“History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.” —C.S. Lewis. There are certain events that place in humanity's history, which shape it, alter it or influence it in the most profound or subtle ways. A Conversation Before The World Ends is a podcast dedicated to looking at event,figures and ideas throughout history (Ancient to Modern) to understand the current world around us today.
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- The Indus Valley Civilization: A Tale of the Rise and Fall of a Lost UtopiaOn todays’ episode on a conversation before the world ends. We will be looking at the Lost Civilization of the Indus Valley and How did this civilization emerge? Was it an indigenous development from the neighboring Baluchistan? Was it stimulated by the growth of Mesopotamia? What kind of system did it operate in where there is no palaces, royal graves, temples, rulers or priests? Why is there no evidence of warfare? Was there a religion? Was it a precursor to Hinduism? And lastly why did the Indus Valley decline after 1900 BC and why did it vanish from the historical records? Notes: Mark, Joshua J.. " Indus Valley Civilization ." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified October 07, 2020. https://www.worldhistory.org/Indus_Valley_Civilization/. The Indus: Lost Civilizations: Robinson, Andrew: 9781780235028: Amazon.com: Books. (2015, December 15). The Indus: Lost Civilizations: Robinson, Andrew: 9781780235028: Amazon.com: Books. https://www.amazon.com/Indus-Lost-Civilizations-Andrew-Robinson/dp/178023502X Music:- India Theme - Ancient (Civilization 6 OST) | Vaishnava Jana To The instrumental version of Red Alert 3 Theme (Soviet March) by James Hannigan MOHENJO DARO: A Song of Mystery? | Shail Vyas Insta: @convo_btwe Twitter: convo_btwe Facebook: A Conversation Before the World Ends Tiktok: convo_btwe0 comments0
- 1755 Lisbon Earthquake!! (The Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason)All saint’s day, November 1, morning in 1755, something occurred that changed the trajectory of not only his life but also that of the Portuguese Empire. On today’s episode of A Conversation Before the World Ends, we will be venturing back to 1755, at height of the Portuguese empire and look at the earthquake that shook the empire and the world. Our thoughts go out to all those affected by earthquakes in Syria and Turkey Links to Donations for Syria and Turkey:- - https://www.akut.org.tr/en/donation - https://giving.unhcr.org/en/sy/ - https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/stories/oxfam-mounting-response-to-massive-earthquake-in-t%C3%BCrkiye-and-syria/ - https://donation.ifrc.org/?campaign=3f5f91aa-e8da-e911-80e2-0050560100a8 - https://ahbap.org/ - https://my.care.org/site/Donation2?36068.donation=form1&df_id=36068&mfc_pref=T&s_src=172320TSEM00&s_subsrc=FY23FEBTSEQEMRMO Insta: @convo_btwe Twitter: convo_btwe Facebook: A Conversation Before the World Ends Tiktok: convo_btwe0 comments0
- A Conversation Before The World Ends Feb 9 · 1h 7m The Huns, Attila and the Fall of RomeThe year is 376, summer. A massive number of Goths arrived at the Danube River. The once long-standing frontier of the roman empire. The goths who were a mix or changing confederation of different tribes. For a more than a century the goths had been in some way, or another exposed to the romans, if it’s through fighting, trading and on occasions the romans would recruit the goths as soldiers to serve them in faraway places such Syria and Palestine. When the goths came to the borders of the Roman Empire, they were not coming as invaders or planning to take over but rather they came as refugees and migrants, who had run from their lives from their settlements. They were two groups. The Thervings led by Fritigern and Alavivus and another group is Greuthungi led by Alatheus and Saphrax. Numbering at about 90,000 civilians. The goths requested permission to the Eastern Roman Emperor Valens, and many did but this let to a food shortage and the Thervings began to starve with many goths resulting to sell many of their children into slavery for dog meat. This led to a rebellion by the migrant goths leading to an assault on Marcianople leading to the death of Alavivus. This kicked off a series of battles such as the battle of Adrianople where Emperor Valen falls on the battlefield that would eventually begin the downfall of Rome. But what led to the migration of the goths to the borders of