Now: The Russian Revolution Next: ??? TJ, the youngest son of Tito . 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. Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/album/4e9hkmGdDhycmgcGKe3bF0?si=d97_H1fvS5CV84ZvcEhZqQ Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, After a flash of hope post-WWII Korea is divided into North and South. Copyright 2023 Penske Business Media, LLC. All Rights reserved. Kulwin: I would say Fidel Castro is cast as a villain on the level of Saddam Hussein in America. Assassinations, coups, counter-coups, and the rise of Saddam. Each story takes on something essential about California -- its progressiveness, its reputation as a home for dreamers and schemers, its heartbreaking inequality, its varied and diverse communities, its unique combination of dense cities and wild places -- and each season breaks it down into multiple 20-40 minute episodes that will be released sequentially. What was life like for the earliest soldiers? 2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer. Season five of Slow Burn kicks off with a leisurely, episode-length profile of Chalabi, the exiled aristocrat who thirsted for decades to supplant Saddam Hussein as Iraqs ruler. Search the history of over 797 billion The things they did instead of intelligence gathering are the stuff of organized crime. Well never sell your personal information. These are people who came from a variety of backgrounds and were open about what they saw as Cuban societys flaws, Kulwin says. 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. As decades roll on, the war becomes permanent. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, The war before the war on a self-reliant island off South Korea. Were not political organizers, but if were channeling any message, its to say, Your anti-imperialist antenna should always be raised.. Thank you for helping to keep the podcast database up to date. Eleven million people live there. Two Years After Patria Y Vida, Cuban Rapper Maykel Osorbo Remains in Jail. 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. It might seem at first like a typical intra-left difference in temperament. Player FM is scanning the web for high-quality podcasts for you to enjoy right now. Unfortunately the Blowback podcast is going to be on hold as the team tries to properly self-isolate during the Covid-19 pandemic. People with real blood on their hands were protected and nurtured by the American government repeatedly. This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity. Its insulting to paint the situation that way because the majority of people who care about this stuff are the people in countries that are gonna get fucked over by America, but they dont have a voice. Slow Burn ultimately provides more of an unsettling portrait of the media drumbeat for the war. Featuring special guest Will Menaker. This approach, when applied to the Iraq war, is revelatory. There are millions of people who, with executive action, could have their lives improved drastically. by noted film historian Joseph McBride, who said he had this conversation with Pakula.] Ancient Warfare Magazine will try and answer these questions. What do you hope people take away from this season in terms of following Americas current exploits abroad? In my opinion, relying too heavily on sound clips for comic relief. Kulwin and James narrative is emotionally satisfying and symmetrical: an overconfident American empire, led by glib, hard-charging middle-management types like Rumsfeld, stuck its nose where it didnt belong, caused mass immiseration and reaped the whirlwind. While listening to a podcast in Overcast, tap the Share icon to pull up the sharing menu. Blowback Binge-Worthy Documentary Military History Society Communities Military. After a critically-acclaimed retelling of the Iraq War, season two of Blowbackpresents the unlikely story of the Cuban Revolution: America's Cold War crusade brings the world to a nuclear-tipped showdown between the Kennedy brothers, Fidel Castro, the Soviet Union, the CIA, and the Mafia. 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. A five-part series from the makers of Serial and The New York Times. Follow him on Twitter @derek_j_rob. If you are a podcaster, the best way to manage your podcasts on Listen Notes is by claiming your Listen Notes It's the best podcast app and works on Android, iPhone, and the web. Theres a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Blowback: Season 2 | Premium Edition A podcast about the American Empire. Bonus Music From Blowback: Season 3 Thanks for supporting Blowbackhere's the original music from Season 3. And apparently, [Pakula] was said to have responded, Ive heard that, but I cant think about that right now or Ill go crazy. [. And all of this requires efforts however sometimes morally questionable of the United States to intervene and give the country back democracy. Chase & Chris discuss USC basketball in the first ever, full-length USCHoops.com podcast. Blowback, a podcast from Brendan James and Noah Kulwin, gives a rich history of both. podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5yZWRjaXJjbGUuY29tL2UzMGI5ZjEwLThjODYtNDMyZS05ZmEwLWJhMjg3ZmI5NGU3Zg==, open.spotify.com/show/2pibBnPuHqKr07hxEMZE41. 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 now were in this moment where we find out, actually, our government is cool with letting several hundred thousand people die in a pandemic. Helen, Shannon, Jenny, Amir and Doug play the first ever Blowback Quiz Game hosted by Chase. Kulwin: Were trying to find a way to write him into season three his people are difficult but well see how it goes. 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. James: If that happened in a country like Cuba, or Russia, or China, American newspapers would mock the fact that it was the government providing evidence for its own agenda. It can also blinker one to the Butterfly Effect-like systems of cause-and-effect behind something as vast and amorphous as American public life. Thats the official narrative. How, when, and why we remember it matters, making this podcast skirmish a historical signpost in its own right. - Education podcast from United States Blowback (podcast) - Blowback | Listen Notes Listen LaterAPI Data Discover Real-Time Episodes being played now Explorer Find similar podcasts Best Podcasts Recommended by us Hot Podcasts Popular shows today Curated Podcasts Recommended by media Playlists See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, The media episode, breaking down some of the journalistic fuck-ups and pundit idiocy that steered us toward war in Iraq. But the generation thats inheriting it doesnt quite agree on how the narrative fits together. The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time If that sounds like a simple recounting of lefty conventional wisdom, it is. Hello Blowback Beauties!! Sign up free. That might sound like an analysis better suited for a mid-level rhetoric class than our political discourse. I tend to want to be conservative when it comes to the mythology side of things because theres still speculation even in very good books. But it also prominently features interviews with Cubans who offer an invaluable, previously stifled perspective on the Cuban Revolution that diverges greatly from whats typically presented in the United States. note: This story was shared by noted film historian Joseph McBride, who said he had this conversation with Pakula.] It shows the falsity of our rhetoric about international democracy and human rights, because if we really cared about spreading international democracy and human rights, we would have showed up to Cuba with notepads and not guns.. Join Brandon, Scott, Quintin, and T.J. as we laugh and learn a thing or two about the world and just maybe ourselves.New Podcasts every Friday at 6/9ET am. Like, Oh, were just this bumbling giant and we accidentally gave those guys Stinger missiles, and oop, it bit us in the ass.. