Hidden History

Episode 99: This week’s episode is about COINTELPRO, the secret, illegal spying and assassination program orchestrated by the FBI from 1956 to (technically) 1971, and the 1999 trail that established that the United States Government was likely part of a conspiracy to assassinate Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Complete Transcript of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination Conspiracy Trial, November 15 to December 8, 1999: Link

COINTELPRO: The Untold American Story: Link

Domestic terrorism: Notes on the state system of oppression: Link

Peter Bohmer, Faculty at Evergreen State College: Link

The COINTELPRO Papers: Link

“Character Assassins”: How the FBI Used the Issue of Homosexuality against the Black Freedom Struggle: Link

Berlet, Chip. "Re–framing dissent as criminal subversion." CovertAction Quarterly 41 (1992): 35-41.

Novick, Michael. Blue by Day, White by Night: Organized White Supremacist Groups in Law Enforcement Agencies. PART, 1991.

The King Trial: Link

Episode 96: This week’s episode talks about the history of American empire and international intervention, the creation of the “Banana Republic,” the Spanish American War, and the aggressive imperial policy of 1900s America.

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Empire, Public Goods, and the Roosevelt Corollary: Link

The Roosevelt Corollary: Link

Bevins, Vincent. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World. Hachette UK, 2020.

The Banana Wars: United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898–1934: Link

The Making of the Monroe Doctrine: Link

The Monroe Doctrine: Meanings and Implications: Link

Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas: Link

Banana Wars: The Price of Free Trade: A Caribbean Perspective: Link

American Business and the Spanish-American War: Link

An Army for Empire: The United States Army in the Spanish-American War: Link

Episode 96:This week’s episode is a decidedly less-gruesome tale about a big catalogue, a little book, and a red-nosed reindeer.

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Robert L. May: https://rb.gy/2qwdgw

1944: The Removal of Sewell Avery: https://rb.gy/kprjpc

Montgomery Ward & Co. Catalogue and Buyers' Guide 1895: https://rb.gy/37bf8o

The House that Came in the Mail: https://rb.gy/cmkena

Episode 96:This week’s episode is about Walter J. Freeman. Jr., the surgeon without surgical training who pioneered a brutal procedure that was used to punish the women of the 1950s for stepping out of line. Let’s talk about the gruesome and brutal history of lobotomy.

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Psychosurgery, ethics, and media: a history of Walter Freeman and the lobotomy: Link

'My Lobotomy': Howard Dully's Journey: Link

He was bad, so they put an ice pick in his brain...: Link

The First Lobotomy in the US Happened at George Washington University: Link

Most lobotomies were done on women: Link

Diagnosing Womanhood: Lessons Learned from Gender Bias in 20th Century Psychiatry: Link

(F)ailing women in psychiatry: lessons from a painful past: Link

Race and Gender in the Selection of Patients for Lobotomy: Link

Madwives: Schizophrenic Women in the 1950s: Link

50 Years Ago, Doctors Called Domestic Violence 'Therapy': Link

Napa State Hospital to get a history of its very own: Link

Black Women, Mental Hospitals, and Public Housing — A California Carceral Story: Link

Women Who Defied Gender Roles Were Once Imprisoned In Asylums: Link

1950 Census of Institutional Population: Link

Walter Freeman and James Watts collection: Link

Episode 94: This week’s episode is about the unrelenting agony of the American experience. Happy stuff.

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Thousands in Texas line up in cars to receive food before Thanksgiving: https://rb.gy/f2bxhu

A 2-mile line in Arizona. A four-hour wait in Ohio. Millions seek help to avoid going hungry on Thanksgiving.: https://rb.gy/axwydv

Millions of Americans Expect to Lose Their Homes as Covid Rages: https://rb.gy/lt2o0k

Average monthly apartment rent in the United States from September 2016 to February 2020: https://rb.gy/xtj8vr

Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk among US billionaires getting richer during coronavirus pandemic: https://rb.gy/q7clnm

Never mind the 1 percent, let's talk about the 0.01 percent: https://rb.gy/dov4ti

Yelp data shows 60% of business closures due to the coronavirus pandemic are now permanent: https://rb.gy/hs1azt

Up to 90% of minority and women owners shut out of Paycheck Protection Program, experts fear: https://rb.gy/44cei2

Pelosi: ‘We Have Time’ For Stimulus, $908 Billion Framework ‘Just A Start’ And Government Will Not Shut Down: https://rb.gy/h3zvvk

Potbelly, Shake Shack, Axios: Here Are All The Companies Returning PPP Money After Public Backlash: https://rb.gy/wrn2lx

Billionaire Kanye West's Yeezy Received A Multimillion-Dollar PPP Loan: https://rb.gy/rhwrwp

How the COVID-19 Bailout Gave Wall Street a No-Lose Casino: https://rb.gy/pydlyd

'It was not a mistake': Nancy Pelosi defends her rejection of the Trump administration's $1.8 trillion stimulus offer after throwing support behind a relief package half its size: https://rb.gy/nlznsl

Democratic Socialists of America: https://rb.gy/giagaq

Episode 94: This episode talks about the beginnings of the First World War, Serbian conspiracies, the doomed campaign in Gallipoli, and a fate worse than death.

