Chechnya and Chechens fight to be free
A small republic, a country in spirit, lies north of Dagestan and Azerbaijan. It has only about a million and a half people and I am not sure there is consensus about how they want to live, but they h...
13 Feb 57min
Iran vs Iraq; the war and its legacy.
Following the tumultous revolution and subsequent hostage crisis, Iran's neighbour, Saddam's Iraq thought the timing was opportune to do a land grab.The strategic miscalculation led to one of the bloo...
30 Jan 51min
Iran; Oil, Islam & the west
When I was seven years old, one of my friends moved to Tehran with his family. I do not know what his parents did, but I know that they returned in less than a year because of the revolution. I did no...
23 Jan 45min
Ukraine; & the bear next door.
Here is the continuation of the 2 part series on Ukraine in the last 100+ years; trying to see the overall picture and understand why Ukraine has become such an important headline in the last few year...
18 Aug 202542min
Ukraine; from about 1910 to World War II.
It seems that Ukraine rarely made the news until about 2013-14 when Russia invaded Crimea and somehow the Bidens were involved in a scandal. I knew of it, because my mother's family all trace their li...
11 Aug 202545min
Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge
Its effect was little in the rest of the world. Vietnam was the larger story at the time, and the horror of the Cambodian Killing Fields a sidenote in coverage.
12 Maj 202548min
Korean War; the war and its legacy
This is part 2 of the two part series on the Korean War. Thanks for listening.
28 Apr 202535min
The Korean War; the background
If you have listened before, you know how this goes. This episode looks at the history of the Korean peninsula and what happened leading up to the Korean War in 1950.
21 Apr 202537min
