Washington Bullets w/ Vijay Prashad

Guerrilla History

Henry

Education, History

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2020

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Guerrilla History, the guys run through some of the long and sordid history of US interventions abroad, whether by the military, the CIA, the IMF, or other even less thought about methods. The very special guest is Vijay Prashad, Director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research and author of (among many other vital works) the new book Washington Bullets.

Vijay can be followed on twitter @vijayprashad and the Tricontinental Institute can be followed @tri_continental. Washington Bullets is available from LeftWord books for a very low price! You can find it here https://mayday.leftword.com/catalog/product/view/id/21820.

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0:00.0	You remember Den Ben 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.
0:39.0	I'm your host, Henry Huckamacki, joined by my co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussein,
0:43.3	historian and director of the School of Religion at Queens University in Ontario, Canada.
0:47.6	Hello, Adnan.
0:48.9	Hi, Henry.
0:50.5	And Brett O'Shea, host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast.
0:55.7	Hello, Brett.
0:56.4	Hello, Henry.
0:57.4	Nice to have you both here.
0:58.8	I'm really looking forward to the conversation that we're going to have coming up.
1:02.1	So today our guest is Vijay Prashad, who is the director of the Tri-Continental Institute for Social Research, is the author of many books, including the darker nations,
1:14.3	the people's history of the third world, the poorer nations, a possible history of the
1:19.3	global south and red star over the third world. But today he's going to be gracious enough
1:25.0	to talk about his newest book, which is just out. It's called
1:28.4	Washington Bullets. It's out from Left Word Books. That's Left W-O-R-D books. And it talks about the
1:36.9	history of U.S. intervention, CIA coups and the like across the world. And what I think was a
1:44.0	really, really interesting and thought-provoking book.
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