Why do countries exist

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Why do countries exist episodes

April 21, 2022 Episode 29: History of Burkina Faso
Upright people

Link to the Zoomkoom recipe: https://www.196flavors.com/burkina-faso-zoom-koom/

Link to my Benin episode: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/19498211

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Intro 0:00

Country profile 0:59

Pre-colonial history 3:21

French rule 4:53

Upper Volta and Thomas Sankara 7:18

Compaore's rule and 2014 uprising 10:35

Post-2015 and current politics 13:27

Outro conclusion and sources 15:21
18 min
April 09, 2022 Interview with representatives from Agora
Interview with Marie Corman, a volunteer working within Agora helping with external relations, Michael Damman, a volunteer working within Agora helping organize the Brussels Citizen assembly and Pepijn Kennis, Agora's representative in the Brussel's regional parliament.

Interview date: April 7th, 2022

Agora itself is a Belgian political party, working towards moving political power away from representatives and towards ordinary people. It is largely based in Brussels.

link to my wider episode on Belgian politics: https://open.spotify.com/episode/20mMDt3DYhygKsqvRJaHXh?si=tAdbEjA9T2Sxmzfkoyb-Hw

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50 min
April 09, 2022 Belgian Political Parties
A look at Belgian politics

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link to my episode on Belgian history: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0cS6hqyqqtn6DlgMG8pEIE?si=ce3ba15095354ed5

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Intro 0:00

Background and political structure 1:14

Social democratic/socialist bloc 5:19

Liberal bloc 8:40

Green bloc 12:10

Christian Democratic bloc 15:34

New Flemish Alliance (NVA) 19:49

Vlaams Belang (VB) 22:14

Worker's Party of Belgium (PVDA-PTB) 24:45

DeFI 27:06

Libertarian Direct, Democratic (LDD) 28:09

Pro German Community (ProDG) 28:58

Vivant 29:40

Agora 30:22

Union of Francophones (UF) 31:04

Outro 31:45
34 min
March 28, 2022 Croatian Political Parties
A look at Croatian Political parties

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Intro 0:00

political structure 0:47

Croatian democratic Party (HDZ) 2:07

Independent democratic Serb Party (SDSS) 4:52

Liberal allies of the government 6:01

Social democratic Party (SDP) 7:04

Bridge (MOST) 9:31

Homeland Movement (DP) 11:03

Green-Left Coalition 13:09

Croatian Sovereigntists (HS) 14:33

Istrian Democratic assembly (IDS) 15:41

Croatian peasants Party (HSS) 16:48

Centar 18:11

Human Shield (ZZ) 19:09

Outro 20:26
23 min
March 16, 2022 Episode 28: History of Bulgaria
Disturbers

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Link to the Bulgarian history Podcast: https://www.bghistorypodcast.com/

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Intro 0:00

Country profile 0:54

Early history 3:23

Imperial/medieval Bulgaria 5:21

Ottoman Bulgaria 9:30

Early independence 15:58

World Wars 19:50

Communist Bulgaria 23:03

post-Communist years 26:12

conclusion, outro and sources 30:04
33 min
February 27, 2022 The allowed parties of China
A look at the legal "democratic parties" of China

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22 min
February 20, 2022 Italian Political Parties
A look at the major, minor and notable/interesting parties of Italy

Ipernick's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/IpernickTheGreat

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Intro 0:00

Background and political structure 1:01

Five-star movement (M5S) 3:58

Lega 6:50

Democratic Party (PD) 9:43

Forza Italia (FI) 12:29

Brothers of Italy (FDI) 16:31

Italia viva (IV) 19:13

Coraggio Italia (CI) 21:39

Free and Equal (LeU) 22:54

South Tyrol People's Party (SVP) 25:13

Us with Italy (Ncl) 26:48

Associated Movement of Italians Abroad (MAIE) 28:15

Action 29:05

More Europe (EU+) 30:25

Outro 31:50
33 min
February 05, 2022 Episode 27: History of Brunei
That's it!

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Intro 0:00

Country profile 1:01

Early history 3:13

Early Brunei Sultanate 4:01

British rule 7:52

Independence 11:55

Conclusion, outro and sources 15:36
18 min
January 26, 2022 Malaysian Political Parties
A look at Malaysian political parties

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Intro 0:00

Background and political structure 0:46

Malaysian Untied Indigenous party (BERSATU) 4:22

Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) 6:47

United Malays National Organization (UMNO) 8:39

Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) 11:32

Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) 13:00

United Bumiputera Heritage Party (PBB) 14:09

United Sabah Party (PBS) 15:42

Democratic Action Party (DAP) 16:39

People's Justice Party (PKR) 19:09

National trust party (AMANAH) 21:15

Sabah Heritage Party (WARISAN) 22:08

Homeland Fighter's Party (PEJUANG) 23:05

United Sarawak Party (PSB) 23:58

Malaysian United Democratic Alliance (MUDA) 24:43

Outro 25:25
28 min
January 16, 2022 Indian Political Parties
A look at Indian Political Parties

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Intro 0:00

Background and political structure 0:49

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 5:26

Janata Dal (United) (JDU) 9:01

Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party (RLJP) 10:06

Indian National Congress (INC) 11:24

Dravidian Progressive Federation (DMK) 14:14

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) 16:34

Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) 17:55

Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) 19:03

All India Grassroots Congress (AITC) 20:24

YSR Congress Party 22:40

Shiv Sena 23:56

Biju People's Party (BJD) 26:01

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) 27:07

Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) 28:13

Socialist Party (SP) 29:16

Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM) 30:51

Telugu Desam Party (TDP) 33:08

Outro 33:57
35 min

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A dive into every country's history and why they exist. I also do episodes on political parties throughout the world or just talking about stuff that interests me!