penal battalion would be fcked but then that's not a voluntary job

I shouldn't be surprised but just hearing that these guys were still smoking in there fucking blows my mind

Michael Gannon wrote two great books detailing UBoat operations in two separate periods of time; the good times and the downturn. Check 'em out.

The U-Boat crews called them “The Shit Man” lol

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On episode 35 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, Nora, Asa and our colleague Tamara Nassar join Lara Elborno and Michael Schirtzer of the Palestine Pod to talk about the first few days of the US-backed Israeli attacks on Gaza.

“An occupied people has a right to engage in armed resistance against a foreign occupation. That’s it. Period,” says Elborno. “There is no right for a colonial power to engage in a merciless assault against a civilian population that it cages.”

Since we recorded this episode, Lara’s relative, Hassan Elborno, was killed by Israeli bombing in the Gaza Strip. He was a farmer working on land near the eastern boundary line with Israel.


Later on in the program, Nora and Asa talk to Joharah Baker, a journalist and translator based in the Old City of Jerusalem, who discusses the last month of Israeli settler pogroms and attempts to expel Palestinians from the nearby neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.
Baker also talks about the complicity of Joe Biden and US lawmakers in aiding and abetting Israel’s war crimes.

“Anyone who looks to Biden as any kind of game-changer … sorry, they’re just delusional,” she says. “The only way that policy will change is through funding. It has to be money, there’s really no other way. But I don’t see that happening yet. But I think that there is a movement … people are the ones who will make those changes.”

Video production by Tamara Nassar

Theme music by Sharif Zakout 

See: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-35-israels-war-gaza-and-jerusalem

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Podcast Ep 35: Israel's war on Gaza and Jerusalem w/ Lara Elborno, Michael Schirtzer & Joharah Baker

Part 1 of our 4 part series on the first Chechen War. Throughout history Russia continues to try to subjugate Chechnya, leading to generations of war. 

Sources for all 4 episodes:
The Oath
Russia's Chechen Wars 1994-2000: Lessons from Urban Combat: Lessons from the Urban Combat
Fangs of the Lone Wolf: Chechen Tactics in the Russian-Chechen War 1994-2009
One Soldier's War
Allah's Mountains: The Battle for Chechnya

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Episode 159 - The First Chechen War Part 1: Train Robbing Rebellion

Get Cynical S2E4 - Not Cool (feat. Hesse)

What happens when white nationalists, neo nazis, and Black despots team up to try to prolong apartheid in South Africa?  One of the dumbest coup attempts of all time. 

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Sources: 

The Death of Apartheid: The Whites Last Stand

https://web.archive.org/web/20150924104002/http://www.southafrica.info/10years/tenyearsago2.htm
http://www.law.buffalo.edu/content/dam/law/restricted-assets/pdf/faculty/mutuaM/magazines/arJulyAug94.pdf
Allister Sparks. Tomorrow Is Another Country: The Inside Story of South Africa's Road to Change

Episode 188 - The Bophuthatswana Coup

Joe is joined by Alice Caldwell-Kelly to discuss the time the US Navy murdered 47 of its sailors via incompetence and then decided to try to pin the blame on gay people. 

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https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/04/19/uss-iowa-first-came-explosion-then-cover.html
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/iowa-explosion/
A Glimpse of Hell: The Explosion on the USS Iowa and Its Cover-Up

Episode 193 - The USS Iowa Turret Explosion

The USSR baits Nazis Germany into bleeding their army to death on 200 miles of death traps. 

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Showalter, Dennis. (2013) Armor and Blood: The Battle of Kursk: The Turning Point of World War II.

Guderian, Heinz (1937). Achtung – Panzer!

Nipe, George (2011). Blood, Steel, and Myth: The II. SS-Panzer-Korps and the Road to Prochorowka, July 1943.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140912164146/http://www.uni.edu/~licari/citadel.htm

Hill, Alexander (2017), The Red Army and the Second World War,

Episode 194 - The Battle of Kursk Part 1: Hitler is Bad at His Job

Hitler edges the idea of starting one of the most disastrous battles of all time while the Soviets build Fortress Kursk.


Correction:

Panzer V - Panther
Panzer VI - Tiger

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Episode 195 - The Battle of Kursk Part 2: And Firebombs!

SS units arrive at the battle of Kursk cheering "Lunch in Kursk!" 

They would not, in fact, have lunch in Kursk. 

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Episode 196 - The Battle of Kursk Part 3: Lunch in Kursk!

The soviets launch their killing blow against the nazi army, ending the Battle of Kursk

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Episode 197 - The Battle of Kursk Part 4: Drowning In Blood

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TrueAnon FinCo correspondent and Financial Times journalist Alexandra Scaggs joins us to make sense of the multiple charges levied against FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried,  what this has to do with our old friends at Tether, and just what JPoww and the Fed really think about the labor market situation.

Episode 259: Funny Money (trailer)

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We discuss Cornel West's 2024 presidential campaign.

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Grimace's Birthday

The Crippled Eagles were a collection of American Neo nazis, white nationalists, and fascists who flooded the colony of Rhodesia to defend white nationalism. They failed hilariously. This is the story of how they failed and died. 

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https://taskandpurpose.com/history/vets-want-fight-isis-can-learn-something-old-fights-african-bush
https://ricochet.media/en/2394/meet-the-canadian-soldiers-behind-a-white-supremacist-military-surplus-store
The Nation. Volume 222. New York: The Nation Company. 1976.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/magazine/rhodesia-zimbabwe-white-supremacists.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/01/03/soldier-of-fortune-marketing-for-mercenaries/475aac8b-ddce-4878-b732-77111bb70b67/
https://www.transcend.org/tms/2011/09/the-dark-side-of-soldier-of-fortune-magazine-contract-killers-and-mercenaries-for-hire/
https://www.maxim.com/maxim-man/soldier-of-fortune-magazine-2016-02

Episode 102 - The Crippled Eagles of Rhodesia

Life aboard a U-boat during WWII was horrible but thankfully short from all the dying. 

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Correction: During the show Joe says he couldn't find reports of U-Boat crews killing themselves. Someone pointed out it happened at least once in this incident: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Zschech


Sources: 
Iron Coffins by Herbert Warner
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/horrors-of-serving-a-u-boat.html
https://warisboring.com/the-high-tech-toilet-that-destroyed-a-submarine/

Episode 124 - Life on a U-Boat was terrible

Charles, Alex, and Dan come up with schemes to boost album sales, discuss country songs with lyrics about Bud Light, and check in with boomer musicians on social media.

57 - Are You One of Them Girls That Peels Off the Bud Light Label?

In the conclusion of our series Vietnam liberates Cambodia and slaps around another world power. 

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Episode 136 - The Khmer Rouge Part 4: The Fall

At the end of WWII a group of French POWs went looking for help and ended up taking part in one of the weirdest battles in military history. 

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Sources:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32622651
https://www.historynet.com/the-battle-for-castle-itter.htm
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/itter-castle-strangest-battle-world-war-ii-152721

Episode 142 - Castle Itter

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Episode 124 - Life on a U-Boat was terrible

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