https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yxyew-daf362 On The Jakarta Method. We're joined by Vincent Bevins to discuss his new book on the 1965-66 mass killings in Indonesia, Cold War anti-communism, and the destruction it wrought around the world. The mid-60s proved pivotal, with US-backed coups in…
Tag: international relations
Excerpt: /114/ Reading Club: The Light That Failed
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-q3anv-d761f8 This episode is for our $10 and up patrons. Go to patreon.com/bungacast for access.On the end of the Age of Imitation. We discuss Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes' The Light That Failed: A Reckoning and their arguments for why…
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/108/ Coronageddon? ft. Mark Honigsbaum / Lee Jones
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3ykyc-d31239 On pandemics, panics, and China. The 2019 Novel Coronavirus is yet another new epidemic to appear on the scene this century. What accounts for their increasing frequency, and who decides if an epidemic is classed as a pandemic? More…
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Excerpt: /103/ Three Articles: The Future!
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-vneh7-cf6394 This episode is for Patrons only. Go to patreon.com/bungacast for access.On forecasts for the next decade. In this month's 'Three Articles' - in which we each bring to the table a key article to unpick and unpack -…
/100/ What Was the End of History? ft. Many Guests
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wpwsf-cac164 On the 30 years since 1989. For our 100th episode, we invited our favourite guests to reflect on the question: “What one event, personal or political, most captures for you the past thirty years, since 1989?” Are we still…
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/95/ The Fall of Rojava? ft. Dani Ellis / Alexander Norton
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-z4hgb-c66aaa Rojava offered the hope that a progressive, multiethnic politics might be salvaged from the ashes of Syria’s civil war. Now the Turkish assault on northern Syria looks set to crush the Kurds and a radical experiment in the region. We talk…
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/34/ War Propaganda ft. Tara McCormack
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ve6i7-8f7f8d In which we laugh at The Times' hatchet job with one of its targets & wonder what the West's endgame is in Syria
/19/ New Clarity? ft. Michael Brooks
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-nh5iw-7db7ec In which we chat new alt-media, the US left, and Trump's Middle East policy
Episode 16: Aung San Suu Kyi ain’t what she used to be
Episode Sixteen: In which we learn about Burmese Buddhist nationalism, escalating violence against Muslims, and what happened to the West's liberal hero
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