Interventionary

For this bonus episode, Raegan and Jesse each take on one of the infamous Dulles brothers, one of whom was CIA director and the other of whom was Secretary of State under Eisenhower, to teach the other about. They were both absolutely terrible people. One of them almost definitely killed JFK.Special thanks to Hengly You for our wonderful intro music! Make sure to follow us on Twitter @Interventionary and tell us how mad you are that this episode is late at Interventionary@gmail.com.Next Episode: France (08/11/2021)Outro Music: CIA by New Politics

This week, Jesse teaches us all about everything from Catholic communists to the invention of fascism to the start of the CIA to which Princess Bride characters were in the mob.Special thanks to Hengly You for our wonderful intro music! Make sure to follow us on Twitter @Interventionary and tell us your favorite anti-Italian stereotype at Interventionary@gmail.com.Next Episode: BONUS -- The Dulles Brothers (07/21/2021)Outro Music: Prisencolinensinainciusol by Adriano Celentano & Raffaella Carrà

Content Warning: Sexual AssaultToday, we talk about the United States dropping two nuclear bombs on Japan, then occupying it for three to five years (depending on whether you define the occupation by American standards or Japanese standards).Here's the link to Shaun's YouTube video, which we referenced in the beginning. This served as our jumping off point for the nuclear bombing timeline and research.Also, in case you want to read, here's that Atlantic article that manufactured consent post-hoc for nuking Japan and here's President Truman's response, further manufacturing even more consent. Special thanks to Hengly You for our amazing intro music!  Make sure to follow us on Twitter @Interventionary and tell us your favorite DC bar at Interventionary@gmail.com. Next Episode: Italy (07/07/2021) Outro Music: Eve of Destruction by Barry McGuire

Today's episode covers a wide range of topics, including Panama.Special thanks to Hengly You for our fantastic intro music! Make sure to follow us on Twitter @Interventionary and tell us the weirdest thing you had to play for middle school band at Interventionary@gmail.com.Next Episode: Japan (06/23/2021)Outro Music: Vengo De Panama by Los Rakas

This week, Raegan and Jesse chat about one of the deadliest wars you've never heard of and how the US intervened for basically no reason.Special thanks to Hengly You for our fantastic intro music! Make sure to follow us on Twitter @Interventionary and point out that Raegan says "World War II" when she means "World War I" once at Interventionary@gmail.com.Next Episode: Panama (06/09/2021)Outro Music: Moskau by Dschinghis Khan

We interrupt your regularly-scheduled Russia episode (again) for a discussion of something that began around the same time as the other episodes you've heard lately: the carving up of Southwest Asia into roughly the countries we know today as the Middle East. And, given Raegan's background and the current situation in Palestine, we'll be largely focusing our discussion on that particular region.Outro Music: Language of Peace by DJ Lethal Skillz & Shadia MansourNext Episode: Russia (06/02/21)Additional Reading Material:Human Rights Watch ReportB'Tselem ReportPlaces to Donate:Sheikh JarrahGazaGeneral

This week, Raegan and Jesse present for you a terminally online guide to Lenin's Imperialism.You'll notice that we are a week "late" this week, on account of weekly episodes being a lot for two people who do this just for lols. We'll be going back to biweekly episodes.Outro Music: Empires by Electric Swing CircusNext Episode: Russia (05/19/21)

Jesse and Raegan have their first real disagreement this week as Jesse helps us all learn about the US' attempt to annex the Dominican Republic.Special thanks to Hengly You for our wonderful intro music! Make sure to follow us on Twitter @Interventionary and send us your comments at Interventionary@gmail.com.Next Episode: BONUS on Lenin's Imperialism (05/12/2021)

This week, Raegan teaches Jesse about how the United States occupied Haiti for decades in the early 20th century and guaranteed its economic stagnation.Special thanks to Hengly You for our fantastic intro music! Make sure to follow us on Twitter @Interventionary and point out that Raegan says "Hawaii" when she means "Haiti" once at Interventionary@gmail.com.Next Episode: The Dominican Republic (04/28/2021)Outro Music: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Gil Scott-Heron

This week, Jesse teaches Raegan all about how the US stuck its nose in the Mexican Revolution.Special thanks to Hengly You for our lovely intro music! Make sure to follow us on Twitter @Interventionary and tell us your thoughts on Emiliano Zapata  episodes at Interventionary@gmail.com.Next Episode: Haiti (04/21/2021)Outro Music: MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name) by Lil Nas X

This week is our first bonus episode! You shouldn't need it for our Mexican Revolution episode next week but you should listen anyway because Jesse and Raegan chat about 100 years of Mexican history leading up to next week's episode. Topics include Santa Anna's leg, the French Revolution, and whether or not La Bamba is a sea shanty.Special thanks to Hengly You for our wonderful intro music! Make sure to follow us on Twitter @Interventionary and tell us your thoughts on out-of-canon episodes at Interventionary@gmail.com.Next Episode: Mexico (04/14/2021)Outro Music: La Bamba by Los Lobos

This week, Raegan and Jesse discuss what Nicaragua looked like during the Banana Wars, featuring economic inequality, shitty conservatives, and surprisingly few bananas. Special thanks to Hengly You for our wonderful intro music! Make sure to follow us on Twitter @Interventionary and tell us how much you hate William Howard Taft at Interventionary@gmail.com.Next Episode: Mexico (04/07/2021)Outro Music: Reagan by Killer Mike**Raegan once dated a guy who told her he would listen to this song every day because it had her name in it . . . 