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. The immense, Shakespearean tragedy of Iraq means that, like Watergate, it will lace those narratives for decades. Only on The Daily Wire:https://utm.io/uc9er Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, Gen. MacArthur executes his revenge. 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. The Blowback is a semi-regular, hour-long podcast featuring four transplants from the South, West, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest to New York, giving their insights and irreverent opinions on the funniest, most interesting and unusual news stories of the day. New Podcasts e James: Additionally, this totalitarian system produces only poverty and hunger, and these poor, hungry people hightail it to the United States. The armistice in Korea is supposed to be temporary. 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. Copyright 2023 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. It was CIA propaganda. Subscriptions are now available here: In addition to getting all of season three at once, Blowback subscribers receive: Brendan James: The canned history is the classic: A romantic revolution is popular and admirable, but betrayed by the people who led it, in this case, Fidel Castro, his brother [Ral Castro] and Che Guevara. Copyright 2023 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Leftist theories debunked in 15 minutes or less. After claiming your Listen Notes podcast pages, you will be able to: Respond to listener comments on Listen Notes, Use speech-to-text techniques to transcribe your show and Ill save everyone the listening time: EVERY (and I mean every) action taken by America and all western countries since at least 1944 was pure evil; and EVERY action taken by the always peace loving, egalitarian, democratic, pacifist communist nations is justified, rational and for the good of the world. We have confirmed that much. on the Internet. 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. Theres a fun philosophical version of this, which is, what really is the Central Intelligence Agency? Hit the Subscribe button to track updates in Player FM, or paste the feed URL into other podcast apps. Our story: washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/ with Send us a tip using our anonymous form. "It degrades and objectify's women in a way that's not healthy," wrote TJ Jackson on Twitter. 0:00. When Slate launched Slow Burn in April, the loyal, rabid Blowback fanbase attacked, egged on by influential lefty-world media figures. 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. Hosted by Phoebe Judge. Listen to this episode from Blowback on Spotify. Its a myth that in the Kennedy era there was this liberal, enlightened government that was trying to I dont know kill Castro the right way, or the moral way, and the CIA were just the dirty guys getting too crass about it. Brendan James. Sign up to get unlimited songs and podcasts with occasional ads. But they thought it was a pretty good idea, so they went with one of the most obvious arrangements that offered plausible deniability. is brimming with intrigue: dissections of events like the CIAs scheming with organized crime, the Bay of Pigs fiasco, and, yes, how all this may or may not tie in with the assassination of John F. Kennedy (All will be revealed, James quips). But a peace treaty never comes. Like the multiple attempted hits on Fidel Castro by Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli in partnership with the CIA. 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?) James: Well, occasionally too many footprints are left and we have a decent idea of how things transpired in certain moments. 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. web pages 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. Discussions from Ancient Warfare Magazine. I really couldn't afford to buy all the episodes (25 bucks it's pretty much expensive here in my country). 0:00. I think the Obama process [of normalizing relations with Cuba] in 2014 created a real problem where he initiated something and then left it in suspension. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images | Getty Images. What do you think the conventional American narrative of the Cuban Revolution is? Revolutions, civil war, and a cast of characters from Kim Il-Sung to Mao Tse-tung to General Douglas MacArthur. Warfare minus two thousand years. That dearth of well-wishes is the result of something just as socially aberrant. Its all cherry-picked and drawn from outlets like CubaNet. In this case, the CIA wanted to murder Fidel Castro and others in leadership and roll back an entire revolution which is quite a hubristic assumption, because people will tell you that killing Castro would have been a tragedy, but there were CIA estimates at the time that said it wouldnt have rolled back the revolution in and of itself. 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. 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. 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. Malone depicts Chalabi as a skilled flatterer with an ample supply of cultural (and financial) capital to cash in with Western powers who had their own reasons to yearn for Saddams scalp. What do you think we get wrong about Fidel Castro? The story of the 1959 Cuban Revolution and its aftermath, as James recently told Rolling Stone, presented a classic, exhaustive case of almost every trick America uses economic sabotage, assassination attempts, psyops, etc. And youre right: Cuba does not have the same rules around speech that we do. Blowback Stitcher Podcasts A podcast about American Empire. Even the concept of blowback is a convenient excuse a lot of the time, he says. But a peace treaty never comes. 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 Filmmaker Dan Taberski was a Slimmons regular and a friend of Richards. Decades of military rule and a genocide that by the Nineties, by all mainstream accounts, kills 200,000 people chiefly indigenous people in a very small country. What is it? No credit card needed. James: Look at Guatemala. Lets turn to my two favorite characters in this story, the CIA and the mafia. We'll be using some of the same steps for getting a full episode transcript later on, so it's a good place to start. [Ed. A weekly podcasting exploring great political revolutions. The difference might seem stylistic, not substantial. 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