https://blowback.show Blowback Wed, 24 Sep 2025 21:12:39 +0000 https://blowback.show en https://blowback.show/Season-6 Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:49:13 +0000 Blowback https://blowback.show/Season-6 <img width="1300" height="320" width_o="1300" height_o="320" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/36c7fbd532d1a10a0aa18a2e8eb3ec4bff5629885a54d0da1d70e50a0202c587/Banner.jpg" data-mid="238055114" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/36c7fbd532d1a10a0aa18a2e8eb3ec4bff5629885a54d0da1d70e50a0202c587/Banner.jpg" /> When Apartheid South Africa invades the newly independent nation of Angola, revolutionary Cuba sends its own army to defend its African ally, while the United States backs a warlord, Jonas Savimbi, whose only goal is power. Blowback season 6 arrives on September 22nd. Subscribe now. <img width="1300" height="200" width_o="1300" height_o="200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cfad031788635cea035d5fe6eda74094ef5890e39b15f11271b9c8fa4ac0e126/button.jpg" data-mid="238055115" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cfad031788635cea035d5fe6eda74094ef5890e39b15f11271b9c8fa4ac0e126/button.jpg" /> The entirety of season six — 10 main narrative episodes, 10 bonus episodes — can now be purchased for the price of $28.99. Subscriptions are available here. Visit our merch store here.In addition to getting all of season six at once when it’s released, Blowback subscribers receive:Immediate access to an ad-free catalog of past seasonsExtra music / demos / extended cuts from the show's soundtrack by The Great VorelliUnique discount codes for Blowback merchandisePraise for Blowback:“Brimming with intrigue” - Rolling Stone“Popular” - Vulture“Unmissable” - Podcast Review“A cool ‘aural slapper’ to entertain &amp; edify you” - BLCKBRD Spyplane“Diligent and expansive research” - Boing Boing“Well-researched” - Hyperallergic“A gripping, thorough account” - Gizmodo“Something different” - Tribune (UK)“Brilliant” - The Express Tribune (Pakistan)“Painstaking detail” - AV Club“Makes no bones” - AV Club (again)“Filled with meticulous consideration” - IndieWire“Genuine scholarship” - Uproxx“A necessary resource” - Jacobin“Damning receipts” - Reason&nbsp; “Technically not true crime” - Newsweek“Meticulously researched and assembled” - O, The Oprah MagazineLinks:Follow Blowback on TwitterSeason 1 SiteSeason 2 SiteSeason 3 SiteSeason 4 SiteSeason 5 SiteSeason 1 SourcesSeason 2 SourcesSeason 3 SourcesSeason 4 SourcesSeason 5 Sources Season 6 Sources https://blowback.show/Season-5 Thu, 04 Jul 2024 18:05:45 +0000 Blowback https://blowback.show/Season-5 <img width="1300" height="320" width_o="1300" height_o="320" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a7ef5eef078293070563cfa417999fc70956d9ec31a5883e56b90368fcf03a90/main.jpg" data-mid="214132823" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a7ef5eef078293070563cfa417999fc70956d9ec31a5883e56b90368fcf03a90/main.jpg" /> After covering the Iraq War, the Cuban Revolution, the Korean War, and the Afghanistan conflict – Season 5 of Blowback will feature the story of Cambodia, Kissinger and the Khmer Rouge. Spanning the 20th century and beyond, co-hosts Brendan James and Noah Kulwin examine the roots of America’s involvement in Indochina.&nbsp;Season 5 has arrived. Subscribe now. <img width="1300" height="200" width_o="1300" height_o="200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9a338cb139b963b0b98bfbefe760132ecbe43b7e7da96d8c98c735f566eea835/subscribe.jpg" data-mid="214132822" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9a338cb139b963b0b98bfbefe760132ecbe43b7e7da96d8c98c735f566eea835/subscribe.jpg" /> The entirety of season five — 10 main narrative episodes, 10 bonus episodes — can now be purchased for the price of $24.99.&nbsp;Subscriptions are available here. In addition to getting all of season five at once when it’s released, Blowback subscribers receive: Immediate access to an ad-free catalog of past seasonsExtra music / demos / extended cuts from the show's soundtrack by The Great VorelliUnique discount codes for upcoming Blowback merchandise Praise for Blowback: “Brimming with intrigue” - Rolling Stone“Popular” - Vulture “Unmissable” - Podcast Review “A cool ‘aural slapper’ to entertain &amp; edify you” - BLCKBRD Spyplane“Diligent and expansive research” - Boing Boing“Well-researched” - Hyperallergic “A gripping, thorough account” - Gizmodo “Something different” - Tribune (UK)“Brilliant” - The Express Tribune (Pakistan)“Painstaking detail” - AV Club“Makes no bones” - AV Club (again) “Filled with meticulous consideration” - IndieWire“Genuine scholarship” - Uproxx “A necessary resource” - Jacobin“Damning receipts” - Reason &nbsp;“Technically not true crime” - Newsweek “Meticulously researched and assembled” - O, The Oprah Magazine Links:Follow Blowback on Twitter Season 1 Site Season 2 Site Season 3 SiteSeason 4 SiteSeason 5 Site Season 1 SourcesSeason 2 SourcesSeason 3 Sources Season 4 SourcesSeason 5 Sources https://blowback.show/Season-4 Mon, 21 Mar 2022 18:23:00 +0000 Blowback https://blowback.show/Season-4 <img width="1300" height="320" width_o="1300" height_o="320" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c460eb771b671a5f15c5e0a3123146e87f2a40b7849feee9c31360f21f0a8cb2/BANNERweb.jpg" data-mid="181250329" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c460eb771b671a5f15c5e0a3123146e87f2a40b7849feee9c31360f21f0a8cb2/BANNERweb.jpg" /> After covering the Iraq War, the Cuban Revolution, and the Korean War, in season 4 the&nbsp;Blowback co-hosts Brendan James and Noah Kulwin now turn to Afghanistan. Season four is out now.&nbsp;Subscribe now! Listening details below. <img width="1300" height="320" width_o="1300" height_o="320" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/268c24e2a4568eacbb7bd44b87b5675d0fe0442eced9e797e087f79c5f8d8e31/SUBSCRIBEweb.jpg" data-mid="181250433" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/268c24e2a4568eacbb7bd44b87b5675d0fe0442eced9e797e087f79c5f8d8e31/SUBSCRIBEweb.jpg" /> The entirety of season four — 10 main narrative episodes, 10 bonus episodes — is now available to Blowback subscribers, for the price of $24.99.&nbsp;Subscriptions are now available here. In addition to getting all of season four at once, Blowback subscribers receive: Immediate access to an ad-free catalog of past seasonsExtra music / demos / extended cuts from the show's soundtrack by The Great VorelliUnique discount codes for upcoming Blowback merchandise Praise for Blowback: “Brimming with intrigue” - Rolling Stone“Popular” - Vulture “Unmissable” - Podcast Review “A cool ‘aural slapper’ to entertain &amp; edify you” - BLCKBRD Spyplane“Diligent and expansive research” - Boing Boing“Well-researched” - Hyperallergic “A gripping, thorough account” - Gizmodo “Something different” - Tribune (UK)“Brilliant” - The Express Tribune (Pakistan)“Painstaking detail” - AV Club “Filled with meticulous consideration” - IndieWire“Genuine scholarship” - Uproxx “A necessary resource” - Jacobin&nbsp;“Technically not true crime” - Newsweek “Meticulously researched and assembled” - O, The Oprah Magazine Links:Follow Blowback on Twitter Season 1 Site Season 2 Site Season 1 SourcesSeason 2 SourcesSeason 3 SourcesSeason 4 Sources https://blowback.show/Season-3 Fri, 20 Sep 2024 01:26:59 +0000 Blowback https://blowback.show/Season-3 <img width="1300" height="320" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220802052804/https://freight.cargo.site/w/1300/i/9cd0d7cb9571c57254d65a631a10502649e13f97486a8a5bc1b4c1d1af88f497/Blowback_Season3_WebsiteHeader_AnimatedGIF.gif" style="width: 1300px; height: 320px;">After covering the Iraq War and the Cuban Revolution, in season three Blowback co-hosts Brendan James and Noah Kulwin now turn to the Korean War. Subscribe now! Listening details below. <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220802052804/https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/770905e58477f83d041e8c9af67cb601fd352f6c432a981e22f9550fded958fb/sub1.jpeg"> It’s both an origin story of America's anti-communist crusade and the first bloodbath of the not-so-Cold War. Season three spans the dawn of America’s empire in the Pacific, through the Japanese occupation of the Korean peninsula, onto the devastating conflict that broke out in 1950. Revolutions, civil war, and a cast of characters from Kim Il-Sung to Mao Tse-tung to General Douglas MacArthur.As a matter of fact, that war in Korea never ended. The only way to understand how, and why, is to go back to the beginning. The entirety of season three — ten main narrative episodes, ten bonus episodes — is available all at once to Blowback subscribers, for the price of $24.99. Subscriptions are now available here: <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220802052804/https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/770905e58477f83d041e8c9af67cb601fd352f6c432a981e22f9550fded958fb/sub1.jpeg"> In addition to getting all of season three at once, Blowback subscribers receive:Immediate access to an ad-free catalog of past seasonsExtra music / demos / extended cuts from the show's soundtrack by The Great VorelliUnique discount codes for upcoming Blowback posters / artworkPraise for Blowback:“Brimming with intrigue” - Rolling Stone“Well-researched” - Hyperallergic“A gripping, thorough account” - Gizmodo“A cool ‘aural slapper’ to entertain &amp; edify you” - BLCKBRD Spyplane“Painstaking detail” - AV Club“Filled with meticulous consideration” - IndieWire“It should be required listening” - Uproxx“A