This is the thirteenth installment in the UFC/Banana/Guatemala series.
I am joined by Rodolfo (from the Bolaño series) to discuss the 2019 Guatemalan film La Llorona, which features...
2024-03-20 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the twelfth installment in the UFC/Banana/Guatemala series.
I pick back up with Efraín Ríos Montt's pacification plan known as Victoria 82, informally known as Fusiles y Frijo...
2024-03-19 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the eleventh installment in the UFC/Banana/Guatemala series.
A brief parenthetical before continuing with the story of the Guatemalan genocide, I decided to do an episode just for me ...
2024-03-18 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the tenth installment in the UFC/Banana/Guatemala series.
Efraín Ríos Montt's presidency was the nadir of Guatemala's 36-year civil war, and the worst period of violence - la violen...
2024-03-17 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the ninth installment in the UFC/Banana/Guatemala series.
By 1970, the literal former head of a death squad was running Guatemala - Colonel Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio. He took the dea...
2024-03-16 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the eighth installment in the UFC/Banana/Guatemala series.
Most stories of the 1954 coup end shortly thereafter. We continue with Guatemala barreling right into the Guatemalan Civil W...
2024-03-15 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the seventh episode in the Guatemala series.
I open by discussing Operation SHERWOOD, the CIA's covert attempt to support Castillo Armas' invasion, run by Tracy Barnes and David Atlee...
2024-03-14 12:05:28 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the sixth episode in the Guatemala series.
I begin the episode with the elephant in the room - the Dulles brothers owning United Fruit Company stock. I explore Sullivan & Cromwell...
2024-03-13 13:10:09 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the fifth episode in the Guatemala series delivered early because I will be busy next week.
I begin with an extended meditation about Arbenz's position in 1951 and the state of the Gu...
2024-02-27 22:07:26 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the fourth episode in the Guatemala series.
I begin discussing Guatemala as early as possible - the Olmec and Mayan civilizations, and the 200 year bloody pacification war against the...
2024-02-27 21:41:08 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the third episode in the Guatemala series.
In this episode I discuss Colombia's relationship to United Fruit Company aka El Pulpo. In particular, I open with the massive strikes again...
2024-02-23 15:10:12 +0000 UTC View Post
In premium episode 69, I discussed Roberto Bolaño’s novel The Third Reich. In that discussion, I was accompanied by Dani and Rodolfo. For those who don’t recall, The Third Reich 2024-02-16 22:32:57 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the second installment in the UFC/Banana/Guatemala series.
Today I discuss more criminals involved in the banana trade, introducing the Vaccaro Brothers and Sam the Banana Man Zemurra...
2024-02-15 21:52:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Today is the opening salvo for a 15-part series on the rolling waves of crimes involving the Octopus that is United Fruit Company, the banana trade, Guatemala specifically, and Central America more...
2024-02-15 21:49:11 +0000 UTC View Post
As if I didn't discuss the Tupamaros enough, I revisit the story in light of even more information I found. In particular, I look at a RAND report on the MLN-T and cross-reference it with several m...
2024-02-09 16:59:48 +0000 UTC View Post
I finish the story of Manuel Hevia Coscullela, the Cuban spy, based off his memoir, Pasaporte 11333 : ocho años con la CIA (1978). I examine what exactly Hevia was doing for the agency an...
2024-02-07 13:03:40 +0000 UTC View Post
I continue the extended story of the Tupamaros by examining the life of Manuel Hevia Coscullela, the Cuban double (or triple) agent embedded in the CIA in Uruguay. I obtained his memoir, Pasapo...
2024-02-01 17:51:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I'm rejoined by Dr. Pig Bodine aka CJ (@pussy___teeth) to continue our discussion on the 1972 film State of Siege by Costa-Gavras. We open with a discussion on the death squad as a general co...
2024-01-25 14:43:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I am rejoined by old friend of the show Dr. Pig Bodine aka CJ (@pussy___teeth) to discuss the 1972 film State of Siege by Costa-Gavras. We begin by reviewing the plot of the film and the real...
2024-01-18 22:43:42 +0000 UTC View Post
I'd like to announce a new shirt design (https://programmed-to...
2024-01-18 22:02:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I'm joined by Fergal Schmudlach (@irregnata) from the Kingless Generation podcast to discuss paleo-parapolitics.
We start by discussing several points of mutual interest regarding...
2024-01-16 13:02:15 +0000 UTC View Post
(part 3 of 3)
Today I'm joined by Reid (@seriations) to finish our conversation about Ira 'the Unicorn' Einhorn. We pick up on his life story by getting into Einhorn's attempts at publi...
2024-01-12 12:47:13 +0000 UTC View Post
(part 2 of 3)
Today I'm joined by Reid (@seriations) to continue our conversation about Ira 'the Unicorn' Einhorn. We get into Einhorn's relationship to Andrija Puharich, his involvement with...
2024-01-05 12:16:36 +0000 UTC View Post
(part 1 of 3)
Today I'm joined by Reid (@seriations) to discuss maybe the most conceited man in the world - Ira 'the Unicorn' Einhorn. In this episode, we get into Einhorn's family history an...
2023-12-29 06:30:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I'm joined by Nick Vyssotsky (@cuss_otaku) to discuss Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid video game franchise. Nick takes us through the franchise's alternate history and we discuss the...
2023-12-22 13:54:44 +0000 UTC View Post
After having introduced accounting concepts and laid out their applications in Jamaica, I continue my close reading of Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management by Caitlin Rosenthal. ...
2023-12-15 11:13:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Having laid out various accounting concepts, I now introduce their application in a horrible setting: plantation accounting in Jamaica. To do this, I rely on a close reading of Accounting for S...
2023-12-09 15:20:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I attempt to trace the history of accounting from renaissance Venice through the robber barons into the modern era. Along the way, I opine on the nature of moneylending, Shylock, and drill do...
2023-11-27 19:43:28 +0000 UTC View Post
(second of two episodes)
Today I'm rejoined by Comrade Chad to continue our discussion about post-Trotsky Trotskyism in the US. We continue discussing Burnham's various intrigues and we go pr...
2023-11-22 21:02:35 +0000 UTC View Post
(first of two episodes)
Today I'm rejoined by Comrade Chad to discuss post-Trotsky Trotskyism in the US, especially their penchant for attacking communism 'from the left'. Comrade Chad walks ...
2023-11-17 13:26:36 +0000 UTC View Post