Rome. Leaving behind their homes and livelihoods. What brought the goths into conflict with Rome and who were the HUNS, a group so feared that the goths would rather fight Rome than go back Music by:- -Aetas Romana composed and arranged by Adrian von Ziegler Notes: - TREE RING STUDY SUGGESTS DROUGHT ENCOURAGED ATTILA’S HUNS TO ATTACK THE ROMAN EMPIRE- https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/12/tree-ring-study-suggests-drought-encouraged-attilas-huns-to-attack-the-roman-empire/145540 -The Goths and the Huns: The Barbarian Pressure on Rome https://www.wondriumdaily.com/the-goths-and-the-huns-the-barbarian-pressure-on-rome/?utm_source=pocket_reader -Hakenbeck, S., & Büntgen, U. (2022). The role of drought during the Hunnic incursions into central-east Europe in the 4th and 5th c. CE. Journal of Roman Archaeology, 1-21. doi:10.1017/S1047759422000332 - Mark, J. J. (2018, April 25). Huns. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/Huns/ Insta: @convo_btwe Twitter: convo_btwe Facebook: A Conversation Before the World Ends Tiktok: convo_btwe0 comments0
- The Third Way: New Democrats, New Labour and a Nu CenterHistorian Tony Judt once said in a New York Times article in 1998 that “Each age has its Cliché. Ours in the third way”. The 1990s were always at least in popular memory considered the nonpolitical decade. The Soviet Union dissolved effectively, bringing the end to the cold war. Fukuyama wrote that “"not just ... the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: That is, the end-point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government”. This was the birth of new world order as British Prime Minister Tony Blair would announce “Not old Left or new right but a new center and center-left governing philosophy for the future”. The 1990s would see Tony Blair and Bill Clinton along with other euro leaders would attend a series of international retreats. In October 1998, Anthony Giddens published his The Third Way. A 150 page manifesto which was a call for a “renewal of Social Democracy” not right or left but forward. It would usher in a new economy, new labor, new democrats, nu metal, a new middle. But what was this new vision. The third way drew skeptical appraisals from both the right and left. Who argued that it was a vague and ambiguous statement. The Economist derisively stated in 1998, “Trying to pin down an exact meaning is like wrestling an inflatable man. If you get a grip on one limb, all the hot air rushes to another.” Jeff Faux of the Economic Policy Institute likewise noted that while “Clinton and Blair are two of the most articulate politicians of the age…their definitions of the third way leave the observer without a clue as to what it means.” What is the third way? And how this new centrism ideology of the 90s change politics 30 years on. Welcome to a conversation before the worlds ends and today we will be looking at the Third Way. Background Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio Outro Music provided by Free Music Tunes Track: We're Wolves - Break Stuff (Limp Bizkit Cover) Link: https://youtu.be/ng7dSG7sCYI Notes:- How the Third Way Made Neoliberal Politics Seem Inevitable-https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/third-way-dlc-bill-clinton-tony-blair-1990s-politics/ How the Democrats Traded the New Deal for Neoliberalism-https://jacobin.com/2022/07/democratic-party-neoliberalism-dlc-clinton A brief history of the third way -https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/feb/10/labour.uk1 How the Democrats Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Free Market-https://jacobin.com/2022/07/new-democrats-blue-centrist-clintonism-welfare-reform Left Behind: The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality -https://a.co/d/5oxMGlp Insta: @convo_btwe Twitter: convo_btwe Facebook: A Conversation Before the World Ends Tiktok: convo_btwe0 comments0
- A Report To The Shareholders IAs we bow out of 2022, we also bring our season 1 to a close. Thank you to everyone who gave us a listen! Let it be 1 episode or all the episodes. whether you just started listening to us or were with us from August. We truly love you and appericiate the time you dedicated to listen to us talking about topics we were passionate about. 2023 can only bring bigger and brighter things and we hope you'll join us for the ride. First episode of Season 2 will drop on 11th of Jan 2023. Hope we can see you then Insta: @convo_btwe Twitter: convo_btwe Facebook: A Conversation Before the World Ends Tiktok: convo_btwe0 comments0
