How do we know for sure when a nation is definitively and indisputably beyond redemption? What are some large portents or warning signs that indicate a country is on its last legs? In sum, how are revolutions built? Josh and Henry RETURN from their hiatus with the first in a three-part installment covering the rise and fall of French Revolution, discussing in this episode the social and economic factors that led up to the storming of the Bastille, including France's fiscal shortcomings, a widespread disbelief in competency of the ruling class and, to top it all off, a food crisis.
Ep 85: Russia in the 90s p2 - Trickle Up Economics
Ep 84: Russia in the 90s p1 - The Bigger They Are...
Ep 83: History Wormhole - MKULTRA
Ep 82: Weimar Germany, 1929 - 1933
Ep 81: Weimar Germany, 1918 - 1929
Ep 80: Marielle Franco
Ep 79: Anna Mae Aquash - Woman Warrior
Ep 78: Phoolan Devi - Avatar of Durga
Ep 77: Dolores Ibarruri (La Pasionaria) - An Overview of the Spanish Civil War
Ep 76: Angela Davis - "We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society"
Ep 75: Marcus Garvey - "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots."
Ep 74: Haile Selassie - The Ethiopian Machiavelli
Ep 73: Western Wrap Up
Ep 72: Fred Hampton - You can kill a revolutionary, but you can't kill the revolution
Ep 71: Bass Reeves - "Pull it fast and shoot it straight"
Ep 70: Who are the Texas Rangers Really?
Ep 69: Jesse James - "the worst man, without any exception, in America" (w/ special guest Jerry Wayne Longmire)
Ep 68: Billy The Kid - American Outlaw
Ep 67: Juan Cortina - "the Prince of Bandits"
Ep 66: Geronimo - Paragon of Resistance
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