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While everyone is focusing on the elections, we thought we should look at something far more important: The Labor Movement. Because when there is a historically hostile presidency to labor, the only thing that will advance the cause of the working class is a strong labor movement. I want to take a look at the history of Anticommunism within the US Labor movement from both inside and outside factors with the knowledge this anticommunism often left the United States' borders and had deep rooted effects that are still present in Labor today.Slater Mill, located on the Blackstone River, still stands in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. This Mill is famous for being the 1793 birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in the United States. I've seen this building countless times and my thoughts on it run the gamut. Mills like Slater, ushered in so much progress but also so much pain. In the struggles of that huge contradiction, workers and their families came together to fight for better lives and were torn apart by the propagandist lies and deceptions, sometimes coming from within, to keep only a handful of mostly white men in power.John Francis Bray, the American labor activist who also spent time in England as a Chairtist, he said“If the word had been in use with us a few years since, then every anti-slavery man would have been denounced as a Communist.”* (Footnote: Gutman, “Tompkins Square ‘Riot'”)As Bray implied, sometimes anticommunism isn't a direct attack on those who push for or call themselves communists. It houses any anti-labor activity and the attacks on the ideologies under the Socialist umbrella including socialism, anarchism and of course communism.Many people believe capitalism doesn't work, however, it works well for the very few,k mainly the top one percent of the population. The system is designed to work in a class system divided into  the “haves and have-nots”, and though there have been reforms put in place to create a middle class, these reforms protected the ones who already accumulated a majority of the wealth and created an even larger inequality between the rich and poor.Capitalism is the perfect system for the white supremacists that require a class system to gain power by funneling the wealth off what the workers, who they exploit, make. Whereas, socialism is a system that puts the workers, the major majority of the population, in power giving them control of means of production that they create themselves. This does not serve those in power and they will do anything to keep themselves in power and continue to profit from the fruits of the workers' labor. In order to do this, they deploy tactics that including intimidation, manipulation, deception, outright lies, and even murder. They claim it is actually the “insert name of group that is going against the capitalist here” doing these things to them.The slave owning colonists figured out that they needed to pit the enslaved, poor whites, and the indigenous people against one another so those groups wouldn't turn on them. They offered concessions to the poor whites and put them in positions of “middle management” like being the overseer of enslaved people in a field or offering awards for them to act as a police force that would be used to hunt down escaped slaves which were considered property for the slave owner of course. This was the base and still very much the mindset of our current police force.In these series of episodes and articles, we will look at the red scare and all the tactics used by them.Please read the accompanying This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.historicly.net/subscribe

Iraq Body Count is a website that has maintained the most thorough list of civilian casualties from the Iraq War. According to Jonathan Steele, writing in The Guardian, IBC "is widely considered as the most reliable database of Iraqi civilian deaths.” It has been featured in the Chilcot report, and other official government websites. But, there is much to the war that most people don't know about:* The US began softening-up strikes in 2002, well before the official entry into the war. * A chilling story of how the US attacked a hospital in 2004 for reporting Morgue Deaths* The Al-Jazeera bombings and the US bombing of a Reuter's desk in Baghdad* Within the first few weeks, they had recorded over 7,500 civilian deaths with more devastation comingViolence as Communication - FallujahPerhaps no city has been hit as hard as Fallujah, Iraq. After the shock and awe campaign that led to the capture of Baghdad, the city of Fallujah had already established its own local government and security forces. There was no need for US forces to be there because they had not met with resistance at all. But, on April 23, 2003, the 82nd Airborne Division occupied the city. As a result, on April 28 2003, children and parents were marching in protests towards a school. US troops indiscriminately shot them. With that memory still present in amongst the people of Fallujah, on March 31, 2004, four Blackwater mercenaries were killed on a bridge with their bodies mutilated in brutal way. Unfortunately, most of the western media chose to portray them as innocent victims, instead victims of revenge. The US authorities took this as a challenge to their dominance. Then in late 2004, they began a campaign to conquer Fallujah which was filled with unbelievable atrocities. According to the Boston Globe:Under the plans, troops would funnel Fallujans to so-called citizen processing centers on the outskirts of the city to compile a database of their identities through DNA testing and retina scans. Residents would receive badges displaying their home addresses that they must wear at all times. Buses would ferry them into the city, where cars, the deadliest tool of suicide bombers, would be banned.As well as being conscripted for forced labor:One idea that has stirred debate among Marine officers would require all men to work, for pay, in military-style battalions. Depending on their skills, they would be assigned jobs in construction, waterworks, or rubble-clearing platoonLater on, white phosphorous would be used in Fallujah. In part 1 of our series, we discuss the Iraq war, the implications of the casualties and also we try to form a memorial for the people who lost their lives. We also talk about the digital memory project for the Iraq war.Iraq Body Count is available on Twitter.Support UsWe are a 100% user-supported publication. If you like this episode, please consider giving us a tip. Every dollar allows you to help sustain high-quality content and our dedication for the truth. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.historicly.net/subscribe

Perhaps no country has been subjected to the whims of US imperialism as much as Nicaragua. In the 1800s, it was seen a new breeding ground for the Monroe Doctrine, and sent mercenaries over there to fight wars. In the early 1900s, during the quest for colonies, the US marines invaded again, and through the efforts of Agosto Sandino, they were pushed out, not before establishing a foothold in the form of Anastasio Somoza and his sons who ruled the country with an iron fist. Somoza and his allies grew wealthy while most of the peasants starved and impoverished. Somoza, even took blood from the Nicaraguans and sold it to the US. However, the Sandinistas began their resistance in 1961 to the Somoza dictatorship. It was a David vs Goliath fight. Somoza had bombers from the US, while Sandinistas merely had their guns. Through their determination, the successfully defeated the Somoza dictatorship not before Somoza absconded with over $3 billion of aid. However, even victory was bittersweet as the US decided to train one of the most horrific militias known to man: the Contras. No action was deemed off-limits for the Contras. They beheaded children, they gouged out eyes of peasants. As one activist puts it, “The contras don't win the hearts and minds of the people. They take the arms and limbs”However, the Sandinista Revolution improved the lives of the Nicaraguan people in unprecedented ways. Within just 5 short months, the literacy rate rose up from the 50s to the 80s. But, they were fighting a brutal civil war with the Contras for the next decade, while under US sanctions.Being under the axe of imperial sanctions, and tired from the constant civil war, and under the pressure from the US, the Nicaraguan people voted out the Sandinistas for a US-backed leader: Violeta Chamorro. Once again, the gains from the revolution were rolled back. Literacy went down, many essential services were privatized. But, the Sandinistas did not give up. They continued to organize for the next 16 years and finally, their efforts paid off. Daniel Ortega and the Sandinistas came back to power in 2006. However, they Sandinistas have been under attack by the US through organizations like the NED that fund the violent opposition including the coup attempt in 2018 where 100s of innocent civilians in Nicaragua were killed. The US put Nicaragua under economic sanctions. The Sandinistas and Ortega skillfully navigated through this minefield using caution. For example, they did not immediately recognize the one-china policy because of all the factories Taiwan had put in. Only when the opportunity came forward did they do that. Finally, we walk about Ben and Dan's experience in the latest Nicaraguan elections and compare it with the US elections. We also discuss the US propaganda campaign against Nicaragua. In the end, Dan says “ God Bless the Sandinistas”Follow Ben on TwitterFollow Dan on TwitterOther Episodes with Dan Kovalik This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.historicly.net/subscribe

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.historicly.netToday, we have the lovely Carl Zha join us again to tell us about the history of Bruce Lee, whose family story is the story of Hong Kong itself! Show Notes:3:17 - The Coolie Trade - “Coolie” is a transliteration from a Chinese (and Indian) word. Coolie, in Chinese, means “bitter labor.” In the mid-to-late 1800s the slave trade was abolished in many So…

On Part 2 of Blindingly Unjust, we look at the way the law, public relations, the media interact with each other in order to manufacture consent. We start by examining the kid-gloves in which Sam-Bankman Fried is treated with and then we move on to examine the larger power structures that allows impunity for some and imprisonment for others. Show Notes0:50 - Sam Bankman-Fried Scandal1:30 - Elizabeth Holmes2:00 - Sam Bankman-Fried admits to running a Ponzi Scheme10:36 - Coordinated Pump and Dump12:42 - FTX's backdoor: The exchange is supposed to be a safe that cannot cracked, but FTX figured out how to “crack” the safe. 14:19 - FTX being embedded with politicians and appearing with Zelensky15:13 - Old lady being in jail over Christmas 16:38 - Prosecutorial power 17:30 - Arrested over “a 1000-yard stare”: Racial discrimination where a black person was sitting outside. 19:15 - Prosecutor's office and Police are extremely comingled which is why we cannot get a single conviction20:50 - The limits of Law - it is an expression of societal power.23:12 - Bush Vs Gore and Legal fiction25:42 - The same power circle within the USA27:38 - China's meritocracy30:22 - The way China works vs the Way the USA works 32:50 - Who owns BMW36:15 - Media driven blood-lust38:15 - Korean War Posters43:17 - Who the us fights a war with..Christopher Dilworth can be found on Twitter Get full access to Historic.ly at www.historicly.net/subscribe

Justice is often depicted as a blind woman who holds an evenly balanced scale as it is meant to reflect that justice is supposed to be dispensed impartially and to all members of society. Of course, within American hegemony is a popular myth that judiciaries are impartial arbiters of constitution and constitutionality. Today, attorney Christopher Dilworth joins us in a two-part episode to debunk this myth while explaining the history of the US judiciary. Show Notes2:10: What do Lawyers do? Nuance-Cuck3:20 - Law is not a vehicle to change the world. 4:04 - Supreme Court, a bullwark against change5:30 - Streamlining straight to the Supreme Court6:54 - Hammer v. Dagenhart10:56 - IG Farben and Zyklon B with Neal Kayal13:34 - Atkins v Children's Hospital: Minimum wage conflicts with Due Process15:22 - Scalia's anti-intellectualness 17:17 - “Originalism” 18:15 - Qualified Immunity20:18 - Civil Asset Forfeiture22:30 - Police have no constitutional duty to protect and serve24:14 - Christopher Dilworth's personal experience with the police28:20 - Esha's Experience with the Russian Police29:24 - Janet's Story with the Police37:02 - Legalized Sadism44:53 - Government's involvement in bringing drugs - Gary Webb 48:04 - Three StrikesChristopher Dilworth can be found on Twitter Get full access to Historic.ly at www.historicly.net/subscribe

