The Empire Never Ended

TENE pod takes a lesson from James Stewart Martin's nearly-lost 1950 book, All Honorable Men: The Story of the Men on Both Sides of the Atlantic Who Successfully Thwarted Plans to Dismantle the Nazi Cartel System, to get a fuller sense of the American ruling class' relationship to inter-war, wartime, and post-war fascism in Europe, as well as Nazi capitalists' attempts to set up fallback positions within US Industry after the Nazis' military defeat. reading: All Honorable Men by James Stewart Martin (1950) republished by Forbidden Bookshelf in 2016. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Despite his profound unlikeability, the litigious Willis Carto sets in motion some of the most durable fascist institutions in America, particularly the Liberty Lobby and the Institute for Historical Review. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Harshing their vacation vibes, Boris and Fritz work their way through the 1976 Clint Eastwood classic, The Outlaw Josey Wales, and wonder how nobody seemed to notice that it came from Klan leader, George Wallace-speechwriter, racist terrorist, and fake Cherokee, Asa Carter of the National States Rights Party. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Boris launches his study of Liberty Lobby with a biographical look at founder Willis Carto's early life, from dropping out of law school through his first failed publication, Right, and up to the foundation of his official D.C. lobbying organization of neo-Nazis and Klansmen known as 'the Liberty Lobby'. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Roger Corman and William Shatner take on the White Citizens Councils through their fictionalized depiction of John Casper's time in Clinton, TN during the final years of the Jim Crow era in 1962's The Intruder. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Rey begins his study of the National States Rights Party's brutal history. Uniting disparate right-wing organizations like the Klan and the Columbians under increasingly European fascist ideals, the NSRP set the stage for a half-century of fashy freaks to follow. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE pod pauses at the doorstep of Willis Carto and his Liberty Lobby to collect their thoughts about Arc 5 so far before digging deeper into American fascism's 'Long 1950s'. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE pod adds Revilo P. Oliver's The John Franklin Letters (1959) to their fash fic library. John Birch Society meets SIEGE in this excruciating predecessor to William Luther PIerce's The Turner Diaries (1978). Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

The story of Pedro del Valle: marine, general, and fascist. Seemingly connected with all US fascists, from ANP to the Klan, Pedro was into militias and GLADIO-type stuff before they were cool. Music: David Fesliyan. "In Honor", "Land of Fantasy" Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE pod watches the first presidential debate of this cycle, reflects on old anti-USSR arguments about their dying gerontocracy, and checks in on ex-Yugoslav tabloid coverage of the contest. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE continues their refresher course on the American Nazi Party by checking in on its successor, the National Socialist White People's Party, through the lens of a 1975 documentary film entitled, California Reich (1975). Reading: Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason's Siege. By Spencer Sunshine. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Fritz finally cracks the topic of Revilo P. Oliver, whose nutty ideas connect the mainstream National Review-types of the Cold War to the whackiest communist conspiracy theories of the John Birch Society, as well as the Turner Diaries and even the rudiments of 'SIEGE-culture'. Reading: Matthew Erlich - Dangerous Ideas on Campus (2021) Frank Mintz - The Liberty Lobby and the American Right (1985) Claire Conner - Wrapped in the Flag: A Personal History of America's Radical Right (2013) Music: Air Lock and In Honor by FeslyianStudios.com The Jack Ash Society by Pete Seeger Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE pod peeks in at the European Parliament election results and then suffers through the PBD Podcast's platforming of Patriot Front's Thomas Rousseau. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

