Podcast Episodes

OSINT as OSENT

When Open Intelligence Becomes Entertainment

There was a time when intelligence was secret, locked away in dossiers and government vaults. Today, the cameras never stop. Data streams from satellites, …

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Real Socialists Heart Tariffs 4-Eva

If American socialists were real, they’d love tariffs. They’d be screaming for tariffs, because tariffs are the only way to fund the utopia they claim to want. Tariffs don’t chase billionaires who va…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Gaza HUMINT as HUMENT

War, Propaganda, and the Spectacle of Suffering

The war in Gaza is not only fought with drones, tunnels, and rockets; it is fought with cameras. It is fought through livestreams, tweets, and NGO repor…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

The Corporate Collaborators

How corporations ally with movements only to drain them, discard them, and return to what they have always been

Corporations often look like allies when social movements rise. They adopt slogans, rele…

Published on 4 months, 4 weeks ago

America = Afghanistan

Afghanistan has long been called the “graveyard of empires.” Powerful nations have marched into its mountains with plans to conquer and reform it. They built schools, sent aid, and installed new gove…

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American Cultural Entropy

In physics, entropy measures disorder. Without energy, order breaks down. Culture behaves the same way. Without steady effort, values decay and systems drift back toward what is easy and familiar. Th…

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American Cultural Inertia

In physics, inertia is the tendency of objects to resist change. A body at rest stays at rest unless acted upon by force. Culture works the same way. Societies prefer to stay as they are. They resist…

Published on 4 months, 4 weeks ago

Mom and Apple Pie are Nazism

The phrase “as American as mom and apple pie” once described something wholesome and unquestioned. It evoked family, community, and tradition. Today, critics recast those same images as coded languag…

Published on 4 months, 4 weeks ago

Proxy Wars Evade Accountability

Proxy wars are the modern state’s perfect crime. They allow powerful nations to pursue strategic goals without the domestic consequences that traditionally forced wars to end. During Vietnam, America…

Published on 4 months, 4 weeks ago

The Tyranny of "Should Be the Norm"

“Should be the norm” doesn’t really mean anything in the real world, though, does it? People say it as if declaring it makes it true, as if a strong enough moral proclamation could bend the arc of re…

Published on 4 months, 4 weeks ago