The world has a lot of borders, but very few people understand what it means for the ordinary citizen and how it affects their lives. The problem this century is that these borders are not decided by people, in order to best serve them. Instead, there is a multi-tiered system that gives some humans some rights and many corporations a free-for all. Today, journalist Todd Miller, and author of Empire of Borders and Build Bridges and Not Walls, joins us to discuss the meaning of the borders and why we may need a world without borders.Show Notes0:43 - The Crisis at the Kenya-Tanzania borders: Tanzanian police are attempting to evict a big swath of the Massai people at the behest of a trophy hunting company. 2:15 - Ending the cliche that the immigration system is broken but working as intended. 4:15 - Orwellian technology at the border5:50 - Border Patrol Memo from 1994 - “The border was created for mortal danger”The preknowledge that people would die is built into the system.7:40 - The border budget exceeded $25 billion in 2020. 10:41 - “ There were a 105,000 contracts given to private companies just by CPB and ice which was $55 billion. The $55 billion given to companies over the 12 year old span was more than the amount given between 1975-2023”12:25 - The logistics and services by private companies. “In 2022, there were drones, unmanned aerial drones. The CPB has a contractor for predator B drones” 15:30 - Request for proposals for a small drone system equipped with a facial recognition system16:50 - Does the US government conduct surveillance on people who have never set foot inside the US because of the border technology?19:00 - The border patrol shot into Mexico and killed someone23:10 - “The nothing that happens in the other 97 case (where the US border patrol shot into Mexico and killed someone), makes me think that there is impunity”24:22 - The similarities between the US military installation and border control.24:52 - There are no borders for corporations: The Guatemala - United Fruit Situation25:54 - There is already an open border system for certain people, by the accident of where you are born. If you have a US passport, that opens doors for many places that if you are born in other places that is not. 30:08 - El Salvador's iron fist and an example of the open border system for corporations with the heavy hand of brutality that ensures the corporations always get what they want!31:20 - The Gadsen Purchase which was a gun-totting push34:26 - Treaty of Versailles and Sikes-Picot agreement and how they randomly drew borders around the world. “I can't even see my grandmother”36:01 - The “border zone” where the constitutional rights are exempt39:34 - DHS in Portland disappearing people from Bortac42:22 - A culture of Cruelty with Border Patrol44:39 - Facade of the enemy46:30 - An agent with his finger on the holster46:50 - The “hazing” of the border patrol agents where they get beaten and pepper-sprayedA CBP trainee dies of a stroke50:12 - A world without borders51:13 - 77 Borders around the world since 198953:04 - A different world 56:15 - “Open Borders” vs “No Borders”57:50 - The border between Kenya and Tanzania was not drawn by a single African1:00:10 - Concerns about the Border 1:03:51 - Impact of Borders on the Environment - The DHS action planCheck out Todd Miller's blog “The Border Chronicles” Get full access to Historic.ly at www.historicly.net/subscribe

It started with protests that was dubbed the Arab Spring, but western sources wants us to believe that protests over housing prices spontaneously erupted into a full-blown civil war. But, this is not the case. In fact, the so-called “moderate rebels” of Syria were armed, trained and funded by the west in a grandmaster plan to destabilize Syria in order to access its natural resources. Today, veteran journalist Vanessa Beeley, who has spent the better part of the last 8 years in Syria, tells us the story that they won't tell you.Show Notes:2:24 - Syria Solidarity Network3:43 - Wikipedia Vandalism5:15 - The Syrian Regime Change Coalition6:15 - Propaganda War in Syria 7:57 - Accusation of Crimes against White Helmets11:00 - Syrian Pipeline propositions that was rejected17:01 - A big red flag - No Christmas in areas controlled by “Moderate Rebels”22:13 - Early Protests with Hate 24:21 - “Smuggle Hope” in Syria31:02 - Rebranding “rebel groups”37: 00 - White HelmetsKLA Organ Trafficking40:00 - Crimes by Moderate Rebels* Burning Civilians alive* Civilians held captive in Rebel jails* Atrocities in Rebel-held jails45:45 - Western Media narratives turned upside down48:00 - White Helmets and organ traffickingUN panel on White Helmets58:21 - Al Qaeda oil Monopoly1:15:21 - Amnesty in Syria Get full access to Historic.ly at www.historicly.net/subscribe

Today, we have Carl Zha from the Silk and Steel Podcast joining us to discuss the Opium wars. Show Notes0:00:00 - 0:03:12 - Introductions0:03:14- 0:05:20 - Opium BeginningsOriginally, opium was ingested orally. However, ingesting it in large quantities lead to death because it stopped breathing. However, after Europeans colonized the New World, they brought back tobacco from the Americas. Particularly, the Spanish and the Portuguese, who brought it to the Philippines and Malaysia, both countries had a significant Chinese diaspora. Later, when the Dutch colonized Indonesia, they, too, brought tobacco. Now, Opium was mixed with tobacco and it could be smoked allowing for consumption in larger amounts without death.0:05:21- 0:07:08 - Damn British and OpiumOpium, itself, is not grown in china. It is grown outside of China and had to be imported. India grew Opium. In the Late 18th century when the British Colonized India, they forced the farmers in India to grow opium. Their policy of making Indian farmers grow Opium was responsible for many famines. The British East India Company (BEIC) would license the opium through their opium monopoly. They would sell the opium to individual traders who would carry them into China, because the British want plausible deniability. If someone every questioned them, they would say, “Oh, we are the venerable British East India company. We don't we don't actually believe in the opium trade.”0:07:08- 0:08:01 - Smoke and MirrorsThe BEIC ships the opium, but the individual parcels will be parceled out and sold to employees of BEIC. A famous opium smuggler is William Jardine, who started as a sergeant under the BEIC. As an employee of the BEIC, he got his own cargo space on their shops which was used to ship opium that he sold to China. 0:08:02- 0:09:48 - China's Opium EpidemicOpium was illegal in China and soon the Chinese government realized they had a crisis. Initially, opium was a luxury good because it was not grown in China. However, the innovation of the BEIC flooded the market with cheap opium. Now, laborers could afford it. It blossomed into a full-blown opium crisis.0:09:49- 0:13:42 - Limits on Foreign TradeOriginally, foreign presence in China was curtailed. It was limited to a few port ciites and the British could only stay for 6 months before having to go to the island of Macau. The British weren't happy that they could only conduct trade in the city of Canton. The British had to resort to selling opium because originally their product was not competitive. British had developed a taste for Chinese tea, and they needed silver to trade because China had gone into the Silver standard. 0:13:43 - 0:14:48 - The Magic FormulaSoon, the British hit the magic formula of selling drugs to the Chinese to drain China of it's silver. The British ran a trade deficit with China prior to the massive operation of opium smuggling. According to some estimates, 50% of the silver mined in the South America is from the 18th and 19th century, ended up in China. The British just decided to sell drugs to drain the silver. 0:14:48 - 0:18:28 Enter AmericansDuring the founding of the United States, most of the New England old money was made in the opium fortune. There was Astor who has an area in Queens named after him: Astoria. Other families who made their fortune through the Opium Trade:* The Forbes Family whose descendant John Forbes Kerry was Secretary of State under Obama.* The Delano Family - FDR's Grandfather.* HSBC bank During a famine in Guangzhau, American traders hid opium under bags of rice. All the Ivy league universities were also heavily invested in the opium trade. That's how America was founded on: Drugs and Slaves.0:19:24 - 0:25:47 China Fights BackChinese officials tried to tackle the problem by banning opium. The first few bans were ineffective because the British had paid off many officials. In the 1830s, the sends his minister Lin Tse-Hsu', who is known to be a very honest, upright official to Guangzhou, specifically put a stop to the opium trade. The British gave up the opium, but they were very indignant. William Jardine returns to London and buys up many newspapers and starts to agitate a media campaign against China in order to start a war. He hobnobs with UK politicians, especially Lord Palmerston, to urge for war with China. There was a lively debate in the British Parliament about morality of going to war with China over opium. But, in the end, they decide to wage war against China for Opium.0:25:47-0:32:12 The First Opium WarThe British sent their troops from India and landed in the port city of Guanzhou. The British had obtained Mysore rockets and their arsenal was significantly better than China's. While Britain had industrialized, they did so by destroying more advanced industries in India. Britain decided to bombard the Chinese coast and went up to the mouth of the Yangzi river. they decided they're going to apply pressure by raiding other Chinese coastal towns. So the sale of the salt from the South China Sea and bombarding the Chinese coast totally. And if they go that went up to the mouth of Yangzi River near Shanghai. They took over some islands to create big their headquarter for opium smuggling. And more importantly, they threatened to cut off the north-south traffic at the Grand Canal. At that time, most of the Chinese shipping was along the coast under the Grand Canal to sail from Nanjing to Beijing. Beijing, in 1839, had a population of more than a billion. The plains around Beijing was dry and couldn't feed the population. The British Navy blockaded the area around Nanjing, threatened to cut off the the rice shipment from from the south to Beijing to basically to starve the population. At this point, China capitulated. They paid large indemnity for the pleasure of being invaded and also recognized Hong Kong as a port.0:32:12 - 0:36:16 Treaty of Nanking * China Ceded Hong Kong in Perpetuity* Indemnity was paid to British ships* Opening up China for foreign exploitation.* Chinese law did not apply to British missionariesSoon, the french began negotiating with the British to allow a little colony in these areas. The city of Shanghai, British, France and even the US got their own concessions. The British and American concession eventually merged into the international Settlement of Shanghai. The colonialism was so bad that there needed to be a Chinatown in Shanghai. The Chinese were restricted to the Chinese city, where the Chinese law would continue to apply. But for the rest of European concessions, British, French, and American laws were applied. British imported Sikh police from British India to police the Shanghai concessions.0:36:16 -0:38:20 Modern Day Colony in OkinawaThis is eerily similar to Okinawa in modern day Japan. American soldiers can rape people in Okinawa. There is nothing that the Japanese government can do to them. The Japanese government is also a culprit because they don't want American soldiers on the Japanese mainland. So they stick them in Okinawa because, they never treated Okinawans at the same level as the Japanese citizens in Japan. Essentially Okinawa status is like it's a double colony of Japan and United States. 0:38:20 Century of HumiliationA Chinese person at this time was a second-class citizen in your own country. A very famous scene in a Bruce Lee film illustrates this:Some Western historians tried to disprove this as an urban myth. But, what they discovered was that there was that the sign actually said “This park is reserved for Europeans only, dogs not allowed.0:42:00 - 0:45:16 - Second Opium WarThe British were not very happy with the settlement for only $21 million. The opium was not fully legalized. So they waited for another opportunity to start another war. This opportunity came during the “Arrow Incident”. British authority had granted all the vessels registered in Hong Kong, British registration. So there was a cargo ship called Arrow. It was used by Chinese smugglers to smuggling opium again, which was captured by the Chinese authorities. The Chinese authorities arrested the crew and executed them for drug smuggling. Because the ship was flying a British flag, the British used this as an excuse to start another war. In another incident, proselytizing was illegal. A French priest decided to ignore this regulation and went to the interior. He got in trouble with the locals who killed him. The French used this as an excuse to align with the British to form the Anglo-French consortium. Now, the French-Anglo forces used Hong Kong as a launchpad to start another attack on China. The British just had finished fighting a war in India against the Great Sepoy Mutiny. They had shipped off mutineers to Trinidad, Guyana and other British colonies to work in bonded labor. 0:45:16 -0:49:29 Chinese Coolie TradeAround the time slavery was formally abolished in many Latin American countries, but there was still a demand for the docile labor force. British and Dutch traders set up shop in Hong Kong. They recruited Chinese peasants They will have these the British and Dutch traders, they will set up shop in Hong Kong and they will Chinese peasants with the promise of jobs overseas. When they went abroad, there conditions were terrible and slave-like. Bruce Lee's dutch great-grandfather was part of this. 0:50:13 - 0:59:07 The British Loot BeijingAfter Britain captured Guangzhou in 1856, they decided it was not enough, so they decided to bring in more pressure. They sailed up to the port of Tianjin, just outside of Beijing where they defeated the Chinese coastal defense. They send in their last remnant force led by the Mongol Prince Sengge Rinchen because they were poorly equipped. At this time, the British decided to send an envoy to negotiate with the Chinese side. But the Mongol Prince, Sengge Rinchen, was so mad at the defeat that he had the British envoy put to death. And now the British were out for revenge. They decided to sack Beijing and the Chines emperor fled the palace. The British commander Lord Elgin (the son of the famed Elgin marbles) decided to loot the Beijing summer palace and ordered the complete destruction of it. Today, the ruins stands. Everything within the summer palaces was shipped to Britain. A clause was inserted so that foreign priests could go anywhere in China to proselytize anywhere in China and British ships were allowed to carry indentured Chinese servants to the USA to work. 0:59:07 - 1:05:19 - Opium and the devastation on the Population* Foreign missionaries said nearly 40% of the adult male population were addicted to opium.* One doctor said, “There is no slavery to that compared to opium”Carl Zha tells us a personal anecdote about how opium ruined his grandfather's family.1:05:19 -1:14:12 KMT, Opium, CIA and the Cold WarAfter the communists seized power in China, the United States was sponsoring the remnant KMT troops who escape from southwestern China to northern Myanmar into this place now with nice golden triangle to start opium and heroin production over there. When the communists took power, opium was outlawed. They burned all the crops and now food such as size could be grown. Around this time, western pharmaceuticals started to develop more potent forms of opium to market it to the masses such as Heroin and Morphine which was treated as a cough remedy for Children.1:14:12-1:17:21 Heroin Crisis hits homeSoldiers who were in Vietnam became addicted to opium and it was shipped back home. 1:17:21 -1:23:20 -Getting back Hong KongWhile Hong Kong was leased in perpetuity, areas around Hong Kong was given a 100 year lease which would expire in 1997. At that time, Margaret Thatcher ran many scenarios to see if they could defend Hong Kong against Chinese forces. When she went to negotiate for Hong Kong, the Chinese government cut her off and flatly said no. They ran many scenarios and they realized they could not defend against an actual Chinese military.In the 1980s, a lot of fear was whipped up by the capitalist class. So, to assuage them, China did One Country Two Policies Get full access to Historic.ly at www.historicly.net/subscribe

Today, anthropology scholar Elijah Fanon joins us to discuss the rich history of Morocco. A very special episode where we go through over 3000 years of history of a beautiful country. Show Notes0:01:11 - The Geography of Morocco0:02:00 - First Recorded Human life - 300,000 years ago.0:04:11 - Mitochondrial Eve 0:04:38 - First Sign of Civilization in Morocco0:05:21 - Amazigh Kingdom of Mauretania - During the Roman Times0:07:15 - When did Islam Come to Morocco?0:10:31 - Ibn Khaldoun0:16:00 - The Fall of the Umayyad Empire0:17:59:00 - Almoravid Empire0:20:20- The Red City of Morocco0:23:48 - Almohad Caliphate: The first non-Arab Caliphate0:26:10 - The Islamic Golden Age0:26:29 - The First University - Fatima Al Fihri0:28:15 - The Koran and the Scientific Method0:29:00 - The Alaween Dynasty in Morocco and how they kept power for over 500+ years0:32:00 - The Ottoman Empire 0:34:10 - Sayyida al-Hurra - The Female Pirate of North Africa0:36:10 - Esha approve of Robbing of Colonizers. 0:36:53 - Pirates and the Slavetrade0:38:46 - The First Friendship Treaty with the USA0:41:49 - World War 1 and Morocco0:46:17 - Rebellion in Fez0:47:10 - Rif and the Independence Movement0:48:11 - The Istiqlal Party0:50:56 - From Black to Gray0:55:23 - How the King of Morocco Protected all the Jews During Vichy France0:57:42 - The Birth of the Marxist Leninist Movement in Morocco1:00:10 - Operation Gladio (Morocco Edition)1:06:27 - The Arab Spring in Morocco1:07:04 -Belt and Road Initiative and China in Morocco1:10:54 - Western SaharaOther AnnouncementsJoin our weekly callin today at 12:30 PM Eastern TimeLit with Lenin at 12:00 Pm Eastern on Monday, Jan 16 Get full access to Historic.ly at www.historicly.net/subscribe

With the release of a new cache of documents, there has been a renewed interest amongst the American Public on the truth behind the JFK assassination. Today, we interview film director JFK Assassination and Mrs. Paine, where he painstakingly, over a few years interviews a key witness in the Kennedy Assassination Ruth Paine. 0:00:45 - Introductions and how Max Good funded his film0:02:55 - Michael Parenti's Lecture Gangster Nature of our State0:03:26 - Who is Ruth Paine?0:04:55 - Lee Harvey Oswald and the Single Bullet Theory0:07:10 - How Ruth Paine Become Acquainted from Marina Oswald?0:07:46 - White Russians and White Terror0:10:02 - George DeMohrenSchildt0:11:10 - Fairplay for Cuba and Lee Harvey Oswald0:14:24 - DeMohrenSchildt's Mysterious suicide0:15:00 - Oswald's Weapon and Ruth Paine's house0:20:37 - Ruth Paine and the Warren Commission 0:22:12 - Jack Ruby and the Oswald Murder0:26:26 - Ruth Paine's Connection with Allen Dulles0:28:29 - JFK, Bay of Pigs and the CIA0:30:30 - The Role of the Secret Service during the Kennedy Assasination0:31:33 - Vincent Salandria and the JFK Investigation40:00 - The Gangster Nature of our State 44:12 - Conspiracy Theory and Class Power 46:34 - Fidel Castro's Speech on the Kennedy Assassination Get full access to Historic.ly at www.historicly.net/subscribe

Today, we have Author Aaron Good, join us to talk about the driving force behind the US foreign policy for the past 100 years. He talks about who the actors are, what actually occurs and what the end result is, in this extremely informative interview. 0:00:49 - Aaron Good's transition from working on the Obama Campaign to writing the book “American Exception” 0:03:36 - The impact of JFK and the unspeakable 0:04:41 - The US Empire being a mass criminal enterprise0:05:31 - Political Scientist with a skewed “Democracy Scale”0:05:59 - Hegemony0:06:29 - US Hegemony 07:26:15 - Deep Politics09:36:01 - Parapolitics 10:56:31 - Management of Savagery11:23:23 - Putin's Observation about lack of change in US policy across Presidents15:04 - Pax American Speech17:42 - The Nixon Ouster in a Different Light18:32 - “Every President since Reagan has basically been Reagan”19:27 - National Security State operates on a permanent state of exception21:11 - “Rules-Based International Order”22:19 - Propaganda and the National Security State26:03 - What is the “East India Company Point of View”?30:50- What is Higher Immorality?31:55 - Conundrum of Human CivilizationThe State Department Leak on AfghanistanThread on Morales39:56 - Concept of Permanent War42:12 - Aerospace crisis45:00 - The Dollar Gap 47:37 - Who Killed JFK?51:00 - A Brief History of Every US War Since then59:00 - the Trump Card for the Dollar HegemonyYou can find Aaron Good on Twitter Get full access to Historic.ly at www.historicly.net/subscribe

Last month, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni drew some waves when she (rightfully) criticized French Colonialism in Africa. She drew particular attention to the CFA Franc Zone. While her critique was rightful, there is much to be said about her motivations. Today, we are joined by Ndongo Samba Sylla, author of “Africa's Last Colonial Currency” to talk to us about the brutal history of the CFA Franc and how it purposefully impoverishes Africa. Show Notes0:41 - Colony within a nation: “Neoliberalism is another iteration of colonial logic, at least economically speaking”5:14 - President Mitterand in 1957, “Without Africa, France would have no history in the 21st century”6:48 - CFA Frank with two monetary zones 9:11 - Who liberated France? 10:11 - CFA Franc was born out of the devaluation of the French Franc12:12 - Sham Decolonialisation 13:40 - Guinea 15:45 - Sekou Toure17:34 - Fundamental Principles of the CFA system21:06 - The third pillar “Guarantee of convertability”* Central banks are obliged to deposit with the central bank 50% of their exchange reserves.30:00 - Military Agreement with Relation to the CFA Frank32:15 - Thomas Sankara Example36:28 - French Interventions of Africa38:53 - What is going on in Mali?44:51 - Struggle against Monetary Repression“Instant Misery Fund” = IMF47:03 - Secrecy behind the CFA institutions50:20 - France is a “Guaranteer”! What does it mean? * Africans provided loans to the French Government.56:03 - Myths surrounding the CFA FrancWhat do you think about the CFA Franc Zone?You can follow Ndongo Samba Sylla on Twitter Get full access to Historic.ly at www.historicly.net/subscribe

In today's episode we have Alexander Buzgalin from the Moscow State University to talk to us about the history of Russia, Ukraine and the economic implications of this war.We apologize for the delay, I am currently in Russia reporting about the war in Donbass, and our internet connection has been spotty. We have worked out the kinks, and we will be back to our regular schedule. We apologize for the delay.Show notes:1:22 - Poland-Russian War from 16506:58 - The Russian Revolution10:58 - Donbass, the heart of Russia14:05 - The Truth about World War 2 - Europe vs Soviet Union18:02 - General Plan Ost23:02. - The Break up of the Soviet Union27:02 - Rehabilitation of Banderites31:20 - Two stages of Reform in Ukraine39:20 - 2008 and Ukraine46:50 - Maidan55:56 - Punishing Russia for…"Of course for United States and NATO, this is terrible challenge and they must punish or so-called punish Russia. And to show to everybody, you must be our slaves or you will be punished or you are punished with Russi Get full access to Historic.ly at www.historicly.net/subscribe

We have come a full circle. When we first started our podcast back in 2018, Lula was in prison because of a judicial coup called “Lavajato.” Bolsonaro was the leading candidate. We were trying to understand the coup effort sponsored by the US state department against Lula De Silva.Before he went to prison, Lula gave a very inspiring speech, where he said “ The elites can kill one rose, two roses, or a hundred roses, but they cannot stop the arrival of spring and ours is a fight for spring.”Four years later, it looks like spring is in the air and to understand what happened, we are doing a special super episode, where we go through all our interviews with Brian Mier from BrasilWire where we talk about the judicial coup from start to finish.This super episode is based on three earlier episodes: To support Brian Mier and independent journalism, please visit his patreon. Get full access to Historic.ly at www.historicly.net/subscribe

Sorry for the delay in posting. Esha is in Russia and is just getting settled. We will resume our scheduled posting next week.Today, we have Booker Omole, the head of the Communist Party of Kenya to discuss with us everything related to theory: Dialectical & Historical Materialism, Hegels, Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Gramsci. We also learn about why we need to have a party that has an educated citizenry that is capable of fighting for its rights, and how to turn your citizenry with the stellar secondary education program. Get full access to Historic.ly at www.historicly.net/subscribe

At the turn of the 19th century and early 20th century, people all over the world were demanding the rights given to them in theory on old documents, be put into practice. There was unprecedented activity in unions, unemployment collectives, and civil rights organizations. All of them demanding a voice in the government. Edward Bernays realized the “problem of Democracy” early on: The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.And we have been under this type of conscious manipulation of society since the time of Edward Bernays. Today, Fran from Mango Press joins us to discuss propaganda and Democracy.Show Notes:00 - Intro3:43 - When a non-war is a war for PR purpose8:20 - Edward Bernays and WW1 propaganda11:34 - Bernays creating first PR firm13:34 - Cleaning up the politicians17:09 - Big Tobacco and Psychoanalysis22:26 - Controlling with PR24:23 - Birth of the Department Store25:31 - PR in WW226:30 - PRing Guatemala into a Coup45:16 - The Regime Change Playbook48:09 - Protecting the Order of Things50:53 - Inventing Reality53:15 - Inventing Reality in Ukraine1:02:00 - GoodbyesExtras: Watch my lecture on Real Progressives about our responsibility on PropagandaCheck out Mangopress on their telegram and their website Get full access to Historic.ly at www.historicly.net/subscribe

