#1305 How to Build an Empire (A History of American Expansion) (Repost)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 7 August 2021
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Summary
Air Date 9/13/2019
Today we take a look at the history and the process of the building of an American empire that currently spans the globe but allows as few people of color to vote as possible.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Daniel Immerwahr: Empire State of Mind Part 1 - On the Media - Air Date 8-22-19
The history of US imperialism — and why the familiar US map hides the true story of our country. With Northwestern University historian Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States.
Ch. 2: Doctrine of Christian Discovery - Let’s Talk Native - Air Date 3-18-19
I learned that most educators know nothing about the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. How can you teach about colonization, slavery, the American genocide, Westward expansion or imperialism without teaching the origins of it all?
Ch. 3: Harvest of Empire Part 1 - Making Contact - Air Date 6-25-19
It's not just jobs and prosperity that draw immigrants to the United States. Many Latin American’s were brought here, or forced to come by dangerous or deadly conditions. And the US often had a role in creating those crises.
Journalist Todd Miller (@memomiller) joins Sam to discuss his new book, "Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border Around the World."
Ch. 5: Harvest of Empire Part 2 - Making Contact - Air Date 6-25-19
It's not just jobs and prosperity that draw immigrants to the United States. Many Latin American’s were brought here, or forced to come by dangerous or deadly conditions. And the US often had a role in creating those crises.
Ch. 6: Daniel Immerwahr: Empire State of Mind Part 2 - On the Media - Air Date 8-22-19
The history of US imperialism — and why the familiar US map hides the true story of our country. With Northwestern University historian Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States.
Ch. 7: Blood, lies and the American empire - This is hell - Air Date 5-13-19
Black Agenda Report's Danny Haiphong traces a 300 year history of fake news in America. Danny is author of the book American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News—From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 8: Gun responsibility vs naked evil - Dave from Olympia, WA
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 9: Final comments on this weeks topics poll
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast in which we shall |
| 0:07.4 | learn the history and the process of how America's Empire, which currently spans the globe, |
| 0:13.9 | was built and what principles we have held firmly to from beginning to end. |
| 0:19.5 | Before we get started though, I have a couple of thoughts for you. |
| 0:22.2 | Obviously, this is a touchy subject because everyone tends to love the country they're |
| 0:28.4 | from, maybe none more than Americans love for America. |
| 0:33.6 | So I have no doubt that today's episode will challenge some people, but I don't think |
| 0:39.1 | it should anger people. |
| 0:41.6 | I don't think it should offend people. |
| 0:44.0 | And what I want to point out before we even get started is how impersonal this is, how |
| 0:51.4 | known as being described as an evil person with an evil plan, no one is being accused |
| 0:58.2 | of having set out to harm anyone else. |
| 1:02.7 | So today's show is meant to give a fuller, more nuanced understanding of history. |
| 1:11.6 | And it describes the story of a system of cultural thought, mostly racism, and how that plays |
| 1:19.8 | out in the physical world. |
| 1:22.8 | Not about individual people being bad or people today who have pride in their country being |
| 1:31.9 | wrong or bad or anything like that. |
| 1:34.9 | So I want you to come away from this episode with a more nuanced understanding of history, |
| 1:40.1 | but not so that you have something to feel bad about or guilty about. |
| 1:45.2 | And so that you can understand how America is seen from much of the outside world, so |
| 1:52.7 | that you can take that information and then advocate for policies in the modern era that |
| 1:58.1 | take that history into consideration. |
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