necessary resource” - Jacobin“A rich history” - Podcast Review“Technically not true crime” - Newsweek“Meticulously researched and assembled” - O, The Oprah MagazineLinks:Follow Blowback on TwitterSeason 1 SiteSeason 2 SiteSeason 1 SourcesSeason 2 Sources https://blowback.show/Season-2 Thu, 07 Apr 2022 14:42:42 +0000 Blowback https://blowback.show/Season-2 <img width="1300" height="320" width_o="1300" height_o="320" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/664c472278f677de21d4beaab8c2427adf76839e620056562757169c984793db/Blowback_Season02_AnimatedGIF_V01.gif" data-mid="138983816" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/664c472278f677de21d4beaab8c2427adf76839e620056562757169c984793db/Blowback_Season02_AnimatedGIF_V01.gif" /> <img width="350" height="549" width_o="350" height_o="549" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e282cdfff4c5a47ae8b397d9e7f05eac395a23b78f955e54ec55155e0dc7e543/BlowBack_Season02_WebsiteSidebar_350x540.jpg" data-mid="138983817" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/350/i/e282cdfff4c5a47ae8b397d9e7f05eac395a23b78f955e54ec55155e0dc7e543/BlowBack_Season02_WebsiteSidebar_350x540.jpg" /> <img width="558" height="167" width_o="558" height_o="167" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a772c1ea2ad78d540782cc3be7b1be0df229bbea52f605aca8f82531fdfe4c6/Stitcher_Listen_Badge_Color_Light_BG.png" data-mid="138983813" border="0" data-scale="87" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/558/i/2a772c1ea2ad78d540782cc3be7b1be0df229bbea52f605aca8f82531fdfe4c6/Stitcher_Listen_Badge_Color_Light_BG.png" /><img width="1155" height="280" width_o="1155" height_o="280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ea7145771ae40a43dd320c3ec3ed50e10a9c30f170cf92685f975c0679ad46df/apple-podcasts.png" data-mid="138983814" border="0" data-scale="88" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ea7145771ae40a43dd320c3ec3ed50e10a9c30f170cf92685f975c0679ad46df/apple-podcasts.png" /><img width="330" height="80" width_o="330" height_o="80" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c3a6f464466b18303381e8288b268658dff7326641b9de552fc48851dcf31d66/spotify-podcast-badge-blk-grn-330x80.png" data-mid="138983815" border="0" data-scale="87" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/330/i/c3a6f464466b18303381e8288b268658dff7326641b9de552fc48851dcf31d66/spotify-podcast-badge-blk-grn-330x80.png" /> After a critically-acclaimed retelling of the Iraq War, season two of Blowback presents the unlikely story of the Cuban Revolution: America’s Cold War crusade brings the world to a nuclear-tipped showdown between the Kennedy brothers, Fidel Castro, the Soviet Union, the CIA, and the Mafia. Co-hosted by Brendan James and Noah Kulwin, season two is a 10-part account of how the United States tried and failed to thwart the creation of a socialist government less than a hundred miles to its south. Season two includes 10 bonus episodes, featuring exclusive interviews. Like season one, about the Iraq War, season two is available wherever you get your podcasts. The Blowback official soundtrack for season two is also now available to stream on Spotify and Apple Music, and for download and purchase on Bandcamp.Blowback (Original Soundtrack) by The Great Vorelli Praise for Blowback: “Brimming with intrigue” - Rolling Stone “A gripping, thorough account” - Gizmodo“A cool ‘aural slapper’ to entertain &amp; edify you” - BLCKBRD Spyplane“Painstaking detail” - AV Club “Filled with meticulous consideration” - IndieWire“It should be required listening” - Uproxx “A necessary resource” - Jacobin “A rich history” - Podcast Review “Technically not true crime” - Newsweek “Meticulously researched and assembled” - O, The Oprah Magazine Co-host, producer, and editor Brendan James is a writer, musician, and former producer of the hit podcast Chapo Trap House.Co-host Noah Kulwin is a reporter and editor who has written for The New York Times,&nbsp;New York, The Drift, Jewish Currents, and elsewhere. &nbsp;Our theme song is “World Destruction” by Time Zone. Links:Follow Blowback on Twitter Season 1 Site Season 1 SourcesSeason 2 Sources https://blowback.show/Season-1 Sun, 28 Feb 2021 23:21:57 +0000 Blowback https://blowback.show/Season-1 <img width="1300" height="320" width_o="1300" height_o="320" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1465f25ec97c31776debba11fe90deae8c350ec4bd8196905ab3ed1162841030/blowback_header.gif" data-mid="100442921" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1465f25ec97c31776debba11fe90deae8c350ec4bd8196905ab3ed1162841030/blowback_header.gif" /> <img width="350" height="540" width_o="350" height_o="540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f68712d106fd56ef9d8e028b0690a183a2a94e611d57bc22884bf79e6e7d0aa0/Blowback_CoverArt_350x540_WebBanner.jpg" data-mid="100442922" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/350/i/f68712d106fd56ef9d8e028b0690a183a2a94e611d57bc22884bf79e6e7d0aa0/Blowback_CoverArt_350x540_WebBanner.jpg" /> <img width="558" height="167" width_o="558" height_o="167" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a772c1ea2ad78d540782cc3be7b1be0df229bbea52f605aca8f82531fdfe4c6/Stitcher_Listen_Badge_Color_Light_BG.png" data-mid="100442923" border="0" data-scale="87" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/558/i/2a772c1ea2ad78d540782cc3be7b1be0df229bbea52f605aca8f82531fdfe4c6/Stitcher_Listen_Badge_Color_Light_BG.png" /><img width="1155" height="280" width_o="1155" height_o="280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ea7145771ae40a43dd320c3ec3ed50e10a9c30f170cf92685f975c0679ad46df/apple-podcasts.png" data-mid="100442924" border="0" data-scale="88" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ea7145771ae40a43dd320c3ec3ed50e10a9c30f170cf92685f975c0679ad46df/apple-podcasts.png" /><img width="330" height="80" width_o="330" height_o="80" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c3a6f464466b18303381e8288b268658dff7326641b9de552fc48851dcf31d66/spotify-podcast-badge-blk-grn-330x80.png" data-mid="100442925" border="0" data-scale="87" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/330/i/c3a6f464466b18303381e8288b268658dff7326641b9de552fc48851dcf31d66/spotify-podcast-badge-blk-grn-330x80.png" /> The invasion of Iraq in 2003 constitutes the greatest crime of the 21st century. The war killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and the country plunged into a cycle of violence and misery that endures today.Blowback is a 10-part investigation into the war.&nbsp;Co-hosts Brendan James and Noah Kulwin examine the decades of policies that culminated in America’s attack on Saddam Hussein's government and the aftermath of the invasion. Episodes available wherever you get your podcasts.&nbsp; Home Page Season 1 Sources https://blowback.show/S6-Sources Wed, 24 Sep 2025 21:12:39 +0000 Blowback https://blowback.show/S6-Sources <img width="1300" height="320" width_o="1300" height_o="320" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/36c7fbd532d1a10a0aa18a2e8eb3ec4bff5629885a54d0da1d70e50a0202c587/Banner.jpg" data-mid="238617528" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/36c7fbd532d1a10a0aa18a2e8eb3ec4bff5629885a54d0da1d70e50a0202c587/Banner.jpg" /> Season 6 Works Cited Books used throughout Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991, Piero Gleijeses, 2013. Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976, Piero Gleijeses, 2002. A Short History of Modern Angola, David Birmingham, 2015. In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story, John Stockwell, 1978. The State of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence, Martin Meredith, 2005. Death of Dignity: Angola’s Civil War, Victoria Brittain, 1997. Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961–1975, Natalia Telepneva, 2022. In the Eye of the Storm: Angola’s People, Basil Davidson, 1972. The Fate of Africa: Trial by Fire, Jeremy Harding, 1993. Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror, Elizabeth Schmidt, 2013. The Destruction of a Nation: United States’ Policy Toward Angola Since 1945, George V. Wright, 1997. Jimmy Carter in Africa: Race and the Cold War, Nancy Mitchell, 2016. Angola in the Frontline, Michael Wolfers and Jane Bergerol, 1983. The Cold War Guerrilla: Jonas Savimbi, the U.S. Media and the Angolan War, Elaine Windrich, 1992. The Guerilla and the Journalist: Exploring Jonas Savimbi’s Murderous Legacy, Fred Bridgland, 2022. Jonas Savimbi: A Key to Africa, Fred Bridgland, 1986. Political Identity and Conflict in Central Angola: 1975-2002,&nbsp; Justin Pearce, 2015. The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa, Sasha Polakow-Suransky, 2011. High Noon in Southern Africa: Making Peace in a Rough Neighborhood, Chester A. Crocker, 1992. EPISODE 2 - Economy of Terror The Kongolese Saint Anthony, Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684–1706, John Thornton, 1998. A Modern Slavery, Henry Woodd Nevinson, 1906. Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism, Kwame Nkrumah, 1965. A History of South Africa (Fourth Edition), Leonard Thompson, 2014. Apartheid's Reluctant Uncle: The United States and Southern Africa in the Early Cold War, Thomas Borstelmann, 1993. “Memorandum by William L. Kilcoin of the Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs to the Director of the Office of International Materials Policy (Brown),” U.S. State Department, April 17, 1952. EPISODE 3 - The Stand “Salazar, Ruler of Portugal for 40 Years, Dies,” New York Times, July 28, 1970. The Coming of the Third Reich, Richard J. Evans, 2003. A Concise History of South Africa (Second Edition), Robert Ross, 2008.Intonations: A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times, Marissa Moorman, 2008. “War, witches and traitors: Cases from the MPLA's Eastern Front in Angola (1966-1975),” Inge Brinkman, Journal of African History, 2003. EPISODE 4 - Zulu &amp; Foxbat “Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) to President Nixon,” U.S. State Department, April 29, 1974. “Frank Carlucci: Helping Block the Communists in Portugal,” Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, 2018. “Operation Carlota,” Gabriel Garcia Marquez, New Left Review, Jan./April 1977. “U.S., Soviet, China Reported Aiding Portugal, Angola,” New York Times, September, 25, 1975. “Memorandum for the Record,” U.S. State Department, September 13, 1975. EPISODE 5 - Kicking the Dog “A Mercenary Who Wanted to Be Somebody,” New York Times, July 4, 1976. “2 in Miami Seeking Cubans For Angola; F.B.I. Plans Inquiry,” United Press International via New York Times, January 4, 1976. Deadly Secrets: The CIA-Mafia War Against Castro &amp; the Assassination of J.F.K., Warren Hinckle and William Turner, 1992. “Mercenary Shot in Angola: No Tears for Daniel,” The Veteran (Vietnam Veterans Against the War), Aug.-Sept. 1976. “Early Angola Aid by U.S. Reported,” Seymour M. Hersh, New York Times, December 19, 1975. “Angola Reported Getting $50 Million in U.S Arms,” New York Times, December 12, 1975. “State of the Union Address,” Gerald Ford, January 19, 1976. The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan, Rick Perlstein, 2014. Editorial Cartoon, Los Angeles Times, June 22, 1976. “Peace Eludes Angola in Huambo,” Washington Post, May 27, 1976. “A Refusal to Become ‘Black Russians’ Or ‘African Cubans’,” Jonas Savimbi, New York Times, December 8, 1976. “Record of a Special Coordination Committee Meeting,” U.S. State Department, March 2, 1978. “Angola, in U.N., Says South Africa Presses Attack,” New York Times, May 6, 1978. “Hundreds buried in mass grave at Angola town after South African raid,” The Times (London), May 10, 1978. EPISODE 6 - Total Onslaught “How Brzezinski Was Ripped on Angola,” Rowland Evans and Bob Novak via Victoria Advocate (TX), July 5, 1978. “Brzezinski Delivers Attack on Soviets,” Washington Post, May 28, 1978. “Minutes of a National Security Council Meeting,” U.S. State Department, October 6, 1978. “U.S. seeking ways to aid Cuba foes,” Washington Post via Courier-News (NJ), May 19, 1978. “Clark Fears Revived Role In Angola,” Washington Post, May 23, 1978. An African Volk: The Apartheid Regime and Its Search for Survival, Jamie Miller, 2016. “Meet Jonas Savimbi (Editorial),” Wall Street Journal, November 8, 1979. The Closest of Enemies: A Personal and Diplomatic History of the Castro Years, Wayne Smith, 1987. “United States Policy Toward Angola [Gerald Bender testimony],” U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, September 1980. The Malaise speech, Jimmy Carter, July 15, 1979. “Jimmy Carter Public Approval,” The UCSB American Presidency Project. EPISODE 7 - Constellation “The employment situation in 1981: new recession takes its toll,” Bureau of Labor Statistics, March 1982. “A Four-Decade Secret: One Man’s Story of Sabotaging Carter’s Re-election,” New York Times, March 18, 2023. “Nomination of Alexander M. Haig, Jr (Pt. I),” US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, January 1981. “Reagan's African Ally: A Talk With Jonas Savimbi,” Michael Ledeen and Arnaud de Borchgrave, The New Republic, January 17, 1981. “Strategy in Southern Africa (Haig to Reagan),” U.S. State Department, March 18, 1981. “Angolan Aide Links Cubans’ Exit to a Free Namibia,” New York Times, January 23, 1981. A Life in Peace and War, Brian Urquhart, 1987. “Food Can Be a Struggle in Angola,” New York Times, January 24, 1981. “Friendly Foe: Companies Urge U.S. to Stay Out of Angola, Decline Aid to Rebels,” Wall Street Journal, March 27, 1981. “U.S. to Finance Oil Project in Marxist Angola,” Washington Post, July 10, 1981. “Africa: Not quite black and white,” The Economist, August 1, 1981. “Angolan Rebels' Precious Jewel,” Richard Harwood, Washington Post, July 20, 1981. “U.S. Says Raid Into Angola Shows Urgent Need for Namibia Accord,” New York Times, August 27, 1981. “U.S.-Angola Links Reported Closer,” New York Times, December 13, 1981. “Savimbi is ready for peace deal in Angola,” The Observer (UK), January 24, 1982. The Plunderers, Jan Breytenbach, 2001. “An Insider's Account of the South African Security Forces' Role in the Ivory Trade,” Ros Reeve and Stephen Ellis, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 1995. EPISODE 8 - Cut Off Their Hands “Consumer Price Index, 1913-,” Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. “Reagan Backed Strongly in Poll; Public’s Support of Glenn Fades,” New York Times, January 25, 1984. “The Spend-Up,” James Fallows, The Atlantic, July 1986. “Top Gun and Iron Eagle: The Movies that Made the F-14 and F-16 Fighters Famous,” The National Interest, March 28, 2024. “Peace: Restoring the Margin of Safety (Speech),” Ronald Reagan, August 18, 1980. “Remarks at the Annual Convention of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society in New York City,” Ronald Reagan, December 12, 1983. “Reagan Doctrine, 1985,” U.S. State Department. Open letter to Reagan on Crocker selling Africans into slavery, National Coalition of Americans Committed to Rescuing Africa From the Grip of Soviet Tyranny. South Africa and the United States: The Declassified History, edited by Kenneth Mokoena, 1994. “Rosa Parks demonstrates against South Africa,” United Press International, December 11, 1984. “Meeting with Archbishop Desmond Tutu,” Diary of Ronald Reagan, December 7, 1984. Statement by Nelson Mandela read on his behalf by his daughter Zinzi, February 10, 1985. “Jack Wheeler's Adventures With the 'Freedom Fighters',” Washington Post, April 15, 1986. “Lehrman’s Contra Conclave,” Newsweek, June 17, 1985. “Rebels Form Right-Wing Alliance,” Miami Herald, June 6, 1985. “Angola’s Children of War,” New York Times, June 10, 1985. “Angola, Angry Over Rebel Aid Issue, Ends U.S. Talks,” New York Times, July 14, 1985. “Conservatives Push for U.S. Aid to Angola Rebels,” New York Times, December 16, 1985. “Angola’s Economic Struggles,” New York Times, January 31, 1986. “Food Outlook Poor in 6 African Nations,” New York Times, April 21, 1986. “Economic Transformation in Angola,” Fatima Moura Roque, South African Journal of Economics, June 1994. “Angolan civilians bear brunt of 12-year war,” Christian Science Monitor, July 8, 1987. “The Selling of Jonas Savimbi: Success and a $600,000 Tab,” Washington Post, February 8, 1986. “Red Carpet for an African Rebel,” TIME, February 10, 1986. “The Slickest Shop in Town,” TIME, March 3, 1986. “Savimbi: New darling of the New Right,” John B. Judis, In These Times, February 12-18, 1986. “‘The Privileged Friendship’: Reassessing the Central Intelligence Agency Operation at Zaire’s Kamina Airbase,” Sobukwe Odinga, Diplomacy &amp; Statecraft, 2018. “Iran/Contra Was the Prototype for Post-Vietnam Imperial Adventure,” Greg Grandin, The Nation, October 25, 2016. “Congress investigates secret Africa link in Irangate scandal: Saudi Arabian money 'used to fund rebel group in Angola',” The Guardian (UK), July 6, 1987. “Afghan and Angola Rebels Got Iran $$$,” New York Post, November 29, 1986. “Some Familiar Echoes in Financing of Angola Rebels,” Los Angeles Times, July 26, 1987. “North, Fascinated With War in Angola, Hoped Network Could Grow Beyond Iran-Contra Effort,” Wall Street Journal, June 11, 1987. “What Congress Didn't Ask (Opinion),” New York Times, November 23, 1987. One Nation Under Blackmail - Vol. 2, Whitney Webb, 2022. EPISODE 9 - Something Big and Bloody Speech by President Fidel Castro Ruz, at the Council of State meeting in Havana, July 9, 1989. “South Africa’s civil war, 1985–1995,” Stuart J. Kaufman, South African Journal of International Affairs, 2017. “South Africans Lose a Reputation for Invincibility,” New York Times, August 24, 1988. “Savimbi Visit Generates Controversy,” Washington Post, June 25, 1988. “South Africa Helps U.S. Film Makers In Namibia With Troops and Trucks,” New York Times, January 9, 1988. “Savimbi: Fallen Idol of Angola,” Fred Bridgland, Daily Telegraph (UK), March 12, 1989. “Ex-Allies Say Angola Rebels Torture and Slay Dissenters,” New York Times, March 11, 1989. EPISODE 10 - Zero-sum “Savimbi, Trailing, Hints at New War,” New York Times, October 4, 1992. “Witness recounts horrors in Angola,” AP via Tampa Bay Times, March 17, 1993. “Angola: U.N. Aid Flights Halted After Attack,” Los Angeles Times, July 17, 1993. “The Spoils of Humanitarianism,” Karl Maier, London Review of Books, February 19, 1998. “The Forgotten War,” GQ, October 1994. “U.N., After Losing 2 Planes, Evacuates Angola Workers,” AP via New York Times, January 5, 1999. “Hunger Ravages Angolans in Renewed Civil War,” New York Times, July 26, 1999. “Forgotten fighters: Child Soldiers in Angola,” Human Rights Watch, April 29, 2003. “Sudden-death overtime: The last days of Jonas Savimbi and the end of the Angolan civil war,” Sunni Khalid, 2003. “‘Savimbi amou Angola acima de tudo’ - Jardo Muekalia,” VOA Português, February 22, 2012. “Jonas Savimbi (Obituary),” Victoria Brittain, The Guardian (UK), February 24, 2002. “Savimbi 'died with gun in hand',” BBC, February 25, 2002. “Death of a Charismatic Monster,” Slate, February 27, 2002. “Kissinger at 100: The ‘bloody, dreadful, filthy’ Angolan civil war – in