The villainization of Castro is a consequence of Americas adolescent Cold War perspective on how we should get to decide how the rest of the world organizes their societies. * Data source: directly measured on Listen Notes. A five-part series from the makers of Serial and The New York Times. James: Its a myth, for example, 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. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands The armistice in Korea is supposed to be temporary. Who were their Generals? 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. 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Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, Before George W. Bush, there was Daddy Bush and Bill Clinton, who killed thousands of Iraqis and pushed the country to the brink of famine. Joe Biden, Donald Trump, John McCain and Bernie Sanders all came to agree that the war was a mistake. But Rumsfeld remained unapologetic about Iraq until the very end, and in the process, made his name and that mistake largely synonymous. 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. But apt as it may be, James (who also composed the score . What do you think these two institutions have in common and why are they not exactly strange bedfellows? 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. 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. Thats not something the Blowback hosts need be self-conscious about. Assassinations, coups, counter-coups, and the rise of Saddam. Kulwin: Its incredibly difficult for Americans to have any kind of relationship with Cubans business, social. I dont know if its humility or neuroses, but I get worried that a source that looks reputable could be a limited hangout. The reality is, Cuban exiles have committed crimes like the detonation of an airplane and a hotel bombing in the Nineties. and Amirs social skills. This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity. 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. Join Brandon, Scott, Quintin, and T.J. as we laugh and learn a thing or two about the world and just maybe ourselves. This was a mass movement that was incredibly popular. Nuance, on the other hand, can reveal the inner nature of such events while providing precious little of the desperately needed instruction about what to do in their aftermath. Season 3 tells us how being sentenced to ten years in a North Korean prison camp (along with all of your family) was a breeze as there was plenty of rodents to hunt and sometimes you got released (ep 10). Sign up to get unlimited songs and podcasts with occasional ads. James: Look at Guatemala. James: Well, occasionally too many footprints are left and we have a decent idea of how things transpired in certain moments. Amir, Chase, Chris & Doug discuss the Oscars, Brian Williams, the social media watchmen, ISIS p.r. It was shameless war apologia. Filmmaker Dan Taberski was a Slimmons regular and a friend of Richards. gets its title from a bit of Central Intelligence Agency jargon the unintended and adverse consequences of covert operations. James: Additionally, this totalitarian system produces only poverty and hunger, and these poor, hungry people hightail it to the United States. Kulwin: Well, hold on Cuba is an island in the Caribbean. And its not all about Castro either I think thats one way American narratives try to discredit the revolution, by putting it all on one guy. The immense, Shakespearean tragedy of Iraq means that, like Watergate, it will lace those narratives for decades. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. Blowback, a podcast from Brendan James and Noah Kulwin, gives a rich history of both. Theres a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. The important thing is, we live in a society that views such a declaration not as Comey putting a grotesque trophy on his desk whatever his intentions may be but something thats supposedly a marker of progress. What is it? Ill save everyone the listening time: EVERY (and I mean every) action taken by America and all western countries since at least 1944 was pure evil; and EVERY action taken by the always peace loving, egalitarian, democratic, pacifist communist nations is justified, rational and for the good of the world. (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.). Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, The US threatens to cross the Yalu. 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. 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. As decades roll on, the war becomes permanent. This is a coup in 1954 that in many ways serves as the dry run for the Bay of Pigs. Blowback debuted last year with a widely praised season on the Iraq War, but, for season two, they chose a conflict closer to home: The Cuban Revolution. Eleven million people live there. The armistice in Korea is supposed to be temporary. 