A History of the World EPISODE 14

This Week with David Rovics

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2013-2016

• Edward Snowden reveals the NSA's Prism Program to the world ("Prism")

• I am prevented from entering New Zealand on a mysterious basis ("Spies are Reading my Blog")

• Folks who smashed helicopter gunships with sledgehammers in Australia go on trial ("If I had a Hammer")

• There is a coup in Ukraine, and the Biden family gives the appearance of involvement ("A Biden Ballad")

• The police killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, Jr. elicit marches across the US ("I Can't Breathe")

• A white supremacist commits a massacre at the oldest Black church in South Carolina ("The State House Lawn")

• A massacre on the Kenya-Somalia border is prevented ("One Day in Kenya")

• Hundreds of thousands of refugees flood into Europe from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere ("Upon Our Shores")

• The autonomous region of Rojava is established in northern Syria ("Rojava")

• Omid Masoumali immolates himself on the island of Nauru in an Australian internment camp ("Leila and Majnun")

• Jeremy Corbyn is elected leader of the British Labor Party ("I Agree with Jeremy")

• Donald Trump launches a campaign for the US presidency, and wins ("Make the Planet Earth Great Again")