Podcast recommendations and episode discussions

Really good episode if you haven't listened to it yet. Covers the broad patterns of US imperialism, the western left's ignorance of it, and Vijay's history writing and studying this stuff. I recommend skipping the first 19-20 minutes until Vijay comes in as it's all the usual preamble you expect.

I haven't read Washington Bullets yet, but it's available on Libgen and only 100 pages: http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=EAE8286EA39190EB53C1E2105A6188FF

I wish there were more condensed texts like this because #1 people just need to know the broad movements of history and they probably can't even use most of the information used in more standard academix texts and #2 because it's much easier to get people to read a few 100-page books they could read individually in an afternoon than a single tome (just look at how few people have read all three volumes of Capital). I also recommend his book Red Star Over the Third World if you haven't read it yet.