The Triploi Podcast

Ep 19: Venezuela and the curse of oil

Is it a curse to be a rich country? Venezuela holds the world's largest proven oil reserve, yet its people face seemingly endless economic depression.
How did this contradiction happen?
Join Triploi as we explore Venezuela's journey from Spanish colony to the Bolivarian revolution, to the discovery of the world’s largest oil reserve, to economic collapse, and now imminent war with the United States.
This is the story of a nation caught between the ghost of Simón Bolívar's dream and the enduring reality of living next door to world’s most aggressive and violent superpower.
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References and reading list:
Eduardo Galeano - Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (1971)
Greg Grandin - Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism (2006)
Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007)
Mark Weisbrot - Failed: What the "Experts" Got Wrong About the Global Economy (2015)
Jeffrey Sachs - A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism (2018)
George Ciccariello-Maher - We Created Chávez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution (2013)
Fernando Coronil - The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela (1997)
Michael Parenti - Against Empire (1995)
William Blum - Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II (2004)
Vijay Prashad - The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World (2007)
Walter Rodney - How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972)
Simón Bolívar - Selected Writings (various, compiled editions)
Terry Lynn Karl - The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States (1997)
UN Special Rapporteur Alena Douhan - Report on Venezuela (2021)

EP 18: Top 10 Most Evil Companies

Join Triploi in our first (and possibly only) Top 10 list! The top 10 most evil companies!From BP overthrowing governments and pretending oil spills are just "oopsies" instead of ecocide. Nestlé convincing mothers their addictive baby formula is better than breast milk (spoiler: it's not) to Bayer/Monsanto whose entire business model seems to be an insatiable hatred for humanity and life itself...
Through these, and 7 other cheerful stories, we explore how capitalism's business model is working exactly as designed.
While people often point to Chernobyl as proof communism is bad, capitalism quietly produces several Chernobyls per year and calls it 'profit growth.'If capitalism isn't evil, it's certainly very good at monetising it.(Note, this episode is by far the swearing-est yet, because.... geez, these bastards are evil).
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References and reading list:
Joel Bakan - The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (2004)
Greg Palast - The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (2002)
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe - Water: A Crisis Guide (2005)
Marion Nestle - Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (2002)
Marie-Monique Robin - The World According to Monsanto (2008)
Edwin Black - IBM and the Holocaust (2001)
Antony Loewenstein - Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe (2015)
Vandana Shiva - Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge (1997)
Sunita Narain - Conflicts of Interest: The Politics of Water and Environment (2012)
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing (2012)
Samir Amin - The Law of Worldwide Value (2010)

Ep 17: Viva Bolivia

From the silver mines of Potosí to the lithium fields of the Altiplano, Bolivia has never stopped fighting against colonial exploitation. This episode recounts the centuries of Bolivian Resistance, from Tupac Katari's defiant cry "I will return as millions"to the indigenous movements that shook a nation.Join Triploi as we look at the events that shaped modern Bolivia, and how and why, this diverse nation is leading the charge on decolonisation.---Listen on PODBEAN 👉 The Triploi Podcast
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References and reading list:
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui - Ch'ixinakax utxiwa: On Decolonising Practices and Discourses (2010)
Felipe Quispe Huanca - Tupak Katari Vive y Vuelve... Carajo (1988)
Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar - Rhythms of the Pachakuti: Indigenous Uprising and State Power in Bolivia (2014)
Eduardo Galeano - Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (1971)
Enrique Tandeter - Coercion and Market: Silver Mining in Colonial Potosí, 1692-1826 (1993)
James Dunkerley - Rebellion in the Veins: Political Struggle in Bolivia, 1952-82 (1984)
Oscar Olivera with Tom Lewis - ¡Cochabamba! Water War in Bolivia (2004)
Bruno Fornillo (ed.) - Litio en Sudamérica: Geopolítica, Energía y Territorios (2015)
Walter Mignolo - The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options (2011)

