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G&R Episode 39: Remembering 9/11

G&R Episode 39: Remembering 9/11

FromGreen & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals


G&R Episode 39: Remembering 9/11

FromGreen & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

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Length:
76 minutes
Released:
Sep 11, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

9/11 changed our world.  Scott (@sparki1969) and Bob (@bobbuzzanco) had a spirited discussion on the impact of the events of September 11, 2001.  We offered personal recollections, talked about the larger historical context in which it occurred, considered the consequences of the attacks--prolonged Mid-East wars and heightened repression at home, discussed the way the attacks and wars were manipulated for "patriotic" reasons, and talked about how it effects the U.S. today, in the era of Trump.
Read More:

U.S. State Department Memo, May 1, 1950 (NSA Archive): https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB78/propaganda%20003.pdf
Excerpts From Iraqi Document on Meeting with U.S. Envoy (NY Times): https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/glaspie.html
Presidential Daily Briefing Memo of August, 2001 (NSA Archive): https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB116/pdb8-6-2001.pdf
Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’ (The Atlantic): https://bit.ly/2GP4FUE
VIDEO: Zbigniew Brzezinski Taliban Pakistan Afghanistan pep talk 1979: https://bit.ly/3hqquXn

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This is a Green and Red Production. Produced and co-hosted by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). Edited by Isaac. "Green and Red Blues" by Moody. 
Released:
Sep 11, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Welcome to our scrappy podcast. Bob Buzzanco and Scott Parkin co-host a regular podcast to discuss radical environmental and anti-capitalist politics with organizers, academics, artists and more. Bob Buzzanco is a professor of history at the University of Houston. He specializes in, writes about and talks on the Vietnam War era, foreign policy, Vietnam, radical social movements, economics, and other stuff. Scott Parkin is climate organizer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has organized campaigns against Wall Street banks, mountaintop removal coal mining and the Keystone XL pipeline.