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)

To hear the rest of this discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow

Direct link to the Patreon portion of this broadcast - https://www.patreon.com/posts/aaron-good-and-78848682

Susan Abulhawa is a Palestinian American writer and human rights activist. She is the author of 'Mornings in Jenin,' which was translated into 32 languages and sold more than a million copies, 'The Blue Between Sky And Water' and 'Against the Loveless World.' She is the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine and the Executive Director of Palestine Writes (https://palestinewrites.org/).

Aaron Good is a political scientist and historian, the host of American Exception Podcast and the author of 'American Exception: Empire and the Deep State.'

***Please support The Katie Halper Show ***
For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media and to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow

Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps

Palestine & American Exceptionalism With Susan Abulhawa & Aaron Good

Historian Aaron Good explains US President John F. Kennedy's policies on the wars on Vietnam and Laos, and JFK's conflict with the generals in the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vkslqu9_q0w

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

This is part 2 of our historical analysis of the JFK administration.

(This episode was recorded in November 2022.)

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

History of US empire: JFK and wars on Vietnam and Laos

Historian Aaron Good discusses Operation Mongoose, the CIA's terror campaign against Cuba; how it led to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis; and the response of US President John F. Kennedy (JFK).

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mR_skuR6910

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

This is part 6 of our historical analysis of the JFK administration.

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

You can support American Exception at https://Patreon.com/AmericanException

How CIA's Operation Mongoose terror war led to Cuban missile crisis

To hear the rest of the discussion, please join us on Patreon at - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patreon-jfk-with-83264899

Journalist Michael Tracey and historian Aaron Good debate whether JFK was an anti-war president and if that's why he was killed. But first screenwriter and member of the board of directors of the Writers Guild of America West John Rogers talks about the WGA strike. 

John Rogers is a screenwriter and the creator of the television series Jackie Chan Adventures (2000–2005), Leverage (2008–2012; 2021-present as Leverage: Redemption on Freevee), The Librarians (2014–2018), and The Player (2015). Rogers co-wrote the films American Outlaws (2001), The Core (2003), Catwoman (2004), and Marry Me (2022), and co-wrote the story for the film Transformers (2007).

Michael Tracey is an independent journalist. 

Aaron Good is a political scientist and historian, the host of American Exception Podcast and the author of 'American Exception: Empire and the Deep State.'

***Please support The Katie Halper Show ***
For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow

Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps
Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/rkEk75Emhy

WGA Strike With John Rogers + JFK Debate With Aaron Good & Michael Tracey

Geopolitical Economy Report is an independent news outlet that provides original journalism and analysis to understand the changing world.

Get bonus content here! https://www.patreon.com/TheKatieHalperShow Please subscribe, rate and review us on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-katie-halper-show/id1020563127?mt=2 & support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheKatieHalperShow !! 

The Katie Halper Show takes a humorous look at the news, politics, pop culture, and the arts through news segments and conversations with writers, journalists, activists, artists and political comedians.

New tracks tagged #aaron good