Tag: War

• September 6, 2023

  Downing Street Memo – Fixing the Facts on Iraq!

  United Kingdom, Matthew Rycroft, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Cabinet Minutes of Discussion, S 195/02, July 23, 2002 SOURCE: Printed in The Sunday Times, May 1, 2005 These notes offer insight into the attitude of the Bush administration toward regime change, the UN route, and propaganda efforts. The document contains the now-notorious statement in…
• April 1, 2023

  Nayirah – U.S. Propaganda in the First Invasion of Iraq

  We all know that the U.S. lied to the world in 2003 about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction in addition to some bogus Saddam Hussein/Al-Qaeda link to justify their invasion of that country. But did you know that the U.S. also lied to the world for their first invasion of Iraq in 1991? Because, you…
• January 28, 2023

  The Retrospective

  Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. So welcome to our one final look back at the French Revolution before we finally move on. What I’m looking to do here, as much for myself as for you guys, is to walk back through everything that we’ve covered, to pull out what I consider to be the really…
• January 27, 2023

  The Empire

  Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. Over the winter of 1804 and 1805, Emperor Napoleon I knew that come the spring, he was going to have to march out to prove to the world that he deserved the imperial crown he had just bestowed upon himself. And when the inevitable War of the Third Coalition started…
• January 27, 2023

  The Consulate

  Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. So a funny thing happened on my way to the finish line. On Friday morning my hard drive crashed. I didn’t lose any files, but I did lose an incredibly necessary day of work while my computer was being fixed. As a consequence, I had to abandon the dream of…
• January 27, 2023

  There Is Your Man

  Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. So we have somehow, amazingly, come to the end of the French Revolution. We’ve been at this together for 14 months, more than 50 episodes and over 250,000 words of transcript. But today, the Directory will be overthrown and Napoleon Bonaparte will come to power. There are lots of places…
• January 25, 2023

  The Coup of Prairial

  Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. So this week marks the penultimate episode of our cycle on the French Revolution. It will take us through to the autumn of 1799 and set up the looming coup of Brumaire, that, out of some necessity, I am marking as the end of the line. After next week’s episode…
• January 25, 2023

  The Second Coalition

  Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. We spent all of last week with Napoleon in Egypt. This week we are going to double back and follow the developments in Europe while Napoleon’s army was trapped in the east. And as we will see in a moment, it was largely because Napoleon had gone east that things…
• January 25, 2023

  The Egyptian Expedition

  Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. So, as promised, this week we are going to spend the entire episode covering Napoleon Bonaparte’s expedition to Egypt. We are going to stick with him for a whole year, all the way through August 1799 when Bonaparte decides that for the good of France, he must abandon his army…
• January 24, 2023

  The Coup of Floreal

  Hello, and welcome to Revolutions. So we left off last time with a circuit of all of France’s new allies, all those sister republics who were thrilled, just thrilled, to be joining the French revolutionary project of liberating mankind. And by that, I of course, mean getting rung dry. Today, we’ll take a look at…