Critical theory as it's been canonized within the Western Academy, is a tradition that comes out of a group of thinkers affiliated with what's called the Frankfurt School. It purported to offer a kind of radical critique of capitalism, consumer society and issues of contemporary society and how they are controlled. However, once again proving Gramsci true, instead, the Frankfurt School has been blunted by its funding sources, used by the CIA and in the end, while prevasive in Western academia, offers no real study on “how the world works” and of course, it critiques Actually Existing Socialism (AES) more than it critiques capitalist or even fascist regimes. On top of it, it has a very reactionary bend to it. Today, Gabrielle Rockhill, philosopher and critique of critical Theory joins us to talk to us about what’s wrong with Western Academia.Gabrielle’s WritingsThe CIA & The Frankfurt's School of Anti-Communism CIA reads French Theory: Intellectual Disarming of the LeftFoucault - Faux RadicalFoucault, the Anti-Communism, the Global Theory IndustryShow Notes1:38 - What is critical theory? 3:55 - Critical and revolutionary for the reinvention of the critique in the age of idealogical realignment 4:15 - Theory in the Marxist Sense vs Theory in the Liberal Sense7:45 - Divorcing Critical Theory from Political Action9:49 - Tiktok 11:42 - Political Science for Imperialism13:51 - The Parcelization of Academia in the West15:00 - Common sense assumptions without Proofs22:13 - Frankfurt School at Inception27:44 - The Foundations, Corporations and the Institute for Social Research34:55 - Infiltration of Unions41:47: Anything But Socialism43:00 - Esha uses the opening to rail on Timothy Snyder and Anne Applebaum54:23 - The War Propaganda and Academia1:02:00 - Marxism in the WestGabrielle Rockhill can be found on twitter. Get full access to Historic.ly at www.historicly.net/subscribe

We have studied many events in human history, we have delved a little bit into humanity before history, but today, we decided to learn more about time and space itself. Sean Johnson, a professor of Astronomy from the University of Michigan joins us to talk to us about the history of the universe. We answer questions like “How did our solar system form?” and “What is a galaxy?” and how big is the universe? It is the episode that answers questions about Life, Universe and Everything and we end with pet irritants on science fiction movies. Historic.ly is an entirely listener supported publication. This means we can talk about anything without worrying about offending our corporate overlords. But, we need your help! Please become a paid subscriber!Show Notes2:47 - Sean Johnson explains why Astronomy4:03- What is a Solar System?5:06 - What came first? Solar System or Galaxy? 7:04 - What is dark matter?11:07 - The Sun fuses Hydrogen13:00 - How are exo-planets and how are they discovered?15:37 - Nasa’s Next Generation Telescope and what can be seen21:00 - Galaxies and spiral arms. 23:00 - Quasars and Pulsars28:00 - How do we know the universe is so big?31:00 - Seeing into the center of the Galaxy34:00 - Is the universe quiet?35:00 - Gravitational Waves - Ripples in space-time43:00 - Neutrinos49:00 - What do we know what we need for life? 50:00 - Pet Sci-Fi movie failsCheck out Astrobites Get full access to Historic.ly at www.historicly.net/subscribe

Today, on our podcast, The Rising Sons of Japan with Tim Shorrock. Summary of Podcast EpisodeSince the murder of former prime minister Shinzo Abe, there has been many hagiographies that distort his historical role and his rise to power, in the process of doing so, they also end up distorting the history of post war Japan. Today, we have Tim Shorrock, self described “Writer, guitar player, author (SPIES FOR HIRE). Working on investigative memoir of US intervention in Korea & Japan after WWII.” Tim Shorrock has previously published article in He has written articles for several magazines, including Harper's, Mother Jones, The Nation, and Salon. He also appeared on a previous episode of historicly to talk about COINShow Notes for the Podcast Episode -0:45 - Unconditional Surrender 2:23 - US had complete control of the occupation. For the first few years, they forbade fascists and the working class flourished. 6:09 - The Corporate Empire strikes back10:09 - Start of US Military Buildup in Japan13:00 - Korean War as a boon for industrialists in both US and Japan19:19 - Shinzo Abe’s Grandfather, class A War Criminal21:00 - Japan’s One Party rule The Liberal Democratic Party22:17 - Secret Treaties with US 23:24 - Protest so Massive, they could not guarantee Eisenhower’s Safety26:00 - Article 9, why Neocons and Class A War Criminals Hate it. 34:00 - Japanese investments in Occupied Korea35:00 - Power of US military in Japan40:51 - Okinawa48:00 - Nixon, Japan, Taiwan and China.You can find Tim Shorrock on twitter. Get full access to Historic.ly at www.historicly.net/subscribe

Most of us have heard about the great heroic Salt March of Mahatma Gandhiji, and the boycott of British fabrics, but very few of us have heard of the Great Indian Naval Mutiny, an event which gave a great scare to the British colonial powers and helped chart the course for Independence. Today, we have Pramod Kapoor, author of 1946 Royal Indian Navy Mutiny; Last War of Independence to talk to us about this revolutionary event.Show Notes1:19 - “In popular history, it became almost a footnote.”1:47 - The 1965 play in Bengal and example of how it has been edited out of history4:32 - The Sailors who Mutineed 5:49 - The Racism, and the terrible conditions. 8:57: Who is Subash Chandra Bose? How did his strategy differ from Gandhi? 10:57 - Subash Chandra Bose’s influence upon the Soldiers 15:00 - Bombay Jewels and ‘Seditious Slogans’ and Agitation by Communist Party of India19:00 - The news spreading and other ships joining the Mutiny21:00 - Why didn’t the spark flame?24:00 - The Trial after the Mutiny: A Muslim, A Sikh and a Hindu26:00 - The negotiations 32:00 - How the ratings were betrayed36:00 - Esha and Mr. Pramod Kapoor discuss “what might have been?” and come up with vastly different conclusions40:00 - Mr. Pramod Kapoor’s upcoming projects - Indians in the Western Front in WW1. If you want to learn more about Mr. Pramod Kapoor, please follow him on twitter.To obtain a copy of this book click here Get full access to Historic.ly at www.historicly.net/subscribe

During the cold war, the CIA was obsessed with mind-control. There vision was creating a something like a Cylon from Battlestar Galactica. And so, they began a division called the MK-ULTRA, within MK-ULTRA, they conducted many gruesome experiments on human beings around the world. Some of it came to light during the church hearings. Some of it came to light because of diligent researchers who use the freedom of information act, and others through leaks. We still don’t know the breadth and depth of the project. But, Kit Klarenberg discovered two of the most gruesome projects: one in Denmark and the other in West Germany. In Denmark, they took young orphans and subjected them to torture-like tactics to see how they would react. In West Germany, the project was much darker and much more cruel. Doctor Helmut Kentler thought it would be a good idea to put orphans under the care of pedophiles and this project went on for nearly 30 years. Shownotes1:20 - Introductions: Why primary government sources are important and Kit’s research methodology. 4:41 - Background on two CIA projects MK-Ultra and QK-Hilltop which was to study mindcontrol. 6:12 - CIA inspector General’s Report6:53 - “People who couldn’t fight back” - The Danish Study9:12 - 50 years later at an American film Festival: Three identical Strangers11:33 - Shredding documents 13:00 - KUBARK Manual15:00 - Sydney Gottlieb18:12 - CIA quest for Cylons 20:00 - MKULTRA cited purpose vs true purpose24:15 - What is the missing information that we can never know? 27:13 - The Wrong Germany Won29:04 - Helmut Kentler and the Orphan experiments36:43 - The Green Party Involvement 40:00 - Fritz H. Learn more here46:34 - Psuedoscience about Fascism and Sexual Liberation51:00 - Next InvestigationsKit Klarenberg is a journalist and he can be found on twitter. Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

The conservatives complain about godlessness, reactionaries think god punishes America for its godlessness, progressives think that America is too religious. But, wherever one might be on the spectrum, they each are unhappy about how religion manifests itself in America. Today, we have Justin Clark from Red Reviews Podcast here to talk about the history of Atheism, secularism and other types of godlessness in America. He also talks about the cult of Reason and all the other problems associated with the Godless. 5:46 - Who is Robert Ingersoll?10:04 - Eugene Debs relationship with Robert Ingersoll 12:40 - How Robert Ingersoll Helped Eugene Debs in the Pullman Strike13:00 - Robert Ingersoll’s Politics20:00 - Justin’s Critique of the Secular Movement23:31 - Atheism’s Golden Age from 2004-2016 26:00 - Why Esha thinks New Atheism always represented racism28:00 - Sam Harris’s Golden Girls’ Trust FundStatistician William Briggs Explains the Fraud of Sam Harris’ PHD30:00 - The Good and Bad of Christopher Hitchens The trial of Henry Kissinger35:00 - Justin on Why he left the Cult of Reason40:42 - Biological Determinism and its connection to Cult of Reason42:00 - The Bell Curve as an Example of Biological Determinism47:00 - Bell Curve and its affect on Policy during the Clinton Years48:00 - The Cult of Stefan Molyneux 51:52 - Beware of Scientism 53:00 - Skeptical Inquirer Pedaling Overpopulation Myths 59:00 - Skeptics not so skeptical of National Security Narratives1:07:00 - Verifying Historical Narratives using Primary Sources1:17:00 - Changing Narratives and Peppery Dishes by Trotsky1:19:00 - Lew Wallace, the author of Ben Hur and his fiction about Robert Ingersoll1:28:00 - Seven Years in Tibet and the convenient lie1:35:00 - Justin’s next project regarding Eugene Debs and the Soviet UnionFollow Justin on Instagram and Tiktok Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

Editor’s note: Apologies for the delay. I had a seizure and I was in the hospital. During the seizure I also broke my nose. We will resume with our regular weekly content. We also plan on including some bonus content for the weeks we missed. We apologize. And now, let's get right back to my conversation with Asad Zaman. Enjoy.Audio chapters4:11 - Mercantilism8:10 - Fascism is not something in and of itself, rather it's something to fill in the vacuum left by the wreckage of the self-regulating market10:58 - The ideology and religion of greed12:22 - Jane Austen- The poorest AMONG THE ARISTOCRACY (the movie Ever After)15:43 - The importance of history to the study of economics.22:28 - Those who benefit most from of capitalism want us to focus on the imaginary, not history.24:08 - Entanglement- The methodology of Polanyi (history shapes our ideas which shapes history)29:17 - "Government is bad", but the self-regulating market requires even more government to suppress the protestations of those suffering at the hand of the self-regulating market34:47 - Average people serve as gatekeepers for the exploiters (protecting privilege)39:21 - What do I tell my kids?48:43 - Goodbyes Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

