Jeremy Scahill
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1,582 appearances
10 recordings
6 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 15 Jul
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So I think we have to lay the blame at the feet of people who worked for us, who were warned at the time that their pet theories were going to create this en-shit-a-scene where everything turns to shit, who did it anyway.
And today, a lot of these guys are collecting six-figure consulting fees and polishing their fake Nobel Prizes in economics and being lauded as great figures of history.
Like, we have to remember that it's them, not just so that we can take it out of their hide, but so that we can make sure that in the future, no one like them ever gets their hands near the levers of power.
They do evil for the same reason your dog licks its balls, because they can.
Short History Of... · Introducing: Founding Fathers: An American Dream - Episode 1 · 16 Jun 2026
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It was an uncivil war because it was so hard fought.
A vicious local fight that played out for all kinds of reasons.
When people hear about the American Revolution, they often think, wait a minute, I didn't know religion mattered in this.
I didn't know ethnicity mattered in this, but it did.
He moved to Philadelphia because not only was Philadelphia a bigger city and was more vibrant, Boston was still very much a city under the control of, by then, the kind of fourth generation descendants of the Puritan aristocracy.
And he wanted room to move and grow and succeed.
And to him, Philadelphia, even though it had had its own aristocracy, was this city of opportunity.
He's kind of one of the early self-made man stories from that period because he was an incredibly smart printer.
He knew how to print the English language in ways that were captivating and compelling to his fellow countrymen.
At that time, Franklin was a diehard British subject, and he claimed that the British colonies needed to unite if they were going to successfully respond to the challenges of this war.
They needed to unite or they would die.
But he wasn't claiming they needed to unite against the British government.
It's that they needed to unite against their French opponents in this war.
The revolutionaries were able to mobilize support because they produced all this printed material.
And it was totally over the top.
It would levy the most extreme accusations against the British government, but it moved very quickly.
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