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Mar 2021

1h 5m

Part One: How The U.S.A. Murdered Panama...

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About this episode

Robert is joined by Chelsea Manning to discuss the bastardly history of United States and Panama.

FOOTNOTES:

1. https://www.amazon.com/Emperors-Jungle-American-Encounters-Interactions/dp/0822330989

2. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-12-22-mn-6183-story.html

3. https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/manuel-noriega-a-thug-of-a-different-era

4. https://www.americanheritage.com/content/panama-holiday

5. https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/us-to-clean-up-race-test-chemical-weapon-relics-on-panama-island/3007758.article

6. https://www.envio.org.ni/articulo/1386

7. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/teachers/lesson_plans/pdfs/unit8_4.pdf

8. https://www.historyextra.com/period/modern/americas-devious-dream-roosevelt-and-the-panama-canal/

9. https://www.americanheritage.com/content/panama-holiday

10. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.2968/058004014

11. https://www.npr.org/2015/06/22/415194765/u-s-troops-tested-by-race-in-secret-world-war-ii-chemical-experiments

12. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2016/1/31/the-truth-behind-us-operation-just-cause-in-panama

13. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/12/our-forgotten-invasion-panama-key-understanding-us-foreign-policy-today/

14. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/05/panama-noriega-operation-just-cause-reagan-imperialism

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