Today Jeffrey Epstein talks with Asad Zaman about the 2001 edition of Karl Polanyi's 1944 book, The Great Transformation. Professor Zaman is a PhD economist based in Pakistan, with many lectures, papers, and posts on the topic. The Great Transformation reveals, essentially, that what we think to be a foundation of our economy and society is, in fact, an illusion. Specifically, Polanyi calls capitalism and its free or "self-regulating" market "a stark Utopia". By definition, a Utopia (an imagined place where everything is perfect) is impossible to achieve. However, the attempt to achieve it – to eliminate literally all market regulation – can result only in the complete destruction of all human life and the land they live on. This is evidenced by our increasingly likely extinction at the hands of a human-created ecological crisis, caused largely by unprecedented and still-growing levels of inequality and the mass exploitation of all natural resources, including most human beings.Here's Polanyi, on the first page of the first chapter:Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia. Such an institution could not exist for any length of time without annihilating the human and natural substance of society; it would have physically destroyed man and transformed his surroundings into a wilderness.Unfortunately, the only way to maintain the fiction of the self-regulating market, is to continue the mass exploitation of the poor. Instead of treating human beings as the infinitely precious and unique beings they are, they are rather treated as mere interchangeable and disposable cogs to run the Unending Greed Machines; most often under terrible conditions. Polanyi calls this grave maltreatment the commodification of labor.The only way to get human beings to submit to these terrible conditions, is to threaten them with an even more terrible condition: starvation and death. As quoted in the book, starvation "can tame even the wildest beast". Not even the strongest man can overcome it.How is this starvation made possible? By eliminating the possibility of self sufficiency. A major tool to do this was the invention of the concept of the private ownership of land. This justified the ejection of all former occupants, who must now, for example, in modern society, purchase our food at a distant store. We have to drive to that store, and the food, plus the car and its gas, must all be paid for with money, which in turn can only be obtained by laboring at the Greed Machines. What this all means is that the commodification of labor also requires the commodification of the land.Those being potentially annihilated by the destruction of the self-regulating market resist that destruction. This results in what Polanyi calls the double movement. This is the ideological battle that has raged for centuries, where one side tries to eliminate all market regulation, while the other tries to protect itself by imposing some. When the amount of regulations are only enough to moderately reduce that destruction, as is unfortunately most often the case, then the resistance can only perpetuate and further enable the pursuit of that stark Utopia.What underlies and justifies this horror is the most dominant religion in the world, which is greed. Without Polanyi's book and his work, this religion, and its byproducts of inequality and mass exploitation, are made to appear normal, inevitable, and unstoppable – in other words, natural. The truth that Polanyi's history reveals (and as is reinforced by my recent interview with Wesley Wiles)is that inequality, exploitation, and greed are not "unfortunate, but necessary", they're deliberate choices. Those who benefit most from the self-regulating market have incentive to deceive the rest of us into thinking that these terrible things are indeed natural. This is the role played by neoclassical economics: to provide that official, neutral, and natural-sounding justification.The core problem in our society is not "capitalism" or "the free market", per se, but rather the mass exploitation of the poor. Therefore, the core solution is to empower the poor. The nature of this empowerment is simple: provide them with what they desperately need: like healthcare, education, a job, un-poisoned water, and a world that doesn't threaten to collapse around them. These things all serve to empower the poor which ultimately reduces inequality – of both wealth and income.We will annihilate the fiction of the self-regulating market or it will annihilate us. There is no gray area. We will provide for those on the bottom or we will go extinct. The first step is to emancipate ourselves from the chains of false history and false economics, and from the idea that everything horrible is "unfortunate, but necessary". Only then can we take a step back and start thinking of alternatives.As a final note, you'll hear some of Professor Zaman's thoughts on the potential form a sustainable future society might take. These are not ideas from the book but his own, in an attempt to start a discussion on one of the greatest questions of our time: how do we resist and annihilate the self-regulating market, and what can and will society be like when we do? Perhaps you have some ideas of your own. Let's start that discussion.Chapters9:27 - Hellos10:35 - The commodification of labor - what it really means14:41 - The fantasy of power, to vent the frustration of being powerless17:01 - The self-regulating market is a fiction and a stark Utopia. The double movement19:41 - Movies- Don't Look Up and Encanto22:45 - How do you resist the self-regulating market and beat it, instead of perpetuate it?26:30 - Whatever the answer, it starts with you29:33 - Peace is a balance of power, but only in a belligerent world38:20 - Peace is controlled violence - violence by, not against, the powerful40:19 - Individual imbalance of power, fiction of nation states44:38 - Corporations are more powerful than nation states46:56 - The gold standard was the glue that held the world together but for a terrible reason (and mercantilism)54:48 - Fascism is not something in and of itself, rather it's something to fill in the vacuum left by the wreckage of the self-regulating market Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

Today's part two of my two-part conversation with Jackson Winter, on the 2001 edition of Karl Polanyi's 1944 book, The Great Transformation. This is also part two of a larger four-part series on the book. Jackson is co-writer and editor for PEGS Institute, which is a project to demystify and explain some commonly misunderstood realities of the modern world. Here's their YouTube channel.(A list of the "audio chapters" in this episode can be found at the bottom of this post. A link to all four parts in the series can be found in Part 1I'll summarize the book in next week's introduction. Even experienced MMTers can't know this stuff. You think you understand the foundation of our economy and society, but you don't. As described in The Great Transformation, there's another foundation underneath it.(Before we start the interview, I'm making an announcement at the request of a patron, and that is: the podcast Pod Save America, which is hosted by former Obama staffers, has millions of followers, many of who like to think of themselves as progressives. Unfortunately, although the hosts say many smart things, they still live solidly in a pay-for, scarcity, zero-sum world. Please consider contacting the hosts via Twitter and urging them to interview an MMT guest such as Stephanie Kelton, Warren Mosler, Bill Mitchell, and Randy Wray. The Twitter handles for the podcast and its hosts can be found in the show notes, and in the social media shares for this episode. Thanks for your help in spreading the word!Here at the Twitter handles for Pod Save America and its hosts: Dan Pfiffer: [@danpfeiffer], Jon Favreau: [@jonfavs], Tommy Vietor: [@tvietor08], Jon Lovett: [@jonlovett])And now, let's get right back to my conversation with Jackson Winter. Enjoy.Audio chapters4:31 - Choosing to commodify other humans is a gamble that you won't become one of them7:37 - The gold standard was the glue that held the (belligerent and greedy) world together13:53 - Individual balance of power17:41 - Fascism is a consequence of the neglect and deprivation of neoliberalism20:41 - Thinking of a better economic and political system (and if we should)27:17 - Unregulated versus regulated teenager29:58 - Childhood memories and how we change31:59 - Protecting privilege, at all levels38:35 - We are all doing tiny little evils (because it's necessary in order to survive), that add up to a lot of evil.43:22 - Haute finance and arms dealers (I win capitalism)46:15 - My upcoming online course with Asad Zaman48:11 - Closing thoughts50:41 - Polanyi was a proto-MMTer52:48 - GoodbyesOther updates:Sorry for the delays. Our editor Esha Krishnaswamy fell on the subway platform and broke her nose. She is out of the hospital now, but unfortunately her insurance does not cover fixing her broken nose. So we are going to have to crowd source this. If you have already not become paid subscriber, please become one: You can also do a one off donation via paypal orVenmo Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

This month, we will have four special episodes hosted by our correspondent,Jeffrey Esptein. Today, he will talk author Jackson Winter about the 2001 edition of the Karl Polyani book, “The Great Transformation” Jackson is co-writer and editor for PEGS Institute, which is a project to demystify and explain some commonly misunderstood realities of the modern world. The Great Transformation is the centuries-long history of how our current rentier capitalism came to be, and what preceded it. It reveals that much of what we believe to be inevitable and unchangeable, or natural about our society is, in fact, a deliberate choice. Those who most benefit from this system (the rentiers, those who collect rent) would like nothing more than for the rest of us (those who pay rent) to believe this system and their unending greed to be natural, inevitable, unchangeable and, indeed, best for everyone. This is part 1 of 4 of Audio chapters8:20 - Jackson introduces himself10:13 - Journey to the book and other reading12:59 - First impressions17:12 - Interview postponed17:52 - Speenhamland20:38 - Unemployed versus unemployable26:43 - Speenhamland’s place in history31:11 - Threaten starvation – tame even the strongest beast (natural)32:46 - The problem is not the Industrial Revolution but self-gain (greed, hedonism)34:19 - "Anti-government"40:14 - Commodification43:23 - George W. Bush, Satanic mill44:06 - Commodification of labor47:49 - Every level commodities the level below (venting their frustrations)51:39 - Cultural hegemony, the Queen of England54:19 - Death to the few versus death to the manyCheck out our previous works with Jeffrey Epstein and follow him on twitter for the latest news on Monetary Theory. Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

While mainstream media is running a propaganda Blitz on Ukraine, where they seem to frame it as “Russian aggression” against Ukrainians, Ukraine was already invaded 8 years ago. The movie Ukraine on Fire goes through the armed coup, planned at the US Embassy with then Under Secretary Victoria Nuland, where they picked the leaders, and the army and launched the country into an eight-year-long civil-war with the eastern regions of Ukraine.Today, we interview Igor Lopatonok, the director of this amazing documentary. 0:54 - Igor introduces himself. 1:00 - Censorship of “Ukraine on Fire” 2:35: Old Soviet films into color 5:00 - Igor was banned in Ukraine.6:22 - The TV network was hit by grenade 9:43 - Victor Yushchenko and the Orange Revolution12:07 - Brief history of Ukraine 13:15 - How Ukraine United With Russia in 165415:25 - Stepan Bandera and his Mythology 17:24 - “Subhuman” and other horrific comments by the leadership.17:41 - Poroshenko Speech 18:06 - Ukraine suffering for 8 years19:20 - Taking down Lenin Statues19:54 - Ukraine becoming a client state 20:55 - Victoria Nyland and Geoffrey Pyatt 21:33 - Why did the US dislike Yanukovich? The trade Deals25:00 - Mechanics of a coup: “Civil Society”27:00 - How did the organizers of Maidan get people to come to protest?29:00 - So how do they choreograph a coup?30:00 - The west’s constructed reality about Ukraine 36:07 - Igor’s optimism about American People’s critical thinking skills is tempered by Esha’s pessimism. 37:00 - The Scientific truth about Maidan 38:00 - Victoria Nuland’s organizing Maidan40:00 - Temporary President during the coup41:00 - Obama Sanctioning Ukrainians for Sovereignty 45:00 - Script for a coup-change48:00 - US Senators in agitating Maidan49:00 - Ukrainians training other color revolutionaries 50:00 - Difference between what Yanukovich vs Tokayev’s actions that led to different outcomes. 52:00 - Sanctions …. the Wife of Medvedychek53:00 - Violence we haven’t heard about for 8 years (From the Ukrainian Government and their paramilitaries)55:00 - Sanctions working? 1:01:01 - India, China and Pakistan1:03:01 - Where to find all the documentary Ukraine on Fire The documentary is currently available on a number of platforms, including Apple TV Vimeo, Amazon and Rumble You can find Igor The documentary is currently available on a number of platforms, including Apple TV Vimeo, Amazon and Rumble You can find Igor Lopatonok on twitter. Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

