Hidden History: Recent Episodes
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A special SWRN series devoted to explaining some of the biggest uprisings and revolution periods in history. It will be returning for a second season under a new name: Hidden History by this spring
In the finale of Hidden History season four, the end of the Contra war, the years of reconciliation that followed, and the dissolution of a democratic hope for the Nicaraguan people
Breaking down the reporting of Gary Webb in the San Jose Mercury News, particularly the Dark Alliance series laying out the Contra operation to smuggle cocaine into the US for funds to fight the Sandinistas, and the involvement of the CIA
The rise of the Contras in response to the revolutionary government of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas
How a guerilla group rose up to take out one of Latin America's most repressive dictatorships. Part two of our series on Nicaragua under the Sandinistas is next week.
The tragic death of Patrice Lumumba and its devastating consequences for the Congo and Africa at large
The story of the anti communist 1965 genocide/politicide masterminded by the US in Indonesia against members of the PKI and other indigenous Indonesians
Examining how certain close connections and convenient decisions propelled Bush to power in 2000.
Inside the process of shock therapy and the lasting impacts its had on Russian society.
A look at the campaign to tie class solidarity to black civil rights and its poisonous reverberations throughout history. Source: https://jacobin.com/2015/08/racism-reconstruction-homestead-act-black-suffrage
A closer look at the actions of both sides of the Korean War, and how they affected the Korean people.
The overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala and the years of unrest and violence that followed.
The background, significance, details, and legacy of the 1953 coup of Iran's democratically elected PM Mohammed Mossadegh.
How candidate Nixon used a South Vietnamese backchannel to stop LBJ's promising peace negotiations, ensuring Nixon's win and seven more years of death and destruction.
In late June 1776, as a massive British fleet prepared to invade New York, a complex drama played itself out at the headquarters of General George Washington’s Continental Army in New York City: a former bodyguard of the general was set to be hanged for conspiracy against the Patriot rebellion—and against Washington, himself.
On June 28, some 20,000 people gathered in a field just north of the city and watched a private in the Continental Army mount the gallows on charges of sedition, mutiny and treachery. The doomed man was Thomas Hickey, an Irish-born former British soldier who had joined the rebel cause after the outbreak of war in 1775- History
Analayzing Matt Karp's taking in Harpers magazine about the historical relevance of the 1619 project
Explaining the fascinating career and life of General Benjamin Butler throughout the civil war
Putting today's chaos in Afghanistan in 70 years of context to close out season 2 of Hidden History
How Wilmington, NC a prosperous majoirty black town's government and society was destoeyed by a band of state supported white supremacists in 1898, and why no one talked about it for another 100 years
How a conspiracy between the FBI and the Chicago Police Department murdered one of the most influential leaders of the civil rights movement, Chairman Fred Hampton
The life and times of John Brown, the radical abolitionist who helped kill slavery with his famous Harpers Ferry raid
Operation Paperclip, the US's hiring of Nazi scientists to help fight the Soviet Union explained. https://allthatsinteresting.com/operation-paperclip
Telling the story of how Israel gained a homeland and Palestine lost one. Solidarity to all those remembering family members this Nakba Day on Saturday
Reviewing the evidence that the killer of Malcolm X wasn't the Nation of Islam dispute previously thought. Source material is this article https://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/who-killed-malcolm-x-fbi-cointelpro-elijah-muhammad
Examining a new Netflix series which goes through the case the FBI could have killed Malcolm X
Weighing the evidence about the mob's involvement in winning Illinois for Kennedy in the 1960 election.
A history of American populism, including how and why it started, and why it fizzled out and what that says about where we are today.
A history of American populism, including how and why it started, and why it fizzled out and what that says about where we are today.
How the CIA's MKUltra program brought one of the most infamous drugs to our nation's shores in the heat of the Cold War.