- The Collapse of Bronze Age and The Tribe That Came From the SeaThe year was 1177 BC. The 8th year of Ramses III’s reign a group of people set up camp in Canaan and would use this as a launch point for their attacks. Coming in from the land and sea. They had no uniform. Each group wears different headdresses from feathered ones to skull caps. Some wore beards and kilts, others wore garments. Armed with everything from bronze swords to wooden spears, bows and arrows. They came on boats, wagons. Sometimes alone, other times with their families. According to Ramses’ inscription, no country was able to fend off this mass warring people. Resistance was futile. The Hittites, Mycenaeans, the Canaanites, the Cypriots fell one by one. If you survived, you fled the carnage, others tried to pick up what remained from the ruined the nation; others joined the invaders. Outside of Egypt, all the other powers that would make up the bronze age would disappear, if not immediately than within the next 50 to 100 years. It was the end of the civilization. But could they have been attributed for the destruction of the bronze age? And who were these people? Were they some sort of ancient crusades. Disciplined with a goal in mind? Were they a group of loosely assembled marauders, the Vikings of the ancient world? Perhaps refugees seeking new land? Perhaps a combination of all the above. On today’s episode on A conversation Before the World Ends, we will be looking at the collapse of the Late Bronze Age and the “Perfect storm” that brewed in 1177 BC: The Year civilization came to an end. Music:- "Darren Curtis - Temple of Endless Sands" is under a Creative Commons (cc-by) license Music promoted by BreakingCopyright: https://bit.ly/b-egyptian Notes: Eric H. Cline, "1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed" | https://amzn.to/2ClWgpO Robert Drews, "The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C." | https://amzn.to/2CkJ7NC What Caused the Bronze Age Collapse? | https://www.history.com/news/bronze-age-collapse-causes Insta: @convo_btwe Twitter: convo_btwe Facebook: A Conversation Before the World Ends Tiktok: convo_btwe0 comments0
- Argentina '78 (Or, Remembering the Dirtiest World Cup of All Time)To all those that disappeared and their families. We hope you'll eventually find solace and peace The idea of sports and politics don’t mix isn’t always enforced, it’s hard to keep them apart. From ancient times, the idea of politics and sports have always been interlinked. From ancient Greeks would take apart in games in which city states would send their best athletes to compete against one another. The Mayans held a similar practice too and this is no more evident than football, where the world cup from its inception was riddled with agendas, deals and power plays. From a petty gestures such as Uruguay’s boycott of 1934 world cup in Italy over how it felt that most of the European teams never showed up when they hosted it 4 years prior to matters of principle as when the Soviet Union refused to play Chile away during a 1973 qualification play-off at the same stadium where Pinochet had left wing prisoners executed. When the 2018 world cup was announced that it will take part in Russia, every one felt uneased by the fact it was taking place in an oppressive country that had just annexed parts of Ukraine and Georgia that also has links with putting down any criticisms and or political opponents with people harking back to when the Olympics were hosted in Berlin in 1936. If the boycotts against Russia felt half-hearted than the same cannot be said about 1978. The boycotts came in early and with convictions. It almost worked. On June 1st 1978, at the el monumental stadium in Buenos Aries, A couple hundred children moved into their positions. The children spelled out Argentina ’78 before the words Mundial FIFA. A flock of what looked more like pigeons was released into the sky and the world cup was underway. General Jorge Rafael Videla, the leader of Argentina’s ruling military Junta stood and announced to 80,000 people would be played under the sign of peace. In an hearing distance of the stadiums drums, a mile away from the campus of Navy Petty Officers School Mechanics, the Military’s makeshift torture camp was operating where any and all dissidents were taken to. The Disappeared. A term used to describe the victims