But now were in this moment where we find out, actually, our government is cool with letting several hundred thousand people die in a pandemic. Blowback is a weekly comedy podcast with recurring segments covering trivia, current events, mundane moral quandaries, and the crispest can openings you'll ever hear. I dont think you can answer that with a straight-up, Yes. The CIAs emphasis was on covert operations and psychological warfare. While in both Iraq and Cuba, the U.S. tried to impose its will and interests on a foreign country, James and Kulwin note the latter offered a chance to dive deeper into Americas Cold War efforts to obliterate social and economic alternatives to capitalism. But a peace treaty never comes. Thats something we saw in Iraq the escalating calamity provided for escalating opportunities to further dominate and control that region of the world, and a long line of people profited from it. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, Stalemate on the battlefield does not stop the United States from obliterating North Korea. Kulwin: Most of the folks Ive interviewed were alive in the Sixties, and I think its been a lot harder for them to have these conversations about the implications that these agencies did X, how much we can trust them and how accountable they are. Its first season both begins and ends with the audio equivalent of its two hosts turning to the camera and delivering their neat characterization of the wars causes and consequences. Kulwin: Also, theres what they wouldve called in the Watergate days, a limited hangout the fact that the government often puts out deceptive information. A show about people whove done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle. To listen to the rest of season 3 right now, visit www.blowback.show Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, The third season of Blowback the story of the Korean War arrives July 2022. Unfortunately the Blowback podcast is going to be on hold as the team tries to properly self-isolate during the Covid-19 pandemic. People with real blood on their hands were protected and nurtured by the American government repeatedly. How, when, and why we remember it matters, making this podcast skirmish a historical signpost in its own right. Founding myths are powerful. 1. We'll be using some of the same steps for getting a full episode transcript later on, so it's a good place to start. The Chinese leadership debates its options in Korea. "Blowback" is didactic, its hosts bombarding the listener with their sturm-und-drang argument about the Iraq War as a portal to hell that directly caused our modern-day political ills. Its a myth that in the Kennedy era there was this liberal, enlightened government that was trying to I dont know kill Castro the right way, or the moral way, and the CIA were just the dirty guys getting too crass about it. Brendan James. on the Internet. The things they did instead of intelligence gathering are the stuff of organized crime. A five-part series from the makers of Serial and The New York Times. [Ed. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, Guest Luna Olavarria-Gallegos explains how the US government infiltrated and co-optedthehip-hop scene in Cuba. James: Everywhere you look in our modern world, the lines on the map, figurative and literal, come from this ongoing campaign. Sign up to get unlimited songs and podcasts with occasional ads. If you go back to [the Cuban Revolution] and use a similar frame, you see a lot of the same things play out., Editors picks This was a mass movement that was incredibly popular. Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, Stalemate on the battlefield does not stop the United States from obliterating North Korea. Leftist theories debunked in 15 minutes or less. Kulwin: And to that point, critics will say, Well, Cuba doesnt have freedom of speech and freedom of expression, and they will point to the many dissident artist movements. In the spirit of this weekends holiday, you can almost think of it as a new founding myth: America was reborn in the Middle Easts crucible, not as the leader of a rules-based, liberal international order, but a multi-tendrilled, ever-expanding and unaccountable corporate hegemon. podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5yZWRjaXJjbGUuY29tL2UzMGI5ZjEwLThjODYtNDMyZS05ZmEwLWJhMjg3ZmI5NGU3Zg==, open.spotify.com/show/2pibBnPuHqKr07hxEMZE41. Season Two of Blowback, the first episode of which arrives on all platforms Monday, April 19th (the first two episodes are available on Stitcher Premium), is brimming with intrigue: dissections of events like the CIAs scheming with organized crime, the Bay of Pigs fiasco, and, yes, how all this may or may not tie in with the assassination of John F. Kennedy (All will be revealed, James quips). Check out Ben's brand new weekly series, Debunked. When in fact, thats the minority of people who tend