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After student protests toppled Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina last year, New Delhi and Dhaka have been at odds. Indian politicians complain about Hindus being mistreated in the Muslim-majority country; Bangladesh's interim government fears that Hasina may launch a bid to return to power from India. It's the latest development in what's become an extremely complicated environment in what Avinash Paliwal calls “India's Near East”: India, Bangladesh (or East Pakistan before the 1970s), and Myanmar (or Burma before the 1980s). As Avinash explains his book India's Near East: A New History (Hurst: 2024), successive Indian leaders tried to get a handle on international tensions and ethnic conflict—and with a major external threat in China looming in the distance. Avinash Paliwal is Reader in International Relations at SOAS University of London, specialising in South Asian strategic affairs. A former journalist and foreign affairs analyst, he is also the author of My Enemy's Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the U.S. Withdrawal (Hurst: 2017) You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of India's Near East. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at@nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

After student protests toppled Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina last year, New Delhi and Dhaka have been at odds. Indian politicians complain about Hindus being mistreated in the Muslim-majority country; Bangladesh's interim government fears that Hasina may launch a bid to return to power from India. It's the latest development in what's become an extremely complicated environment in what Avinash Paliwal calls “India's Near East”: India, Bangladesh (or East Pakistan before the 1970s), and Myanmar (or Burma before the 1980s). As Avinash explains his book India's Near East: A New History (Hurst: 2024), successive Indian leaders tried to get a handle on international tensions and ethnic conflict—and with a major external threat in China looming in the distance. Avinash Paliwal is Reader in International Relations at SOAS University of London, specialising in South Asian strategic affairs. A former journalist and foreign affairs analyst, he is also the author of My Enemy's Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the U.S. Withdrawal (Hurst: 2017) You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of India's Near East. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at@nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

After student protests toppled Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina last year, New Delhi and Dhaka have been at odds. Indian politicians complain about Hindus being mistreated in the Muslim-majority country; Bangladesh's interim government fears that Hasina may launch a bid to return to power from India. It's the latest development in what's become an extremely complicated environment in what Avinash Paliwal calls “India's Near East”: India, Bangladesh (or East Pakistan before the 1970s), and Myanmar (or Burma before the 1980s). As Avinash explains his book India's Near East: A New History (Hurst: 2024), successive Indian leaders tried to get a handle on international tensions and ethnic conflict—and with a major external threat in China looming in the distance. Avinash Paliwal is Reader in International Relations at SOAS University of London, specialising in South Asian strategic affairs. A former journalist and foreign affairs analyst, he is also the author of My Enemy's Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the U.S. Withdrawal (Hurst: 2017) You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of India's Near East. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at@nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/political-science

After student protests toppled Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina last year, New Delhi and Dhaka have been at odds. Indian politicians complain about Hindus being mistreated in the Muslim-majority country; Bangladesh's interim government fears that Hasina may launch a bid to return to power from India. It's the latest development in what's become an extremely complicated environment in what Avinash Paliwal calls “India's Near East”: India, Bangladesh (or East Pakistan before the 1970s), and Myanmar (or Burma before the 1980s). As Avinash explains his book India's Near East: A New History (Hurst: 2024), successive Indian leaders tried to get a handle on international tensions and ethnic conflict—and with a major external threat in China looming in the distance. Avinash Paliwal is Reader in International Relations at SOAS University of London, specialising in South Asian strategic affairs. A former journalist and foreign affairs analyst, he is also the author of My Enemy's Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the U.S. Withdrawal (Hurst: 2017) You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of India's Near East. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at@nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/south-asian-studies

After student protests toppled Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina last year, New Delhi and Dhaka have been at odds. Indian politicians complain about Hindus being mistreated in the Muslim-majority country; Bangladesh's interim government fears that Hasina may launch a bid to return to power from India. It's the latest development in what's become an extremely complicated environment in what Avinash Paliwal calls “India's Near East”: India, Bangladesh (or East Pakistan before the 1970s), and Myanmar (or Burma before the 1980s). As Avinash explains his book India's Near East: A New History (Hurst: 2024), successive Indian leaders tried to get a handle on international tensions and ethnic conflict—and with a major external threat in China looming in the distance. Avinash Paliwal is Reader in International Relations at SOAS University of London, specialising in South Asian strategic affairs. A former journalist and foreign affairs analyst, he is also the author of My Enemy's Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the U.S. Withdrawal (Hurst: 2017) You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of India's Near East. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at@nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After student protests toppled Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina last year, New Delhi and Dhaka have been at odds. Indian politicians complain about Hindus being mistreated in the Muslim-majority country; Bangladesh's interim government fears that Hasina may launch a bid to return to power from India. It's the latest development in what's become an extremely complicated environment in what Avinash Paliwal calls “India's Near East”: India, Bangladesh (or East Pakistan before the 1970s), and Myanmar (or Burma before the 1980s). As Avinash explains his book India's Near East: A New History (Hurst: 2024), successive Indian leaders tried to get a handle on international tensions and ethnic conflict—and with a major external threat in China looming in the distance. Avinash Paliwal is Reader in International Relations at SOAS University of London, specialising in South Asian strategic affairs. A former journalist and foreign affairs analyst, he is also the author of My Enemy's Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the U.S. Withdrawal (Hurst: 2017) You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of India's Near East. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at@nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/asian-review

After student protests toppled Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina last year, New Delhi and Dhaka have been at odds. Indian politicians complain about Hindus being mistreated in the Muslim-majority country; Bangladesh's interim government fears that Hasina may launch a bid to return to power from India. It's the latest development in what's become an extremely complicated environment in what Avinash Paliwal calls “India's Near East”: India, Bangladesh (or East Pakistan before the 1970s), and Myanmar (or Burma before the 1980s). As Avinash explains his book India's Near East: A New History (Hurst: 2024), successive Indian leaders tried to get a handle on international tensions and ethnic conflict—and with a major external threat in China looming in the distance. Avinash Paliwal is Reader in International Relations at SOAS University of London, specialising in South Asian strategic affairs. A former journalist and foreign affairs analyst, he is also the author of My Enemy's Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the U.S. Withdrawal (Hurst: 2017) You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of India's Near East. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at@nickrigordon.

This week we're going back to the 1980s with Charlie Wilson's War! Join us as we learn about the horrific things people used to do with safety pins, Soviet ambitions in the Persian Gulf, Gust Avrokotos, refugees from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and more! Sources: "Advertisement: Maybelline." Seventeen, 07, 1982, 18-19 "Mascara Magic." Seventeen, 05, 1981 "Advertisement: Maybelline." Cosmopolitan, 11, 1978, 117 "Dear Beauty Editor." Seventeen, 02, 1978, 10 The Wilson Center Digital Archive, Sources available at https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/topics/soviet-invasion-afghanistan The Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan, PBS Newshour: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/asia-july-dec06-soviet_10-10 Francis Fukuyama, "The Soviet Threat to the Persian Gulf" Rand Corporation, 1981, available at https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2008/P6596.pdf' Jonathon Green, "slang," The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets (Oxford University Press, 2015) "cake eater," Oxford English Dictionary (2020).  Ngram Google Books Tazreena Sajjad, "Analysis: Where do Afghanistan's refugees go?" PBS News Hour (24 August 2021). https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/analysis-where-do-afghanistans-refugees-go  "Afghanistan's refugees: forty years of dispossession," Amnesty International (20 June 2019), https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/06/afghanistan-refugees-forty-years/  "Afghan Migration After the Soviet Invasion," NatGeo, https://media.nationalgeographic.org/assets/file/afghan_MIG.pdf  Meindersma, Christa. "Afghanistan." In Encyclopedia of Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2009). “The MacNeil/Lehrer Report; Interview with Perez de Cuellar,” 1982-02-18, NewsHour Productions, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 25, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-507-xk84j0c044  Amina Khan, "Protracted Afghan Refugee Situation," Strategic Studies 37, no.1 (2017): 42-65.  Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema, "Impact of the Afghan War on Pakistan," Pakistan Horizon 41, no.1 (1988): 23-45.  Patricia Sullivan, "CIA Agent Gust Avrokotos Dies at 67," Washington Post, available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2005/12/25/cia-agent-gust-l-avrakotos-dies-at-age-67/22a47f22-6594-4b9d-a90a-6f7914aa909a/ Roger Ebert, "Evil Empire falls victim to clout," 20 December 2007, https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/charlie-wilsons-war-2007  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Wilson%27s_War_(film) https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/charlie-wilsons-war-2-159301/ 

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In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Aaron O'Connell, associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin and director of research for the Clements Center for National Security, hosts a discussion with Rob Rakove,  a lecturer in Stanford University's Program in International Relations. They discuss Rakove's new book, Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion.

Long before the 1979 Soviet invasion, the United States was closely concerned with Afghanistan. For much of the twentieth century, American diplomats, policy makers, businesspeople, and experts took part in the Afghan struggle to modernize, delivered vital aid, and involved themselves in Kabul's conflicts with its neighbors. For their own part, many Afghans embraced the potential benefits of political and commercial ties with the United States. Yet these relationships ultimately helped make the country a Cold War battleground. Robert B. Rakove sheds new light on the little-known and often surprising history of U.S. engagement in Afghanistan from the 1920s to the Soviet invasion, tracing its evolution and exploring its lasting consequences. Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion (Columbia UP, 2023) chronicles the battle for influence in Kabul, as Americans contended with vigorous communist bloc competition and the independent ambitions of successive Afghan governments. Rakove examines the phases of peaceful Cold War competition, including development assistance, cultural diplomacy, and disaster relief. He demonstrates that Americans feared the “loss” of Afghanistan to Soviet influence—and were never simply bystanders, playing pivotal roles in the country's political life. The ensuing collision of U.S., Soviet, and Afghan ambitions transformed the country—and ultimately led it, and the world, toward calamity. Harnessing extensive research in U.S. and international archives, Days of Opportunity unveils the remarkable and tragic history of American involvement in Afghanistan. Robert B. Rakove is a lecturer in international relations at Stanford University. He is the author of Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World (2012). Zeb Larson is a recent graduate of The Ohio State University with a PhD in History. His research deals with the anti-apartheid movement in the United States. To suggest a recent title or to contact him, please send an e-mail to zeb.larson@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Long before the 1979 Soviet invasion, the United States was closely concerned with Afghanistan. For much of the twentieth century, American diplomats, policy makers, businesspeople, and experts took part in the Afghan struggle to modernize, delivered vital aid, and involved themselves in Kabul's conflicts with its neighbors. For their own part, many Afghans embraced the potential benefits of political and commercial ties with the United States. Yet these relationships ultimately helped make the country a Cold War battleground. Robert B. Rakove sheds new light on the little-known and often surprising history of U.S. engagement in Afghanistan from the 1920s to the Soviet invasion, tracing its evolution and exploring its lasting consequences. Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion (Columbia UP, 2023) chronicles the battle for influence in Kabul, as Americans contended with vigorous communist bloc competition and the independent ambitions of successive Afghan governments. Rakove examines the phases of peaceful Cold War competition, including development assistance, cultural diplomacy, and disaster relief. He demonstrates that Americans feared the “loss” of Afghanistan to Soviet influence—and were never simply bystanders, playing pivotal roles in the country's political life. The ensuing collision of U.S., Soviet, and Afghan ambitions transformed the country—and ultimately led it, and the world, toward calamity. Harnessing extensive research in U.S. and international archives, Days of Opportunity unveils the remarkable and tragic history of American involvement in Afghanistan. Robert B. Rakove is a lecturer in international relations at Stanford University. He is the author of Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World (2012). Zeb Larson is a recent graduate of The Ohio State University with a PhD in History. His research deals with the anti-apartheid movement in the United States. To suggest a recent title or to contact him, please send an e-mail to zeb.larson@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Long before the 1979 Soviet invasion, the United States was closely concerned with Afghanistan. For much of the twentieth century, American diplomats, policy makers, businesspeople, and experts took part in the Afghan struggle to modernize, delivered vital aid, and involved themselves in Kabul's conflicts with its neighbors. For their own part, many Afghans embraced the potential benefits of political and commercial ties with the United States. Yet these relationships ultimately helped make the country a Cold War battleground. Robert B. Rakove sheds new light on the little-known and often surprising history of U.S. engagement in Afghanistan from the 1920s to the Soviet invasion, tracing its evolution and exploring its lasting consequences. Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion (Columbia UP, 2023) chronicles the battle for influence in Kabul, as Americans contended with vigorous communist bloc competition and the independent ambitions of successive Afghan governments. Rakove examines the phases of peaceful Cold War competition, including development assistance, cultural diplomacy, and disaster relief. He demonstrates that Americans feared the “loss” of Afghanistan to Soviet influence—and were never simply bystanders, playing pivotal roles in the country's political life. The ensuing collision of U.S., Soviet, and Afghan ambitions transformed the country—and ultimately led it, and the world, toward calamity. Harnessing extensive research in U.S. and international archives, Days of Opportunity unveils the remarkable and tragic history of American involvement in Afghanistan. Robert B. Rakove is a lecturer in international relations at Stanford University. He is the author of Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World (2012). Zeb Larson is a recent graduate of The Ohio State University with a PhD in History. His research deals with the anti-apartheid movement in the United States. To suggest a recent title or to contact him, please send an e-mail to zeb.larson@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/middle-eastern-studies

