This Week with David Rovics

A History of the World According to David Rovics EPISODE 11

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Start at the beginning with episode 1 of the podcast series at davidrovics.com/ahistoryoftheworld or just listen to episode 11 here.

2004-2008
  • The Abu Ghraib prison torture scandal breaks in the New York Times (“After We Torture Our Prisoners”)
  • Neocon architect of the Iraq occupation, Paul Wolfowitz, is appointed head of the World Bank (“Paul Wolfowitz”)
  • Cindy Sheehan starts camping out in front of President Bush’s ranch (“Song for Cindy Sheehan”)
  • Hurricane Katrina and government ineptitude kill thousands of people in New Orleans (“New Orleans”)
  • Construction of Israel’s Apartheid Wall in Palestine begins (“They’re Building a Wall”)
  • Israel invades Lebanon in 2006, killing thousands (“Lebanon, 2006”)
  • My dear friend and longtime activist and musician Brad Will is killed by paramilitaries in Oaxaca, Mexico (“Brad”)
  • Rod Coronado spends eight months in prison for giving a speech (“Burn It Down”)
  • The premier squatted social center in Denmark, Ungdomshuset, is destroyed by the Danish government, setting in motion a new social movement (“Ungdomshuset’s Microphone”)
  • The Global Financial Crisis leads to massive protests in Iceland (“Iceland, 2008”)
  • The GFC leads to massive protests in Greece, too, in which a dog named Loukanikos plays a prominent role (“Riot Dog”)
  • Founders of the Holy Land Foundation are charged with supporting terrorism, and five men are sentenced to between 15 and 65 years in prison (“Holy Land 5”)
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