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Listen to CapeTalk's John Maytham's weekly book reviews and share his passion for all things literary. From fiction to non-fiction, John reads and reviews a range of books that would sit well on your reading list. FICTION • In Every Mirror She's Black by Lola Akinmande Akerstrom• Independence Square by Martin Cruz Smith NON-FICTION Abyss the Cuban Missile crisis 1962 by Max HastingsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, we take a deep dive into the Cold War and what lessons can be learned from it. In particular, we reflect upon some key teachings of Thomas Sowell with regard to how price-coordinated, Capitalist societies perform in comparison with command-style, communist and socialist economies.Peter Robinson joins me in the second half of the show to talk about his views about Sowell and the Cold War.Here are some links which will enhance your appreciation of the episode:• More info about Peter Robinson HERE.• "Wind of Change" by the German rock band Scorpions HERE (1 billion views).• Full Kennedy speech about the Cuban Missile crisis HERE.• 99 Luftballons video (German version) HERE• 99 Red Balloons video (English version) HERE(both the "99" music videos are so bad, you have to wonder if they made them that bad on purpose. They're so bad, they're good! But who cares, such a great song!)• Ronald Reagan Berlin Wall speech HERE• "Berlin City of Night" by Peter Schilling HERE.• Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech HERE• "Freiheit" by Marius Mueller Westernhagen HERE• My essay on how I acquired the Checkpoint Charlie sign HERE.• More useful links here: linktr.ee/alanwolanTHERE ARE 3 WAYS TO SUPPORT THE SHOW:1) Support the show financially by subscribing with a monthly contribution on Patreon:   www.Patreon.com/SowellGeniusThe money raised through Patreon supports our efforts to popularize the books and ideas of Thomas Sowell. ----------------------------------------------2) Rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts. This helps a lot by nudging the show to the top of Google searches. I really appreciate the many positive reviews, especially this one by Jonsby: "This is one of the few podcasts that I actually slow down so I can savor it!"----------------------------------------------3) Purchase our Thomas Sowell Post It Note pads:  You can find all 100 digital images of the post it notes HERE, feel free to download them and use them however you like.To purchase pads of printed post it notes, please visit our shop at: GeniusSowell.etsy.com We have two editions of the quotes available:Edition #2: Quotes 1 - 50.Edition #3: Quotes 51 - 100

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Call me, maybe? Hotlines and Global Catastrophic Risk [Founders Pledge], published by christian.r on January 24, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. This post summarizes a Founders Pledge shallow investigation on direct communications links (DCLs or "hotlines") between states as global catastrophic risks interventions. As a shallow investigation, it is a rough attempt at understanding an issue, and is in some respects a work in progress. Summary Crisis-communication links or “hotlines” between states are a subset of crisis management tools intended to help leaders defuse the worst possible crises and to limit or terminate war (especially nuclear war) when it does break out. Despite a clear theory of change, however, there is high uncertainty about their effectiveness and little empirical evidence. The most important dyadic adversarial relationships (e.g., U.S.-China, U.S.-Russia, Pakistan-India, India-China) already have existing hotlines between them, and forming new hotlines is an unlikely candidate for effective philanthropy. Along with high uncertainty about hotline effectiveness in crisis management, the highest stakes application of hotlines (i.e., WMD conflict limitation and termination) remains untested, and dedicated crisis-communications channels may have an important fail-safe role in the event of conflict. War limitation- and termination-enabling hotlines have high expected value even with very low probability of success, because of the distribution of fatalities in WMD-related conflicts. Importantly, it appears that existing hotlines — cobbled together from legacy Cold-War systems and modern technology — are not resilient to the very conflicts they are supposed to control, and may fail in the event of nuclear war, electro-magnetic pulse, cyber operations and some natural catastrophic risks, like solar flares. Additionally, there are political and institutional obstacles to hotline use, including China's repeated failure to answer in crisis situations. Philanthropists interested in crisis management tools like hotlines could pursue a number of interventions, including: Funding work and dialogues to establish new hotlines; Funding work and dialogues on hotline resilience (including technical work on hotlines in communications-denied environments); Funding more rigorous studies of hotline effectiveness; Funding track II dialogues between the U.S. and China (and potentially other powerful states) focused on hotlines to understand different conceptions of crisis communication. We believe that the marginal value of establishing new hotlines is likely to be low. The other interventions likely need to be sequenced — before investing in hotline resilience, we ought to better understand whether hotlines work, and what political and institutional issues affect their function. Crucially for avoiding great power conflict, we recommend investing in understanding why China does not “pick up” crisis communications channels in times of crisis. Acknowledgments: I would like to thank Tom Barnes, Linton Brooks, Matt Lerner, Peter Rautenbach, David Santoro, Shaan Shaikh, and Sarah Weiler for helpful input on this project. Background Thomas Schelling first suggested the idea of a direct communications link between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1958, and the idea was popularized in outlets like Parade magazine. Although early attempts were made at implementing such a link (e.g. in early 1962), the need for such a dedicated communications channel between the United States and Soviet Union became pressingly clear during the Cuban Missile crisis, when Kennedy and Krushchev communicated through “clumsy” and slow traditional communications channels. Officials at the Soviet embassy in Washington later recalled that even their own communications with Moscow used slow an...

