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The anti-imperialist podcast your uncle will hate. Greg Stoker and Mark Wayne dig into history, anthropology, and military science to expose empire and narrative control, twice a week. Support us and get bonus content and ad-free listening at RFEmedia.com
Épisodes 226
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Government mind warfare and the Huey P. Newton you NEED to know w/ Dr. Delio Vasquez
Buy Dr. Vasquez’s book:‘Huey P. Newton: I am We’ (Polity Books, 2026)https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=huey-p-newton-i-am-we--9781509543335https://linktr.ee/drdeliovasquezYou may think you know …
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Buy Dr. Vasquez’s book:‘Huey P. Newton: I am We’ (Polity Books, 2026)https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=huey-p-newton-i-am-we--9781509543335https://linktr.ee/drdeliovasquezYou may think you know Huey P. Newton or how he died, but decades of slander, simplification federal misinformation, sensationalism and even deification can obscure who the founder of the greatest revolutionary party in American history - The Black Panther Party, really was and why his life ended the way it did.Dr. Delio Vasquez demystifies and humanizes Huey in the proper context of a deep thinker, philosopher, and champion of the oneness of humanity. Dr. Vasquez also explores and reveals the sinister mind warfare programs waged by the government against black revolutionaries and movements, which ranged from torture, psychosurgery, drugs and electro-energy weapons- many of which were used against Huey Newton to drive him into his end state and the state of so many pillars of humanity.
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Two white Christian podcasters talk about Islam behind its back w/ Mark Flower
Two white Christians, who love Muslims, breakdown myths and misconceptions that many Americans (and more specifically Christians) have about Islam and Muslims. Mark Flower of the Grub & Grace podcast invites me …
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Two white Christians, who love Muslims, breakdown myths and misconceptions that many Americans (and more specifically Christians) have about Islam and Muslims. Mark Flower of the Grub & Grace podcast invites me to discuss Islam and our close relationship with it.
Follow https://www.youtube.com/@GrubandGrace
https://www.instagram.com/grubandgrace.podcast/
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215. Is New Zealand America’s Next Pacific Outpost? | Five Eyes, China & Māori Resistance
Help support us and get ad-free exclusive content by subscribing to our substack at https://www.rfemedia.com/ or our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/c/ColonialOutcasts.The US has been heavily involved in …
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The US has been heavily involved in Oceania since the 2nd World War. Now that US bases in West Asia have been destroyed in the Iran war, is it finally time for the Pacific Pivot?With US munitions drained by yet another West Asia war and its Gulf bases battered, Washington's long-promised "Pivot to Asia" is back on the table. This week on Colonial Outcasts, the anti-imperialist podcast your hawkish uncle will hate, we head to Aotearoa/New Zealand with Dr. Nathan Rew of The University of Waikato, and Bianca Ranson of Kaiawhina Tamaki. New Zealand is a microcosm of how the US empire manages its rivals and its vassal states alike.
We cover:
🔻 The Pacific Pivot: how Obama's 2011 "Rebalance to Asia" became permanent US doctrine, and what it means for governance, daily life, and land sovereignty in New Zealand
🔻 Five Eyes: what the intelligence alliance is, how it expands US reach in the region, whether it provokes China, and what Kash Patel is after
🔻 The Pacific Islands Forum: can small island states shape the Indo-Pacific order, or are they being turned into pawns over climate finance, rare earth minerals, and maritime control? Is the Forum compromised, and why is Israel a partner?
🔻 China vs. the US: who is the real threat in great-power competition?
🔻 Resistance: the nuclear-free Pacific, Indigenous land rights, and the Māori protest movement
🔻 Election season: New Zealand's hard-right government and its problematic oppositionYou can Follow Bianca and org here:
https://www.instagram.com/kaiawhina_tamaki?vrfl=MXZpOWdhbTRoaGJqdQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
214. Congress: When the Lesser of Two Evils Keeps Getting Lesser and More Evil w/ Sam Husseini
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This is our last midterms episode of the year. We need to be looking to November-January where the most dangerous political developments are going to happen.Independent journalist and Green Party congressional candidate Sam Husseini joins Greg and Mark to talk about third parties, ethics in journalism, and what representatives could do if they weren’t afraid to oppose empire. Plus: why the lame-duck session matters, and what Section 219 of the NDAA means for U.S.–Israel military entanglement.