08.23.2021 S2 Episode 8 - "We'll All Meet In Hell" Blowback 47 Episodes Share Follow Episodes About 97 minutes | Nov 28, 2022 S3 Episode 10 - "The Host" The armistice in Korea is supposed to be temporary. on the Internet. Thats the kind of thing the Cuban revolution prevented. But I think one thing were trying to do is expose how that happens and, in some cases, reveal the mirror image that the United States is projecting every time it describes the horrors of communism. http://johnstreetproductions.com/category/blowback-podcast/feed/, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blowback-podcast-john-street-productions/id972448277. Visit us at www.civilwarpodcast.org. Why did early civilisations fight? I tend to want to be conservative when it comes to the mythology side of things because theres still speculation even in very good books. A podcast about the American Empire. This approach, when applied to the Iraq war, is revelatory. The interviews are a big difference from Season One does America still make it difficult to speak with people in Cuba? New uploads are still planned to be dropping every Friday at 6am/9ET. Skip to main content Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Team Slow Burn wisely declined to take the bait, but after just a single episode, the battle lines were clearly drawn: the mealy-mouthed, ambivalent, lamestream media against the pirate truth-tellers who laced their own account of the war with Howard Stern-like audio drops and profane tirades against Rumsfeld and his cronies. But a peace treaty never comes. Decades of military rule and a genocide that by the Nineties, by all mainstream accounts. 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. The Civil War (1861-1865): A History Podcast, A history podcast in which Rich & Tracy weave together a chronological narrative of the Civil War era. 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. To give you the best possible experience, this site uses cookies. Sign up to get unlimited songs and podcasts with occasional ads. Kulwin: Also it was grounded in a shared history. Revolutions, civil war, and a cast of characters from Kim Il-Sung to Mao Tse-tung to General Douglas MacArthur. 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. Our story: washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/ with 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. Blowback is a podcast about American history and foreign policy hosted by Noah Kulwin and Brendan James. What do you hope people take away from this season in terms of following Americas current exploits abroad? Part of calling it the CIA and giving it the fine name of espionage and James Bond and Jack Ryan is to obscure the actual reality, and ethical reality, of what the thing is. A podcast about the American Empire. Here, the limitations of Slow Burns more traditionally measured framing come into sharp relief: It does not confront or challenge Miller in any meaningful way. Weve backslid, and its a tragedy. 1. It might. Weve backslid, and its a tragedy. But history is storytelling, and in the world of storytelling, style matters. Its okay; but its akin to hack-comedy. Malone depicts Chalabi as a skilled flatterer with an ample supply of cultural (and financial) capital to cash in with Western powers who had their own reasons to yearn for Saddams scalp. Noah Kulwin: And a colony exporting Soviet totalitarian ideology to the rest of the Western Hemisphere, in violation of Americas sworn promise to protect it in the form of the Monroe Doctrine. Blowback is a podcast about American history and foreign policy hosted by Noah Kulwin and Brendan James. 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. As a matter of fact, that war in Korea never ended. S2 Sources - Blowback Season Two Sources This bibliography was assembled our season two fact-checker, Matthew Giles. The Iraq War did not take place.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, Brendan and Noah drag the Iraq War out of Americas memory hole to see how it shaped our world today. We should maintain a healthy distrust of institutions that are supposedly responsible for acting in the name of national security, and who are also theoretically responsible for being transparent to Congress and the public. 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. 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. Check out Ben's brand new weekly series, Debunked. When Donald Rumsfeld died this week, in-memoriams for the former secretary of defense who led the charge to war in Iraq were as blunt as the man himself. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, The media episode, breaking down some of the journalistic fuck-ups and pundit idiocy that steered us toward war in Iraq. I think every part of that is wrong. People with real blood on their hands were protected and nurtured by the American government repeatedly. They bring that same high quality analysis & rescue from the memory hole to the other stories they cover. Brendan James: The canned history is the classic: A romantic revolution is popular and admirable, but betrayed by the people who led it, in this case, Fidel Castro, his brother [Ral Castro] and Che Guevara. But a peace treaty never comes. And what would actually make it more effective, more insidious, was using progressive language while still performing the same nasty business. "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. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands 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. The best Podcast API to search all podcasts and episodes. Its all cherry-picked and drawn from outlets like CubaNet. The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time Blowback, as its hosts explain in their introductory episode, is history with a perspective. 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. Hosts Brendan James and Noah Kulwin discuss the CIA's dalliances with organized crime, interviewing Cubans about the Revolution, and challenging America's canned narratives. The armistice in Korea is supposed to be temporary. And will it bring you eternal happinessand, perhaps, eternal life? Follow him on Twitter @derek_j_rob. When in fact, thats the minority of people who tend to care about this stuff. How did you try to navigate that space? Blowback Season 3 Teaser COMING SUMMER 2022 The entirety of season three ten main narrative episodes, ten bonus episodes is available all at once to Blowback subscribers, for the price of $24.99. When Slate launched Slow Burn in April, the loyal, rabid Blowback fanbase attacked, egged on by influential lefty-world media figures. This quickly became one of my favourite podcasts. 