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We talk election gambling, magic markets, whales and fibbers, and tomorrow’s elections. We also perform minor non-magical divination

Episode 417: The White House Always Wins (trailer)

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We dive back into the archives to make sense of new revelations about the relationship between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. Featuring: Roy Cohn, Palm Beach real estate madness, Steve Bannon, swingers, and more.

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Episode 418: Midtown Martini (trailer)

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A look at the 1994 murders of journalists Illaria Alpi and Miran Hrovatin in Mogadishu points in a thousand directions: toxic waste and weapons smuggling, the mafia, Gladio, government cover-ups, and a global web of traffickers, pimps, and killers.

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Episode 421: Il Polpo (Part 1) [preview]

"The Bad Guys Are Winning," wrote Anne Applebaum for The Atlantic in 2021. "The War on History Is a War on Democracy," warned Timothy Snyder in The New York Times, also in 2021. "The GOP has found a Putin-lite to fawn over. That's bad news for democracy," argued Ruth Ben-Ghiat on MSNBC the following year, 2022.

Within the last 10 years or so, and especially since the 2016 election of Trump, these authors — Anne Applebaum, Timothy Snyder, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, in addition to several others — have become liberal-friendly experts on authoritarianism. On a regular basis, they make appearances on cable news and in the pages of legacy newspapers and magazines–in some cases, as staff members–in order to warn of how individual, one-off “strongmen” like Trump, Putin, Orban, and Xi, made up a vague “authoritarian” axis hellbent on destroying Democracy for its own sake.

But what good does this framing do and who does it absolve? Instead of meaningfully contending with US's sprawling imperial power and internal systems of oppression — namely being the largest carceral state in the world — these MSNBC historians reheat decades-old Axis of Evil or cold War good vs evil rhetoric, pinning the horrors of centuries of political violence on individual "mad men." Meanwhile, they selectively invoke the "authoritarian" label, fretting about the need to save some abstract notion of democracy from geopolitical Bad Guys while remaining silent as the US funds, arms and backs the most authoritarian process imaginable — the immiseration and destruction of an entire people — specifically in Gaza. 

On this episode, we look at the advent and influence of MSNBC-approved historians, dissecting their selective anti-authoritarian posture and discussing how their work does little more than polish their careers and provide cover for US and US-allied militarism.

Our guest is historian and author Greg Grandin.

Episode 213: The Shallow, Power-Flattering Appeal of High Status #Resistance Historians

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Part 2. A look at the 1994 murders of journalists Illaria Alpi and Miran Hrovatin in Mogadishu points in a thousand directions: toxic waste and weapons smuggling, the mafia, Gladio, government cover-ups, and a global web of traffickers, pimps, and killers.

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Episode 422: Il Polpo (Part 2) [preview]

This week we catch up on news at the global scale, as well as try to answer why exactly so many people cheered on the public execution of a health insurance CEO. Finally we take a quick look at Trump's (current) nominee(s) for Secretary of Defense. 

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Episode 370: Who Checks The Balances

Max Read (https://maxread.substack.com/) is back to talk through Silicon Valley’s Trump victory leap, the hard tech revolution in Southern California, the future of AI in Trump’s hands and whether or not we can produce drugs in space. 

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Episode 423: Down in the Gundo

"White House frustrated by Israel's onslaught but sees few options," reports the Washington Post. "White House cancels meeting, scolds Netanyahu in protest over video," announces Axios. "Biden Works Against the Clock as Violence Escalates in the Middle East," asserts The New York Times.

Since Oct. 7, 2023, we've heard seemingly endlessly that the Biden White House disagrees with the violence in Gaza, but can't do anything to stop it. A number of hindrances frustrate the administration, we're told. There are limits to the United States’ influence and power. President Biden is furious and anguished at Israeli leadership. The administration is working around the clock toward a ceasefire, which — we are repeatedly told — will come any day now. 

But, as everyone from the Brookings Institution to the Financial Times to Israeli officials and generals themselves make clear: Biden has been able to, and still can, end Israel's genocidal onslaught whenever he wants. The US has dispositive leverage over Israel, leverage Biden has repeatedly––and openly––ruled out using. 

The stark reality is that Biden simply doesn't want to stop Israel and, while he may have complaints about the excesses and PR around the margins, he largely agrees with the outlines of Israel’s destruction of Gaza.

To obscure this central fact, US media has now spent over a year pushing out three White House and Israeli-curated media genres of hand-wringing deflection: (1) Helpless Biden, (2) Fuming/Deeply Concerned Biden, and (3) Third Partying. 

On this episode, as Biden is set to step down next month, we will go over the media's legacy of covering for the President for 15 months, examine these fictitious reporting genres designed to distance him from the carnage in Gaza, and look at how they worked tirelessly to minimize responsibility and absolve US officials from their involvement in a genocide being live-streamed for over a year.

Our guest is journalist Dalia Hatuqa.

Ep 214: Fake Ceasefire Talks and Feigned 'Concern': How US Media Helped Distance Biden From the Gaza Genocide

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We try to explain what is happening in Syria in a simple and digestible way.

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Episode 424: How To Talk To Girls About Syria (trailer)

This week we touch on a few world news topics, and then develop a new TV show inspired by Taylor Sheridan's "The Landman"

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Episode 371: Enter Landman

We’re joined by Dylan Saba of Palestine Legal to talk about terror designations, state repressions, Project Esther, and the anti-BDS laws that 38 states have adopted. Special guest Abby Martin joins us at the end to talk about her court case. 

Anti-Palestinian at the Core: The Origins and Growing Dangers of U.S. Antiterrorism Law: https://ccrjustice.org/anti-palestinian-core-origins-and-growing-dangers-us-antiterrorism-law

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Episode 426: Palestine... Legal?

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

Episode 424: How To Talk To Girls About Syria (trailer)

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