60 years since the 1962 Cuban Missile crisis, Russia accuses Ukraine of using ‘dirty bomb'. In episode 1103 of Cut the Clutter, ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta decodes the rising threat of nuclear weapons with three accidental misfires this year, what occurred in 1962 and what we have learnt from it. Brought to you by  @Kia India  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Read the article by 'The Guardian' here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/27/cuban-missile-crisis-60-years-on-new-papers-reveal-how-close-the-world-came-to-nuclear-disaster ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Drones Strike Kyiv.. made in Iran… The United Nations calls for an end to the war in the Horn of Africa… and military intervention in Haiti… 60. Years since the Cuban Missile crisis.. as close to nuclear war as ever,,, and a police shooting in Inwood

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Media coverage abundantly shares issues of scarcity of medicines, shortage of food, blackouts, a rise in Covid cases and deaths and an arguably rigid government response to the economic problems. However, the illegal and immoral blockade and how it has shaped the economic reality is only mentioned without proper understanding of its role in the issues of greater concern. We try to bring balance to understanding the problem by continuing to expose little known facts regarding US micro and macroaggressions against Cuba and the quality of life in Cuba. We review the hundreds of millions of dollars poured into Cuban civil society by CIA surrogates USAID and NED beginning late last century to date, with the primary motivation of overthrowing the Cuban political economic model. A crime of gross sovereignty violation, by any country's legal standards. All sold to the American public as ‘bringing democracy' to Cuba (whether they like it or not. We review Max Blumenthal's recent 7/25/21 article, Cuba's Cultural Counter Revolution: US Government backed rappers, artists gain fame as catalyst for current unrest. We include an overview history of terrorism including airplane dropping incendiary devices on sugar crops and mills, the introduction of sugar cane smut, blue mold, along with biological attacks on tobacco seedlings, bovine attacks, pig swine with the entire pig population destruction, dengue fever, and other aggressions such as the bombing of a civilian airliner in midflight killing more than 70 souls all through the end of the last century that resulted in more than 3500 Cuban deaths. Yet, Cuba is put on the US State Department of terrorist nations without ever committing a terrorist offense on US land or taking a single American life. Last week we had TJ Masters a millennial, who spent his formative years in Florida share comments and questions. This week Greg Ciotti who is old enough to remember as an adolescent the Cuban Missile crisis joins us with comments and questions for Pedro Gatos as we seek in pt. III of our series to Bringing Light into the Darkness to US -Cuba history and relations as well as unfolding current protests. Listen in and study the content of our show and join the discussion by emailing the show. In pursuit of social justice & Siempre fieles, tell us what you think! Pgatos pgatos00@gmail.com If you are not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. - Malcolm X

Media coverage abundantly shares issues of scarcity of medicines, shortage of food, blackouts, a rise in Covid cases and deaths and an arguably rigid government response to the economic problems. However, the illegal and immoral blockade and how it has shaped the economic reality is only mentioned without proper understanding of its role in the issues of greater concern. We try to bring balance to understanding the problem by continuing to expose little known facts regarding US micro and macroaggressions against Cuba and the quality of life in Cuba. We review the hundreds of millions of dollars poured into Cuban civil society by CIA surrogates USAID and NED beginning late last century to date, with the primary motivation of overthrowing the Cuban political economic model. A crime of gross sovereignty violation, by any country's legal standards. All sold to the American public as ‘bringing democracy' to Cuba (whether they like it or not. We review Max Blumenthal's recent 7/25/21 article, Cuba's Cultural Counter Revolution: US Government backed rappers, artists gain fame as catalyst for current unrest. We include an overview history of terrorism including airplane dropping incendiary devices on sugar crops and mills, the introduction of sugar cane smut, blue mold, along with biological attacks on tobacco seedlings, bovine attacks, pig swine with the entire pig population destruction, dengue fever, and other aggressions such as the bombing of a civilian airliner in midflight killing more than 70 souls all through the end of the last century that resulted in more than 3500 Cuban deaths. Yet, Cuba is put on the US State Department of terrorist nations without ever committing a terrorist offense on US land or taking a single American life. Last week we had TJ Masters a millennial, who spent his formative years in Florida share comments and questions. This week Greg Ciotti who is old enough to remember as an adolescent the Cuban Missile crisis joins us with comments and questions for Pedro Gatos as we seek in pt. III of our series to Bringing Light into the Darkness to US -Cuba history and relations as well as unfolding current protests. Listen in and study the content of our show and join the discussion by emailing the show. In pursuit of social justice & Siempre fieles, tell us what you think! Pgatos pgatos00@gmail.com If you are not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. - Malcolm X

Interview with Paulina Zelitsky, about her 2-volume autobiography The Sea is Only Knee Deep which tells the story of her life growing up in soviet Ukraine, her harrowing defection to Canada from Cuba in 1971, her accidental discovery of the 2nd Cuban Missile Crisis and her concerns that we may be on the verge of a 3rd Cuban Missile crisis • Ukrainian Proverb of the Week • Other Items of Interest • Great Ukrainian Music!Hour 1 of this edition of Nash Holos Nanaimo is hosted by Pawlina, in English. (Part 2 is hosted by Oksana Poberezhnyk, in Ukrainian.)Ukrainian Roots Radio airs in Nanaimo on Wednesdays from 11am-12:30pm PST on CHLY 101.7FM, broadcasting to the north and central Vancouver Island, Gulf Islands, Sunshine Coast, northwest Washington State and Greater Vancouver listening areas. Hosts: Pawlina and Oksana.You can hear the Vancouver edition with Pawlina on Saturdays from 6-7pm on air at AM1320 CHMB and streaming live at the CHMB website. www.am1320.com.As well the International edition airs in over 20 countries on AM, FM, shortwave and satellite radio via PCJ Radio International.In between broadcasts, please follow @NashHolos on Twitter and Like the Nash Holos Facebook page. If you'd like to support the show by buying us a digital cup of coffee, check out our Patreon page.Buy The Sea is Only Knee Deep on Amazon: (Affiliate link – support the show!)Vol.1Vol. 2Video links:Arturo Sandoval, Cuban-American jazz artist's rendition of Miles Davis' Seven Steps to Heaven in 2016 at the Alfa Jazz Fest in LvivUkrainian singer Helena Androsova's Sea Shanty Wellerman in Ukrainian Support the show on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Interview with Paulina Zelitsky, about her 2-volume autobiography The Sea is Only Knee Deep which tells the story of her life growing up in soviet Ukraine, her harrowing defection to Canada from Cuba in 1971, her accidental discovery of the 2nd Cuban Missile Crisis and her concerns that we may be seeing 3rd Cuban Missile crisis • Ukrainian Proverb of the Week • Other Items of Interest • Plenty of Great Ukrainian Music!Join me - Pawlina - for the Vancouver edition of Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio—every Saturday at 6pm PST on AM1320 CHMB and streaming at www.am1320.com.Reminder: If you're in the Vancouver listening area tune in to the Nanaimo edition on Wednesdays from 11am-12:30pm on air at 101.7FM or online at CHLY Radio Malaspina with hosts Pawlina and Oksana Poberezhnyk. Podcast feed at our website.In between broadcasts, please check out our Patreon site and consider supporting us!Buy The Sea is Only Knee Deep on Amazon: (Affiliate link – support the show!)Vol.1 Vol. 2 Video links:Arturo Sandoval, Cuban-American jazz artist's rendition of Miles Davis' Seven Steps to Heaven in 2016 at the Alfa Jazz Fest in Lviv Ukrainian singer Helena Androsova's Sea Shanty Wellerman in Ukrainian Support the show on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This episode is a continuation of looking at the possible theory that major UFO experiences may have influenced by world events. In other words UFO sighting are not as random as once believed. This idea that UFOs may be a reflection of other events has been posited by Jacques Vallee for decades, and was raised by Dr. Kit Green speaking to Jim Penniston, related to a Defense Department study on people who came close to UFOs. In this section I look at the Westall School story, the Cuban Missile situation, The Falcon Lake incident in Canada, the 6-day war, and others. Links https://linktr.ee/whitehouseufo

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Tony is angry at people in 1962. Jon and Tony gang up on Andrew for liking this week’s drink. The guys realize that 1962 was nuts. Andrew demonstrates his terrible joke telling skills. Tony invents two new drinks. Jon discovers a correlation with Campari. Andrew and Jon fall for Tony’s April fools joke.

Blake & Austin is joined by their Cuban brother, Anthony. Beer of the day is Dos Equis. Big shoutout to them !

Happy F-ing Birthday! Tune in to this episode where we will concoct a Top 5 list based on all of our favorite people who were born on February 28th! We'll talk the Cuban Missile, the “Opti-Grab”, Mikey's never ending love of medical dramas, Phathead Joel's favorite “guilty pleasure band”, and why you never “mess with Da Jesus!” --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theitlistpodcast/support

World War 2 has ended. But it is far from peace time. It is a period of Cold War. How close were we to Nuclear Anihilation? What casued the Cuban Missile crisis? Why was the Space Race important to both the US and the Soviet Union? All this and more in this weeks episode of "Well That Aged Well" with "Erlend Hedegart" Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/well-that-aged-well. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/well-that-aged-well. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

A U-2 spy plane captured images of the construction of a missile site on Cuba, triggering the Cuban Missile ...

This episode has a companion playlist on Spotify here: https://spoti.fi/2xWoCEyIn this episode, David talks with Sarah about the early days of Motown, one thread of his sweeping book on Detroit in the early 1960’s, Once in a Great City. They discuss how Motown founder, Barry Gordy, Jr., figured out melodies while working on the assembly line at Ford Motor Company; the public school music programs that fostered young musical talent such as  Diana Ross and Martha Reeves, and stories from the first Motown Review, a 56 day bus tour across America, with the backdrop of the Cuban Missile, racism, and a virulent strain of the flu that struck the tour’s headliner, Smokey Robinson.  As Detroit once again faces a disproportionate burden of a national crisis, David and Sarah discuss what the city gave America and the world: cars, civil rights, worker’s rights, and music. As a bonus, David made a Spotify list of Motown songs that complement the episode.

Larson Segerdahl aka The Cuban Missile has been working with the PGA in a leadership capacity for many years. Larson discusses his journey with Greg Norman and the great leadership Greg provided to him. Larson also takes us behind the curtain on how he gets top tier PGA players to play on his tournament. Rob and Larson share a lot of laughs on this episode, while giving some sports business advice. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Please give us a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or however you are listening!

Aroldis Chapman will be staying with the Yankees. The Cuban Missile received an additional year and $18 million from New York. Chapman took the bird in hand rather than test a potentially unforgiving open market. Stephen Strasburg has opted out of his contract and will be a free agent. Strasburg had 4 years and $100 million remaining on his deal, but he figures to receive a much bigger contract. Will he simply re-negotiate a deal with the Nats, or will a SoCal team lure him back home? All this on today's episode.

Living to fight another day. The Yankees are stayin' alive and boarding a first class trip back to Houston. They defeated the Astros by the scored of 4-1. The LeMachine went yard, Hicks went to the sticks, and The Cuban Missile shut the door on Game 5. Also, James Paxton was really strong on the bump and threw the most pitches in a game by a Yankee this season. The Big Maple owned the moment. We were there to tell the tale. All this and more on the latest edition of The Short Porch presented by SeatGeek. (Outro Song: Stayin' Alive by Bee Gees)

ALCS bound. The New York Yankees swept the Minnesota Twins in three games and are ready to take the next step on the warpath to the World Series. Luis Severino did big things, Gleyber Torres put the team on his back, and Aroldis Chapman aka "The Cuban Missile" did what he does best. Marty Mush hops on the show to help us recap what was an awesome ending to this series. Also, Tommy may have to wear his Next Man Up t-shirt for the rest of his life. A long week of rest is ahead, but soon it'll be back to work. All of this and more on today's episode of The Short Porch presented by SeatGeek.

Julian stops in for a UFC update and what is going on in the UFC! Julian is an an awesome UFC fighter and personality doing some awesome and even fun media outside of the UFC be sure to check him out on all platforms!    Recorded in the www.k-var.com studio Host:  IG: @John_bartolo www.JohnBartoloShow.com Twitter: @JJBartolo Video available on:  http://www.youtube.com/c/JohnBartolo Available everywhere podcasts can be heard.  

Do you ever wonder what it’s like to drive race cars 200+ miles per hour, for a living? I recently had the opportunity to spend the day at the Charlotte Motor Speedway for the Coca-Cola 600. Before the race kicked off, I was granted some amazing behind-the-pit access and had the chance to meet a couple of professional drivers: 21-year old rookie William Byron and league veteran, Aric Almirola, a.k.a The Cuban Missile.   Did you know that NASCAR drivers spend nearly 40 weeks a year on the road each year, mostly living out of decked-out motor homes? I chatted with these drivers about more than just racing on the track. We also dive deep into what life is really like as a professional NASCAR driver. Tune in to hear about Will and Arics’s come-up stories, their favorite non-driving hobbies and travel destinations, family histories, crazy pre-race routines, and what it’s like to be fearless for a living. For them both, hesitation can mean serious danger. Take a listen and prepare to get closer to the track than you’ve ever been before. Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines… and keep an eye on your heart rate. 

Do you ever wonder what it’s like to drive race cars 200+ miles per hour, for a living? I recently had the opportunity to spend the day at the Charlotte Motor Speedway for the Coca-Cola 600. Before the race kicked off, I was granted some amazing behind-the-pit access and had the chance to meet a couple of professional drivers: 21-year old rookie William Byron and league veteran, Aric Almirola, a.k.a The Cuban Missile.   Did you know that NASCAR drivers spend nearly 40 weeks a year on the road each year, mostly living out of decked-out motor homes? I chatted with these drivers about more than just racing on the track. We also dive deep into what life is really like as a professional NASCAR driver. Tune in to hear about Will and Arics’s come-up stories, their favorite non-driving hobbies and travel destinations, family histories, crazy pre-race routines, and what it’s like to be fearless for a living. For them both, hesitation can mean serious danger. Take a listen and prepare to get closer to the track than you’ve ever been before. Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines… and keep an eye on your heart rate. 

