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This is The Empire Never Ended, the Antifascist Amerikanski-Balkan podcast about (neo) fascist terror, the (deep) state and the alienation, nihilism and desperation produced by the capitalist system. And how to get rid of all that. Something like that...

The Empire Never Ended


    • Jun 19, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
    • every other week NEW EPISODES
    • 43m AVG DURATION
    • 343 EPISODES


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    323: All Things Siege - Interview with Spencer Sunshine

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2025 94:26


    We finally sit down with Spencer Sunshine to talk about his book "Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason's Siege" (2024). Support Spencer at: https://www.patreon.com/spencersunshine Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod @tenepod.bsky.social  + x.com/tenepod

    322: Merwin K. Hart and the Fascist/Conservative Continuum in the US (teaser)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2025 3:33


    Rey walks us through the first part of David Austin Walsh's book Taking America Back, which is centered around Hart's career in the 1933-1953 period. Merwin was a "liminal figure of the US right-wing", able to meet the president in the White House, but also to work together with known fascist "crackpots" (Coughlin, G. L. K. Smith, Wesley Swift...). Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod @tenepod.bsky.social  + x.com/tenepod

    321: White Legions in the Congo pt. 1: Mad Mike and Kongo Müller

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2025 90:35


    In part one of a series on mercenaries in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Boris explores the strange history of the (ex)Nazis and racist psychopaths who helped install the regime of Mobutu Sese Seko following the assassination of Patrice Lumumba.   Reading: Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja - The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People's History Ending music: Vicky Longomba-Vive Patrice Lumumba Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod @tenepod.bsky.social  + x.com/tenepod

    320: [Michael J.] "Moynihan is an Idiot" (teaser)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2025 2:03


    Michael Moynihan is an editor (Siege), writer (Lords of Chaos), musician (Blood Axis), fascist (Universal Order, Tyr), but above all, "Moynihan is an Idiot" (according to Charles Manson). Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod @tenepod.bsky.social  + x.com/tenepod

    319: Adam Parfrey: a Crypto-fascist Propagandist

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2025 69:30


    Adam Parfrey, founder of Feral House publishing, was an incredibly influential man of letters, publisher, and journalist. He also had an extremely racist, social-darwinist secret agenda. He was a real jerk. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod @tenepod.bsky.social  + twitter.com/tenepod

    318: Boyd Rice: racist, sociopath and also a musician (teaser)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2025 2:21


    Boyd Rice was a pioneer, not only of industrial music, but also of artsy Nazi douchebaggery. He was also the genius who first had the bright idea that Siege should be a book.

    317: American Front 0 - Ćevapi 1

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2025 115:27


    From San Francisco to Novi Sad, the original Nazi-punks who were supposed to f#ck off. The history of the American Front, "the first US national skinhead organization" from Bob Heick to James Porrazzo. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod @tenepod.bsky.social  + x.com/tenepod

    316: Irelands Fashy Snakes - A St. Paddy's Day Special w/ Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2025 121:32


    Pádraig returns to TENE with an update on the far-right in Ireland, and some previously undiscovered gems from Ireland's understudied domestic history of fascism. Pre-order her new book, Burn Them Out! A History of Fascism and the Far Right in Ireland available April 10th! Links: Preorder Burn Them Out! from Bloomsbury Press! Closing song: Building Up and Tearing England Down - The Mary Wallopers. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod @tenepod.bsky.social  + twitter.com/tenepod

    [UNLOCKED] 170: SSPV - Eyeballs-Out Traddies

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2025 86:19


    Originally released: Jan 13, 2023. TENE continues their look into fashy Catholic types by diving into sedevacantism (the belief that there is no pope) and the Society of Saint Pius V (SSPV). Plenty of imagined assassination attempts, real CIA coups, creepy Nazi doctors, and traffic accidents for the whole family! Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod @tenepod.bsky.social  + twitter.com/tenepod