pictures,” The Guardian (UK), May 25, 2023. “Angola emerges from war only to face famine,” Irish Times, July 6, 2002. “Americans pay Savimbi tribute; Ex-envoys, Christian leaders cite Angolan's heroic fight,” Washington Times, March 14, 2002. “Angola on cusp of change after 40-year journey from Marxism to crony capitalism,” The Guardian, August 19, 2017. “Isabel dos Santos: From Africa’s richest woman to ‘dirty money’ probe,” Al Jazeera, December 18, 2024. “Trump Disparaged Africa. So Why Are Some Africans Optimistic?,” New York Times, December 27, 2024. China Returns to Africa: A Rising Power and a Continent Embrace, edited by Chris Alden, Daniel Large, Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, 2008. https://blowback.show/S5-Sources Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:44:30 +0000 Blowback https://blowback.show/S5-Sources <img width="1300" height="320" width_o="1300" height_o="320" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a7ef5eef078293070563cfa417999fc70956d9ec31a5883e56b90368fcf03a90/main.jpg" data-mid="222987590" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a7ef5eef078293070563cfa417999fc70956d9ec31a5883e56b90368fcf03a90/main.jpg" /> Season 5 Works Cited Books used throughoutSideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia, William Shawcross, 1979. The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House, Seymour Hersh, 1983. Brother Enemy: The War After the War, Nayan Chanda, 1986. A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, Neil Sheehan, 1988.Red Brotherhood at War: Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos since 1975 (Revised edition), Grant Evans and Kelvin Rowley, 1990.The Tragedy of Cambodian History: Politics, War, and Revolution Since 1945, David P. Chandler, 1991. The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990, Marilyn Young, 1991. When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution (Revised edition), Elizabeth Becker, 1998. Brother Number One: A Political Biography of Pol Pot (Revised edition), David P. Chandler, 1999. How Pol Pot Came to Power: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Communism in Cambodia, 1930–1975 (Second edition), Ben Kiernan, 2004. Pol Pot, Philip Short, 2004. A History of Cambodia (Fourth Edition), David P. Chandler, 2007.Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History, Rebecca E. Karl, 2010.The Vietnam War: A Concise International History, Mark Atwood Lawrence, 2010.Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World, Jeremy Friedman, 2015. Eisenhower and Cambodia: Diplomacy, Covert Action, and the Origins of the Second Indochina War, William J. Rust, 2016. Reckless: Henry Kissinger and the Tragedy of Vietnam, Robert K. Brigham, 2018. Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia, Carolyn Woods Eisenberg, 2023. &nbsp; EPISODE 2 - The French Connection Subjects and Sojourners, Charles Keith, 2024.&nbsp; A History of the Vietnamese, K.W. Taylor, 2013. “Self-Study Guide: Vietnam (Second edition),” U.S. State Department, 2006. “The Myth of the Wilsonian Moment,” Wilson Center, 2019.“The abolition of slavery, a legacy of French colonialism,” Khmer Times, 2023. &nbsp; “Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodian Leader Through Shifting Allegiances, Dies at 89,” New York Times, 2012. Letter from Ho Chi Minh to Harry S. Truman, 1946. “Dien Bien Phu &amp; the Fall of French Indochina, 1954,” U.S. State Department. Dien Bien Phu: Rendezvous With History (trans. English), General Võ Nguyên Giáp, 2017. “‘We might give them a few.’ Did the US offer to drop atom bombs at Dien Bien Phu?,” Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 2016. Memorandum by the Counselor (MacArthur) to the Secretary of State, Douglas MacArthur II, 1954. Khmer Nationalist: Sơn Ngọc Thành, the CIA, and the Transformation of Cambodia, Matthew Jagel, 2023. Editorial Note [Domino Theory], U.S. State Department, 1954. &nbsp; EPISODE 3 - Listen to the Thunder Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman, Greg Grandin, 2015. “The Kissinger Diaries: What He Really Thought About Vietnam,” Politico Magazine, 2015. Editorial Note [Kissinger-Vietnam channel], U.S. State Department, 1967.&nbsp; “Notes From the Front,” The American Scholar, 2023. Memorandum From the Acting DCI (Cabell) to the Secretary of State, U.S. State Department [Allen W. Dulles], 1956.&nbsp; Memorandum by Ambassador Donald R. Heath to the Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs (Robertson), U.S. State Department, 1953.&nbsp; “America's Stake in Vietnam [Speech],” U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy, 1956. “At Dien Bien Phu,” LRB Blog, 2024. “Excerpts From Lansdale Team's Report on Covert Vietnam Mission in '54 and '55,” New York Times, 1971. “Toasts of the President and President Diem of Viet-Nam,” American Presidency Project, 1957. “L'Oncle Ho,” New York Times, 1971. “CIA Air Operations in Laos, 1955-1974,” Studies in Intelligence, 1999.&nbsp; “What Would He Have Done?,” New York Times Book Review, 1992. “The President’s Intelligence Checklist [11/2/63],” Central Intelligence Agency, 1963 Special Message to the Congress on U.S. Policy in Southeast Asia, Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964. Memorandum From Secretary of Defense McNamara to President Johnson, 1965. “1968: The Global Revolutions,” Columbia University Libraries, 2018. “Cambodia Prints Lon Nol Thought,” New York Times, 1973. “Henry Kissinger, War Criminal—Still at Large at 100,” The Nation, 2023. Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA, Shane O’Sullivan, 2018. The Making of the President 1968, Theodore White, 1969. EPISODE 4 - Mad MenEditorial Note [May 4], U.S. State Department, 1972. “Vietnam and the Soldiers’ Revolt,” Monthly Review, 2016. The Ends of Power, H.R. Haldeman, 1978.Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World “Iraq Versus Vietnam: A Comparison of Public Opinion,” Gallup, 2005. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, Rick Perlstein, 2008. “Letters to the Editor [Kissinger-Quaker meeting],” New York Times, 1972. Minutes of National Security Council Meeting [January 25], U.S. State Department, 1969. Editorial Note [January 21], U.S. State Department, 1969 Editorial Note [August 1], U.S. State Department, 1969. “Opening To China,” New York Times, 1978. Memorandum From the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) to President Nixon [February 19], U.S. State Department, 1969. “Raids in Cambodia by U.S. Unprotested,” New York Times, 1969. Decent Interval: An Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent End Told by the CIA's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam (25th anniversary edition), Frank Snepp, 2002. “Cambodia: A Test Case,” New York Times, 1971. Address to the Nation on Progress Toward Peace in Vietnam [April 20], Richard Nixon, 1970 “Nixon, in Hawaii, Joins Astronauts and Honors Them,” New York Times, 1970. Speech on Cambodia [April 30], Richard Nixon, 1970. “Snuol—Smashed, Stripped by GI Juggernaut,” UPI, 1970.“Hundreds of Bodies Of Vietnamese Seen In Cambodian River,” New York Times, 1970. “U.S. Blamed the Press for Military Looting in Cambodia,” The Intercept, 2023. “Bayoneting victims recall 50th anniversary of bloodshed at UNM,” Albequerque Journal, 2020. “‘Sins of our past’: Leaders apologize for 1970 Jackson State shootings,” Associated Press, 2021.“Spying on Americans: Infamous 1970s White House Plan for Protest Surveillance Released,” National Security Archive, 2020.“The Fight in Vietnam Arrives at the White House [William Watts Interview],” Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, 2014. “Text of the Hickel Letter,”&nbsp;New York Times, 1970. “The Story of the Really Weird Night Richard Nixon Hung Out With Hippies at the Lincoln Memorial,” The Washingtonian, 2016. “Kissinger’s Killing Fields,” The Intercept, 2023. EPISODE 5 - Last Tango in ParisConversation Among President Nixon, the Assistant to the President (Haldeman), and the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs (Kissinger) [May 5], U.S. State Department, 1972. “The China Connection,” TIME Magazine [Henry Kissinger], 1979. &nbsp; “Foreign Leaders Meet With Nixon,” New York Times, 1970. Memorandum of Meeting Between President and Yahya Khan [October 25], 1970.&nbsp; “Diplomat’s Fondest Memory: China Breakthrough,” New York Times, 1982. “By Any Measure, Pol Pot Engaged in Genocide,” New York Times [Ben Kiernan], 1990. “The Secrets and Lies of the Vietnam War, Exposed in One Epic Document,” New York Times, 2021. “Henry Kissinger: The Emotional Statesman,” Diplomatic History, 2011.“Nixon and the Chiefs,” The Atlantic, 2002.“Nixon’s Plea to End the Killing,” TIME Magazine, 1970 “The Nixon Story You Never Heard,” CounterPunch, 2001. Zhou Enlai: A Life, Chen Jian, 2024. &nbsp; The President's News Conference [December 10], Richard Nixon, 1970. Address to the Nation on Plan for Peace in Vietnam [January 25], Miller Center, 1972. “College Heads’ Statement,” New York Times, 1972.Chasing Shadows: The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate, Ken Hughes, 2015. Soldiers in Revolt: GI Resistance During the Vietnam War, David Cortright, 2005. Against All Tides: The Untold Story of the USS Kitty Hawk Race Riot, Marv Truhe, 2022. “Thieu’s Speech Is Viewed As Bid for Better Terms,” New York Times, 1972. “Cash for Services Rendered,” Far Eastern Economic Review [April], 1975.“CIA funded, manipulated missionaries,” National Catholic Reporter [August], 1975.