We really need to be looking forward to the insanity that will be going down from November 4th to January 8th as the Trump Administration, likely on the back foot, will have its last chance to push through whatever it can, Justices, Laws, withdraw the filibuster, conduct military actions against Cuba, who knows? We don’t know, but we DO KNOW that whatever imperial actions the trump administration takes, the democrats will not resist.
You can follow Sam here:https://substack.com/@husseini
https://x.com/samhusseini
213. Civil Disobedience: Voting Won’t Change US/Israeli Crimes in Lebanon w/ Courtney Bonneau
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Thanks so much to our paid subscribers for supporting our work as we prepare to do on-the-ground reporting in contested areas this coming year. We appreciate you all!
Today we are Joined by Courtney Bonneau, Frontline reporter and photographer in the South of Lebanon who is the only foreign, or one of the only foreign journalists in the area dedicated to documenting the crimes of the increasingly entrenched IOF occupation. I’ve followed her for quite some time. You can follow her here:
https://www.instagram.com/courtneybonneauphotography/
Do Americans even know? The cross-country Freedom Convoy
Organizer, journalist and activist Mea Marie, travels with pro-Palestine activists, organizers and educators in a cross-country RV convoy from LA - DC to speak with average Americans about how closely …
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Organizer, journalist and activist Mea Marie, travels with pro-Palestine activists, organizers and educators in a cross-country RV convoy from LA - DC to speak with average Americans about how closely Palestine's oppression is tied into their daily suffering as result of systemic corruption.Support and share this convoy as they move through the most beautiful scenery of Turtle Island at these links:https://www.freedomconvoyusa.orghttps://www.instagram.com/freedomconvoyusaAnd please sign the petition at:https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/we-the-people-not-israel/Here's their itinerary:Saturday-Los Angeles Israeli consulate and walk of fameSunday -Las Vegas, Canyon Ridge ChurchFlagstaff AZ, film screening North ArizonaUniversityMonday-Utah- monument valleyTuesday-Albuquerque New Mexico- first UnitarianChurch.Amarillo, Texas - Cadillac ranch art.Wednesday -OklahomaSubscribe to our Substack for ad free episodes at http://www.rfemedia.comMea is also a contributor to the Black Panther Newspaper so please subscribe to help support the BPP at www.thebpp.us
213. wHaT’s yOuR pLaN, Leftist - Here's the Plan w/ The Minister of Propaganda for the Black Panther Party - Live Replay
There has been a lot of insufferable discourse and left vs. liberal infighting. Let's cut through it. Links for all necessary things:The Plan: https://www.uate.net/https://www.instagram.com/daii_shoot_...https:/ …
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There has been a lot of insufferable discourse and left vs. liberal infighting. Let's cut through it. Links for all necessary things:The Plan: https://www.uate.net/https://www.instagram.com/daii_shoot_...
212. The National Security State is BLASTING Your Mental Health - Resist! w/ Burqas and Beer Podcast
For exclusive ad-free content follow our Substack at https://www.rfemedia.com/ or our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/c/ColonialOutcastsWhat is “wellness” anyways after three years of genocide, the ever …
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What is “wellness” anyways after three years of genocide, the ever expanding security state, and mounting fascism with no material pushback from the “opposition party?”
As midterms mania deprives us of our sanity, reactionaries are already apologizing for democratic politicians who are starting to walk back their anti-establishment rhetoric before they are even in office. We are stuck grappling with the possibility there is no voting our way out of any of this and the lives our parents promised us might not actually pan out. So let’s have a little chat.
Today we are joined by the Burqas and Beer Podcast, hosted by Afghan-Angeleno social worker Madina Warkdak and fellow Angelino social worker Kyna Wise, a podcast where two two millennial mental health professionals unpack the world, one slightly-chaotic conversation at a time. From decolonizing wellness to raging about the news, they cover politics, culture, identity, and the awkward art of existing—all from the cozy dysfunction of their walk-in closet.
211. Columbus and Epstein: A Legacy of Whiteness w/ the Brown Berets
This episode is ad-free at https://www.rfemedia.com/To learn about indigenous history is to learn that the foundational myth of the United States is that the American Revolution wasn’t actually a revolution, it …
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To learn about indigenous history is to learn that the foundational myth of the United States is that the American Revolution wasn’t actually a revolution, it was instead a fight over colonial sovereignty. Colonial elites wanted to expand west beyond Appalachia while the British imperialists, concerned with the maintenance of Empire, did not have the patience to fight another costly frontier war that would gain them little.
It’s also to learn that if the British prosecuted the war the colonists did against the indigenous tribes, or how they prosecuted campaigns in Africa or India, which were inherently g-sidal - there would be no United States.
But you can’t biological warfare, mass starve, and immolate your third cousins and return to London society with martial honor. Because the colonists were humans. The First Nations, the Africans, the peoples of Hindustan, were not.
So when conservatives adjacent to the Palestine movement say - we’ve been Israelified. This isn’t who we are, we’re occupied. What do you mean - this has always been what we’ve done. The mask off of the Trump administration is simply us coming back to ourselves minus all the post-Vietnam civil rights window dressing.
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Part 2 - How Gen Z, the Black Panthers and Palestine are liberating India w/Neelam Sharma
Come to the Village Marketplace on Oct 10th at: 6569 S Vermont, LAThis episode is an on-site interview with OG revolutionary, Neelam Sharma, of Community Services Unlimited, a non-profit community organization …
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Come to the Village Marketplace on Oct 10th at: 6569 S Vermont, LA
This episode is an on-site interview with OG revolutionary, Neelam Sharma, of Community Services Unlimited, a non-profit community organization that was created to serve the Black Panther Party Chapter of Los Angeles.
It was filmed on Sept 1st and is part 2 of Neelam's introduction where we sit down and talk about the amazing things happening in India, the state of the revolution, Palestine and the challenges facing us.
The Black Panther Chapter of LA was dismantled by the FBI but CSU still carries on the mission for the revolution and awaits the return of the BPP to its full power and complete its mission as the vanguard.
You can support CSU at https://csuinc.org/ and watch the episode ad-free at https://www.rfemedia.com
Neelam is a rare individual who stands as an uncompromising community organizer with no reservations as to what needs to be done for full liberation and what she is doing now to build sovereignty in Los Angeles.
https://www.instagram.com/csuinc/
Also, support the Black Panther Party by subbing to their PRINT ONLY newspaper at https://www.thebpp.us/newspaper
209. San Diego is a Small Price to Pay For Forever Wars: US Prepares Attack As ME Security Upended
Iran War Update! Subscribe to https://www.rfemedia.com/ for ad free episodes and exclusive content. Source List:https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ck7...https://www.csis.org/analysis/golden-...https://archive.is/ …
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Iran War Update! Subscribe to https://www.rfemedia.com/ for ad free episodes and exclusive content. Source List:https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ck7...https://www.csis.org/analysis/golden-...https://archive.is/20251207214721/htt...https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/cia-re...
208. Vote Blue no Matter Who? Running as a Socialist in 2026 w/ Greg Levy
Watch or listen add free at RFEmedia.com or at https://www.patreon.com/c/ColonialOutcastsWe have one month left of Midterms Mania, so the establishment "vote blue no matter who crowd" is out in force to vote …
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We have one month left of Midterms Mania, so the establishment "vote blue no matter who crowd" is out in force to vote shame you and defang revolutionary energy. How do we cope and how do we respond?