of State Sponsored terrorism and while this was happening the world cup continued. The sounds of steel drums and crowds roaring heard by tortured prisoners down the street. Outro provided by Canal Encuentro https://www.youtube.com/@encuentro/about Music: Dark Crimes by Soundridemusic Copyright: GOLOVACH, VOLODYMYR Publisher: Songtrust Blvd IPI #615755145 P.R.O.: IPI# 00382646438 Link to Video: https://youtu.be/BEVg8Chp9OE Notes: Remembering Argentina 1978: The Dirtiest World Cup Of All Time https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/a21454856/argentina-1978-world-cup/ he dark story of the murderous dictatorship behind Argentina's 1978 World Cup win https://www.goal.com/en-sa/news/the-dark-story-of-the-dictatorship-behind-argentinas-1978-world-cup-win/1k53qqcgt7r8q19xcawarwgsls Argentina's 1978 World Cup win against Peru was fixed in a brutal political deal, former senator says https://shortest.link/9kiu Kissinger approved Argentinian 'dirty war' https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/dec/06/argentina.usa Argentina’s bittersweet win https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-28-fg-mundial28-story.html Henry Kissinger and football’s longest unsolved riddle https://www.channel4.com/news/dr-henry-kissinger-and-footballs-longest-unsolved-riddle Insta: @convo_btwe Twitter: convo_btwe Facebook: A Conversation Before the World Ends Tiktok: convo_btwe0 comments0
- Ivan the Terrible (Russia's First Tsar)Today, the term "Terrible" can refer to anything from a very lousy dinner to a catastrophic calamity that kills millions. When it was conferred on Russian tsar Ivan IV in the 16th century, it explicitly meant 'awe-inspiring,' 'mighty,' and 'formidable.' However, if we look at the reign of one of the most paranoid, violent, and unpredictable individuals to control the country, then the current term of 'very awful' isn't that far off the mark after all. So, what was it that made Ivan so Terrible? Notes: - 1- Ivan the Terrible by Isabel de Madariaga https://www.amazon.com/Ivan-Terrible-Isabel-Madariaga/dp/0300119739 2- Fearful Majesty: The Life and Reign of Ivan the Terrible by Benson Bobrick https://www.amazon.com/Fearful-Majesty-Life-Reign-Terrible/dp/1880100843 3- Ivan the Terrible by Robert Payne https://www.amazon.com/Ivan-Terrible-Robert-Payne/dp/0815412290 Insta: @convo_btwe Twitter: convo_btwe Facebook: A Conversation Before the World Ends Tiktok: convo_btwe0 comments0
- A Conversation Before The World Ends Oct 31 · 1h 38m Horror and Other Things We Were Afraid to Ask HitchcockIt’s no secret that we are going through a new golden age of horror films. Horror movies have for the most part been critical and financial darlings. With some ending up on the top 10 lists across respectable publications covering a plethora of different concepts and topics from cult leaders to religious hysteria, aliens killing toddlers, demons killing toddles, toddlers killing parents. But What is horror? Is it fearing things that bump in the night? Is it the mourned howls of the dead that come with the wind. These have haunted the human consciousness as far back as we developed something called consciousness. The last two episode we tackled two topics that seem to predate written history: the unwelcome return of something beyond our senses. There is a theory that I have ascribed to. That everything we have achieved and have not achieved stems from the threat of death. The terror of death. From religion to sexual desire. The urge of facing death or cheating death seems to be as primal. Does the fear of death drive us? The depiction of death in art has been around since the start of cave paintings to the movie screens. But did that constitute as horror? Horror, as a term first appears in early 14th century, which means “feeling of disgust or sordid and vulgar”. And once Gothic Romanticism appeared in the late 18th century, the word horror showed up in prose. Where the term would get more of its modern meaning. In Robert Southey’s poem To Horror where he echoes his love to the eerie, Nathan Drake used the word interchangeably with disgust. How did this word become associated with fear and how Horror movies for the most part have been shaped by our changes in society, culture, politics and technology but to understand the evolution of horror movies and monsters we are going to have to go back to the origins of the horror genre in films. on tonight’s episode we will be looking at horror