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What is the defining achievement of Barack Obama? For a time, it seemed it would be his foreign policy: the Paris Agreement, diplomatic relations with Cuba, and getting Iran to give up its nuclear weapons program. When Trump got elected and those deals got undone, it seemed it would be the Affordable Care Act. But after plummeting for several years, the uninsured rate among adults has begun to cre...

In 1944, representatives of the Allied nations met at Bretton Woods to develop plans for a post-war economic world order. Rules for the regulation of currency exchange & trade were developed, and institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank were created to oversee national lending and development projects. Guided by New Deal economists like Harry Dexter White and John Maynard Keynes, the hope w...

Today, Matt Christman from Chapo Traphouse joins us to to talk about Andrew Carnegie, the Pinkerton Detective Agency, the other billionaires who followed his legacy! We conclude that America is the land of failsons! In the podcast, we talk about the use of Chinese slave labor by Mitt Romney! That is not a joke! Watch him confess This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other su...

Michael Edison Hayden, from Hatewatch joins us to talk about the short history of the internet right and how they came into power. Yesterday, he published an expose on Trump’s Sr. Policy Advisor Stephen Miller: In the run-up to the 2016 election, White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller promoted white nationalist literature, pushed racist immigration stories and obsessed over the loss of C...

GRAHAM ELWOOD: Podcast by (the non-billionaire, non-pedophile, non-dead) Jeff Epstein for Historic.ly , recorded August 31, 2019, in Pittman, New Jersey. You can find Historic.ly on the web , Twitter , and Facebook . You can find Jeff at Citizens’ Media TV on Twitter , Facebook , and on the web . Music by Wreck Tech, who can be found on SoundCloud and Spotify. An interview with Graham Elwood, prog...

Composed of multiple sides and a multitude of armed factions, the Syrian civil war has consistently defied attempts at easy summary. It’s also been the subject of an intense propaganda campaign by the American government, various think tanks, and media organizations. So...if you’re having trouble making sense of it all, you’re not alone. Today we speak with Andrea Glioti, a freelance journalist wh...

People have always thought that money is a mere tool for facilitating exchange. But, they don’t realize that money itself is a tool of power and money creates social relationships. The way a government uses and defines money creates inequality and class, poverty and misery. For example, if we look at the Greek Debt Crisis, the Euro wasn’t a neutral tool. Rather, the Euro created a stringent set of...

It is easy to distance yourself from people you don’t understand and dehumanize them as “the other.” Self-examination requires us to step into the deepest abyss of human history. The worst thing we think we can find there is a mirror, and that is a scary prospect. But this self-examination can lead you to a wonderful place and make you a much kinder person. When concentrating on the mass murder-su...

#DANNYSTRONG: OUR GOVERNMENT AND FOR-PROFIT HEALTHCARE LET PEOPLE DIE. Scott Desnoyers, interviewed by (the non-pedophile, non-billionaire, non-dead) Jeff Epstein for Historic.ly. Recorded August 7, 2019. You can find Historic.ly on the web , Twitter , and Facebook . You can find Jeff at Citizens’ Media TV on Twitter , Facebook , and on the web . Music by Wreck Tech, who can be found on SoundCloud...

In the US media, the history of Israel and Palestine begins in 1947 which of course paints a slanted picture about Palestine, the people and their struggles. Today, Dr. James Zogby comes to us to talk about the history of zionism, Palestine, colonization and religion and how it intersects with the current geopolitical conflict. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other sub...

RETIREMENT HEIST: AMERICAN PENSIONS AND THE ART OF BEING EVIL Podcast by (the non-billionaire, non-pedophile, non-dead) Jeff Epstein for Historic.ly, recorded August 16-20, 2019. You can find Historic.ly on the web , Twitter , and Facebook . You can find Jeff at Citizens’ Media TV on Twitter , Facebook , and on the web . Music by Wreck Tech, who can be found on SoundCloud and Spotify. Copy edited...

Contrary to popular belief, Katrina did not destroy New Orleans. Rather, it was the oil companies. Today, investigative journalist and author Greg Palast joins us to talk about Hurricane Katrina, Oil Companies and the British Petroleum Disaster. This is a tale of intrigue, fraud and the federal government’s conscience choice that allowed so much suffering. DON’T blame the Lady. Katrina killed no o...