to care about this stuff. The portal to Gozer the Destructor is opened and the war begins. Kulwin: Well, hold on Cuba is an island in the Caribbean. Having lived thru the Iraq war and followed the news closely at the time, I can vouch for the accuracy and thoroughness of Blowbacks account & I learned a lot of new stuff. Like, Oh, were just this bumbling giant and we accidentally gave those guys Stinger missiles, and oop, it bit us in the ass., Or, as Kulwin puts it, The things we would call fuck-ups, errors of American empire, are part of a self-sustaining system. But if you were paying attention recently, a revealing skirmish over their place in it was waged in a very modern medium: the serialized podcast. What do you think we get wrong about Fidel Castro? These are people who came from a variety of backgrounds and were open about what they saw as Cuban societys flaws, Kulwin says. The story of the 1959 Cuban Revolution and its aftermath, as James recently told Rolling Stone, presented a classic, exhaustive case of almost every trick America uses economic sabotage, assassination attempts, psyops, etc. If you want to understand whats wrong with our public schools, you have to look at what is arguably the most powerful force in shaping them: white parents. Chase and Chris discuss the so-called Curse of USC basketball in a sneak peak of the podcast to come. The Slow Burn approach is well-established at this point: Take a well-known event in recent American history (Watergate, the Clinton impeachment, Ku Klux Klan leader David Dukes 1991 campaign for Louisiana governor) and explore, in exacting detail, the surrounding political, cultural and social detritus the better to understand how Americans experienced them at the time, and, therefore, how they fit into our national narrative. Combined with the rueful present-day recollections of then-hawks, like Vox co-founder Matt Yglesias, as well as those who remained stalwartly and consistently against the war, like the journalist Mark Danner, the effect is to provide a sobering reminder of the power of narrative and motivated reasoning in institutions ranging from the State Department to the New York Times. People have less trust of the government, and buried in that is a lot of scary stuff. edit transcripts, Improve the presence of your podcasts, e.g., self-service, If you share your Listen Notes page and at-mention. James: The CIA is one of the funniest characters weve ever had. We live in a destabilizing time and people have a different relationship with the government now, as every octogenarian Ive interviewed has reminded me (at least the American ones). With still-inflammatory characters like Rumsfeld, Chalabi, and Miller to draw on, the Iraq War is a potent basis for such stories. Amir, Chase, Chris & Doug discuss the Oscars, Brian Williams, the social media watchmen, ISIS p.r. Season three spans the dawn of America's empire in the Pacific, through the Japanese occupation of the Korean peninsula, onto the devastating conflict that broke out in 1950. Now: The Russian Revolution Next: ??? Hosted by Phoebe Judge. The difference might seem stylistic, not substantial. A podcast about the American Empire. The sanctions are still in place, were not moving toward an end of the embargo and were making up shit like sonic attacks in Havana that have no basis in reality. FAQ How will I listen to my exclusive podcast or audiobook? Communism is a world historical movement thats been maligned in our country, and theres a lot to go into with that. I think the Obama process [of normalizing relations with Cuba] in 2014 created a real problem where he initiated something and then left it in suspension. To what extent do you think these anti-communist impulses that fueled American foreign policy in Cuba and elsewhere during the 20th century are still alive today? (This, in large part, is what initially drew the ire of the over-caffeinated Blowback fanbase: Chalabi appears here as a powerful and dangerous man, and not simply a preening wannabe oligarch as if it were somehow impossible for him to be both.). Why did early civilisations fight? Thats the official narrative. But theres also the capacity for people to understand some of the really bad things our government did and continues to do. But the series falters when it fails to adequately push back against that consensus. After a critically-acclaimed retelling of the Iraq War, season two of Blowback presents the unlikely story of the Cuban Revolution: America's Cold War crusade brings the world to a nuclear-tipped showdown between the Kennedy brothers, Fidel Castro, the Soviet Union, the CIA, and the Mafia. Search the history of over 797 billion They were trying this radical new policy program, and imagine if we had bothered to try learning from them. Pre-order and listening details at https://blowback.supportingcast.fm Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, S2 Bonus 10 - "Havana (Derangement) Syndrome", Guests Helen Yaffe, Jos Pertierra and Marta Nez Sarmiento discuss the protests in Cuba during July 2021. When Brendan James and Noah Kulwin were trying to figure out what to cover on the second season of their history podcast Blowback there were, unfortunately, a lot of options after all, the show grapples with the machinations, mishaps, and misdeeds of the American empire. And what would actually make it more effective, more insidious, was using progressive language while still performing the same nasty business. Some were downright tasteless. Kulwin: Theres a myth about the CIA and other agencies during this period being rogue, and it persists today. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices, ^Nzdi^ Blowback (2022) Teljes film magyarul HD_ 4K, Program Podcast: Obama Libya Coup Blowback, Kyrsten Sinema faces Arizona blowback over becoming the Senate's new unmovable roadblock. Its all cherry-picked and drawn from outlets like CubaNet. Both Rumsfeld and our Iraqi experiment in nation-building have now passed into history. War crimes and atrocities in Fallujah, Sadr City and Abu Ghraib fuel the flames of anti-American resistance.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, The American public votes to give Bush another term, right before a big dose of buyers remorse. - Education podcast from United States Blowback (podcast) - Blowback | Listen Notes Listen LaterAPI Data Discover Real-Time Episodes being played now Explorer Find similar podcasts Best Podcasts Recommended by us Hot Podcasts Popular shows today Curated Podcasts Recommended by media Playlists Season five of Slow Burn kicks off with a leisurely, episode-length profile of Chalabi, the exiled aristocrat who thirsted for decades to supplant Saddam Hussein as Iraqs ruler. The neo-colonial method is to present a front of neutrality to countries that are really under the American thumb due to economic, social, and political pressures we force on them. We really appreciate everyone's support and understanding during this time and hope to be bringing you our regular sub-par content as soon as possible. There was a slick New York Times video a couple of years ago that had a young ex-pat Venezuelan comedian say like, Hey, all you Twitter bro-cialists, stop trying to tell me whether or not America should invade my country. It hit all the right notes to paint anyone I mean, Noah and I are disgusting, bro-cialist guys from Brooklyn, but discount that for a second who makes any case against American imperialism as white dudes who have too much time on their hands. The myth about organized crime during World War II is that the wise guys and the cops put down the salami sandwiches and nightsticks to get along and protect our beautiful ports. And apparently, [Pakula] was said to have responded, Ive heard that, but I cant think about that right now or Ill go crazy. [Ed. Is it about gathering intelligence? But it also prominently features interviews with Cubans who offer an invaluable, previously stifled perspective on the Cuban Revolution that diverges greatly from whats typically presented in the United States. James: Well, occasionally too many footprints are left and we have a decent idea of how things transpired in certain moments. a couple of years ago that had a young ex-pat Venezuelan comedian say like, Hey, all you Twitter bro-cialists, stop trying to tell me whether or not America should invade my country. It hit all the right notes to paint anyone I mean, Noah and I are disgusting, bro-cialist guys from Brooklyn, but discount that for a second who makes any case against American imperialism as white dudes who have too much time on their hands. He stopped teaching his regular exercise class at Slimmons, cut off his closest friends, and removed himself from the public eye after decades as one of the most accessible celebrities in the world. Copyright 2023 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Blowback is a weekly comedy podcast with recurring segments covering trivia, current events, mundane moral quandaries, and the crispest can openings you'll ever hear. "It degrades and objectify's women in a way that's not healthy," wrote TJ Jackson on Twitter. Assassinations, coups, counter-coups, and the rise of Saddam. The Blowback is a semi-regular, hour-long podcast featuring four transplants from the South, West, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest to New York, giving their insights and irreverent opinions on the funniest, most interesting and unusual news stories of the day. And sure, he may have been a leader who had flaws, but what Fidel Castro did was lead a movement that led to the transformation of a country from a neo-colony, where the majority of people were poor and illiterate, to a state that is successful and healthy by any fair and modern standard. 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