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Podcast: VINnews Podcast
Episode: THE DEFINITIVE RAP: THE PAKISTAN NARRATIVE ABOUT THE TALIBAN Interview with Melissa Toomim, candidate to represent California’s 32nd Congressional District
Description: Courage comes in unique and sometimes unexpected ways. Today we have the pleasure of meeting a remarkable young woman who went as a single woman unaccompanied, unguided, unsponsored by any sort of group as a tourist to Afghanistan. It took her 6 years to save up enough money for that trip, and while there, she decided to not just view the country as a tourist destination, but to help in ways that most people would shy away from.
Our guest Melissa Toomim is a counterterrorism specialist in the propaganda narratives of extremist movements, and a candidate to represent C...