A COLD WAR

This is going to be the first in a series of episodes where we talk about economics and war. I know - economics is a scary boring subject, but it's really just the study of how people make and spend money. In this episode we're going to argue that economics (money) was a significant factor in the genesis of the Cold War (and pretty much every other war in history too). We'll talk about imperialism...

Okay so we're still talking about IDEOLOGY. On our last episode we didn't get time to get into talking about CAPITALISM, so that's what we're doing on this episode. We talk a little about the history of capitalism, try to define it, and discuss how the United Kingdom's imperialist control over 25% of the world's economy wasn't something that FDR was willing to tolerate. If the UK wanted US support...

On this episode, our first premium episode, we continue talking about IDEOLOGY. SOCIALISM v CAPITALISM. TWO IDEOLOGIES ENTER, ONE IDEOLOGY LEAVES. Or something like that. What are they? How are they different? This episode is a very quick overview of SOCIALISM. If you want to know more, we suggest you read a fucking book. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is part one of a few episodes that will explain the military, ideological and economic conflicts and tensions between the US, UK and USSR before the Cold War. In this episode, we look at the "Polar Bear Expedition" and the first "Red Scare" in the US. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part Two of our mini-biography of FDR. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part One of our mini-biography of everyone's favorite wheelchair pilot, FDR. His family background (opium traders), his rise, his polio, his affairs, his reforms, his ballsy attitude, his assassination attempt, his concentration camps and how incredibly fucked America was when he was sworn in. In 1933, the US was in dire straits. Three years into the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and a third-ra...

Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili aka STALIN. Unlike Churchill and Roosevelt, Joseph wasn't born into the elite classes of society. His father was a cobbler; his mother, a housemaid. As a young man, he trained to become a priest, but it didn't take. Soon afterwards he discovered the writings of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, alias Lenin, and joined the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party, ending up th...

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a fascinating character. His reputation as a "great man", as the brave British wartime leader who defeated the Nazis, hides his reputation before and after WWII - a racist who enjoyed participating in "a lot of jolly little wars against barbarous peoples" and who even his peers thought had extremely racist views. We're not here to demonise Churchill, but, on t...

Where your intrepid hosts set off on the audio journey of a lifetime and introduce the series. If you like our intro music, it's by the very great Jofre Horta Antoniou! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices