Dr. Carlos Eire returns to talk about how his life as a Cuban refugee and being taken in by Jewish foster parents affected his faith,...
Oswaldo Paya attempted to bring Cuba closer towards all the broken promises of Fidel Castro by peaceful, democratic means, which in the end cost Paya...
In early 1980, a city bus crashed into the Peruvian embassy in Havana Cuba. Somehow this incident would lead to the mass exodus of over...
On July 11th of last year protests broke out all over Cuba over several issues, ranging from lack of food and medical access to the...
It didn’t take long for the people of Cuba to realize after the “revolution” of 1959, they were now under the rule of an even...
On July 11th of this year, the streets throughout the island of Cuba erupted with chants of “Libertad! Libertad!”. Immediately, both Cuban communist state media...
In the early 1960’s as the Castro regime began to transform Cuba into a socialist, militarist regime, part of that including training children to become...
If you fancy yourself a revolutionary, we’ve got a nice primer and introduction to the path you’ve set out on. You’ll get to hear about...
We’re back in the 1980s talking summer camps and trips, dancing, the film Scarface and the Mariel Boatlift. To hear on Stitcher, click here! To...
Rosa María Payá is a human rights activist and founder of Cuba Decide, an initiative that is attempting re-introduce democracy to the Cuban island. She...
(Silverio Portal Contreras blinded by Cuban police beatings and currently imprisoned for protesting against the communist regime) The American left’s hostility towards minorities who think...
We’re back in the 1980s talking baseball, football, soccer, karate and one family’s escape from communist Vietnam. To hear on Stitcher, click here! To...
Lin Zhao was an enthusiastic member of the Chinese Communist Party but in time her comrades would sentence her to death. Professor Xi Lian comes...
Professor Ricardo Pau-Llosa returns back to the Woodpile to share some of his poetry, his thoughts on some of his art collection and on the...
Bay of Pigs Veteran Bill Muir reflects on his life in Cuba before Castro, his work in the underground while the Communists ruled the country,...
Nicolas Guitierrez is a Cuban American lawyer who was directly involved in the drafting, passage and enforcement of the Cuban Liberty & Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD)...
Poet, writer, professor, art collector and critic Ricardo Pau-Llosa comes Back By the Woodpile to talk all these things and more! To hear on Stitcher,...
Philisophical haggling of ideas! On this episode we talk the safety of loneliness, the last thoughts before execution, courage to protect others at one’s own...
Artists in Cuba are unable to express themselves freely without fear of reprisals from the Communist government. To help us learn their names and stories Babalublog.com’s...
Alberto de la Cruz of Babalublog comes Back by the Woodpile to talk the plight of musicians inside and out of Cuba’s repressive regime, including Celia Cruz,...
The Chinese Communist Party without a doubt affects our daily lives without us knowing it. Epoch Times’ Joshua Philipp comes Back By the Woodpile to explain this...
Alberto de la Cruz of Babalublog.com comes back by the woodpile to talk about the plight of persecuted Cubans, including Damas de Blanco, Oswaldo Paya, Rosa Maria Paya and others. ...
Final chapter of Spun Counterguy’s Taoist adventures in China and America! This time around: sleeping on belts and dreaming of snakes, your value based on...
Loneliness, taking the temperature of the room, crying fish in the heart of water, greed, the opportunism of compassion and so much more are discussed...
Our woodpile is over in China again! This time around Peter Horse brings over his chair and mouth to talk writer Lu Xun (鲁迅), Chinese...
Our favorite Salvadorian girls are back to help us learn some of the key Spanish words to songs by Willie Colon, Hector Lavoe, Salsa Clave and Alvaro...
Snapshots into the lives of ordinary Chinese folk, ranging from doctors to students to the spiritually minded.
Been a long time since you strained your brain? Come join us Back by the Woodpile for more word wrestling as we discuss saints, sinners,...
Dr. Ming Wang is an Ophthalmologist and scientist who’s pioneered both the fields of health technology and molecular biology, having published research papers and...
As Jews, Geralda & Yuri Zhislin’s parents miraculously survived the Nazi invasion of the Ukraine only to next feel the persecution of the Soviet Union’s...