Today we are joined by Greg Levy, socialist candidate for the Ohio senate race. You can check out Greg’s campaign here!
https://www.greg4senate.com/
https://www.instagram.com/greglevy4senate/?hl=en
207. The State of Farces: Pete Hegseth’s Quest to Build a Crusader Army w/ The Queen of Regs
In this week’s “State of the Force” address Pete Hegseth outlines structural reforms that will engender further zealotry and ineptitude. The end state: a more demoralized and incompetent military. You can …
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In this week’s “State of the Force” address Pete Hegseth outlines structural reforms that will engender further zealotry and ineptitude. The end state: a more demoralized and incompetent military.
You can follow El, the Queen of Regs here:
https://linktr.ee/queenofregs?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAcGRvZgJzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA85MzY2MTk3NDMzOTI0NTkAAaftqexpwGatNMI42YxkSQY8OWET7FmfxbK7rhMwRr0WQMTKP4Nw9_gHeqCT-g_aem_re2Yoqho4a3nRpakXYMM9w
205. How Can You Defend Those People?! Empathy in an Era of Mass Dehumanization w/ Sarah Bennett
Our society exhibits a suicidal lack of empathy. We are witnessing mass death, violence, displacement on a global scale, all normalized and obfuscated by generations of bourgeois media and propaganda.How do we …
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Our society exhibits a suicidal lack of empathy. We are witnessing mass death, violence, displacement on a global scale, all normalized and obfuscated by generations of bourgeois media and propaganda.
How do we begin to push back against it in order to fight for a more sane, sustainable, and equitable world? In this episode of Colonial Outcasts we go inside the isolated and near-invisible world of US women’s prisons with former defense attorney and photojournalist Sarah Bennet.
She is the author of “Looking Inside: Women with Life Sentences,” a long-term photographic project about women convicted of homicide and sentenced to life in New York State. The book follows them inside prison, after release, and in everyday life afterward, using portraits plus personal materials like letters, drawings, Polaroids, and handwritten notes to show that they are more than the crime that led to their sentences. The project resists stereotypes and asks readers to consider how punishment, memory, identity, and rehabilitation shape a life over decades.
This is a challenging topic. Hope you enjoy!
Link to Sarah’s book:https://www.kehrerverlag.com/en/Sara-Bennett/978-3-96900-238-4
https://www.amazon.com/dp/3969002389?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback
204. Occupation and Forever Wars: Is US Media Propaganda Finally in Collapse? w/ Assal Rad
Subscribe to https://www.rfemedia.com/ for ad-free episodes and exclusive content. In this episode we discuss the recent socio-cultural backlash against the war with Iran and Dr. Rad’s new book “Don't Say …
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In this episode we discuss the recent socio-cultural backlash against the war with Iran and Dr. Rad’s new book “Don't Say Palestine: How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide.”
Are we finally, as a population, gaining a modicum of media literacy?
Assal Rad is a historian of Middle East history and a Nonresident Fellow at Arab Center Washington DC and DAWN. She works on research and writing related to U.S. foreign policy issues and the Middle East. She is the author of The State of Resistance: Politics, Culture, and Identity in Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and Don’t Say Palestine: How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide (Vintage, 2026). Assal completed a PhD in History from the University of California, Irvine in 2018.
Links to the book here:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/834977/dont-say-palestine-by-assal-rad/
https://www.audible.com/pd/Dont-Say-Palestine-Audiobook/B0H4RTFV8W?srsltid=AU7gw4V5CgpfTLQ1m3_RJ0UAB2EYPX8zcoFssW1cWlg33XVstlAwWcxG
You can follow Assal here:
https://x.com/AssalRad
Big Bend Betrayal: The Federal Assault on Our Public Lands
Our first Doc! The US Government is building a pointless wall through America's last wild border. This flagrant breach of public trust begins in Big Bend and ends in your backyard. Watch the full documentary …
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Our first Doc! The US Government is building a pointless wall through America's last wild border. This flagrant breach of public trust begins in Big Bend and ends in your backyard.
