...with category "cold-war"
Firestone and the Liberian Warlord: Blood, Profits and War Crimes
Charles Taylor, the former warlord and president of Liberia, “sponsored” by the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, left a swath of death and destruction through the country in the 1980s and 1990s.
March 22, 2023
This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit betterhelp.com/DUBIOUS today to get 10% off your first month of therapy. Charles and Chuckie Taylor left a swath of death and destruction through the country of Liberia in the 1980s and 1990s, which culminated in both of them being run o ...
The Nuclear Chicken War: How Frozen Poultry Led to Environmental Catastrophe
This is a crazy, lesser-known story of Titan II missile silos, a poultry tariff with serious repercussions for the environment, and relations between France, US, and Germany after WW2.
March 1, 2023
This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit betterhelp.com/DUBIOUS today to get 10% off your first month of therapy. In the 1950s, Senator Fulbright from Arkansas politely told a gathering of NATO countries that he would withhold military aid if the French and Germans put a tariff ...
The Kremlin Princess: Lana Peters, Stalin’s American Daughter
Svetlana Iosifovna Stalina, the most famous defector of the cold war, was born in luxury, in the Kremlin and led an extraordinary, tumultuous life. She died destitute at a care home in Wisconsin.
Oct. 19, 2022
In this episode we tell the incredible story of Stalin’s daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, born Stalina and later known as Lana Peters. If you like our content, please become a patron to receive our two exclusive premium episodes each month, as well as our public episodes ad-free. Bor ...
Genocide: Sponsored by the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
We're talking about the real life version of Andre Baptiste: Charles Taylor, former "lord of war" and president of Liberia, who struck a deal with the Firestone Tire company to fund his bloody political revolution.
Aug. 31, 2022
Charles and Chuckie Taylor left a swath of death and destruction through the country of Liberia in the 1980s and 1990s, which culminated in both of them being run out of political office and tried and convicted of war crimes. This is a preview of a premium episode, if you like our content please ...
The Merchant of Death: Who is Viktor Bout?
A translator and spy turned international arms dealer, Viktor Bout is to be part of a proposed prisoner swap between the US and Russia for the return of Americans Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan.
Aug. 10, 2022
Griner was found guilty on drug smuggling charges by a Russian court, and convicted to 9 years in a penal colony after 1 milligram of cannabis oil, prescribed by her American doctor, was found in her vaping pen in her luggage in Moscow. The charges are obviously a political play by Putin in response to Ukraine sanctions. If you like ou ...
The Nuclear Chicken War
How frozen chicken led us down the path to environmental catastrophe.
June 14, 2022
This is a preview of a premium episode! If you like our content, please become a patron to get more bonus episodes like this one, and all of our public episodes ad-free as well. In the 1950s, Senator Fulbright from Arkansas politely told a gathering of NATO countries that he would ...
Dyatlov Pass – Mystery Solved
What really happened to the Dyatlov hikers?
March 13, 2022
In 1959 a group of Russian hikers disappeared in the Ural mountains. Months later their bodies were found, showing signs of mutilation, exposure to strange chemical substances, and exposure to radiation. We examine a new theory in this episode that we think solves this decades-old Russian mystery, involving the US Cold War spying fligh ...