Coups, Oil, the CIA, and Arab Nationalism in Iraq w/ Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 178 minutes

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Summary

In this fascinating episode, we talk with Professor Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt about the numerous coups of Iraq from 1953-1968 (and the CIA/State Department role in these) amidst the background of rising Arab nationalist politics and pushes by several groups for nationalization of Iraqi oil. A fantastic discussion based off of Brandon's equally fabulous book The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq!

Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt is a historian at California State University, Stanislas. You can (and should!) get The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq from Stanford University Press https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=26330

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0:00.0	You remember Den Van Boo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:14.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:27.2	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. I'm your host,
0:39.2	Henry Huckimacki, joined as usual by my co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and
0:44.4	director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How
0:48.8	are you doing today? I'm doing really well. It's good to be with you, Henry. Yeah, absolutely. Always
0:54.0	nice seeing you. Also joined by our other co-host good to be with you, Henry. Yeah, absolutely. Always nice seeing you.
0:55.4	Also joined by our other co-host, Brett O'Shea, host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast. Hello, Brett. How are you today? How is Omaha going right now? Hello, yeah, I'm doing good. Omaha's okay, but I'm leaving it tomorrow. I'm going to going to France. I'm looking forward to that.
0:52.1	Yeah, absolutely. Didn't know if we wanted to bring that up or not, but we certainly
1:14.5	will be talking about that later. I'm quite sure. So I hope that you enjoy that trip. But today,
1:20.1	listeners, we have a really fascinating episode coming up for you, which, thinking off the top of my head, we're probably going to
1:29.4	title something along the lines of coups, the CIA, oil and Arab nationalism, because we're
1:34.8	tying a lot of threads together in this episode. We have a really fantastic guest coming up.
1:39.9	The book is the paranoid style in American diplomacy, oil and Arab nationalism in Iraq.
1:45.0	And our guest will be Brandon Wolf Honeycutt.
1:47.4	And I personally loved the book, loved the history behind it.
1:51.7	And I think that it's a really fascinating history that a lot of people in the West aren't aware of.
1:56.4	When we think of Iraq in the United States, Most people's historical knowledge probably dates back to
2:03.4	2003, if they're particularly young, or maybe 1991, if they're a little bit older. But very
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