Long before the 1979 Soviet invasion, the United States was closely concerned with Afghanistan. For much of the twentieth century, American diplomats, policy makers, businesspeople, and experts took part in the Afghan struggle to modernize, delivered vital aid, and involved themselves in Kabul's conflicts with its neighbors. For their own part, many Afghans embraced the potential benefits of political and commercial ties with the United States. Yet these relationships ultimately helped make the country a Cold War battleground. Robert B. Rakove sheds new light on the little-known and often surprising history of U.S. engagement in Afghanistan from the 1920s to the Soviet invasion, tracing its evolution and exploring its lasting consequences. Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion (Columbia UP, 2023) chronicles the battle for influence in Kabul, as Americans contended with vigorous communist bloc competition and the independent ambitions of successive Afghan governments. Rakove examines the phases of peaceful Cold War competition, including development assistance, cultural diplomacy, and disaster relief. He demonstrates that Americans feared the “loss” of Afghanistan to Soviet influence—and were never simply bystanders, playing pivotal roles in the country's political life. The ensuing collision of U.S., Soviet, and Afghan ambitions transformed the country—and ultimately led it, and the world, toward calamity. Harnessing extensive research in U.S. and international archives, Days of Opportunity unveils the remarkable and tragic history of American involvement in Afghanistan. Robert B. Rakove is a lecturer in international relations at Stanford University. He is the author of Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World (2012). Zeb Larson is a recent graduate of The Ohio State University with a PhD in History. His research deals with the anti-apartheid movement in the United States. To suggest a recent title or to contact him, please send an e-mail to zeb.larson@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/world-affairs

Long before the 1979 Soviet invasion, the United States was closely concerned with Afghanistan. For much of the twentieth century, American diplomats, policy makers, businesspeople, and experts took part in the Afghan struggle to modernize, delivered vital aid, and involved themselves in Kabul's conflicts with its neighbors. For their own part, many Afghans embraced the potential benefits of political and commercial ties with the United States. Yet these relationships ultimately helped make the country a Cold War battleground. Robert B. Rakove sheds new light on the little-known and often surprising history of U.S. engagement in Afghanistan from the 1920s to the Soviet invasion, tracing its evolution and exploring its lasting consequences. Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion (Columbia UP, 2023) chronicles the battle for influence in Kabul, as Americans contended with vigorous communist bloc competition and the independent ambitions of successive Afghan governments. Rakove examines the phases of peaceful Cold War competition, including development assistance, cultural diplomacy, and disaster relief. He demonstrates that Americans feared the “loss” of Afghanistan to Soviet influence—and were never simply bystanders, playing pivotal roles in the country's political life. The ensuing collision of U.S., Soviet, and Afghan ambitions transformed the country—and ultimately led it, and the world, toward calamity. Harnessing extensive research in U.S. and international archives, Days of Opportunity unveils the remarkable and tragic history of American involvement in Afghanistan. Robert B. Rakove is a lecturer in international relations at Stanford University. He is the author of Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World (2012). Zeb Larson is a recent graduate of The Ohio State University with a PhD in History. His research deals with the anti-apartheid movement in the United States. To suggest a recent title or to contact him, please send an e-mail to zeb.larson@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/national-security

Long before the 1979 Soviet invasion, the United States was closely concerned with Afghanistan. For much of the twentieth century, American diplomats, policy makers, businesspeople, and experts took part in the Afghan struggle to modernize, delivered vital aid, and involved themselves in Kabul's conflicts with its neighbors. For their own part, many Afghans embraced the potential benefits of political and commercial ties with the United States. Yet these relationships ultimately helped make the country a Cold War battleground. Robert B. Rakove sheds new light on the little-known and often surprising history of U.S. engagement in Afghanistan from the 1920s to the Soviet invasion, tracing its evolution and exploring its lasting consequences. Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion (Columbia UP, 2023) chronicles the battle for influence in Kabul, as Americans contended with vigorous communist bloc competition and the independent ambitions of successive Afghan governments. Rakove examines the phases of peaceful Cold War competition, including development assistance, cultural diplomacy, and disaster relief. He demonstrates that Americans feared the “loss” of Afghanistan to Soviet influence—and were never simply bystanders, playing pivotal roles in the country's political life. The ensuing collision of U.S., Soviet, and Afghan ambitions transformed the country—and ultimately led it, and the world, toward calamity. Harnessing extensive research in U.S. and international archives, Days of Opportunity unveils the remarkable and tragic history of American involvement in Afghanistan. Robert B. Rakove is a lecturer in international relations at Stanford University. He is the author of Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World (2012). Zeb Larson is a recent graduate of The Ohio State University with a PhD in History. His research deals with the anti-apartheid movement in the United States. To suggest a recent title or to contact him, please send an e-mail to zeb.larson@gmail.com.

Long before the 1979 Soviet invasion, the United States was closely concerned with Afghanistan. For much of the twentieth century, American diplomats, policy makers, businesspeople, and experts took part in the Afghan struggle to modernize, delivered vital aid, and involved themselves in Kabul's conflicts with its neighbors. For their own part, many Afghans embraced the potential benefits of political and commercial ties with the United States. Yet these relationships ultimately helped make the country a Cold War battleground. Robert B. Rakove sheds new light on the little-known and often surprising history of U.S. engagement in Afghanistan from the 1920s to the Soviet invasion, tracing its evolution and exploring its lasting consequences. Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion (Columbia UP, 2023) chronicles the battle for influence in Kabul, as Americans contended with vigorous communist bloc competition and the independent ambitions of successive Afghan governments. Rakove examines the phases of peaceful Cold War competition, including development assistance, cultural diplomacy, and disaster relief. He demonstrates that Americans feared the “loss” of Afghanistan to Soviet influence—and were never simply bystanders, playing pivotal roles in the country's political life. The ensuing collision of U.S., Soviet, and Afghan ambitions transformed the country—and ultimately led it, and the world, toward calamity. Harnessing extensive research in U.S. and international archives, Days of Opportunity unveils the remarkable and tragic history of American involvement in Afghanistan. Robert B. Rakove is a lecturer in international relations at Stanford University. He is the author of Kennedy, Johnson, and the Nonaligned World (2012). Zeb Larson is a recent graduate of The Ohio State University with a PhD in History. His research deals with the anti-apartheid movement in the United States. To suggest a recent title or to contact him, please send an e-mail to zeb.larson@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lalita du Perron welcomes Robert Rakove from International Relations at Stanford to talk about his new book Days of Opportunity: The United States and Afghanistan before the Soviet Invasion.Book link: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/days-of-opportunity/9780231210454

We all know that we need to reconnect to our HeartMinds and to bring our Heart Intelligence up to meet the explosion of left brain intelligence - we just don't know how to do it. This week's guest is one of my living heroes - who does have clear, grounded ideas of how to do this. Dr Scilla Elworthy was thirteen years old when she saw the Soviet Invasion of Hungary on the television and understood the horror of what was happening. Her mother found her packing a case to go to Budapest to help and managed to persuade her to stay home by promising she'd help to train her to be what the world needed. When she was sixteen, she worked in a holiday camp for Auschwitz survivors, and sat peeling potatoes and listening to them talk of their suffering. Since then, she has been nominated three times for the Nobel Peace Prize for her work with Oxford Research Group to develop effective dialogue between nuclear weapons policy-makers worldwide and their critics. In 2003 Scilla founded Peace Direct, to work closely with locally-led peace building initiatives throughout the world, bringing us daily experience in how to help prevent violent conflict and build sustainable peace throughout the world.She has written numerous books, given numerous TED and TEDx talks and now leads The Business Plan for Peace to demonstrate the cost-effectiveness of transforming destructive conflict. She was awarded the Niwano Peace Prize in 2003 and the Luxembourg Peace Prize in 2020. She is one of the clearest, most grounded thinkers I have ever met and she's working tirelessly to create the future we'd be proud to leave behind. I was more than a little star-struck, but this was a genuinely heart-felt conversation and I hope listening to it leaves you feeling as heart-connected as it did me. The Mighty Heart https://mightyheart.co.uk/TED Talk: Fighting with Non Violence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk3K_Vrve-ETEDx Talk: Dare to Question: Why are we so afraid of getting older https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6zenOjPC1ATEDx Talk: How do I deal with a bully without becoming a thug? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgWyolwBGgETEDx Talk: The Future Belongs to those who can see it  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWDl1PqGjqYTEDx Talk: Do something - OK, but how? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYlhHkLgBWATEDx Talk: The Business Plan for Peace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH1WgurH5FAConversations in Compassion w Dr Scilla Elworthy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C5BMRDYzc8Book: Pioneering the Possible https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/pioneering-the-possible-awakened-leadership-for-a-world-that-works-scilla-elworthy/3218709?ean=9781583948620Books: The Mighty Heart in Action and The Business Plan for Peace https://mightyheart.co.uk/media/

Summary Michael Vickers (Website) joins Andrew (Twitter; LinkedIn) to discuss his remarkable career and memoir. He was formerly the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence.  What You'll Learn Intelligence His specialized training to wear a “Nuclear Backpack” (yes, literally!) Overseeing a multibillion-dollar CIA covert action program against the Soviets Planning the Osama Bin Laden raid Retooling defense intelligence for the 21st century Reflections Finding a narrative that unites the various chapters of your life  Serving a country vs. serving a political party  And much, much more … Episode Notes Michael Vickers has been on a heck of a ride. He started out as a U.S. Army private with no degree and went on to oversee hundreds of thousands of people as the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence while holding a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins. Michael is the author of By All Means Available: Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operation & Strategy.  Quotes of the Week "That weapon was called the Special Atomic Demolition Munition [i.e., “Nuclear Backpack] ...it was a sporty, uh, you know, it seemed like a good idea when I was 23 years old. So, there you have it." – Michael Vickers. Resources  SURFACE SKIM *SpyCasts* “The Nuclear Doomsday Machine” – with Sean Maloney (2022_ “The Spies Who Came in From the Cold” - Chris Costa and John Quattrocki (2022) “The Spymaster's Prism” – CIA Legend Jack Devine (2021) “Lessons from a Life in the CIA's Clandestine Service” – Hank Crumpton (2012) “The CIA and the End of the Cold War” – Milt Bearden (2011) *Beginner Resources* Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, Homeschool History (2022) [2:25 min video] Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, Encyclopedia Britannica (2023) [3-minute read] The Operation That Took Out Osama Bin Laden, Military.com (2023) [3-minute read] The Plan to Get Osama, ABC News (2012) [6:44 min video] DEEPER DIVE Video The End of a Superpower - The Collapse of the Soviet Union, DW Documentaries (2022) Manhunt: The Search for Osma bin Laden, HBO (2013) Afghanistan 1979, the War that Changed the World, Gulya Mirzoeva, Icarus Films (2015) Red Star Over Khyber, PBS Frontline (1984) Primary Sources  Commander, 500th MI Group, Subj: Guerilla Use of Stinger Missiles and Their Effect on Soviet Tactics in AF, circa 1987. Memorandum of Conversation between Vice President Bush and Pakistani President Zia, December 8, 1982 Conversation between M.S. Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan on Afghanistan (Excerpt), December 8, 1982 Message to Soviet Ambassadors on the Invasion of Afghanistan, Attachment to CPSU Politburo Decree #177, December 27, 1979 *Wildcard Resource* A Distant Plain: Counter-insurgency Afghanistan: Government, Coalition, Taliban and Warlords compete (2013) Play this board game developed by former guest and former World Board Game Champion, Volko Ruhnke, 

An episode looking at the wvents around the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Sometimes described as the USSR's Vietnam, it ended detente and drained the USSR leading to the eventual collapse of Communism in Europe.

We often think of the Middle East as a battleground of Western and Russian influence. In reality, one great rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran drives our world, rather than us shaping theirs. From the Gulf and Iraq Wars through al-Qaeda and Islamic State to our modern energy security crisis, colossal events that determine the fates of millions are decided by an invisible war few of us can even see. Arthur Snell goes back beyond the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, the Iranian Revolution in 1979, and WWII to uncover the hidden conflict that shapes everything. Support Doomsday Watch on Patreon and get every episode a week early and ad-free, plus much more: www.doomsdaywatch.co.uk “We tell ourselves we interfere because we WANT their oil. Instead we're sucked into a region we don't understand because we NEED their oil.” – Arthur Snell “These conflicts changed everything… They unleash religion as a dominant factor in culture, in politics, and in militancy.” – Kim Ghattas “When America drew secular nationalist Iraq into an anti-terrorist action, they created a cauldron of chaos that persists to this day.” – Arthur Snell Photograph: Getty Images Written and presented by Arthur Snell. Produced by Robin Leeburn. Assistant producer: Jacob Archbold. Original music by Paul Hartnoll – https://www.orbitalofficial.com . Group Editor Andrew Harrison. Doomsday Watch is a Podmasters production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Soviet forces mounted an invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979, they entered a nation already in the grips of a complex civil war. Speaking to Matt Elton, Elisabeth Leake reveals how the invasion and ensuing occupation would go on to shape not only modern Afghanistan but also the course of the Cold War and subsequent international relations. (Ad) Elisabeth Leake is the author of Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan (Oxford University Press, 2022). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Afghan-Crucible-Soviet-Invasion-Afghanistan/dp/0198846010/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histipad Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We welcome back Historian Peter Caddick-Adams back to show to cover 1969s 'The Bridge at Remagen' that pits George Segal against Robert Vaughn as they battle for the bridge! Directed by John Guillermin and produced by David L. Wolper, the production of the film is just as eventful as the action on screen as the filming was interrupted by the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968.  A war movie in the vein of Kelly's Heroes and other late 60s American war films, Bridge at Remagen goes against the gun-ho war films of the 50s and shows 1945 in a far more accurate way. Both commanders are at breaking point as well as the men below them. Peter also brings his extensive knowledge of the battle to the show and even regales us with Bridge Demolition tips from his time in the British Army! Follow us on Twitter @FightingOnFilm and on Facebook. For more check out our website www.fightingonfilm.com Thanks for listening!  