Propaganda is a word thrown around, but very few people understand the nature of the indoctrination within the. United States. David Swanson of “World Beyond War” says:When we imagine that the U.S. military only occasionally and slightly influences U.S. movies, we are extremely badly deceived. The actual impact is on thousands of movies made, and thousands of others never made. And television shows of every variety. The military guests and celebrations of the U.S. military on game shows and cooking shows are no more spontaneous or civilian in origin than the ceremonies glorifying members of the U.S. military at professional sports games–ceremonies that have been paid for and choreographed by U.S. tax dollars and the U.S. military. The “entertainment” content carefully shaped by the “entertainment” offices of the Pentagon and the CIA doesn’t just insidiously prepare people to react differently to news about war and peace in the world. To a huge extent it substitutes a different reality for people who learn very little actual news about the world at all.The alliance between the military and Hollywood is the main reason that we have lots of big blockbuster movies on certain topics and few if any on others. Studios have written scripts and hired top actors for movies on things like Iran-Contra that have never seen the light of day because of a Pentagon rejection. Today, we interview award winning researchers Tom Secker and Matthew Alford who have spent decades trying to uncover the shady relationship between Hollywood, the Pentagon, the CIA and the Department of Defense. In fact, very little gets made without approving eyes our national security state. This is a must listen-to interview with Award Winning researchers Tom Secker and Matthew Alford about their new Documentary film “Theaters of War” 1:00 - 3:00 - How extensive is the DOD input? 3:00 - 5:30 - FOIA request runaround5:30 - 6:00 - What is not made? and Why?6:00 - 8:00 Why does Hollywood go to the military?8:00 - 11:30 - “Countermeasures” not made because opposed US interests11:30 - 14:30 - Selling the military to the audience14:30 - 16:20 - Deleted scenes from “Independence Day”16:20 - 24:00 Matthew visits US and the Lawrence Suid Files24:00 - 28:40 - The “2 Hour Infomercial” & how the word “propaganda” is never mentioned28:40 - 29:55 - Tom’s a “vexatious requester”29:55 - 33:15 - Pentagon’s PR move after “Jarhead” and “Full Metal Jacket” came out33:15 - 36:30 - “Lone Survivor” - War crimes whitewashed36:30 - 39:00 - They’re tired of looking like the bad guys39:00 - 43:30 - Opting against nukes in remakes for environmental disasters43:30 - 45:25 - Mid 70’s is when DoD got more involved in films and shows45:25 - 48:25 - Zero Dark 30 tried to make a case for “torture good”48:25 - 51:45 - Jack Ryan series51:45 - 53:00 - DoD creating their own hyper-reality53:00 - 53:40 - Iron Man was anti-war in comics but pro-war in movies53:40 - 1:00:00 - Why would actors sign on?1:00:00 - 1:01:03 - Serbian movie “Dara of Jasenovac” vs “The Courier” reviews1:01:00 - 1:04:50 - Stop watching “Transformers”. Watch “The Boys” instead1:04:50 - 1:06:00 - Take Culture Action - Disengage or engage critically1:06:00 - End - “Theatre of War” release and what Matthew and Tom are up to nextTo learn more visit: Spy Culture Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

Editor’s note: We apologize for the lateness of this interview. This months, one of us had extensive health issues and another had a very urgent personal issue that had to be dealt with. We sincerely apologize, and we add extra episodes in the upcoming months. Today, we have Miguel Arjona Sanchez, Professor of Constitutional Law, join us for the second time to discuss the true history of the Euro and all the problems that stem with it. Don’t forget to also listen to our first interview with Miguel.Show Notes1:00 - 2:35 What is money. Miguel describes society’s relationships to money.2:35 - 5:55 What happened when Spain went to the Euro. How the Euro (Gold Standard)  hurts some of the countries more than others.5:55 - 7:20 Iberian Union - would have been a union between Spain and Portugal7:20 - 9:20 How Portugal got integrated into the EU.9:20 - 15:25 Notional inequality of the EU and how the created a “Frankenstein Currency”15:25 - 18:00 The EU is not a democracy. The union is suppose to be a temporary stop but people in power are comfortable so the future is not clear.18:00 - 18:35 The EU is transforming Europe into America/Destroying European model18:35 - 22:20 Why are the cracks in the EU (Poland and Hungary) happening?22:20 - 23:45 Greek Debt Crisis23:45 - 24:45 US view of the Euro24:45 - 26:20 Spain’s economy after 200926:20 - 27:30 How healthcare changed in Spain under the EU.27:30 - 29:00 Germany’s economy issues under EU.29:00 - 31:05 Austerity policies were issued to try to “pay the debt”.31:05 - 32:45 France’s Military Complex helps their economy in the EU.33:15 - 35:40 How China’s Belt Road Initiative will hit the EU (predictions).35:40 - 36:50 The EU is more concerned with relations with Russia and how Americasactions and sanctions will play out on them.36:50 - 38:05 Southern Europe has its own issues.38:05 - 38:45 Is there a better way possible?38:45 - 40:00 Scarcity policies - EU repeating what happened to the Weimar Republic.40:00 - 44:00 Capitalism, the Western Elites and WW244:00 - 45:35 The need to stop socialism/communism for the capitalists.45:35 - 47:15 Need to move away from capitalism to socialism.47:15 - 48:50 American economy and how liberalism and socialism could work together.48:50 - 53:50 Why is there a far-right resurgence in Spain? 53:50 - 54:30 Spain’s economy of tourism.54:30 - 55:46 Miguel talks about his projects on the Euro and the Job Guarantee in Europe and Financial Globalization.We lost a lot of paid subscribers this month. Unfortunately, with the way our health and personal issues are, we need you more than ever. Please consider subscribing. It is only $5 a month.Tonight, I will be giving a presentation on Propaganda with the Real Progressives. Please register. It is free (I think) Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

Today, John Dinges joins us for the second time to talk about the Condor years in Chile. Operation Condor was unprecedented in its repression. It involved kidnapping, killing, torture, repression, secret prisons and renditions mostly to protect repressive regimes like those of Pinochet. Check out our first interview with John DingesShow Notes2:18 - The English edition is coming out6:10 - Operation Condor8:23 - Uruguay hit list Edward Koch (former Mayor)12:37 - How did they coordinate other agencies?15:50 - General Carlos Prats18:22 - Who killed Carlos Prats and Letilier?19:58 - FBI “solving” the Orlando Letelier25:27 - Mechanics of Condor30:30 - Comparisons between US War on Terror and Operation Condor34:00 - Pinochet in London and his Extradition hearing38:00 - Pinochet was neutralized as a political force44:00 - Victims and the lost GenerationTo learn more about John Dinges, please visit his website. Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

It is time to shatter the myth that Canada is more progressive than the US. For the most part, Canada and US behave more like partners in crime. Especially, in the foreign policy realm, they both alternate playing good cop and bad cop. Today, Aidan Jonah from The Canada Files joins us to talk about the interaction between Canada and US on imperialism and foreign policy. Show Notes4:00 - Canada - How is Canada more progressive? How is it 100% aligned with US foreign policy.5:19 - Canada’s diplomatic support to America’s Coup-Mongering6:00 - Creation of Canada’s own NED8:30 - Canada’s Fund for Global Initiatives and Global Affairs Canada10:00 - Canada’s Official Diplomatic Group Openly Funding Oppositions14:00 - Does Canada’s Foreign Policy Change regardless of Who is in Charge?16:40 - Canada’s role against Evo Morales19:45 - Canada stepping in where USA can’t.20:00 - The Lima Group: Their functions and Canada’s role within the Lima group21:00 - Canada lose security council to Norway - Why28:00 - Skycom and Huawei30:15 - Canada’s Cold War - Chrystia Freeland and her open support of Ukrainian Fascists33:00 - Canada’s Tibet Lobby 44:00 - Dark Money Lobbying on Foreign policyTo help support Canada FilesCheck out our latest episode of Latenight’s with Lenin Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

Robert Skavrla, the assistant editor of Diabolique Magazine joins to to discuss his findings about the FBI initiative known as Cointel pro, and we get to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. 0:48 - Robert Skvarla how he got involved in this project2:12 - Diabolique Magazine and Movies 2:36 - John Wayne and his fascists.3:45 - The John Wayne Conspiracy5:04 - The Ronald Reagan Connection6:30 - What is Cointel Pro?7:30 - Opposition to Civil right’s movement40% of Klan members were federal agents or federal informants12:31 - FBI Astroturfing “leftist magazines”13:00 - FBI’s publicity campaign against Student Protest Movement17:50 - The Strange history of Rolling Stones Magazine19:00 - FBI doxing people: When you don’t need a state actor to get threathen lives.22:00 - Esha directly asks “why was the FBI so racist”22:40 - FBI interpreted all change to status quo as “threat to national security”26:00 - The Rambo Connection30:00 - How the FBI got people fired from their jobs for.... protests about school lunches31:00 - FBI and the Weatherman underground33:00 - Why the FBI wanted to push weather underground39:00 - The Ceasar Chavez Assasination attempt42:00 - Driving a Journalist Crazy46:00 - Winds of Change and how the CIA wrote it.50:00 - Privatized Surveillance53:00 - How do you keep sane?55:00 - FBI and use of Violence56:00 - How did they destroy the Black Panthers?57:00 - The Post Office’s own Police1:00:00 - The Secret Place to Find many good leftist books that maybe out of print (FBI reading room) Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

Today, we have anthropologist Chris Knight here to talk to us about his book Blood Relations and also more importantly, teach us about the history of what makes us Human. 0:50 - Anthropology is a study of what it means to be human.1:50 - Human ability to “look into the eyes” 3:00 - Minds vs Brains 4:00 - Are they asking the wrong question?6:29 - Humans are the babysitting ape!10:00 - Grandmother Hypothesis and Menopause11:43 - Anthropology was colonialism in disguise13:11 - The Human Revolution 14:30 - Language: The Great Leap Forward16:50 - “Everything that defines us as human is an African invention”18:00 - The first art is cosmetics 21:20 - Deconstructing Chomsky’s theory of language28:00 - Communal meat eating 29:00 - The sex strike 38:00 - Synching Menstruation40:00 - The Moon, the Lion and Love50:00 - Cooking allowed for bigger brains52:00 - Blood Taboos 57:00 - The Dark Moon and Songs 1:00:00 - Rainbow Snake 1:11:00 - Comprehension and PowerIt is that time of the year again, we have many exciting projects that we want to complete for you, but we are 100% funded only by our listeners and readers. If you have been a long-time listener and a reader, please become a paid subscriber. It is only $5 a month. It adds up to sustain us. Our goal is to get 70 more paid subscribers by midnight. If you would like to make a one-time donation, here is our paypal link:Here is our Venmo code:Thanks again for being part of another year at Historicly. We hope to keep up with the high-quality episodes and the thoroughly researched articles. Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

Would you walk 5000 miles and 5000 miles more for a free Vietnam? Well, Ho Chi Minh walked all the way from China to Vietnam in the 1940s. Today, we have popular Youtuber Luna Oi join us to talk about the history of Vietnam from Colonization to Liberation Show notes1:40 - Luna introduces herself2:20 - France Colonizing Vietnam3:00 - Comparing who looted the most British vs French and the word “loot” 5:50 - Rubber exploitation in Vietnam 8:00 - Ho Chi Minh and “The Path which led him to Lenin” 11:00 - American historians who misquote Ho Chi Minh23:00 - The name “Ho Chi Minh” 24:40 - Ho Chi Minh’s walk back home25:45 - Vietnam after WW230:00 - The King and Vietnam 35:00 - Ngo Dinh Diem - Vietnam’s Guaido 45:00 - Hear the romantic story of how Luna’s mom and dad met (again involves a walk of a proverbial thousand miles)54:43 - When did US Start bombing Vietnam?1:03:00 - Tet OffensiveWatch Colin Powell’s own Confession on his crimes in VietnamEars for Beers1:08:00 - Vo Thi Thang1:10:00 - Debunking the “Vietnamese Victims of Communism” myths1:13:00 - Christmas Bombing We pour our heart and soul into this, we cannot sustain ourselves without your subscriptions. It is only $5 a month. We try not to paywall because we want to be accessible. Please think about subscribing. We really need the money. Join us Today at 10:00 pm Eastern Time to see Lenin Debunk “The Theory of Marginal Returns” that they still teach in all Econ 101 videos Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

