USAID: Crossover with Radio Free Amanda

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

In this special crossover episode of Guerrilla History, we collaborate with friend of the show Amanda Yee and her podcast Radio Free Amanda to discuss the history and somewhat covert imperialism of USAID. This is a conversation that was very interesting to do the background research before, and was a very fun conversation in itself!

Amanda Yee is an activist and the creator of the podcast Radio Free Amanda. Her show focuses on topics such as imperialism, media criticism, and more. The show is very new, and we are hoping to help get the word out about it! You can follow Amanda on twitter @catcontentonly and support her and her show at https://www.patreon.com/radiofreeamanda.

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. If you have any questions or guest/topic suggestions, email them to us at [email protected].

Your hosts are immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea.

Follow us on social media! Our podcast can be found on twitter @guerrilla_pod, and can be supported on patreon at https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory. Your contributions will make the show possible to continue and succeed!

To follow the hosts, Henry can be found on twitter @huck1995, and also has a patreon to help support himself through the pandemic where he breaks down science and public health research and news at https://www.patreon.com/huck1995. Adnan can be followed on twitter @adnanahusain, and also runs The Majlis Podcast, which can be found at https://anchor.fm/the-majlis, and the Muslim Societies-Global Perspectives group at Queens University, https://www.facebook.com/MSGPQU/. Breht is the host of Revolutionary Left Radio, which can be followed on twitter @RevLeftRadio and cohost of The Red Menace Podcast, which can be followed on twitter @Red_Menace_Pod. Follow and support these shows on patreon, and find them at https://www.revolutionaryleftradio.com/.

Thanks to Ryan Hakamaki, who designed and created the podcast's artwork, and Kevin MacLeod, who creates royalty-free music.

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0:00.0	You don't remember Den Ben-Boo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:15.0	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.
0:28.9	Hello everybody, and welcome to guerrilla history.
0:33.0	Today's episode is actually a crossover collaboration with friend of the show, Amanda Yee from Radio Free Amanda.
0:41.5	Amanda is somebody that I personally wanted to talk to for quite a while and we finally figured
0:46.7	it out that guerrilla history collab would be the best way to do that.
0:50.5	So we did it.
0:51.4	And it's a really interesting conversation.
0:53.1	The focus of this conversation is on USAID, but obviously that is a mechanism through which we can explore broader topics around imperialism. And importantly, exactly how American imperialism operates abroad through proxy organizations that are ostensibly dedicated to things like
1:15.2	freedom and democracy and human rights. And so we sort of peel back the veil on that and examine
1:21.3	how the organization USAID actually operates. And it gives us some insights into imperialism. So this is a wonderful
1:28.9	collaboration. We're really happy with how it turned out
1:31.5	and if you don't already know, definitely
1:33.3	go follow Amanda on Twitter and check
1:35.3	out her show Radio Free
1:37.3	Amanda. And with that said, enjoy. Hey everyone. So today we have a special collaboration episode with guerrilla history and radio
1:59.5	free Amanda. So since this is something different, we're all going to
2:03.0	go around and introduce ourselves. So I'm Amanda and I host the podcast Radio Free Amanda and I'm
2:08.7	cat content only on Twitter. Hello, I'm Henry Huckimacki. I'm one of the co-hosts of
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