Friend of the gays, like friend of the woods.

Historian Aaron Good explains how the CIA organized a coup against Guatemala's democratically elected left-wing President Jacobo Árbenz to stop land reform and help the United Fruit Company (Chiquita today). He also discusses the Dwight Eisenhower administration's policies in Southeast Asia and the Vietnamese national-liberation struggle against French colonialism.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JTfMOH-j4Oc

This is PART 15 of the Empire and the Deep State series we are co-hosting with historian Aaron Good and producer Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast.

PLAYLIST with past episodes in the series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL

How CIA overthrew Guatemala's elected president for United Fruit Company (with historian Aaron Good)

Historian Aaron Good explains the final years of the Dwight Eisenhower administration, including the start of the CIA's war on Cuba's revolutionary government and the coup against Congo's anti-colonialist leader Patrice Lumumba.

This is PART 17 of the Empire and the Deep State series Geopolitical Economy Report editor Ben Norton is co-hosting with Aaron Good and Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7nuSZN2GU

PLAYLIST with past episodes in the series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL

Behind the CIA war on Cuba and coup in Congo (with historian Aaron Good)

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special guests Brendan James and Noah Kulwin (of Blowback) discuss 80s Red Scare anti-communist action trash made by legitimate right-wing psychos with a double feature of John Milius' RED DAWN (1984) + Joseph Zito's RED SCORPION (1988). Next week's episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on Ralph Bakshi's FRITZ THE CAT (1972) and WIZARDS (1977), you can get access to that episode (and all past + future bonus episodes) by subscribing to our $5 tier on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sleazoidspodcast

Intro // 00:00-10:33
RED DAWN // 10:33-1:29:51
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Outro // 2:31:14-2:35:14

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287 - RED DAWN (1984) + RED SCORPION (1988) ft. Brendan James & Noah Kulwin

Released in the middle of the Obama era, George Clooney's THE IDES OF MARCH (2011) has a lot to tell us about a time when the horizons of possibility were contracting. That's right, folks - it's time to have fun with a good, old-fashioned Politics Movie™.

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#454 - The Liberal Imagination

Anders & Antifada Andy team up to interview the unmasked McKinsey whistleblower and journalist Garrison Lovely about consulting with Rikers and ICE. Other topics include bread fixing, opiates, McKinsey 4chan, and Mayor Pete.

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Garrison's Nation article: ww.thenation.com/article/society/mckinsey-whistleblower-confessions/

Song: They Might Be Giants - Ampersand

&&&: Garrison Lovely on McKinsey

Tom sits down with Christian Hansen & Zach Treitz to discuss their new Netflix Docuseries "American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders"

Bonus Episode: The Octopus Murders (w/ Special Guests: Christian Hansen & Zach Treitz)

Jen AKA Big Nasty from The Communist Party USA ATX chapter joins us to talk about her trip to "the New York City of Vietnam." That joke will make sense after you get to the part where we talk about Eric Adams getting his shit wrecked on The Breakfast Club this week.

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Charles, Tarik, Christina, Andy, and John discuss Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), an existential attack on public-sector unions before the SCOTUS; the ongoing war over immigration policy; and a famously bad lawyer, Len Kachinsky, who somehow got worse.

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Episode 6: The Grown-Up Goliath Nation

Tarik, Michael, Robyn, Adam, and Ames discuss the potential ramifications of Michael Cohen's almost reckless loyalty to his client, the infamous "Slender Man Case" and issues of competence and juvenile justice, and the comeuppance that Chuck Johnson and some other jerks seem to be finally getting.

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Episode 8: I Would Give Everything

Charles, Christina, Mark, James, and Ames discuss the art of wedding cakes, class-action waivers in employment, Brendan Dassey's habeas petition, and Paul Manafort.

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Episode 16: Do You Really Wanna Be a Cop?

Charles, Tarik, Christina and Michael explore the jurisprudence of Trump's nominee to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, Brett Kavanaugh.  SPOILER ALERT: he's bad.

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1:50
Brett Kavanaugh nomination

18:45 
Seaworld of Florida vs. Thomas E. Perez, Secretary, United States Department of Labor.  OSHA case regarding an employee killed by Tilicum, an orca ("killer whale")

35:43
Verizon vs. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Regarding whether signs that union members posted in car windows constituted "picketing."

50:10
Garza vs. Hargan. Case involved the rights of an undocumented immigrant in Texas seeking an abortion.

1:03:30
Obamacare, ie Affordable Care Act

Episode 16: Do You Really Wanna Be a Cop?

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