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🎙 From Shoot the Breeze Episode 251 on the Bitter Medicine Podcast.
Cuba’s energy crisis raises a serious question: is this just an internal crisis, or is U.S. pressure setting the stage for intervention? The panel discusses blackouts, Venezuela oil, and imperial pressure in the Caribbean.
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🎙 From Shoot the Breeze Episode 251 on the Bitter Medicine Podcast.
Should Black celebrities be expected to speak on Black issues — or are they just entertainers? The panel debates Tyla, South Africa, Nigeria, and the difference between modern celebrity and politically conscious artists of the past.
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🎙 From Shoot the Breeze Episode 251 on the Bitter Medicine Podcast.
Tyla’s Lagos concert controversy opens up a bigger Pan-African conversation: Nigeria, South Africa, Afrophobia, celebrity silence, and whether artists should be held accountable before being welcomed by African audiences.
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🎙 From Shoot the Breeze Episode 251 on the Bitter Medicine Podcast.
Brother Bakari takes the dress-code conversation in a different direction: if we are talking about respect, standards, and self-presentation, why don’t we also talk about the language we use with each other?
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The British Empire ran the largest drug operation in human history — and it wasn't hidden. It was policy.
For nearly two centuries, Britain forced Indian farmers to grow opium poppies on some of the most fertile land in South Asia, processed the harvest in government-run factories, and shipped it to China — where millions became hopelessly addicted. When China tried to stop the flow of drugs into its own country, Britain declared war. Twice.
The profits were taxed at every step. The Indian farmer who grew the poppies was taxed. The opium auctioned in Calcutta was taxed. And after Britain won the wars, China was forced to pay for the privilege of being attacked — including compensation for the very opium it had destroyed trying to protect its own people.
This is the story of how the East India Company engineered a trade triangle that reversed one of the largest silver flows in history, broke two civilizations, and built the financial foundations of the modern world on human suffering. From the poppy fields of Bihar to the smuggling boats off Guangzhou, from the Treaty of Nanking to the burning of the Summer Palace — this is one of the most consequential and deliberately buried chapters in economic history.
This video covers:
— The tea trade imbalance that started it all
— How the East India Company built a state-run narcotics monopoly in Bengal
— The forced cultivation system that starved Indian farmers
— The smuggling networks that flooded China with opium
— Commissioner Lin Zexu's fight to save his country
— The First and Second Opium Wars
— The unequal treaties that carved up Chinese sovereignty
— How opium revenue funded the expansion of the British Empire
— Why this history still shapes geopolitics today
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