Watch the full documentary with NO ADS at https://www.rfemedia.com/or on our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/c/ColonialOutcasts
DO NOT be distracted by “the pause.” Bulldozers are tearing through protected desert, sacred grounds, and decades of federal protections along the last truly wild stretch of the US-Mexico border. “Big Bend Betrayal” goes inside the fight between local conservationists, concerned citizens, border communities and a federal government contract awarded to a major Trump donor.
You will see how ludicrous this border construction is, and how it is part of a larger normalization campaign to break the protections on all public lands in the continental United States. The end goal: privatize everything.
After the midterms on Nov 3rd, the assault will continue…
It’s High Time for Pre-Crime! A.I. Policing in a Post-Accountability World w/ Jack Jones
Join us on Substack at https://www.rfemedia.com/ or on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/c/ColonialOutcasts for ad-free episodes and so much more!What exactly is predictive policing and how is law enforcement …
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What exactly is predictive policing and how is law enforcement using it to skirt the Constitution and go on “fishing expeditions?” Are they baiting attacks? Haaretz reveals October 7th foreknowledge.
Today we are joined by Jack Jones (quadzillahikes) to talk about his favorite subject - ICE and law enforcement overreach and unaccountability. What does this mean for the future of political action and activism. You can follow him here:
https://www.instagram.com/quadzillahikes/
https://substack.com/@quadzillahikes?utm_source=global-search
Sourcelist:
https://prospect.org/2026/09/09/anthropic-artificial-intelligence-surveillance-system-monitor-activists/
https://www.404media.co/a-secretive-dhs-predictive-policing-unit-is-analyzing-americans-financial-habits-and-pulling-them-over/
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-security/2026-09-08/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/netanyahu-got-an-explicit-warning-before-oct-7-he-didnt-brief-security-chiefs/000001a0-7a3b-d7d5-a9fc-7eff3d0f0000
https://theintercept.com/2026/09/03/ice-palantir-privacy-personal-info-access/
https://theintercept.com/2026/09/09/flock-cameras-police-loitering-curfew-surveillance/
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-surveillance-tech/https://www.axios.com/2026/09/09/anthropic-insiders-warn-ai-could-kill-all-humans
201. Survival and Solidarity Among Sumud Flotilla Hostages w/ Mea Marie (Part 2)
This podcast is a production of Radio Free Empire Media. To get access to all RFE media content including ad free and bonus episodes, subscribe at https://www.rfemedia.com. Also, support the Black Panther Party …
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This podcast is a production of Radio Free Empire Media. To get access to all RFE media content including ad free and bonus episodes, subscribe at https://www.rfemedia.com.
Also, support the Black Panther Party by subscribing to their newspaper (PRINT ONLY!) at https://www.thebpp.usThis podcast is a production of Radio Free Empire Media. To get access to all RFE media content including ad free and bonus episodes, subscribe at https://www.rfemedia.com. And please like, rate and review wherever you are listening it helps others find us.
Recorded over two months ago. Mea Marie is a humanitarian, activist and independent journalist who sailed as a volunteer on the last Sumud Flotilla bringing aid to Gaza, whose inhumane treatment only scratches the surface of the everyday reality for Palestinians living under occupation.
She describes in detail the physical torture, psychological abuse, sadism and psychopathy of her captors but also the solidarity, bravery, and heroism of her peers. Follow her journalism at her socials here:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spacebunnynews1/
Instagram 2: https://www.instagram.com/@cityheightsdc
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@spacebunnynews1
Support RFE Media for $5/month and get: no ads, 30 extra minutes of Colonial Outcasts every episode, access to our supporters channel and community chat on Substack, and Fuck Around Fridays — our unhinged bonus series where Mark and Greg just fuck around. You'll also get access to our Hope This Finds You Well livestreams (also on RFE Media's YouTube). Subscribe at https://rfemedia.com
We're building RFE Media into more than just this show: social clips, on-the-ground news reporting, and a new audio-only series with Greg going deep on individual topics. Follow our Substack and socials @rfemedia to stay tuned for everything.200. Spiritually Depraved and Misery-Inducing Landscapes of North America w/ Joey Santore
This episode is in a way a spiritual rant which you can watch or listen ad-free at https://www.rfemedia.com/This episode is in a way a spiritual rant. Dystopia intensifies but do not despair! As star base after …
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This episode is in a way a spiritual rant which you can watch or listen ad-free at https://www.rfemedia.com/
This episode is in a way a spiritual rant.
