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Martin Di Caro @martindicaro.bsky.social · 1d

There was a time before Hamas. Will the future be without it? Movements come and go, even if ideas cannot be killed:

Nathan Brown on political Islam:
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History As It Happens: Before and After Hamas

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Martin Di Caro @martindicaro.bsky.social · 2d

There was a time before Hamas. Are we now looking at a future without it? Ideas cannot be killed, but movements come and go.

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History As It Happens: Before and After Hamas

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Martin Di Caro @martindicaro.bsky.social · 4d

Why is the Trump administration pursuing regime change in Venezuela? Whatever the immediate reasons, it's part of a long pattern of U.S. interventionism in Latin America. This history matters:

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History As It Happens: TR to Trump: America and Venezuela

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Martin Di Caro @martindicaro.bsky.social · 4d

Russian meddling in Moldova's elections didn't work, says Veronica Anghel. She says Moldova's win is a win for a more integrated Europe...

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History As It Happens: Bonus Ep! Moldova's Elections / Europe's Future

to listen to this entire episode and get more bonus content - without ads! Moldova's parliamentary elections drew international attention because of Russian meddling aimed at subverting the outcome. T...

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Martin Di Caro @martindicaro.bsky.social · 4d

Sudan's civil war is imperiling the lives of millions. The warring sides are backed by outside powers that do not give a damn about democracy or justice.

It's a kind of global mafia politics where only the deals matter, says Alex de Waal:

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History As It Happens: Kleptocracy and Genocide in Sudan

to skip ads, get bonus content, and access the entire podcast catalog of 500 episodes. Sudan's civil war, genocide, and famine continue to go mostly unnoticed in the United States. This is even though...

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Martin Di Caro @martindicaro.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you, Joe!!!

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Martin Di Caro @martindicaro.bsky.social · 6d

Regime change in Venezuela?

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History As It Happens: TR to Trump: America and Venezuela

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Martin Di Caro @martindicaro.bsky.social · 6d

The dimensions of Sudan's crisis are staggering, yet go largely unnoticed by many Americans. Twenty years ago, it was a different story. Remember 'Save Darfur'?

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Martin Di Caro @martindicaro.bsky.social · 8d

Sudan's civil war, genocide, and famine do not fit neatly into the 'democracy vs autocracy' framework that's often used to analyze our world. This doesn't mean Sudan's crisis is about nothing.

w/ Alex de Waal:

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History As It Happens: Kleptocracy and Genocide in Sudan

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Martin Di Caro @martindicaro.bsky.social · 14d

Remember that ugly mantra "words are violence"? As recent events have shown, words are the alternative to violence in American life.

My conversation with FIRE, the premier free speech group in our country.

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History As It Happens: Bonus Ep! Free Speech in America

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Martin Di Caro @martindicaro.bsky.social · 14d

Free speech is in trouble:

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History As It Happens: Bonus Ep! Free Speech in America

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Martin Di Caro @martindicaro.bsky.social · 15d

Raphael Lemkin’s original concept of genocide was broader than the definition ultimately written into the U.N. Convention. This divergence continues to trouble society today.

History As It Happens: The Name of Barbarism

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History As It Happens: The Name of Barbarism

Want to skip ads? .  A U.N. commission reported that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, provoking denials and denunciations from Israel’s government and its U.S. supporters. What explains the...

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Martin Di Caro @martindicaro.bsky.social · 15d

As Israeli officials broadcast their intent to make Gaza uninhabitable, what explains the wrangling over the term genocide?

Dirk Moses and Sonia Boulos on the origins of the Palestinian catastrophe:

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History As It Happens: The Name of Barbarism

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Martin Di Caro @martindicaro.bsky.social · 16d

America's hyperpolarized climate and political violence are raising comparisons to the collapse of the Weimar Republic.

Does this comparison illuminate or mislead?

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History As It Happens: Weimar America, Revisited

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Martin Di Caro @martindicaro.bsky.social · 18d

How does a democracy collapse from within? What forces hollow out the center, driving the hyper-polarization and violence?

A look at the downfall of the Weimar Republic:

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History As It Happens: Weimar America, Revisited

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Martin Di Caro @martindicaro.bsky.social · 19d

New podcast episode:

Is America on a Weimar trajectory? It's a trendy analogy.

With David Abraham:
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Martin Di Caro @martindicaro.bsky.social · 20d

New episode: Weimar comparisons are back. Maybe they never went away. But do they work?

David Abraham has studied the collapse of the Weimar Republic for decades:

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History As It Happens: Weimar America, Revisited

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Martin Di Caro @martindicaro.bsky.social · 21d

In this episode of History As It Happens, international legal scholar Victor Kattan and I tackle the origins of today’s catastrophe. Is it right to blame a 67-word declaration issued in 1917?

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History As It Happens: Balfour's Bloody Legacy

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Martin Di Caro @martindicaro.bsky.social · 22d

Who's responsible for today's catastrophe in Israel and the Palestinian territories? Is it Great Britain?

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History As It Happens: Balfour's Bloody Legacy

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Martin Di Caro @martindicaro.bsky.social · 29d

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Learn how the past shapes the present with the world's best historians. Everything happening today comes from something, somewhere, so let's start thinking historically about current events. History A...

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Martin Di Caro @martindicaro.bsky.social · Aug 12

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History As It Happens: 1945: How the Axis Might've Won

This is the third episode in a 5-part series marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in August 1945. In 1942, the Japanese seemed unstoppable in the Pacific, and the Germans st...

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Martin Di Caro @martindicaro.bsky.social · Aug 8

Most wars don't end in unconditional surrender and total victory.

Why was World War II different? My conversation w/ James Holland on the final defeat of Germany and Japan:

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History As It Happens: 1945: Unconditional Surrender

This is the second episode in a 5-part series marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in August 1945. Most wars do not end in total victory. They usually end at the negotiating...

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Martin Di Caro @martindicaro.bsky.social · Aug 5

August 1945 --> August 2025. WWII ended 80 years ago.

My 5-episode series begins with Antony Beevor. Our topic: the man most responsible for starting and prolonging the war, whose legacy haunts global politics still.

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History As It Happens: 1945: Hitler's War

This is the first episode in a 5-part series marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in August 1945. No individual bore more responsibility for plunging Europe into another wor...

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Martin Di Caro @martindicaro.bsky.social · Aug 2

In this episode (2024), Tom Segev traces the origins of today's war to the era of the British mandate. By facilitating the creation of a Jewish homeland in what was then an Arab-majority country, the British laid the groundwork for decades of bloodshed.

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History As It Happens: The British Mandate

In an for Foreign Affairs, the Israeli historian Tom Segev argues that a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is impossible. As early as 1919, the future prime minister David Ben-G...

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Stephen Wertheim @stephenwertheim.bsky.social · Aug 1

I joined History As It Happens to expand on my argument that Trump faces a structural bind that inhibits him from being a peacemaker. Thanks for the fun conversation, @martindicaro.bsky.social. sites.libsyn.com/317972/trump...

History As It Happens: Trump and the Structures of 'Forever War'

Since 1945, has there been an antiwar U.S. president? Is it even possible to be an antiwar president when one has at his disposal history's most powerful war machine and is expected to maintain Americ...

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