Introducing: The Crisis

START HERE. Two coal miners are murdered setting off a decades-long saga that changes the lives of people in Colombia and the United States forever. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

A coal company from Alabama opens up a mine in Colombia during a civil war. And members of the miners union start receiving death threats. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

An American lawyer decides to take on the union’s case. But first he needs to find people willing to testify. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Patricia Craig, a writer and critic from Northern Ireland, who relates a sad and murky case of accidental killings, which took place during the Irish Civil War of the early 1920s; the TLS’s politics editor Toby Lichtig revi ... Show More

Discussing the Protests and Police Violence in Colombia. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

When people started saying that John D. Rockefeller Jr. was responsible for the deaths of two women and 11 children near a coal mine in Colorado, he decided to do something unusual. He hired “the father of public relations.” Scott Martelle's book is Blood Passion: The Ludlow Mass ... Show More

Many years later, new information comes to light after some individuals speak up for the first time about what they witnessed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

A taxi driver is shot dead in front of his children. A high-security room goes up in flames. Then terrorists are unmasked as spies. And behind it all, a shadowy unit of the British Army.Award-winning journalist Cara McGoogan investigates the biggest cover-up of the Northern Irela ... Show More

Geopolitics and the military industrial complex <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p> 

Where people fight and die in the coca plantations. In Colombia, Stephen Drill discovers how the international cocaine business starts, and the cost paid by everyone it touches. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

The devastating murder of a public official sets in motion the beginning of a new criminal enterprise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

Satanic Ritual Murder, Charles Manson, Balloons and the FBI&nbsp;<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>