Dystopia intensifies but do not despair! As star base after star base are constructed on coastal wetlands just be consoled that one way or the other, this ride ain’t lasting forever.
Joey Santore is a botanist, artist, author and ex-railroader who travels the world documenting plant life. He is the host and producer of the youtube channel Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t and was the host of a small-scale tv show called Kill Your Lawn. He advocates for native plants, building a closer human relationship with Earth’s plant life, and a re-thinking of modern American horticulture and landscaping due to its mundane disconnection from both ecological and biological reality. You can follow him here:
https://www.youtube.com/@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt
https://www.instagram.com/crime_pays_but_botany_doesnt/
https://thornscrubsanctuary.org/
199. THE US IS RUNNING OUT OF OPTIONS: Iran, Ukraine, Venezuela & the Crisis of American Power
A bombshell leak to the Washington post on Sunday, August 31st, demonstrated that US General Officers in the Pentagon are vying for increasingly finite assets and matériel across Combatant Commands, limiting …
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A bombshell leak to the Washington post on Sunday, August 31st, demonstrated that US General Officers in the Pentagon are vying for increasingly finite assets and matériel across Combatant Commands, limiting the military viability of interventions in Iran, Ukraine, and Latin America.
This episode examines how and why that is. Here is our general outline:
Part 1: Russia–Ukraine
Why did the CIA Director urgently fly to Russia?
The US trying to freeze the Ukraine conflict
NATO’s fragility
Can the US rebuild its industrial base?
Part 2: Iran, Sanctions & Economic Warfare
The limits of military force
The new sanctions / economic isolation
Iran’s capacity to withstand the war
Iran’s international partners
Part 3: Venezuela & Latin America
Securing Latin America
The Venezuela deal
Long-term objectives
China & multipolarity in the Americas
Final synthesis:
● The three sections ultimately connect:
○ Ukraine: limits of US/NATO military power.
○ Iran: limits of US military and financial coercion.
○ Venezuela: attempt to compensate by consolidating influence closer to home.
● Central question: Is the US adapting to a declining relative position—or attempting
to reverse it through increasingly aggressive economic, military and political
coercion?
198. Western "Leftism" panders to Empire as West Asia unites against it w/Laith Marouf
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This podcast is a production of Radio Free Empire Media.
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Laith Marouf unveils the reality on the ground in defiance of western media's obfuscation.
In the wake of an open letter from Western "Revolutionaries" parroting CIA and imperial talking points with the cloaked aim of delegitimizing Iran's resistance against an unceasing U.S. and Israeli global aggression, West Asia is proving its resilience through its ability to withstand desperate attempts to divide and conquer populations in Lebanon, Syria and Iran along sectarian, national or religious lines.
Laith speaks on the current status within Lebanon, Syria and the shifting dynamics of power that Iran has managed to assert. These new material changes has exposed western failures in its goals for division and the growing momentum of revolutionary unity manifesting in Lebanon, Syria and West Asia as a whole.
Laith Marouf is a long-time political activist, award-winning journalist, and political commentator working in media since 1999. He is also the founder of Free Palestine TV and regularly appears on television and radio, including Press TV, RT, and Al Mayadeen and has published with independent media such as Electronic Intifada, Mint Press, Black Agenda Report and more.
