so excited. You can listen and subscribe to the Marc Steiner Show here on https://open.spotify.com/show/3rN9PFDr2mOZSI4cGuI2p9?si=2e2ad6febf2f455c or https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-marc-steiner-show/id1539971852.
Please consider supporting this podcast and Michael Fox’s reporting on his http://patreon.com/mfox: http://patreon.com/mfox. There you can also see exclusive pictures, video, and interviews.
Written and produced by https://www.patreon.com/mfox.
Resources:
- https://therealnews.com/panama-us-invasion-under-the-shadow-episode-13
- Upcoming Season 2 of https://therealnews.com/under-the-shadow
- Used in today’s episode:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui8DzKBEi04
- Nov. 25, 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN7ACoEdjJU
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxCkKHziZKo
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HOW9vH1WL0 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-of-resistance--6566893/support.
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8 DEC 2025 · On Dec. 6, people across the United States marched. They protested. They carried banners: No war on Venezuela. No blood for oil. US hands off Venezuela. They chanted and waved Venezuelan flags.
Trump says he’s coming to remove Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. He’s promised it’s only a matter of time. The United States has amassed the largest military buildup in the Caribbean since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
But according to a recent CBS poll, 70% of Americans are opposed to US military action in Venezuela. And over the weekend, those voices were loud. Marches against US military intervention. Against the ongoing US boat strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific. Against Trump rhetoric that claims to applaud peace, while carrying out and threatening violence at home and abroad—violence against Venezuela.
BIG NEWS! This podcast has won Gold in this year’s Signal Awards for best history podcast! It’s a huge honor. Thank you so much to everyone who voted and supported.
And please consider signing up for the Stories of Resistance podcast feed on https://open.spotify.com/show/1GtnrSF03VgQCzyRIRUIAE, https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/stories-of-resistance/id1803542348, https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-of-resistance--6566893, or wherever you listen. And please take a moment to rate and review the podcast. A little help goes a long way.
The Real News’s legendary host Marc Steiner has also been in the running for best episode host. And he also won a Gold Signal Award. We are so excited. You can listen and subscribe to the Marc Steiner Show here on https://open.spotify.com/show/3rN9PFDr2mOZSI4cGuI2p9?si=2e2ad6febf2f455c or https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-marc-steiner-show/id1539971852.
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Resources:
Here are links to some of my recent reporting on these issues:
- https://www.thenation.com/article/world/venezuela-trump-air-strike-monroe-doctrine/
- https://truthout.org/articles/caribbean-leaders-call-for-unified-latin-american-resistance-to-us-attacks/
Here are links to some of the clips I used in today’s episode:
- En Burlington, Vermont, los movimientos sociales se movilizan activamente en apoyo a #Venezuela frente a las amenazas de guerra provenientes de #EstadosUnidos.
https://x.com/teleSURtv/status/1997430017744122186
- Los manifestantes recorren Los Ángeles en una movilización nacional contra la guerra de Estados Unidos contra Venezuela. Hubo manifestaciones en más de 65 ciudades de todo #EEUU, y los manifestantes exigieron el fin las amenazas de #Trump contra #Venezuela
https://x.com/manelmarquez/status/1997631357279736148
- "Estados Unidos no tiene nada que hacer en #Venezuela la única razón por la cual EEUU entraría en Venezuela es el petróleo...EEUU ha tenido una política desastrosa en América Latina" Isabel Allende.
https://x.com/FlorenciaLagosN/status/1996750163327537537
- Massive ‘NO WAR ON VENEZUELA’ Billboard Drops in Times Square
A new sign in the heart of #TimesSquare highlights the truth: the majority of Americans oppose #USA military operations in #Venezuela. As the #Trump administration escalates toward a catastrophic military operation by passing Congress, violating international law, and fabricating pretexts, the message is now impossible to ignore.
https://x.com/telesurenglish/status/1996338046048903299
- A movement incubator based in NYC for the working class. Political education. Cultural work. Internationalism & movement building.
https://x.com/PeoplesForumNYC/status/1997397881699930114/video/1
- Protestors hold "No War on Venezuela" rally in downtown L.A.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc_dweHYl0c
- New poll shows most Americans are against military action in Venezuela
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5 DEC 2025 · In the 1980s, the United States wreaked havoc in Central America. Backing authoritarian dictatorships. Fueling massacres and violence. Funding, training, and organizing the Contras, a paramilitary organization created to overthrow the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua. The US government was spending billions on its interventionist policies across Central America in the name of fighting so-called communism.
But people pushed back across Central America. And they also responded in the United States. Hundreds of thousands of people marched in the streets against US intervention in the region. It was the Central American solidarity movement.
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26 NOV 2025 · On Thanksgiving morning before dawn, the ferries run every 15 minutes, taking people to a sunrise gathering. An Indigenous People’s Alcatraz Thanksgiving ceremony.
The boats arrive to the island in the middle of the bay. People get off. Climb on to the island. They huddle against the chilly air and the cold winds that whip across San Francisco Bay. Lights from the cities across the water flicker in the distance. A ceremonial fire is lit. Drums beat as the sun rises. Songs are sung. Words are said. Dances danced. Prayers spoken. Stories told. Resistance remembered. This event is sacred. A ceremony to challenge the Thanksgiving myth. A ceremony to remember the innocent Indigenous peoples killed and pushed aside by the European conquest of America. And to honor the struggle of those who survived. https://www.iitc.org/event/indigenous-peoples-thanksgiving-sunrise-gathering-november-27-2025/, “To honor the resistance of our ancestors and give thanks for the survival of our Peoples, sacred places, cultures and ways of life.”
The location for this ceremony is not by accident. In 1969, Alcatraz was the site of a 19-month long Native American occupation that inspired movements and organizing around the country.
That legacy lives on until today.
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20 NOV 2025 · Nov. 20 is Black Consciousness Day in Brazil. A day celebrating the struggle of Black organizations, people, and movements in Brazil. Celebrating the ongoing fight against racism. And, above all, celebrating the history of Brazil’s most historic Black leader: Zumbi dos Palmares.
He was leader of the great Palmares Quilombo, present-day Alagoas, an autonomous state built by escaped slaves in the 1600s.
Palmares would last for roughly a century. It would grow to a population of tens of thousands of people spread out over 11 towns in the forested mountains and hillsides of northeastern Brazil. And they would defend it time and time again against attacks by the Portuguese colonial army.
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Stories of Resistance is a new podcast featuring vignettes pulled from journalist Michael Fox's 20 years of interviews, research, and reporting from across the Americas. Each week, we’ll bring you stories of resistance. Inspiration for dark times.
Each episode is an example of investigative journalism, prose, poetry, historical memory, reflection on struggle—and, above all, story. Stories that remind us of the struggles that have come before, and the ones we are living now. Stories about workers' struggles; resistance to dictatorship; alternative media; Indigenous and environmental organizing; and more. Eduardo Galeano-inspired vignettes for a Trump 2.0 world.
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Each episode is an example of investigative journalism, prose, poetry, historical memory, reflection on struggle—and, above all, story. Stories that remind us of the struggles that have come before, and the ones we are living now. Stories about workers' struggles; resistance to dictatorship; alternative media; Indigenous and environmental organizing; and more. Eduardo Galeano-inspired vignettes for a Trump 2.0 world.
Stories of Resistance is co-produced by The Real News Network and Global Exchange.
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