Dispatch: The Pandora Papers w/ Branko Marcetic

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we host a crash course and discussion on the recently leaked Pandora Papers, the political impact of them, and their provenance! We are calling this a "Dispatch" as it's a shorter, more "in the moment" episode to ground us for current events. Our guest is Branko Marcetic, writer at Jacobin Magazine and author of the new article CIA Op or Not, the Pandora Papers Are a Big Deal.

Branko Marcetic is a staff writer at Jacobin Magazine and the author of the book Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden (Verso Books). You can read his work for Jacobin, which is compiled here: https://www.jacobinmag.com/author/branko-marcetic?__cf_chl_managed_tk__=pmd_lI6_GpQJFtFB4rr09QEWFBODkM1bLZd4qFjYo7Mp8sA-1634881856-0-gqNtZGzNAzujcnBszQd9. You can follow Branko on twitter @BMarchetich. Also look for his podcast about New Zealand and international politics, 1/200 Podcast (on twitter @1of200podcast, and wherever you get your pods).

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0:29.6	Hello and welcome to a guerrilla history dispatch.
0:33.6	Guerrilla history is 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, Henry Huckemacki, and I'm joined by only one of my co-hosts, unfortunately today, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing
0:54.5	today? I'm doing well, Henry. It's great to be here with you. Absolutely. And just to remind the
1:00.1	listeners briefly about what dispatches are, because I believe this is only our second one. Dispatches are
1:05.7	going to be shorter, more informal episodes that take a look at more recent events and try to situate them
1:12.0	historically, rather than taking a deep dive into history like we do with our full episodes.
1:17.6	So unfortunately, we're not joined by our other co-host, Brett O'Shea, today, but we do have
1:23.3	an excellent guest lined up for us. We have Bronco Marcheach, who is a writer at Jacobin and who
1:30.2	recently wrote an article that Adnan, you and I both independently found when we were trying
1:35.3	to find some information about the Pandora Papers. Bronco's piece is titled CIA Op or Not. The Pandora
1:43.0	Papers are a big deal. And again, that was in
1:45.7	Jacobin. Adnan, why don't I turn it over to you briefly before we open up for Bronco to give your
1:51.4	opening thoughts on why we were looking at the Pandora papers. And, you know, I think it was a little bit
1:56.3	funny that we both ended up with this exact same piece independently of one another.
2:00.9	Yeah. Well, thanks so much, Henry, and it's really great to have Bronco here to talk about
2:06.8	this article and the larger issues, but the reason why I came across it was, I think, because
2:13.3	I was trying to situate some kind of comparison in the history of different major leaks that we've
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