Phil and Stephen discuss the signficicance of one man's action (or rather inaction) 35 years ago. Did Stanislav Petrov save the world? Stanislav Petrov, 'The Man Who Saved The World,' Dies At 77 https://n.pr/2MJ0JXM Stanislav Petrov was a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Union's Air Defense Forces, and his job was to monitor his country's satellite system, which was looking for any possible nuclear weapons launches by the United States. He was on the overnight shift in the early morning hours of Sept. 26, 1983, when the computers sounded an alarm, indicating that the U.S. had launched five nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles. “All I had to do was to reach for the phone; to raise the direct line to our top commanders — but I couldn't move. I felt like I was sitting on a hot frying pan." After several nerve-jangling minutes, Petrov didn't send the computer warning to his superiors. He checked to see if there had been a computer malfunction. He had guessed correctly. "Twenty-three minutes later I realized that nothing had happened…” This may be the closest we ever came to nuclear war. Maybe even closer than the Cuban Missile crisis? Should there be a holiday in honor of Petrov? How many times did this scenario play out -- on both sides through the course of the Cold War? Is this proof that we (humans) are a little smarter than we might suspect when it comes to preserving ourselves at the species level? WT 475-793 Eternity Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 Videos and Images from Pixabay.com and other sources.

Thrilling, evocative and hugely controversial, Codename: Hero blows apart the myths surrounding one of the Cold War's greatest spy operations and potentially it's greatest spy Oleg Penkovsky In the late 1950s the USSR appeared to be winning the arms race: their 1949 nuclear test  signaled a direct challenge to the West, changing the face of the Cold War overnight. In 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, and fear escalated in the US and UK. Amidst this climate, KGB Colonel, Oleg Penkovsky desperate to defect, came knocking on the doors of the CIA and MI6. The information he provided as a double operative would change the course of history. Pour the whiskey, get cozy, and buckle up for an eye-opening, mind-blowing look at Oleg Penkovsky, the KGB Colonel-turned-double-agent. Author Jeremy Duns, taking break from writing fiction, has penned a reinvestigation of the Penkovsky Operation, titled Dead Drop in the UK and Code Name: Hero in the US. Those of us unfamiliar with this 'spy who saved the world' are in for a wild ride as Spybrary Host Shane Whaley and Jeremy Duns consider a world without Penkovsky's aid to the West: Would we have descended into nuclear war? What would the outcome of the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile crisis have been without Penkovsky's crucial information? Those of us well-versed in Cold War history will thrill to hear Duns' original take on the Cold War's most dangerous operation. In fact, Penkovsky's information was so good, the CIA had to convince President Kennedy it came from multiple sources, lest the Commander-in-Chief worry that they were relying too heavily on one agent. This episode is satisfyingly chock-full of juicy information, including: Penkovsky's deft use of spycraft: learn how he circumvented surveillance to pull of the most famous brush pass in espionage history. How the Penkovsky trial has influenced popular culture: from 1960’s TV spy series to the Avengers. The balancing act the CIA and MI6 had in dealing with Penkovsky's difficult personality. Other double agents of the time: the sad, lonely life of Greville Wynne; and Pyotr Popov, who turned double agent for the KGB to save his life after being caught, and who, like Penkovsky, was ultimately arrested, tried, and executed by the Soviets. How the CIA tried to prevent Jeremy Duns from publishing some details of his book.  

On October 16th 1962 the American president, John F Kennedy, received news that the Soviets were secretly deploying nuclear missiles on the island of Cuba. In the two weeks that followed, the Cuban Missile crisis took the world to the brink of nuclear war. Louise Hidalgo has been listening back through the BBC's archives to some of those at the centre of the crisis in Washington and Moscow.Picture: President Kennedy goes on national television to tell the American public about the Soviet nuclear missile deployment and announces a strategic blockade of Cuba, 22nd October 1962 (Credit: Keystone/Getty Images)

On October 16th 1962 the American president, John F Kennedy, received news that the Soviets were secretly deploying nuclear missiles on the island of Cuba. In the two weeks that followed, the Cuban Missile crisis took the world to the brink of nuclear war. Louise Hidalgo has been listening back through the BBC's archives to some of those at the centre of the crisis in Washington and Moscow. Picture: President Kennedy goes on national television to tell the American public about the Soviet nuclear missile deployment and announces a strategic blockade of Cuba, 22nd October 1962 (Credit: Keystone/Getty Images)

The beautiful island of Cuba, once a hotspot for American tourists in the 1940's and 1950's, is now an oppressed nation of 11 million people governed by a ruthless communist dictator. In this gripping episode of "War Stories with Oliver North," you'll see how Fidel Castro brought a country together with promises and hope, and then tore it apart in one swift grab for power. You'll witness how Castro committed this ultimate betrayal through a campaign of murder, mayhem and lies to his fellow countrymen. Learn how as a Catholic schoolboy, who once wrote letters to President Roosevelt, Castro rose to command an army of idealistic revolutionaries to overthrow Fulgencio Batista. You'll bear witness to Castro's 1959 victorious entrance into the city of Havana from the man who rode alongside him. In a rare firsthand account, Oliver North interviews Huber Matos, one of Castro's most trusted commanders. Matos was betrayed, tortured and jailed by Castro for 20 years. You will meet the brave men who fought for the freedom of Cuba only to be abandoned at the last minute by President John F. Kennedy in the debacle known as the Bay of Pigs. You'll go inside the ensuing Cuban Missile crisis and see how a nuclear holocaust was narrowly avoided between America and the Soviet Union. From the pilot himself, you will hear him retrace the mission of a U-2 spy plane that provided the proof the world needed that ballistic missiles were aimed at the United States. And you'll hear from the ordinary Cuban citizens who fled from their beloved homeland in search of freedom. This is the story of a people who have struggled, fought, and continues to hope for the inevitable day when Cuba will be free again.

Listen to this special edition of the Pan-African Journal: Worldwide Radio Broadcast hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program continues our commemoration of the life, times and contributions of Comandante President Fidel Castro Ruz (1926-2016). In this program we present additional tributes paid to the revolutionary leader and founder of the Cuban Revolution from around the world. During the first segment we will present a rare archival audio file of a speech delivered by Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro at Harvard Law School in 1959. Later we review the United States effort to overthrow the Cuban Revolution through the Bay of Pigs invastion of early 1961 and subsequent plots to cover-up the actual role of the administration of John F. Kennedy. In the second hour we talk with Prof. Charles Simmons (Emeritus) of Detroit who as a youth protested deployment in the United States Air Force surrounding the Cuban Missile crisis of October 1962. Simmons later visited Cuba in 1964 with other youth activists when they met the-then Prime Minister Fidel Castro and numerous leaders of the Revolution. In later years Simmons worked as a senior correspondent for the Muhammad Speaks newspaper and the Associated Press writing extensively on African and Middle Eastern affairs. In the final hour we look at the role of culture in the Cuban Revolution and its transformation over the decades.

I've been saying it for years now, the Cuban Missile crisis could have been avoided if only Khruschev and Kennedy sat down and enjoyed an evening together enjoying cocktail jazz. That is how powerful this music is! But will anybody listen to me! Well atleast you do! www.cocktailnation.podbean.com Diana Dors-Let There Be Love Leith Stevens - Private Blues Bill Evans-How Deep Is The Ocean Dizzy Gillespie-Desifinado Three Suns-Fly Me To The Moon Mancini-Night Side Bobby Troup-Moonlight In Vermont Nels Cline-Beautiful Love Jackie Gleason-Somebody Loves Me Jetset Sweden-A Man And A Woman The Sharps-Besame Mucho Oscar Peterson-How About You Dave Flippo Trio-Old Country James Spencer-Shadowed Illusions

We finally made it to the Season Finale... of Season 2! Meditations in an Emergency finds bombs flying all around the Mad Men World from the Cuban Missile crisis, to a new Pregnancy. A changing of ownership and the threat of eternal damnation. Thanks to those of you following throughout this off season, and for all your welcomed participation, including a course in Mad Men at Northwestern University. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

 A tribute to Jerome Hines, a great artist. The selections are anounced and biographical material is included. (73 min.) The American Jerome A. Hines (November 8, 1921 – February 4, 2003) was a well-known basso opera singer who was associated with the Metropolitan Opera for many years. His height (6ft 6 inches, or 2m), stage presence and stentorian voice made him ideal for such roles as Sarastro in The Magic Flute, Mephistopheles in Faust, Ramfis in Aida, the Grand Inquisitor in Don Carlos, the title role of Boris Godunov and King Mark in Tristan und Isolde. Hines was born Jerome Albert Link Heinz in Hollywood, California. He studied mathematics and chemistry at the University of California, while also taking vocal lessons. Hines made his operatic debut at the San Francisco Opera in 1941, singing Monterone in Rigoletto. He changed his surname to Hines at the suggestion of his manager Sol Hurok to avoid the anti-German feelings prevalent during World War II.[1] In 1946, Hines made his debut at the Met as the Sergeant in Boris Godunov. He went on to sing forty-one seasons there, longer than any other Met singer, encompassing forty-five roles in thirty-nine operas. During this time he pursued further voice studies with Samuel Margolis and Vladimir Rosing. In 1953, Hines made his European debut with Glyndebourne as Nick Shadow at the Edinburgh Festival in the first British performances of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress. In 1958, he made his debut at La Scala in the title role of Handel's Hercules. From 1958 to 1963, he sang at Bayreuth in the roles of Gurnemanz, King Mark and Wotan. In 1961, he first appeared at the San Carlo in the title role of Boito's Mefistofele. In 1962, he sang Boris Godunov at the Bolshoi in Moscow, famously for Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev on the eve of the resolution of the Cuban Missile crisis. Hines turned to coaching later in his career, founding the Opera-Music Theatre Institute of New Jersey in 1987, but he continued performing virtually until the end of his life; among his last appearances was a concert performance as the Grand Inquisitor with the Boston Bel Canto Opera in 2001 at the age of 79. A born-again Christian and member of the Salvation Army, Hines composed an opera on the life of Jesus, I Am the Way. He sang the role of Jesus at the Met in 1968 and performed the work many times around the world. Hines wrote a memoir, This is My Story, This is My Song (1969) ISBN 0-8007-0313-8, and two books on singing, The Four Voices of Man (1997) ISBN 0-87910-099-0 and Great Singers on Great Singing (1982) ISBN 0-87910-025-7. Hines died of undisclosed causes in 2003, at age 81 at a Manhattan hospital. Hines was married to the soprano Lucia Evangelista from 1952 until her death from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in 2000. They had four children, David, Andrew, John and Russell. For most of his life, he lived in South Orange, New Jersey. [edit] External links

My Father, Leslie Burns, was born less than four years after the end of the First World War. It was a world where women could not vote, and which was about to be hit by a terrible economic depression. Later he served in the RAF during the second world war, lived through post war austerity, married, became my Father and was almost into middle age by the time of the Cuban Missile crisis and the massive social changes which followed in the 1960’s. One of the traps of looking back on a past you’ve mostly only read about or seen on TV is to assume that everyone shares the same narrative as the historians – and so parts of this interview may come as a surprise. They certainly did for me. And interviewing your own Father is like no other assignment I’ve ever attempted before. As I found, it’s far from easy to adopt the same approach as you would for a stranger. All in all, it wasn’t quite the interview I expected – but perhaps there’s something for us all to learn from the unexpected.