Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCivilizations 20a: 1857 – India’s War of Independence, pt1
Are we really doing this? One podcaster with Indian roots and another with British roots, trying to do the history of 1857 India? This is the Civiliz…
6 years ago
AEP 70: Reading Chomsky’s statement to the Assange Trial
On the last day of defense evidence in the Assange Trial (September 30/20), a statement from Chomsky was read into the record. This is a solo episode…
6 years ago
AEP 69: The Methods of Empire, with Isa Blumi
Isa Blumi is a professor at Stockholm University in Sweden and a scholar of the Empire. We talk about a range of imperial methods, including the crea…
6 years ago
Civilizations 19: The Crimean War
How did a military debacle lead to the abolition of serfdom in Russia? How did a disagreement over the nature of breakfast lead to a military loss? H…
6 years, 1 month ago
Civilizations 18: The Mexican-American War 1846-8
This episode is about how the US became the territorial empire that it is. We cover the Mexican-American War 1846-8, as well as the repeat performanc…
6 years, 1 month ago
AEP 68: The Donziger Case and the Assange Trial
Joe Emersberger and I talk about the Steve Donziger case, in which an environmental lawyer who won a landmark settlement against one of the world’s m…
6 years, 1 month ago
Civilizations 17: The 1848 Revolutions in Europe
There were many revolutions in Europe in 1848, with complex and contradictory results and lessons learned by all parties for future revolutionary rou…
6 years, 1 month ago
AEP 67: Haiti Arms Trade and The US State Department
I’m joined by Kira Paulemon of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR.net), co-author with Jake Johnston of a recent report about a State …
6 years, 1 month ago
Civilizations 16: Chartism, Reformism, Police Origins, Irish Famine
We investigate Britain around 1848. Why was there no revolution? We look at the Chartist and Reform movements in Britain and in Canada, Robert Peel a…
6 years, 1 month ago
AEP 66: Lopez Obrador takes on the Zapatistas
In Chiapas, Mexico, the Indigenous Zapatista rebels have raised the alarm about an intensification of paramilitary attacks on their communities. Manu…
6 years, 2 months ago