The Nazis regularly cited the United States as the key inspiration for their infamous Nuremberg Laws; Rey explains the many reasons why. Reading: Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law by James Whitman Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE News Network continues its 24-hour coverage of civil unrest in the tiny nation of Chakfukia. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE pod watches two Moon films co-written by Robert Heinlein, the big-budget 'hard sci-fi' George Pal film, Destination Moon (1950), and Heinlein's cheaply made and horrible labor of love, Project Moonbase (1953). Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Setti once again joins TENE pod to grok Robert A. Heinlein's novels, Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and their disturbing prescriptions for an unwelcome future. Check out Settembrini's podcast Zock Bock Radio! pesa-nexus (dot) de/category/zock-bock-radio Music: "World of Automatans", "Light Years", and "Midnight Crawlers" by Eric Matyas : www.soundimage.org "in Honor", "Airlock", and "Space Conspiracy" by fesliyanstudios.com Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Originally published: April 8th, 2023 Fritz narrates the rise and fall of Project Stargate, the US 'intelligence' community and army's special unit of psychic remote viewers, as well as a brief look at Jim Channon's First Earth Battalion, made famous by the film, The Men Who Stare at Goats. Music: Legionnaire by Scott Buckley. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE pod is joined once again by Settembrini of Zock Bock Radio to review the life of Robert A. Heinlein, the libertarian militarist 'Dean of Science Fiction' who brought Sci-Fi into the mainstream. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Boris examines the pro-Japanese Pacific Movement of the Eastern world and other movements advocating an Afro-Asian alliance in the US and the subsequent attempts by the US government to blame racial discontent on a shadowy Japanese secret society. Readings: When Japan Was "Champion of the Darker Races": Satokata Takahashi and the Flowering of Black Messianic Nationalism by Ernest Allen Jr. | Waiting for Tojo: The Pro-Japan Vigil of Black Missourians, 1932-1943 (Also Ernest Allen Jr.) | Facing the Rising Sun by Gerald Horne | Race War: White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire by Gerald Horne Music: "Airlock" from Fesliyan Studios "Comrades Have Fallen" ("同志は倒れぬ") Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

The boyzies chew the fat over some bizarre clips of contemporary political life in the US, from biblical curses to Tucker's new 'Racial Holy War Soon' fearmongering, before checking out the lineup of a recent fascist rap festival in Turin, Italy. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE pod has a laidback May Day to chat about the recent Alex Garland film Civil War from a critical and Balkan perspective before ragging on Tucker Carlson's debutante cotillion interview for Aleksandr Dugin. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

J. G. Michael of Parallax Views joins Boris and Fritz to watch the 1985 anti-communist Cannon Films production, Invasion, USA, starring and co-written by Chuck Norris. They put the film in the historical context of the theme of Red Dawn-style Communist coup fiction beginning with the 1947 comic book, Is This Tomorrow, illustrated by Charles M. Schulz of Peanuts fame, and the original 1952 film that Chuck Norris later resurrected. Listen to Parallax Views at patreon . com / parallaxviews Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Rey continues his study of US Scientific institutions' contribution to the Holocaust and follows the American eugenics movement after the war and its massive effort to whitewash its sordid history. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Alex from the excellent podcast, 12 Rules for What, returns to TENE pod to tell the unfortunate story of conservationist, eugenicist, and human-zoo keeper Madison Grant, his supporters in the U.S. patrician class, and his brief but definitive moment in the Nazi limelight. Subscribe to 12 Rules For What at twitter.com/12rulesforwhat Read The Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far Right Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE pod wraps up their biographical look at "America's No. 1 Fascist", Lawrence Dennis, the crazy connections he made in his late career, and his turn from celebrated prophet to seditious outcast in the public mind. Reading: The Color of Fascism - Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the United States by Gerald Horne Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Boris introduces the podcast to Mexican Synarchism, a little-understood contribution to North American fascism that briefly but impactfully held the attention of the press, activists, and some familiar tene pod villains during the 1930s. Featuring: Trio Paloma - Usamljeni Dečak Also, Song: Mexican Mariachi Background Music Music provided by NCM [No Copyright Music]. Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 Unported Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE pod gets to know the 'Brain' of Interwar American Fascism, Lawrence Dennis, from his wild beginnings as a traveling 'colored' child preacher from Atlanta at the end of the 19th century, to his racial 'passing' into the highest echelons of political and class rule in the United States leading up to the Second World War. Reading: The Color of Fascism - Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the United States by Gerald Horne Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Lester Glint joins TENE pod to recount the horrifying history of the Black Legion, one of the most important American fash networks of the interwar period, as well as one of the least understood. The Black Legion took over entire towns and government departments, unleashing a stunning period of quiet terror and assassination, all with the backing of industrial superpowers like Henry Ford. Check out Lester's satirical conspira-cast, Something Unexplained on Patreon! Contact Lester at [email protected] For those who missed it, click here for Lester's appearance on The Farm.

episode originally published October 19th, 2023. TENE pod hears the cinematic true story of a group of Yugoslav communists in Canada who traverse the Atlantic to join the anti-fascist struggle in 1942. They survive U-boat attacks, get stranded at sea, and tell off asshole British officers just to parachute themselves into a war and kill them some Nazis. Features music from the films Sutjeska and Bitka na Neretvi, along with other partisan songs. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

In another TENE pod news update, the boyzies discuss Rise Above Movement founder Rob Rundo's recent legal tribulations as well as those of the Patriot Front, and then follow the Active Club train to a couple of Oregon teenagers and their American Banderite Network of weirdos. Stumptown Research Collective: Terror Tots: Neo-Nazi Youth In Hillsboro Oregon American Banderite Network: How Teenage Twins Launched a Nazi Brand Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

The TENE Pod film club meets to watch John Wayne's 1952 anti-communist propaganda film, Big Jim McLain, about a psychotic House Unamerican Activities Committee investigator who hunts for commies in one of the US' most picturesque colonies. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Fritz brings his study into the fascistic history of the American Legion to a temporary close with a look at their colorful interwar career, including involvement in a couple of whacky coup plots! Recommended Reading: The Inside Story of the Legion by Justin Gray (1948). American Legion as Educator by William Gellerman (1938). Enforcing Conformity: Race in the American Legion, 1940-1960 - Olivier Burtin (2018). Music: "In Honor", "Elevator Ride", "Evil Rising", and "We Fought for Freedom" by fesliyanstudios.com All others from various copyright-free sources on archive.org Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Rey introduces the tight relationship between US Academia and the Nazis through the Eugenics movement, and its near total hold on US scientific institutions up to the second world war and, for some, long afterward. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE pod begins its study of the American Legion, America's largest veteran's organization, examining the shifty characters that pieced it together from a world war they themselves pushed, and from the First Red Scare. Recommended reading for part one: For God & Country: The American Legion, 1919-1941 by William Pencak (1989) The Inside Story of the Legion by Justin Gray (1948) Music: "In Honor" fesliyanstudios.com All others from pixabay.com and archive.org Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Boris tells the tale of 'Count' Anastasy Vonsiatsky, and his ANP-like larp through the world of Russian fascist emigrees from his man cave in 1930s USA. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

The boyzies review and analyze the 1947 film, Violence!, directed by Jack Bernhard and co-written by Stanley Rubin, and (very) loosely based on the downfall of American neo-nazi group, The Columbians. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Rey introduces America's original neo-nazi organization, The Columbians, and narrates their misadventures in Atlanta, Georgia, and their conflicts with the local KKK in their role as the Atlanta Police Department of the late 1940s. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Arc 5 kicks off with a look at American ruling-class adoration of Mussolini and Italian Fascism in the inter-war period, paying special attention to US Ambassador to Italy during the March on Rome, Richard Child, and founder of Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, Henry Luce. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Boris, Fritz, and Rey kick off Arc 5 by introducing the themes of the coming arc and challenging each other to dig up and connect the many strange details of their previous U.S. arc to get frosty for this next batch of fashy weirdos. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Boris revisits the fundamentals of "Slavic Native Faith" in Russia and the antisemitic works of Valery Yemelyanov. And Pagan metal. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Follow Group 69 on their psychedelic battles on the astral plane, defeating the Black Ninja, pacifying NATO, and making bizarre acquaintances along the way with Sufi warriors, mysterious Thule society holdovers, and other Jinn and Aliens. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Serbia in the 90s was a very weird place made all the weirder by Group 69: a 'psionic warfare' unit attached to the Serbian military, waging a holy war against NATO in the Fifth Dimension. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE is joined by historian Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc to discuss the November riot in Dublin through a historical framework of fascism in Ireland. Find Pádraig's historical work at mercierpress.ie/authors/padraigogoruairc/ Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE takes a look at Nuwabian cult leader Malachi York's surprising music career. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE pod introduces themselves to a couple of satanic fascists connected to Perussoumalaiset, The Finns, Finland's far-right mainstream political party currently leading the government. Joining Atomwaffen well after its time and writing Order of Nine Angles fan fiction, Finland has it all! Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Rey concludes this cycle of the Kali Yuga Reading Room with a reading of Franco Freda's 1969 text "Disintegration of the System", a half-assed effort to dress GLADIO shenanigans up as a 'Nazi-Maoist' theoretical treatise. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Boris, Fritz, and Rey discuss the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan and subsequent murder of the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli at the hands of his police interrogator through the lens of the 2012 historical drama film, Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy (2012 - Romanza di una Strage). Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Fritz concludes his two-part study on the superfascist Catholic organization Tradition, Family, and Property, narrating the rise of the TFP in the US and their pretty "suspicious" educational program. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE reviews and unpacks the film State of Siege (1972), directed by Costa-Gavras and co-written by Franco Solinas (Battle of Algiers) which closely follows the true story of the abduction and execution of FBI and USAID agent Dan Mitrione in Uruguay by the revolutionary guerrilla group, the Tupamaros. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.