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We put together the Bush administration's case for war WMD and al-Qaeda and take it apart piece by piece.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, America sends Colin Powell, Good Cop, to the UN for one last PR stunt before we invade Iraq. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy. While listening to a podcast in Overcast, tap the Share icon to pull up the sharing menu. Any questions? But I think one thing were trying to do is expose how that happens and, in some cases, reveal the mirror image that the United States is projecting every time it describes the horrors of communism. Blowback Blowback Society & Culture 4.9 206 Ratings NOV. 28, 2022 S3 Episode 10 - "The Host" S3 Episode 10 - "The Host" The armistice in Korea is supposed to be temporary. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, Before George W. Bush, there was Daddy Bush and Bill Clinton, who killed thousands of Iraqis and pushed the country to the brink of famine. Like the multiple attempted hits on Fidel Castro by Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli in partnership with the CIA. note: CubaNet is a non-profit media outlet that says its dedicated to promoting the alternative press in Cuba and sharing information about the reality of the island.] If you go to CubaNet and say, Where do they get their money from? They get it from the National Endowment for Democracy, which is the U.S. government. gets its title from a bit of Central Intelligence Agency jargon the unintended and adverse consequences of covert operations. Lets turn to my two favorite characters in this story, the CIA and the mafia. So, this slick messaging that happens around these things is very clever and insidious, but I hope its not a terribly effective way of manufacturing consent around these things in 2021. Blowback: S1 Episode 1 - "Rosebud" on Apple Podcasts 58 min PLAY S1 Episode 1 - "Rosebud" Blowback Society & Culture We trace the origins of America's perverse relationship with Iraq, from the Cold War to the Iran-Iraq War in the 80s. But a peace treaty never comes. That dearth of well-wishes is the result of something just as socially aberrant. The armistice in Korea is supposed to be temporary. But what felt crazy was, they articulated this country, this government and this revolution that was doing things like teaching people how to read. Well never sell your personal information. Blowback gets its title from a bit of Central Intelligence Agency jargon the unintended and adverse consequences of covert operations. If you go back to [the Cuban Revolution] and use a similar frame, you see a lot of the same things play out., Editors picks Warfare minus two thousand years. Books used throughout Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer, 2005 Fidel: A Critical Portrait, Tad Szulc, 1983 Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story, Peter Wyden, 1979 17 years after the initial attack on Baghdad, wondering whether the war was just or executed in good faith is a ridiculous exercise. This was done under the banner of anti-communism, regardless of whether a country was actually communist or just too left-leaning for Americas taste. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, We talk to activists and historians about Cuba, black radicalism, and how the Revolution attacked the problem of racism. Thats not something the Blowback hosts need be self-conscious about. It matters how we write them, what we include, and what we leave out. Blowback Podcast | Free Listening on Podbean App Blowback https://feeds.redcircle.com/e30b9f10-8c86-432e-9fa0-ba287fb94e7f Follow Share 1.7k Followers 47 Episodes Category: Society & Culture Last Update: 2022-11-28 Claim Ownership A podcast about American Empire. Thank you for helping to keep the podcast database up to date. The Chinese leadership debates its options in Korea.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, Gen. MacArthur executes his revenge.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, With a rightwing, US-backed klepto-case to his South, Kim Il-Sung bets the house.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, An excellent detailed podcast professionally done without all the unnecessary corny jokes, drinking & clueless knowledge of the subject matter; I was born in 1955 and this let me know the entire world (except maybe Greenland, Iceland?) Blowback is a weekly comedy podcast with recurring segments covering trivia, current events, mundane moral quandaries, and the crispest can openings you'll ever hear. At the end of March, the Biden administration published a State Department white paper, compiled by the Trump administration, on human rights in Cuba from 2020. But they thought it was a pretty good idea, so they went with one of the most obvious arrangements that offered plausible deniability. Its penultimate episode centers around an interview with Judith Miller, the Times now-infamous former national security reporter who credulously repeated Bush administration hype over weapons of mass destruction into the public record. Starring: Amir (the doctor), Chase (the lawyer), Chris (the tech expert) and Doug (the Dutchman). Now: The Russian Revolution Next: ??? The sanctions are still in place, were not moving toward an end of the embargo and were making up shit like sonic attacks in Havana that have no basis in reality. Copyright 2023 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. But theres also the capacity for people to understand some of the really bad things our government did and continues to do. Join Brandon, Scott, Quintin, and T.J. as we laugh and learn a thing or two about the world and just maybe ourselves. Thats just part of the game. Decades of military rule and a genocide that by the Nineties, by all mainstream accounts. Preview of Spotify. Because of things like World War One and national liberation movements, America realized it had to adjust its language as any good marketing campaign is aware of with the trends. Derek Robertson is the digital editor for Indianapolis Monthly. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Some were appropriately straightforward. It's the best podcast app and works on Android, iPhone, and the web. A podcast about American Empire. Iraq is a target as rich as Watergate: both events are metonymic with the erosion of trust in American institutions thats led us to our current uncertain moment. Sarmiento, for instance, shares memories of Operation Peter Pan (an allegedly CIA-backed humanitarian program that convinced parents to send their children, unaccompanied, to America), while Roa-Kouri shines some fresh light on Castros famous 1960 visit to Harlem. Imperfect Paradise is a longform narrative podcast showcasing California stories with universal significance. We want to hear it. Kulwin: Well, hold on Cuba is an island in the Caribbean. But it doesnt map neatly along ideological lines influential thinkers and activists from the far left to the far right share the Blowback-ian conception of the March 2003 invasion of Iraq as a Year Zero for the post-Cold War era. But if you were paying attention recently, a revealing skirmish over their place in it was waged in a very modern medium: the serialized podcast. Slow Burn allows space for figures like the late anti-Saddam Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi, former New York Times reporter Judith Miller, and, yes, Donald Rumsfeld, to speak for themselves, either in the present or through the historical record, and invites the listener to draw their own conclusions. In the fifth season of Slates Slow Burn, which concluded just weeks before Rumsfelds death, host Noreen Malone delivered listeners one of the series signature deep dives on an event that looms so large over American history weve almost forgotten the details of what actually happened. Our story: washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/ with Part of calling it the CIA and giving it the fine name of espionage and James Bond and Jack Ryan is to obscure the actual reality, and ethical reality, of what the thing is. No credit card needed. And Comey said he kept this letter to remind him of the bad things the FBI had done and to always be mindful of justice, or what justice means, or something. The difference might seem stylistic, not substantial. The Iraq War is history. 0:00. When in fact, thats the minority of people who tend to care about this stuff. Weve backslid, and its a tragedy. And in fact, other countries take cues from us on how to discipline their restive populations. Bonus Music From Blowback: Season 3 Thanks for supporting Blowbackhere's the original music from Season 3. there were, unfortunately, a lot of options after all, the show grapples with the machinations, mishaps, and misdeeds of the American empire. Featuring special guests James Adomian and H. Jon Benjamin.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, We trace the origins of Americas perverse relationship with Iraq, from the Cold War to the Iran-Iraq War in the 80s. That its really talking about stuff weve done throughout history. 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And part of that is because of movement failures, and part of that is because the government did its darndest to kill it. A five-part series from the makers of Serial and The New York Times. This is a coup in 1954 that in many ways serves as the dry run for the Bay of Pigs. Joe Biden, Donald Trump, John McCain and Bernie Sanders all came to agree that the war was a mistake. But Rumsfeld remained unapologetic about Iraq until the very end, and in the process, made his name and that mistake largely synonymous. Blowback is a weekly comedy podcast with recurring segments covering trivia, current events, mundane moral quandaries, and the crispest can openings you'll ever hear. Related Stories While in both Iraq and Cuba, the U.S. tried to impose its will and interests on a foreign country, James and Kulwin note the latter offered a chance to dive deeper into Americas Cold War efforts to obliterate social and economic alternatives to capitalism. In Season 2 we look at a world just as shady and mysterious as MLMs, but one whose promises are at times even more bombastic and unfathomable: WELLNESS. Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/album/4e9hkmGdDhycmgcGKe3bF0?si=d97_H1fvS5CV84ZvcEhZqQAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, After a flash of hope post-WWII Korea is divided into North and South.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, A pocket-sized history of the Korean peninsula, the upstart US and Japanese empires, and World War II. A show about people whove done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle. on the Internet. Communism is a world historical movement thats been maligned in our country, and theres a lot to go into with that. But the generation thats inheriting it doesnt quite agree on how the narrative fits together. Kulwin: One of the primary accusations thats existed for years against the Cuban government is that it supports terrorism around the world. Blowback is a weekly comedy podcast with recurring segments covering trivia, current events, mundane moral quandaries, and the crispest can openings you'll ever hear. Blowback: Season 2 | Premium Edition A podcast about the American Empire. In the first episode, you talk about how, after the Spanish American War, the U.S. started using Cuba as kind of a testing ground for this new brand of 20th-century empire. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, A discussion of Operation Peter Pan with Prof. Nelson Valdes, with a detour into Hungary, 1956. James: Look at Guatemala. Truthfully, I dont remember his exact words, neither do I care. Some were charged with firsthand emotion and experience. As decades roll on, the war becomes permanent. All three hosts are millennials whose respective series gave listeners a detailed and, speaking as a listener, sometimes too detailed account of the folly, hubris and collective mania that led to the Iraq War. Filmmaker Dan Taberski was a Slimmons regular and a friend of Richards. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, Gen. MacArthur executes his revenge. What do you hope people take away from this season in terms of following Americas current exploits abroad? As decades roll on, the war becomes permanent.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, Stalemate on the battlefield does not stop the United States from obliterating North Korea.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, President Truman and his Big General in the Far East enter their final standoff over the war.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, The US threatens to cross the Yalu. A great story about an incredibly important period in US history. Its first season both begins and ends with the audio equivalent of its two hosts turning to the camera and delivering their neat characterization of the wars causes and consequences. Slates effort was a copycat, they said. The Chinese leadership debates its options in Korea.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, Gen. MacArthur executes his revenge.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, With a rightwing, US-backed klepto-case to his South, Kim Il-Sung bets the house.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy. Were using a lot of, hopefully, honest research by people who have spent their whole lives trying to get to the bottom of this stuff, and we respect that a lot. But apt as it may be, James (who also composed the score for Season Two and will release it later this year as an album co-produced with Wets Joe Valle and Marty Sulkow) stresses that its somewhat tongue-in-cheek. 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