History Behind News Program

👉full episode: https://bit.ly/UME-S1E39

►Are U.S. sanctions on Iran working?

►Are U.S. sanctions against Iran actually working against the United States?

►Have sanctions empowered and emboldened Iran's Revolutionary Guard… to the point that they were ready for war with the United States?

⁠Dr. Vali Nasr⁠ is professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. and the co-director of the ⁠Rethinking Iran Initiative⁠. He has advised the U.S. President, Secretary of State & senior members of Congress about foreign policy.

He is the author and co-author of many books, including the following:

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►image titled "Iran's Ruling Class"

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1. Opening and closing music of the program:

Santur: Peyman Heydarian playing on the Santur some Iranian music. Recorded with a Sony PCM-D50 at the School of Oriental and African Studies of London on April 7th 2011.

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Has China now reached its age of complacency? To answer this question, Dr. Wang (see bio below) takes us through the history of China's economic miracle of the last 40 years. But the story starts even before that... when impoverished Chinese villagers decided to take matters into their own hands and improve their lives - in spite of their government misguided policies and restrictions.

As you listen to this interview, be ready as Dr. Wang debunks much of what many of us have come to believe about the history of China.

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Dr. Wang is the author of

And here is my first interview with Dr. Wang, during which we discussed China's brutal one-child Policy.

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Did you know there are 70 definitions of rural?

This is the story of rural America. And although geography does matter for the purposes of this discussion, rural is a loaded term with a complex meaning that cannot readily be determined by looking at the map.

In popular culture, rural may have a negative perception. Regardless of how the media, movies and urban folk perceive rural America, ruralness provides the basis for a strong identity - a distinct identity in a diverse nation.

And since we are so close to the Election, I'll throw this at you: the rural identity is closely associated with politics.

Ask yourself this: why do rural Americans predominantly vote Republican? And why Democrats keep on losing the rural vote?

In this interview, my guest takes us back to 1980. As he explains it, 1980 is a pivotal year in America's rural-urban divide.

He also gives us his prediction for the 2024 Election.

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Dr. Jacobs is the author of

"History of America's Election Violence, Electoral College & Why Our Elections Are Producing Minority Winners - As Opposed To Majority Winners".

Contact me: you can write to me by leaving a comment on any of the videos in our YouTube channel.

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Are young American men willing to elect a woman for the highest office in our country?

Watch video of this interview: https://bit.ly/HbN-YT-S4E18

In this interview, I ask the following questions:

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In an earlier episode, we discussed his other recent book Trumpism: American Politics In The Age of Politainment.

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Hey there newspeelers,

This is Adel, your host at the History Behind News podcast.

We are preparing a great program for the 2nd half of our 4th season, which will start in a few weeks - just in time to cover the history behind the issues that matter for the 2024 presidential election.

Here are some examples of what you can expect:

► I will be interviewing an expert who has correctly predicted US presidential elections for decades, and I'll ask him: who will win the 2024 election? President Biden or former President Trump?

► I'll also speak with the editor of a book that published in June 2024, a book that is very relevant to the 2024 presidential election: Generational Politics in the United States - From the Silents to Gen Z and Beyond.

►I'll talk to another expert about the history of polling, and why do pollsters so often get it wrong?

►Another expert will tell us about the voting history of rural America. And why Republican politicians, particularly Mr. Trump, seem to be winning the hearts and minds of America's rural voters.

►In addition, I will speak with an internationally renowned expert on China about his latest book: China's Age of Abundance - Origins, Ascendance and Aftermath.

He believes that China's economic miracle has ended, and that trouble lays ahead. Of course, I'll ask him what that means for America.

While the History Behind News audio podcast is on a break, you should definitely check out our YouTube channel (also visit our Scholar Unravel Middle East YouTube channel), where we are busy producing documentary-style videos of our audio podcasts.

See you guys in a few weeks.

I hope you enjoy your summer.

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What is Decoration Day? Did the South celebrate the 4th of July?

As it turns out, the history of the 4th of July is not that straightforward. For example, it took about a century for the recognition of our Independence Day as a federal holiday. And for some 80 years after the Civil war, some parts of the South, including Vicksburg, did not celebrate the 4th of July. It took WWII to create a new sense of nationalism, including the national celebration of the 4th of July.  

Dr. Balcerski has taught courses on early American history, U.S. Presidents and First Ladies, and the history of the Democratic Party, from Thomas Jefferson to

I hope you enjoy these episodes.

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►My guest claims that Mr. Musk's compensation is $0! How is this possible?

►Why did CEO stock options significantly increase in the 1990s?

My guest is intimately familiar with Mr. Musk's pay package. Not only is he an expert on executive compensation, but he also testified in Mr. Musk's Delaware trial on behalf of Telsa.

🚩About My Guest:

Professor Kevin Murphy is a nationally known expert on executive compensation. He teaches Corporate Finance and Compensation, Incentives and Governance in the University of Southern California - USC - Marshall School of Business, where he was named chair of the department of finance and business economics and holds the E. Morgan Stanley Chair in Business Administration.

Prof. Murphy helped the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission - the SEC - formulate disclosure rules for top management pay. And his study examining the salary trends of top executives set a benchmark in finance research.

Prior to joining USC in 1995, he was on the faculty at the Harvard Business School and the University of Rochester’s Simon School of Business.

Prof. Murphy is the author of The Economics of Executive Compensation. And as I mentioned in the opening, he is quite knowledgeable with Mr. Musk's pay package and the legal challenges against it, because he testified on Tesla's behalf at the Delaware trial.

You can also watch our podcasts:

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►Who will win the 2024 presidential election?

►Is Donald Trump a conservative?

My guest has correctly predicted the outcome of every U.S. presidential election since 1984. In this episode, I ask him to predict the 2024 election?

We also talk about FDR's record of helping or harming European Jews in the years leading up to WWII.

🚩About My Guest:

Dr. Allan Lichtman is a Distinguished Professor of History at American University in Washington, D.C.

He has lectured in the US and internationally and provided commentary for major US and foreign networks and leading newspapers and magazines across the world. He has also been an expert witness in some 100 civil and voting rights cases. Dr. Litchman was listed as # 85 among the 100 most influential geopolitical experts in the world and received the lifetime achievement award from the Who's Who.

He has written many books, including the folllowing that we discuss in this episode:

1st: White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement,

2nd: FDR and the Jews, and

3rd: Predicting the Next President: The Keys to the White House, 2024.

And here is Dr. Lichtman's YouTube channel, where you can tune in to watch live conversations with him.

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►Georgia is a country between two civilizations - Europe & Asia, and Islam and Christianity

►Until the Russians came, Georgia had maintained its status as an independent state.

In this conversation, Dr. Jones takes us from the ancient and Medieval history of Georgia, including its conflicts with Islamic empires and kingdoms, to its modern period of independence, and its struggle to realign itself with Europe.

🚩About My Guest:

Dr. Stephen Jones is the Director of the Program on Georgian Studies at the Davis Center of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. He is also a Professor of Modern Georgian History at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia. Dr. Jones is a foreign member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences and received an honorary doctorate from Tbilisi State University in 2012 and from Ilia State University in 2018.

He has written many books on Georgia’s history, including the following:

1st: Socialism in Georgian Colors: The European Road to Social Democracy, 1883-1917,

2nd: Georgia: A Political History Since Independence,

3rd: The Birth of Modern Georgia: The First Georgian Republic and Its Successors, 1918-2010, and

4th: War and Revolution in the Caucasus: Georgia Ablaze.

You can also watch our podcasts:

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►How we gambled before ash economy?

►Are religion and gambling somehow connected?

►How did risk-taking change after humanity settled down?

🚩About My Guest:

Dr. David Schwartz is UNLV's ombuds and also a professor in the Dept. of History. Previously, he was the director of Schwartz was director of the Center for Gaming Research within University Libraries. In recognition of his role in promoting the preservation of Las Vegas History, in 2021 Dr. Schwartz was given a History Preservation Award by the Historic Preservation Commission of the City of Las Vegas.

More about Dr. Schwart:

his academic and personal homepages

He is the author of several books, including the following:

You can also watch our podcasts:

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