    314: The Epic Fall of Tom Metzger's White Aryan Resistance

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2025 93:51


    Rey narrates the precipitous rise and fall of Tom Metzger and his infamous organization, White Aryan Resistance (WAR), from the John Birch Society to the dregs of SIEGE culture. Reading: Michael, George. This is War! Tom Metzger, White Aryan Resistance, and the Lone Wolf Legacy. In: Focus on Terrorism.  Vol. 14. 2016. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod @tenepod.bsky.social  + twitter.com/tenepod

    313: Tenepodskaya Pravda - American Reactionaries? (teaser)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2025 2:51


    TENE pod dips under the headlines with a network cross-section of OMB director, Russell Vought, and his familiar circle of freaks. Rey goes off on Curtis Yarvin's shockingly poor understanding of what 'reactionary' means, and the boyzies check in on how liberal media is coping with it all. Also, the US drops Kosovo Prime Minister, Albin Kurti. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod @tenepod.bsky.social  + twitter.com/tenepod

    312: Los Tecos w/ Keith Allen Dennis (teaser)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2025 2:43


    TENE is lucky to be joined by Keith Allen Dennis, archival researcher of WACL, to uncover the lost history of Mexico's most dangerous fascist organization, Los Tecos, and their complicated relationship with the USA. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod @tenepod.bsky.social  + twitter.com/tenepod

    311: Human Diversity Foundation - The Eugenicists of Trumpism

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2025 73:04


    TENE unpacks the Human Diversity Foundation, LLC., the inheritor of the infamous Pioneer Fund, and the important figures both central and peripheral to their mission of normalizing eugenics in conservative politics in the U.S. and abroad. Reading: Race Science Inc.: Undercover in The Human Diversity Foundation, the million-dollar race science company. Harry Shukman & Patrik Hermansson. Hope Not Hate, Oct. 16, 2024. investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/race-science-inc/ The article on Stephen Miller incorrectly referenced as an Atlantic piece in episode: splcenter.org/resources/hate-watch/stephen-millers-affinity-white-nationalism-revealed-leaked-emails/ Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod @tenepod.bsky.social  + twitter.com/tenepod

    310: Republican Heritage Groups Council - Nazis in the Grand Old Party (teaser)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2025 1:32


    Boris examines the history of the GOP's 'ethnic outreach' organization, the National Republican Heritage Groups Council, and its connection to the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations and shady European fascists like Ivan Dochev of the Bulgarian National Front and Laszlo Pasztor of the Hungarian Arrow Cross Party. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod @tenepod.bsky.social  + twitter.com/tenepod

    309: Tenepodskaya Pravda - Golden Age(s) and the American Crusade (teaser)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2025 1:36


    TENE pod inaugurates their regular news commentary show with a look at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's very creepy spirit guides as well as the ongoing anti-Vučić student demonstrations in Serbia. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod @tenepod.bsky.social  + twitter.com/tenepod

    308: National Renaissance Party pt.2 - Mana Truhill AKA Emmanuel Trujillo

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2025 106:05


    From the National Renaissance Party to the Peyote Way Church of God, Rey presents the strange and star-studded story of a man called 'Mana'. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod @tenepod.bsky.social  + twitter.com/tenepod  

    307: Fash Fic Book Club - 'Hunter', The Turner Diaries' Creepy Uncle (teaser)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2025 2:25


    Fritz does permanent self-harm with a close reading of William Luther Pierce's 1989 follow-up to The Turner Diaries, the disgusting novel, Hunter. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod @tenepod.bsky.social  + twitter.com/tenepod

    306: Film Club - The Order (2024), "About a Bob"

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2025 121:59


    TENE pod gets to work in 2025 with a long look at director Justin Kurzel's 2024 film, The Order, a crime drama based on the early-80s most successful Nazi militia and its leader, Bob Matthews. Stand up like men! Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod @tenepod.bsky.social  + twitter.com/tenepod

    304: The Spider in NYC pt. 2 - H. Keith Thompson

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 26, 2024 96:45


    Rey continues to examine the New York-based nexus of the post-WW2 global Nazi network, this time focusing on the enigmatic Nazi H. Keith Thompson, a friend of Francis Parker Yockey and possible SS agent. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod @tenepod.bsky.social + twitter.com/tenepod

