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Forest fires, the call of the mountain, more flak and the future.
https://dindeng.com/power-for-peasants-en/â
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All music we used can be found in this playlist.â https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3E6imAcIOd2AjxZ3wgE1AA?si=61945fc24c124820â
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Welcome to mythbusters, where we're busting myths. Sugarcane, rice, slash and burn, crossborder smoke. B-b-b-busted.
Hotspot readings: 22/04/2024
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jee2Qqb_gB09U0D87jf-HhU0JCUMjNwJ/view?usp=sharing
https://dindeng.com/power-for-peasants-en/
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All music we used can be found in this playlist.https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3E6imAcIOd2AjxZ3wgE1AA?si=61945fc24c124820
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Episodi mancanti?
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Every year, for 2-3 months the entire Northern region of Thailand, as well as large areas of Laos and Burma, suffocate under smoke.
This annual climate apocalypse is a relatively new phenomenon, beginning around 20 years ago and rapidly increasing in intensity. The cause, in our opinion, is a conspiracy. This conspiracy is a product of a decades-long interplay between state and capital, the birthing of mass agribusiness, monopolisation of markets, of coups, of massacres in the streets and of networks of dark finance and patronage.
We hope to answer a couple of key questions that Iâm often asked. Such as, how and why does this happen? And why canât anyone seem to do anything about it?
https://dindeng.com/power-for-peasants-en/
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All music we used can be found in this playlist.https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3E6imAcIOd2AjxZ3wgE1AA?si=61945fc24c124820
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War is over. Let us usher in the golden age of Thai capitalism and bring our series to a close as we explore counterinsurgency in peacetime, finally answering the questions we asked at the beginning of the series and contending with what counterinsurgency programs look like today.
https://dindeng.com/power-for-peasants-en/
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Weâre going way back, to the first episode on critiquing colonial forestry practices, and witnessing how they were adapted to serve as a release valve for the socio-economic tensions building up in the Thai state, as a means of counterinsurgency. Or, we could even say enclosure as a means of counterinsurgency.
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For this episode we're going to do something a little different. The past few have been very heavy on the critical history, with little in the way of anecdotes or personal experience. So, we thought talking about our time with the Maniq could act as a little break, while also intersecting with many of the currents weâve been following throughout the series. That is to say, the life of illegally squatting forest dwellers, land reform, and of course, the more explicit militaristic aspects of counterinsurgency.
All music we used can be found in this playlist.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3E6imAcIOd2AjxZ3wgE1AA?si=3f0ce435ee4f4e77
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In the last episode, we focused on the brutality of the Thai para-political, and para-military apparatuses, generally speaking, we can call that the stick. Today we will also be looking more deeply into the carrot of counterinsurgency. That is to say, the social services, state welfare and rural development infrastructure programs that were written by western academics to be dangled in one hand, while the barbarity of the stick was to be wielded in the other.
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All music we used can be found in this playlist. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3E6imAcIOd2AjxZ3wgE1AA?si=3f0ce435ee4f4e77
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The peasants rise again, though they are no longer confined to the local province, but spread throughout the entire nation, as a national peasant class consciousness is shaped and formed in opposition to both the bourgeoise reformists in parliament and the demented bloodthirsty military. But lest we forget what the purpose of our investigation is, for this series. That of counter-insurgency. As such, today, we will focus on those modes of reaction, as we explore and expose Thailand's strategy of tension and its years of lead.
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Or: How The Reactionary State & Capital Couped The Common Forest
We witness more revolts and examine the Siamese state's response. We follow the development of the dual architecture of state and capital as a means of labour extraction. That is to say, the mechanisms by which the Thai state developed into the neo-mandala system that we still see today.
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All music we used can be found in this playlist.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3E6imAcIOd2AjxZ3wgE1AA?si=61945fc24c124820
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Or: How The Reactionary State & Capital Couped The Common Forest
We begin our investigation by laying the foundations of our enquiry. We explore the deep roots of imperial forestry practices as the earliest days of enclosure of the common forest and witness the birth of the first armed forest insurgency in Siam.
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All music we used can be found in this playlist.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3E6imAcIOd2AjxZ3wgE1AA?si=61945fc24c124820
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Counterinsurgency. Or: How The Reactionary State & Capital Couped The Common Forest
At the turn of the 20th century, capital utilised the state to enforce a program of counterinsurgency. This program had two targets:
Target 1. Communism.
Target 2. Anything else antithetical to market relations, be it natural farmers, or peasants utilising common forest land.
Both are targets, which are inextricably tied to the forest.
In this series, we intend to investigate and demonstrate how deforestation, modern social sciences, contemporary farming practices and yankee imperialism developed market forces via counterinsurgency in the 20th century, leading to the mass enclosure of a once wild and free landscape, the forest, a space that was once sanctum and a refuge for those fleeing subjugation.
In short, this will be, for the most part, a political ecology reading of counterinsurgency, what we call, the coup of the forest.
