Reading David Icke 3. The Robots’ Rebellion
'Previously David Icke was a spiritualist who wrote about how problems in the world, including his predictions of natural disasters, arise from humanities negative thought patterns. He doesn’t reject ...
24 Apr 202237min
The Energy of Empire 10. Honduras - The Banana Republic
By the turn of the twentieth century, and much as with Nicaragua, American corporations were consolidating large landholdings and lobbied the US government to protect their investments as they ran int...
10 Apr 202223min
The Energy of Empire 9. Nicaragua - ‘When history is written, the Contras will be folk heroes’
The United States now moved to block the Nicaraguan government from putting down the rebellion. They employed the same tactic that had been used in Hawaii twenty-seven years earlier, forbidding the Ni...
3 Apr 202230min
The Energy of Empire 8. Panama - ’A Just Cause’
The Panama Canal was Theodore Roosevelt's pet project. Panama was then a province of Columbia, albeit one with an active separatist movement. Columbia was reluctant to give the United States the kind ...
27 Mar 202216min
Pandemic or Democide? Assessing State Contributions to COVID Deaths
As soon as a global pandemic is announced, not even when its effects are noticed, just when it’s suspected of being on its way, human systems don’t stand still, they move to adapt. These adaptations c...
21 Mar 202226min
The Energy of Empire 7. Japan - ’Honorary Aryans’
In the 1870s, with Japanese students studying in American universities, some US expansionists started to see Japan as a potential imperial partner, a proxy force through which they could extend greate...
16 Mar 202225min
Understanding Ukraine: From 1917 to the Present War with Russia
A lot of media figures are talking as if they’re inside the Russian President’s head. From this position they are able to both explain his motives and diagnose his psychopathology at the same time. Su...
4 Mar 20221h 11min
The Energy of Empire 6. ‘Unhung Traitors’ - The Anti Imperialist League
In this episode we’re going to look at the resistance that grew to America’s emergence as an overseas empire in the 1890s—The Anti-Imperialist League. We’ll look at where the League failed and succeed...
21 Feb 202218min
