Peoples’ History – Page 11 – Green and Red Podcast

“Chile’s 9/11.” Fifty Years After the Coup w/ Dr. Rodrigo Acuña and Dr. Clinton Fernandes

September 11, 2023Foreign Policy, Peoples' History

"The Other 9/11" occurred 50 years ago, a military-organized coup against the Socialist President of Chile Salvador Allende, with the support of U.S. and Australian operatives. Listen in: https://apple.co/3PvSWey In…

Happy Scrappy Labor Day!! The Ruling Class vs. Radical Organizing

September 3, 2023Labor, Peoples' History

Green & Red celebrates (American) Labor Day . . . we talk a little about the history of the day, the co-optation strategy behind it, and current conditions for labor…

Sacco & Vanzetti executed, August 23, 1927… Green & Red’s Radical History

August 22, 2023Peoples' History

On August 23d, 1927 the state of Massachusetts executed Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian anarchists who'd been framed for a murder and convicted despite the absence of any…

Gulf of Tonkin and the Atomic Bomb . . . Green & Red’s Radical (and real) History this week

August 9, 2023Peoples' History

Green & Red commemorates this week in radical history with brief lessons about the Gulf of Tonkin attacks (August 2 and 4, 1964) and the use of the atomic bomb…

Hiroshima and “Atomic Diplomacy,” 78 Years Later

August 7, 2023Foreign Policy, Peoples' History

It's the 78th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. With decisions to drop atomic bombs being discussed with the release of Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer," we thought we'd repost this episode…

Scrappy Sunday | Oppenheimer, Private Jets for All! and APEC

August 7, 2023Peoples' History, politics

Scrappy summer continues! This week, we’re back with a hearty dose of radical history and snarky politics. We kick off with some thoughts on Trump’s third indictment and “unindicted co-conspirator…

Noam Chomsky on 9/11 . . . Interview w/ Bob Buzzanco on 9/13/2001, from the Green & Red Archives

July 26, 2023Chomsky, Foreign Policy, Peoples' History

On September 13th, 2001, G&R co-host Bob Buzzanco was fortunate to have one, if not the, first interviews w/ Noam Chomsky about the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Here the Green…

It’s Scrappy 4th of July, w/ John Quincy Adams, Frederick Douglass, and Scott and Bob

July 4, 2023Climate, Peoples' History

This week we "celebrate" the Fourth of July by discussing two famous orations on that date, John Quincy Adams's famous "monsters to destroy" speech from 1821 and Frederick Douglass's legendary…

“The Last Honest Man”: The Church Committee and the U.S. Empire . . . w/ Pulitzer-winner James Risen

July 2, 2023Foreign Policy, Peoples' History

James Risen is a two-time Pulitzer winner and investigative journalist who's just written a great book about Senator Frank Churck, *The Last Honest Man.* Listen in: https://apple.co/44ueZqI In this interview…

Frederick Douglass’s “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July,?” July 4th 1852

July 2, 2023Peoples' History, politics

Scott reads from and discusses the famous Frederick Douglass oration on what the 4th of July means to American slaves. This is excerpted from our Scrappy Fourth of July episode.…