"Yemen war: Joe Biden ends support for operations in foreign policy reset," reports the BBC. "Trump: US will be out of Afghanistan by Christmas 2020," cheered Military Times. "Trump Orders Withdrawal of U.S. Troops From Northern Syria," the New York Times told us.

For decades, the United States has very often appeared to have "ended" wars that do not, in fact, end at all. Open-ended jargon like "residual counter terror forces," "Vietnamization," "military advisors," along with deliberately ambiguous timetables, process criticisms––all are used to confuse the average media consumer. America's politicians know the American public broadly dislikes war and empire––and thus wants to see it restrained––but these same politicians don't really want to end wars so they have a frequent PR problem: How do you make it look like you’re ending a war or occupation without really doing so?

To solve this conundrum, American political leaders have perfected the art of fake-ending a war. Which is to say, announcing a war is going to end, typically around election time, only to––once the headlines make a big splash––backtrack, obfuscate, claim the "situation on the ground has changed" or the military involvement will only be in a "limited" or "defensive" capacity, shuffle troops around or find other thin pretexts to continue the war or occupation.

In this episode, we discuss the United States' history of fake-ending wars, who these pronouncements are meant to please, why troops levels are often impossible to know, and why so many of our so-called "wars" are not really wars at all, but military occupations that are never really meant to end.

Our guest is Shireen Al-Adeimi, assistant professor at Michigan State University.

Episode 133: The Art of Fake-Ending Wars

In this public News Brief, we dissect recent news that the Biden administration backs a TRIPS waiver at the WTO and why the terms of their upcoming TRIPS waiver matter more than the splashy headlines.

News Brief: On Biden's TRIPS Waiver Support, Substance Matters More than Headlines

A psychotic episode finds Brace and Liz deep in the Maxwell mainframe—and face to face with the FBI

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Episode 17: Blood Sugar Sex Magick

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Our friend Tim Faust stops by for extra special dive into the perverts in health insurance and private equity, and the revolutionary potential of Medicare For All.

UNLOCKED: Episode 14: Sicko Mode

The people asked and we the people answered: PissPig returns to blackpill the masses on Syria, wtf is up with the Kurds and like is Erdogan for real???

EPISODE XIX: RETURN OF THE PISSPIG

Liz and Brace chat with Guardian journalist Jason Wilson about his explosive new piece exposing the identity of the leader of far-right extremist group The Base, get weird with some conspiricizing and talk about the strange history of the HoneyPot

twitter.com/jason_a_w

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/23/revealed-the-true-identity-of-the-leader-of-americas-neo-nazi-terror-group

Episode 39: Based And Fedpilled

Brace and Liz talk Iowa caucus, the grift of the consultants, and get generally frustrated talking about the democrats yet again

Episode 41: Death On The Consultant Plan

Originally Released Oct 31 2019

In our second dive into the BCCI scandal we continue to look at the horrid conditions which led to journalists being murdered, children being kill and rapes and of course no one was to blame. Thanks for supporting the podcast if you want to join our Discord server it is available to our Patreon subscribers. Sean may stream himself playing Hitman some day. Thanks!

Patreon Unlocked Episode 112: The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (Part 2)

This week with Alex Ptak of Pod Damn America we cover the life and misdeeds of Jonathan Tisch. Find out all about how the Tisch family initially made their riches, (Friends & Family LLC) the 6 billion dollar net worth of the family does all sorts of horrible things including a insurance racket where they wouldn’t pay out on hazard insurance to contractors in warzones. Find out all that and more right here on Grubstakers.

https://www.propublica.org/article/us-insurance-firm-neglects-survivors-of-iraqi-translators-may-face-criminal

Episode 204: Jonathan Tisch & the Tisch Family feat. Alex Ptak

Matt goes off live on http://www.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse

Topics: coup talk

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133 - Coup Let the Dogs Out? 01.08.21

Author of the Jakarta Method, Vincent Bevins, comes on to talk about the cold war and the influence of America's #1 rag tag gang of friends, the CIA.

Research for the episode:
Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
Poisoner in Chief by Steven Kinzer
The Devil's Chessboard by David Talbot

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Your Pal The CIA w/ Vincent Bevins

TrueAnon is a podcast about your enemies made by your friends. Join unlicensed private investigators Liz Franczak, Brace Belden, and Yung Chomsky for a show that will drive you insane. Every other episode is a Patreon exclusive: patreon.com/TrueAnonPod