Today’s episode will be about Juan Perón and his complicated legacy! Against all odds, Donald Trump succeeded in challenging political elites during the presidential campaign. He had not yet won the election, but commentators already struggled to find historical examples to explain the appeal of his vociferous movement. On 11 August, the Financial Times ran an article titled: “Donald Trump Evokes...

Today, Todd Miller joins us to talk about his new book, “Empire of Borders.” What is going on at the US-Mexico border, is just the tip of the iceberg. The US Security state is worldwide and it is waging a war in on the Poor. Excerpt We arrived at the Guatemalan military base in Zacapa on a hot morning in early June. In the front there was a closed gate guarded by soldiers in green jungle camouflag...

Jenn Budd was a border patrol agent between 1994 and 2001. She spills the beans on the daily operations of the border patrol agents. While, these revelations are shocking, things have gotten worse in the last 18 years since she left! When Jenn apprehended a family, her first words to her mother were, “ I feel like a Nazi.” In this episode, we learn about the crimes, atrocities and much more that f...

Editor’s note: We would like to introduce you to a new partner Jeffrey Epstein (he sadly shares the same name with the more infamous Jeffrey Epstein, but he is not THAT Jeffrey Epstein). He owns the website Citizens’ Media TV and from time to time, he will be doing special episodes that will only enhance your experience. About This Episode Keith Errol Benson is a historian and the author of the bo...

Last year, we covered the evil judicial coup engineered by the think tanks at Washington and Wallstreet against Lula Da Silva, thereby ensuring a Bolosnaro victory . However, new allegations have come out about the Judge Sergio Moro in these leaked documents. He was more than an impartial judge. He was actively collaborating with the prosecution to take down one of the most populist leaders in the...

Listen to part 1 here As Kennedy aide and historian Arthur Schlesinger declared,"we were at war with the national security people."  JFK was planning to withdraw combat troops from Vietnam, he proposed a joint space shot with the Soviets, he stopped nuclear testing above ground and was moving to ban all nuclear testing, he was trying to control the CIA, he was exploring diplomacy with Cuba, he pus...

Today, Ryan Grim from The Intercept joins us to talk about his Book "We’ve Got People” and the History of the Democratic Party. Book Snippet Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may seem like she came from nowhere, but the movement that propelled her to office – and to global political stardom – has been building for 30 years. We’ve Got People is the story of that movement, which first exploded into public vi...

Iran’s sins seems to be overthrowing US puppet dictator, the Shah of Iran. US has never forgiven Iran for that. For much of the past 40 years, the Iranian crisis has been manufactured with a compliant media. Gareth Porter is an American historian, investigative journalist, author and policy analyst specializing in U.S. national security policy. He has studied Iran for nearly 30 years. His book Man...

Note from the Author My new book "Burying the Lead:  The Media and the JFK Assassination" explores how the power elite worked with the media--from the murder until today. Three days after the assassination, just after Ruby killed Oswald, t he FBI and the Deputy Attorney General issued a memo stating that "the public must be convinced that Oswald is the lone assassin and that he does not have confe...

Benjamin Studebaker , South Bend resident, who belongs to the famous Studebaker car manufacturing family tells us the story of what happened to the manufacturing industry in America and the broken promises. For decades, economists have been arguing that eventually, technology would boomerang around and replace the manufacturing jobs. That is not what happened. The manufacturing companies employed...

Marxist professor and Presidential candidate Katarina Peovic joins us to talk about Croatia after the war, the effects of neoliberalism and hyper-capitalism on this tiny nation. She also talks about her presidential platform and what she sees as the future for her country. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit historic...

Today, Harvard Professor Moshik Temkin joins us to talk about how pundits recently have misinterpreted history and also talk about Huey Long and his legacy. To learn more about Huey Long, visit The Huey Long Society . This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit historicly.substack.com/subscribe

Most of the other episodes, we got people to talk about history. Today, we have a man who made history. Senator Mike Gravel who was Senator from Alaska from 1969-1981 joins us to talk about Daniel Elsberg, the Pentagon Papers and his role in making sure that the public got to read the real reasons for why they were in Vietnam. He also talks about the intelligence agencies and lack of civilian over...