films, how they highlighted and manifested our greatest fears. Notes:- How The Horror Genre Reflects Societal Fears Throughout Time http://scribe.usc.edu/how-the-horror-genre-reflects-societal-fears-throughout-time/ HISTORICISM IN “THE SHINING” – BY FREDRIC JAMESON https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/movies/historicism-in-the-shining/ 100 Years of Horror: Culture Shock: The Influence of History on Horror https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/20853/100-years-of-horror-culture-shock-the-influence-of-history-on-horror/ Why the 1980s Is the Best Decade for Horror https://www.thefilmagazine.com/why-1980s-horror-is-the-best/ How Horror Reflects Societal Fears https://www.thereviewgeek.com/howhorrorreflectssocietalfears-article/ Insta: @convo_btwe Twitter: convo_btwe Facebook: A Conversation Before the World Ends Tiktok: convo_btwe0 comments0
- It's the Devil (The Story behind the Exorcist and Exorcisms)The notion of exorcisms have lingered in the zeitgeist so insistently along those religious and superstitious. The idea that a malicious spirit or demon would take control of your body, your vessel, suppressing the soul might sound outdated to some but for others the devil is real and he is everywhere. He’s influencing you to do yoga, seducing you to the dark realm through your television, speaking to you through music but how did this medieval phenomenon make a come back in the 20th and 21st century. Was it the fault of one 1973 film? Joseph Laycock, the editor of the Penguin book of Exorcism explained, in modern US, exorcism was once rare…all this changed after 1973 when the exorcist created a massive demand Further Reading: Poole W. S. (2009) Satan in America: The Devil We Know. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Chambers, A. C. (2021). ‘Somewhere between science and superstition’: Religious outrage, horrific science, and The Exorcist (1973). History of the Human Sciences, 34(5), 32–52. https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951211004465 @Salon. “Vatican Unleashes Exorcist for Campaign of Crazy | Salon.com.” Vatican Unleashes Exorcist for Campaign of Crazy, 17 Mar. 2010, www.salon.com/2010/03/17/catholic_exorcist_blames_satan. Elwes, Jay. “The Insatiable Human Appetite for Exorcism.” The Insatiable Human Appetite for Exorcism, Mar. 2010, www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society-and-culture/the-insatiable-human-appetite-for-exorcism-laycock-review. Insta: @convo_btwe Twitter: convo_btwe Facebook: A Conversation Before the World Ends Tiktok: convo_btwe0 comments0
- If You Have Ghosts (A Collection of 3 Ghost Stories from 3 Different Countries)From ancient Babylon to China, Native America to Shinto Japan, Shakespeare to The Shining, ghost stories have been passed down from century to century, through oral traditions or the written word. It doesn't matter if it's a vindictive king, a weeping woman, or an apartment building. These stories have influenced our contemporary imagination. The belief is so widespread that it is considered a cultural universal. Following ghosts through time and space, from dusty spirits to ghosts in machines, reveals that ghosts have a unique ability to reflect the worries of their historical moment. Paying attention to what frightens them can teach us about ourselves. Today we will look at how ghosts have persisted and evolved over time by looking at 3 different ghost stories from 3 different parts of the world and how they differed over time. Welcome to a Conversation Before the world ends and we will be looking at the History of Ghosts: Music: " HORROR THEME " composed and produced by "Vivek Abhishek" Music link : https://youtu.be/LwjzmdiRFpc "Yurei" composed and produced by Kraosando Extra Reading: A Japanese Ghost Story : Yotsuya Kaidan https://www.peak-experience-japan.com/blog/652 Simpson, William K. (1972). Simpson, William Kelly (ed.). The Literature of Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Stories, Instructions, and Poetry. translations by R.O. Charles Edwin Price (January 1994). The Infamous Bell Witch of Tennessee. Johnson City, Tennessee: The Overmountain Press. pp. 38–40. ISBN 978-1-57072-008-6. Insta: @convo_btwe Twitter: convo_btwe Facebook: A Conversation Before the World Ends Tiktok: convo_btwe0 comments0
