Behind the Bastards

Antonio Salazar spends his post-war years helping the CIA learn how to torture people and starting a disastrous war with a large portion of Africa. Then he dies! Hooray! Sources: Antonio Salazar de Oliveira of Portugal and his Estado Novo [https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/salazar.htm] Antonio Salazar: A Quiet Autocrat Who Held Power in Portugal for 40 Years - The New York Times [https://www.nytimes.com/1970/07/28/archives/antonio-salazar-a-quiet-autocrat-who-held-power-in-portugal-for-40.html] Did Salazar have a love life? Part 2 – Portugal Resident [https://www.portugalresident.com/did-salazar-have-a-love-life-part-2/] https://www.lemonde.fr/en/history/article/2024/04/25/50-years-ago-the-carnation-revolution-ended-portugal-s-dictatorship-in-one-night_6669464_157.html [https://www.lemonde.fr/en/history/article/2024/04/25/50-years-ago-the-carnation-revolution-ended-portugal-s-dictatorship-in-one-night_6669464_157.html] 50 years ago, the Carnation Revolution ended Portugal's dictatorship in one night [https://www.lemonde.fr/en/history/article/2024/04/25/50-years-ago-the-carnation-revolution-ended-portugal-s-dictatorship-in-one-night_6669464_157.html] Portugal: End of the Salazar Era | TIME [https://time.com/archive/6632897/portugal-end-of-the-salazar-era/] Portugal’s secret police – Portugal Resident [https://www.portugalresident.com/portugals-secret-police/] The PIDE and Portuguese Society under the Salazar Dictatorship 1945-1974: Fear, SelfPolicing, Accommodation. | ICS [https://www.ics.ulisboa.pt/projeto/secretPOL] Portugal’s Dictatorship: Salazar’s Estado Novo - Portugal.com [https://www.portugal.com/history-and-culture/portugals-dictatorship-salazars-estado-novo/] Sci-Hub | Framing Sexual Violence in Portuguese Colonialism: On Some Practices of Contemporary Cultural Representation and Remembrance. Violence Against Women, 25(13), 1558–1577 | 10.1177/1077801219869547 [https://sci-hub.st/https:/doi.org/10.1177/1077801219869547] The war that tears Estado Novo down | NewsMuseum [https://www.newsmuseum.pt/en/na-frente/war-tears-estado-novo-down] friedheim_pub - salazar - leaders of europe 1995.ashx [https://drexel.edu/~/media/files/histpol/publications/friedheim_pub%20-%20salazar%20-%20leaders%20of%20europe%201995.ashx] Sci-Hub | | 10.2307/180995 [https://sci-hub.st/https:/www.jstor.org/stable/180995] Colonialism and Genocide in Portuguese Africa [https://www.genocidewatchblog.com/post/colonialism-and-genocide-in-portuguese-africa] Three graphics that explain Portuguese colonialism · Global Voices [https://globalvoices.org/2021/10/12/three-graphics-that-explain-portuguese-colonialism/] 118979704.pdf [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/07/05/118979704.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0] Portugal, declassified – POLITICO [https://www.politico.eu/article/portugal-declassified-elections-news/] Acousmatic and Acoustic Violence and Torture in the Estado Novo: The Notorious Revelations of the PIDE/DGS Trial in 1957 [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mp/9460447.0009.101/--acousmatic-and-acoustic-violence-and-torture-in-the-estado?rgn=main;view=fulltext] SalazarandBritish.pdf [https://www.bhsportugal.org/uploads/fotos_artigos/files/SalazarandBritish.pdf] Acousmatic and Acoustic Violence and Torture in the Estado Novo: The Notorious Revelations of the PIDE/DGS Trial in 1957 [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mp/9460447.0009.101/--acousmatic-and-acoustic-violence-and-torture-in-the-estado?rgn=main;view=fulltext] Sci-Hub | Framing Sexual Violence in Portuguese Colonialism: On Some Practices of Contemporary Cultural Representation and Remembrance. Violence Against Women, 25(13), 1558–1577 | 10.1177/1077801219869547 [https://sci-hub.st/https:/doi.org/10.1177/1077801219869547] Sci-Hub | | 10.2307/180995 [https://sci-hub.st/https:/www.jstor.org/stable/180995] Françafrique: A brief history of a scandalous word [https://newafricanmagazine.com/16585/]                      Sci-Hub | | 10.2307/180995 [https://sci-hub.st/https:/www.jstor.org/stable/180995] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Robert sits down with with  Jeff May to talk about Antonio Salazar, the economics professor who became a brutal fascist dictator and was, sadly, really damn good at it. (2 Part Series) See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.  - Palestine’s Stolen Future - The Genocide Budget (And How to Stop It) - Protest, Immigration Enforcement, and the Unhoused Community - The Minnesota Assassination & Evangelical Terrorism - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #24 You can now listen to all Cool Zone Media shows, 100% ad-free through the Cooler Zone Media subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So, open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “Cooler Zone Media” and subscribe today! http://apple.co/coolerzone [http://apple.co/coolerzone]  Sources/Links: Palestine's Stolen Future Raz Segal on genocide - https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-case-of-genocide [https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-case-of-genocide] Omer Bartov on genocide – https://www.democracynow.org/2024/12/30/omer_bartov_israel_gaza_genocide [https://www.democracynow.org/2024/12/30/omer_bartov_israel_gaza_genocide] Amos Goldberg on genocide - https://thefirethesetimes.com/2025/05/25/intent-holocaust-studies-and-the-gaza-genocide-w-amos-goldberg/ [https://thefirethesetimes.com/2025/05/25/intent-holocaust-studies-and-the-gaza-genocide-w-amos-goldberg/] Khaled Elgindy on Biden’s “bear hug” - https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/10/10/biden-israel-hamas-war-gaza-us-policy/ [https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/10/10/biden-israel-hamas-war-gaza-us-policy/] Bezalel Smotrich on population transfer - 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World War 2 is coming to an end, and Eichmann cooks up an escape scheme that allows him to flee justice- for a while. Robert and Joe talk about what comes next and conclude the Eichmann story. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

In Part 3, the Reich has invaded Russia and Eichmann is on a fact finding mission that will determine the course of the Holocaust. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.