Episode 97: Meatball Business
Wetwired
Jonathan
Aug 10, 202626 July 2026
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As a way to wrap up our Cold as ICE series about the creation of an American paramilitary force answering only to Trump, we wanted to find some solid historical examples where secret police forces were dismantled. The idea was to give some reasons to hope that things could be better.
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Portugal is celebrating the 44th anniversary of the end of dictatorship and the carnation revolution, the virtually bloodless expression of people power that swept democracy back in in Portugal after
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