This is the thirteenth installment in the UFC/Banana/Guatemala series.
I am joined by Rodolfo (from the Bolaño series) to discuss the 2019 Guatemalan film La Llorona, which features a lightly fictionalized account of a Montt stand-...
2024-03-20 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the twelfth installment in the UFC/Banana/Guatemala series.
I pick back up with Efraín Ríos Montt's pacification plan known as Victoria 82, informally known as Fusiles y Frijoles, or Rifles and Beans. Montt established secret...
2024-03-19 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the eleventh installment in the UFC/Banana/Guatemala series.
A brief parenthetical before continuing with the story of the Guatemalan genocide, I decided to do an episode just for me (and the like three other Mormon listeners) about ...
2024-03-18 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the tenth installment in the UFC/Banana/Guatemala series.
Efraín Ríos Montt's presidency was the nadir of Guatemala's 36-year civil war, and the worst period of violence - la violencia - took place during it. I begin by discussing ...
2024-03-17 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the ninth installment in the UFC/Banana/Guatemala series.
By 1970, the literal former head of a death squad was running Guatemala - Colonel Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio. He took the death squad model to the next level, and disappearanc...
2024-03-16 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the eighth installment in the UFC/Banana/Guatemala series.
Most stories of the 1954 coup end shortly thereafter. We continue with Guatemala barreling right into the Guatemalan Civil War. I start with the Justice Department's antitrus...
2024-03-15 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the seventh episode in the Guatemala series.
I open by discussing Operation SHERWOOD, the CIA's covert attempt to support Castillo Armas' invasion, run by Tracy Barnes and David Atlee Phillips, intentionally modeled after Orson Welle...
2024-03-14 12:05:28 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the sixth episode in the Guatemala series.
I begin the episode with the elephant in the room - the Dulles brothers owning United Fruit Company stock. I explore Sullivan & Cromwell's connections to UFC as well as the Cabot family'...
2024-03-13 13:10:09 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the fifth episode in the Guatemala series delivered early because I will be busy next week.
I begin with an extended meditation about Arbenz's position in 1951 and the state of the Guatemalan economy. This leads to a discussion of De...
2024-02-27 22:07:26 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the fourth episode in the Guatemala series.
I begin discussing Guatemala as early as possible - the Olmec and Mayan civilizations, and the 200 year bloody pacification war against them by the Spanish conquistadores and the Captaincy ...
2024-02-27 21:41:08 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the third episode in the Guatemala series.
In this episode I discuss Colombia's relationship to United Fruit Company aka El Pulpo. In particular, I open with the massive strikes against UFC in 1928 culminating in the massacre at Cié...
2024-02-23 15:10:12 +0000 UTC View Post
In premium episode 69, I discussed Roberto Bolaño’s novel The Third Reich. In that discussion, I was accompanied by Dani and Rodolfo. For those who don’t recall, The Third Reich was about the German war game enthusiast Udo B...
2024-02-16 22:32:57 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the second installment in the UFC/Banana/Guatemala series.
Today I discuss more criminals involved in the banana trade, introducing the Vaccaro Brothers and Sam the Banana Man Zemurray. I discuss that intersection between organized c...
2024-02-15 21:52:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Today is the opening salvo for a 15-part series on the rolling waves of crimes involving the Octopus that is United Fruit Company, the banana trade, Guatemala specifically, and Central America more generally, culminating in the Guatemalan Genocide...
2024-02-15 21:49:11 +0000 UTC View Post
As if I didn't discuss the Tupamaros enough, I revisit the story in light of even more information I found. In particular, I look at a RAND report on the MLN-T and cross-reference it with several more books on the group. This leads us to the inter...
2024-02-09 16:59:48 +0000 UTC View Post
I finish the story of Manuel Hevia Coscullela, the Cuban spy, based off his memoir, Pasaporte 11333 : ocho años con la CIA (1978). I examine what exactly Hevia was doing for the agency and what USAID's Office of Public Safety was up to. ...
2024-02-07 13:03:40 +0000 UTC View Post
I continue the extended story of the Tupamaros by examining the life of Manuel Hevia Coscullela, the Cuban double (or triple) agent embedded in the CIA in Uruguay. I obtained his memoir, Pasaporte 11333 : ocho años con la CIA (1978) and ...
2024-02-01 17:51:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I'm rejoined by Dr. Pig Bodine aka CJ (@pussy___teeth) to continue our discussion on the 1972 film State of Siege by Costa-Gavras. We open with a discussion on the death squad as a general concept and in its specific applications in Uruguay....
2024-01-25 14:43:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I am rejoined by old friend of the show Dr. Pig Bodine aka CJ (@pussy___teeth) to discuss the 1972 film State of Siege by Costa-Gavras. We begin by reviewing the plot of the film and the real-life events.
From there, we quickly d...
2024-01-18 22:43:42 +0000 UTC View Post
I'd like to announce a new shirt design (https://programmed-to-chill.myshopify.com/products/sugondese-liberation...
2024-01-18 22:02:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I'm joined by Fergal Schmudlach (@irregnata) from the Kingless Generation podcast to discuss paleo-parapolitics.
We start by discussing several points of mutual interest regarding Japan. Then we get into what anthropology can tel...
2024-01-16 13:02:15 +0000 UTC View Post
(part 3 of 3)
Today I'm joined by Reid (@seriations) to finish our conversation about Ira 'the Unicorn' Einhorn. We pick up on his life story by getting into Einhorn's attempts at publishing both his own works and that of others. To th...
2024-01-12 12:47:13 +0000 UTC View Post
(part 2 of 3)
Today I'm joined by Reid (@seriations) to continue our conversation about Ira 'the Unicorn' Einhorn. We get into Einhorn's relationship to Andrija Puharich, his involvement with Earth Day, Bell Telephone company, and the develo...
2024-01-05 12:16:36 +0000 UTC View Post
(part 1 of 3)
Today I'm joined by Reid (@seriations) to discuss maybe the most conceited man in the world - Ira 'the Unicorn' Einhorn. In this episode, we get into Einhorn's family history and early life, his time studying to be a guru, and ...
2023-12-29 06:30:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I'm joined by Nick Vyssotsky (@cuss_otaku) to discuss Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid video game franchise. Nick takes us through the franchise's alternate history and we discuss the various themes involving Private Military Contrac...
2023-12-22 13:54:44 +0000 UTC View Post
After having introduced accounting concepts and laid out their applications in Jamaica, I continue my close reading of Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management by Caitlin Rosenthal. I discuss the nature of 'book farming', the nature...
2023-12-15 11:13:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Having laid out various accounting concepts, I now introduce their application in a horrible setting: plantation accounting in Jamaica. To do this, I rely on a close reading of Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management by Caitlin Ros...
2023-12-09 15:20:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I attempt to trace the history of accounting from renaissance Venice through the robber barons into the modern era. Along the way, I opine on the nature of moneylending, Shylock, and drill down six key accounting concepts necessary to unders...
2023-11-27 19:43:28 +0000 UTC View Post
(second of two episodes)
Today I'm rejoined by Comrade Chad to continue our discussion about post-Trotsky Trotskyism in the US. We continue discussing Burnham's various intrigues and we go pretty deep on Joseph Hansen's perfidious career. Al...
2023-11-22 21:02:35 +0000 UTC View Post
(first of two episodes)
Today I'm rejoined by Comrade Chad to discuss post-Trotsky Trotskyism in the US, especially their penchant for attacking communism 'from the left'. Comrade Chad walks us through some of the theory and vocabulary neces...
2023-11-17 13:26:36 +0000 UTC View Post