“World Vision, Go Home!,” The Christian Century&nbsp;[May], 1979. EPISODE 6 - Dream WarriorsThe Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace, Paul Thomas Chamberlin, 2018.“Twenty Days in October,” New York Times Magazine, 1974.“Kissinger Will Not Quit, White House Declares,” New York Times, 1973.“Nothing But Shame,” New York Times, 1975. Hearings over Supplemental Assistance to Cambodia [March 6], Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 1975.&nbsp; The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam, Douglas Valentine, 1990. James McCord’s Letter To Judge John Sirica, Watergate.info, 1973. “Cox Is Chosen as Special Prosecutor,” Washington Post, 1973. “Dean Alleges Nixon Knew of Cover-up Plan,” Washington Post, 1973. “President Taped Talks, Phone Calls; Lawyer Ties Ehrlichman to Payments,” Washington Post, 1973. “Secret Raids on Cambodia Before ‘70 Totaled 3,500,” New York Times, 1973.“Pentagon Admits It Gave Senate False Raid Report,” New York Times, 1973. “Wheeler Asserts Bombing Secrecy Was Nixon’s Wish,” New York Times, 1973. Reporter: A Memoir, Seymour Hersh, 2018. “Cambodian Watergate,” Mary McGrory [Washington Star], 1973.“More Revelations on Bombing,” TIME Magazine, 1973.“Revelations Overturn Official U.S. Story of Cambodia War,” Washington Post (via Charlotte Observer), 1973. Cambodian bombing hearings [July 16 -August 9], Senate Armed Services Committee, 1973. “Lon Nol Orders Army to Cease Fire,” New York Times, 1973. “Bomb Error Leaves Havoc in Neak Luong,” New York Times, 1973. Waging Peace in Vietnam: US Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War, eds. Ron Carver, David Cortright, and Barbara Doherty, 2018. “An Accused Pilot Being Sent to U.S.,” New York Times, 1973.“Judge Here Rules Raids On Cambodia Are Illegal,” New York Times, 1973. “Court of Appeals Reverses Order to Stop Bombing,” New York Times, 1973.The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens, 2001. “Conned in Cambodia,” I.F. Stone [New York Review of Books], 1975. “55% in Gallup Poll Disapprove Nixon's Performance in Office,” New York Times, 1973. “Court Orders Nixon to Yield Tapes; President Promises to Comply Fully,” Washington Post, 1974. “Sihanouk: The man we may have to settle for in Cambodia” [Interview by Oriana Fallaci], New York Times, 1975. &nbsp;“Cambodia’s ‘Little’ War: 600,000 Casualties,” New York Times, 1974.“Reporter's Notebook: Madness of War in Phnom Penh,” New York Times, 1974.Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia: The Khmer Rouge, the United Nations and the International Community, ed. Ben Kiernan, 1993. Forced Migration &amp; Mortality, “ Chapter 5: The Demographic Analysis of Mortality Crises: The Case of Cambodia, 1970-1979,” eds. Holly E. Reed and Charles B. Keely, 2001. Cambodia Year Zero, Francois Ponchaud, 1978. EPISODE 7 - Less Than ZeroConversation Record of Chairman Mao Zedong’s Meeting with Pol Pot, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea [June 21], Wilson Center, 1975. Children of Cambodia’s Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors, comp. Dith Pran, 1997.“A Broken Promise?,” New York Times, 1977.“Hanoi Publishes Nixon ‘73 Letter About $3 Billion in Postwar Aid,” New York Times, 1977.“U.S. Won't Bar Hanoi From U.N.; Vietnam to Press Hunt for Missing,” New York Times, 1977.“The Enduring Cult of the Vietnam ‘Missing in Action’,” Rick Perlstein [The Nation], 2013. The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan, Rick Perlstein, 2014.The China Cambodia Vietnam Triangle, Wilfred Burchett, 1981.“Remaking the Imperial Presidency: The Mayaguez Incident of 1975 and the Contradictions of Credibility,” Mattias Fibiger [Diplomacy &amp; Statecraft], 2020.Memorandum of May 15 Conversation [President Ford, Shah Reza Pahlavi, Henry Kissinger, Brent Scowcroft re: Mayaguez], U.S. State Department, 1975.“Sihanouk Returns to a Big Welcome in Phnom Penh,” New York Times, 1975.“Khmer Rouge: The Enigmatic Ghosts,” TIME Magazine, 1975. “Conned in Cambodia,” I.F. Stone [New York Review of Books], 1975.“Refugees Report Clashes on Cambodia‐Vietnam Line,” New York Times, 1977. EPISODE 8 - Third World WarVoices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison, David Chandler, 2000.“Le Duan of Vietnam Meets With Peking's Leader,” New York Times, 1977.“Cambodia Cuts Ties With Vietnam,” New York Times, 1977.“When the Khmer Rouge came to kill in Vietnam,” International Herald Tribune, 2004. “Brzezinski Trip Brings No Signs Of Chinese Shift,” Washington Post, 1978.“David Truong, Figure in U.S. Wiretap Case, Dies at 68,” New York Times, 2014.Summary of Judgement Case 002/02,&nbsp; Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, 2018. The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective, eds. Robert Gellately and Ben Kiernan, 2003. The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-1979, Ben Kiernan, 2002.“Reporting massive human rights abuses behind a façade,” Elizabeth Becker [Columbia Journalism Review], 2016. EPISODE 9 - Le Cercle Rouge“’Night, suite prince,” New York Daily News, 1979.The Quality of Mercy: Cambodia, Holocaust and Modern Conscience, William Shawcross, 1984.“2.25 Million Cambodians Are Said to Face Starvation,” New York Times, 1979.“Thais Deport 30,000 Cambodians While Others Continue to Arrive,” New York Times, 1979.“Carter Pledges Aid of Up to $70 Million to Feed Cambodians,” New York Times, 1979.Deng Xiaoping and China's Foreign Policy, Ronald Keith, 2017. Oral Presentation by President Carter to Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping [January 30], U.S. State Department, 1979.China’s War Against Vietnam, 1979: A Military Analysis, King C. Chen, 1983. “U.N. Assembly, Rebuffing Soviet, Seats Cambodia Regime of Pol Pot,” New York Times, 1979. “Pol Pot Aide Calls for World Support,” New York Times, 1980.Caveat: Realism, Reagan and Foreign Policy, Alexander Haig, 1984.Extraordinary Justice: Law, Politics, and the Khmer Rouge Tribunals, Craig Etcheson, 2019. Genocide in Cambodia: Documents from the Trial of Pol Pot and Ieng Sary, eds. Howard J. De Nike, John Quigley and Kenneth J. Robinson, 2000. EPISODE 10 - The Terrible But Unfinished Story Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land, Joel Brinkley, 2011. “Hanoi Cuts War Role in Cambodia,” Washington Post, 1988.“Vietnam Promises Troops Will Leave Cambodia By Fall,” New York Times, 1989.“Vietnam's Gift to Cambodia,” New York Times, 1989.“A Role for the Khmer Rouge,” New York Times, 1993.“When Terror Strikes Home: Covering Our Children While Protecting All Americans,” Kenneth Quinn [American Foreign Service Association], 2023.“Cambodia: July 1997: Shock and Aftermath,” Human Rights Watch, 2007. General Ta Mok Gives Reaction to Death of Pol Pot, Associated Press, 1998. “Cambodian Leader Resists Punishing Top Khmer Rouge,” New York Times, 1998.Agreement between the United Nations and the Royal Government of Cambodia concerning the prosecution under Cambodian law of crimes committed during the period of Democratic Kampuchea, United Nations, 2003.“Khmer Rouge ex-minister Ieng Thirith released,” BBC, 2012.“16 Years, 3 Convictions: The Khmer Rouge Trials Come to an End,” New York Times, 2022.“Duch, Prison Chief Who Slaughtered for the Khmer Rouge, Dies at 77,” New York Times, 2020. “Sihanouk declares assets to debunk myth he's rich,” Phnom Penh Post, 2008.“Retired King Gives Help to Same-Sex Couple,” Cambodia Daily, 2004.“Cambodia: King Favors Gay Marriages,” Associated Press, 2004.“The Cambodian economy: ready for take-off?,” The Pacific Review, 2006. “Survey Spotlights Deep Economic Inequality in Cambodia,” Voice of America, 2023.“West Point trained the heir to Cambodia’s autocracy. Who is Hun Manet?,” Washington Post, 2023.“Lists of U.S. Military Bases Abroad, 1776-2021,” David Vine, 2023.“Cambodia’s strategic positioning between the United States and China,” East Asia Forum, 2024. “China’s newest military base abroad is up and running, and there are more on the horizon,” Breaking Defense, 2024.“Military Policy and Defense of the ‘Grey Areas’,” Henry Kissinger [Foreign Affairs], 1955. https://blowback.show/S4-Sources Mon, 20 Nov 2023 17:39:45 +0000 Blowback https://blowback.show/S4-Sources <img width="1300" height="320" width_o="1300" height_o="320" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c460eb771b671a5f15c5e0a3123146e87f2a40b7849feee9c31360f21f0a8cb2/BANNERweb.jpg" data-mid="197409714" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c460eb771b671a5f15c5e0a3123146e87f2a40b7849feee9c31360f21f0a8cb2/BANNERweb.jpg" /> Season 4 Works Cited Books used throughout The Tragedy of Afghanistan: A First-Hand Account, Raja Anwar, 1988. Afghanistan-Washington's Secret War (2nd edition), Philip Bonosky, 2001. Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism (2nd edition), John Cooley, 2002. Forbidden Truth: U.S.-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy and the Failed Hunt for Bin Laden,&nbsp; Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, 2002. Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History, George Crile, 2003. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, Steve Coll, 2004. Our Own Private Bin Laden, dir. Samira Goetschel, 2006. The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America, Peter Dale Scott, 2007. Descent into Chaos: The US and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia, Ahmed Rashid, 2008. Invisible History: Afghanistan’s Untold Story, Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald, 2009. Afgansty: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89,&nbsp; Rodric Braithwaite, 2011. The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014, Carlotta Gall, 2014. No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes, Anand Gopal, 2014. A Kingdom of Their Own: The Family Karzai and the Afghan Disaster, Joshua Partlow, 2017. The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War, Craig Whitlock, 2021. EPISODE 2 - Bleeders and Dealers British Plots Against Afghanistan, Naftula Khalfin, 1981. “Lessons from the 1931 Constitution of Nadir Khan: Religious Inclusion and Reform,” Palwasha L. Kakar and Julia Schiwal, 2021. “Field-Marshal Sir Neville Chamberlain,” Asian Review, 1909. “The Helmand Valley Project in Afghanistan,” USAID, 1983. Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, 2011. “Afghan Request For Aid Raises Further Problems,” State Department report, 1959. “Afghanistan: Coup at the Crossroads,” TIME Magazine, 1973. “Telegram From the Embassy in Afghanistan to the Departments of State and Defense, the National Security Agency, and the United States Pacific Command,” FRUS, 1977–1980. “Soviets Say CIA Trained Afghan Rebels in Pakistan,” Washington Post, 1980. The New Great Game: Blood and Oil in Central Asia, Lutz Kleveman, 2007. The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government, David Talbot, 2015. “Review: The Nixon Doctrine and U.S. Relations with the Republic of Afghanistan, 1973-1978: Stuck in the Middle with Daoud,” Robert Rakove (H-Diplo), 2017. “A Needed 'White Paper',” Abel Baker, New York Times, 1980. Prelude to Terror: The Rogue CIA and the Legacy of America's Private Intelligence Network, Joseph Trento, 2005. Interview with Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Archive, 1997. Culture and Customs of Afghanistan, Hafizullah Emadi, 2005. “The Assassination of Ambassador Dubs,” U.S. State Department, 2019. “The Mysterious Kidnapping of an American Ambassador Still Haunts the State Department,” The Washingtonian, 2017. “Soviets Sign Treaty With Afghanistan,” Washington Post, 1978. EPISODE 3 - The Trap “The KGB in Afghanistan,” Vasiliy Mitrokin, 2002. “Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski on Afghanistan,” Le Nouvel Observateur, 1998. “‘There Really Was An ‘Afghan Trap,’” Jonathan Haslam, H-Diplo, 2022. Massoud books: reviewed, Studies in Intelligence [CIA publication], 2022. “Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the Messiah of Darkness,” Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould, HuffPost, 2010. The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI, Jonathan Beaty and S.C. Gwynne, 1993. False Profits: The Inside Story of BCCI, The World’s Most Corrupt Financial Empire by Peter Truell and Larry Gurwin, 1992. “Afghan Guerrilla Says Soviet Has Greatly Expanded Adviser Forces,” New York Times, 1979. Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President, Jimmy Carter, 1995. “The Bush-bin Laden Connection,” Andrew Wheat, Texas Observer, 2001. “The Barreling Bushes,” Kevin Phillips, Los Angeles Times, 2001. “Mystery Man: James Bath,” Craig Unger, Salon, 2004. “Frankenstein the CIA created,” Jason Burke, The Guardian, 1999. Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan, Ann Jones, 2006. "Lessons of the Grain Embargo,” Foreign Affairs, 1980. “Address by President Carter on the State of the Union Before a Joint Session of Congress,” 1980. “Afghans seethe under Soviet heel,” Christian Science Monitor, 1980. “In the Wake of Afghanistan” (Editorial), Washington Post , 1980. “Afghans' Hearsay War Often Deceives the Press,” Washington Post , 1980. “'Grim' Nickname Fits Afghan Tales of Torture, Murder,” Washington Post 1979. “The Carter Transformation of Our Strategic Doctrine,” Memo from Zbiegniew Breziznski to Carter, 1980. Memo to the Soviet Internationalist-Soldier, 1982 “CBS News Head Denies Fakery Charges,” New York Times, 1989. “Biased Afghan Coverage at CBS,” FAIR, 1989. “Dan Rather: more Soviet killing looms in Afghanistan,” Christian Science Monitor, 1980. “The Kerala massacre (Editorial),” Christian Science Monitor, 1980. “Massacre Described by Afghan Refugees,” Associated Press, 1980. Warriors of Disinformation: American Propaganda, Soviet Lies, and the Winning of the Cold War: an Insider's Account, Alvin A. Snyder, 1995. “Radio Free Kabul: rallying the Afghan resistance,” Christian Science Monitor, 1982. Clandestine Radio Broadcasting: A Study of Revolutionary and Counterrevolutionary Electronic Communication, Lawrence C. Soley and John Nichols, 1987. Request from Committee for a Free Afghanistan to President Reagan, 1985. “Blowback? What Blowback? Charlie Wilson's adventures in Afghanistan,” Molly Ivins, Texas Observer, 2003. “Pakistani Dismisses $400 Million In Aid Offered by U.S. as 'Peanuts',” New York Times, 1980. “Knights of Malta (and U.S.) Picking New Chief,” New York Times, 1980. “‘I Could Live With That’: How the CIA Made Afghanistan Safe for the Opium Trade,” CounterPunch, 2020. “Restocking the Chemical Arsenal,” Wayne Biddle, New York Times, 1981. “Red Kabul Revisited,” The Guardian, 2003. “Portion of 'Yellow Rain' Riddle Is Linked to Bees, Panel Say,” Washington Post, 1983. EPISODE 4 - They’re Yours Now “Inside the Afghan Talks,” Selig Harrison, Foreign Policy, 1988. “Flight 007: The Rest of the Story,” Alvin A. Snyder, Washington Post , 1996. The Target Is Destroyed: What Really Happened To Flight 007 And What America Knew, Seymour Hersh, 1986. President Reagan’s Address to the Nation After the Downing of KAL 007, 1983. “He was the CIA whiz kid in ‘Charlie Wilson’s War.’ His new book offers advice for the US in Ukraine,” Associated Press, 2023. “The U.N. and Afghanistan,” Fred Halliday, New York Times, 1981. “A.Q. Khan Nuclear Chronology,” Carnegie Endowment for Peace, 2005. “Pakistan Frees Nuclear Dealer in Snub to U.S.,” New York Times, 2009. “Heroin, Taliban and Pakistan,” Financial Times, 2001. “U.S. Declines to Probe Afghan Drug Trade,” Washington Post , 1990. “The Afghanistan Drug Lords: Administration subsidized growing drug industry in Southwest Asia,” Alfred McCoy, Christic Institute Newsletter, 1991. The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, Alfred McCoy, 2003. “Anatomy of a Victory: CIA’s Covert Afghan War,” Washington Post, 1992. “Gorbachev Announces Reduction of 6,000 In Afghanistan Force,” Washington Post, 1986. “Afghanistan | Ferocious Fight: Soviets mount a big offensive,” TIME Magazine, 1985. “Clair George, Spy and Iran-Contra Figure, Dies at 81,” New York Times, 2011. “Memorandum of Conversation between CPSU Secretary for International Relations Anatoly Dobrynin and Socialist Unity Party (SED) General Secretary Erich Honecker in Berlin,” 1987. “Soviet Sets May 15 As Goal to Start Afghanistan Exit,” New York Times, 1988. “Soviets Say 89,000 Troops Are Home,” New York Times, 1989. “Soviets, Guerillas May Meet,” Washington Post, 1988. “Major Soviet Convoy Leaves Afghan Capital,” Washington Post, 1989. President Reagan’s Statement on the Ninth Anniversary of the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, 1988. EPISODE 5 - We Can Live With That “Inside Najibullah’s Regime,” Washington Post, 1989. “Najibullah: Afghan Leader With Nine Lives,” Steve Le Vine, Newsday, 1989. “Afghanistan after the Occupation: Examining the Post‐Soviet Withdrawal and the Najibullah Regime It Left Behind, 1989–1992,” Shane A. Smith, 2020. Legacy Of The Prophet: Despots, Democrats, And The New Politics Of Islam, Anthony Shadid, 2001. “Anarchy in the USSR,” Anthony DeCurtis, Rolling Stone (July 12-26), 1990. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union, Vladislav Zubok, 2021. “Massive Aid Plan Outlined by Soviet,” Washington Post, 1991. “Afghan Guerilla Assault on Jalalabad Stalls,” Washington Post, 1989. “Soviet: Afghan Rebels Aid Unrest,” Steve Le Vine, Newsday, 1990. “Najibullah Regains Control of Kabul,” Steve Le Vine, Newsday, 1990. “Blood-Stained Hands: Past Atrocities in Kabul and Afghanistan’s Legacy of Impunity,” Human Rights Watch, 2005. “The Stinger Missile and U.S. Intervention in Afghanistan,” Alan J. Kuperman, Political Science Quarterly, 1999. “Of the People, By the Warlords,” New York Times, 2002. The False Prophet: Rabbi Meir Kahane—From FBI Informant to Knesset Member, Robert I. Friedman, 1990. Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam, Robert Dreyfuss, 2005. “First Blood: Was Meir Kahane’s murder al-Qaida’s earliest attack on U.S. soil?,” Peter Lance, Tablet, 2010. Confession of El-Sayyid Nosair, 2005. “Muslim Acquitted in Kahane Murder; Found Guilty on Weapons Charge,” Washington Post, 1991. "Foreign Terrorists in America: Five Years After the World Trade Center," Testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, 1998. “A Manufactured Jihad Against The West: The 1993 World Trade Center Bombing,” Adam Fitzgerald, 2022. “The World Trade Center Bombers (1993)” from Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons, John V. Parachini, 2000. Taliban (2nd edition), Ahmed Rashid, 2010. “How The Taliban Went From International Pariah To U.S. Peace Partner In Afghanistan,” RFERL, 2020. “No Peace in the Pipeline,” Washington Post, 1998. “Women’s Fury Toward Taliban Stalls Pipeline,” Washington Post, 1998. “Afghanistan Report on Human Rights Practices for 1996,” US State Department, 1997. “How Opium Profits the Taliban,” Gretchen Peters, US Institute for Peace, 2009. “The Liaison: She Spoke for Taliban And Now Pays a Price,” Alessandra Stanley, New York Times, 2001. “New Breed of Roughnecks Battles Over Caspian Oil Fields,” James Risen, Los Angeles Times, 1998. “Gas Pipeline Bounces Between Agendas,” Washington Post, 1998. “Prelude To Terror,” Stanley Reed, Businessweek, 2004. EPISODE 6 - Ground Zeroes The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America, James Bamford, 2008. “The Counter-Terrorist,” Lawrence Wright, New Yorker, 2002. The Cell: Inside the 9/11 Plot, and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It, John Miller and Michael Stone with Chris Mitchell, 2002. [1999 Esquire version] “American Journeys to Jihad,” Sara Daly and William Rosenau, Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, 2010. “U.S.