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Gallipoli: https://rb.gy/wcjiyu

Searching for Gavrilo Princip: https://rb.gy/2lam6j

The Russian Secret Service and King Alexander Obrenović of Serbia (1900-1903): https://rb.gy/8ljzx5

Serbia and the Serbs: https://rb.gy/uilegw

Crime, Suicide, and the Anti‐Hero: “Waltzing Matilda” in Australia: https://rb.gy/wh5jzt

Scottish Transnational Discourse of the Great War: A Genealogy of Eric Bogle’s “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda” and Hugh MacDiarmid’s “At the Cenotaph”: https://rb.gy/4bqdul

Episode 93: In a world where the vast majority of corporate maneuvering is invisible to the average person, how have the actions of one specific sector, the chemical industry, unknowingly impacted each of our lives? What current problems can we trace back the actions of the chemical companies of the past? How do companies that poison the public get away with it? Is there any hope that in the near future, such companies will be held responsible and made to pay for their crimes?

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The Secret History of Lead: https://rb.gy/vgsejg

DuPont’s Museum of Disastrous Chemistry Continues to Spread Its Poison: https://rb.gy/5fe3ik

DuPont Made Billions Polluting Tap Water With PFAS; Will Now Make More Cleaning It Up: https://rb.gy/mpxipr

How DuPont may avoid paying to clean up a toxic 'forever chemical': https://rb.gy/zfxfju

Companies deny responsibility for toxic ‘forever chemicals’ contamination: https://rb.gy/nmwlpg

Libby asbestos case goes to Supreme Court: https://rb.gy/zrx6dz

Libby, Asbestos.com : https://rb.gy/fq8hg9

Md. Firm Accused Of Asbestos Coverup: https://rb.gy/6gfwve

Biden EPA Transition Team Member Helped DuPont Dodge Responsibility for POFA: https://rb.gy/wmk6dr

Episode 92: Let’s talk about centrism, the election, the records of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, anti-activism within the democratic party, and the future of politics.

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S.256 - Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005: https://rb.gy/8d8li4

The Crime-Bill Debate Shows How Short Americans’ Memories Are: https://rb.gy/ezxnay

‘Lock the S.O.B.s Up’: Joe Biden and the Era of Mass Incarceration: https://rb.gy/rolfal

Kamala Harris laughed about jailing parents over truancy. But it's not funny: https://rb.gy/ddljov

The Story Behind Kamala Harris' Truancy Program: https://rb.gy/rfobwo

Kamala Harris Is Being Ripped for Past Stand Against the Trans Community: https://rb.gy/ttqpws

How Kamala Harris' death penalty decisions broke hearts on both sides: https://rb.gy/32klfs

Five times prosecutor Kamala Harris got the wrong guy: https://rb.gy/tyzkja

Kamala Harris’ A.G. Office Tried to Keep Inmates Locked Up for Cheap Labor: https://rb.gy/urzzkm

Joe Biden: America Needs the Republican Party: https://rb.gy/rudvdy

Sen. Mitt Romney (R) Utah won't say whether he voted for Joe Biden: "That's in the rearview mirror: https://rb.gy/29d3ju

Spanberger criticizes Democrats' strategy in caucus call: https://rb.gy/g84nhg

Episode 91: In this episode, let’s talk about the worst industrial accident in American history, and the worst industrial accident in human history, both caused by the endless greed of the same company: Union Carbide.

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More Chemical Leaks at W.Va. Plant Disclosed by Union Carbide Corp.: https://rb.gy/wkumnz

Union Carbide Buys Back Troubled West Virginia Plant: https://rb.gy/a1undl

Toxic Cloud Leaks at Carbide Plant in West Virginia: https://rb.gy/6f51qi

Before Black Lung, The Hawks Nest Tunnel Disaster Killed Hundreds: https://rb.gy/p3b4pb

The Bhopal Disaster of 1984: https://rb.gy/r5iqvn

Union Carbide Corp. reports earnings for Qtr to Dec 31: https://rb.gy/k4gtjb

Episode 90: It’s time to talk about the right to, and commodification of, water, Daniel Day Lewis, and why you should hate Nestle for what they’ve done to our world.

The music featured in this episode is This is the Day, by The The

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Corporate Human Rights Benchmark, 2019 Findings: https://rb.gy/skm0p1

Nestle USA, Inc v. John Doe: https://rb.gy/ixegfo

Class action lawsuit filed against Nestle for child slavery on cocoa harvest in West African farms: https://rb.gy/ol6bid

Nestlé admits to forced labour in its seafood supply chain in Thailand: https://rb.gy/htwefx

Nestle, Infant Formula, and Excuses: The Regulation of Commercial Advertising in Developing Nations: https://rb.gy/2mvdbr

Nestle to respond to baby milk criticism in coming days: https://rb.gy/0tcccr

Nestle suspended from sustainable palm oil group following conduct breaches: https://rb.gy/kwrgk2

Nestle and Unilever ‘linked to Indonesian forest fires engulfing southeast Asia in noxious haze’: https://rb.gy/vpi6bw

Pepsico, Unilever and Nestlé accused of complicity in illegal rainforest destruction: https://rb.gy/z0yovo

Nestle, Ethiopia Reach Deal Ending Embarrassing Fight: https://rb.gy/micghi

Nestle demanding $6 million from Ethiopia: https://rb.gy/swn04d

The right to water versus the CEO of Nestle: https://rb.gy/okann2

Nestlé Chairman Peter Brabeck Says We Don’t Have a Right to Water, Believes We Do Have a Right to Water and Everyone’s Confused: https://rb.gy/gkecnc

United Nations, Water for Life Decade: https://rb.gy/rj5y2f

Nestlé pays $200 a year to bottle water near Flint – where water is undrinkable: https://rb.gy/fkfphu

Your bottled water may be stolen from a national forest: https://rb.gy/njvruq

Nestle has been bottling and selling water it has no right to in drought-stricken California, state says: https://rb.gy/mr3x1x

Nestle bottled water operations spark protests amid California drought: https://rb.gy/uahb3v