197. US Imperialism Bad, Iran Regime Also Bad: An Open Letter From The “Left”
Dr. Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, himself a former political prisoner, models what a letter of solidarity written to Iranian political prisoners might look like …
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Dr. Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, himself a former political prisoner, models what a letter of solidarity written to Iranian political prisoners might look like: https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47613/An-Alternative-Open-Letter-to-Iran%E2%80%99s-Political-Prisoners
I'd say subscribe to https://www.rfemedia.com/ for the full episode but we forgot to get to Dr. Ghamari-Tabrizi's solidarity letter until the very end. So enjoy the full episode for free!
Our argument is not a new one: that western intellectuals who purport to be anti-imperialist often do the work of imperialism by bothsidesing human rights abuses and war crimes, thereby manufacturing consent or at least fostering an information atmosphere of moral confusion so people find it challenging to pick a side. This directly aids and abets both Imperialism and the War State. Enjoy!194. Averting Apocalypse: Taking on Climate Collapse in a Hopeful Way w/ Michael Mezzatesta
Get the full episode with no ads at: https://www.rfemedia.com/We really have to talk about climate catastrophe in an non-apocalyptic way in order to get people productively on-side. Besides, there's plenty to …
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We really have to talk about climate catastrophe in an non-apocalyptic way in order to get people productively on-side. Besides, there's plenty to be done.
The horrifying research I did for this episode might turn me into an environmental activist from a geopolitical position - things are going to get wild. States will collapse, wars will happen. Gone will be the days of carrier strike groups or even drones as global supply chains break down and all the evangelicals will be euphoric seeing that the end is nigh. There are going to crisis cults popping up everywhere - UFO cults, AI machine god cults - 4 billion people could die in the 25-30 years, and the bottomline is that we here at RFEmedia will still be transmitting this podcast and our Thursday livestream, if we live, from the Great Lakes region of the continental United States.
Today we are joined by friend of the show, Michael Mezzatesta, a storyteller working at the intersection of economics, climate, and culture. His work reaches tens of millions of viewers each month and is recognized for making complex economic and climate issues accessible to a mainstream audience. He has an economics degree from Standoff university and champions a post-capitalist world. He is the host of the Better Future Podcast, the links for which are in the description. Cheers y’all!
193. Harris Endorses El Sayed: Navigating the Nightmare of the Midterms w/ Megan Thuy
Check out our live stream from earlier! Some movement or coalition fragmentation happened over the weekend as former vice president Kamala Harris endorsed Abdul El Sayed in Michigan.
192. Out of Ideas, Pentagon Crowd-Sources Iran War Planning to Troops: Live Q&A w/ Greg Stoker
Subscribe to https://www.rfemedia.com/ for exclusive content and updates. It’s been about a 8 months since I have done any sort of military analysis on my platform because it not exactly the best mental health …
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Subscribe to https://www.rfemedia.com/ for exclusive content and updates. It’s been about a 8 months since I have done any sort of military analysis on my platform because it not exactly the best mental health exercise and two and half years of posting everyday was exhausting, but times have changed. I’m getting back into it because things are escalating and the dynamics of modern warfare are changing faster than a lot of people, definitely military commanders in the Pentagon, can keep up with. Also, other conflicts are poised to pop off across the globe. There is also a fascinating lack of acceptance that warfare has been democratized against Imperial military elements like carrier strike groups and large, hard-site military bases, which can now be threatened across vast distances by relatively simple and cheap munitions. Also we really don’t have those because our defense industrial base is about making money, not about force-readiness. So the pentagon is now crowd sourcing to troops for innovative ideas to regain the initiative against Iran while being actively hamstrung by Data center vulnerability in the Gulf. Its tricky. Some Americans may cheer on Iran blowing up Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia and Palantir tech targets in Saudi Arabia and other GCC states due to their massive unpopularity here at home. Some people might get ideas. The information dimensions of this conflict are uncontrollable too so check out our Colonial Outcasts live stream episode about all of this tonight at 5pm EST on YouTube or our primary Platform, Substack. Links in my stories and bio!
191. The "Cockroach" Janta Party Protests in India - Join the Swarm!
A wave of Gen Z protests erupts across south Asia as a series of youth-led anti-government uprisings, most notably in Bangladesh, Nepal, and India, driven by corruption, high unemployment, and more.
