What The U.S. Did To Haiti (w/ Jonathan Katz)
Current Affairs4 Marras 2024

What The U.S. Did To Haiti (w/ Jonathan Katz)

This episode originally aired on September 26, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!

Donald Trump and J.D. Vance have recently been pushing vicious racist fake news about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, claiming they are stealing and eating people's pets and destroying the town. But why are there Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio in the first place? What role has U.S. foreign policy played in driving Haitians from Haiti? Today, we are joined by Jonathan Katz, one of the leading journalists writing about U.S. imperialism and a specialist in Haiti. Katz tells us about the history of U.S. relations with Haiti, common misconceptions about the country, and the deeper meaning of the Springfield pet-eating scare, and how it fits with longstanding racialized narratives about threatening Haitians.

The former Port-au-Prince bureau chief for the Associated Press, Katz is the author of the books The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster and Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire. His newsletter can be found here.

It is not a matter of whether the United States should get involved in Haiti following the first presidential assassination there in more than a century. The United States is already deeply involved. The questions are how that involvement helped, at a minimum, to set the stage for the crisis now enveloping a nation of 11.5 million people and what to do with that reality from here on out...Ever since Haiti won its independence from France in a slave revolution that culminated in 1804, the mere idea of a republic run by self-liberated Black people has sent shivers through the white world. -Jonathan Katz, "U.S. Intervention in Haiti Would Be a Disaster—Again," Foreign Policy (2021)

Jaksot(600)

Liberal Media Helped Destroy Gaza (w/ Adam Johnson)

Liberal Media Helped Destroy Gaza (w/ Adam Johnson)

🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Adam Johnson is a media analyst and co-host of the podcast Citations Needed, whose work has appeare...

21 Huhti 59min

Trump Has No Idea What He’s Doing (w/ Mouin Rabbani)

Trump Has No Idea What He’s Doing (w/ Mouin Rabbani)

🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Mouin Rabbani is a Middle East analyst and researcher, and one of the most incisive commentators on...

18 Huhti 39min

Ben and Jerry's Co-Founder Takes on America's War Machine (w/ Ben Cohen)

Ben and Jerry's Co-Founder Takes on America's War Machine (w/ Ben Cohen)

🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership  Ben Cohen is the co-founder, along with Jerry Greenfield, of the Ben and Jerry's ice cream company...

16 Huhti 45min

How Media Silences Anti-War Voices (w/ Amy Goodman)

How Media Silences Anti-War Voices (w/ Amy Goodman)

🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Amy Goodman is the longtime host of Democracy Now!, the independent news program she helped launch ...

12 Huhti 36min

California’s Democratic Field Is Embarrassingly Weak (w/ Dr. Butch Ware)

California’s Democratic Field Is Embarrassingly Weak (w/ Dr. Butch Ware)

🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Dr. Butch Ware is a historian, public intellectual, and the Green Party candidate for Governor of C...

9 Huhti 41min

Israel’s Most Genocidal Law Yet (w/ Jasper Nathaniel)

Israel’s Most Genocidal Law Yet (w/ Jasper Nathaniel)

🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership  Jasper Nathaniel is an independent journalist who recently returned from documenting Israeli settl...

2 Huhti 1h 1min

Iran Historian: War Makes The Government "MORE REPRESSIVE" (w/ Afshin Matin-Asgari)

Iran Historian: War Makes The Government "MORE REPRESSIVE" (w/ Afshin Matin-Asgari)

🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Afshin Matin-Asgari is an Iranian historian and professor of Middle East history at California Stat...

28 Maalis 46min

Current Affairs Is Going to Cuba

Current Affairs Is Going to Cuba

🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Donald Trump is trying to starve the island nation into submission, but an international coalition ...

22 Maalis 15min

Suosittua kategoriassa Komedia

nikotellen
anni-jaajo
tuplakaak
antin-matka
olipa-kerran-otsikko
hupiklubi
ihan-oikeesti
rss-saarinen-shoy
antin-palautepalvelu
antin-elokuvakerho
puurojengi
everypodi
rss-kaheli
naakkavalta
kasper-ja-mikko-suomen-suosituin-podcast
ela-viitti
rss-kuukka-vehvilainen-hartlin
rss-nikotellen
rss-ruokacast
mysteeripodcast