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Episode 12 - The News They DON'T tell you, Part II
Catch Me Up 2 Speed
English - August 11, 2021 17:00 - 26 minutes - 36.1 MB - ★★★★ - 3 ratingsHistory News Politics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
We're back with the second podcast on our fifth news tip - seek out the news they DON'T tell you.
In this episode we focus on three international news events that received differing, yet often incomplete, news coverage for the past month: the protests & political upheaval in Haiti, the protests (and reaction to them) in Cuba, and the ongoing attempts to prosecute Julian Assange.
NY Times op-ed on Haiti history: 'We owe Haiti a debt'
Major Gen. Smedley Butler (excerpt from Untold History of the U.S.)
Leaders of the 1991 coup of Aristide - NY Times
Washington Post Op-ed, July 2021: US must intervene in Haiti
Wikileaks release: State Dept. intervention in Haiti labor dispute (The Nation)
Democracy Now, June 28th 2021 - Assange extradition case update
Daniel Ellsburg's motivation to leak docs in 2021 (The Intercept)
op-ed on Haiti's democracy in wake of assassination of Pres. Moise (CNN.com)
Miami Herald op-ed on Haiti after assassination
Roland Martin Unfiltered - interview w/Haiti ambassador to U.S., July 2021
Frank Suarez calls for intervention in Cuba
Sen. Robert Menendez - 'challenge the regime' in Cuba