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Season six — the story of Angola, apartheid South Africa, and Cuba — will be available on September 22. Subscribers get:
- 10 bonus episodes
- Ad-free listening experience
- Extra music and extended cuts from the show's soundtrack
- Unique discount codes for upcoming Blowback merchandise
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Interviews with history professor Michelle Chase and Cuban scholar Marta Nuñez Sarmiento.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
· 49 min 9 sec
Guatemala: an origin story, inspiration, and cautionary tale just a few hundred miles from our main story.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/pr...
· 41 min 56 sec
After the Kennedy assassination, US-Cuba diplomacy wanes and the embargo continues. To this day. Our story ends.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle....
· 1 hr 19 min 13 sec
Castro, Khrushchev, and Kennedy take tentative steps toward the path of peace post-Crisis. Cuban exile groups, and their CIA sponsors, are not pleased. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/bra...
· 1 hr 22 min 42 sec
The USA announces to the world there are missiles in Cuba. Fidel prepares for war. Khrushchev secretly haggles with Kennedy. Americans enjoy Betty Crocker Super Moist Cake Mix.Advertising Inquiries: h...
· 1 hr 5 min 50 sec
Fearing another American invasion — "the big one" — Soviet and Cuban leaders plot a secret response. Camelot never sees it coming.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & O...
· 1 hr 12 min 39 sec
Smarting from failure at the Bay of Pigs, the White House sets in motion a new plan to thwart the Cuban Revolution: Operation Mongoose.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-...
· 1 hr 2 min 57 sec
The CIA and the Cuban exiles get their long-awaited shot at taking out Castro and the Revolution. The subsequent battle in Cuba sends shockwaves around the world.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcirc...
· 1 hr 18 sec
JFK outmuscles Richard Nixon on Cuba and into the White House. The CIA begins training Cuban exiles in Central America for an invasion. And Fidel pays a visit to Harlem.Advertising Inquiries: https://...
· 1 hr 15 min 38 sec
The Cuban Revolution takes power and the counter-revolution begins. The U.S. government, organized crime, and Cuban exiles carry out a campaign of terrorism, assassination, sabotage and psy-ops to tur...
· 1 hr 16 min 35 sec
A long short history of Cuba’s relationship with the United States, climaxing with the Cuban revolutionaries’ war to liberate the island from the dictator Batista and his backers in the United States....
· 1 hr 20 min 26 sec
Welcome back. Brendan and Noah reveal this season’s subject, explore the USA’s unrelenting Cuba mania, and introduce the cast of characters.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &...
· 45 min 37 sec
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· 1 min 5 sec
Author Naomi Klein joins us to discuss the American exploitation-fest in Iraq, her own experience coming up during the Bush years, the rehabilitation of the Bush administration, and its continuities w...
· 40 min 9 sec
Brendan and Noah survey the underwhelming landscape of Iraq War cinema with special guest Matt Christman. They dissect both Hollywood's hits and flops — neither of which were very good — and recom...
· 1 hr 55 sec
In this first bonus episode, Noah talks to author and journalist Dahr Jamail, one of the few journalists who covered the occupation of Iraq, on the ground, without being embedded with the US military...
· 54 min 58 sec
Invading Iraq means never having to say you’re sorry. The end of Bush, the broken promise of Obama, and the rise of ISIS and Donald Trump.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & O...
· 1 hr 5 min 26 sec
The empire strikes back. As Iraq deteriorates into civil war, the Bush administration taps a new man to lead a new American strategy. Which means saying goodbye to an old friend.Advertising Inquiries:...
· 1 hr 2 min 24 sec
The American public votes to give Bush another term, right before a big dose of buyers’ remorse. In Iraq, the new "democracy" struggles to get elections off the ground as the situation careens...
· 59 min 9 sec
Somehow not expecting it, the Americans now face an insurgency problem, as both Sunni and Shi'a militants emerge to kick us out. War crimes and atrocities in Fallujah, Sadr City and Abu Ghraib fue...
· 1 hr 36 sec