After a long absence, let's talk about where the show went and where it is going.

Eyes Left is back

A journey into Ron DeSantis's shadowy military career reveals shocking new details about his complicity in illegal torture. Featuring exclusive never-before-heard testimony from former Guantanamo prisoner Mansoor Adayfi about DeSantis's actions at the prison camp. 

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Ron DeSantis's Military Secrets: Torture & War Crimes

In this debut episode of our new monthly segment, Mike Prysner and SFC (Ret.) Jeff Sauter cover a range of stories that deal with the economic hardships facing active-duty troops and potential recruits—contrasted with a behemoth new Pentagon budget that funnels hundreds of billions to corporations. Plus: abortion rights for troops, the potential renaming of 9 major Army bases named after Confederate bastards & the problems with the new PACT Act.

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Good Morning, Global Empire - 12/22

In this first installment of our “Wake Ups” series, former Navy Petty Officer Erica Gordon shares her journey from a homeless shelter, to a hidden war, to creative forms of resistance while still in uniform. 
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Wake Ups #1 - PO3 Erica Gordon & The Hidden War

Six months after EYES LEFT broke the Ron DeSantis GITMO torture story (which has now become a national scandal for the presidential hopeful) we have exclusive new eyewitness corroboration of his participation in human rights abuses. Story by Mike Prysner.
 
TRANSCRIPT available at ⁠⁠empirefiles.substack.com⁠

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EXCLUSIVE: New DeSantis Torture Victim Speaks

The story of how a Special Forces soldier quit his legendary unit, and joined the anti-racist mass movement in the streets. 

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WAKE UPS #2 - Throwing Away the Green Beret w/ SSG Evan Brown

After decades of fighting, victims of the Marine Corps mass poisoning at Camp Lejeune will finally get settlements–so an array of billionaires, hedge funds, and their far-right attorneys have wormed into the leadership of the case, attempting to loot the majority of the settlement funds. 

Joining the show is Lejeune survivor, advocate and journalist Lori Freshwater

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The Vultures Circling Camp Lejeune Victims

Dozens of American soldiers captured during intense fighting in the Korean War came to understand the true reason for the US invasion, and sympathized with their so-called enemies. 24 chose to stay with their captors rather than participate in the prisoner swap–six who are immortalized in a photograph with a banner reading "We Stay For Peace." Their story on this first full episode of Radical Military History. 

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Turncoats: The American POWs Who Joined Their Captors [Radical Military History]

Biden plays with fire sponsoring the Gaza genocide, as US troops get hit with blowback, reinforcements rush to the Middle East, and the Pentagon escalates by bombing Iranian forces. Iran, Hezbollah, and other armed groups have a red line; how far can the US push before it's crossed? This episode includes critical information for soldiers about why and how they can resist being party to this genocide, and prevent themselves from being sacrificed by Washington.

Refuse to Fight for Israel's Genocide in Gaza

Major developments with Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Syria and Iran increase the potential for new wars for the US as it facilitates Israel's genocide in Gaza. All the urgent updates, plus a deeper look at the forces involved, with journalist Rania Khalek.

FOLLOW Rania at https://twitter.com/raniakhalek

WATCH her show at https://www.youtube.com/breakthroughnews

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS to refuse to participate in the the US/Israeli war machine by calling the GI Rights Hotline at 1-877-447-4487 or visiting them online at https://girightshotline.org

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Operation Profit Guardian: The War Danger Grows feat. Rania Khalek

It's much easier than the Pentagon wants you to think. Whether you're in the military or know someone who is, this is the definitive guide to walking away. And as Biden's support for genocide spins out into new US wars across the Middle East, from the Red Sea to Iraq, now would be a good time to walk away. 

Featuring special guest Maria Santelli, longtime counselor with the GI Rights Hotline, which provides secure, free and expert support to any service member who wants to leave the military. 

CALL the hotline anytime at 1-877-447-4487 for advice, or visit them online at https://girightshotline.org

Maria is Executive Director of the Center on Conscience and War: https://centeronconscience.org

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A Guide to Getting Out of the US Military (Now) w/ the GI Rights Hotline

A "mercenary Army of the poor"? Right-wing think tanks, as well as some on the left, have sought to disprove that framework. Professor Jodi Dean joins the show to critique the most recent study which portrays the rank-and-file military as a Warrior Aristocracy.


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The Class Composition of the US Military: A Socialist View w/ Prof. Jodi Dean

Tulsi Gabbard’s bid to be Trump’s VP is laid out in her debut book: a memoir which must hide her personal & political past. Mike made the painful journey of reading it, and took Julian Feeld & Josh Ettingermentum along for the ride.

