In this episode we speak with Dr. Amy Beam, expert on the Yezidi genocide and author of the book, The Last Yezidi Genocide (available at Amazon.com). Dr. Beam has spent many years working closely with the Yezidi people since ISIS's 2014 invasion of the Shengal territory in Northern Iraq, which led to a genocide against the Yezidi people that is still ongoing.

Dr. Beam speaks with us about the regional politics that created and empowered ISIS, the controversy surrounding the pullout of the Kurdish military (the peshmerga) from Shengal just hours before ISIS's arrival, what regional and world powers may have known about ISIS's planned invasion of Shengal before it occurred, why ISIS may have been a ...