Haiti and Western Intervention w/ Pascal Robert - Dispatch

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this Dispatch episode, we provide a grounding on the history of Western intervention in Haiti in order to analyze the current situation taking place there, and the prospects for even expanded intervention. For this, we bring on Pascal Robert, who's writing on Haiti has been very useful in shedding light on a locality that the Western media tends to ignore unless convenient for them. W're also joined by our friend James Ray as a guest host for this episode. Enjoy, and share!

Pascal Robert is a writer, political commentator, contributor to Black Agenda Report (if you're not already reading BAR, you should start right now!) and Newsweek, and is cohost of the This Is Revolution Podcast. He can be followed on twitter @probert06

James Ray is a political commentator and a friend of the show. You can follow him on Twitter @GoodVibePolitik and on TikTok @JamesGetsPolitical

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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.
0:27.1	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.
0:38.8	I'm your host, Henry Huckimacki, joined by one of my usual co-hosts and a guest co-hosts today. From my usual co-hosts, we are
0:45.2	joined by Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and director of the School of Religion at Queens
0:49.3	University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing today? I'm doing well. It's really great to be with you, Henry.
0:55.9	Yeah, always nice seeing you.
0:57.7	Unfortunately, we were not able to be joined by Brett O'Shea, host of Revolutionary Left Radio
1:02.9	and co-host of the Red Menace podcast.
1:05.1	He had something rather pressing come up at the very last minute.
1:09.2	Yeah, Brett, I hope that you get that sorted out very quickly.
1:12.8	But we are joined by a great guest host today.
1:17.3	We have our friend James Ray, who some listeners may remember from our panel discussion
1:22.3	on why historical knowledge is important for political activism and organizing. So James, welcome again to
1:30.1	Gorilla History. Can you briefly let the listeners know who you are? Yeah, absolutely. Hi,
1:34.2	everybody. My name's James. I do political commentary as well as organizing within the DSA, BDS
1:39.1	Working Group and the Philadelphia Young Communist League. Great. Happy to have you on the show again. I know you and I, we're pretty good friends. So we talk all the time. And you've had about five minutes notice before coming on to the episode today. So, you know, if James, if James lays an egg for this episode, he has an excuse. But I'm sure that that won't happen. We are joined also by our guest today, who's an excellent guest to talk about
2:03.0	the current topic. We have Pascal Robair, who's a writer, political commentator, contributor to Black
2:08.0	Agenda Report Newsweek, and co-host of This Is Revolution podcast. Hello, Pascal. It's a pleasure
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