- Kill Your Masters (The Haitian Revolution, or The World’s Only Successful Slave Revolt)The Haitian Revolution was one of the most significant events in human history. Although continually eclipsed by the American and French Revolutions, which preceded and, to some extent, caused it, it irrevocably altered world history. It witnessed the first successful slave insurrection, established the first African-led republic in the new world, and had a tremendous impact on France, the United States, and the hemisphere's surrounding states and territories. From its legendary beginnings in 1791 at a slave ceremony, to numerous interventions by the French, Spanish, and English, to the ultimate victory of independence in 1804, the Haitian Revolution can be difficult to follow and analyze. Indeed, many nineteenth-century officials simply refused to acknowledge that it had occurred and today we will be looking at this often forgotten event. Notes:- - The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution amazon.com/Black-Jacobins-Toussaint-LOuverture-Revolution/dp/0679724672 - Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution https://www.amazon.com/Avengers-New-World-Haitian-Revolution/dp/0674018265 - Haiti has suffered hugely over centuries but its revolution was stunningly innovative https://theconversation.com/haiti-has-suffered-hugely-over-centuries-but-its-revolution-was-stunningly-innovative-183954?utm_source=pocket_mylist -The Haitian Revolution: Tracing a lineage of Black resistance https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/qjkb45/the-haitian-revolutionat -The Haitian Revolution: the enslaved Africans who rose up against France https://www.historyextra.com/period/georgian/haitian-revolution-rebellion-hispaniola-what-happened-toussaint-louverture/ Insta: @convo_btwe Twitter: convo_btwe Facebook: A Conversation Before the World Ends Tiktok: convo_btwe0 comments0
- The White Ship, The Empress and The Anarchy (The Real Event that Inspired House of The Dragon)The period that would inspire the House of The Dragon took place in England and Normandy between 1135 and 1153, in what historian called the Anarchy. An event that involved the announcement of Empress Matilda as the heir apparent to the throne, her cousin Stephen of Blois who wanted to seize the throne with the help of his brother, and a civil war the ensued inciting a bleak period of civil unrest and political upheaval and all this started with a shipwreck that would go down in British history as one of the worst maritime disasters. Changing the course of history for years to come. Follow Us On: Instagram- @convo_btwe Facebook: A Conversation Before the World Ends Twitter- @convo_btwe Further Notes and Readings: - The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream by Charles Spencer https://www.amazon.ca/The-White-Ship/dp/0008296804/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= - The real historical event behind HBO’s House of the Dragon https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/house-of-the-dragon-real-historical-event/ Music and Soundbites:- - Rowboat by Coal Chamber - Paralyze Me by Orchards - La Ciel et la terre (Heaven and earth) / Verbum patris hodie · Ensemble Anonymus Insta: @convo_btwe Twitter: convo_btwe Facebook: A Conversation Before the World Ends Tiktok: convo_btwe0 comments0
- Harvest Me In the Internet (Social Media and Data Harvesting)In 2018, Mark Zuckerberg was called out in front of Congress. Biggest scandal in social media history in the 2000 tens personal data, belonging to millions of Facebook users was collected by British consulting firm called Cambridge Analytica through an app called your digital life, . This app consisted of questions, taking people's information, personal preference, and being sold to other people for political means and campaigns. This is when we realize social media has no longer been about keeping in touch and connecting the world, but rather a tool to turn people into extremists and radicalized the world. Instagram:- @Convo_btwe Twitter: @Covno_btwe Facebook: A Conversation Before the World Ends Insta: @convo_btwe Twitter: convo_btwe Facebook: A Conversation Before the World Ends Tiktok: convo_btwe0 comments0
