Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

On Part 2 of the Easter Rising Home Rule is put on hold while Irish Republicans remember the words of Wolfe Tone: Launch an uprising while the British Empire is distracted fighting a foreign enemy. Support Dogs For the Disabled: https://dogsfordisabled.ie Buy your very own Irish Republic shirt: https://teespring.com/shop/easter-rising-1916?tsmac=recently_viewed&tsmic=recently_viewed#pid=2&cid=566&sid=front Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Follow us on twitter @lions_by

On this episode we dive into some of the history that caused the 1916 Easter Rising like stealing Irish freedom with the Act of Union, extracting wealth, colonialism, and outright genocide. Support the Dogs For the Disabled charity: https://dogsfordisabled.ie Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Buy some merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Sources: Tim Pat Coogan. 1916: The Easter Rising

On this episode Joe and Nick celebrate Confederate History Month by diving into crimes perpetrated by the Confederate States of America at Andersonville Prison. A POW camp that killed 25% of POWs during the war. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/home buy a shirt! https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Follow us on Twitter @lions_by Sources: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/andersonville-prison https://allthatsinteresting.com/andersonville-prison http://www.civilwarmed.org/andersonville-medicine/

Joe and Nick talk about how a sickly kid who liked to pass his time trolling people on the internet ended up traveling across the world and joining the Taliban and his court case that followed. Follow us @lions_by Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Get some merchandise: https://teespring.com/en-GB/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store sources: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/my-letters-john-walker-lindh-american-jidahist/590071/ https://www.npr.org/2019/05/23/725865999/john-walker-lindh-the-american-taliban-set-to-be-released https://www.dcbar.org/bar-resources/publications/washington-lawyer/articles/may-2005-taking-the-stand.cfm

Joe is joined by Justin Rose to talk about the USS Pueblo Incident. An American spy ship is Captured by North Korea and we do our best not to make any really easy Navy jokes. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Buy some merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Follow the show @lions_by sources: https://www.npr.org/2018/01/23/580076540/looking-at-the-saga-of-the-uss-pueblo-50-years-later https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/01/23/beaten-every-day-north-korea-tortured-uss-pueblo-crew-members-gathering-damaging-intel/ https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-uss-pueblo-pyongyang-north-korea

Joe is joined by the purveyor of @civilwarhumor Matt Palmquist to talk about Gideon Pillow. A General who spent his entire life proving the fact that you may be terrible at your job, steal a cannon, and never learn how to read a map but if your best friend is the President you can do whatever you want. Follow Matt: @civilwarhumor Support the show and get more content: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys buy some merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Follow the show: @lions_by

On this episode Joe and Travis talk about the Kargil War of 1999. You may have never heard of it but it involves nukes, ice fortresses, World War One style frontal assaults up a mountain, and ice axe murder. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Buy some Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Follow us on Twitter: @lions_by Sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20090327120658/http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/research/kargil/war_in_kargil.pdf Amarinder Singh (2001). A Ridge Too Far: War in the Kargil Heights https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/k/Kargil_War.htm

On this episode Joe and Rich talk about one of the most badass groups of people to ever walk the earth: The White Rose. A non violent anti-war activism group that operated in Nazi Germany. A little warning: We had some recording issues during this episode. Our producer did what he could to save it. Support the show https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys buy some merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Follow us on twitter: @Lions_by Sources: https://whiteroseinternational.com/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwxtSSBhDYARIsAEn0thQiOTzyupQmYz5YP4A4FZ4XZPnZ5gb-bS7VzwKURKisxhRAcVz24g4aAsMjEALw_wcB https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/white-rose https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/sophie-scholl-and-white-rose

On this episode Joe and Travis read the famous history article "Why Arabs Lose Wars" by former US Naval Institute professor Norvell B. De Atkine and discover what happens when someone so racist they could have worked for the East India Trading Company ends up having an impact in American Foreign Policy. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Buy some Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store follow us on twitter: @lions_by @jkass99 @haycraft_travis

On this episode Nick and Joe dive into the insane world of Holocaust Denial and why these people shouldn't be debated, they should be attacked. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Buy some merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Follow us: @lions_by @jkass99 @nickcasm1 Sources: Deborah Lipstadt. Denying the Holocaust. https://www.ushmm.org/antisemitism/holocaust-denial-and-distortion https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/holocaust-denial https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2917150/