190. Why Are Tech Billionaires Moving to Argentina? w/ Marianela Pereyra
Check out https://www.rfemedia.com/ for the add-free episode. Yes, you can subscribe for free and get ZERO ads.They are moving due to: libertarian leadership, sovereign diversification, and geographic …
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They are moving due to: libertarian leadership, sovereign diversification, and geographic isolation. They fear global systemic collapse, and don't believe in borders or nation states like us peasants.
We start today’s episode with some negligible Argentine world cup controversy, then move onto its idiotically colorful anarcho-capitalist president, Javier Milei and his notorious allegiances to both the state of Israel and trans-national tech billionaires like Peter Thiel. The US government wants to use the right-wing government of Argentina to serve as a mini Israel in the region - a bulwark against any left-wing movements in Latin America in order to bring it under the complete influence of the US and Israel. This is a complicated subject, but this initiative is founded on what are called the “Isaac Accords,” which are modeled after the Israeli normalization deal, the Abraham Accords, meant to establish US/Israeli hegemony over all the governments of West Asia.
The core question here though, is “why are billionaires moving to Argentina?” Very excited for this episode, we’ve got a great guest and a lot to cover.
You can follow Marianela here:
https://www.instagram.com/thefuddhist/
Source List:
https://fortune.com/2026/07/16/the-global-rich-peter-thiel-safe-haven-argentina/
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/27/hondurass-hernandez-returns-home-after-trump-pardon-how-it-happened
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/greenland-freedom-city-rich-donors-push-trump-tech-hub-up-north-2025-04-10/
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/04/24/starbase-texas-election-space-x/
https://www.prospera.co/en
188. War and Women, Life, Freedom: Interpreting Iran in the Media w/ Sarah In Tehran
The Imperial Media wants you to believe that Iranian society is a binary - either the people all yearn for freedom and regime change, or they are all religious fanatics shouting "death to America!"We do not …
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The Imperial Media wants you to believe that Iranian society is a binary - either the people all yearn for freedom and regime change, or they are all religious fanatics shouting "death to America!"
We do not trade in binaries around here. It is time that we speak to someone who actually lives there and understands the Western Media Apparatus. To that end we are joined by Sarah In Tehran, a media studies graduate who works in documentary film, to discuss rabid zionist monarchists and the media bias they promote, what the conversations in Iran are, and what actually happened with the Women, Life, Freedom movement in 2022.
The amount of imperial propaganda being pumped into Iran by outlets like Iran International is truly prodigious and clearly resembles the Radio Free cold war model. You can follow Sarah here:
187. Elite Panic: New Political Terrorism Watchlist Drops, Are You On It?
Check us out on https://www.rfemedia.com/ for so much more!It is Wednesday and we’ve got a heck of a show here for ya! Something just happened exactly like we said it would last November when the State …
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Check us out on https://www.rfemedia.com/ for so much more!
It is Wednesday and we’ve got a heck of a show here for ya! Something just happened exactly like we said it would last November when the State Department designated “Antifa-linked groups” in Europe as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. We said it would come back home and be used as a pretext to silence, delegitimize, debunk, and prosecute us or anyone else who challenges the oligarchic power that controls the state.
We also discuss the State Departments “Cuba Report,” which has a two-fold purpose: to delegitimize progressives of all stripes as part of a hostile foreign influence network, cut back on freedom of speech and of the press, and to justify the expansion of the national security state. The other purpose is to justify regime change in Cuba with the prospect of direct military intervention. This entire document is a confounding slurry of distorted history and absurd conspiracy theories. It is meant to gin up and invent the reality of enemies within and without while asserting that all of these enemies are connected. However, we know the truth.
For the Black Panther Newspaper: https://www.thebpp.us/newspaper
Source list:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eapc0Ua1z6s
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026-USCT-Strategy-1.pdf
https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Cuba-Report.pdf
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/after-political-terrorism-event-us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSGeKMnVynE
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