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In this episode, we will introduce the series and spend the rest of the time reading a short story from one of Isaanâs greatest writers, Phu Kradat, who graciously permitted us to read from his book.
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All music we used can be found in this playlist. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3E6imAcIOd2AjxZ3wgE1AA?si=3f0ce435ee4f4e77
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The Communist Party Thailand gets KMT'd. Khun Sa gets kicked out of Thailand-- hijinks ensue. The Communist Party Burma go to shit. The CIA moves to Colombia. Opium moves to Afghanistan. Cornfields erupt in the hills and a handful of guys make meth.
We will be back with a new series on counterinsurgency either next week or the week after.
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The Communist Party Burma explodes in Shan State. Khun Sa goes large. The DEA get gaslight. We hit peak opium.
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It's finally the CIA episode. Featuring: Missionaries, Chiang Mai Zoo, Wild Bill Donovan, Sarit, Air America, Corsican mafias, Frank Lucas, more missionaries and a whole lot of dope.
p.s we found a lot more on Donovan's time in Thailand since recording, which we will cover again in a later ep.
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We witness the explosion of revolutionary civil war in Burma, chart the early days of The Opium King and the royal narco generals in Laos, as well as keep up with the KMT.
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We begin our series on The Golden Triangle by examining the forested hills that Western academics have dubbed Zomia. We brace ourselves for the tsunami of the Kuomintang invasion and take a walk through the blooming poppy fields.
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Books:
Land of Jade - Bertil Lindtner
Burma in Revolt - Bertil Lindtner
The Politics of Heroin - Alfred McCoy
War On Drugs - Studies In The Failure Of US Narcotics Policy - Alfred McCoy
Thailand Drugs, the U.S and Khun Sa - Francis W. Belanger
The Opium Queen - Gabrielle Paluch
The Rise and Fall of The Communist Party Burma - Bertil Lindtner
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Hi hello. It's DinDeng. A little explainer.
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We are haunted by the ghosts of past struggles.
Translations:
Jok - Rice Porridge
Sala - A shaded hut with no walls
Kratingdaeng - An energy drink
Prachathipat - The Democrat Party, a reactionary party favoured by yellow shirts
Sukhumvit - A major road in Bangkok known for expensive rents
Soi - A small road leading off of a major road
Farang - A foreigner, typically a white person
Krongthip - A brand of cigarettes commonly favoured by farmers
Isaan - The northeastern region of Thailand
Pin - A lute-like instrument found in Isaan and the northern region.
Doi - A mountain in northern Thailand
Som Tam - Papaya salad, a dish originally from Lao/Isaan
A Carabao guy - Someone who is a fan of the band Carabao and lives by the subculture
Yabaa - Methamphetamine drugs
Moo-Ping - Grilled pork
Dtam-sang - An a la cart restaurant, often with cheap fare
Tessabaan - Local government bureaucratic centre
Amphoe - A regional administrative area
www.dindeng.com
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We are haunted by the ghosts of past struggles.
Translations:
Jok - Rice Porridge
Sala - A shaded hut with no walls
Kratingdaeng - An energy drink
Prachathipat - The Democrat Party, a reactionary party favoured by yellow shirts
Sukhumvit - A major road in Bangkok known for expensive rents
Soi - A small road leading off of a major road
Farang - A foreigner, typically a white person
Krongthip - A brand of cigarettes commonly favoured by farmers
Isaan - The northeastern region of Thailand
Pin - A lute-like instrument found in Isaan and the northern region.
Doi - A mountain in northern Thailand
Som Tam - Papaya salad, a dish originally from Lao/Isaan
A Carabao guy - Someone who is a fan of the band Carabao and lives by the subculture
Yabaa - Methamphetamine drugs
Moo-Ping - Grilled pork
Dtam-sang - An a la cart restaurant, often with cheap fare
Tessabaan - Local government bureaucratic centre
Amphoe - A regional administrative area
www.dindeng.com
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We are haunted by the ghosts of past struggles.
Translations:
Jok - Rice Porridge
Sala - A shaded hut with no walls
Kratingdaeng - An energy drink
Prachathipat - The Democrat Party, a reactionary party favoured by yellow shirts
Sukhumvit - A major road in Bangkok known for expensive rents
Soi - A small road leading off of a major road
Farang - A foreigner, typically a white person
Krongthip - A brand of cigarettes commonly favoured by farmers
Isaan - The northeastern region of Thailand
Pin - A lute-like instrument found in Isaan and the northern region.
Doi - A mountain in northern Thailand
Som Tam - Papaya salad, a dish originally from Lao/Isaan
A Carabao guy - Someone who is a fan of the band Carabao and lives by the subculture
Yabaa - Methamphetamine drugs
Moo-Ping - Grilled pork
Dtam-sang - An a la cart restaurant, often with cheap fare
Tessabaan - Local government bureaucratic centre
Amphoe - A regional administrative area
www.dindeng.com
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