This episode brought to you by eight cats.Lisa lassos Misty of Chincoteague as we tour tiny horse island.Whitney drifts across the plains with the invasive tumbleweed.Hayly has a high time with Aimo Koivunen, the Finnish soldier who survived a Russian attack in WWII thanks to a near-deadly dose of government-grade methamphetamines.

It's a tale that strikes at the heart of Afghan American identity, a generation of people who fled the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan to the U.S. and started over, watching painfully as their former homeland is torn apart. "The Kite Runner," based on Khaled Husseini's best-selling novel, opened as a play on Broadway last month. Jane Ferguson reports for our arts and culture series, "CANVAS." PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

It's a tale that strikes at the heart of Afghan American identity, a generation of people who fled the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan to the U.S. and started over, watching painfully as their former homeland is torn apart. "The Kite Runner," based on Khaled Husseini's best-selling novel, opened as a play on Broadway last month. Jane Ferguson reports for our arts and culture series, "CANVAS." PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

It's a tale that strikes at the heart of Afghan American identity, a generation of people who fled the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan to the U.S. and started over, watching painfully as their former homeland is torn apart. "The Kite Runner," based on Khaled Husseini's best-selling novel, opened as a play on Broadway last month. Jane Ferguson reports for our arts and culture series, "CANVAS." PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

In this episode, we are joined by Steve Coll. Coll is a New Yorker staff writer and reports on issues of politics, intelligence, and national security in the United States and abroad. He has written about the education of Osama bin Laden, secret negotiations between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, and the hunt for the fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar. He was the managing editor of the Washington Post from 1998 to 2005, having earlier been a feature writer, a foreign correspondent, and an editor there; in 1990, he shared a Pulitzer Prize with David Vise for a series of articles about the Securities and Exchange Commission. From 2007 to 2013, he was the president of the New America Foundation. Coll is the author of several books, including “Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan”; “Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power”; “The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century,” which won the pen/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction; “On the Grand Trunk Road: A Journey Into South Asia”; “Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the C.I.A., Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001,” for which he received an Overseas Press Club Award and a Pulitzer Prize; “Eagle on the Street,” which was based on his reporting on the S.E.C.; “The Taking of Getty Oil”; and “The Deal of the Century: The Breakup of AT&T.” Coll has served as dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, where he continues to teach. Support the show and become a War Stories patron: https://www.patreon.com/warstoriespodcast Website: https://www.warstories.co

Afghan Australian media mogul Saad Mohseni was 12 years old in 1978 when the first president of Afghanistan was assassinated with his family by communist rebels, which led the way for the Soviet invasion.

After more than four decades of displacement, Afghan refugees constitute one of the largest protracted refugee situations in the world. There are nearly 6 million Afghans who have been forcibly displaced from their homes. Of those, 3.5 million are displaced within Afghanistan; 2.6 million are Afghan refugees living in other countries. We have Narges Meraj, Refugee from Afghanistan, Contract specialist, Lyondellbasel, with us to share her story as a refugee from Afghanistan. “I was born in Afghanistan in 1991, in the middle of the Civil War. It was not safe to stay in Afghanistan. Many people were leaving, and it was already 13-14 years later after the Soviet Invasion, so we left for Pakistan. We lived there for a year and then decided to move further away. Afghan people who had the means fled the country. My parents decided to move to Moscow as refugees for five years. But due to racism, we had to leave.” If you're interested in understanding the hardships of refugees living in camps, don't miss this episode! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tbcy/support

The Soviet Union began an invasion of Afghanistan on Christmas Eve 1979, leading to a ten-year-long conflict, millions of deaths, and world condemnation which helped topple the Soviet Union. Join us as we talk about the last time Russians invaded one of their neighboring countries.

Giselle, Dalibor, and Iulia welcome Dr. Aviezer Tucker, Center Associate at Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Dr. Tucker discusses the themes of his piece in the UnPopulist, “Along with Ukraine, Putin is Destroying Putinism.” He draws a parallel between Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia, arguing that similarly to how the 1968 invasion lead to the end of communism as an ideology, the invasion of Ukraine will lead to the end of “Putinism,” what he describes as a “witches' brew of authoritarianism, religious fundamentalism, nationalism, reactionary social values, illiberalism, anti-internationalism and anti-Americanism.” References: https://theunpopulist.substack.com/p/along-with-ukraine-putin-is-destroying?s=r (Along with Ukraine, Putin is Destroying Putinism, UnPopulist).

(Bonus) The article details the invasion of Poland by the Soviet Union.

Danny and Derek welcome back Tim Nunan, lecturer in global history at the Free University of Berlin, for the second episode on Afghanistan's history. They cover the Soviet Invasion of 1979, the Afghanistan-Pakistan relationship, the major players in 1980s Afghanistan politics, ideological influences on the Mujahideen, and other topics leading into the 1990s civil war.   Check out Tim's book here: https://bit.ly/3BYdPXh   Become a patron today: www.patreon.com/americanprestige

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About the Book In Three Dangerous Men, defense expert Seth Jones argues that the US is woefully unprepared for the future of global competition. While America has focused on building fighter jets, missiles, and conventional warfighting capabilities, its three principal rivals—Russia, Iran, and China—have increasingly adopted irregular warfare: cyber attacks, the use of proxy forces, propaganda, espionage, and disinformation to undermine American power. About Seth Jones Seth G. Jones is senior vice president, Harold Brown Chair, director of the International Security Program, and director of the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He leads a bipartisan team of over 50 resident staff and an extensive network of non-resident affiliates dedicated to providing independent strategic insights and policy solutions that shape national security. He also teaches at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and the Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS) at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. Moderated by Steve Coll Dean Steve Coll is a staff writer at The New Yorker, the author of eight books of nonfiction, and a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Coll is the author of Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, From the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 published in 2004, for which he received an Overseas Press Club Award and a Pulitzer Prize. . . Do you believe in the importance of international education and connections? The nonprofit World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth is supported by gifts from people like you, who share our passion for engaging in dialogue on global affairs and building bridges of understanding. While the Council is not currently charging admission for virtual events, we ask you to please consider making a one-time or recurring gift to help us keep the conversation going through informative public programs and targeted events for students and teachers. Donate: https://www.dfwworld.org/donate

It's 1992. The 40th Army is long gone and the Soviet Union has collapsed, but war still rages across Afghanistan. As the Afghan communist regime crumbles, Ahmed Shah Massoud and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's forces clash in Kabul. While America turns its back and the Mujahideen turn on each other, new threats arise and threaten to sweep the old generation of freedom fighters away – The Taliban and Osama bin Laden. (Part 4 of Ghosts in the Mountains) SOURCES: Ahmadi-Miller, Enjeela. The Broken Circle: A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan. 2019. Alexievich, Svetlana. Zinky Boys. 1989. Ansari, Mir Tamim. Games Without Rules: The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan. 2012. Barfield, Thomas. Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History. 2010. Borovik, Artyom. The Hidden War. 1990. Braithewaite, Rodric. Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-1989. 2011. Coll, Steve. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to 2001. 2004.  Dobbs, Michael. Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire. 1997. Feifer, Gregory. The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan. 2009.  Fremont-Barnes, Gregory. The Soviet-Afghan War, 1979-89. 2012. Galeotti, Mark. Storm-333: KGB and Spetsnaz Seize Kabul. 2021. Gall, Sandy. Afghan Napoleon: The Life of Ahmed Shah Massoud. 2021. Grad, Marcela. Massoud: An Intimate Portrait of the Legendary Afghan Leader. 2009. Goodwin, Jan. Caught in the Crossfire. 1987.  Grau, Lester W. The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics In Afghanistan. 1996. Hosdon, Peregrine. Under a Sickle Moon: A Journey Through Afghanistan. 1986. Kalinovsky, Artemy. A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan. 2011. Kaplan, Robert D. Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan. 2001. Rosen, Ethan. The Bear, The Dragon, & the AK-47. 2017. Tanner, Stephen. Afghanistan: A Military History of Afghanistan from Alexander the Great to the War Against the Taliban. 2009.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the CIA wages a covert proxy war against the Soviet 40th Army, the Mujahideen are showered with billions of dollars and cutting-edge weaponry. An old animosity between two prominent Mujahideen commanders – Ahmed Shah Massoud and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar - turns into a bitter, deadly rivalry. Meanwhile, Soviet reformers led by Mikhail Gorbachev attempt to extricate the USSR from Afghanistan with a shred of dignity intact. After the Soviet withdrawal, the world turns it back on Afghanistan as a civil war rages between the Mujahideen factions – and the Taliban emerges.  SOURCES: Ahmadi-Miller, Enjeela. The Broken Circle: A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan. 2019. Alexievich, Svetlana. Zinky Boys. 1989. Ansari, Mir Tamim. Games Without Rules: The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan. 2012. Barfield, Thomas. Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History. 2010. Borovik, Artyom. The Hidden War. 1990. Braithewaite, Rodric. Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-1989. 2011. Coll, Steve. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to 2001. 2004.  Dobbs, Michael. Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire. 1997. Feifer, Gregory. The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan. 2009.  Fremont-Barnes, Gregory. The Soviet-Afghan War, 1979-89. 2012. Galeotti, Mark. Storm-333: KGB and Spetsnaz Seize Kabul. 2021. Gall, Sandy. Afghan Napoleon: The Life of Ahmed Shah Massoud. 2021. Grad, Marcela. Massoud: An Intimate Portrait of the Legendary Afghan Leader. 2009. Goodwin, Jan. Caught in the Crossfire. 1987.  Grau, Lester W. The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics In Afghanistan. 1996. Hosdon, Peregrine. Under a Sickle Moon: A Journey Through Afghanistan. 1986. Kalinovsky, Artemy. A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan. 2011. Kaplan, Robert D. Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan. 2001. Rosen, Ethan. The Bear, The Dragon, & the AK-47. 2017. Tanner, Stephen. Afghanistan: A Military History of Afghanistan from Alexander the Great to the War Against the Taliban. 2009.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's been a month since the fall of Kabul and the sudden Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. In the intervening weeks, policymakers the world over have been scrambling to understand the reasons for the sudden collapse of the Afghan government, the real aims of the new Taliban regime, and the geopolitical implications of this crisis for the region AND for the world.To kick off the sixth season of Grand Tamasha, this week Milan is joined by Avinash Paliwal to discuss what these developments mean for India. Avinash is a senior lecturer in international relations and deputy director of the SOAS South Asia Institute. His book, My Enemy's Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the US Withdrawal, is one of the best guides we have to understanding India's role in Afghanistan.Milan speaks with Avinash about the notion of a “Taliban 2.0”, the composition of the new Taliban government, the divisions within the Pakistani establishment, and India's back-channel talks with the Taliban. Plus, the two of them discuss what the crisis means for U.S.-India relations and India's counterterrorism priorities.  Episode notes:Avinash Paliwal, “A strategic shock for the subcontinent,” Hindustan Times, August 25, 2021.Stephanie Findlay and Amy Kazmin, “Taliban cabinet shows west has little leverage over Afghanistan's new rulers,” Financial Times, September 8, 2021.Devirupa Mitra, “India's New Visa Policy for Afghans Is in Limbo, Leaving Thousands Tense,” The Wire, September 7, 2021.Amy Kazmin, “Taliban mount charm offensive to win Afghans' trust,” Financial Times, September 3, 2021.

Discussing the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan and the future of the Islamic Emirate. During today's episode, we talk about the history of imperialist war in Afghanistan and how it led to the rise of the Taliban. We also debunk common tropes about the so-called "Soviet Invasion" of the South Asian nation. Lastly, we discuss the international relations of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Today's guest is Caleb Maupin, a journalist and political analyst. Unmasking Imperialism exposes imperialist propaganda in mainstream media. Hosted by Ramiro Sebastián Fúnez.

Our final episode in this three-part special podcast series commemorating the 20th anniversary of the September 11th terror attacks, in which Michael Hurley, former CIA Officer and member of the 9/11 Commission, describes and offers insights about the fallout of the attacks on American policy and life. Suggested Additional Readings: When Government Writes History, Ernest May, 2005 9/11 Commission Report Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, Steve Coll

Our final episode in this three-part special podcast series commemorating the 20th anniversary of the September 11th terror attacks, in which Michael Hurley, former CIA Officer and member of the 9/11 Commission, describes and offers insights about the fallout of the attacks on American policy and life. Suggested Additional Readings: When Government Writes History, Ernest May, 2005 9/11 Commission Report Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, Steve Coll

Paul Saunders and Alex Powell join Bill to discuss the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, and how world powers continue to make the same mistakes. Click here to visit our website and learn more about the participants.    

