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In this episode, Nashwa, Liv Agar, and Will Menaker talk through the third world cinema excellence of Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers. Enclosed is a preview; if you want to unlock the full episode, you can do so by subscribing on Patreon or Substack.

Through its depiction of the most pivotal events in the Algerian War of Independence, The Battle of Algiers is an unsparing portrayal of what revolution actually is. The film specifically covers the events of 1954 to 1962, with French occupiers failing to stop an impending uprising. Although over half a century old, the movie shows little sign of aging and remains relevant today—it has been shown to members of the Black Panthers, the IRA, and had a featured screening at the Pentagon. The film remains unique and a must see for anyone interested in the Algerian people’s fight for liberation from 132 years of French colonialism. 

During their chat, the trio reflect on the movie, its most important scenes, and some of the historical context around it; they also close the episode by rating the film on a very special scale.

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Episode 27 - The Battle of Algiers (with Liv Agar and Will Menaker) (Premium Teaser)

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special guest Will Menaker (of Chapo Trap House) discuss Jean-Claude Van Damme working with Hong Kong auteur's making their insanely stylish American action film debuts in John Woo's HARD TARGET (1993) and Tsui Hark's DOUBLE TEAM (1997). Next week's bonus episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on vampirism as drug addiction in Tony Scott's THE HUNGER (1983) and Abel Ferrara's THE ADDICTION (1995), you can get access to that episode (and all past + future bonus episodes) by subscribing to our $5 tier on patreon: www.patreon.com/sleazoidspodcast

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DOUBLE TEAM // 1:19:42-1:59:19
Outro // 1:59:19-2:00:16

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183 - HARD TARGET (1993) + DOUBLE TEAM (1997) ft. Will Menaker

Writer Roy Scranton explains why he sees death when he looks to civilization's future - from national political systems unable to address the looming, global threat of climate change, to our failure on an individual level to move behind ethnic and national arrangements as a globalized earth grows more chaotic - and how we have a choice between the death of our current way of life, or the death of our species itself.

Roy is author of Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization from City Lights.

Extinction level eventuality: Why civilization must die before it's too late

// 24 Reveals Our Most Patriotic Fears // When You Have To Torture Your Family // Killer Teen Terrorists // Veterans Get Fucked Over // When Criminals Get Patriotic // The Real World Implications Of 24 // Our Favorite Moments //  

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24 And The Legacy Of CTU with Will Menaker

Historian Anna-Lisa cox traces the westward journey of America's Black pioneers - as a first Great Migration of African American farming settlements spread across the Midwest, free Black families experienced new levels of self-determination and prosperity in frontier communities, as well as a White backlash against their advancements.

Anna-Lisa is author of "The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America's Forgotten Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality" from PublicAffairs: https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/anna-lisa-cox/the-bone-and-sinew-of-the-land/9781610398107/

When Black farms blossomed on the American frontier.

Conservation biologist Chris D. Thomas finds new forms of life born into this warming world - as (some) species adapt to the new conditions created by climate change, humans must adapt the way we view and interact with nature to reflect a new understanding of time, change and stewardship of the natural world.

Chris is the author of "Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction" from PublicAffairs: https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/chris-d-thomas/inheritors-of-the-earth/9781610397285/

On death, change and new forms of life at the end of wilderness.

Historian Walter Scheidel traces the long twin histories of economic inequality and violence throughout human history - as a cycle of rising wealth disparity and brutal, leveling shocks have followed us since the dawn of agrarian civilization - and explains why peaceful solutions to today's inequality won't be found in the past, but must be built in the future.

Walter is the author of "The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century" from Princeton University Press. https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10921.html

A very long, mostly uninterrupted, human history of inequality.

Journalist Daniel Trilling explains why Europe's refugee crisis is really a global border crisis - exposing the failures of the state to aid the stateless in a warming, violent world, shifting political power from the failing liberal center to the surging far right, and devaluing freedom and human lives to prop up a crumbling order.

Daniel is author of "Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe" from Verso.

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2862-the-lights-in-the-distance

On human movement in an age of shrinking states and expanding borders.

John Zigterman, co-host of the leftist podcast, Beep Beep Lettuce joined me to discuss the legendary Ukrainian revolutionary, Nestor Makhno.

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John Zigterman - Return of the Makhno

John Zigterman, co-host of the leftist podcast, Beep Beep Lettuce joined me to discuss neoliberal campaign, dunk on Howard Schultz, and talk about shitposting.

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John Zigterman - A Poster Always Rings Twice

For the month of April, the Spinsters will be tackling both their biggest fears in exploring the sub-genre of Space Horror and looking at the themes of gender and isolation. We also have a special guest Michele Brittany, editor of Horror in Space: Critical Essays on a Film Subgenre(2017). The two films that will be discussed are Alien (1979) and Pandorum(2009).  Enjoy and welcome to our dark side...
Intro Music: Robeast by Dance with the Dead
Artwork by: Jess Hrycyk
Editing work by Jessica
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I Spit on Your Podcast

Episode 10 Spinsters in Space: Alien & Pandorum with special guest Michele Brittany

Friend of the pod, John Zigterman, of Beep Beep Lettuce and This Is Not A Librivox Recording fame joined me this week to dissect two articles from the Anarchist Library. The first piece is: War on the State: Stirner and Deleuze’s Anarchism and the second piece is Interrogating the Master: Lacan and Radical Politics. Both are by Saul Newman and can be bound below:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/saul-newman-war-on-the-state-stirner-and-deleuze-s-anarchism

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/saul-newman-interrogating-the-master-lacan-and-radical-politics

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John Zigterman - The Master/Spook Dialectic

Jeremy talks with Bryn Nieboer about isolation and loneliness as a driver toward right-wing radicalization. 

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CH 002 - Isolation, Radicalization and The Wired w/ Bryn Nieboer

And introducing…The Fall! It’s the story of punk rock’s orneriest group and of course the front man synonymous with the name, Mark E. Smith. Chapo Trap House’s Will Menaker joins us to learn all about Smith and the Fall through the recollections of the dozens and dozens…and dozens of musicians used up and discarded in Fall’s chaotic wake, through Dave Simpson’s “The Fallen: Life In and Out of Britain’s Most Insane Group”.

Songs
The Fall - Totally Wired (chris cover)
The Fall - Pacifying Joint
The Fall - In My Area
The Fall - Two Steps Back
The Fall - Eat Y’self Fitter
The Fall - Theme From Sparta F.C.
The Fall - Spector vs. Rector

And Introducing Podcast

#60 THE FALL! (ft. Will Menaker)

Anthropologist Marc Edelman explores the intersections of poverty, capitalist predation and authoritarian populism in rural America - as financial capital picks clean the remains of large swathes of community and individual wealth, the impoverished working class finds itself isolated from community and politics, and turns its rage outward, but never upward.

Marc wrote the article How Capitalism Underdeveloped Rural America for Jacobin.

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/capitalism-underdeveloped-rural-america-trump-white-working-class

Deep poverty, capitalist predation and isolation in rural America.

Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani debunk the latest right-wing freakout about migration. Plus, Government corruption on PPE, submissions close for the Labour Leaks inquiry and why we all need Joe Biden to stop talking.

Novara Audio: Radio For A Different Politics

TyskySour: Right Wing Migrant Freakout

The US West Coast is suffering from record breaking forest fires. Will the disaster jolt the country into climate action? Plus, Alan Sugar wants you back in the office, Labour Friends of Israel celebrates an influx of MPs, and thousands complain after ITV airs homage to Black Lives Matter. With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.