    303: Dispatches from that Satanist Dotard (teaser)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2024 2:23


    The boyzies catch ole' David Myatt out on social media again and check in on their beloved mascot. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod @tenepod.bsky.social + twitter.com/tenepod

    302: Coors - "Americanist Far Right Beer"

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2024 86:06


    Boris introduces the Coors family of brewing and aerospace fortune and how the Coors company wielded its wealth to carve a very fashy path into U.S. politics and beyond through groups like the Heritage Foundation and goons like Paul Weyrich and Roger Pearson. Subscribe to our Patreon for weekly premium episodes! Twitter + Instagram + YouTube + Bluesky

    301: News Update: The Trial of 'Dark Foreigner' (teaser)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2024 2:17


    TENE pod reviews recent reporting from antihate.ca of the ongoing trial of Patrick MacDonald, aka. "Dark Foreigner", the originator of the Siege-culture aesthetic, who ties Niner/Atomwaffen types to the so-called 'Active Clubs' of 'White Nationalism 3.0'. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.  

    300: Do European Youth Leaders Dream of Electric Sheep? (teaser)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2024 2:22


    TENE pod celebrates surviving 300 episodes with an inscrutable and nearly unplayable EU-funded policy game, "#FutureGov", which was apparently designed to train the leaders of tomorrow to manage the populations of a cyberpunk Europe. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

    299: The Spider in NYC pt. 1 - Frederick Weiss

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2024 87:37


    ODESSA, Bruderschaft, Stille Hilfe....the Spider! Is the nazi global network real and what does this have to do with the NYC based National Renaissance Party and a guy called Frederick Weiss? Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

    298: Genocide Jingles - Fashy Pop from Israel and India (teaser)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2024 2:01


    Boris cracks open his crates of bizarre fashy music for Fritz and Rey, and subjects them to the depressingly catchy popular music that anti-Muslim zealots in the orbits of Israel's IDF and India's BJP go crazy for. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

    297: National Renaissance Party pt. 1 - James Madole goes to White Castle

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2024 111:10


    Rey begins his multi-part account of the National Renaissance Party, James Madole's under-studied Manhattan-based Neo-Nazi organization that brought pre-war fash and the rising esoteric right together for decades. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

    296: Film Club Halloween - Green Room (2015) (teaser)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2024 1:09


    Boris, Fritz, and Rey get together for a harrowing Halloween viewing of Jeremy Saulnier's Green Room (2015), where biographical archetypes from their past are slaughtered by Cascadian skinheads led by Sir Patrick Stewart. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

    295: Sailerism - Modern Eugenics for Today's GOP! (teaser)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2024 1:45


    Fritz figures out Steve Sailer -- Republican strategist and racist pseudoscientist -- and the 19th-century style 'race science' he's successfully rebranded as "Human Biodiversity". Then the boys cozy up to an excruciating Tucker Carlson interview with Sailer himself. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

    294: Roger Pearson pt. 2 - Race Science and Reaganism

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2024 77:00


    TENE pod concludes their biographical look into eugenicist Roger Pearson, focusing on his vast influence in the New Right of the '70s and '80s through his work in mainstream fashy organizations like the Heritage Foundation and the World Anti-Communist League. reading: Kevin Coogan, "Jackboots & Sporrans". 1984. Scott Anderson and John Lee Anderson, Inside the League. 1986. Michael Billig. Psychology, Racism & Fascism. 1979. Russ Bellant. Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party. 1991. Russ Bellant. The Coors Connection. 1988. Stefan Kuhl. The Nazi Connection. 1994. Closing music: Furioso; or, The Wilderness of Mirrors by The Knolls. soundcloud.com/knollsnyc Interlude music: Mankind? "Won't You Join The Army Now So You Can Fight... And You Can Die!" Other Music: David Fesliyan "Airlock", "In Honor", and "Elevator Ride" davidfesliyan.com Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

