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 Mars 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 Mars 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 Mars 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 Mars 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
Contradictions in Left Anti-Imperialism
‘If you think Alex Jones is right then it’s an overwhelmingly good thing he warned everyone about this emerging fascism. If you think he’s wrong then he’s scare mongered people into non-compliance wit...
18 Feb 202219min
Jimmy Jokes about Genociding Gypsies
I’d like to look at why Jimmy’s gypsy joke worked. If the audience don’t find the idea of genocide gypsies any funnier than they find pedophilia, why did they laugh? TRIGGER WARNING: the contents o...
13 Feb 202211min
