Lula Wins! Report from Brazil w/ Mike Elk of “Payday Report”
Mike Elk (@mikeelk) with Payday Report has been in Brazil this past month covering the elections and we were fortunate to have a nice interview w/ him this morning about…
The Cuban Missile Crisis at 60: Was JFK Really A Hero?
60 years ago this month, in October 1962, Americans anxiously heard news for almost two weeks straight about the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba, less than 100 miles away from the U.S. Nuclear War was possible, to some imminent.
In this episode we offer a brief history of the Cuban Missile Crisis and, more importantly, a remembrance and reconsideration of the events of October and JFK actions throughout the crisis.
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JFK has been praised for his firm resolve, courage, and strength in handling the crisis but the reality is that he was provocative and almost caused a war against Russia. In this episode we’ll start by giving a background on JFK’s aggression toward Cuba, then we’ll offer a brief narrative of the crisis, and finally we’ll discuss how Kennedy continued his subversion against Castro’s government after the Missile Crisis.
The Protests in Iran w/ Professor Giuseppe Acconcia
The “hijab protests” in Iran have continued and intensified for weeks now, and we talked to a journalist and scholar with a longtime familiarity with the country. Giuseppe Acconcia, @stradedellest, professor at Padua University, has been a journalist working out of Iran and is the author of “The Great Iran,” and most recently co-authored, with Lorenza Perini, of “The Arab Uprisings: Protests, Gender, and War, 2011-2021.”
Listen in: https://apple.co/3S1zt3d
Acconcia here provides us with background to the new conflict, the critical role Iranian women have played in the resistance in Iran for some time now and the current state of the uprising, and other factors, like the Iranian economy and sanctions, that are affecting the current protests.
Noam Chomsky on the U.S. rejection of Ukraine-Russia negotiations to end the war
The Ukraine-Russian war has now lasted over 6 months with great bloodshed and losses on both sides. Much of the world wants the war to end with a negotiated settlement,…
Noam Chomsky talks about Clinton’s foreign policy
Noam Chomsky on the "Saintly Glow" of Clinton's Brutal Foreign Policy. He discusses foreign policy in the Clinton years, including U.S. support for Turkey's war on the Kurds, brutalizing Iraq,…
Is Giorgia Meloni the Next Mussolini? Italian Politics w/ Prof. Francesco Mazzucotelli
Is Giorgia Meloni the next Mussolini? Listen: https://bit.ly/italypolitics Just after Giorgia Meloni's far-right Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy) party won enough votes to likely make her Prime Minister, we had…
Chomsky on the Brazilian election
Noam Chomsky talks about the Brazilian election and Sen. Bernie Sanders' attempts to pass legislation opposing a coup by Bolsonaro. Full interview up soon! Support us: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast Or make…
Best of G&R: Remembering 911
The last of our “Best of’s” for a minute. We’ll be back with new episodes next week. In the meantime, here’s our 2020 “Remembering 911” episode for the anniversary of September 11th.
Iraq, Oil, Capitalism and U.S. War w/ Prof. Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt
Bob had a great talk (Scott’s on assignment) with Professor Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt of Cal State-Stanislaus, author of “The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq” about Iraqi history from the Ottoman Empire to the present, with an emphasis on the period from 1958 to the 1970s.
Listen in: https://apple.co/3dmOwpu
Before Iraq became the target of a massive U.S. intervention, it was a British colony, and then a kingdom, which achieved sovereignty in a 1958 revolution led by Karim Kasim. However, the U.S., especially President John Kennedy, began to oppose the Kasim regime and helped engineer a 1963 coup against him and then sending support to the new regime to isolate and kill Kasim backers and others, especially communists.
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