Editor’s note: I wish to do this episode justice because not merely because it is a monument that glorifies the worst the world has to offer. Not merely because, despite the empty phrase-mongering of “Never Again”, this monument glorifies people who perpetuated the worst of the holocaust. In fact, some of the people for whom there are monuments in the “tribute to liberty” were so brutal that members of the Gestapo wrote to Himmler telling him how horrified they were. None of this should have happened. The real horror hit me after I used Yandex to do a Russian-language name search of Roman Shukheyvich. My roommate heard me scream when I saw the first image of his horror. I cannot post the image because it is too horrific, but I will post a monument to the victims of this horror. No one should have been able to raise enough of a lobby to get the government of Canada to fund the “Tribute to Liberty” and after the truth came out, they should not have been able to, so brazenly, in public raise enough money to build the memorial anyways. Thanks to my adhd, where I am extremely bad at estimating the time it takes to do certain tasks such as build a guide to all those who are memorialized in the Tribute to Liberty monument, the release of this episode kept on getting delayed. I finally realized that the reason why Canadians “ignorantly” commemorated complete monsters is because most westerners aren’t taught about World War 2 in its fullest.There is a logical reason why any capitalist, imperialist country would not want to teach their people about the economics of fascism. Coupled with this ignorance of the economics of fascism, in order to make the west’s actions seem justifiable in the cold war, the eastern campaign is fully ignored. Now, people will never be able to draw the obvious connection between “anti-communist exiles” and “pro-democracy dissidents” and genocidal Nazis. However, there are a lot of bricks in this monument and it cannot be all accomplished in a day. However, I believe these bricks do tell us a lot about the US, Canada, and their actions in the past 100 years and who they consider allies and why. The month of December will be dedicated to exposing the true nature of as many brings and monuments as possible with our “Featured Victims of Communism”Show notes00:45 - Dan introduces himself and explains how he became involved in Canadian politics.02:00 - Dan talks about his rock band04:00 - Dan and Esha discuss all the wild accusations on twitter about being funded by “Putin/Assad” (we wish).5:39 - Chrystia Freeland 7:00 - The Newspapers role in enticing Young Ukrainians to join the Waffen SS.Click here for a scanned copy of the newspaper. The original language is Ukrainian.9:00 - Who were the Waffen SS Galicia? 10:00 - Himmler gets a letter from Wehrmacht Leiutenent about the cruelty of the OUN and UPA12:00 - How did the member of the Waffen SS end up in Canada?14:00 - On going Captive nations propaganda and world tour to rehabilitate fascists. Captive Nations week and annual fascist 22:00 - ‘Tribute To Liberty’ Monument28:00 - The Edmontun Hate Crimes35:00 - Why did David Frum fund this monument? 45:00 - We go through some of the more offensive bricks. Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

In the USA, there is a myth that “America stands for freedom across the world” and in my years of research for this podcast and blog, I have yet to find such an example. I have found many examples where the US fights to preserve capitalism at all cost. Unfortunately, a large portion of the US population has been satiated by the supply of relatively cheap goods into the US and because relatively cheap goods keep coming regularly, they do not have to “think” too much about the state of the world. In fact, it is better for the US government, if most people do not think too much about the state of the world. Because once someone starts thinking, they will investigate and the more people investigate, the less they like. By design, most Americans do not think about the state of the world. They are relatively happy imbibing these myths that have been fed to them since childhood. But because of the education system, most Americans are trained to question as little as possible. On top of it, because most Americans are paid “just not enough,” they will be working long hours where they won’t have too much time to think. Because of the US cult of “rugged individualism,” most Americans will not be able to fight back when their rights are violated. Most Americans can’t fight back because you can’t fight what you don’t know. Operation Gladio is one of those unique operations that will disturb anyone. It breaks the myth that the US stands for “Freedom across the world” because the US aligned with the worst of the world (Nazis) to fight Democracy in Italy. Operation Gladio is one of the few very well documented events that even the worst sceptic cannot find “loopholes” to argue why the US was “actually doing the right thing.” With that, air this second episode with the hope that it will spark even one person’s curiosity to learn more about the state of the world and the “Gangster Nature of the our state” as Michael Parenti would put it. A better world is possible, but we cannot fix what we don’t know. Show notes:1:00 - Italian Partisans and World War 22:00 - Tom from Mango Press explains the connection between Gladio and the current situation in Xinjiang08:13 - Operation Gladio was a blueprint for all the blood and gore that followed in the 21 century10:41 - This is the interview that is referenced15:00 - CIA’s medical experiments22:00 -Partisans and how they work26:00 - Communism Victimizing Mussolini33:00 - The Myth of America35:58 - Excerpt from a John Pilger documentary about the “Jakarta Method”37:00 - The train station bombings40:00 - “Strategy of Tension”48:00 - The Stay behind Sabotage50:00 - where can you find old stashed NATO weapons?52:00 - The Vatican involvement55:27 - 197858:00 - PM Moro and his assasination1:09:00 - Banco Ambrosia and the Vatican Connection1:19:00 - Strategy for the stay behind1:25:00 - What we don’t know We rely only on your donations! So please become a paid subscriber! We won’t be able to keep afloat without your donations. Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

Today, in a special episode, the folks at Mango Chat and John from the Discourse Podcast joins us to talk about Operation Gladio. Show Notes:0:30 - What is The Discourse Podcast?3:30 - At least we can convince our moms!7:00 - Why Operation Gladio shatters people’s world views?7:28 - How it Began? The 1930s9:00 - Clerical Fascism 11:29 - The Dulles Brothers and the Stay behind Network15:28 - Frank Wisner17:26 - US Myth vs US reality24:00 - Debate on Truman’s role in all of this28:17 - The Cuban Equation (Yes… this is very confusing)32:00 - Rat Lines36:00 - The JFK Connection38:00 - The Dulles Brothers42:00 - The Long Thread of Dulles Brothers to Cuba to JFK48:00 - Christ Loses to Communism in Italy1:04:00 - The Scum of the Earth Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

This is a two-part interview. Please check out part 1. US Occupation0:40 - Afghanistan Literacy Rate after 20 years of US occupation4:00 - Sangkar blows the whistle on US corruption 11:35 - Warlord CentralOne of the most outrageous cases in regards to the power of the warlords in AfghanistanUS-trained police and the outrageous case of child rape18:35 - Ashraf Ghani Ashraf Ghani and his world bank22:00 - Warlords and Neopotism30:00 - Ashraf Ghani’s alliance with Dostum The outrageous conduct of his VP32:00 - Dostum’s Ethnic Cleansing with US Blessing40:00 - What is to be Done in Afghanistan?We have many exciting projects coming up, but we need your support. Please consider making a one-time donation via either paypal or venmoOr via Venmoor alternatively, Please become a paid subscriber Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

The US media seems suddenly concerned about all the women in Afghanistan right now. However, life has been hell for women in Afghanistan for the past thirty years, but most American media outlets did not deem it important enough to cover. Today, we have Sangar Paykhar from the Afghan Eye here to explain the history of the past thirty years of Afghanistan and what an economy filled with warlords looks like. You can follow Sangar on Twitter and the Afghan EyeShownotes:0:46 - Sangar explains how he began the independent media outlet the Afghan Eye5:13 - The history of Afghanistan from 1973-19929:26 - The origins of the Mujahideen 12:55 - The collapse of the 1992 Government14:01 - The Destruction of Kabul in 199218:08 - How bad was it to have warlords in charge?20:00 - Who are the Taliban?28:25 - Life under Warlord rule30:00 - How did the Taliban defeat the Warlords?33:01- Who is Hamid Karzai?39:05 - The Bonn Conference in 2001 where the warlords were put in charge44:00 - How many warlords do you need in your cabinet?49:00 - The Other Warlords - Ahmed Shah Massoud’s failsonLate nights with Lenin: Tonight at 10pmWe learn about how a Boogaloo Boy became a Lenin Boy. Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

Check out Part 1 of our episode with Angelo GuilianoToday, Brian Berletic from the New Atlas joins us to talk about China, Thailand, Myanmar and how the US government diabolical plan to sabotage any efforts and climate change and keep these countries poor. 0:30 - Brian Berletic’s many handles4:34 - “Pro-Democracy”Who is Thaksin Shinawatra?6:34 - Netiwit C: Thailand’s Joshua Wong7:31 - The First Color Revolution Myanmar in 19888:20 - The history of Encircling China10:39 - How Aung San Suu Kyi came to prominence?11:27 - How to steal a state?14:00 - The British method: Divide and Conquer15:00 - Who was Aung San Suu Kyi’s Cabinet members?20:00 - How Aung San Suu Kyi’s elections were foreign held and foreign advised?27:00 - Containing China: The 50 year plan37:00 - Hyperloop vs High Speed trains39:00 - The Terrorism to stop development46:00 - Why is the opposition bombing schools and Chinese factories?49:00 - Coup vs Sovreignty52:00 - Censorship by Western MediaThis Week’s Youtube Videos:Debunking Corporate Propaganda for AfghanistanMaking Fun of LibertariansDon’t Fetishize Co-OpsMore Libertarian DebunkingDebunking US Media Lies about DPRK Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

When most people think of the Nation of Islam, a black liberation movement started by Elijah Mohammed, they do not think of Iran. Conversely, when they think of Iran, they do not think of black liberation movements. Today, we have Setareh Sadeqi here to talk to us about the history of the Nation of Islam and how it is tied with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Show notes:1:41 - The Storming of the US Embassy in 1979 and Ayatollah Khomeini’s orders to free all Black Americans and women held hostage3:10 - The Shah of Iran and his Yesmen6:14 - Iranian Constitution and the Duty towards the oppressed14:40 - Addressing Critiques of the Nation of Islam18:14 - Similarities between Khomeini’s ideals and Hindu belief in Karma24:18 - Nation of Islam and the Assassination of Malcolm X30:14 - The Nation of Islam and controversies regarding Anti-semitism33:16 - Genocidal speech by US politicians against Iran34:50 - Hilarious Promo by Robert rifting on Patrick Liller 37:31 - Other misconceptions about the Nation of Islam45:13 - Nation of Islam evolution between 1960s-1970s51:29 - Rhetoric of Nation of Islam54:39 - The common enemy between Nation of Islam and Iran: 58:27 - US nuclear discussion with the ShahYou can find Setarah on twitter Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

For years, Aung San Suu Kyi has been in the US media as a “pro-democracy” candidate who has been persecuted by a “military junta.” But, what if there is a darker side to her story? Today, Angelo Guiliano from the New Atlas joins us to discuss the true story of Aung San Suu Kyi and how she was manufactured in a regime-change laboratory. Show Notes1:41 - Angelo’s experience in Hong Kong2:17 - Hong Kong’s National Security Law3:39 - What is a Color Revolution?7:23 - Paying protesters in HK8:28 - The Color Revolution model in Myanmar11:29 - Who is Aung San Suu Kyi? 17:00 - Sean Turnel 21:24 - The Libya Model27:00 - Green Concern Trolling30:00 - What caused the february incidents?35:00 - To do coup with Sergei Popovich39:21. - Role of Myanmar Military46:34 - Belt and Road initiative58:11 - Problem with Western Ignorance1:08:11 - Economic Sabotage by NDU1:14:28 - China & Myanmar and BRIAngelo Giuliano is a Swiss Citizen, journalist and activist who has spent the past 25 years in Hong Kong. He co-hosts a show on The New Atlas with Brian Berletic. Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