Paul Saunders and Alex Powell join Bill to discuss the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, and how world powers continue to make the same mistakes. Click here to visit our website and learn more about the participants.    

This week we go back to the 1970's and explain the creation of the Mujahideen in direct response to the communist takeover and Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, and how the United States came to arm them. We talk about the origin, rise, and death of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the Lion of Panjshir, and the Northern Alliance, a conglomerate of fighters from northern Afghanistan that resisted the Taliban in the 1990s. And with the Taliban today firmly in control of 33 out of 34 provinces, we discuss the resistance that has been created in the one province that has held out, Panjshir, led by Ahmad Massoud, the son of Ahmad Shah Massoud. T-Shirts and koozies in support of World Relief Seattle can be purchased at: https://bit.ly/3BfoJ9KTo donate directly to World Relief Seattle: https://worldrelief.org/seattle/get-involved/afghan-allies/#giveTo donate directly to World Relief: https://bit.ly/3krJGHrFor more information on how you can help our Afghan Allies: https://bit.ly/3muYOXn_________________________________________ Where to Listen:Apple: https://bit.ly/theboardwalkapple Spotify: https://bit.ly/theboardwalkspotify Pandora: https://bit.ly/3xZ8bk9 Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3gbZ6ya Amazon Music: https://amzn.to/37UuZXQ Stitcher: https://bit.ly/3AQNadj  iHeart Radio: https://bit.ly/3y0Vfdw TuneIn: https://bit.ly/2W1VEPN Buzzsprout: https://bit.ly/37PIdoy  Be sure to like, follow, subscribe, rate, review, and share wherever you listen to our podcast. New episodes of The Boardwalk are published every Saturday morning.  Our Social Media Sites:Instagram: @theboardwalkpodcast Facebook: @TheBoardwalkPodcastTwitter: @theboardwalkpod You can also reach us by email at: theboardwalkpodcast@gmail.com  The views expressed by the hosts and guests of this podcast do not represent the views of the United States Government or the United States Department of Defense. 

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://afghannewswire.com/2021/04/19/soviet-invasion-of-afghanistan-operation-storm-333-documentary/

The Soviet 40th Army invaded Afghanistan in the closing days of 1979. They would not leave for another nine years. Exhausted and frustrated by their inability to decisively crush the elusive freedom fighters in the mountains – the Mujahideen – the Soviets turn to atrocity and criminal violence to achieve their objectives. Meanwhile, adrenaline-seeking journalists and idealistic Western reporters illegally sneak into the war zone to uncover the truth behind the war.  SOURCES: Ahmadi-Miller, Enjeela. The Broken Circle: A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan. 2019. Ansari, Mir Tamim. Games Without Rules: The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan. 2012. Barfield, Thomas. Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History. 2010. Borovik, Artyom. The Hidden War. 1990. Braithewaite, Rodric. Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-1989. 2011. Coll, Steve. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to 2001. 2004.  Dobbs, Michael. Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire. 1997. Feifer, Gregory. The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan. 2009.  Fremont-Barnes, Gregory. The Soviet-Afghan War, 1979-89. 2012. Galeotti, Mark. Storm-333: KGB and Spetsnaz Seize Kabul. 2021. Goodwin, Jan. Caught in the Crossfire. 1987.  Grau, Lester W. The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics In Afghanistan. 1996. Hosdon, Peregrine. Under a Sickle Moon: A Journey Through Afghanistan. 1986. Kalinovsky, Artemy. A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan. 2011. Kaplan, Robert D. Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan. 2001. Rosen, Ethan. The Bear, The Dragon, & the AK-47. 2017. Tanner, Stephen. Afghanistan: A Military History of Afghanistan from Alexander the Great to the War Against the Taliban. 2009.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Soviet Russia invaded Afghanistan in December of 1979, few could have imagined what a seismic impact it would have on the modern world. In an attempt to prop up a wobbly client regime, the Soviets sparked a transnational jihad, inflamed Cold War tensions, and hastened the downfall of their own empire. Often referred to as “Russia's Vietnam”, the Soviet-Afghan War is an overlooked, deeply misunderstood, and immensely important conflict. In this first installment of a multi-part series, we will explore how the Soviets found themselves ensnared in the “graveyard of empires”, through the eyes of the everyday people who experienced it firsthand.  SOURCES: Ahmadi-Miller, Enjeela. The Broken Circle: A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan. 2019. Ansari, Mir Tamim. Games Without Rules: The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan. 2012. Barfield, Thomas. Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History. 2010. Borovik, Artyom. The Hidden War. 1990. Braithewaite, Rodric. Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-1989. 2011. Coll, Steve. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to 2001. 2004.  Dobbs, Michael. Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire. 1997. Feifer, Gregory. The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan. 2009.  Fremont-Barnes, Gregory. The Soviet-Afghan War, 1979-89. 2012. Galeotti, Mark. Storm-333: KGB and Spetsnaz Seize Kabul. 2021. Grau, Lester W. The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics In Afghanistan. 1996. Hosdon, Peregrine. Under a Sickle Moon: A Journey Through Afghanistan. 1986. Kalinovsky, Artemy. A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan. 2011. Kaplan, Robert D. Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan. 2001. Rosen, Ethan. The Bear, The Dragon, & the AK-47. 2017. Tanner, Stephen. Afghanistan: A Military History of Afghanistan from Alexander the Great to the War Against the Taliban. 2009.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Interpreting India, Avinash Paliwal and Thomas Ruttig join Deep Pal to analyze the present situation in Afghanistan, what the implications of the U.S. withdrawal might be, and what this might mean for India and other countries involved.  Episode Background:The withdrawal of the United States and its NATO allies from Afghanistan has led to concerns over the Kabul government's ability to survive in the face of an aggressive Taliban onslaught. The peace process, which the U.S. had initiated between the Taliban and the Afghan government, has also stalled without achieving a settlement. While President Ghani has asserted that the government forces are prepared to meet the challenges that the withdrawal presents, analysts remain pessimistic about the possibilities.  Episode Contributors:Avinash Paliwal is a senior lecturer in International Relations and deputy director of the SOAS South Asia Institute | Twitter: @PaliwalAviThomas Ruttig is co-founder and co-director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network | Twitter: @thruttigDeep Pal is a visiting fellow in the Asia program at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | Twitter: @DeepPal_Episode Timestamps: 2:26 The Current Situation and Prospects for Peace8:48 On the Possibility of a Power-Sharing Agreement 16:01 The Taliban and its Factions, and the India-Pakistan Dyad54:58 On the Role of Other  Countries and Players57:40  Where is the Conflict Headed?Further Reading: A Troika of Four: Looking back at the March 2021 Afghanistan meeting in Moscow by Thomas RuttigAfghanistan After the US Withdrawal: An Elusive Peace by Thomas RuttigEngaging with the Taliban is Necessary by Avinash PaliwalSino twist to Af-Pak puzzle: Given China's Forays, India's Afghanistan Strategy Must Look at Iran, Taliban, and Even Pakistan  by Avinash PaliwalMy Enemy's Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the US by Avinash Paliwal 

Photo: NATO Council Meeting, December 1952 . CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow #TheGreatMigration: Recalling the one-way mission to harass the first Cold War Soviet invasion of NATO. Michael Yon. Locals.com/MichaelYon

https://youtu.be/xjbbDI_70eQ Keith Knight joins me for this INSTANT CLASSIC episode of the Liberty Weekly Podcast. Keith and each picked and researched five proven conspiracies to share on air. Please review the show notes page for sources. Episode 172 of the Liberty Weekly Podcast is Brought to you by: Liberty Weekly Subscribestar Liberty Weekly Substack The Liberty Weekly Patreon Page: help support the show and gain access to tons of bonus content! Become a patron today! Become a Patron! Liberty Weekly on Flote. Patreon Bonuses for Crypto! Show Notes: Congressional Research Service: "Federal Conspiracy Law: A Brief Overview" Legal Definition of Conspiracy CIA Document 1035-960: Countering Criticism of the Warren Commission What is Open Source Intelligence? The Corbett Report The Shadows of Power by James Perloff [Amazon Affiliate Link] Council on Foreign Relations Foreign Affairs Hillary Clinton's Remarks to the CFR The Gardner Museum Theft Foreign Policy Focus Episode 204 - FBI Entrapment guest Pat MacFarlane Keith Knight: Who Was Elie Cohen? The Creature From Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin [Amazon Affiliate Link] The Lavon Affair: When Israel Firebombed U.S. Installations Haaretz on the USS Liberty The Wall Street Trilogy: A History by Antony Sutton [Amazon Affiliate Link] America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones by Antony Sutton Trading with the Enemy Act National Security Study Memorandum 200 John P. Holdren's Population Control James Corbett: Big Oil Series Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal by Ralph Raico America's "War on Terrorism" by Michel Chossudovsky Brzezinski's Memo to President Carter of December 26, 1979, Regarding the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan The Grand Chessboard by Zbigniew Brzezinski When FDR Abandoned the Gold Standard

Keith Knight joins me for this CLASSIC episode. Episode 172 of the Liberty Weekly Podcast is Brought to you by: Liberty Weekly Subscribestar Liberty Weekly Substack The Liberty Weekly Patreon Page: help support the show and gain access to tons of bonus content! Become a patron today! Become a Patron! Liberty Weekly on Flote. Patreon Bonuses for Crypto! Show Notes: Congressional Research Service: "Federal Conspiracy Law: A Brief Overview" Legal Definition of Conspiracy CIA Document 1035-960: Countering Criticism of the Warren Commission What is Open Source Intelligence? The Corbett Report The Shadows of Power by James Perloff [Amazon Affiliate Link] Council on Foreign Relations Foreign Affairs Hillary Clinton's Remarks to the CFR The Gardner Museum Theft Foreign Policy Focus Episode 204 - FBI Entrapment guest Pat MacFarlane Keith Knight: Who Was Elie Cohen? The Creature From Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin [Amazon Affiliate Link] The Lavon Affair: When Israel Firebombed U.S. Installations Haaretz on the USS Liberty The Wall Street Trilogy: A History by Antony Sutton [Amazon Affiliate Link] America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones by Antony Sutton Trading with the Enemy Act National Security Study Memorandum 200 John P. Holdren's Population Control James Corbett: Big Oil Series Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal by Ralph Raico America's "War on Terrorism" by Michel Chossudovsky Brzezinski's Memo to President Carter of December 26, 1979, Regarding the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan The Grand Chessboard by Zbigniew Brzezinski When FDR Abandoned the Gold Standard --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/libertyweekly/support

This week, A’ndre and Ryan speak with former Ronald Neumann, former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Algeria, and Bahrain about the recently announced U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, scheduled to take place by September 11th, 2021. Ambassador Neumann provides a contextual background on Afghanistan pre-2001, focusing on the repercussions of the Soviet Invasion in the 1980s, the U.S. aid to the Mujahideen, and the linkages between the Mujahideen and Al Qaeda. We then dig into the Taliban — providing a brief overview of their governing style, their power in the country,  their actual beliefs, and their relationship to Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda during, before, and after the 9/11 attacks. The second half of the interview sees Ambassador Neumann criticizing the Biden Administration’s decision for a non-conditional withdrawal, citing the relinquishment of a range of secondary goals, the likely subjugation of women, children, and other U.S.-favored Afghans, and a spate of violence that has already struck parts of the country. Ambassador Neumann expresses pessimism about the future of Afghanistan post-withdrawal, and voices concern for Afghans who had strongly believed in U.S.-based values.Ambassador Neumann currently serves as the President of the American Academy of Diplomacy, and you can find out more about his work there, here.

From facing the challenges of Ebola as Peace Corps Director in Guinea to the Soviet Invasion of Ukraine and his work as an Assistant Secretary of State for Elections in NH and State Representative Doug has lived a life of service. Now he has turned that service into a business guiding others.

Arsen Islamov is a cattle rancher in Kazakhstan. In today's episode of the podcast, we discuss the pastoralist traditions in Kazakhstan, the Soviet invasion, and their reeducation camps. We also discuss the subsequent conversion of rich, pastoral lands to grain and the health consequences of the removal of the traditional diet.   His journey into cattle ranching is unique and inspiring, and his stories about the erosion of topsoil due to cropping are reminiscent of our own dust bowl history in the midwest. This conversation is rich in history and lessons that we all can heed.   Follow Arsen on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook.   This episode brought to you by DrinkLMNT who has an exclusive deal for my listeners. Visit this page to learn how you can get a sampler pack for only $5.

Guest: Gunar Olsen. Gunar recently published a response to an historian’s analysis of the Soviet Afghan invasion and the question of whether or not Zbigniew Brzezinski’s goal (under the Carter administration) in assisting the mujahedin was really about provoking the Soviet military intervention. There is also a bonus question on why there was so much push back and resistance to Trump’s last ditch effort to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and what the real reasons behind it.  Gunar Olsen is an independent scholar, writer and journalist who covers the politics of U.S. imperialism. His articles have been published in The New Republic, The Nation, Jacobin, The Grayzone, Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting and other publications. He also provides research for the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. FOLLOW @GunarOlsen. Find him and his work at his website gunarolsen.com Around the Empire is listener supported, independent media. Pitch in at Patreon: patreon.com/aroundtheempire or paypal.me/aroundtheempirepod. Find all links at aroundtheempire.com.  SUBSCRIBE on YouTube. FOLLOW @aroundtheempire and @joanneleon.  SUBSCRIBE/FOLLOW on iTunes, iHeart, Spotify, Google Play, Facebook or on your preferred podcast app. Music by Fluorescent Grey. Reference Links: “We Don’t Need a Smoking Gun”: U.S. Provocations and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, Gunar Olsen

On today's episode, Andrew Keen talks with Steve Coll about what Donald Trump gets from contesting Joe Biden's presidential victory and the damage to foreign policy Trump's administration has caused. Steve Coll, a staff writer, is the dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and reports on issues of politics, intelligence, and national security in the United States and abroad. For the magazine, he has written about the education of Osama bin Laden, secret negotiations between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, and the hunt for the fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar. He was the managing editor of the Washington Post from 1998 to 2005, having earlier been a feature writer, a foreign correspondent, and an editor there; in 1990, he shared a Pulitzer Prize with David Vise for a series of articles about the Securities and Exchange Commission. From 2007 to 2013, he was the president of the New America Foundation. Coll is the author of several books, including “Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan”; “Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power”; “The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century,” which won the pen/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction; “On the Grand Trunk Road: A Journey Into South Asia”; “Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the C.I.A., Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001,” for which he received an Overseas Press Club Award and a Pulitzer Prize; “Eagle on the Street,” which was based on his reporting on the S.E.C.; “The Taking of Getty Oil”; and “The Deal of the Century: The Breakup of AT&T.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This month on Coming in From the Cold, a discussion of the history of Afghanistan leading up to the Soviet Invasion, and the war's legacy in the nation today. Regular guest Steve Wills sits in for Bill Rosenau as host and is joined by Ohio University professor of history Dr. John Brobst, and Dr. Jon Schroden Director of CNA's Center for Stability and Development. Click here to visit our website and learn more about the participants. 

This month on Coming in From the Cold, a discussion of the history of Afghanistan leading up to the Soviet Invasion, and the war's legacy in the nation today. Regular guest Steve Wills sits in for Bill Rosenau as host and is joined by Ohio University professor of history Dr. John Brobst, and Dr. Jon Schroden Director of CNA's Center for Stability and Development. Click here to visit our website and learn more about the participants. 

Curtis has often mentioned his love of award-winning books, so today we’re taking a deep dive into our reading logs and TBR lists to recommend award-nominated or award-winning books. In today’s episode, we’re discussing various literary awards, sharing some of our favorite award-winning books, and taking a look at some of this year’s big nominations.  To find a list of every title we mention in today’s episode, go to hereadsheread.org/podcast for show notes.  Subscribe to our newsletter: hereadsheread.substack.com Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/hereadsheread/ Get two audiobooks for the price of one w/code HRSR: libro.fm/membership/new     Books mentioned:   Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke The River by Peter Heller The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media by P.W. Singer Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier  The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward  Vanity Fair Article “On Witness and Respair” Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll  Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds  Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card  Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein Circe by Madeline Miller Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal Ghost Talkers by Mary Robinette Kowal   The Madalorian Season 2 trailer The Clone Wars trailer The Great British Baking Show S8

Pictured: Stuart Wheeler Matthew Bannister on Stuart Wheeler, the spread betting tycoon who used his millions to fund anti-EU political parties and campaigns. Josephine Cox, the multi-million selling author whose novels often drew on her working class childhood in Blackburn. Miloš Jakeš, the General Secretary of the Czech Communist Party at the time of the Velvet Revolution. Peter Green, the revered guitarist who founded Fleetwood Mac, but later suffered severe mental health problems. Interviewed guest: Philip Collins Interviewed guest: Kimberley Young Interviewed guest: Professor Mary Heimann Interviewed guest: Bernie Marsden Producer: Steven Williams Archive clips from: HARDtalk, BBC News 24 11/10/2019; General Election, ITN 24/05/2001; Nigel Farage on Stuart Wheeler, VoteLeaveMedia 02/04/2009; A Woman’s Fortune by Josephine Cox, read by Carole Boyd, Audible/HarperCollins 2018; Woman's Hour, Radio 4 02/09/1999; Woman’s Hour, Radio 4 09/10/2001; The Lion’s Den by Josephine Cox, read by Robert Glenister, Radio 4 Extra 24/04/2011; The Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia 1968, BBC News 21/08/2018; Miloš Jakeš speech, Radio Free Europe 17/07/1989; People’s Century: 1989: People Power, BBC One 16/02/1997; BBC News, BBC One 10/12/1989; Peter Green: Man of the World, BBC Four 04/02/2011; The Works: Peter Green: A Hard Road, BBC Two 03/10/1996.

Vashi Nedomanský is the son of Czechoslovak former legendary ice hockey forward Václav Nedomanský aka “Big Ned” who is best known as the first ice hockey player to defect to North America to play. We hear a dramatic true story that combines sports, politics, espionage, corruption, and life-changing events that played out on a global stage.Among the stories we hear are the vivid descriptions of the 1969 Ice Hockey World Championships where the Czechoslovak National Team faced the Soviet national team for the first time since the 1968 Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia. Vashi is currently finishing a film that will reveal his father’s incredible story for the first time in his own words. Visit the show notes here to see the trailer and the 1969 Ice Hockey World Championships. https://coldwarconversations.com/episode132/If you are enjoying the podcast please leave a written review in Apple podcasts or share us on social media. By telling your friends you can really help us get new guests.If you can spare it I’m asking listeners to contribute at least $3 USD per month to help keep us on the air (larger amounts are welcome too) plus you can get a sought after CWC coaster as a monthly financial supporter of the podcast and you bask in the warm glow of knowing you helping preserve Cold War history.Just go to https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/Back to today’s episode, we welcome Vashi to our Cold War conversation…There’s further information on this episode in our show notes, which can also be found as a link in your podcast app here. https://coldwarconversations.com/episode132/If you like what you are hearing, please leave reviews in Apple podcasts and share us on social media.If you can’t wait for next week’s episode do visit our Facebook discussion group where guests and listeners continue the Cold War Conversation. Just search Cold War Conversations in Facebook.Thank you very much for listening. It is really appreciated – goodbye.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/coldwarpod)

Paul Saunders and Alex Powell join Bill to discuss the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, and how world powers continue to make the same mistakes.   Click here to visit our website and learn more about the participants. 

Paul Saunders and Alex Powell join Bill to discuss the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, and how world powers continue to make the same mistakes.   Click here to visit our website and learn more about the participants. 

In this episode, I will be discussing The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the Soviet Invasion of Hungary. If you want some more revision material, you can use the link below to access much more revision information on my website: https://sites.google.com/view/igcse-history-revision/home If you have any suggestions or questions, please fill in this Google Form: https://forms.gle/caEki6L8SzS6wwui7 THANKS FOR YOUR INTEREST IN MY PODCAST! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/robin-whitehead1/message

It's episode 14! Ye Newe Dallam History Podcast is heading for the hills this week and covering the Soviet invasion/support of Afghanistan. A GCSE/IB hybrid today covering the events that students most wanted information on. Gribbin and Howarth take you through the murders, weapons and aims of the period and help you out with the importance question on Paper 2 of the GCSE. Along the way there will always be games and jokes but mainly this is serious history. Well as serious as we get! Follow the GCSE History page on Sharepoint and follow @MrHowarth on twitter! Music: Jolly Good by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

On 24th December 1979 Soviet troops poured into Afghanistan in support of an anti-government coup. The Soviet occupation would last for nine years. Plus, the hidden history of the board game Monopoly, the invention of chemotherapy, the heaviest aerial bombardment of the Vietnam war at Christmas 1972, and the street-performer origins of the global circus phenomenon Cirque du Soleil. Picture: Russian tanks take up positions in front of the Darulaman (Abode of Peace) Palace in Kabul, January 1980. (Henri Bureau/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

Today we are joined by Jenifer Parks, Associate Professor of History at Rocky Mountain College. Parks is the author of The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sport Bureaucracy, and the Cold War: Red Sport, Red Tape (Lexington Books, 2016), which asks how Soviet bureaucrats maneuvered the USSR into the Olympic movement and used the discourses of Olympism to promote athletic democratization, anti-colonialism, and socialism in the context of the Cold War. In The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sport Bureaucracy, and the Cold War, Parks assesses the growth of Soviet Olympism from the Second World War until the 1980 Moscow Games.  Her first chapters highlights the difficulties Soviet sports bureaucrats faced in their efforts to join the international Olympic movement. These bureaucrats needed to convince the IOC of the Soviet Union’s worthiness, in the face of persistent anti-communism from IOC president Avery Brundage. They also needed to win over Soviet politician who feared that any Olympic failure would embarrass the state in front of an international audience. In spite of these early misgivings and misstarts, the Soviet Union largely succeeded in their first Olympics, the 1952 Helsinki Games. The next three decades were an almost uninterrupted era of Soviet athletic dominance. In the 1970s, confident Soviet sports bureaucrats sought to bring the Olympics to Moscow. After losing the 1976 Games to Montreal, Moscow won the right to host the 1980s Olympics. A herculean effort ensued to make Moscow hospitable for the expected tens of thousands of athletes, international journalists, and one million tourists. The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, which set off an international boycott of the Games, marred their extensive achievements which included the biggest Games to date, the largest number of female Olympians, and dozens of new World Records. Through a close reading of the archives of the Soviet Union’s main sporting agencies, including the State Committee for Sports and Physical Education, and an analysis of the key figures in the Soviet sports bureaucracy, Parks also reshapes our understanding of Soviet bureaucracy. The historiography of the USSR emphasizes stagnation in post-Brezhnev Soviet government agencies as a way to explain the state’s inability to deal with the challenges of the 1970s. However, the men of the Sports Committee were not just staid functionaries, but a cadre of professional, effective, pragmatic men driven to use Olympism to promote socialism abroad and at home. The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sport Bureaucracy, and the Cold War will interest scholars broadly concerned with the Soviet Union, the Cold War, and the international Olympic movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we are joined by Jenifer Parks, Associate Professor of History at Rocky Mountain College. Parks is the author of The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sport Bureaucracy, and the Cold War: Red Sport, Red Tape (Lexington Books, 2016), which asks how Soviet bureaucrats maneuvered the USSR into the Olympic movement and used the discourses of Olympism to promote athletic democratization, anti-colonialism, and socialism in the context of the Cold War. In The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sport Bureaucracy, and the Cold War, Parks assesses the growth of Soviet Olympism from the Second World War until the 1980 Moscow Games.  Her first chapters highlights the difficulties Soviet sports bureaucrats faced in their efforts to join the international Olympic movement. These bureaucrats needed to convince the IOC of the Soviet Union’s worthiness, in the face of persistent anti-communism from IOC president Avery Brundage. They also needed to win over Soviet politician who feared that any Olympic failure would embarrass the state in front of an international audience. In spite of these early misgivings and misstarts, the Soviet Union largely succeeded in their first Olympics, the 1952 Helsinki Games. The next three decades were an almost uninterrupted era of Soviet athletic dominance. In the 1970s, confident Soviet sports bureaucrats sought to bring the Olympics to Moscow. After losing the 1976 Games to Montreal, Moscow won the right to host the 1980s Olympics. A herculean effort ensued to make Moscow hospitable for the expected tens of thousands of athletes, international journalists, and one million tourists. The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, which set off an international boycott of the Games, marred their extensive achievements which included the biggest Games to date, the largest number of female Olympians, and dozens of new World Records. Through a close reading of the archives of the Soviet Union’s main sporting agencies, including the State Committee for Sports and Physical Education, and an analysis of the key figures in the Soviet sports bureaucracy, Parks also reshapes our understanding of Soviet bureaucracy. The historiography of the USSR emphasizes stagnation in post-Brezhnev Soviet government agencies as a way to explain the state’s inability to deal with the challenges of the 1970s. However, the men of the Sports Committee were not just staid functionaries, but a cadre of professional, effective, pragmatic men driven to use Olympism to promote socialism abroad and at home. The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sport Bureaucracy, and the Cold War will interest scholars broadly concerned with the Soviet Union, the Cold War, and the international Olympic movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we are joined by Jenifer Parks, Associate Professor of History at Rocky Mountain College. Parks is the author of The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sport Bureaucracy, and the Cold War: Red Sport, Red Tape (Lexington Books, 2016), which asks how Soviet bureaucrats maneuvered the USSR into the Olympic movement and used the discourses of Olympism to promote athletic democratization, anti-colonialism, and socialism in the context of the Cold War. In The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sport Bureaucracy, and the Cold War, Parks assesses the growth of Soviet Olympism from the Second World War until the 1980 Moscow Games.  Her first chapters highlights the difficulties Soviet sports bureaucrats faced in their efforts to join the international Olympic movement. These bureaucrats needed to convince the IOC of the Soviet Union’s worthiness, in the face of persistent anti-communism from IOC president Avery Brundage. They also needed to win over Soviet politician who feared that any Olympic failure would embarrass the state in front of an international audience. In spite of these early misgivings and misstarts, the Soviet Union largely succeeded in their first Olympics, the 1952 Helsinki Games. The next three decades were an almost uninterrupted era of Soviet athletic dominance. In the 1970s, confident Soviet sports bureaucrats sought to bring the Olympics to Moscow. After losing the 1976 Games to Montreal, Moscow won the right to host the 1980s Olympics. A herculean effort ensued to make Moscow hospitable for the expected tens of thousands of athletes, international journalists, and one million tourists. The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, which set off an international boycott of the Games, marred their extensive achievements which included the biggest Games to date, the largest number of female Olympians, and dozens of new World Records. Through a close reading of the archives of the Soviet Union’s main sporting agencies, including the State Committee for Sports and Physical Education, and an analysis of the key figures in the Soviet sports bureaucracy, Parks also reshapes our understanding of Soviet bureaucracy. The historiography of the USSR emphasizes stagnation in post-Brezhnev Soviet government agencies as a way to explain the state’s inability to deal with the challenges of the 1970s. However, the men of the Sports Committee were not just staid functionaries, but a cadre of professional, effective, pragmatic men driven to use Olympism to promote socialism abroad and at home. The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sport Bureaucracy, and the Cold War will interest scholars broadly concerned with the Soviet Union, the Cold War, and the international Olympic movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we are joined by Jenifer Parks, Associate Professor of History at Rocky Mountain College. Parks is the author of The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sport Bureaucracy, and the Cold War: Red Sport, Red Tape (Lexington Books, 2016), which asks how Soviet bureaucrats maneuvered the USSR into the Olympic movement and used the discourses of Olympism to promote athletic democratization, anti-colonialism, and socialism in the context of the Cold War. In The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sport Bureaucracy, and the Cold War, Parks assesses the growth of Soviet Olympism from the Second World War until the 1980 Moscow Games.  Her first chapters highlights the difficulties Soviet sports bureaucrats faced in their efforts to join the international Olympic movement. These bureaucrats needed to convince the IOC of the Soviet Union’s worthiness, in the face of persistent anti-communism from IOC president Avery Brundage. They also needed to win over Soviet politician who feared that any Olympic failure would embarrass the state in front of an international audience. In spite of these early misgivings and misstarts, the Soviet Union largely succeeded in their first Olympics, the 1952 Helsinki Games. The next three decades were an almost uninterrupted era of Soviet athletic dominance. In the 1970s, confident Soviet sports bureaucrats sought to bring the Olympics to Moscow. After losing the 1976 Games to Montreal, Moscow won the right to host the 1980s Olympics. A herculean effort ensued to make Moscow hospitable for the expected tens of thousands of athletes, international journalists, and one million tourists. The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, which set off an international boycott of the Games, marred their extensive achievements which included the biggest Games to date, the largest number of female Olympians, and dozens of new World Records. Through a close reading of the archives of the Soviet Union’s main sporting agencies, including the State Committee for Sports and Physical Education, and an analysis of the key figures in the Soviet sports bureaucracy, Parks also reshapes our understanding of Soviet bureaucracy. The historiography of the USSR emphasizes stagnation in post-Brezhnev Soviet government agencies as a way to explain the state’s inability to deal with the challenges of the 1970s. However, the men of the Sports Committee were not just staid functionaries, but a cadre of professional, effective, pragmatic men driven to use Olympism to promote socialism abroad and at home. The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sport Bureaucracy, and the Cold War will interest scholars broadly concerned with the Soviet Union, the Cold War, and the international Olympic movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

REVEALED, 50 years later! — My Role in the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia The Media Beat was first commissioned in 2004 by Tribune Newspapers from journalist and media critic DAVID TERESHCHUK. It ran as a weekly feature in Tribune's New York... Read More ›

On the 50th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, a look back at Czech Cinema. In a decade of tumultuous change in the arts and cultural expression this tiny country's filmmakers were as important to the youth revolution as artists in the West. In this podcast, originally broadcast on BBC Radio 3, FRDH host Michael Goldfarb tells the story of how a unique set of circumstances made Czechoslovakia in the 1960s one of the powerhouses of world cinema. These were films made by people who had the first rough draft of history burned onto them in childhood and were not broken by all that they endured: Hitler/Stalin ... they laughed at the worst and in sharing that mockery with audiences gave them courage to stand up to totalitarianism. Of course, there was a price. But the Czech cinema of that time lives on.

Czechia has a 50 year anniversary since the invasion of Soviet troops into Czechoslovakia. We discuss this topic with our commentator Petr Honzejk. - Naše země si připomínají 50. výročí od vpádu sovětských vojsk do Československa. O tomto tématu hovoříme s českým komentátorem Petrem Honzejkem.

Period. Menstrual cycle. Aunt Flow. Soviet Invasion. However you refer to that “time of the month,” it’s an important part of a lot of bodies! Come with Willow and Alyssa and explore the physiological, cultural, and otherwise systemic issues related to periods. From side effects to the Tampon Tax, periods await! Email: beautifulbodiescast@gmail.com / Twitter: … Continue reading Episode 2: Periods

Avinash Paliwal speaks at the South Asia Seminar on 20 February 2018. The archetype of 'my enemy’s enemy is my friend', India's political and economic presence in Afghanistan is often viewed as a Machiavellian ploy aimed against Pakistan. The first of its kind, this book interrogates that simplistic yet powerful geopolitical narrative and asks what truly drives India's Afghanistan policy. Based on an extensive repertoire of hitherto untapped primary sources including official memoranda, diplomatic correspondence, and a series of interviews with key political actors, My Enemy’s Enemy provides a comprehensive analysis of India’s strategy debates and foreign policymaking processes vis-a-vis Afghanistan, from the embers of the Cold War to the 1990s Afghan civil war and the more recent U.S.-led war on terror. It demonstrates that Indian presence in Afghanistan has been guided primarily by an enduring vision for the region that requires a stable balance of power across the Durand Line.

In December 1979, the Soviet Union (USSR) decided to intervene in the internal affairs of Afghanistan by sending troops to prop up the ailing and fractious Communist Party, based in Kabul. Afghanistan was of key geo-strategic significance in the Cold War to both the USSR and the USA; the USSR invaded on the pretence of an invitation by the domestic Afghan Communist Party, but the USA viewed this as an unprecedented expansion beyond Warsaw Pact borders by Soviet military forces. The period of Detente (relaxed relations) between the Superpowers which had characterised the 1970s was definitely over after this point, giving way to heightened tensions in the 1980s. But what was the primary consequence / significance of the invasion? Where was its impact felt most? In this episode, Co-Editor Elliott (@thelibrarian6) argues that the main ramifications were felt in the arena of international relations, while our Special Guest Conal (@prohistoricman) contends that the main impact was felt by the USSR domestically. Patrick (@historychappy) is on paternity leave this week. For terms of use, please visit www.versushistory.com

About 13 years ago, I climbed on the bandwagon and, like lots of other folks, read several books to better understand our history in Afghanistan and Iraq and with Al Quaeda — how we got into the mess and, maybe how we’d get out.You may recall – it was a bit of a golden age of reporting and writing. Among them: “The Looming Tower” by Lawrence Wright;  “Fiasco,” by Thomas Ricks; “Imperial Life In The Emerald City,” by Rajiv Chandrasekaran; “The Places in Between,” Rory Stewart’s crazy story of walking across Afghanistan, as well as his follow-up "The Prince of Marshes." But the first one I read has long stayed with me, and set the context for the all the others to come: That was the Pulitzer prizewinning “Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001” by Steve Coll.“Ghost Wars” outlined the CIA’s secret history in Afghanistan, the Taliban’s rise, the emergence of Osama bin Laden, and the failed efforts by U.S. forces to find and assassinate him in Afghanistan. It ends the day before 9/11.Now, finally, Steve Coll is back on the beat. His new book is "Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan.” It tells the story of America's intelligence, military, and diplomatic efforts to defeat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 9/11.The book is as powerful and relevant and urgent as Ghost Wars was. It mixes details and insights and analysis that, once again makes plain — in painful ways — what happened after those planes hit the World Trade Center.More about Steve Coll — somehow, writing some of the most important books on our most important foreign policies is not all he does. Coll’s day job is serving as Dean of the Columbia School of Journalism. He is also a staff writer at The New Yorker, author of seven books, and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. There’s a lot more, but you get the idea. That’s also why at the end of our talk, I picked up on my conversation last week with Harvard professors Steve Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt. They wrote the outstanding “How Democracies Die.” My question for journalism Dean Coll, rather than the author: How does democracy work with people who think facts are alternative facts, that real news is fake news? How does it work with people who believe anything – or nothing at all?

Alternate history scenarios of the Iran Hostage Crisis, Iran Iraq War, Ronald Reagan, Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and more. Cthulhu, World War 3, Terrorism, Watchmen, and Dennis’ Trump theory also appear.

Peace Revolution episode 087: Privacy & Surveillance / The Future of Freedom vs. The Architecture of Oppression    To Purchase the HISTORY BLUEPRINT (Richard's Brain Model Organizing History):   https://www.tragedyandhope.com/the-brain/   To Donate or Subscribe to the Tragedy and Hope online learning community:   https://www.tragedyandhope.com/subscribe/   To Subscribe to Peace Revolution on iTunes:                         https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-peace-revolution-podcast/id659865433   The Peace Revolution Page (all feeds, formats, and episodes):   https://www.tragedyandhope.com/peace-revolution/   The Tragedy and Hope Official Youtube Page:   https://www.YouTube.com/TragedyandHopeMag   Follow Richard on Twitter (@TragedyandHope)   Reference Map to Episode 087 (0m-1h23m) Richard's Introductory Montage: Sample: Privacy's Dead. What Happens Next? By Tom Scott Sample 1 from the Munk Debate on State Surveillance: Greenwald/Ohanian vs Hayden/Dershowitz Brzezinski's thoughts on Mass surveillance by Patrick Wood Sample 2 from the Munk Debate / Glenn Greenwald Bitter Lake by Adam Curtis / FDR Saudi relationship / oil for Wahabis Sample 3 from the  Munk Debate / Gen. Michael Hayden MI6 agent St. John Philby handling Arab Nazis Mujahedeen, Philby's son sells terrorist network to Allen Dulles & CIA / John Loftus w. Dave Emory CIA Torture Memo 2015 Dan Carlin / WWI British Tapped American Messages on the Atlantic Cable / Hardcore History 54- Blueprint for Armageddon V School Sucks Podcast #337 /  discussion on Saudis, Afghanistan, and Adam Curtis' films including “Bitter Lake” Bitter Lake / Opium Production Optimized by Dams, U.S. and U.K. prosper Obama with British Prime Minister David Cameron on the “Special Relationship”, cyber-security, and the War on Terror (ISIS) A Yank at Eton / Mickey Rooney Sample 2 Obama Prime Min Chomsky on Surveillance state Chomsky on Civil Liberties Zbig Brzezinski / Al Qaeda Doesn't Exist (Documentary by James Corbett) Hayden “Whodunnit?”… let's look at the first 2 reels… Sample 2 School Sucks Podcast #337 Brzezinski's thoughts on Mass surveillance by Patrick Wood Zbigniew Brzezinski quote Hillary Clinton / The U.S. and British Governments created Al Qaeda (lies and says it was Soviet Invasion as the “Why” we did it) Corbett / Al Qaeda doesn't exist Sample 4 from the Munk Debate / Greenwald BBC: Al Qaeda doesn't Exist – The Power of Nightmares by Adam Curtis Sample 5 from the Munk Debate / Alexis Ohanian (1h23m-1h50m) Richard's Introductory Monologue (1h50m-9h30m) Bill Binney Interview + Round Table Commentary Discussion & Notes (9h30m-11h) Fourth Amendment Debate / Munk Debate on Privacy and Surveillance (11h-12h) Patrick Wood / Technocracy and the Trilateral Commission (12h-14h24m) America's Surveillance State NOTES FOR THE BILL BINNEY INTERVIEW ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION & COMMENTARY: (Video) The Future of Freedom: A Feature Interview with NSA Whistleblower William Binney: PDF of notes and references for episode 087 on Scribd Link for these notes in pdf/embeddable format on Scribd Edward Snowden Disclosures on U.S. and British Intelligence Community spying on citizens without probable cause Project BULL RUN (NSA/ GCHQ decryption program) Positive & Negative Rights Why Google made the NSA by Nafeez Ahmed How the CIA made Google by Nafeez Ahmed Sons of Liberty (History Channel Mini-Series) Between Two Ages: America and the Technetronic Era by Zbigniew Brzezinski Prof. A In his book Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era (New York: Viking Press;1970), Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote: “For impressive evidence of Western participation in the early phase of Soviet economic growth, see Antony C. Sutton's Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development: 1917–1930, which argues that 'Soviet economic development for 1917–1930 was essentially dependent on Western technological aid' (p.283), and that 'at least 95 per cent of the industrial structure received this assistance.' “(p. 348). John Taylor Gatto on Brzezinski: "Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote his famous signature book Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era in 1970, a piece reeking with Fabianisms: dislike of direct popular power, relentless advocacy of the right and duty of evolutionarily advanced nations to administer less-developed parts of the world, revulsion at populist demands for "selfish self-government" (homeschooling would be a prime example), and stress on collectivism. Brzezinski said in the book:14  It will soon be possible to assert almost continuous control over every citizen and to maintain up-to-date files containing even the most personal details about health and personal behavior of every citizen, in addition to the more customary data. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities. Power will gravitate into the hands of those who control information." Professor Antony C. Sutton Wall Street and Hitler Wall Street and Bolshevik Revolution Wall Street and FDR Project SHAMROCK Paris 1919 Peace Conference Department of Justice and Operations PAPERCLIP, DUSTBIN, ASHCAN (Nazis brought to America by U.S. and British Intelligence, Kissinger) Anglo-American Establishment Operation GLADIO GLADIO B (Operation involving Muslim Extremists) Arab Nazis (CIA Operatives in Operation GLADIO) JR Seeley (Quotation) Mentor / Hero of Cecil Rhodes Original Executor of Rhodes' first Will, but died before Rhodes Stasi, Gestapo, NKVD, KGB, etc. Panopticon 1917 Espionage Act / WWI Col. Edward Mandell House C. D. Jackson (Psychological Warfare WWII / GLADIO / Bilderberg Co-Founder / JFK) Henry Luce Life Magazine Empire Utilitarianism Prussian Education System The Ultimate History Lesson with John Taylor Gatto (2011 Interview) Peace Revolution episodes 041-045 The Ultimate History Lesson w/ Commentary GCHQ Dirty Tricks, Honeypots GCHQ (Government Communications HeadQuarters, U.K.) Special Relationship between America and Great Britain 5-EYES Joint Surveillance Programs in English Speaking Nations Church Committee Project THINTHREAD (Surveillance Program) General Michael Hayden, ex-Director of NSA, CIA, and DNI Project TRAILBLAZER MKULTRA / MKSEARCH 9-11 Commission Rhodes Scholar Ashton Carter, current Secretary of Defense Catastrophic Terrorism: Tackling the New Danger by Ashton Carter, John Deutch and Phillip Zelikow 1998 (CFR) Civil War Intelligence Revolutionary War Intelligence John Cecil Masterman (MI6 Director during WWII) Norman Holmes Pearson (worked under Masterman on XX Committee, recruited  James Jesus Angleton) BSC British Security Coordination, Rockefeller Center Double-Cross System (XX, Twenty-Committee) X-2  U.S. Counter-Intelligence (American XX/ Double-Cross Chapter of British Intelligence under the Special Relationship) Agent Tricycle and the “Questionnaire” Project MINARET The BORG (Star Trek metaphor) Tax Free Foundations Norman Dodd (whistleblower) Cecil John Rhodes Last Will and Testament of Cecil John Rhodes Internationalism “The Pan-Angles: A Consideration of the Federation of the Seven English-Speaking Nations” by Sinclair Kennedy (1916) Pilgrims Society (Anglo-American Alliance, 1902 upon death of Cecil Rhodes) Fabian Socialism Five-Eyes Supra-National Intelligence Community Royal Institute of International Affairs Council on Foreign Relations Rhodes Round Table Group The Battle of New Orleans War of 1812 Conspicuous Consumption Trilateral Commission David Rockefeller & Zbigniew Brzezinski co-Founders Bilderberg Group C.D. Jackson co-Founder of Bilderberg Mark Klein (whistleblower) James Bamford “The Shadow Factory” by James Bamford Technocracy Cybernetics Trans-Atlantic Cable Porter Goss John Negroponte William “Bucky” Bush STELLAR WIND (surveillance program) War Games on 9-11 Operation APHRODITE Joseph Kennedy Jr. October 24, 2000, a mass casualty (MASCAL) emergency drill was conducted to test the Pentagon's response to an airliner crashing into its headquarters Pentagon NRO Air Piracy Drill and Jamie Gorelick testimony Operation NORTHWOODS PNAC “Rebuilding America's Defenses” Saudi Arabian American Oil Company / Saudi ARAMCO “The Third British Empire” by Alfred Zimmern, Rhodes Round Table Group (1926 lectures at Columbia University) Alfred Zimmern, Rhodes Round Table Group Rhodes Round Table Group Source for Carroll Quigley “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time” by Carroll Quigley “The Anglo-American Establishment” by Carroll Quigley “The Inquiry” à CFR & RIIA St. John Philby (MI6 agent who handled Saudi Empire, created Arab Nazis, sold them to Allen Dulles) Standard Oil / Saudi Arabia BBC Hijackers still alive U.K. Guardian: 9-11 Hijackers still alive Stewart Air Force Base 1993 WTC Bombing Emad Salem “The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terror” by Trevor Aaronson MI6 / British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) Allen Dulles Ian Fleming OSS (Office of Strategic Services) predecessor to CIA OSS, CIA, and Ian Fleming: For Special Services Burden of Proof June 30, 2001 Aircraft Piracy / Cheney Rumsfeld FOOTNOTE 103, 9-11 Commission Report “103. FAA regulations, Special Military Operations, Requests for Service, Order 7610.4J, paras. 7-1-1, 7-1-2 (2001); DOD memo, CJCS instruction, "Aircraft Piracy (Hijacking) and Destruction of Derelict Airborne Objects," June 1, 2001.” LIHOP MIHOP Skull and Bones & the Rhodes Scholarships David Boren and George Tenant Breakfast Mohammad Atta and Drug Connection to Wally Hilliard and Jeb Bush  “Free Trade” as defined by British Empire British East India Company CIA and Opium Smuggling Skull and Bones and Opium Smuggling 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Afghan Wars (Great Britain) Poppy as Veterans Day logo (Great Britain) Mena Arkansas / CIA Drug Trafficking Iran Contra / Drugs for Arms Air America / CIA Opium Smuggling “Bitter Lake” documentary by Adam Curtis Western expansion in Afghanistan post WWII increase in Poppy/Opium Yield (@20m) Afghanistan Poppy / Opium crops Running the Gauntlet Origins of the Security and Exchange Commission Origins of the FBI Terra-Forming Lord Percy Hotel Majestic Conference 1919 Parallel Construction (Snowden Disclosures) Operation MIDNIGHT CLIMAX (MKULTRA) Total Information Awareness (DARPA) Admiral John Poindexter (Iran Contra /DARPA) Mass Surveillance Tsarnaev Uncle Ruslan / CIA Sibel Edmonds / GLADIO B (Video) History… Cecil Rhodes & the Anglo American Establishment w/ Brett Veinotte and Kevin Cole School Sucks Project #236 (Live): Historical Research Methods, Historiography, and Historicity with Brett Veinotte and Kevin Cole The Round Table Group / Cecil Rhodes Investigation into Tax Exempt Foundations Norman Dodd Reece Committee Social Engineering Enkyklios Paideia (Learning within prescribed circle of reference) Imperial Federation Matthew Arnold & Prussian Education in England Great Books of the Western World  (Organic Unity Project) (Video) History… Connected: The Trivium Method vs. the Classical (Medieval) Trivium, a briefing by Kevin Cole Isocrates  “The Life and Times of Stein” by J.R. Seeley German Nationalism Johann Pestalozzi (crossroads of school system, Prussian education, and Bavarian Illuminati) Bavarian Illuminati Aeropagites Trivium (Classical/Medieval) Studium Generale / Medieval University system) Neologisms (new words) International Relations Holistic Ecology Jan Smuts & Holistic Ecology Artificial Scarcity Automatons Organic Unity Samuel Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Dorothy Sayers Great Chain of Being The Lost Tools of Learning by Dorothy Sayers Scott Buchanan (Rhodes Scholar) The Moot (1938-1947) / Rhodes Round Table Sub-Group Alfred Zimmern The World Council of Churches Lionel Curtis (Rhodes Round Table Group) King George III of Great Britain Saxe-Coburg Gotha Family Empire of Germany Queen Victoria Kaiser Wilhelm Czar Nicholas II of Russia Peace Revolution episode 083: America and the Great Game: A Strategy of Tension Bertrand Russell “The Principles of Social Reconstruction” by Bertrand Russell (1916) “The Impact of Science on Society”  by Bertrand Russell (1952) Admiral John M. Poindexter General Michael Hayden George H.W. Bush (aka Poppy Bush) Double-Tap (tactic of random slaughter) James Clapper testimony (March 12, 2013) JTRIG (Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group) Confessions of a Congressman (Vox) The Ultimate History Lesson with John Taylor Gatto Fabius Maximus War of Atrition Fabian Socialism Internationalism Intra-Specific Kleptoparasitism Electoral College The Auctors The Mythology of Democracy by Carroll Quigley Marshall McLuhan Peace Revolution episode 084: Builders of Empire I.A. Richards (Trivium to create general education without historical meaning) Stringfellow Barr (Rhodes Scholar) Scott Buchanan (Rhodes Scholar) New Criticism (Separation of History and Literature) John Crowe Ransom (Rhodes Scholar) Pythagorean Mystery School Heinz von Foerster (Cyberneticist) Squaring the Circle Karl Rove quote on Empire / "Faith, Certainty, and the Presidency of George W. Bush" New York Times Oct 17, 2004 by Ron Suskind / "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality- judiciously, as you will - we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do." - Karl Rove TV = Digital Enkyklios Paideia Weisbecker article on John O'Neill Jerome Hauer Bernard Kerik Rudyard Kipling “The White Man's Burden” (poem) by Rudyard Kipling Kipling and Cecil Rhodes Kipling and Freemasonry Kipling and re-integrating America into British Empire Rights of Man by Thomas Paine Common Sense by Thomas Paine Peace Revolution 086: Common Sense for the 21st Century   Would You Like to Know More? See also: Peace Revolution episode 027: DIAMONDS / The Jewel of Denial / Outgrowing Stockholm Syndrome Peace Revolution episode 023: How to Free Your Mind / The Occulted (Hidden) Keys of Wisdom Peace Revolution episode 046: Liberty is Life / Practical Applications of Rationality Peace Revolution episode 047: Slavery is Death / Practical Applications of Irrationality Peace Revolution episode 048: The Philosophy of Life / This is John Galt Speaking

