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Category: Series 4: Politics

Forget the high school civics version. We talk about who actually shapes policy — donors, lobbyists, party machinery, the manufactured “consent” of a curated press cycle — and why your individual vote feels like both everything and nothing at the same time. This isn’t a doom episode. It’s a clarity episode.

We connect the dots between history and today, showing how political decisions shape everyday life. Expect sharp analysis, historical context, and honest conversations about power, accountability, rights, money, democracy, and the people most impacted by the decisions made at the top.

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban has been in the headlines lately and on politican’s lips as we manuver through the current Middle East war. Meanwhile, people are still grappling with the devastating impact of the kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro.

    So it’s only fair that we cover the Cuban Missile Crisis.

    In Part 2: We’ll discuss what the US can do with Cuban moving forward.

    Sources & Further Reading:

    • Cuban Missile Crisis — John F. Kennedy Presidential Library (jfklibrary.org)
    • “One Minute to Midnight” by Michael Dobbs (2008)
    • “The Armageddon Letters” by James G. Blight and janet M. Lang (2012)
    • Bulletin of Atomic Scientists — Doomsday Clock Archive (thebulletin.org)
    • United Nations General Assembly Resolutions on the Cuban Embargo (2023)
    • The Non-Aligned Movement — History and Founding Documents (nam.gov.za)
    • Vasili Arkhipov — “The Man Who Saved the World,” BBC Documentary (2012)
    • National Security Archive — Cuban Missile Crisis Declassified Documents

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