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A podcast about American Empire.
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2Donald Trump cuts a deal with the Taliban — and America begins its withdrawal.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
The Obama administration promises victory in ‘The Good War.’Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
America runs its war in Afghanistan on the cheap — and subcontracts to crooks, kingpins, and gangsters.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
The Bush administration unleashes the first war of the 21st century.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
The Afghan jihad spreads to Europe, Asia, Africa, and America.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
The warlord years, and the rise of the Taliban.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Operation Cyclone whips through Afghanistan — until a deal is finally struck.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
The USSR invades, and the Safari Club kicks things up a notch.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
The build-up to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Welcome to Season 4: Afghanistan.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
The armistice in Korea is supposed to be temporary. But a peace treaty never comes. As decades roll on, the war becomes permanent.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Stalemate on the battlefield does not stop the United States from obliterating North Korea.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
President Truman and his “Big General in the Far East” enter their final standoff over the war.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
The US threatens to cross the Yalu. The Chinese leadership debates its options in Korea.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Gen. MacArthur executes his revenge.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
With a rightwing, US-backed klepto-case to his South, Kim Il-Sung bets the house.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
The war before the war on a self-reliant island off South Korea.Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/album/4e9hkmGdDhycmgcGKe3bF0?si=d97_H1fvS5CV84ZvcEhZqQAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
After a flash of hope post-WWII Korea is divided into North and South.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
A pocket-sized history of the Korean peninsula, the upstart US and Japanese empires, and World War II.Soundtrack: https://open.spotify.com/album/4e9hkmGdDhycmgcGKe3bF0?si=d97_H1fvS5CV84ZvcEhZqQAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
A new season, a new story: The Korean War. To listen to the rest of season 3 right now, visit www.blowback.show
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lol, that stupid Polack.
I bet Condy was fine as hell in college.
Season 4 was awesome. The best yet.
really difficult to follow.
David Brooks and Thomas Friedman should literally be in prison.
Dissent is still garbage as evidenced by their collaborative endeavors with the Know Your Enemy libs, among other things.
dude, i would beat the absolute shit out of someone if they tried to stoploss me.
"latinx" lol. Also, Black August was a blatant fucking op and the rappers involved were dimwits.
the internment camps in north Korea was built by American backed fascist. I'm not surprised
Kinda lost interest in even listening to this one once you said you have the rest behind a paywall.
It's a shame that this podcast seems intent on being melodramatic counter-propaganda. I wonder if its producers think it conveys any version of the truth or that it's merely a counterbalance to other lies.
This seemed like the least-reasonable, most propagandistic episode of the series. It's so bad, it greatly erodes the credibility of the podcast as a whole.
Very unfortunate audio quality on the phone interviews. Really hope you guys can improve it in the future.
@1:11:29: Broken audio? Botched cut? This section seems to make no sense.
@1:00:37: Strange that when you say, "least of all," you almost always seem to intend the opposite of what that phrase means.
Very unfortunate audio quality in some of the interviews.
The relentless cut-ins of uncited memes, movie-clips, etc. come across as childish attempts at inside jokes to signal that you're cool. Cut the puerile crap and just report.
@23:08: It undercuts the show's credibility a bit to use a phrase such as "on Ramadan" (versus "during Ramadan"), as if Ramadan were a day. It's the sort of subtle mistake one makes when they don't know what they're talking about.
15:32 This detail about the music festival is great.
Simping for Saddam and then calling Shah "Huge piece of shit" OMEGALUL. Iran didn't turn to dictatorship after 1953 coup actually. constitutional monarchy exist way beyond that.