- A Conversation Before The World Ends Aug 23 · 59m Tambora! (of Frankenstein, Opium, and The Year without Summer)Mount Tambora, Located in Sumbawa island in the what is now Indonesia blew itself up with an apocalyptic force in April of 1815. Barely reported, no one linked that this eruption would leave a cascading worldwide weather disaster, gave birth to the Opium Trade, changing art and creating the genre of gothic fiction in the three years that followed. For Three Years following the explosion. To be alive in any corner of the world meant you were starving. In New England, 1816 was nicknamed “The Year without Summer” or “Eighteen Hundred and Froze to death”. Germans called 1817 “the year of the beggar”. Correction: I mistakenly quoted an article from the Conversation ( Largest volcanic eruption in human history changed the 19th century as much as Napoleon) and credited it to Slate. Reference/Notes: - Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World https://www.amazon.com/Tambora-Eruption-That-Changed-World/dp/0691168628 - Mount Tambora Eruption Confirmed As The Cause Of The “Year Without A Summer” https://www.iflscience.com/mount-tambora-eruption-confirmed-as-the-cause-of-the-year-without-a-summer-53695 - Largest volcanic eruption in human history changed the 19th century as much as Napoleon https://theconversation.com/largest-volcanic-eruption-in-human-history-changed-the-19th-century-as-much-as-napoleon-25098 - How a Volcano Helped Inspire Frankenstein https://theconversation.com/how-a-volcano-in-indonesia-led-to-the-creation-of-frankenstein-65293 Follow Us on the following : Instragramn: @convo_btwe Twitter: @convo_btwe Facebook: A Conversation Before the World Ends Insta: @convo_btwe Twitter: convo_btwe Facebook: A Conversation Before the World Ends Tiktok: convo_btwe0 comments0
- Who Will Take The Blame? (Russia and Ukraine: Post Soviet Union to Full on Invasion)So, we believe that in order to fully comprehend and understand Russia's decision to invade Ukraine. We should go back to the fall of the Soviet Union and how these two nation states were on a collision course due to dubious economic policies, empty promises, & a pretty odd sense of nostalgia. Resulting in Putin pulling the trigger.. This is the first episode we did record, so be patient if it's not perfect. Orginally recorded June 30th. But with illness, perfecting the podcast format and all that Socials : Instragramn: @convo_btwe Twitter: @convo_btwe Notes:- Russia, Ukraine and the 30-year quest for a post-Soviet order: https://www.ft.com/content/742f15fc-675a-4622-b022-cbec444651cf Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin: When the White House fixed a Russian election: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/06/14/yelt-j14.html How 'shock therapy' created Russian oligarchs and paved the path for Putin: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/03/22/1087654279/how-shock-therapy-created-russian-oligarchs-and-paved-the-path-for-putin The Making of Vladimir Putin: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/26/world/europe/vladimir-putin-russia.html Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/neo-nazis-far-right-ukraine/ Ukraine: Investigate, Punish Hate Crimes: https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/06/14/ukraine-investigate-punish-hate-crimes Why Zelensky’s Ukraine Is Becoming Increasingly Autocratic: https://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-zelensky%E2%80%99s-ukraine-becoming-increasingly-autocratic-182124 o Ukrainian protesters flood Kiev after president pulls out of EU deal: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/24/ukraine-protesters-yanukovych-aborts-eu-deal-russia A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/02/maidan-protests-neo-nazis-russia-nato-crimea Ukraine's National Militia: 'We're not neo-Nazis, we just want to make our country better’: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/13/ukraine-far-right-national-militia-takes-law-into-own-hands-neo-nazi-links Ukraine war follows decades of warnings that NATO expansion into Eastern Europe could provoke Russia : https://theconversation.com/ukraine-war-follows-decades-of-warnings-that-nato-expansion-into-eastern-europe-could-provoke-russia-177999 The ripple effects of Russia's war in Ukraine are changing the world: https://www.npr.org/2022/05/10/109306 Insta: @convo_btwe Twitter: convo_btwe Facebook: A Conversation Before the World Ends Tiktok: convo_btwe0 comments0
- TrailerWelcome to our new DIY podcast. A Conversation Before the World Ends. Where we cover important events, figures and topics throughout history and the impact they have us on today. Insta: @convo_btwe Twitter: convo_btwe Facebook: A Conversation Before the World Ends Tiktok: convo_btwe0 comments0
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