Jun 28, 2025
TENE and friend watch the star studded 1978 action film The Wild Geese. Richard Burton and Roger Moore (James Bond) play a romanticized versions of Mad Mike and his racist mercenaries, except now they're good guys who just want to teach us how the West should forgive Africans for being corrupt.
Jun 24, 2025
Boris gives us a brief overview of Mobutu's reign in Congo/Zaire from 1960s-1990s and examines his role as the ultimate Cold Warrior.
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Jun 19, 2025
We finally sit down with Spencer Sunshine to talk about his book "Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason's Siege" (2024).
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Jun 19, 2025
Rey walks us through the first part of David Austin Walsh's book Taking America Back, which is centered around Hart's career in the 1933-1953 period. Merwin was a "liminal figure of the US right-wing", able to meet the president in the White House, but also to work together with known fascist "crackpots" (Coughlin,...
Jun 7, 2025
In part one of a series on mercenaries in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Boris explores the strange history of the (ex)Nazis and racist psychopaths who helped install the regime of Mobutu Sese Seko following the assassination of Patrice Lumumba.
Reading: Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja - The Congo from Leopold to Kabila:...