The Empire Never Ended

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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  

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

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

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

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

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

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.  

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.