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Hi comrades! I am familiar with the common socialist youtubers (badempanada, hakim, etc) but am trying to expand my knowledge on basic politics and history especially in africa, south america, and other global south countries. Some lib stuff is okay if it's overlookable/well researched.
Basically, I am USAmerican and trying to expand my knowledge of the world beyond what I was taught/hear about. I am especially curious about Chile because my friend is Chilean, I know very basic history about Pinochet's dictatorship. Anything on US interference in other countries is also welcome.

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[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not a history channel but Global Economy Report. Ben Norton does a good job of explaining the history when reporting. Idr if he ever covered Chile.

If you are into podcasts, Guerilla History and Blowback have done good work on this too. I want to say Guerilla History covered Chile at some point, but I may be mixing it up with another pod.

[–] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 months ago

I just looked, and I might have been thinking of Rev Left Radio in regards to Chile.

Here

[–] Thorngraff_Ironbeard@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yugopnik makes good stuff. The boys of BoyBoy have made some great videos like their recent one about Chevron in South America.

[–] Buzgie@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago

already watch both of them already lol but thanks I enjoyed the chevron one a lot

[–] itspostingtime@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This list will include some non-ML and some non-socialist content, as you said you are just trying to expand your basic knowledge and don't mind some liberal content, so I am trying to give a wide list so you have various introductory jumping off points.

I recall this video on Chile being a decent overview, someone please correct me if they know of issues with it - I don't know anything about this channel besides this video.

Geopolitical Economy Report on Chile: The first 9/11: How the CIA overthrew Chile's democracy (and pillaged its copper)

CGTN Africa has a documentary series called Faces of Africa, which covers many famous African leaders, serves as a very basic introduction

Geopolitical Economy Report (in addition to his news coverage/commentary, you may be interested in his series of interviews with Aaron Good on the history of the US empire; episodes are connected somewhat by their historical timeline, but can be easily watched standalone by topic).

Blowback (history podcast, covers: Iraq (s1), Cuba (s2), Korea (s3), Afghanistan (s4) Cambodia (s5) and focuses on the confrontation with imperialism)

Empire Files (this interview with the author of the Jakarta Method could serve as an overview of historical topics you may want to look more into as you learn more)

John Pilger documentaries are decent introductory material on various conflicts and issues around the world (most of his work was made from the 80s to early 2000s iirc)

Documentary: The Future Coming Towards Us (about Grenada)

Documentary: The Weight of Chains (about Yugoslavia)

African Stream https://africanstream.media/

Breakthrough News

Economic Freedom Fighters

Peoples Dispatch

International Manifesto Group

Electronic Intifada

The Red Nation

CGTN

Al Mayadeen English

TeleSur English

You can also find a lot of audiobooks here:

https://tankie.tube/c/communist_broadcasting_service/videos

https://tankie.tube/c/book_broadcasting_channel/videos

Anyone who knows of issues to be aware of with these various channels, documentaries, etc. feel free to point it out.

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