Follow Julian Feeld on Twitter: ⁠https://x.com/julianfeeld⁠
Listen to his QAA Podcast at: ⁠https://www.qanonanonymous.com⁠

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Read & Subscribe to his Substack: https://www.ettingermentum.news

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Tulsi Gabbard's Memoir: A Book About Nothing

Everything you need to know about what has happened, and what is coming, in the conservatives' plan to kneecap & fully privatize the VA health care system. Featuring veterans' reporter Jasper Craven. 

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Veterans Health Care Policy Institute: https://veteranspolicy.org/


Killing the VA: Trump’s Veterans Agenda

In this debut episode of Eyes Left, hosts Spenser Rapone and Mike Prysner discuss the vision and goal of the podcast, how their experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan led them to become socialists, and why US troops should resist U.S. foreign policy.

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Debut Episode w/ Spenser Rapone & Mike Prysner

War crimes. Freakouts. Drugs. Rebellion. A narrative of the Iraq war buried by the media and politicians, told through the incredible oral history of Clifton Hicks--tank crewman in Iraq who refused to go back, won a Conscientious Objector fight, then spent years helping other soldiers do the same.

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"You'd Better Stay At Home" - The Clifton Hicks Story

Nowhere is safe from the US Army; not even your video games. Learn about how Twitch has joined the Military Industrial Complex—putting recruiters in your headsets—among other new tactics to recruit gamers.

ALSO: Sadistic SEALs murdering civilians, and fellow soldiers, for sport; and Radical Military History covers the only veteran to ever renounce his Congressional Medal of Honor.

Army Recruiters Infiltrate Gaming

Spenser Rapone and Mike Prysner discuss the Army Captain who waved a Trump flag in uniform, the sociopath Marine General Jim Mattis, and Army Major Tulsi Gabbard entering the 2020 race

Major Tulsi Gabbard, Reporting For Duty!

John Bolton sent 5,000 of us to die for oil in Iraq. Elliott Abrams oversaw genocide in Guatemala. Now they've teamed with Trump to launch another oil war in Venezuela. Spenser Rapone and Mike Prysner tell you why it's your right, and duty, to refuse to fight.

Venezuela: Refuse to Fight Another Oil War

Spenser and Mike mark the 16th anniversary of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq.

[Photo credit: Zoriah Miller]

War On Iraq: 16 Years & Counting

Spenser and Mike discuss the Democratic Party Primary candidates, Bernie Sanders, and Trump's war criminal pardons; PLUS: Afghanistan War Update & Radical Military History

Bernie is the only one

Trump's appointed a "beer mogul" to revamp PTSD treatment... and he's into some really weird pseudoscience.  

Eyes Left interviews investigative journalist Jasper Craven—who covers the Veterans' Affairs for the New York Times, The Intercept and more—about this impact of VA privatization, the hidden scandal of police brutality at Veterans' Affairs hospitals and much more. 

Follow Jasper Craven on Twitter at Twitter.com/Jasper_Craven

Trump's VA: Brain Zapping & Gyroscopes - Interview w/ Veterans' Affairs Investigator

Spenser and Mike catch up after a month-long break to talk about Gaza, what the Epstein case reveals about the ruling class, Trump’s very large purchase of Ketamine for veterans, communist sci-fi and more.

Catching Up on Epstein, Ketamine For Vets, Space Communism

Your Halloween treat, on the killing of ISIS leader al-Baghdadi, the Army's new recruitment strategy, and more video games.

PLUS Radical Military History on lost stories from the Gulf War

A Highway of Death, From Sykes-Picot to Al-Baghdadi

As the the potential for major US war in the Middle East looms greater than the days before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Spenser Rapone and Mike Prysner are joined by former Army Ranger, Afghanistan veteran and war resister Rory Fanning to discuss the Iran crisis, options service members have to resist, and reactions to the Democratic candidates' statements in response to Trump's war crimes.

No Rich Man's War On Iran! Featuring Rory Fanning

Spenser and Mike discuss Bernie leaving the presidential race: why & what's next for the movement

After Bernie

Spenser and Mike interview Army Major Danny Sjursen about his journey from West Point officer in Iraq and Afghanistan to anti-war author, commentator and activist. 

Sjursen is host of 'Fortress On A Hill' podcast and author of several books. Find his work at https://skepticalvet.com/

Army Major to the Anti-War Movement

Retired Major Danny Sjursen joins Eyes Left for part II of his interview, explaining his research uncovering the West Point Class of 1986 and the powerful positions it's alumni control in the Trump Administration.

How the West Point Mafia Runs Washington

The harrowing story of a VA long-term care facility where veterans watched friends die of Covid, then sentenced to a solitary-confinement lockdown. Special guest Spencer Ackerman joins to discuss this story, his new book Reign Of Terror, and more.

The VA Covid Prison & The Reign of Terror

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