In this episode, Jesse teaches Raegan about the time the US returned to Cuba to do all the things colonizers do without explicitly colonizing it.Special thanks to Hengly You for our wonderful intro music! Make sure to follow us on Twitter @Interventionary and tell us how much you hate William Howard Taft at Interventionary@gmail.com.Next Episode: Nicaragua (03/31/2021)Outro Music: Same Thing by Flobots

POV: you are a banana and you have effectively destroyed the economy of Honduras.Special thanks to Hengly You for our amazing intro music! Make sure to follow us on Twitter @Interventionary and ask us questions about anarcho-syndicalism at Interventionary@gmail.com.Next Episode: Cuba Part II (03/24/2021)Outro Music: Rainforest by Noname

This week, we try a new format where Jesse does all of the research and Raegan does none whatsoever. Hopefully, we'll learn about how the US split up a country to create the Panama Canal.Special thanks to Hengly You for our amazing intro music! Make sure to follow us on Twitter @Interventionary and tell us what you think of the new format at Interventionary@gmail.com.Next Episode: Honduras (03/17/2021)Outro Music: Panama by Van Halen

Did you know all of Europe tried to colonize China and the US wanted to be a part of it so bad, it got involved in the Boxer Rebellion?Special thanks to Hengly You for our amazing intro music! Make sure to follow us on Twitter @Interventionary and tell send us a crab rave meme at Interventionary@gmail.com.Next Episode: Panama (03/10/2021) -- featuring a new and potentially more interesting show format!Outro Music: Stand Up by Flobots

This week, Jesse and Raegan finally discuss Samoa like they promised they would a month ago.Special thanks to Hengly You for our amazing intro music! Make sure to follow us on Twitter @Interventionary and tell Jesse that "interventionaries" is not a good nickname for our fans at Interventionary@gmail.comNext Episode: The Boxer Rebellion (02/24/2021)

This week, Raegan and Jesse are chatting about the United States' continued and evolving colonization of Puerto Rico. Special thanks to Hengly You for our amazing intro music! Make sure to follow us on Twitter @Interventionary and tell us all about how you can hear Raegan's cat in the background at Interventionary@gmail.comNext Episode: Samoa (02/10/2021)

Jesse and Raegan sit down to discuss a colonization so brutal, it's known as the United States' first Vietnam. Special thanks to Hengly You for our amazing intro music! Make sure to follow us on Twitter @Interventionary and correct all our pronunciations at Interventionary@gmail.comNext Episode: Puerto Rico (01/27/2021)

This week, Raegan & Jesse are discussing one of the US military's better-known boat explosions and also how it cheated the independent nation of Cuba out of . . . being an independent nation. Special thanks to Hengly You for our amazing intro music! Make sure to follow us on Twitter @Interventionary and let us know how much you hate Teddy Roosevelt at Interventionary@gmail.comNext Episode: The Philippines (01/13/2021)

After an extended holiday, Raegan & Jesse return to discuss the United States' best-known colony: Hawai'i. Join us to discuss everything from how Hawai'i was colonized to how it westernized to what modern colonization looks like to whether or not Bernie Sanders says fuck. Special thanks to Hengly You for our amazing intro music! Make sure to follow us on Twitter @Interventionary and let us know how disappointed you are that we didn't pronounce Hawai'i correctly at Interventionary@gmail.com Outro Music: Ea by Sudden RushNext Episode: Cuba (12/30/2020)

This week, Raegan & Jesse are joined by Raegan's houseguest, Colin, because he just happened to be around as they discuss how the US used its big beautiful boaters to harass Japan in 1853-1854.Special thanks to Hengly You for our fantastic intro music.Make sure you follow @Interventionary on Twitter for updates, rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, and tell us about how bad our audio quality is or something via Interventionary@Gmail.com.

Did you know the US used to be so bad at having a navy, it needed to overthrow governments just to win its wars? Join Jesse and Raegan as they riff through America's first intervention: Tripolitania, 1801-1805.Special thanks to Hengly You for our fantastic intro music.Make sure you follow @Interventionary on Twitter for updates, rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, and berate us about how we didn't talk about your favorite pirate or something via Interventionary@Gmail.com.

A quick preview of what's to come! Make sure you subscribe so you can be there for our first episode (The First Barbary War) on November 16th.