Ep 16: Indonesia Rising

Indonesia, a nation of 270 million people, is one of history's most underestimated world powers. From the golden age of the Majapahit Empire to Dutch colonial brutality, from CIA-backed Cold War massacres to today's economic powerhouse in the Pacific—this is the story of a people who refuse to be broken by western imperialism.Join Triploi as we look at the events that shaped modern Indonesia, as well as why West Papua remains occupied, how Bali's spiritual culture was commodified, and why this archipelago nation might just rewrite the global power structure in our lifetime.
References and reading list:
Slamet Muljana, The Majapahit Kingdom: A Golden Age of Indonesian History, 1976
Anthony Reid, Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680, 1988
Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World, 2020
Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America, 1971
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Decolonizing the Mind, 1986
Eben Kirksey, Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Architecture of Global Power, 2012
José Ramos-Horta, Funu: The Unfinished Saga of East Timor, 1987
Elizabeth Pisani, Indonesia, Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation, 2014
Farish Noor, The Asian Century: Economic and Strategic Implications, 2015
Arundhati Roy, Capitalism: A Ghost Story, 2014
Mahmood Mamdani, Define and Rule: Native as Political Identity, 2012

Ep 15: Prison With a White Picket Fence

In this episode we explore the history of patriarchy, and look at how the nuclear family structure isn't a natural evolution but a deliberate product of capitalism, designed to control and exploit women's unpaid labour.Join Triploi as we look into all the systems that came together to create the modern prison of gender roles, and why true equality is impossible until these systems are dismantled.
References and reading list:
Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color (2019)
Denise Comanne, How Patriarchy and Capitalism Combine to Aggravate the Oppression of Women (2010)
Nancy Fraser, Feminism, Capitalism, and the Cunning of History (2012)
Barbara Welter, "The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860" (1966)
Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (2004)
Arlie Hochschild, The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home (1989)
Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (1963)
Mariarosa Dalla Costa, The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community (1972)
Mary Daly, Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation (1973)

Ep 14: Freeing The People... By Force!

Why does every successful socialist revolution seem to end up with strong-armed authoritarian leaders?Join Triploi as we dive into the messy reality of why authoritarian tactics are needed to save revolutions, and what that means for the people living under them.
References and reading list:
Amin, S. (1990). Delinking: Towards a Polycentric World. Zed Books.
Dunbar-Ortiz, R. (2005). Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War. South End Press.
Federici, S. (2012). Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle. PM Press.
Fitzpatrick, S. (2017). The Russian Revolution. Oxford University Press.
Han, D. (2008). The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in a Chinese Village. Monthly Review Press.
Kollontai, A. (1921). The Workers' Opposition. Solidarity.
Nash, J. (1983). Women, Men and the International Division of Labor. SUNY Press.
Parenti, M. (1997). Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism. City Lights Publishers.
Parenti, M. (1992). Democracy for the Few. Wadsworth Publishing.
Randall, M. (2009). To Change the World: My Years in Cuba. Rutgers University Press.
Sankara, T. (2007). Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution, 1983-1987. Pathfinder Press.

Ep 13: Australian Reckoning

Australia still holds at its center, celebration of an empire that has been dead for 70 years.A nation that neither wants to face, nor reckon, with an identity it barely understands.Join Triploi on a deep, compassionate, and surprisingly emotional dive into the history of Australia, a continent with generations of unhealed pain and suffering, that is long overdue its reckoning.

EP 12: HOMEFRONT CIA!

The good ol' USA!Land of the free, home of the brave, and headquarters of the most brutally violent and oppressive covert intelligence organisation of all time!In this episode, we look at the history of the CIA and its involvement in shaping, creating, and ultimately destroying, democracy within the United States itself.Also big shout out and thank you to Timo! for giving the show new and improved intro music.
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Ep 11: Haitian Revolution 1790-2025

Haiti has been fighting for its freedom for more than 200 years, and the story of the Haitian people is one of the most inspiring yet devastating tales you will ever hear.
Join Triploi as we look into the history of the island of Ayiti, and its long, bloody, shocking, and breathtaking journey to freedom.

Ep 10: What IS Fascism?

The word 'fascism' is thrown around carelessly and flippantly in the modern age of...well...fascism. But what exactly IS fascism?Join Triploi on a deep dive into the history of fascism, and the road it has taken over the past 100 years, to bring us to present hellscape we all know and love.