At the height of the Vietnam War, a government insider named Daniel Ellsberg leaked 7,000 pages of classified documents to American newspapers. The Pentagon Papers revealed that Americans had been lied to for decades about the war. Fifty years later, Ellsberg reveals his evolution from Cold Warrior to Whistleblower in the GroundTruth Podcast series The Whistleblower: Truth, Dissent and the Legacy of Daniel Ellsberg. Based at GBH in Boston, the award-winning GroundTruth Podcast has covered global affairs from the War in Afghanistan to rising populist nationalism through shoe-leather, on-the-ground reporting.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 1 day 3 hours 38 minutes
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Democracy Undone: Series Intro
Across the world, populist movements are threatening democracy. These movements are not taking power by force, they are being given power by the popular vote.
episode 1: The Authoritarian's Playbook: Weaponizing Fear in Brazil
President Jair Bolsonaro has promised to rule Brazil with an iron fist. He's kept his promise.
episode 2: The Authoritarian's Playbook: Targeting Outsiders in Italy
In Pontida, Italy, the far-right Lega party's annual festival is called Christmas Day, a time to come together and celebrate their accomplishments. But really it's a love-fest for the party's nationalist leader, Matteo Salvini.
episode 3: The Authoritarian's Playbook: Undermining Institutions in Colombia
Former Colombian President Santos, standing before a hopeful crowd dressed in white, delivered an overture to the members of FARC, cosigners of the 2016 landmark peace deal: "Welcome to democracy!" Over three years later, FARC along with the rest of the nation, are still waiting for the peace plan's promises to materialize.
episode 4: The Authoritarian's Playbook: Rewriting History in Hungary
In the past four years, the number of pro-government news outlets in Hungary has jumped from 30 to over 500. Prime Minister Viktor Orban's created a media empire that distributes his Fidesz party's nationalist narrative.
episode 5: The Authoritarian's Playbook: Exploiting Religion in India
To many observers, PM Narendra Modi literally unleashed the forces of Hindu nationalism that Gandhi feared, and that motivated his assassin.
episode 6: The Authoritarian's Playbook: Dividing and Conquering in Poland
This is the sound of an attempt to erase an identity. This nationalist youth group is, to use their words, scrubbing “the gay” off of the streets.
episode 7: The Authoritarian's Playbook: Eroding Truth in America
Trump’s daily dissemination of demonstrable falsehoods, misleading statements, or what we used to call lies has defined the trump era. From his own lips, and in his relentless tweets, the president has cultivated an alternate reality that some Americans have accepted as their source of truth.
episode 8: The Authoritarian's Playbook: Bonus Episode - Guardrails of Democracy
"If you have information that we are being lied into a wrongful war or a violation of the Constitution, don't wait, as I did, to go to the press and Congress with documents. Put those out at whatever personal cost. The cost will likely be very severe. But a war's worth of lives may be at stake."
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