-Born Suspect in Bombing Plots: Zealous Causes and Civic Roles,” New York Times, 1993. “Former Top U.S. Aides Seek Caspian Gusher,” Washington Post, 1997. “Top guns try to polish Azerbaijan policy,” United Press International, 1997. “Militants face death after Egyptian trial,” The Guardian, 1999. “Egyptian doctor emerges as terror mastermind,” CNN, 2005. “Afghanistan: The Massacre in Mazar-i Sharif,” Human Rights Watch, 1998. “Taliban Massacre Based on Ethnicity,” Washington Post, 1998. “Iran Seeks Clarity on Killing of its Diplomats in Mazar-e-Sharif in 1998,” Afghanistan International, 2022 &amp; 2023. “Bin Laden Linked to Embassy Blast By an Ex-Soldier,” New York Times, 2000. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, Lawrence Wright, 2006. “Bill Clinton and the Missed Opportunities to Kill Osama Bin Laden,” Washington Post, 2016. “U.S. Urges His Protectors to Turn Over Suspect in Embassy Blasts,” New York Times, 1999. “U.S. Froze $254 Million In Taliban Cash in 1999,” Washington Post, 2001. “Focus of 9/11 Families’ Lawsuit Against Saudi Arabia Turns to a Saudi Student Who May Have Been a Spy,” ProPublica, 2023. “The FBI kept secret for 20 years a crucial link between Saudi Arabia and the 9/11 hijackers,” Mattathias Schwartz, Business Insider, 2021. “U.S. failure to retaliate for USS Cole attack rankled then — and now,” Michael Isikoff, NBC News, 2010. “U.S. hostage [Guillermo Sobrero] confirmed dead,” BBC, 2001. Statement on Taliban Sanctions/Passage of U.N.S.C. Resolution 1333, United Nations Press Office, 2000. “Condi and the Boys,” Russell Baker, New York Review of Books, 2008. “Diplomats Met With Taliban on Bin Laden,” Washington Post, 2001. Directorate S: The CIA and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Steve Coll, 2018. Bush at War, Bob Woodward, 2002. At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA, George Tenet, 2007. A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq and the Abuse of America’s Intelligence Agencies, James Bamford, 2004. USA v. Mohamed: Transcript from Hearing Before Judge Sand, 2000. President George W. Bush Sept. 20 Address to Joint Session of Congress, 2000. EPISODE 7 - Guns of the Patriots “Rebel With Long Career of Picking Fights (and Sides),” New York Times, 2001. “The Death Convoy Of Afghanistan,” John Barry, Newsweek, 2002. “As possible Afghan war-crimes evidence removed, U.S. silent,” McClatchy Newspapers, 2008. “UN reports slaughter of captured Taliban soldiers,” Irish Times, 1997. Dasht-i-Leili Massacre FOIA, Part I &amp; Part II, 2002-2008. “Study Hints at Mass Killing of the Taliban,” Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 2002. “U.S. Inaction Seen After Taliban P.O.W.’s Died,” James Risen, New York Times, 2009. “Satellite Imagery and Possible Mass Graves in Sheberghan, Afghanistan,” American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2009. At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA, George Tenet, 2007. September 16 “We’re at war” memo by George Tenet, 2001. In the Line of Fire: A Memoir, Pervez Musharraf, 2006. Directorate S: The CIA and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Steve Coll, 2018. “CIA Led Way With Cash Handouts,” Washington Post, 2002. Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command, Sean Naylor, 2015. “Afghanistan, Chechnya color Russian terror debate,” CNN, 2001. Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet, James Mann, 2004. “U.S. Warned Not to Strike During Ramadan,” Washington Post, 2001. “Afghan Families Flee to Tent City,” Associated Press, 2001. “Brokaw May Have Been Exposed to Anthrax,” ABC News, 2001. “Haq execution a blow to anti-Taliban efforts,” CNN, 2001. “Shadow Government Is at Work in Secret,” Barton Gellman and Susan Schmidt, Washington Post, 2002. “Cheney Involved Despite Remote Location,” ABC News, 2001. “Northern Alliance Claims It Has Captured Mazar-i-Sharif,” New York Times, 2001. “The Getaway,” Seymour Hersh, New Yorker, 2002. “Supplying the Taliban: Pakistan Ended Aid to Taliban Only Hesitantly,” New York Times, 2001. “Talks in Bonn End With Deal On Leadership For Afghans,” New York Times, 2001. “Karzai acknowledges CIA payments,” Washington Post, 2013. “The Karzai years: From hope to recrimination,” BBC, 2014. “Ann Jones on the Road to Taliban Land,” TomDispatch, 2006. “U.S. ID's Bin Laden's Voice Near Tora Bora,” ABC News, 2001. “U.S. Failure to Capture Bin Laden Is Debated,” New York Times, 2004. “The Man Behind Bin Laden,” Lawrence Wright, New Yorker, 2002. EPISODE 8 - Sons of Liberty “Transcript of George W. Bush’s ‘Axis of Evil’ speech,” 2002. A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice, Malalai Joya, 2009. “At the Defense Department, Duty Calls,” Washington Post, 2001. “Afghanistan asks for additional troops,” Steven Komarow, USA Today, 2001. “Brother of Afghan Leader Said to Be Paid by C.I.A.,” New York Times, 2009. “Despite Doubt, Karzai Brother Retains Power,” New York Times, 2010. “Cultural Frictions Grow: Time for US to Leave, Afghans Grumble,” Associated Press, 2002. “‘The forever prisoner’: Abu Zubaydah’s drawings expose the US’s depraved torture policy,” Ed Pilkington, The Guardian, 2023. Rumsfeld October 16 memo on the Global War on Terror, 2003. “American Viceroy,” Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 2005. “Full Bin Laden Tape to be Aired,” ABC News, 2002. “Pakistani Scientist Admits That He Passed On Nuclear Secrets,” New York Times, 2004. “Pakistan made ‘Major Non-Nato Ally,’”Al Jazeera, 2004. “15 Afghan Candidates to File Vote Complaints With Panel,” Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 2004. “Bin Laden: Al Qaeda motivated to strike U.S. again,” CNN, 2004. “For Cheney, Tarnish From Halliburton,” Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 2002. “The Path Taken By Halliburton To Reach a Deal In Asbestos Suits,” New York Times, 2002. “Halliburton's KBR unit hid contract info-US report,” Reuters, 2007. Halliburton's Army: How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War, Pratap Chatterjee (with Fariba Nawa), 2009. “The Other War,” Seymour Hersh, New Yorker, 2004. “Poppy Fields Are Now a Front Line in Afghan War,” James Risen, New York Times, 2007. “WikiLeaks: Karzai's brother denies drug dealing, remembers Chicago,” CNN, 2010. “U.N. Reports That Taliban Is Stockpiling Opium,” New York Times, 2008. “Afghanistan: Killing and Torture by U.S. Predate Abu Ghraib: After Two Years, U.S. Forces Still Not Prosecuted for Homicides,” Human Rights Watch, 2005. “CIA detention practices escape scrutiny,” Dana Priest, NBC News, 2005. “Afghans Riot After Deadly Crash by U.S. Military Truck,” Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 2005. “Jonathan Idema, Con Man and Afghan Bounty Hunter, Dies at 55,” New York Times, 2012. “Afghanistan: the Miserable Performance Of The Mainstream Media,” CounterPunch, 2021. “Afghanistan 2006,” Peter Bergen, The Nation, 2006. EPISODE 9 - Peace Walker “Cheney unhurt after deadly blast at Afghan base,” NBC News, 2007. “The curious sacking of Gen McKiernan,” The Guardian, 2009. “Pentagon Worries Led to Command Change,” Washington Post, 2009. “Camp Nama: British personnel reveal horrors of secret US base in Baghdad,” The Guardian, 2013. “US commander in Afghanistan gets more authority,” Reuters, 2010. Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, George Packer, 2019. Crossing Zero: The AfPak War at the Turning Point of American Empire, Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald, 2011. The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan, Michael Hastings, 2012. [“The Runaway General” profile of Gen. MacChrystal was originally published in Rolling Stone in June 2010] “Obama Tours Afghan War Zone,” CBS News, 2008. “Mesmerized by COIN,” Robert Dreyfuss, The American Conservative, 2010. “Accused of Drug Ties, Afghan Official Worries U.S.,” New York Times, 2009. “Afghanistan says U.S. airstrike hit wedding party,” International Herald Tribune (NYT), 2008. “Troubles at Afghan Bank Jolt Financial System,” New York Times, 2010. “Karzai brother, others still owe millions to Kabul Bank - Afghan watchdog,” Reuters, 2014. “Afghan Offensive Is New War Model,” New York Times, 2010. “Lara Logan Slams Michael Hastings, Rolling Stone Over McChrystal Article,” HuffPost, 2010. “A Magazine Back on a Roll,” New York Times, 2010. “Hamid Karzai's brother assassinated in southern Afghanistan,” The Guardian, 2011. “Ismail Khan, Herat, and Iranian Influence,” Thomas Johnson, Strategic Insights, 2004. “How a Single Spy Helped Turn Pakistan Against the United States,” Mark Mazetti, New York Times Magazine, 2013. The Killing of Osama Bin Laden, Seymour Hersh, 2016. [Original article published in London Review of Books in 2011] “Tequila, Painted Pearls, and Prada — How the CIA Helped Produce 'Zero Dark Thirty',” VICE, 2015. “Pakistan likely knew of Osama bin Laden’s presence, admits former spy chief,” Washington Post, 2015. Hillary Clinton Testimony on Afghanistan Before Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 