AER 154: How to Stop the Exterminating Empire, with Chris de Ploeg
Chris de Ploeg is the author of Exterminating Empire: Capitalism’s War on Life, From Palestine to the Burning Planet (Monthly Review 2026)....
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A podcast about how today’s Empire works and who is resisting.
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20 of 312 episodesInterwar 20 Germany pt3: The Kapp Putsch
Part 3/4 of our first visit to Interwar Germany. The Weimar Republic is briefly overthrown by a military dictatorship, but the putsch is foi...
Interwar 19 Germany pt2: The Uprising of 1919
From the SPD perspective, with the Kaiser gone, the German Revolution was complete in 1918. But to the Spartacists, there was still a real r...
Interwar 18 Germany pt1: The German Revolution of November 1918
The Kaiser abdicates. The Social Democratic Party arrives to power. Karl Liebknecht stands on a balcony and tells the workers: “The rule of...
Interwar 17: USA the wrap-up
A departure from our normal historical narration: Dave reacts to contemporary USA headlines and politics with a view to American Interwar hi...
Interwar 16: The US Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934
The sordid and criminal US occupation of Haiti 1915-1934 with resistance heroes like Charlemagne Peralte, occupiers like Smedley Butler, a y...
Interwar 15: Gunboat Diplomacy: Interwar USA in Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Costa Rica
A roundup of Interwar US imperialism in four Central American countries
Interwar 14: Sandino battles the Americans for Nicaragua, 1927-1933
We go way back, at first, to the rise and fall of the filibustering William Walker, who wanted to be king of Nicaragua. You’ll meet Smedley...
Interwar 13: America invades the Dominican Republic, 1916-1924
In the Interwar years America invaded many Central American and Caribbean countries. The major ones included Haiti, Nicaragua, and the Domin...
Interwar 12 America: The Scopes Monkey Trial, Sacco & Vanzetti framed
A showdown over evolution at the Scopes Monkey Trial. A frame-up of Sacco and Vanzetti. A pair of Interwar trials define America in this per...
Interwar 11: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
Back when we covered the US Civil War, we talked about how the US ultimately un-did the Reconstruction. But undoing the Reconstruction went...
Interwar 10 America pt2: American Racism – Reservations, Black Labor, the KKK
Continuing our series on Interwar America including Indian Reservations, Black Labor, the Garveyite Movement, and the KKK.
Interwar 9 America pt1: Autos, Cinema, Airplanes, Finance, Prohibition, Gangsters
A little bit of everything as we take two hours to start to paint a picture of Interwar America.
Interwar 8: The rise of the first Reza Shah Pahlavi
After the Cossack Coup, a power struggle between rivals leads to Reza Khan rising to the top. He defangs an American financial mission, jail...
Interwar 7: Reza Khan and the Cossack Coup of 1921
The 1919 Anglo-Persian Agreement made every Persian government that followed unviable. Britain wanted Iran to be a colony, but couldn’t find...
Interwar 6: Iran the Semicolony and the Anglo-Persian Agreement of 1919
Iran’s Constitutional Revolution was in 1905, but the British are there and bent on colonizing it. The struggles of the last of the Qajjar S...
Interwar 5: Ireland from Easter Rising to Partition
In the aftermath of the Easter Rising of 1916, the Irish Revolutionaries regrouped. We trace their path through armed struggle against Brita...
AER 153: Venezuela War Begins with Maduro’s Kidnapping
In the early morning of January 3, 2026, the US bombed Venezuela and kidnapped its president and its first lady. As of Day 1 of the war, Ven...
Interwar 4: The Anglo-Afghan War of 1919: Amanullah wins Independence
Our last episode of 2025. Did you know that Amanullah’s decision to wage war for Afghanistan’s independence from the British Empire had ever...
Interwar 3: India 1919: Massacre at Amritsar, Uprising in Malabar…
Using Anita Anand’s book, The Patient Assassin, among other sources, we tell the story of India from 1919 to the 1920s, including the massac...