Peace Revolution episode 087: Privacy & Surveillance / The Future of Freedom vs. The Architecture of Oppression  To Purchase the HISTORY BLUEPRINT (Richard's Brain Model Organizing History): https://www.tragedyandhope.com/the-brain/  To Donate or Subscribe to the Tragedy and Hope online learning community: https://www.tragedyandhope.com/subscribe/  To Subscribe to Peace Revolution on iTunes:                        https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-peace-revolution-podcast/id659865433  The Peace Revolution Page (all feeds, formats, and episodes): https://www.tragedyandhope.com/peace-revolution/  The Tragedy and Hope Official Youtube Page: https://www.YouTube.com/TragedyandHopeMag Follow Richard on Twitter (@TragedyandHope) Reference Map to Episode 087 (0m-1h23m) Richard's Introductory Montage: Sample: Privacy's Dead. What Happens Next? By Tom Scott Sample 1 from the Munk Debate on State Surveillance: Greenwald/Ohanian vs Hayden/Dershowitz Brzezinski's thoughts on Mass surveillance by Patrick Wood Sample 2 from the Munk Debate / Glenn Greenwald Bitter Lake by Adam Curtis / FDR Saudi relationship / oil for Wahabis Sample 3 from the  Munk Debate / Gen. Michael Hayden MI6 agent St. John Philby handling Arab Nazis Mujahedeen, Philby's son sells terrorist network to Allen Dulles & CIA / John Loftus w. Dave Emory CIA Torture Memo 2015 Dan Carlin / WWI British Tapped American Messages on the Atlantic Cable / Hardcore History 54- Blueprint for Armageddon V School Sucks Podcast #337 /  discussion on Saudis, Afghanistan, and Adam Curtis' films including “Bitter Lake” Bitter Lake / Opium Production Optimized by Dams, U.S. and U.K. prosper Obama with British Prime Minister David Cameron on the “Special Relationship”, cyber-security, and the War on Terror (ISIS) A Yank at Eton / Mickey Rooney Sample 2 Obama Prime Min Chomsky on Surveillance state Chomsky on Civil Liberties Zbig Brzezinski / Al Qaeda Doesn't Exist (Documentary by James Corbett) Hayden “Whodunnit?”… let's look at the first 2 reels… Sample 2 School Sucks Podcast #337 Brzezinski's thoughts on Mass surveillance by Patrick Wood Zbigniew Brzezinski quote Hillary Clinton / The U.S. and British Governments created Al Qaeda (lies and says it was Soviet Invasion as the “Why” we did it) Corbett / Al Qaeda doesn't exist Sample 4 from the Munk Debate / Greenwald BBC: Al Qaeda doesn't Exist – The Power of Nightmares by Adam Curtis Sample 5 from the Munk Debate / Alexis Ohanian (1h23m-1h50m) Richard's Introductory Monologue(1h50m-9h30m) Bill Binney Interview + Round Table Commentary Discussion & Notes(9h30m-11h) Fourth Amendment Debate / Munk Debate on Privacy and Surveillance(11h-12h) Patrick Wood / Technocracy and the Trilateral Commission(12h-14h24m) America's Surveillance StateNOTES FOR THE BILL BINNEY INTERVIEW ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION & COMMENTARY: (Video) The Future of Freedom: A Feature Interview with NSA Whistleblower William Binney: PDF of notes and references for episode 087 on Scribd Link for these notes in pdf/embeddable format on Scribd Edward Snowden Disclosures on U.S. and British Intelligence Community spying on citizens without probable cause Project BULL RUN (NSA/ GCHQ decryption program) Positive & Negative Rights Why Google made the NSA by Nafeez Ahmed How the CIA made Google by Nafeez Ahmed Sons of Liberty (History Channel Mini-Series) Between Two Ages: America and the Technetronic Era by Zbigniew Brzezinski Prof. A In his book Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era (New York: Viking Press;1970), Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote: “For impressive evidence of Western participation in the early phase of Soviet economic growth, see Antony C. Sutton's Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development: 1917–1930, which argues that 'Soviet economic development for 1917–1930 was essentially dependent on Western technological aid' (p.283), and that 'at least 95 per cent of the industrial structure received this assistance.' “(p. 348). John Taylor Gatto on Brzezinski: "Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote his famous signature book Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era in 1970, a piece reeking with Fabianisms: dislike of direct popular power, relentless advocacy of the right and duty of evolutionarily advanced nations to administer less-developed parts of the world, revulsion at populist demands for "selfish self-government" (homeschooling would be a prime example), and stress on collectivism. Brzezinski said in the book:14  It will soon be possible to assert almost continuous control over every citizen and to maintain up-to-date files containing even the most personal details about health and personal behavior of every citizen, in addition to the more customary data. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities. Power will gravitate into the hands of those who control information." Professor Antony C. Sutton Wall Street and Hitler Wall Street and Bolshevik Revolution Wall Street and FDR Project SHAMROCK Paris 1919 Peace Conference Department of Justice and Operations PAPERCLIP, DUSTBIN, ASHCAN (Nazis brought to America by U.S. and British Intelligence, Kissinger) Anglo-American Establishment Operation GLADIO GLADIO B (Operation involving Muslim Extremists) Arab Nazis (CIA Operatives in Operation GLADIO) JR Seeley (Quotation) Mentor / Hero of Cecil Rhodes Original Executor of Rhodes' first Will, but died before Rhodes Stasi, Gestapo, NKVD, KGB, etc. Panopticon 1917 Espionage Act / WWI Col. Edward Mandell House C. D. Jackson (Psychological Warfare WWII / GLADIO / Bilderberg Co-Founder / JFK) Henry Luce Life Magazine Empire Utilitarianism Prussian Education System The Ultimate History Lesson with John Taylor Gatto (2011 Interview) Peace Revolution episodes 041-045 The Ultimate History Lesson w/ Commentary GCHQ Dirty Tricks, Honeypots GCHQ (Government Communications HeadQuarters, U.K.) Special Relationship between America and Great Britain 5-EYES Joint Surveillance Programs in English Speaking Nations Church Committee Project THINTHREAD (Surveillance Program) General Michael Hayden, ex-Director of NSA, CIA, and DNI Project TRAILBLAZER MKULTRA / MKSEARCH 9-11 Commission Rhodes Scholar Ashton Carter, current Secretary of Defense Catastrophic Terrorism: Tackling the New Danger by Ashton Carter, John Deutch and Phillip Zelikow 1998 (CFR) Civil War Intelligence Revolutionary War Intelligence John Cecil Masterman (MI6 Director during WWII) Norman Holmes Pearson (worked under Masterman on XX Committee, recruited  James Jesus Angleton) BSC British Security Coordination, Rockefeller Center Double-Cross System (XX, Twenty-Committee) X-2  U.S. Counter-Intelligence (American XX/ Double-Cross Chapter of British Intelligence under the Special Relationship) Agent Tricycle and the “Questionnaire” Project MINARET The BORG (Star Trek metaphor) Tax Free Foundations Norman Dodd (whistleblower) Cecil John Rhodes Last Will and Testament of Cecil John Rhodes Internationalism “The Pan-Angles: A Consideration of the Federation of the Seven English-Speaking Nations” by Sinclair Kennedy (1916) Pilgrims Society (Anglo-American Alliance, 1902 upon death of Cecil Rhodes) Fabian Socialism Five-Eyes Supra-National Intelligence Community Royal Institute of International Affairs Council on Foreign Relations Rhodes Round Table Group The Battle of New Orleans War of 1812 Conspicuous Consumption Trilateral Commission David Rockefeller & Zbigniew Brzezinski co-Founders Bilderberg Group C.D. Jackson co-Founder of Bilderberg Mark Klein (whistleblower) James Bamford “The Shadow Factory” by James Bamford Technocracy Cybernetics Trans-Atlantic Cable Porter Goss John Negroponte William “Bucky” Bush STELLAR WIND (surveillance program) War Games on 9-11 Operation APHRODITE Joseph Kennedy Jr. October 24, 2000, a mass casualty (MASCAL) emergency drill was conducted to test the Pentagon's response to an airliner crashing into its headquarters Pentagon NRO Air Piracy Drill and Jamie Gorelick testimony Operation NORTHWOODS PNAC “Rebuilding America's Defenses” Saudi Arabian American Oil Company / Saudi ARAMCO “The Third British Empire” by Alfred Zimmern, Rhodes Round Table Group (1926 lectures at Columbia University) Alfred Zimmern, Rhodes Round Table Group Rhodes Round Table Group Source for Carroll Quigley “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time” by Carroll Quigley “The Anglo-American Establishment” by Carroll Quigley “The Inquiry” à CFR & RIIA St. John Philby (MI6 agent who handled Saudi Empire, created Arab Nazis, sold them to Allen Dulles) Standard Oil / Saudi Arabia BBC Hijackers still alive U.K. Guardian: 9-11 Hijackers still alive Stewart Air Force Base 1993 WTC Bombing Emad Salem “The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terror” by Trevor Aaronson MI6 / British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) Allen Dulles Ian Fleming OSS (Office of Strategic Services) predecessor to CIA OSS, CIA, and Ian Fleming: For Special Services Burden of Proof June 30, 2001 Aircraft Piracy / Cheney Rumsfeld FOOTNOTE 103, 9-11 Commission Report “103. FAA regulations, Special Military Operations, Requests for Service, Order 7610.4J, paras. 7-1-1, 7-1-2 (2001); DOD memo, CJCS instruction, "Aircraft Piracy (Hijacking) and Destruction of Derelict Airborne Objects," June 1, 2001.” LIHOP MIHOP Skull and Bones & the Rhodes Scholarships David Boren and George Tenant Breakfast Mohammad Atta and Drug Connection to Wally Hilliard and Jeb Bush  “Free Trade” as defined by British Empire British East India Company CIA and Opium Smuggling Skull and Bones and Opium Smuggling 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Afghan Wars (Great Britain) Poppy as Veterans Day logo (Great Britain) Mena Arkansas / CIA Drug Trafficking Iran Contra / Drugs for Arms Air America / CIA Opium Smuggling “Bitter Lake” documentary by Adam Curtis Western expansion in Afghanistan post WWII increase in Poppy/Opium Yield (@20m) Afghanistan Poppy / Opium crops Running the Gauntlet Origins of the Security and Exchange Commission Origins of the FBI Terra-Forming Lord Percy Hotel Majestic Conference 1919 Parallel Construction (Snowden Disclosures) Operation MIDNIGHT CLIMAX (MKULTRA) Total Information Awareness (DARPA) Admiral John Poindexter (Iran Contra /DARPA) Mass Surveillance Tsarnaev Uncle Ruslan / CIA Sibel Edmonds / GLADIO B (Video) History… Cecil Rhodes & the Anglo American Establishment w/ Brett Veinotte and Kevin Cole School Sucks Project #236 (Live): Historical Research Methods, Historiography, and Historicity with Brett Veinotte and Kevin Cole The Round Table Group / Cecil Rhodes Investigation into Tax Exempt Foundations Norman Dodd Reece Committee Social Engineering Enkyklios Paideia (Learning within prescribed circle of reference) Imperial Federation Matthew Arnold & Prussian Education in England Great Books of the Western World  (Organic Unity Project) (Video) History… Connected: The Trivium Method vs. the Classical (Medieval) Trivium, a briefing by Kevin Cole Isocrates  “The Life and Times of Stein” by J.R. Seeley German Nationalism Johann Pestalozzi (crossroads of school system, Prussian education, and Bavarian Illuminati) Bavarian Illuminati Aeropagites Trivium (Classical/Medieval) Studium Generale / Medieval University system) Neologisms (new words) International Relations Holistic Ecology Jan Smuts & Holistic Ecology Artificial Scarcity Automatons Organic Unity Samuel Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Dorothy Sayers Great Chain of Being The Lost Tools of Learning by Dorothy Sayers Scott Buchanan (Rhodes Scholar) The Moot (1938-1947) / Rhodes Round Table Sub-Group Alfred Zimmern The World Council of Churches Lionel Curtis (Rhodes Round Table Group) King George III of Great Britain Saxe-Coburg Gotha Family Empire of Germany Queen Victoria Kaiser Wilhelm Czar Nicholas II of Russia Peace Revolution episode 083: America and the Great Game: A Strategy of Tension Bertrand Russell “The Principles of Social Reconstruction” by Bertrand Russell (1916) “The Impact of Science on Society”  by Bertrand Russell (1952) Admiral John M. Poindexter General Michael Hayden George H.W. Bush (aka Poppy Bush) Double-Tap (tactic of random slaughter) James Clapper testimony (March 12, 2013) JTRIG (Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group) Confessions of a Congressman (Vox) The Ultimate History Lesson with John Taylor Gatto Fabius Maximus War of Atrition Fabian Socialism Internationalism Intra-Specific Kleptoparasitism Electoral College The Auctors The Mythology of Democracy by Carroll Quigley Marshall McLuhan Peace Revolution episode 084: Builders of Empire I.A. Richards (Trivium to create general education without historical meaning) Stringfellow Barr (Rhodes Scholar) Scott Buchanan (Rhodes Scholar) New Criticism (Separation of History and Literature) John Crowe Ransom (Rhodes Scholar) Pythagorean Mystery School Heinz von Foerster (Cyberneticist) Squaring the Circle Karl Rove quote on Empire / "Faith, Certainty, and the Presidency of George W. Bush" New York Times Oct 17, 2004 by Ron Suskind / "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality- judiciously, as you will - we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do." - Karl Rove TV = Digital Enkyklios Paideia Weisbecker article on John O'Neill Jerome Hauer Bernard Kerik Rudyard Kipling “The White Man's Burden” (poem) by Rudyard Kipling Kipling and Cecil Rhodes Kipling and Freemasonry Kipling and re-integrating America into British Empire Rights of Man by Thomas Paine Common Sense by Thomas Paine Peace Revolution 086: Common Sense for the 21st Century  Would You Like to Know More?See also:Peace Revolution episode 027: DIAMONDS / The Jewel of Denial / Outgrowing Stockholm SyndromePeace Revolution episode 023: How to Free Your Mind / The Occulted (Hidden) Keys of WisdomPeace Revolution episode 046: Liberty is Life / Practical Applications of RationalityPeace Revolution episode 047: Slavery is Death / Practical Applications of IrrationalityPeace Revolution episode 048: The Philosophy of Life / This is John Galt Speaking

Steve Coll is the Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University. Coll most recently served for five years as president of The New America Foundation, a leading public policy institute in Washington that has supported a wide range of thinking on the public issues facing our society, including the changes in journalism. In 1985, Coll joined the Washington Post as a general assignment feature writer for the Style section and over the next twenty years served as a foreign correspondent and senior editor, culminating in his tenure as managing editor from 1998 through 2004. He received his first Pulitzer in 1990 for explanatory journalism with a series of articles on the Securities and Exchange Commission which he reported with David Vise. The author of seven books, Coll won his second Pulitzer Prize in 2005, in general non-fiction, for Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. Ghost Wars also won the Council of Foreign Relations' Arthur Ross award, the Overseas Press Club Award, and the Lionel Gelber Prize for the best book published about international affairs. His latest book, Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power, was published this past November, and won the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs prize for best business book of the year.

Russia's invasion of Afghanistan shakes President Carter's belief in détente. This archive edition of Letter from America was recorded by one of two listeners, who between them taped and labelled over 650 Letter From America programmes from 1973 to 1989. It was restored by the BBC in 2014.

In this lecture, Dr. Totten argues the presidencies of Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter did little to inspire American's faith in government. While Ford was a likeable and humble man, his administration achieved few goals and did little to abate the economic crises. His actions made enemies on the right and the left, and further exacerbated divisions within the GOP. Ronald Reagan led a conservative primary challenge in 1976 to Ford and narrowly lost. While Ford won the nomination, Ronald Reagan had positioned himself as the future of the Republican party. Ford ultimately lost to the former Naval Lieutenant and Governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter. Carter's administration was equally ineffective. Carter had campaigned as a Washington outsider and fiscal conservative. Carter's independent streak made it difficult for him to work with Washington power brokers, and he rejected the agenda of the progressive wing of his party, led by Senator Ted Kennedy. The ongoing economic and energy crisis brought out the moralist in Carter, who acknowledged the suffering but pointed to a deeper "crisis of confidence" in American culture. In the end, his speech fell flat, and his Democratic majority accomplished little, except for further deregulation.Carter's foreign policy was also viewed as insufficient by many Americans. Though he furthered détente with China and Russia, his handling of the Iranian Hostage Crisis and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan further hurt Carter's reputation. As a result, Americans to this day equate Carter and Democrats as weak on foreign policy and war.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/history-of-the-american-people-since-1877/donations