Behind the Insurrections

Hey, Behind the Insurrections fans! It's been one year since the capitol riots and we want to share the podcast Assault on America with you. Listen to the trailer and see for yourself.

About Assault on America: What happens when the wrong lie takes root in millions of minds at once?  On January 6th 2021, a vast constellation of right-wing groups converged on Washington DC to protest the presidential election. They were MAGA fans, Q adherents, Proud Boys, militia members, and outright nazis. Many carried flags and banners; others brought zip-ties and bear spray. They were a disparate group of all ages and backgrounds, but all of them were united and energised by a single lie: that Democrats stole the 2020 election. 

By the end of the day, this falsehood led to the ransacking of the US Capitol, causing five deaths and many hundreds of injuries. 

One journalist saw it coming. On January 5th, Bellingcat investigator and expert on the far right Robert Evans published a report warning of serious action in Washington DC the next day.  

Now, Evans digs into the events of January 6th in forensic detail, identifying key players who spread disinformation and helped to create a riot. He traces the stories of instigators, militia leaders, and far right influencers, and he unpicks a mighty disinformation campaign that was years in the making. 

As Evans journeys deep into the digital fever swamp, he considers a crucial question: was the storming of the US Capitol the final convulsion of a dying movement? Or was it the first shot in a new civil war? 

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Join rapper and author Propaganda as he uses his hood-knowledge to break down the political scene on the podcast Hood Politics.

All the jokes. All the political tea. All the hoodness.

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In the early 1930s a consortium of America's wealthiest men conspires to overthrow President Roosevelt and institute a fascist state. This is the story of how they almost succeeded.

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The most direct precursor to January 6th, 2021 was a fascist assault on the French Capitol on February 6th 1934. Today we talk about that and, as a bonus, French Jeffrey Epstein.

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The incredible, heartbreaking story of the antifascist struggle in Spain.

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In this episode, we discuss the birth of Fascism in Spain and how it led to the first great armed conflict between Fascism and Democracy: the Spanish Civil War. 

FOOTNOTES:

1. https://www.amazon.com/Fascism-Spain-1923-1977-Stanley-Payne/dp/0299165647/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=fascism+in+spain&qid=1611636892&sr=8-1
2. https://libcom.org/history/spanish-civil-war-osprey-book-collection
3. https://www.marxists.org/archive/bookchin/1985/12/spanish-civil-war.htm
4. https://www.historynet.com/persistent-myths-guernica.htm
5. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/06/george-orwell-homage-to-catalonia-account-spanish-civil-war-wrong
6. https://www.rs21.org.uk/2018/11/22/petain-franco-and-chemical-warfare-in-the-rif/
7. https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/spanish-legion-viral-tweet-twitter-history
8. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/oct/22/the-contested-legacy-of-the-anti-fascist-international-brigades
9. https://www.tutor2u.net/history/reference/why-did-the-nationalists-win-the-spanish-civil-war
10. https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii67/articles/ronald-fraser-how-the-republic-was-lost
11. https://limun.org.uk/FCKfiles/File/Spanish_Civil_War_Source_2.pdf

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In Part Two, we continue to discuss Hitler's disastrous beer hall putsch.

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We continue our study of fascist insurrections with the most famous of them all: Hitler's disastrous beer hall putsch.

Footnotes: 

1. https://famous-trials.com/hitler/2524-the-hitler-beer-hall-putsch-trial-an-account 
2. https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/adolf-hitler-s-time-in-jail-flowers-for-the-fuehrer-in-landsberg-prison-a-702159.html
3. https://www.thoughtco.com/hitlers-beer-hall-putsch-1778295
4. https://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00003880/00001/pdf
5. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XHJ8685/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 
6. https://www.amazon.com/1924-Year-That-Made-Hitler-ebook/dp/B011J4H47W

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Travel back to the very birth of fascism in this episode about the March on Rome. You'll learn how the first trailblazing fascist dictator took power and destroyed a democracy.

FOOTNOTES:

1. https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2018/02/01/benito-mussolini-the-fascist-march-on-rome/
2. https://www.wnyc.org/story/cautionary-lessons-mussolinis-march-rome/
3. https://www.wkms.org/post/history-democracy-mussolinis-rise-power-italy#stream/0
4. https://scholar.valpo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1241&context=jvbl
5. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/j-clark-three-way-fight
6. https://books.google.com/books?id=BrjNJoMD9bQC&pg=PA177&lpg=PA177&dq=the+arditi+del+popolo%27s+action+has+to+be+defensive.+but+defense+means+above+all+to+prevent&source=bl&ots=NHbNEGFHWd&sig=ACfU3U1kdM8t-IV8pIREqrxIrH-V_FERXw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwimk6m8ypruAhUcFjQIHeZnAMoQ6AEwAHoECAQQAg#v=onepage&q=the%20arditi%20del%20popolo's%20action%20has%20to%20be%20defensive.%20but%20defense%20means%20above%20all%20to%20prevent&f=false
7. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FWSK9PQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_d_asin_title_o01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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The insurrection on January 6th, 2021, was just the latest in a long line of fascist attempts to take power. Many of these were successful. And by learning their history, and the historic successes and failures of the antifascists who opposed them, we can better prepare ourselves for the future.

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