    293: Amsterdam (2022) - Worse than the Actual Business Plot (teaser)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2024 1:44


    The boyzies face one of their most daring challenges yet -- a screening of David O. Russell's truly awful fictionalization of the fascist 'Business Plot' of 1933, Amsterdam (2022), starring Robert De Niro as a sickly interpretation of General Smedley Butler. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

    292: Roger Pearson pt. 1 - New Right Anthropologist and Posh Wanker

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2024 82:00


    TENE pod puts the spotlight on the eugenicist neo-Nazi organizer, Roger Pearson, and the first half of his regrettably long career as a prominent post-war academic and ideological force in the nascent New Right. reading: Kevin Coogan, "Jackboots & Sporrans". 1984. Scott Anderson and John Lee Anderson, Inside the League. 1986. Michael Billig. Psychology, Racism & Fascism. 1979. Russ Bellant. The Coors Connection. 1988. Stefan Kuhl. The Nazi Connection. 1994. Interlude music: Cro-Mags - Street Justice Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

    290: Revisiting Kurultáj (teaser)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2024 2:14


    Calhoun Gomez drops by the show to help the boyzies demystify the spectacular Great Kurultáj festival of all things Pan-Turanist, examining it against the backdrop of Hungarian political life. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

    291: So Many Ways to Say 'Nazi' - Fashy News from Ukraine and Russia (teaser)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2024 1:36


    The TENE squad discusses the recent conference of European nazis in Ukraine as well as examines the resurgent clerofascist movement in Russia. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

    289: Liberty Lobby pt. 3 - Eat Your Wheaties!

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2024 97:16


    Boris concludes his three-part study of Liberty Lobby and its founder, Willis Carto, his 'populist' turn, and the effect of his life's work on today's horror show of a reality. music: 'in honor' and 'solutions that work' by fesliyanstudions.com Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

    288: National States Rights Party pt. 2 - "We're Going to a Discotheque, You and Me" (teaser)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2024 1:45


    This is the second and hopefully last episode about the horrible history of the National States Rights Party. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

    287: The Golden Horde Never Ended (teaser)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2024 1:57


    TENE pod's Boris and Sal Falcon attend this year's Great Kurultáj Pan-Turanist festival in Hungary, and discuss their surreal experiences surrounded by horses, whips, throat-singing, and quite a few fascists. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

    [UNLOCKED] 250: Every Tom, Dick, and Henry - the WASPs who loved Mussolini

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2024 96:00


    Originally aired Jan. 25, 2024. 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 Washburn Child, and founder of Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, Henry Luce. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

    286: All Honorable Men - Nazi Cartels and Gentlemen Stay-behinds (teaser)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2024 2:02


    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.

    285: Liberty Lobby pt. 2 - Nobody Gets Along with Willis Carto

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2024 91:11


    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.

    284: Outlaw Josey Wales - When Clint Eastwood made a Klan Film (teaser)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2024 2:36


    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.

    283: Liberty Lobby pt. 1 - Willis Carto, Professional Turd Polisher

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2024 92:35


    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.

    282: Film Club - The Intruder (1962) (teaser)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2024 1:38


    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.  

    281: National States Rights Party pt. 1 - "Out-Hitlering Hitler" (teaser)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2024 2:14


    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.

    280: Mid-Arc Recap to The Long 1950s

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2024 72:12


    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.

    279: Fash Fic Book Club - The John Franklin Letters (teaser)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2024 1:24


    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.

    278: Sweet Valle High - Pedro del Valle & Co.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2024 96:54


    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.

    277: Baj Baj, Bajden! (teaser)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2024 1:30


    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.

    276: California Reich, 1975 - Where no one will be Home Alone... (teaser)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2024 4:34


    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.

    275: Revilo P. Oliver - the Oldfather of SIEGE

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2024 102:03


    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.

    274: Europe's Fashy Election and Patriot Fail Valuetains Us (teaser)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2024 2:11


    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.

    273: Legally Blonde - How the U.S. inspired the Nuremberg Laws

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2024 93:10


    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.

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