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 [4] If you are a podcaster, the best way to manage your podcasts on Listen Notes is by claiming your Listen Notes To listen to the rest of season 3 right now, visit www.blowback.showAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy. The military history podcast specialists, looking at all aspects of war through the ages. Soundtrack:https://open.spotify.com/album/4e9hkmGdDhycmgcGKe3bF0?si=d97_H1fvS5CV84ZvcEhZqQ Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, S3 Episode 1 - Stop Me Before I Kill Again, A new season, a new story: The Korean War. 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). 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. Subscriptions are now available here: In addition to getting all of season three at once, Blowback subscribers receive: 2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer. All three hosts are millennials whose respective series gave listeners a detailed and, speaking as a listener, sometimes too detailed account of the folly, hubris and collective mania that led to the Iraq War. The armistice in Korea is supposed to be temporary. TJ, the youngest son of Tito . Thats just part of the game. Janet Jackson's nephew has criticized her "overly sexualized" live shows. Join Brandon, Scott, Quintin, and T.J. as we laugh and learn a thing or two about the world and just maybe ourselves.New Podcasts every Friday at 6/9ET am. when it comes to destroying an alternative social system being built somewhere in the world.. Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, President Truman and his Big General in the Far East enter their final standoff over the war. I dont think you can answer that with a straight-up, Yes. The CIAs emphasis was on covert operations and psychological warfare. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Were using a lot of, hopefully, honest research by people who have spent their whole lives trying to get to the bottom of this stuff, and we respect that a lot. But a peace treaty never comes. Put this image on your website to promote the show -, S3 Episode 1 - Stop Me Before I Kill Again, Report inappropriate content or request to remove this page. Some were appropriately straightforward. The Gulf War, brutal sanctions, and the End of History. 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. Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, Democrats believe they have the upper hand on legislation, culture, and the narrative but the blowback is already beginning. Brendan James and Noah Kulwin travel back to the most significant events of the 20th century to unveil how they were influenced by the US and how they still affect us today. 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. The Iraq War is history. FAQ How will I listen to my exclusive podcast or audiobook? Kulwin: Were trying to find a way to write him into season three his people are difficult but well see how it goes. . Trusted by 5,200 companies and developers. Meet the rogues gallery of George W. Bushs administration and Saddam Husseins family. Amir, Chase, Tim & Doug discuss the season premiere of Game of Thrones, Season 5. And all of this requires efforts however sometimes morally questionable of the United States to intervene and give the country back democracy. Our government is cool with aiding and abetting genocides and acts of cruelty around the world, and that we do so at home, too, in terms of how American law enforcement acts. in Havana that have no basis in reality. Thank you for this!! Helen, Shannon, Jenny, Amir and Doug play the first ever Blowback Quiz Game hosted by Chase. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy, A discussion of Operation Peter Pan with Prof. Nelson Valdes, with a detour into Hungary, 1956. No credit card needed. The term "blowback" describing the unintended consequences of covert foreign activities was coined in a 1954 CIA document that catalogued the agency's work in toppling Iranian Prime Minister. With still-inflammatory characters like Rumsfeld, Chalabi, and Miller to draw on, the Iraq War is a potent basis for such stories. 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, An excellent detailed podcast professionally done without all the unnecessary corny jokes, drinking & clueless knowledge of the subject matter; I was born in 1955 and this let me know the entire world (except maybe Greenland, Iceland?) And what would actually make it more effective, more insidious, was using progressive language while still performing the same nasty business. James: Everywhere you look in our modern world, the lines on the map, figurative and literal, come from this ongoing campaign. Copyright 2023 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Signup to sync subscriptions across devices. Unfortunately the Blowback podcast is going to be on hold as the team tries to properly self-isolate during the Covid-19 pandemic. Sign up free. The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time In the fifth season of Slates Slow Burn, which concluded just weeks before Rumsfelds death, host Noreen Malone delivered listeners one of the series signature deep dives on an event that looms so large over American history weve almost forgotten the details of what actually happened. Two Years After Patria Y Vida, Cuban Rapper Maykel Osorbo Remains in Jail. What do you think the conventional American narrative of the Cuban Revolution is? 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. 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