Ep 53: Cold War Wrap-Up
In the conclusion of HFH's series on the Cold War, Josh and Henry cover topics such as the rise of neocolonialism, what that encompasses, the step-by-step methodology for how the US launches coups in ...
30 Sep 202052min
Ep 52: The School of the Americas - Our Tax Dollars at Work
The School of the Americas is now open for enrollment and accepting new applications. The curriculum? Mass murder. Join us as we discuss this not-notorious-enough institution and learn why the US trai...
23 Sep 202058min
Ep 51: Ho Chi Minh p2 - Toppling the Domino
What did Vietnamese political landscape look like before the worst of the war? How did the Viet Minh topple the military might of US? Was Ho Chi Minh more a true-blue (or, more suitably, true-red) com...
16 Sep 20201h 2min
Ep 50: Ho Chi Minh p1 - Odyssey of a Radical
Surely one of the most vilified men in American historical memory wasn't always such a bad guy, if indeed he ever was. Listen now to learn how this globetrotting insurrectionary became radicalized and...
9 Sep 20201h 6min
Ep 49: Indira Gandhi p2 - The Death of Democracy
Opposition protests turning violent causing the declaration of a period of national emergency, thus granting the executive broader powers, including the ability to suspend elections and send federal t...
2 Sep 202057min
Ep 48: Indira Gandhi p1 - The Birth of Democracy
Born into the nucleus of emerging Indian nationalism, Indira Nehru Gandhi survived German air-raids and later British detention to became India's first (and only) female Prime Minister. Listen to lear...
26 Aug 202048min
Ep 47: Patrice Lumumba p2 - Autopsy of a Coup
Only 11 days after announcing independence, the Congo rapidly deteriorated into an orgy of chaos. Army grunts sought reprisals against its still-Belgian officers, the mineral-rich province of Katanga ...
19 Aug 20201h 2min
Ep 46: Patrice Lumumba p1 - Emerging Independence and Social Justice
Emerging from centuries of division, exploitation and abuse at the hands of outside oppressors, the people of the Congo began to assert themselves in the aftermath of World War Two, part of the "liber...
12 Aug 202056min