2011. “Former Marine Sniper Punished in Scandal Wins Again in Court,” Military.com, 2018. “Panetta Says He Was Not the Target of an Attack,” New York Times, 2012. “Obama heralds formal end of war in Afghanistan after 13 years,” Associated Press, 2014. “Taliban rival claims Kabul blast that kills at least 15, including two U.S. troops,” Washington Post, 2013. Daily State Department Press Briefing - December 14, 2010. EPISODE 10 - The Phantom Pain “'Butcher of Kabul' pardoned in Afghan peace deal,” The Guardian, 2016. “U.N. lifts sanctions on notorious Afghan warlord,” Reuters, 2017. “Hekmatyar returns to Kabul after 20 years in hiding,” Al Jazeera, 2017. “Taliban publish letter calling on US to start Afghan peace talks,” The Guardian, 2018. The Return of the Taliban: Afghanistan after the Americans Left, Hassan Abbas, 2023. “Taliban Leader Mullah Omar Died in 2013, Afghans Declare,” New York Times, 2015. “US, Taliban to sign deal aimed at bringing peace to Afghanistan,” Al Jazeera, 2020. “US 'mother of all bombs' killed 92 Isis militants, say Afghan officials,” The Guardian, 2017. “Trump Drops the Mother of All Bombs on Afghanistan,” Robin Wright, New Yorker, 2017. “'Right time' to use huge bomb in Afghanistan - U.S. general,” Reuters, 2017. “Afghanistan’s Rising Civilian Death Toll Due to Airstrikes, 2017-2020,” Neta C. Crawford, Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, 2020. “The Secret History of the U.S. Diplomatic Failure in Afghanistan,” Steve Coll and Adam Entous, New Yorker, 2021. “Exclusive: The Untold Story of How Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Fled the Country,” Hasht-e-Subh Daily, 2021. “U.S. drone strike kills Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan,” NBC News, 2022. “Afghan capital hit by attacks near ex-PM Hekmatyar's office, Pakistan Embassy,” Reuters, 2022. “Afghanistan’s Warlords Prepare Their Comeback,” Foreign Policy, 2022. “A Special Relationship,” Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s, 2016. “As Afghans Suffer, U.S. Stalls on Plan to Return Central Bank Funds,” In These Times, 2022. “Taliban mark 1st year back in power, but for many Afghans there’s nothing to celebrate,” NBC News, 2022. https://blowback.show/S3-Sources Fri, 19 Aug 2022 18:15:58 +0000 Blowback https://blowback.show/S3-Sources <img width="1300" height="320" width_o="1300" height_o="320" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9cd0d7cb9571c57254d65a631a10502649e13f97486a8a5bc1b4c1d1af88f497/Blowback_Season3_WebsiteHeader_AnimatedGIF.gif" data-mid="150834610" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9cd0d7cb9571c57254d65a631a10502649e13f97486a8a5bc1b4c1d1af88f497/Blowback_Season3_WebsiteHeader_AnimatedGIF.gif" /> Season 3 Works Cited Works Used Frequently Throughout Selling the Korean War, Steven Casey, 2008. Korea’s Place in the Sun, Bruce Cumings, 1997. General Dean’s Story, William F. Dean, 1954. American Caesar, William Manchester, 1978. Korea’s Grievous War, Su-kyoung Hwang, 2016. Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950, Suzy Kim, 2013. The Bridge at No Gun Ri, Charles J. Hanley, Choe Sang-un, and Martha Mendoza, 2001. The Hidden History of the Korean War 1950-1951, I.F. Stone, 1952. Cry Korea, Reginald Thompson, 1951. Episode 2 From Wonso Pond, Kang Kyong-ae. Sweet Potato, Kim Tong-in. The Underground Village, Kang Kyeong-ae. Patriots, Traitors, and Empires, Stephen Gowans, 2018. The History of Korea, Han Woo-keun, 1974. Agents of Apocalypse: Epidemic Disease in the Colonial Philippines, Ken De Bevoise, 1995. As I Saw It, Dean Rusk, 1991. “John W. Foster and the Struggle for the Annexation of Hawaii,” Michael J. Devine, Pacific Historical Review, 1977. “The Specificity of US Imperialism,” Gareth Stedman-Jones, New Left Review, March–April 1970. "Interview with President William McKinley," General James Rusling, The Christian Advocate (via CUNY), January 22, 1903. “War and Revolution,” V.I. Lenin, Marxists Internet Archive, lecture delivered May 14, 1917; published April 1929. “The Washington Merry-Go-Round,” Robert S. Allen and Drew Pearson, United Feature Syndicate (El Paso Times), July 20, 1937. “This Changing World,” Constantine Brown, Washington (D.C.) Evening Star, January 12, 1938. Episode 3 “The Street Leaders of Seoul and the Foundations of the South Korean Political Order,” Erik Mobrand, Modern Asian Studies, 2015. The Warfare State by Fred J. Cook, 1962. The Truman Doctrine and the Origins of McCarthyism: Foreign Policy, Domestic Policy, and Internal Security, 1946-48 by Richard Freeland, 1972. For Might and Right: Cold War Defense Spending and the Remaking of American Democracy by Michael Brenes, 2020. Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War, Vladislav Zubok and Constantine Pleshakov, 1996. Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950, Suzy Kim, 2013. Washington Bullets, Vijay Prashad, 2020. Episode 4 This Monstrous War, Wilfred G. Burchett, 1953. Korea’s Grievous War, Su-kyoung Hwang, 2016. Memoirs of Nikita Krushchev Vol. 3, ed. Sergei Krushchev, 2007. Memoirs, Andrei Gromyko, 1989. Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950, Suzy Kim, 2013. For Might and Right: Cold War Defense Spending and the Remaking of American Democracy by Michael Brenes, 2020. “Progressives Here Tonight for Rally at Court House,” The Daily Independent, Murphysboro, Illinois, Sept. 3, 1948. The Truman Era, 1945-1952: A Nonconformist History of Our Times by I.F. Stone, 1988. The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon, by Anthony Summers with Robbyn Swan, 2000. The Facts About Nixon, by William Costello 1960. “Central Intelligence Agency, ORE 15/48, 'The Current Situation in Korea',” March 18, 1948. “Nixon Enters Senate Race,” Weekly Times-Advocate, Escondido, California, Nov. 4, 1949. Episode 5 Korea’s Grievous War, Su-kyoung Hwang, 2016. War in Korea, Marguerite Higgins, 1951. Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict and the Postwar World, Masuda Hajimu, 2015. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, David Halberstam, 2007. The Logic of Imperialism, Albert Syzmanski, 1983. Fearing the Worst: How Korea Transformed the Cold War, Samuel F. Wells Jr., 2020. Baptism by Fire: CIA Analysis of the Korean War, 2014. Reminiscences by Douglas MacArthur, 1964. The Hidden History of the Korean War 1950-1951, I.F. Stone, 1952. Episode 6 Cry Korea, Reginald Thompson, 1951. The Hidden History of the Korean War 1950-1951, I.F. Stone, 1952. Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War, Vladislav Zubok and Constantine Pleshakov, 1996. Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion in the United States, 1950-1953 by Steven Casey, 2010. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, David Halberstam, 2007. The Truman Era, 1945-1952: A Nonconformist History of Our Times by I.F. Stone, 1988. Historical Parallels to Today’s Inflationary Episode, White House Blog, July 2021. Episode 7 Mao: A Reinterpretation, Lee Feigon, 2002. Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World, Rebecca E. Karl, 2010. Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao and the Korean War, Sergei N. Goncharov, John W. Lewis, Xue Litai, 1993. Mao, Stalin and the Korean War, Shen Zhihua, 2003. Mao’s Generals Remember Korea, ed. Xiaobing Li, Allan R. Millett, and Bin Yu, 2001. Episode 8 War Trash, Ha Jin, 2004. The Korean War at Fifty, ed. Mark F. Wilkinson, 2004. Rebel Journalism: The Writings of Wilfred Burchett, ed. George Burchett, Nick Shimmin, 2007. Mao’s Generals Remember Korea, ed. Xiaobing Li, Allan R. Millett, and Bin Yu, 2001. The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History, Monica Kim, 2019. Douglas MacArthur: The Far Eastern General, Michael Schaller, 1989. The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate": The CIA and Mind Control: The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences by John Marks, 1979. “Biological Warfare in the Korean War: Allegations and Cover-up,” Thomas Powell, Socialism and Democracy, 2017. “Road to Empire: POWs and Total War in Korea,” Thomas Powell, Socialism and Democracy, 2021. A Plague Upon Humanity: The Hidden History of Japan's Biological Warfare Program by Daniel Barenblatt, 2005. Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act by Nicholson Baker, 2021. “Secret History: U.S. Air Force, Marine Corps Flyers’ Confessions on Use of Biological Weapons in the Korean War,” Jeffrey Kaye, 2021. Episode 9 The Korean War, Bruce Cumings, 2010. The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History, Monica Kim, 2019. Truman and the Steel Seizure Case: The Limits of Presidential Power, Maeva Marcus, 1994. The Haunted Fifties by I.F. Stone, 1989. “Within Limits: The U.S. Air Force and the Korean War,”; U.S. Air Force, 1996. Episode 10 North Korea: Another Country, Bruce Cumings, 2004. The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History, Monica Kim, 2019. After the Korean War, Heonik Kwon, 2020. South Koreans in the Debt Crisis: The Creation of a Neoliberal Welfare Society, Jesook Song, 2009. “The Korean Armistice and the End of Peace: The US-UN Coalition and the Dynamics of War-Making in Korea, 1953-76,” Steven Lee, Journal of Korean Studies, 2013. "The Failure of the Bush Administration's North Korea Policy: A Critical Analysis," James I. Matray, International Journal of Korean Studies, 2013. “Complacency or Complicity?: Reconsidering the UN Command’s Role in Syngman Rhee’s Release of North Korean POWs,” Grace Chae, Journal of American-East Asian Relations, 2017.