Today, we have Taiwanese rapper Xiangxu here to talk to us about the past 100 years of Taiwanese history in our part 2. Check out part 1 here1:15 - KMT activities in the USA2:39 - Taipei Credit Affair5:48 - Origins of the DPP8:50 - Rise of separatism13:30 - Provincial Government of Taiwan16:49 - 1996 Elections in Taiwan28:00 - Identity Issues in Taiwan30:27 - 2004 Elections 35:03 - KMT vs DPP on the Youth38:36 - Sunflower movement40:00 - Taiwan Today Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

Today, we have Taiwanese-American rapper Xiangxu here to talk to us about the past 100 years of Taiwanese history. 1:00 - What is Taiwan?4:38 - Dutch East Indies Company’s role in Taiwan7:00 - How Japan Annexed Taiwan under the Qing Dynasty.10:33 - Kuominga movement: Japanesization of Taiwan15:12 - Chinese Civil War17:00 - KMT’s rise to power in Taiwan18:00 - The Establishment of the ROC20:13 - The 228 incident23:24 - Taiwan’s Marshall Law period which lasted for 37 years29:33 - Taiwan’s White Terror32:33 - How the US government stopped the PLA from uniting Taiwan40:18 - “Almost colonial government”48:00 - China and Taiwan and a conundrum Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

Today’s podcast episode that you listen on audio, Nemanja Lukic talks about the past 100 years of imperialism and explains how it is indeed the Highest Stage of Capitalism. 02:08 - Core & Periphery Theory6:47 - Transnational Anti-systemic movement Against Imperialism14:02 - Post WW2 System of international order 18:36 - “Decolonization” and Recolonization, in different forms25:30 - Neoliberalism as part of the World Order35:13 - NATO collaboration to tear down Yugoslavia 42:28 - Imperial Sabotage of a United Yugoslavia44:00 - Tito’s India Visit Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

In the west, we see much concern trolling about “pro-Democracy dissidents” who are allegedly “mistreated” in countries Russia and Iran. However, we hear little about the country that lies in between Russia and Iran, which not unlike Lithuania, is being run by a single family: The Aliyevs. Today,We have Mammad Azizov, a former political prisoner from Azerbaijan and current editor at Ishchinin Sesi (Worker's Voice) platform talk to us about the 200 year history of his country. Show Notes00:00:30 - The Basics about Azerbaijan00:01:55 - The Height of Azerbaijan’s President and how he is the tallest leader in the world. 00:02:30 - Azerbaijan under the Tsar00:08:48 - The Baku Massacre and the Valentine’s day vow of love between Azerbaijanis, Armenians and Georgians 00:12:40 - Otkober revolution in Baku and the British attempted coup00:20:20 - How the British and Americans tried to restore feudalism00:36:00 - The Baku Industrial Music Concert in 192200:40:25 - Why Hitler wanted Baku? World War 2 in Azerbaijan and how the worker’s helped defeat Hitler. 00:50:17 - Why Krushchev was mistaken on his co-existence with Capitalism. How life would be different if JFK was not shot.00:55:00 - Fall of the USSR, the Shock Doctrine and Capitalism1:02:00 - The Dutch Disease and Oil1:05:30 - The Conflict with Armenia and who is behind it?1:12:00 - Impoverishment, deindustrialization and corruption1:25:00 - What it to be done and what is to be learned?Mammad Azizov on twitter Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

A few weeks ago, there was a ruckus around the world (mostly with the western press) when Belarus arrested a “dissident” Roman Protasevich. The US/EU was the first to concern troll about “freedom” and “human rights” when all purposes, he had participated in a fascist militia in Ukraine.However, in neighboring Lithuania, something much more sinister is going on. The entire country is controlled by a single family (Landbergis). They have been creating a myth of Lithuanian history that does not exist and part of this includes glorifying Nazis such as General Jonas Norieka. Today, Stanislav Thomas, a Jewish Lithuanian attorney, who has been litigating human rights cases since 2002 in the EU and the Un. He has been persecuted for breaking the statue of General Jonas Norieka speaks to us about the history of Lithuania and his plight. We talk about the US aid to Lithuania, the Lavajato type coups against Show Notes1:58 - Stanislav speaks about how he defends human rights cases8:08 - The Fall of the USSR and the Shock Doctrine in Lithuania11:37 - Landbergis Family Cartel and how they looted Lithuania17:45 - No Free Press in Lithuania23:45 - Lavajato .. Lithuanian Version 25:00 - World War 2 in Lithuania30:00 - Who is General Storm?36:21 - Holocaust profiteers and what happened to them44:19 - Nazi Glorification in Lithuania52:00 - The Lithuanian Maidan (a situation very similar to what happened in Ukraine in 2014).. who was behind it?58:00 - Anti-semitism in LithuaniaWhat better way to rein in the summer than to give the gift of history? Please become a paid subscriber. Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

Audio Podcast EpisodeOur show focuses on decolonial history but how did the early colonizers get ordinary people to colonize various lands? Today, we have Sam Haselby here to discuss the history of American Nationalism, the Christian Doctrine and finally he makes his case about why Ivy League’s should be abolished. 4:16 - The history of religion in the USA vs Europe8:51 - Debunking the myth of the Puritans vs reality 10:32 - American Bible Society, Propaganda and colonization11:00 - The Yale University Connection with Nationalism 16:28 - Timothy Dwight: The President of Yale and Christian Nationalism25:00 - Constitutional Delusions of the American people30:30 - Sam discusses his theory on the Constitution being a sacred text33:40 - The Fight for Power between the capitalists and the planters in Early America37:16 - “Brahman capitalism” and the connection with the capitalists of London39:15 - Commodity insurance and the shipping industry 41:04 - How the Early American protestants were anti-catholic46:04 - The Large Anti-Mission movement in the USA51:00 - Understanding the Andrew Jackson Presidency in that light54:00 - the Real Cause of the Civil WarSam Haselby’s book “The Origins of American Religious Nationalism” is available on Amazon Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

Starting soon after the Russian revolution, we saw the advent of the suburbs. These suburbs served a counter-revolutionary purpose. They were deliberate effort by the government to prevent a similar kind of popular uprising. This was done primarily and essentially by dangling a nice home in the faces of white people, and by keeping black and brown people out via redlining and discriminatory ordinances. So not only was this country built long ago on the backs and with the blood of black and brown people, that virulent racism continues today in active policy, all around the country. A Federally Designed Program of Social ControlThe segregation of the suburbs was not an accident. It was a deliberate decision at every level of government intended to stave off the spread into the US of Europe’s worker uprisings and the spread of socialism by granting the racial privilege of land ownership to the same European immigrants that only a few years before were associated with public nuisance. The “Own Your Own Campaign”, started in 1916 by the National Association of Real Estate Boards (NAREB) and taken over by the Department of Labor in 1917 was the mechanism used to do this. Through this campaign, the government produced propaganda aimed at the white working class declaring it a patriotic duty to purchase a single-family home rather than renting. Under Secretary of Treasury Herbert Hoover, the federal government went further, using popular household magazines to warn potential homeowners of the problems of “racial strife” and declining property values in integrated communities. These publications, paid for by the federal government, drove interest in racial covenants that contractually bound segregation to the land in perpetuity. Working with the Department of Commerce, NAREB enforced the implantation of racial covenants by refusing certification to realtors who would not include racial covenants in their suburban subdivisions. The NAREB’s worked to make the threat of property value decline a reality; realtors would tell homeowners that Black families were moving into the neighborhoods, then hire Black folks to act as potential home buyers in that neighborhood, creating a slew of panic selling, artificially lowing home sales so the realtors could purchase it at a low price.The federal government then acted to subsidize white flights through the Home Owners Loan Corporation and the Federal Housing Administration. These federal agencies would only provide loans and underwrite a mortgage for white people who were looking to buy in other all white neighborhoods/suburbs. Black people couldn't get approved for mortgages in their communities or in the suburbs. White people couldn't even get approved for mortgages in existing integrated communities. Without this access to these federal financial resources, homeownership was prohibitively expensive.Through these programs, the federal government created a subsidized housing market for suburban land exclusively for white people and used this market to de-ethnicize and assimilate European immigrants into “white” identity, using racial privilege to create a white middle class that acts as a protective buffer between the ruling class and the most exploited among us, preventing true systemic reform. Through this market, white families have since been able to acrue generational wealth that has been by design denied to Black families. Further, because interest on mortgages is deductible on income taxes, white homeowners have received an annual federal subsidy that has likewise been denied to Black families. The result is the continued success of the marginalization of Black Americans unleashed by Jim Crow laws, almost 70 years after Brown ended legal race-based segregation. Until we address this legacy, abolish single-family residential zoning, and rid ourselves of half acre or more minimum lots, we will not be able to pull white supremacy in the 21st century out by its roots.  The longer we resist and insist on retaining our racial privilege in the form of property on large exclusive residential lots the longer we remain complicit in the perpetuation of white supremacy.Podcast by (the non-billionaire, non-pedophile, non-dead) Jeff Epstein: You can find Jeff at Activists MMT hereMusic by Wreck Tech, who can be found on SoundCloud and Spotify. Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

Bill Gates has a curated reputation of being a philanthropist who helps many people in the third world countries. However, not all is as good as it seems. Today, we have Bobby Malhotra join us to talk about the extremely disturbing implications of the Bill and Melinda Gates FoundationShow Notes:1:00 - Bobby introduces himself5:36 - Bill Gates motives are not that philanthropic. 5:55 - “The idea of philanthropy is an outdated model and not an honest model.”7:28 - History of overpopulation with Malthius and Galton8:21 - “Eugenics is of noble birth. Eugenicists believe not everyone is of equal value. Many of these elites also follow these assumption that those who are not of noble birth are called useless eaters”9:22 - Eugenics is also racially motivated. 11:00 - IBM’s role in Eugenics: 14:00 - Barcoding human being with IBM with Nazi Germany16:00 - Bill Gates’ parents and their connection with IBM 18:00 - How Mary Gates Gave Bill Gates the big deal with IBM20:00 - Anti-trust issues with Microsoft21:00 - The publicity nightmare with the anti-trust lawsuit and the opportunistic reason for starting the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation24:00 - The Foundation was investing in tobacco, oil and weapons company28:33 - Mutilitation30:00 - Too many Black People34:00 - Polio Vaccine scandal where 500,000 people who were paralyzed38:00 - Jeffrey Epstein Connection40:00 - Bill Gates at the Munich Security Conference and on PandemicsAt the Munich Security Conference in 2017: Bill Gates draws an already very dark picture of the future. He is talking about genetically modified pathogens, bioweapons, population reduction of 30 Million people in one year due to respiratory diseases — Hegelian Dialectic.43:45 - “Pandemic Scenario” - (to learn more visit)PDF to Pandemic Scenario Report44:00 - Bill Gates Prior Relationship to Fauci51:00 - Bill Gates is his own country in the WHOBobby Rajesh Malhotra’s Scientific Work Corman-Drosten Review ReportContact Bobby Rajesh MalhotraTelegramTwitterInstagramMediumSubstackOther Interviews Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe