Podcast appearances and mentions of Benito Mussolini

This week on the Mark Levin Show, we need to rid the Republican Party, the movement, and constitutional conservatism of bigots, racists, anti-Semites, and anti-Americans. These low lives, like Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon and Nick Fuentes, dishonor the greatest generation that defeated Hitler, Tojo, and Mussolini. It's a time for choosing between the good guys and the bad guys, America or the Third Reich/Soviet Union. Republicans must stand up and confront the spread unlike Democrats who allowed it. Mamdani and his supporters like Linda Sarsour refuse assimilate and instead aim to conquer, devour, and dismantle the culture, police, communities, private property rights, and economy. This would attract unassimilated individuals from afar, harden electoral battles, and escalate into a cultural war beyond politics, with devastating effects on education, policing, healthcare, and wealth redistribution, driving successful people away. Tuesday's election results were no surprise because the Democrats immigration strategy to change the demographics and citizenry, without assimilation, has worked. NYC will decline, the question is by how much and Virginia is now part of the federal government. If the election was about affordability why did NJ vote to increase their property taxes and energy bills? neither the law nor the Constitution prohibits a President from imposing tariffs, which can serve purposes like rebuilding industries, countering foreign tariffs, or ensuring national security. Congress holds the power of the purse and could pass statutes to limit presidential tariff authority, but it has not done so, making judicial intervention unnecessary and a potential separation of powers issue. The Court should refrain from involvement, as any limits would come from congressional action or voter disapproval. Every conservative faith leader, organization head, think tank, legal group, media, and political entity need to boldly speak out against vile, poisonous movements on the left and the radical right, specifically fascists, thugs, and neo-Nazis, rather than true conservatives or constitutionalists. Tucker Carlson and his ilk have promoted harmful ideas and attacked traditional Christians and Jews and they need to be rejected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On Monday's Mark Levin Show, we need to rid the Republican Party, the movement, and constitutional conservatism of bigots, racists, anti-Semites, and anti-Americans. These low lives, like Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon and Nick Fuentes, dishonor the greatest generation that defeated Hitler, Tojo, and Mussolini. It's a time for choosing between the good guys and the bad guys, America or the Third Reich/Soviet Union. Republicans must stand up and confront the spread unlike Democrats who allowed it.  Later, electing Zohran Mamdani in New York City would lead to its downfall, causing investors, businesses and residents to flee and the city's capitalist core will be destroyed, just like London and Paris. Mamdani and his supporters like Linda Sarsour refuse assimilate and instead aim to conquer, devour, and dismantle the culture, police, communities, private property rights, and economy. This would attract unassimilated individuals from afar, harden electoral battles, and escalate into a cultural war beyond politics, with devastating effects on education, policing, healthcare, and wealth redistribution, driving successful people away.  After, the Democrats in New Jersey caused high electricity bills and property taxes by cutting off traditional energy supplies and relying on ineffective primitive technologies like wind and solar, driven by ideology over practical knowledge. Voters need to reject the Democrat government mismanagement. Voting Democrat means more of the same destruction as seen in California, Finally, Winsome Earle-Sears, a Black women running for Virginia Governor, undermines the Democrat's identity politics and propaganda. Barack Obama campaigned for Abigail Spanberger, a White women running for Virginia Governor, who pretends to be moderate but votes radically left. This election is about ideology from the third world and seventh century, not race. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Het zijn bijzondere dagen. Koning Juan Carlos publiceert bittere memoires. Het Spaanse volk herdenkt de dood van dictator Francisco Franco en de troonsbestijging van die jonge prins – nu 50 jaar geleden. En staat stil bij het mirakel van democratisering, economische bloei en politieke impact in Europa. Jaap Jansen en PG Kroeger duiken in de bloederige, soms wanhopige historie van de tirannieke Franco-jaren. Maar ook in de verrassende en opportunistische kanten van de wrede generaal en de onverwachte aspecten van zijn repressieve bewind. De ruzie over het volkslied, de promotie van de Flamenco en de snelle onttakeling van zijn dictatuur. *** Deze aflevering is mede mogelijk gemaakt met donaties van luisteraars die we hiervoor hartelijk danken. Word ook vriend van de show! Heb je belangstelling om in onze podcast te adverteren of ons te sponsoren? Stuur ons een mailtje en wij zoeken contact. *** Francisco Franco (1892-1975) was door en door soldaat. Hield zonder scrupules huis in de koloniën, kreeg hoge rangen en werd door de linkse regering van de nieuwe democratische republiek opzij gezet. Hij steunde een staatsgreep die mislukte en ertoe leidde dat hij als enige topmilitair overbleef om een burgeroorlog daarna uit te vechten. Die won hij in drie jaar dankzij steun van Benito Mussolini en Adolf Hitler en de funeste verdeeldheid van zijn opponenten. Als overwinnaar ging hij beestachtig tekeer. 'De Witte Terreur' vermoordde ruim 300.000 mensen en waarschijnlijk meer. Nog altijd worden massagraven gevonden en herleeft de angst, de wanhoop en het verdriet van die jaren. Franco's bewind was repressief en hij regeerde als een potentaat zonder grondwet, staatsstructuur of parlement - feitelijk bij decreet. Maar was hij een fascist pur sang? De historici debatteren daar nog steeds over. Van huis uit reactionair-katholiek was hij allesbehalve democraat. Evenmin was hij vies van complottheorieën over bolsjewieken, vrijmetselaars, joden en links die volgens hem het ware Spanje ondermijnden. De steun van Hitler en Mussolini tijdens de Burgeroorlog incasseerde hij moeiteloos, maar erg veel dankbaarheid hoefden zij niet te verwachten. Franco voerde een bewust ondoorzichtige politiek, waardoor hij iedereen op afstand hield. Churchill en Roosevelt knuffelden hem opportunistisch, Hitler wantrouwde hem diep. Na de oorlog verzette hij de bakens. Hij herstelde de monarchie zonder een koning op de troon te zetten, liet zich propagandistisch vieren als redder van vluchtelingen en joden en legde een grondwet op die zijn almacht bezegelde. Probleem was wel het dreigend bankroet en de schrijnende armoede. Economische hervormingen kostten tijd, maar na 1959 werd Spanje vele jaren groeikampioen van de wereld, samen met Japan. Repressie, massale emigratie - feitelijk 'export van menselijk kapitaal' - en economische bloei ondermijnden uiteindelijk het regime. Franco moest de teugels loslaten, ook vanwege ouderdomsziekten. Achter zijn rug werd een snelle transitie naar een eigentijds, Europees en democratisch bewind ontworpen. Zijn dood in 1975 viel samen met het eind van de dictatuur in Portugal en Griekenland en gaf een enorme impuls aan de democratisering van Zuid-Europa. Juan Carlos maakte daarbij als koning veel tempo. De technocraat Adolfo Suarez werd de Thorbecke van Spanje. De inzet en prestaties van deze eerste vrije premier maakten hem een icoon van democratie en vernieuwing. Zonder Juan Carlos en Suarez was de vreedzame transitie waarschijnlijk veel minder succesvol verlopen. *** Verder kijken Franco probeert Engels te spreken (1936) Franco dankt andere landen voor steun in de Spaanse burgeroorlog (1937) Het leven van Franco De laatste toespraak van Franco (1975) Jarcha - Libertad Sin Ira (1977) *** Verder luisteren 355 - 2023: modern en succesvol Spanje wordt EU-voorzitter en houdt verkiezingen 312 - Schurend verleden - over cancelculture, politiek en geschiedenis (en Spaanse pijn) 311 - De wereld volgens Simon Sebag Montefiore (over de wereldoorlog tussen Spanje en sultans) 414 – Portugal: 50 jaar Anjerrevolutie 158 - Portugal: aan zee is een land nooit klein 478 - Was Hitler een socialist? 314 - Prins Heinrich XIII en het verlangen naar een autoritair Duisland 451 - 75 jaar Duitse Democratie 242 - Adrianus van Utrecht, de Nederlandse Paus (en eerst regent van het Spaanse wereldrijk) 49 - De koningen van Hispanje die wij altijd hebben geëerd *** Tijdlijn 00:00:00 – Deel 1 00:28:39 – Deel 2 00:53:12 – Deel 3 01:34:10 – EindeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today we're joined by Despina Stratigakos and Elana Shapira about their new book, Finding Ella Briggs: The Life and Work of an Unconventional Architect. Ella Briggs was a talented architect, designer, and writer whose influence was felt on both sides of the Atlantic. She trained with the Viennese Secessionists and brought their radical ideas to Gilded Age New York. She designed modernist housing for the masses in Austria, was jailed as a suspected spy in Mussolini's Italy, and thrived in Weimar Germany before suffering persecution under the Nazis. Fleeing to London, she contributed to England's postwar reconstruction. Yet despite a long and prolific career, her name is largely forgotten today. Finding Ella Briggs restores Briggs to her rightful place in the history of modernist design. To purchase: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691263953/finding-ella-briggs?_gl=1*m5kt06*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTMxMTM1OTU5Ny4xNzQzMTczMTE1*_ga_N1W9JWKLY3*MTc0MzQyMzU2Mi41LjAuMTc0MzQyMzU2Mi4wLjAuMTc5NTE3MjM2MA..

Hoy recordaremos al inquilino más elegante de un armario, hoy conoceremos la vida de Giorgo Armani, el diseñador más minimalista de la historia. El pequeño Giorgo nació en Italia el 11 de julio de 1934. Fue el mediano de los 3 hijos que tuvieron Ugo Armani y Maria Raimondi, que los llamaba cariñosamente: Sergio, “mi mayor”, Rosanna, “la chica, y “el otro, que me trae por el camino de la amargura”. Cuando Giorgo tenía 5 años estalló la IIWW y como su pueblo era industrial-textil los aliados decidieron bombardearlo como estrategia de guerra para dejar a los fascistas sin camisetas interiores de tirantes. La madre cogió a los 3 niños y no se fue muy lejos, se mudaron al pueblo de al lao, porque total, en 1940 tú tirabas una bomba mirando el mapa y podía caer donde tú querías o en el convite de la comunión de un niño tailandés. Cuando acabó la guerra su padre se quedó en paro porque trabajaba en las oficinas del partido Fascista de Mussolini y, además, acusado de colaborador del régimen por mucho que el hombre jurara y perjurara que él no era ni de izquierdas ni de derechas. Cuando por fin Giorgo pudo volver a estudiar se dio cuenta que era más listo que el primer frutero que cobró por el manojito de perejil y se metió en la universidad de Milán. Estudió sólo hasta 3o de medicina porque tuvo que parar para hacer la mili y ahí se dio cuenta que pa poné inyecciones no hacía falta ser médico, así que se dedicó a la fotografía que era lo que a él le gustaba de verdad. Pero como con la fotografía pasaba más hambre que Carmen Sevilla en la clínica Buchinger tuvo que trabajar también como escaparatista de ropa de caballeros de los grandes almacenes “La Rinascente” (“Galerías Preciados” en español). Al año ya estaba hastarpapo de vestí muñecos y se fue con el diseñador Nino Cerruti pa aprendé a cogé un dobladillo. Después de 10 años aprendiendo y diseñando para otros como Hugo Boss, se decidió a dar el salto de cosé pa la calle, creando en 1975 junto a su pareja, el arquitecto Sergio Galeotti, su propia marca: “Giorgo Armani”. Sus creaciones eran diseños simples, minimalistas y versátiles que lo mismo valía pa la reunión de una alta ejecutiva en París que pa disfrazarte de “Los Borracho” en Er Falla. En 1985, Galeotti, murió de un infarto de los que no te da tiempo ni de decir que te duele el brazo izquierdo y Giorgo se quedó más triste que cuando un día festivo cae en sábado. Ya en esta época tenía la nariz como Isabel Preysler, siempre iba con una camiseta negra ajustaita y cuando le iban a sacar una foto se metía las manos debajo de lasobaquitas pa apretarse fuerte y que le saliera papita en los brazos. Las colecciones y los perfumes eran un éxito detrás de otro, llegando a vestir a Hollywood, a los equipos de fútbol, a los trabajadores de grandes aerolíneas y al piojito, que es donde se ve los que triunfan de verdad. En los 2000, Giorgio conoció a Leo Dell'Orco, con el que estuvo estos últimos 20 años porque él siempre se declaró bisexual de los que tiraban pa las barba. En 2022 tenía aquí el amigo 7200 millones de dólares pero no se quitaba la camiseta negra del Decathlon ni pa ir a una boda. Desgraciadamente, el pasado 4 de septiembre, Giorgo Armani nos dejó a los 91 años aunque ustedes siempre podrán recordarlo cada vez que el frutero les cobre el perejil o vean unos slips “Giorgo Ermani” en el piojito.

La suerte esta echada, pero la geografia ha cambiado demasiado en estos veinte siglos. No sabemos que rio cruzo Julio Cesar (por mucho que diga Mussolini).

'Baía dos Tigres' é a mais recente longa-metragem de Carlos Conceição. O realizador aclamado em festivais de cinema como Cannes, Berlinale ou Locarno, decidiu apresentar 'Baia dos Tigres', em estreia mundial, recentemente, no festival DocLisboa. Nas palavra de Carlos Conceição, “o filme tenta ir atrás dessa ideia que está a ser gravada uma nova existência por cima de uma existência prévia, mas estão lá fantasmas abstratos, sobrespostos, ruidosos, e que são fantasmas da história do século XX transversais a várias culturas.” Baia dos Tigres foi inteiramente rodado em Angola, país onde Carlos Conceição nasceu e que serviu de fonte de inspiração. A RFI falou com o realizador na capital portuguesa. Carlos Conceição começa por explicar como surgiu o filme 'Baia dos Tigres'. Carlos Conceição: O filme surgiu numa fase que eu, agora, já considero ultrapassada da minha carreira. Uma fase em que eu não tinha grandes perspectivas de como subsidiar o meu trabalho e que, por isso, apostava em ideias que eu conseguisse concretizar com pouco, com elementos que fossem reduzidos, mas intensos, como uma boa malagueta, que é capaz de fazer o melhor por um prato, só aquela malagueta. E a Baía dos Tigres sempre foi um mito para mim. Eu ouvia falar na Baía dos Tigres enquanto sítio desde que era criança. E por volta de 2015, 2016, provavelmente, fiquei, por portas e travessas, familiarizado com duas histórias que acabaram por ter uma grande ressonância na minha vida, ambas japonesas. Uma é o significado da palavra johatsu, que significa evaporação. É uma prática que acontece exclusivamente no Japão e, muitas vezes, com a ajuda de empresas especializadas. Consiste na pessoa eclipsar-se da sociedade, desaparecer. Essa empresa trata do desaparecimento total desta personagem, desta pessoa que os contrata. Isto acaba por ter um contorno que talvez seja comparável aos programas de proteção de testemunhas, porque todas estas pessoas acabam por assumir uma nova identidade, uma nova vida, uma nova história, um novo passado. Escolhem desaparecer pelas mais diversas razões, uma relação fracassada, dívidas de jogo, dívidas ao banco. Aquela coisa muito asiática que é a honra e que nós, na Europa, perdemos no século XV. Parece-me um conceito que, não estando completamente disseminado, não sendo exterior à cultura japonesa, parece-me um conceito interessante para os tempos de hoje. Não me interessa a mim como cidadão, interessa-me como leitor, como espectador, fazer uma história sobre uma pessoa que faz isso, que resolve desaparecer, que organiza o seu desaparecimento. E, paralelamente a isso, a descoberta da história verdadeira do soldado Hiroo Onoda, que foi um soldado japonês que esteve 30 anos perdido numa ilha das Filipinas, convencidíssimo por não ter contato nenhum com ninguém, aliás, inicialmente ele não estava sozinho, mas acabou por ficar, porque os dois companheiros com quem ele estava acabaram por morrer, e ele sozinho permaneceu 30 e tal anos nessa ilha selvagem, nas Filipinas, convencido que a guerra (2ª Guerra Mundial) continuava, e completamente fiel aos seus propósitos e àquilo que tinha sido formado para fazer. Foi uma grande dificuldade convencer o Onoda, quando ele foi descoberto, de que o assunto da Guerra Mundial já tinha acabado, e que aqueles credos todos dele estavam ultrapassados há 30 anos. Isto também é uma ideia que me interessa, como é que uma personagem percebe o tempo quando está isolada. Uma, no caso de uma das personagens do filme, é o desejo que o tempo pare, e, no caso da outra personagem, o desejo que o tempo ande mais depressa. Portanto, acho que o filme é sobre essa diferença, a diferença entre querer que o tempo pare e querer que ele ande mais depressa. RFI: A Baia dos Tigres é em Angola, no sudoeste de Angola. O que é que levou o Carlos Conceição a escolher ir filmar em Angola? Qual é a linha que se constrói que liga Angola a esta personagem? Ou a estes personagens, pois são dois personagens. Carlos Conceição: Podem ser, ou duas versões da mesma personagem. Eu filmo em Angola da mesma maneira que o Woody Allen filma Manhattan, ou o João Rosas filma Lisboa. É natural para mim, porque foi onde eu cresci. É mais fácil para mim filmar em Angola, em particular no sul, em particular no deserto, do que filmar em Lisboa. Para mim é mais difícil enquadrar em Lisboa. Ali sinto que estou muito seguro e, para onde quer que eu olhe, eu sei como é que o plano deve acontecer. E as narrativas que a maioria das vezes me surgem para contar são de alguma forma relacionadas com a minha própria vivência e, como tal, Angola está sempre envolvida de alguma maneira. Portanto, os meus filmes têm tido essa relação com Angola pelo menos os últimos três. O Serpentário, que é a minha primeira longa, e o Nação Valente, acima de tudo, e este filme. Que seria logo seguinte ao Serpentário, mas que estreia depois do Nação Valente, porque a vida dá muita volta, porque as coisas atrasam-se e metem-se pandemias e metem-se prazos e coisas do género. Mas acho que são dois filmes que são feitos num só gesto, de certa forma. Acho que a questão da Baía dos Tigres tem a ver com misticismo. Desde criança que eu ouvia falar da Baía dos Tigres como sendo uma ilha deserta, uma aldeia abandonada, uma cidade fantasma, como algumas que se vê nos westerns, relativamente perto, mas muito inacessível, muito difícil de lá chegar. Sempre foi uma ambição minha conhecer o sítio em si. E quando conheci, a primeira coisa que senti foi ... isto é um filme inteiro, este sítio é um filme. Eu já sei qual é o filme e tenho-o dentro de mim, tenho de o fazer e se não fizer vou morrer. Foi assim que o filme surgiu. Curiosamente, houve duas fases de rodagem. Na primeira nós não chegámos a conseguir ir à Baía dos Tigres. Estivemos na Floresta do Maiombe, em Cabinda. Estivemos no Uige, estivemos em Malanje, nas Quedas de Calandula, as Cataratas de Calandula. Depois filmámos muitas coisas à volta da zona onde eu cresci, que foi no Lubango, na Comuna da Huíla, na zona do ISPT, que é o Instituto Superior Politécnico de Tundavala e que tem uma mata enorme atrás, usámos como backlot. Obviamente, só depois disso é que conseguimos, numa segunda  viagem, organizar a chegada à Baía dos Tigres, que envolve toda uma logística complicadíssima. Entre muitas aventuras possíveis, chegar à Baía dos Tigres, à Ilha dos Tigres, que tem cerca de 30 km de comprimento por uns 11 Km de largura, mas que tem construções concentradas... chegar de barco implicava sair da povoação mais próxima, num barco, que provavelmente seria uma traineira, que levaria 6 a 7 horas a chegar à ilha. Fazer um percurso longitudinal desde o Parque Nacional da Reserva Natural do Iona até ao embarcadouro, que se usa para ir para a Ilha dos Tigres, seria impensável porque a costa continental é toda cheia de poços de areia movediça. Então, a única maneira de chegar ao embarcadouro, sem ser engolido pelas areias movediças, é fazê-lo a uma certa hora da manhã, quando durante cerca de 50 minutos a maré está baixa. Temos de ir quase em excesso de velocidade, em veículos 4x4, pela zona molhada de areia, a partir da cidade do Tômbua, e fazer um percurso que demora mais de uma hora a fazer dentro daquela janela temporal. Caso contrário, ficamos ou atolados pelas ondas ou atolados na areia, onde, aliás, se conseguem ver muitos destroços de experiências fracassadas neste género. Ao chegar ao tal embarcadouro, que é um sítio muito tosco, muito improvisado, está lá alguém com quem nós marcamos. É uma pessoa que se contrata com um barco, uma espécie de lancha. Depois fazemos um percurso de quase uma hora de barco por entre bancos de areia, num mar muito, muito agressivo, cheio de fauna, orcas, focas que espreitam da água a olhar para nós, pássaros que passam rasantes, chuva constante, até que, de repente, começa no horizonte a surgir aquela cidade fantasma, assim, meio embrulhada no nevoeiro.  Vê-se logo uma igreja amarela, uma coisa assim … , parece uma aparição. Há um misticismo à volta da experiência de lá chegar que o meu filme nunca conseguirá mostrar, por mais que eu me esforce, e que é muito difícil de captar. Eu tento, no filme, captar esse misticismo e essa fantasmagoria de maneiras diferentes. Criando alegorias, como o filme tem esta ideia da memória que se apaga. Eu imagino o filme um bocadinho como uma cassete ou uma bobina daquelas antigas, que tem de ser desmagnetizada, mas às vezes não fica completamente desmagnetizada, e, por isso, quando vamos gravar algo em cima, sobram restos de fantasmas de gravações passadas. Fisicamente, o filme tenta ir atrás dessa ideia que está a ser gravada uma nova existência por cima de uma existência prévia, mas estão lá fantasmas abstratos, sobrespostos, ruidosos, e que são fantasmas da História do século XX, transversais a várias culturas. RFI: São fantasmas do período em que a Angola estava colonizada por Portugal? São fantasmas da Guerra da Libertação? Carlos Conceição: É impossível não serem também esses fantasmas. Mas eu acho que são fantasmas do mundo contemporâneo, são fantasmas de 2025, são fantasmas do que está a acontecer em Gaza, do que está a acontecer na Ucrânia, são fantasmas deste ressurgimento da extrema-direita, são fantasmas do novo espaço que as ditaduras estão a ganhar, são fantasmas de coisas que deviam estar enterradas e não estão, e são fantasmas com várias origens. O filme tem, em certos momentos, elementos sonoros que vêm de discursos do Hitler, de Mussolini, de Oliveira Salazar, o Savimbi, a voz da Hanoi Hannah, que era uma vietnamita que transmitia mensagens aos soldados americanos a dizer, “vão-se embora, porque vocês vão morrer, o vosso governo traiu-vos”, e ela também aparece como um fantasma neste filme. Portanto, são esses fantasmas todos que, vindos do passado, constroem o presente. O momento presente que nós estamos a viver no mundo, é todo feito desses restos, na minha opinião, mal enterrados. RFI: O cinema é uma ferramenta para lidar com esses fantasmas? Carlos Conceição: Há uma certa obrigação antropológica em algum cinema, há uma responsabilidade histórica que o cinema deve atentar, mas eu não creio que o cinema deva ser uma arte utilitária exclusivamente. Acho que o cinema é mais interessante quanto mais livre for, e se calhar quanto mais fútil for. Eu vejo o cinema como uma espécie daqueles discos que se gravam e se mandam para o espaço, e acredito que daqui a uns anos, quando nós já cá não estivermos, vai aparecer uma espécie alienígena qualquer, ou uma espécie mais inteligente que nós, que tem estado aí escondida, que não aparece por nossa causa, e que vai descobrir uma carrada de filmes, e vai dizer, olha que interessante que era esta espécie que se autodestruiu. E é para isso que eu acho que o cinema serve. Eu vejo cada filme que faço como uma espécie de filho, até porque fazer um filme é uma espécie de gestação, dura o tempo de uma gestação, alguns mais, alguns trazem as minhas dores de cabeça comparáveis. E às vezes nós perguntamos para quê. Para mim essa é a resposta: é para deixar qualquer coisa, para deixar um legado, para deixar uma marca. Para deixar qualquer coisa que ajude a perceber como é que as coisas eram, como é que deviam ter sido, como é que não foram, por aí fora. RFI: Os primeiros filmes do Carlos Conceição foram curtas-metragens, os últimos três trabalhos foram longas-metragens. Não há uma vontade, não pode haver um desejo de voltar às curtas? Carlos Conceição: Eu penso que o universo das curtas, a existência cultural das curtas, é interessante, mas limitada. Eu fui muito feliz a fazer curtas-metragens, cheguei a dizer que me apetecia fazer curtas para sempre. O meu penúltimo filme, na verdade, não é uma longa-metragem, é uma média-metragem, tem 59 minutos, e eu tenho outro filme com 59 minutos para lançar em 2026. Esse formato de uma hora, para mim, é perfeito. Permite-se uma estrutura de curta-metragem em que nem tudo precisa de lá estar, de ser causa e efeito, nem de estar pejado de consequências, nem hiper-explicado, e ao mesmo tempo também não abusa das boas-vindas que recebe do público.Portanto, gosto de filmes que contêm esse universo mais curto, de certa forma. Para além do filme de 59 minutos que quero estrear para o ano que vem, se tiver sorte, também tenho uma ideia para uma curta-metragem que é toda feita com material que eu já tenho filmado, e que tem a ver com Angola também, curiosamente. Mas é uma curta muito mais sensorial e vai ser como música visual, vai ser baseado em ritmos de planos, e tempos e durações de planos, e o que é que corta para onde. Isso é um exercício que eu sinto que me agrada e que é uma coisa que eu quero fazer, que eu consigo fazer sozinho também. Até porque acho que estou precisando tirar umas férias depois desta maratona que têm sido os últimos três anos, talvez. RFI: Fazer sozinho é? Carlos Conceição: Quando eu digo fazer sozinho, às vezes refiro-me a ser só eu com uma câmera na mão, por exemplo, mas isso não quer dizer que depois a montagem vá ser eu sozinho. Eu gosto de pedir opinião às pessoas e depois já me aconteceu em determinados projetos eu saber exatamente como é que a montagem tende a acontecer, e seria eu dizer à pessoa que está comigo a montar que devíamos fazer assim, devíamos fazer assado, de forma a ir ao encontro da minha ideia. Já me aconteceu, como também acontece em particular no filme Baía dos Tigres, eu ter uma ideia e ficar à espera de ver o que é que a Mariana Gaivão tem para propor dentro da mesma ideia, enquanto montadora o que é que ela me vai contra-propor. E ela diz-me, dá-me dez minutos e volta daqui a dez minutos. E eu volto e ela tem uma proposta para fazer. A maioria das vezes estamos completamente síncronos. Acho que é muito importante essa parceria. Portanto, nós nunca estamos realmente sozinhos. Quando eu digo que posso fazer essa curta sozinho, eu acho que é material que eu fui juntando de outras rodagens, de outras coisas que não utilizei no Nação Valente, de coisas que não utilizei neste filme, e que eu acho que consigo sozinho em casa juntar e criar algo interessante com aquilo. É nesse sentido que digo fazer sozinho. Mas a verdade é que eu dependo sempre, obviamente, do meu colega Marco Amaral, que é o colorista que vai depois pôr aquilo com bom aspecto porque eu não sou diretor de fotografia, por isso ele tem de me salvar, de certa forma. Dependo, obviamente, de quem vai ajudar a fazer a montagem de som e a mistura de som. E, normalmente, eu trabalho com um núcleo muito duro, quase sempre a mesma família. Portanto, quando digo sozinho, às vezes posso estar a dizer que estou a autoproduzir, ou posso estar a dizer que é algo que eu consigo, se calhar, manufaturar, fazer de uma forma menos comunitária, menos convencional, menos industrial. RFI: O Carlos Conceição gosta de trabalhar com um núcleo duro, um núcleo próximo, o ator João Arraias faz parte desse núcleo. O que é que o faz investir nessa relação? Carlos Conceição: Há duas, três dimensões na resposta que eu posso dar. Em primeiro lugar, o João é um ator com capacidades únicas, que eu reconheço como muito valiosas e isso para um realizador é ouro. Pedir a um ator uma ação com meia dúzia de palavras e ele dar-nos exatamente aquilo ou, se calhar, melhor, não acontece todos os dias. Portanto, quando um ator tem esse super poder, nós agarramos nele e nunca mais o deixamos ir. A segunda questão tem a ver com o facto que eu me revejo imenso no João. Ele tem menos de 15 anos do que eu, quase 16, e houve uma altura, quando ele tinha 16, 17, era impossível, para mim, olhar para ele e não me estar a ver a mim. Houve vários filmes que surgiram por causa disso, nomeadamente o Versalhes, o Coelho Mau, e o Serpentário sem dúvida nenhuma. A terceira coisa é que nós somos muito amigos e trabalhar com amigos é o maior prazer do mundo. RFI: Baía dos Tigres teve a estreia mundial no Festival Internacional de Cinema DocLisboa, na origem dedicada aos documentários. Podemos identificar a Baía dos Tigres como um documentário? Carlos Conceição: O Godard dizia que todos os filmes são documentários sobre a sua rodagem, o seu processo de serem feitos. O Baía dos Tigres é uma ficção filmada segundo alguns credos do documentário. É tudo quanto posso dizer. Por ser o realizador do filme e o argumentista do filme, talvez não seja a pessoa mais indicada para o definir nesse sentido. Aliás, os filmes, normalmente, e é uma ideia que eu costumo tentar vender, os filmes não são como são por acidente ou por ingenuidade ou porque a pessoa que os fez não soube fazer melhor. Os filmes são normalmente resultado de um período de deliberação que é longo, ardo, obsessivo e desgastante para o seu realizador. Portanto, não há filme nenhum que seja como é porque o realizador não sabia fazer melhor. Isso quer dizer que, de certa forma, cada filme dita a sua própria gramática. E eu acho que é muito interessante que possa haver fusões entre os sistemas clássicos narrativos e as formas do documentário, o cinema mais contemplativo. Eu gosto, por exemplo, do cinema do Andy Warhol. Eu nunca me sentei a ver o Empire State Building durante oito horas, mas só saber que existe … Eu já vi aos bocados, não é? Mas saber que este filme existe e que pode ser visto dessa maneira, para mim, é uma fonte de inspiração enorme. Da mesma maneira, o James Benning, vários filmes da Chantal Akerman, tudo isso são manifestações cinematográficas de fusão que eu considero que quebram todas as gaiolas e acho que importante, se calhar, para lutar contra o mainstream. Eu acho o mainstream um bocadinho o inimigo principal do crescimento da arte. O mainstream obriga a fazer comparações, obriga a manuais. Acho que não há nada melhor para quebrar com essas gaiolas do que revisitar estes filmes de que eu estava a falar. RFI: Em relação a novos projetos, o que é que está a acontecer? Em off, tinham-me falado de um projeto sobre ópera. O que é que está para vir? Carlos Conceição: Eu tenho, neste momento, três projetos para serem lançados. Um é uma media-metragem de 59 minutos, do qual já tínhamos falado há pouco. O outro é um filme, uma longa-metragem que é uma experiência em linguagem mainstream, por assim dizer, que se chama Bodyhackers. E o terceiro projeto. que é o mais recente, ao qual eu dediquei os últimos 14 meses da minha vida, é um projeto para televisão e para cinema que envolve ópera. São narrativas separadas, autónomas, todas elas com um compositor português, algumas baseadas em fontes literárias, algumas dessas óperas, mas são essencialmente segmentos operáticos que resultarão simultaneamente num filme e numa série de televisão. RFI: O Carlos Conceição nasceu em Angola, viveu em Angola até hoje 22 anos, vai frequentemente a Angola. Qual é a imagem que tem do cinema produzido em Angola? Como é que olha para aquilo que acontece em Angola a nível da produção cinematográfica? Carlos Conceição: Gostava de ver mais, gostava de ver em mais sítios e gostava de ver mais pluralidade. Acho que estamos num momento perfeito para que se revelem novos talentos e comecem a aparecer mais pessoas e mais pessoas arrisquem. Qualquer pessoa com um telemóvel, neste momento, consegue fazer um filme e acho que não deve haver o medo de partir para essa aventura. Hoje em dia temos o HD disponível nos nossos telemóveis, nos smartphones, até nos mais corriqueiros. O que eu acho é que o cinema mais interessante, às vezes, surge daí, surge justamente daquela recusa à inércia. Há um filme dentro de nós, ele pode sair de qualquer maneira e sai. Basta nós queremos que ele saia e ele vem cá para fora. RFI: Já teve oportunidade de visionar algum produto assim feito, feito em Angola? Carlos Conceição: Sim, em particular um filme que eu comprei num semáforo em DVD e que me parece que não era uma versão final de montagem porque tinha a voz do realizador a dar instruções aos atores. Era um filme absolutamente inacreditável sobre uma mãe e umas filhas à procura de vingança por uma coisa que lhes tinha acontecido. Uma mulher que tinha sido injuriada a vida inteira, que usava uma pala no olho e as filhas quando tinham um desgosto morriam com uma hemorragia através da pele. O filme é de tal maneira incrível na sua imaginação que eu fiquei absolutamente estarrecido, senti-me uma formiga perante aquele filme que foi feito num subúrbio de Luanda para ser consumido num subúrbio de Luanda. Eu senti que a genialidade por trás daquilo era uma coisa que devia ser descoberta e valorizada. Ou seja, isso existe em Angola, por isso acho muito importante ir à descoberta disso.

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La suerte esta echada, pero la geografia ha cambiado demasiado en estos veinte siglos. No sabemos que rio cruzo Julio Cesar (por mucho que diga Mussolini).

Joe Wright's known for Oscar-winning WWII epics like DARKEST HOUR. But his latest look at the era is a different animal: The nightmarish series MUSSOLINI: SON OF THE CENTURY, about the rise of the godfather of fascism. Joe tells host Rico Gagliano about the Italian dictator, the echoes he sees in politics today... and why he spent his own teen years blasting '30s pop tunes.MUSSOLINI: SON OF THE CENTURY is now streaming on MUBI in the US, Canada, Latin America, Turkey and India. To stream some of the films we've covered on the podcast, check out the collection Featured on the MUBI Podcast. Availability of films varies depending on your country.MUBI is a global streaming service, production company and film distributor dedicated to elevating great cinema. MUBI makes, acquires, curates, and champions extraordinary films, connecting them to audiences all over the world. A place to discover ambitious new films and singular voices, from iconic directors to emerging auteurs. Each carefully chosen by MUBI's curators.

Welcome to Original Jurisdiction, the latest legal publication by me, David Lat. You can learn more about Original Jurisdiction by reading its About page, and you can email me at davidlat@substack.com. This is a reader-supported publication; you can subscribe by clicking here.Yesterday, Southern California Edison (SCE), the utility whose power lines may have started the devastating Eaton Fire, announced its Wildfire Recovery Compensation Program. Under the program, people affected by the fire can receive hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in compensation, in a matter of months rather than years—but in exchange, they must give up their right to sue.It should come as no surprise that SCE, in designing the program, sought the help of Kenneth Feinberg. For more than 40 years, often in the wake of tragedy or disaster, Feinberg has helped mediate and resolve seemingly intractable crises. He's most well-known for how he and his colleague Camille Biros designed and administered the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. But he has worked on many other headline-making matters over the years, including the Agent Orange product liability litigation, the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Trust, the multidistrict litigation involving Monsanto's Roundup weed killer—and now, of course, the Eaton Fire.How did Ken develop such a fascinating and unique practice? What is the most difficult aspect of administering these giant compensation funds? Do these funds represent the wave of the future, as an alternative to (increasingly expensive) litigation? Having just turned 80, does he have any plans to retire?Last week, I had the pleasure of interviewing Ken—the day after his 80th birthday—and we covered all these topics. The result is what I found to be one of the most moving conversations I've ever had on this podcast.Thanks to Ken Feinberg for joining me—and, of course, for his many years of service as America's go-to mediator in times of crisis.Show Notes:* Kenneth Feinberg bio, Wikipedia* Kenneth Feinberg profile, Chambers and Partners* L.A. Fire Victims Face a Choice, by Jill Cowan for The New York TimesPrefer reading to listening? For paid subscribers, a transcript of the entire episode appears below.Sponsored by:NexFirm helps Biglaw attorneys become founding partners. To learn more about how NexFirm can help you launch your firm, call 212-292-1000 or email careerdevelopment@nexfirm.com.Three quick notes about this transcript. First, it has been cleaned up from the audio in ways that don't alter substance—e.g., by deleting verbal filler or adding a word here or there to clarify meaning. Second, my interviewee has not reviewed this transcript, and any errors are mine. Third, because of length constraints, this newsletter may be truncated in email; to view the entire post, simply click on “View entire message” in your email app.David Lat: Welcome to the Original Jurisdiction podcast. I'm your host, David Lat, author of a Substack newsletter about law and the legal profession also named Original Jurisdiction, which you can read and subscribe to at davidlat.substack.com. You're listening to the eighty-fourth episode of this podcast, recorded on Friday, October 24.Thanks to this podcast's sponsor, NexFirm. NexFirm helps Biglaw attorneys become founding partners. To learn more about how NexFirm can help you launch your firm, call 212-292-1000 or email careerdevelopment@nexfirm.com. Want to know who the guest will be for the next Original Jurisdiction podcast? Follow NexFirm on LinkedIn for a preview.I like to think that I've produced some good podcast episodes over the past three-plus years, but I feel that this latest one is a standout. I'm hard-pressed to think of an interview that was more emotionally affecting to me than what you're about to hear.Kenneth Feinberg is a leading figure in the world of mediation and alternative dispute resolution. He is most well-known for having served as special master of the U.S. government's September 11th Victim Compensation Fund—and for me, as someone who was in New York City on September 11, I found his discussion of that work profoundly moving. But he has handled many major matters over the years, such as the Agent Orange product liability litigation to the BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster Victim Compensation Fund. And he's working right now on a matter that's in the headlines: the California wildfires. Ken has been hired by Southern California Edison to help design a compensation program for victims of the 2025 Eaton fire. Ken has written about his fascinating work in two books: What Is Life Worth?: The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11 and Who Gets What: Fair Compensation after Tragedy and Financial Upheaval. Without further ado, here's my conversation with Ken Feinberg.Ken, thank you so much for joining me.Ken Feinberg: Thank you very much; it's an honor to be here.DL: We are recording this shortly after your 80th birthday, so happy birthday!KF: Thank you very much.DL: Let's go back to your birth; let's start at the beginning. You grew up in Massachusetts, I believe.KF: That's right: Brockton, Massachusetts, about 20 miles south of Boston.DL: Your parents weren't lawyers. Tell us about what they did.KF: My parents were blue-collar workers from Massachusetts, second-generation immigrants. My father ran a wholesale tire distributorship, my mother was a bookkeeper, and we grew up in the 1940s and ‘50s, even the early ‘60s, in a town where there was great optimism, a very vibrant Jewish community, three different synagogues, a very optimistic time in American history—post-World War II, pre-Vietnam, and a time when communitarianism, working together to advance the collective good, was a prominent characteristic of Brockton, and most of the country, during the time that I was in elementary school and high school in Brockton.DL: Did the time in which you grow up shape or influence your decision to go into law?KF: Yes. More than law—the time growing up had a great impact on my decision to give back to the community from which I came. You've got to remember, when I was a teenager, the president of the United States was John F. Kennedy, and I'll never forget because it had a tremendous impact on me—President Kennedy reminding everybody that public service is a noble undertaking, government is not a dirty word, and especially his famous quote (or one of his many quotes), “Every individual can make a difference.” I never forgot that, and it had a personal impact on me and has had an impact on me throughout my life. [Ed. note: The quotation generally attributed to JFK is, “One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.” Whether he actually said these exact words is unclear, but it's certainly consistent with many other sentiments he expressed throughout his life.]DL: When you went to college at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, what did you study?KF: I studied history and political science. I was very interested in how individuals over the centuries change history, the theory of historians that great individuals articulate history and drive it in a certain direction—for good, like President Kennedy or Abraham Lincoln or George Washington, or for ill, like Adolf Hitler or Mussolini. And so it was history that I really delved into in my undergraduate years.DL: What led you then to turn to law school?KF: I always enjoyed acting on the stage—theater, comedies, musicals, dramas—and at the University of Massachusetts, I did quite a bit of that. In my senior year, I anticipated going to drama school at Yale, or some other academic master's program in theater. My father gave me very good advice. He said, “Ken, most actors end up waiting on restaurant tables in Manhattan, waiting for a big break that never comes. Why don't you turn your skills on the stage to a career in the courtroom, in litigation, talking to juries and convincing judges?” That was very sound advice from my father, and I ended up attending NYU Law School and having a career in the law.DL: Yes—and you recount that story in your book, and I just love that. It's really interesting to hear what parents think of our careers. But anyway, you did very well in law school, you were on the law review, and then your first job out of law school was something that we might expect out of someone who did well in law school.KF: Yes. I was a law clerk to the chief judge of New York State, Stanley Fuld, a very famous state jurist, and he had his chambers in New York City. For one week, every six or seven weeks, we would go to the state capitol in Albany to hear cases, and it was Judge Fuld who was my transition from law school to the practice of law.DL: I view clerking as a form of government service—and then you continued in service after that.KF: That's right. Remembering what my father had suggested, I then turned my attention to the courtroom and became an assistant United States attorney, a federal prosecutor, in New York City. I served as a prosecutor and as a trial lawyer for a little over three years. And then I had a wonderful opportunity to go to work for Senator Ted Kennedy on the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington and stayed with him for about five years.DL: You talk about this also in your books—you worked on a pretty diverse range of issues for the senator, right?KF: That's right. For the first three years I worked on his staff on the Senate Judiciary Committee, with some excellent colleagues—soon-to-be Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer was with me, noted litigator David Boies was in the office—and for the first three years, it was law-related issues. Then in 1978, Senator Kennedy asked me to be his chief of staff, and once I went over and became his chief of staff, the issues of course mushroomed. He was running for president, so there were issues of education, health, international relations—a wide diversity of issues, very broad-based.DL: I recall that you didn't love the chief of staff's duties.KF: No. Operations or administration was not my priority. I loved substance, issues—whatever the issues were, trying to work out legislative compromises, trying to give back something in the way of legislation to the people. And internal operations and administration, I quickly discovered, was not my forte. It was not something that excited me.DL: Although it's interesting: what you are most well-known for is overseeing and administering these large funds and compensating victims of these horrific tragedies, and there's a huge amount of administration involved in that.KF: Yes, but I'm a very good delegator. In fact, if you look at the track record of my career in designing and administering these programs—9/11 or the Deepwater Horizon oil spill or the Patriots' Day Marathon bombings in Boston—I was indeed fortunate in all of those matters to have at my side, for over 40 years, Camille Biros. She's not a lawyer, but she's the nation's expert on designing, administering, and operating these programs, and as you delve into what I've done and haven't done, her expertise has been invaluable.DL: I would call Camille your secret weapon, except she's not secret. She's been profiled in The New York Times, and she's a well-known figure in her own right.KF: That is correct. She was just in the last few months named one of the 50 Women Over 50 that have had such an impact in the country—that list by Forbes that comes out every year. She's prominently featured in that magazine.DL: Shifting back to your career, where did you go after your time in the Senate?KF: I opened up a Washington office for a prominent New York law firm, and for the next decade or more, that was the center of my professional activity.DL: So that was Kaye Scholer, now Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer. What led you to go from your career in the public sector, where you spent a number of your years right out of law school, into so-called Biglaw?KF: Practicality and financial considerations. I had worked for over a decade in public service. I now had a wife, I had three young children, and it was time to give them financial security. And “Biglaw,” as you put it—Biglaw in Washington was lucrative, and it was something that gave me a financial base from which I could try and expand my different interests professionally. And that was the reason that for about 12 years I was in private practice for a major firm, Kaye Scholer.DL: And then tell us what happened next.KF: A great lesson in not planning too far ahead. In 1984, I got a call from a former clerk of Judge Fuld whom I knew from the clerk network: Judge Jack Weinstein, a nationally recognized jurist from Brooklyn, the Eastern District, and a federal judge. He had on his docket the Vietnam veterans' Agent Orange class action.You may recall that there were about 250,000 Vietnam veterans who came home claiming illness or injury or death due to the herbicide Agent Orange, which had been dropped by the U.S. Air Force in Vietnam to burn the foliage and vegetation where the Viet Cong enemy might be hiding. Those Vietnam veterans came home suffering terrible diseases, including cancer and chloracne (a sort of acne on the skin), and they brought a lawsuit. Judge Weinstein had the case. Weinstein realized that if that case went to trial, it could be 10 years before there'd be a result, with appeals and all of that.So he appointed me as mediator, called the “special master,” whose job it was to try and settle the case, all as a mediator. Well, after eight weeks of trying, we were successful. There was a master settlement totaling about $250 million—at the time, one of the largest tort verdicts in history. And that one case, front-page news around the nation, set me on a different track. Instead of remaining a Washington lawyer involved in regulatory and legislative matters, I became a mediator, an individual retained by the courts or by the parties to help resolve a case. And that was the beginning. That one Agent Orange case transformed my entire professional career and moved me in a different direction completely.DL: So you knew the late Judge Weinstein through Fuld alumni circles. What background did you have in mediation already, before you handled this gigantic case?KF: None. I told Judge Weinstein, “Judge, I never took a course in mediation at law school (there wasn't one then), and I don't know anything about bringing the parties together, trying to get them to settle.” He said, “I know you. I know your background. I've followed your career. You worked for Senator Kennedy. You are the perfect person.” And until the day I die, I'm beholden to Judge Weinstein for having faith in me to take this on.DL: And over the years, you actually worked on a number of matters at the request of Judge Weinstein.KF: A dozen. I worked on tobacco cases, on asbestos cases, on drug and medical device cases. I even worked for Judge Weinstein mediating the closing of the Shoreham nuclear plant on Long Island. I handled a wide range of cases where he called on me to act as his court-appointed mediator to resolve cases on his docket.DL: You've carved out a very unique and fascinating niche within the law, and I'm guessing that most people who meet you nowadays know who you are. But say you're in a foreign country or something, and some total stranger is chatting with you and asks what you do for a living. What would you say?KF: I would say I'm a lawyer, and I specialize in dispute resolution. It might be mediation, it might be arbitration, or it might even be negotiation, where somebody asks me to negotiate on their behalf. So I just tell people there is a growing field of law in the United States called ADR—alternative dispute resolution—and that it is, as you say, David, my niche, my focus when called upon.DL: And I think it's fair to say that you're one of the founding people in this field or early pioneers—or I don't know how you would describe it.KF: I think that's right. When I began with Agent Orange, there was no mediation to speak of. It certainly wasn't institutionalized; it wasn't streamlined. Today, in 2025, the American Bar Association has a special section on alternative dispute resolution, it's taught in every law school in the United States, there are thousands of mediators and arbitrators, and it's become a major leg in law school of different disciplines and specialties.DL: One question I often ask my guests is, “What is the matter you are most proud of?” Another question I often ask my guests is, “What is the hardest matter you've ever had to deal with?” Another question I often ask my guests is, “What is the matter that you're most well-known for?” And I feel in your case, the same matter is responsive to all three of those questions.KF: That's correct. The most difficult, the most challenging, the most rewarding matter, the one that's given me the most exposure, was the federal September 11 Victim Compensation Fund of 2001, when I was appointed by President George W. Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft to implement, design, and administer a very unique federal law that had been enacted right after 9/11.DL: I got chills as you were just even stating that, very factually, because I was in New York on 9/11, and a lot of us remember the trauma and difficulty of that time. And you basically had to live with that and talk to hundreds, even thousands, of people—survivors, family members—for almost three years. And you did it pro bono. So let me ask you this: what were you thinking?KF: What triggered my interest was the law itself. Thirteen days after the attacks, Congress passed this law, unique in American history, setting up a no-fault administrator compensation system. Don't go to court. Those who volunteer—families of the dead, those who were physically injured at the World Trade Center or the Pentagon—you can voluntarily seek compensation from a taxpayer-funded law. Now, if you don't want it, you don't have to go. It's a voluntary program.The key will be whether the special master or the administrator will be able to convince people that it is a better avenue to pursue than a long, delayed, uncertain lawsuit. And based on my previous experience for the last 15 years, starting with Agent Orange and asbestos and these other tragedies, I volunteered. I went to Senator Kennedy and said, “What about this?” He said, “Leave it to me.” He called President Bush. He knew Attorney General John Ashcroft, who was his former colleague in the U.S. Senate, and he had great admiration for Senator Ashcroft. And so I was invited by the attorney general for an interview, and I told him I was interested. I told him I would only do it pro bono. You can't get paid for a job like this; it's patriotism. And he said, “Go for it.” And he turned out to be my biggest, strongest ally during the 33 months of the program.DL: Are you the managing partner of a boutique or midsize firm? If so, you know that your most important job is attracting and retaining top talent. It's not easy, especially if your benefits don't match up well with those of Biglaw firms or if your HR process feels “small time.” NexFirm has created an onboarding and benefits experience that rivals an Am Law 100 firm, so you can compete for the best talent at a price your firm can afford. Want to learn more? Contact NexFirm at 212-292-1002 or email betterbenefits@nexfirm.com.You talk about this in your books: you were recommended by a very prominent Democratic politician, and the administration at the time was Republican. George W. Bush was president, and John Ashcroft was the attorney general. Why wouldn't they have picked a Republican for this project?KF: Very good question. Senator Kennedy told both of them, “You better be careful here. This is a very, very uncertain program, with taxpayer money used to pay only certain victims. This could be a disaster. And you would be well-advised to pick someone who is not a prominent friend of yours, who is not perceived as just a Republican arm of the Justice Department or the White House. And I've got the perfect person. You couldn't pick a more opposite politician than my former chief of staff, Ken Feinberg. But look at what he's done.” And I think to Senator Kennedy's credit, and certainly to President Bush and to John Ashcroft's, they selected me.DL: As you would expect with a program of this size and complexity, there was controversy and certainly criticism over the years. But overall, looking back, I think people regard it widely as a huge success. Do you have a sense or an estimate of what percentage of people in the position to accept settlements through the program did that, rather than litigate? Because in accepting funds from the program, they did waive their right to bring all sorts of lawsuits.KF: That's correct. If you look at the statistics, if the statistics are a barometer of success, 5,300 applicants were eligible, because of death—about 2,950, somewhere in there—and the remaining claims were for physical injury. Of the 5,300, 97 percent voluntarily accepted the compensation. Only 94 people, 3 percent, opted out, and they all settled their cases five years later. There was never a trial on who was responsible in the law for 9/11. So if statistics are an indication—and I think they are a good indication—the program was a stunning success in accomplishing Congress's objective, which was diverting people voluntarily out of the court system.DL: Absolutely. And that's just a striking statistic. It was really successful in getting funds to families that needed it. They had lost breadwinners; they had lost loved ones. It was hugely successful, and it did not take a decade, as some of these cases involving just thousands of victims often do.I was struck by one thing you just said. You mentioned there was really no trial. And in reading your accounts of your work on this, it seemed almost like people viewed talking to you and your colleagues, Camille and others on this—I think they almost viewed that as their opportunity to be heard, since there wasn't a trial where they would get to testify.KF: That's correct. The primary reason for the success of the 9/11 Fund, and a valuable lesson for me thereafter, was this: give victims the opportunity to be heard, not only in public town-hall meetings where collectively people can vent, but in private, with doors closed. It's just the victim and Feinberg or his designee, Camille. We were the face of the government here. You can't get a meeting with the secretary of defense or the attorney general, the head of the Department of Justice. What you can get is an opportunity behind closed doors to express your anger, your frustration, your disappointment, your sense of uncertainty, with the government official responsible for cutting the checks. And that had an enormous difference in assuring the success of the program.DL: What would you say was the hardest aspect of your work on the Fund?KF: The hardest part of the 9/11 Fund, which I'll never recover from, was not calculating the value of a life. Judges and juries do that every day, David, in every court, in New Jersey and 49 other states. That is not a difficult assignment. What would the victim have earned over a work life? Add something for pain and suffering and emotional distress, and there's your check.The hardest part in any of these funds, starting with 9/11—the most difficult aspect, the challenge—is empathy, and your willingness to sit for over 900 separate hearings, me alone with family members or victims, to hear what they want to tell you, and to make that meeting, from their perspective, worthwhile and constructive. That's the hard part.DL: Did you find it sometimes difficult to remain emotionally composed? Or did you, after a while, develop a sort of thick skin?KF: You remain composed. You are a professional. You have a job to do, for the president of the United States. You can't start wailing and crying in the presence of somebody who was also wailing and crying, so you have to compose yourself. But I tell people who say, “Could I do what you did?” I say, “Sure. There are plenty of people in this country that can do what I did—if you can brace yourself for the emotional trauma that comes with meeting with victim after victim after victim and hearing their stories, which are...” You can't make them up. They're so heart-wrenching and so tragic.I'll give you one example. A lady came to see me, 26 years old, sobbing—one of hundreds of people I met with. “Mr. Feinberg, I lost my husband. He was a fireman at the World Trade Center. He died on 9/11. And he left me with our two children, six and four. Now, Mr. Feinberg, you've calculated and told me I'm going to receive $2.4 million, tax-free, from this 9/11 Fund. I want it in 30 days.”I said to Mrs. Jones, “This is public, taxpayer money. We have to go down to the U.S. Treasury. They've got to cut the checks; they've got to dot all the i's and cross all the t's. It may be 60 days or 90 days, but you'll get your money.”“No. Thirty days.”I said, “Mrs. Jones, why do you need the money in 30 days?”She said, “Why? I'll tell you why, Mr. Feinberg. I have terminal cancer. I have 10 weeks to live. My husband was going to survive me and take care of our two children. Now they're going to be orphans. I have got to get this money, find a guardian, make sure the money's safe, prepare for the kids' schooling. I don't have a lot of time. I need your help.”Well, we ran down to the U.S. Treasury and helped process the check in record time. We got her the money in 30 days—and eight weeks later, she died. Now when you hear story after story like this, you get some indication of the emotional pressure that builds and is debilitating, frankly. And we managed to get through it.DL: Wow. I got a little choked up just even hearing you tell that. Wow—I really don't know what to say.When you were working on the 9/11 Fund, did you have time for any other matters, or was this pretty much exclusively what you were working on for the 33 months?KF: Professionally, it was exclusive. Now what I did was, I stayed in my law firm, so I had a living. Other people in the firm were generating income for the firm; I wasn't on the dole. But it was exclusive. During the day, you are swamped with these individual requests, decisions that have to be made, checks that have to be cut. At night, I escaped: opera, orchestral concerts, chamber music, art museums—the height of civilization. During the day, in the depths of horror of civilization; at night, an escape, an opportunity to just enjoy the benefits of civilization. You better have a loving family, as I did, that stands behind you—because you never get over it, really.DL: That's such an important lesson, to actually have that time—because if you wanted to, you could have worked on this 24/7. But it is important to have some time to just clear your head or spend time with your family, especially just given what you were dealing with day-to-day.KF: That's right. And of course, during the day, we made a point of that as well. If we were holding hearings like the one I just explained, we'd take a one-hour break, go for a walk, go into Central Park or into downtown Washington, buy an ice cream cone, see the kids playing in playgrounds and laughing. You've got to let the steam out of the pressure cooker, or it'll kill you. And that was the most difficult part of the whole program. In all of these programs, that's the common denominator: emotional stress and unhappiness on the part of the victims.DL: One last question, before we turn to some other matters. There was also a very large logistical apparatus associated with this, right? For example, PricewaterhouseCoopers. It wasn't just you and Camille trying to deal with these thousands of survivors and claimants; you did have support.KF: That's right. Pricewaterhouse won the bid at the Justice Department. This is public: Pricewaterhouse, for something like around $100 million, put 450 people to work with us to help us process claims, appraise values, do the research. Pricewaterhouse was a tremendous ally and has gone on, since 9/11, to handle claims design and claims administration, as one of its many specialties. Emily Kent, Chuck Hacker, people like that we worked with for years, very much experts in these areas.DL: So after your work on the 9/11 Fund, you've worked on a number of these types of matters. Is there one that you would say ranks second in terms of complexity or difficulty or meaningfulness to you?KF: Yes. Deepwater Horizon in 2011, 2012—that oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico blew up and killed about, I don't know, 15 to 20 people in the explosion. But the real challenge in that program was how we received, in 16 months, about 1,250,000 claims for business interruption, business losses, property damage. We received over a million claims from 50 states. I think we got probably a dozen claims from New Jersey; I didn't know the oil had gotten to New Jersey. We received claims from 35 foreign countries. And the sheer volume of the disaster overwhelmed us. We had, at one point, something like 40,000 people—vendors—working for us. We had 35 offices throughout the Gulf of Mexico, from Galveston, Texas, all the way to Mobile Bay, Alabama. Nevertheless, in 16 months, on behalf of BP, Deepwater Horizon, we paid out all BP money, a little over $7 billion, to 550,000 eligible claimants. And that, I would say, other than 9/11, had the greatest impact and was the most satisfying.DL: You mentioned some claims coming from some pretty far-flung jurisdictions. In these programs, how much of a problem is fraud?KF: Not much. First of all, with death claims like 9/11 or the Boston Marathon bombings or the 20 first-graders who died in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, at the hands of a deranged gunmen—most of the time, in traumatic death and injury, you've got records. No one can beat the system; you have to have a death certificate. In 9/11, where are your military records, if you were at the Pentagon? Where are the airplane manifests? You've got to be on the manifest if you were flying on that plane.Now, the problem becomes more pronounced in something like BP, where you've got over a million claims, and you wonder, how many people can claim injury from this explosion? There we had an anti-fraud unit—Guidepost, Bart Schwartz's company—and they did a tremendous job of spot-checking claims. I think that out of over a million claims, there may have been 25,000 that were suspicious. And we sent those claims to the Justice Department, and they prosecuted a fair number of people. But it wasn't a huge problem. I think the fraud rate was something like 3 percent; that's nothing. So overall, we haven't found—and we have to be ever-vigilant, you're right—but we haven't found much in the way of fraud.DL: I'm glad to hear that, because it would really be very depressing to think that there were people trying to profiteer off these terrible disasters and tragedies. Speaking of continuing disasters and tragedies, turning to current events, you are now working with Southern California Edison in dealing with claims related to the Eaton Fire. And this is a pending matter, so of course you may have some limits in terms of what you can discuss, but what can you say in a general sense about this undertaking?KF: This is the Los Angeles wildfires that everybody knows about, from the last nine or ten months—the tremendous fire damage in Los Angeles. One of the fires, or one of the selected hubs of the fire, was the Eaton Fire. Southern California Edison, the utility involved in the litigation and finger-pointing, decided to set up, à la 9/11, a voluntary claims program. Not so much to deal with death—there were about 19 deaths, and a handful of physical injuries—but terrible fire damage, destroyed homes, damaged businesses, smoke and ash and soot, for miles in every direction. And the utility decided, its executive decided, “We want to do the right thing here. We may be held liable or we may not be held liable for the fire, but we think the right thing to do is nip in the bud this idea of extended litigation. Look at 9/11: only 94 people ended up suing. We want to set up a program.”They came to Camille and me. Over the last eight weeks, we've designed the program, and I think in the last week of October or the first week of November, you will see publicly, “Here is the protocol; here is the claim form. Please submit your claims, and we'll get them paid within 90 days.” And if history is an indicator, Camille and I think that the Eaton Fire Protocol will be a success, and the great bulk of the thousands of victims will voluntarily decide to come into the program. We'll see. [Ed. note: On Wednesday, a few days after Ken and I recorded this episode, Southern California Edison announced its Wildfire Recovery Compensation Program.]DL: That raises a question that I'm curious about. How would you describe the relationship between the work that you and Camille and your colleagues do and the traditional work of the courts, in terms of in-the-trenches litigation? Because I do wonder whether the growth in your field is perhaps related to some developments in litigation, in terms of litigation becoming more expensive over the decades (in a way that far outstrips inflation), more complicated, or more protracted. How would you characterize that relationship?KF: I would say that the programs that we design and administer—like 9/11, like BP, plus the Eaton wildfires—are an exception to the rule. Nobody should think that these programs that we have worked on are the wave of the future. They are not the wave of the future; they are isolated, unique examples, where a company—or in 9/11, the U.S. government—decides, “We ought to set up a special program where the courts aren't involved, certainly not directly.” In 9/11, they were prohibited to be involved, by statute; in some of these other programs, like BP, the courts have a relationship, but they don't interfere with the day-to-day administration of the program.And I think the American people have a lot of faith in the litigation system that you correctly point out can be uncertain, very inefficient, and very costly. But the American people, since the founding of the country, think, “You pick your lawyer, I'll pick my lawyer, and we'll have a judge and jury decide.” That's the American rule of law; I don't think it's going to change. But occasionally there is a groundswell of public pressure to come up with a program, or there'll be a company—like the utility, like BP—that decides to have a program.And I'll give you one other example: the Catholic Church confronted thousands of claims of sexual abuse by priests. It came to us, and we set up a program—just like 9/11, just like BP—where we invited, voluntarily, any minor—any minor from decades ago, now an adult—who had been abused by the church to come into this voluntary program. We paid out, I think, $700 million to $800 million, to victims in dioceses around the country. So there's another example—Camille did most of that—but these programs are all relatively rare. There are thousands of litigations every day, and nothing's going to change that.DL: I had a guest on a few weeks ago, Chris Seeger of Seeger Weiss, who does a lot of work in the mass-tort space. It's interesting: I feel that that space has evolved, and maybe in some ways it's more efficient than it used to be. They have these multi-district litigation panels, they have these bellwether trials, and then things often get settled, once people have a sense of the values. That system and your approach seem to have some similarities, in the sense that you're not individually trying each one of these cases, and you're having somebody with liability come forward and voluntarily pay out money, after some kind of negotiation.KF: Well, there's certainly negotiation in what Chris Seeger does; I'm not sure we have much negotiation. We say, “Here's the amount under the administrative scheme.” It's like in workers' compensation: here's the amount. You don't have to take it. There's nothing to really talk about, unless you have new evidence that we're not aware of. And those programs, when we do design them, seem to work very efficiently.Again, if you ask Camille Biros what was the toughest part of valuing individual claims of sexual-abuse directed at minors, she would say, “These hearings: we gave every person who wanted an opportunity to be heard.” And when they come to see Camille, they don't come to talk about money; they want validation for what they went through. “Believe me, will you? Ken, Camille, believe me.” And when Camille says, “We do believe you,” they immediately, or almost immediately, accept the compensation and sign a release: “I will not sue the Catholic diocese.”DL: So you mentioned there isn't really much negotiation, but you did talk in the book about these sort of “appeals.” You had these two tracks, “Appeals A” and “Appeals B.” Can you talk about that? Did you ever revisit what you had set as the award for a particular victim's family, after hearing from them in person?KF: Sure. Now, remember, those appeals came back to us, not to a court; there's no court involvement. But in 9/11, in BP, if somebody said, “You made a mistake—you didn't account for these profits or this revenue, or you didn't take into account this contract that my dead firefighter husband had that would've given him a lot more money”—of course, we'll revisit that. We invited that. But that's an internal appeals process. The people who calculated the value of the claim are the same people that are going to be looking at revisiting the claim. But again, that's due process, and that's something that we thought was important.DL: You and Camille have been doing this really important work for decades. Since this is, of course, shortly after your 80th birthday, I should ask: do you have future plans? You're tackling some of the most complicated matters, headline-making matters. Would you ever want to retire at some point?KF: I have no intention of retiring. I do agree that when you reach a certain pinnacle in what you've done, you do slow down. We are much more selective in what we do. I used to have maybe 15 mediations going on at once; now, we have one or two matters, like the Los Angeles wildfires. As long as I'm capable, as long as Camille's willing, we'll continue to do it, but we'll be very careful about what we select to do. We don't travel much. The Los Angeles wildfires was largely Zooms, going back and forth. And we're not going to administer that program. We had administered 9/11 and BP; we're trying to move away from that. It's very time-consuming and stressful. So we've accomplished a great deal over the last 50 years—but as long as we can do it, we'll continue to do it.DL: Do you have any junior colleagues who would take over what you and Camille have built?KF: We don't have junior colleagues. There's just the two of us and Cindy Sanzotta, our receptionist. But it's an interesting question: “Who's after Feinberg? Who's next in doing this?” I think there are thousands of people in this country who could do what we do. It is not rocket science. It really isn't. I'll tell you what's difficult: the emotion. If somebody wants to do what we do, you better brace yourself for the emotion, the anger, the frustration, the finger pointing. It goes with the territory. And if you don't have the psychological ability to handle this type of stress, stay away. But I'm sure somebody will be there, and no one's irreplaceable.DL: Well, I know I personally could not handle it. I worked when I was at a law firm on civil litigation over insurance proceeds related to the World Trade Center, and that was a very draining case, and I was very glad to no longer be on it. So I could not do what you and Camille do. But let me ask you, to end this section on a positive note: what would you say is the most rewarding or meaningful or satisfying aspect of the work that you do on these programs?KF: Giving back to the community. Public service. Helping the community heal. Not so much the individuals; the individuals are part of the community. “Every individual can make a difference.” I remember that every day, what John F. Kennedy said: government service is a noble undertaking. So what's most rewarding for me is that although I'm a private practitioner—I am no longer in government service, since my days with Senator Kennedy—I'd like to think that I performed a valuable service for the community, the resilience of the community, the charity exhibited by the community. And that gives me a great sense of self-satisfaction.DL: You absolutely have. It's been amazing, and I'm so grateful for you taking the time to join me.So now, onto our speed round. These are four questions that are standardized. My first question is, what do you like the least about the law? And this can either be the practice of law or law in a more abstract sense.KF: Uncertainty. What I don't like about the law is—and I guess maybe it's the flip side of the best way to get to a result—I don't like the uncertainty of the law. I don't like the fact that until the very end of the process, you don't know if your view and opinion will prevail. And I think losing control over your destiny in that regard is problematic.DL: My second question—and maybe we touched on this a little bit, when we talked about your father's opinions—what would you be if you were not a lawyer?KF: Probably an actor. As I say, I almost became an actor. And I still love theater and the movies and Broadway shows. If my father hadn't given me that advice, I was on the cusp of pursuing a career in the theater.DL: Have you dabbled in anything in your (probably limited) spare time—community theater, anything like that?KF: No, but I certainly have prioritized in my spare time classical music and the peace and optimism it brings to the listener. It's been an important part of my life.DL: My third question is, how much sleep do you get each night?KF: Well, it varies from program to program. I'd like to get seven hours. That's what my doctors tell me: “Ken, very important—more important than pills and exercise and diet—is sleep. Your body needs a minimum of seven hours.” Well, for me, seven hours is rare—it's more like six or even five, and during 9/11 or during Eaton wildfires, it might be more like four or five. And that's not enough, and that is a problem.DL: My last question is, any final words of wisdom, such as career advice or life advice, for my listeners?KF: Yes, I'll give you some career and life advice. It's very simple: don't plan too far ahead. People have this view—you may think you know what you want to do with your career. You may think you know what life holds for you. You don't know. If I've learned anything over the last decades, life has a way of changing the best-laid plans. These 9/11 husbands and wives said goodbye to their children, “we'll see you for dinner,” a perfunctory wave—and they never saw them again. Dust, not even a body. And the idea I tell law students—who say, ”I'm going to be a corporate lawyer,” or “I'm going to be a litigator”—I tell them, “You have no idea what your legal career will look like. Look at Feinberg; he never planned on this. He never thought, in his wildest dreams, that this would be his chosen avenue of the law.”My advice: enjoy the moment. Do what you like now. Don't worry too much about what you'll be doing two years, five years, 10 years, a lifetime ahead of you. It doesn't work that way. Everybody gets thrown curveballs, and that's advice I give to everybody.DL: Well, you did not plan out your career, but it has turned out wonderfully, and the country is better for it. Thank you, Ken, both for your work on all these matters over the years and for joining me today.KF: A privilege and an honor. Thanks, David.DL: Thanks so much to Ken for joining me—and, of course, for his decades of work resolving some of the thorniest disputes in the country, which is truly a form of public service.Thanks to NexFirm for sponsoring the Original Jurisdiction podcast. NexFirm has helped many attorneys to leave Biglaw and launch firms of their own. 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El 29 de octubre es un día especial en el calendario a partir de ahora, ya que la Organización de las Naciones Unidas ha proclamado esta fecha como el Día Internacional de los Cuidados y el Apoyo. 1508.- Fernando el Católico firma la Real Provisión por la que confiere al almirante Diego Colón (hijo del descubridor de América) la gobernación de las Indias, islas y Tierra Firme. 1836.- En España, el traslado de la Universidad Complutense de Alcalá de Henares a Madrid queda definitivamente reconocido por orden de Isabel II. 1901.- Se inaugura el funicular del Tibidabo, en Barcelona, el primer ferrocarril de este tipo construido en España. 1922.- El rey de Italia, Víctor Manuel III, encarga a Benito Mussolini la formación de gobierno. 1929.- En Nueva York tiene lugar el martes negro, con las mayores caídas en las cotizaciones bursátiles, origen de la Gran Depresión o el Crac del 29, una de las mayores crisis económicas del siglo XX. 1933.- Tiene lugar, en el Teatro de la Comedia de Madrid, el discurso de José Antonio Primo de Rivera, considerado el acto fundacional de la Falange Española. 1936.- Durante la guerra civil española son fusilados en Madrid, en el cementerio de Aravaca, los escritores e ideólogos Ramiro de Maeztu y Ramiro Ledesma, junto a una treintena de personas. 1947.- Se funda en Bruselas el Acuerdo de Unión Aduanera entre Bélgica, Holanda y Luxemburgo, más conocido como Benelux. 1959.- La revista francesa "Pilote" publica el primer número de la saga Astérix y Obélix. 1981.- En España, el Congreso de los Diputados autoriza al Gobierno a negociar la adhesión del país a la Organización del Tratado del Atlántico Norte (OTAN). 1989.- En España, se produce el tercer triunfo consecutivo del PSOE en elecciones legislativas. Obtiene mayoría absoluta con 176 escaños. 1992.- El Congreso español ratifica el Tratado de Maastricht para la Unión Europea (UE). 2004.- Los 25 países miembros de la Unión Europea (UE) firman en Roma la primera Constitución Europea. Santoral para hoy 29 de octubre: santos Narciso, Lucio, Jacinto y Feliciano. Netanyahu ordena a las fuerzas armadas "ataques contundentes" de inmediato en Gaza. Estados Unidos y Japón elevan su alianza a una "nueva era dorada" con pactos en comercio, seguridad y tierras raras. Los europeos prefieren viajar dentro de su país: el 71% de los viajes de ocio son nacionales. Feijóo ve "coherente" el adelanto en Extremadura por la falta de presupuestos y, sobre Aragón, "habrá que ver qué ocurre". El Estado se ofrece a “atender de inmediato” a 252 menores solicitantes de asilo de Canarias. El Gobierno prevé disponer de 612 plazas en el sistema de acogida para menores migrantes en los próximos 15 días. Buenas noticias para los autónomos en Canarias: el Gobierno abonará la cuota de la Seguridad Social durante la baja laboral. Estas medidas se unen, además, a otras puestas en marcha por el Gobierno de Canarias como la cuota cero. Canarias invierte 300 millones en sus universidades, el mayor presupuesto de la historia. El presidente autonómico, Fernando Clavijo, anuncia en el Pleno del Parlamento que en 2026 las instituciones académicas contarán con diez millones más que en el presente ejercicio. El campo y la pesca se adormecen en su contribución a la economía: solo aportan el 1,7% del PIB canario. El valor a precios corrientes de las producciones agropesqueras isleñas alcanza los 939 millones de euros, el registro desagregado más reciente de Contabilidad Regional de España, de 2023; el promedio nacional es casi un punto superior, con el 2,5% en el mismo año. Un 29 de octubre de 1930 nació Omara Portuondo, que es una cantante cubano-española de son y boleros, además de ser una de las mayores representantes del llamado filin. Conocida como «La diva del Buena Vista Social Club» o «La novia del feeling»

Today’s topic is an abandoned mansion, but it was once a gorgeous and luxurious home designed for a prominent citizen of northern Italy. It’s often described as haunted and as having a dark history, but there are some interesting contradictions regarding that story. Research: “Caravan Journal, the rediscovered manuscript. The Orient through the eyes of a forgotten Milanese patriot: Felice De Vecchi.” Arte.IT: The Map of Art in Italy. https://www.arte.it/calendario-arte/milano/mostra-giornale-di-carovana-il-manoscritto-ritrovato-l-oriente-attraverso-gli-occhi-di-un-patriota-milanese-dimenticato-felice-de-vecchi-4835 “Cesare Maria De Vecchi in Rhodes.” Palace of the Grand Master. https://grandmasterpalacerhodes.gr/cesare-maria-de-vecchi/ Claus, Patricia. “Mussolini's Old Villa on Rhodes Still on Real Estate Market.” Greek Reporter. July 17, 2020. https://greekreporter.com/2020/07/17/mussolinis-old-villa-on-rhodes-still-on-real-estate-market/ Britannica Editors. "Aleister Crowley". Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Oct. 2025, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aleister-Crowley Frigo, Marco. “Villa De Vecchi: the haunted mansion inhabited by ghosts not far from Milan with a mysterious, dramatic and fascinating past.” Milano Segreta. Oct. 6, 2025. https://milanosegreta.co/en/villa-de-vecchi-ghost-mansion/ Linstrom, Emily. “Villa de Vecchi.” Atlas Obscura. Lecco, Alberto, Foot, John. "Milan". Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Oct. 2025, https://www.britannica.com/place/Milan-Italy Linstrom, Emily. “Villa de Vecchi.” Atlas Obscura. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/villa-de-vecchi “History of Milan.” Civitatis Milan. https://www.introducingmilan.com/history Imam, Maham. “ATHENAEUM: Adaptive reuse of Villa De Vecchi into a public Library.” University of Management and Technology, Lahore. 2023. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j3dhAHK8v4i-vV_IkAB8WXWMXpCEP_BQ/view?pli=1 Philip, Lizzie. “The Real Story Behind Northern Italy’s Abandoned ‘Ghost Mansion.’” Atlas Obscura. Oct. 17, 2018. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ghost-mansion-in-northern-italy#:~:text=Place-,Villa%20de%20Vecchi,explore%20more%20Atlas%20Obscura%20videos. Pitzalis, Bruno. “Step Inside an Abandoned ‘Ghost Mansion’ of Northern Italy. Atlas Obscura. Oct. 9, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTP2erZ7CBc&t=38s Santarelli, Enzo. “DE VECCHI, Cesare Maria.” Biographical Dictionary of Italians. https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/de-vecchi-cesare-maria_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ “Sidoli, Alessandro (1812-1855), Architekt, Maler und Graphiker.” Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon. Austrian Center for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage. (Translated.) https://www.biographien.ac.at/oebl/oebl_S/Sidoli_Alessandro_1812_1855.xml Smee, Taryn. “The Red House – Italy’s Most Haunted Villa Which Lies Abandoned and Off Limits.” The Vintage News. Nov. 20, 2018. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/11/20/villa-de-vecchi/ “Villa De Vecchi, Italy: A Timeless Masterpiece of Architectural Splendor.” Rethinking the Future. https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/articles/villa-de-vecchi-italy See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

¡Vótame en los Premios iVoox 2025! Mussolini soñaba con un "Mare Nostrum", pero su estrategia balcánica era un castillo de naipes. En este episodio, desentrañamos la obsesión italiana por dominar los Balcanes y el Mediterráneo: una red de influencia política, bases navales y una desesperada búsqueda de recursos para su frágil economía. Mientras Roma planeaba su invasión desde Albania, analizamos sus ilusiones de victoria rápida. Todo ello, chocará con la compleja realidad de la política interior del régimen griego, que pese a la terrible dictadura de Metaxás, plantaría cara a Italia con la ayuda del Reino Unido. Segundo episodio de la miniserie La Campaña Balcánica Italiana, donde te contaremos las operaciones militares de un ejército que se demostró poco hábil contra ejércitos teóricamente inferiores. Te lo cuentan Antonio Gómez y Dani CarAn. "Figli della Lupa Romana" y la "Suite Griega CBP" son temas musicales compuestos por Dani CarAn. Esta obra está protegida bajo la licencia Creative Commons Atribución – No Comercial 4.0 Internacional (CC BY-NC 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.es Casus Belli Podcast pertenece a 🏭 Factoría Casus Belli. Casus Belli Podcast forma parte de 📀 Ivoox Originals. 📚 Zeppelin Books (Digital) y 📚 DCA Editor (Físico) http://zeppelinbooks.com son sellos editoriales de la 🏭 Factoría Casus Belli. Estamos en: 👉 X/Twitter https://twitter.com/CasusBelliPod 👉 Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CasusBelliPodcast 👉 Instagram estamos https://www.instagram.com/casusbellipodcast 👉 Telegram Canal https://t.me/casusbellipodcast 👉 Telegram Grupo de Chat https://t.me/casusbellipod 📺 YouTube https://bit.ly/casusbelliyoutube 👉 http://casusbelli.top ⚛️ El logotipo de Casus Belli Podcasdt y el resto de la Factoría Casus Belli están diseñados por Publicidad Fabián publicidadfabian@yahoo.es 🎵 La música incluida en el programa es Ready for the war de Marc Corominas Pujadó bajo licencia CC. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ El resto de música es propia, o bajo licencia privada de Epidemic Music, Jamendo Music o SGAE SGAE RRDD/4/1074/1012 de Ivoox. 🎭Las opiniones expresadas en este programa de pódcast, son de exclusiva responsabilidad de quienes las trasmiten. Que cada palo aguante su vela. 📧¿Queréis contarnos algo? También puedes escribirnos a casus.belli.pod@gmail.com ¿Quieres anunciarte en este podcast, patrocinar un episodio o una serie? Hazlo a través de 👉 https://www.advoices.com/casus-belli-podcast-historia Si te ha gustado, y crees que nos lo merecemos, nos sirve mucho que nos des un like, ya que nos da mucha visibilidad. Muchas gracias por escucharnos, y hasta la próxima. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Het Witte Huis is geen ambtswoning, maar het nationale symbool van de Verenigde Staten. Een politiek heiligdom. Élysée en Torentje tegelijk. Niettemin was het in 250 jaar Verenigde Staten al van alles, van woonhuis tot kinderspeelplaats, crisiscentrum, perskamer, feestzaal, rouwkapel en seksplek. Een deel ervan is nu gesloopt voor een balzaal voor 1000 gasten. En dat is nog maar het begin. Trumps bouwproject is een en al symboliek. Wat begon met ordinaire opsmuk in het oval office en een pantry vol MAGA-prullaria - 'Do not forget to visit the Gift Shop!' - ontaardt in een Versailles-achtige aanbouw bij een Romeins-republikeins stadspaleisje. Daar komt de destructie van historische plaatsen bij en een plan om heel het hart van Washington visueel te ruïneren. *** Deze aflevering is mede mogelijk gemaakt met donaties van luisteraars die we hiervoor hartelijk danken. Word ook vriend van de show! Heb je belangstelling om in onze podcast te adverteren of ons te sponsoren? Zend ons een mailtje en wij zoeken contact. *** Is dit megalomanie, vragen Jaap Jansen en PG Kroeger zich af. Welnee! In het milieu van Las Vegas en vastgoedmagnaten waar Donald Trump zich thuis voelt is zoiets de norm. Anne Applebaum analyseert het als een bewuste privatisering van de nationale symboliek en haar historische waarde. Zoals Trump ook '250 jaar Verenigde Staten' privatiseert, zodat de historie alleen door hem en in hem betekenis krijgt en verleent. Het is de geesteshouding van een autocraat. En in geestverwanten in zulke regimes door de eeuwen heen vindt Trump zijn rolmodel. Keizer Nero bouwde een kolossaal standbeeld van zichzelf met een stadion ernaast, het Colosseum. Benito Mussolini schonk Rome een complex voor een wereldtentoonstelling en Olympiade. De Kims bouwen nog steeds aan Pyongyang als een hoofdstad van lege façade-architectuur. Hun bewonderaar Nicolae Ceaușescu dreigde Boekarest met net zulke monsterlijke bouwwerken te ruïneren. De Muur viel net op tijd. Jozef Stalin had waanzinnige bouwplannen en realiseerde ze. Al ging een 424 meter hoge toren pal naast het Kremlin met daarop een 80 meter hoog beeld van Lenin niet door. Adolf Hitler liet Albert Speer het Justitiepaleis van Brussel en de Arc de Triomphe in Parijs natekenen als voorontwerp voor zijn wereldhoofdstad Germania met haar Volkshalle. Alleen tunneldelen onder Berlijn en draagzuilen van zijn boog bleven over. Maar ambitieuze democratische heersers kunnen er ook wat van. François Mitterrand liet Parijs verfraaien met zijn Grand Louvre en Piramide, Musée d'Orsay, La Vilette, Institut Monde Arabe, Grande Arche de la Défense, Bibliotèque Nationale François Mitterrand en natuurlijk de Opéra Bastille. Die werd geopend in 1989 met een gala voor de Revolutie van 14 juli 1789. Alle groten der klassieke zang traden op. 'Le Jour de Gloire est Arrivé!' De natte droom van Donald Trump. *** Verder kijken Trump’s new White House ballroom: modern luxury or historic risk? President Trump on White House Ballroom Construction (en Mark Rutte doet of hij er niet bij is) *** Verder luisteren 494 - Trumps aanval op de geschiedenis en de geest van Amerika https://art19.com/shows/betrouwbare-bronnen/episodes/ec4b170a-05a9-4af3-9010-c0986376dd3a 360 - 4th of July: Mar-a-Lago, de plek waar het al 100 jaar gebeurt https://art19.com/shows/betrouwbare-bronnen/episodes/d3a58eb1-086c-4fb6-8688-6d87a37d3925 481 - Donald Trumps nieuwe idool William McKinley, ‘de tarievenkoning’ https://art19.com/shows/betrouwbare-bronnen/episodes/018eaa63-b81a-4b17-9342-e98ee53bf516 475 – Trumps rolmodel Andrew Jackson https://art19.com/shows/betrouwbare-bronnen/episodes/06d493a9-b8fd-4fb9-a125-6399192697c0 459 – Rolmodel George Washington https://art19.com/shows/betrouwbare-bronnen/episodes/92f012be-cd93-4928-b3b3-5bef409c6bca 519 - Thomas Jefferson, de revolutionaire schrijver van de Onafhankelijkheidsverklaring https://omny.fm/shows/betrouwbare-bronnen/519-thomas-jefferson-de-revolutionaire-schrijver-van-de-onafhankelijkheidsverklaring 397 - Benjamin Franklin, Zijner Majesteits meest loyale rebel https://art19.com/shows/betrouwbare-bronnen/episodes/18e40074-a4f4-4752-8dc9-6fbdaf8c91f0 115 - Thomas Paine en De Rechten van de Mens https://art19.com/shows/betrouwbare-bronnen/episodes/2271fce7-c85d-41fa-a64a-94e589251166 534 - Franse schandalen: Nicolas Sarkozy en andere presidenten waar een luchtje aan zit https://omny.fm/shows/betrouwbare-bronnen/534-franse-schandalen-nicolas-sarkozy-en-andere-presidenten-waar-een-luchtje-aan-kleeft 105 - Dagelijks leven in Nazi-Duitsland https://art19.com/shows/betrouwbare-bronnen/episodes/ad301f73-376f-4d97-b8c2-fb74f084db5e 531 - Muziek en tirannie: de schrijnende actualiteit van Dmitri Sjostakovitsj https://omny.fm/shows/betrouwbare-bronnen/531-muziek-en-tirannie-de-schrijnende-actualiteit-van-dmitri-sjostakovitsj 354 - Eenzaamheid, machtsstrijd en repressie in het Russische rijk van Poetin, Stalin en tsaar Nicolaas II https://art19.com/shows/betrouwbare-bronnen/episodes/411a9106-9da2-40f5-9f06-9f19aff37246 395 - Winterboeken, met Stephen Kotkins monumentale Stalin-biografie https://art19.com/shows/betrouwbare-bronnen/episodes/8451693e-9bbe-4b87-906b-4a494edfca2e 394 – Honderd jaar na zijn dood: de schrijnende actualiteit van Lenin https://art19.com/shows/betrouwbare-bronnen/episodes/27f967ab-d2e5-496f-83bd-d5d3c1e26413 281 - Fourth of July: Amerika reisgids voor politieke junkies https://art19.com/shows/betrouwbare-bronnen/episodes/d1f6fb79-49b3-456e-a7b3-b09ddf2a5ae8 *** Tijdlijn 00:00:00 – Deel 1 00:23:27 – Deel 2 00:50:22 – Deel 3 01:24:40 - EindeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Well, here we are, finally.  The Axis powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan have been defeated.   Hitler has committed suicide, at least that's the official story, Mussolini was captured and hanged, and the Japanese emperor had to go on a nationwide broadcast and admit that he was not a deity.  The Allies were firmly in control of all the Axis lands, and the countries that they had conquered.  If you look at a map of the high-tide mark of the Axis control, which was probably mid-1942, they controlled all of Europe, except the UK and the remnant of the European part of the USSR.  They controlled much of North Africa.  The Axis controlled all of the western Pacific Ocean, and in mid-1942, they had inflicted huge damage on the existing militaries of the Allies.  Website:  shortwalkthroughhistory.comemail:  shortwalkthroughhistory@gmail.com

Hvordan bringer man ofrene for nazismens forbrydelser under 2. verdenskrig i blivende erindring? En tysk kunstner fik for 30 år siden den enkle, men geniale idé at sætte såkaldte ”snublesten” ud for ofrenes bopæle, så de ikke undgår forbipasserendes opmærksomhed. Idéen har siden bredt sig til 31 lande, hvor der nu er sat over 160.000 snublesten, herunder også til Danmark, hvor der snart er sat 200 sten i byer over hele landet. I podcasten medvirker forfatteren Henriette Harris. der selv er frivillig i det danske snublestens-projekt. I en ny bog ”De var os” fortæller hun om manden bag, Gunther Demnig, og om hvordan han fik idéen. Vi hører også om nogle af de danske ofre, der er sat snublesten for. Mange var jøder, men ikke udelukkende, da der også sat sten for danske modstandsfolk. Men hvad er egentlig betingelserne for at sætte snublesten? Sætter man dem kun for ofre, der omkom eller kan de overlevende også få en sten? Hvem finansierer snublestenene, og hvordan kan det være, at projektet enkelte steder også har mødt modstand? Vi kommer også rundt om jødernes skæbne i Norge, der blev meget hård og om jøderne i Berlin, der engang talte 160.000 personer. Endelig skal vi høre om, hvordan fascistlederen Mussolini behandlede de italienske jøder frem mod krigen, og hvad der siden blev deres tragiske skæbne. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Empire of Japan's decision to break with liberal democracies in favor of rising fascist powers was driven, in part, by the successes enjoyed by said fascist powers throughout the 1930s. In this episode, we discuss how their leaders managed to consolidate that power in the first place.Support the show My latest novel, "Califia's Crusade," is now available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple Books, Bookshop.org, and many other online platforms!

When Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels declared the Loch Ness Monster a hoax to mock British intelligence and Mussolini claimed Italy bombed Nessie to death, the Allies fired back with the ultimate counter-propaganda: the lake monster survived and became a war hero.Support our Halloween “Overcoming the Darkness” campaign to help people with depression: https://weirddarkness.com/HOPEIN THIS EPISODE: You probably saw the title of this episode and immediately thought, “Whaaa?” Well, I'm going to tell you one of the most ridiculous stories I've ever heard that is 100% true. The Axis powers of World War II tried to kill the Loch Ness Monster. (The Assassination of the Loch Ness Monster) *** As far back as time is recorded, mankind has had a fascination with Sirius, the Dogstar. But what is so special about it aside from the fact that it's one of the brightest stars in our sky? Might there be an extraterrestrial connection as well? (Why So Serious About Sirius?) *** UFO reports come in constantly to police stations and online sites dedicated to the subject of Ufology – practically on a daily basis. And many sightings are by people you would consider above reproach such as law enforcement, scientists, military, numerous sightings by pilots… but when you head out into space and see a UFO, as is what happens with astronauts' reports, that's something you take a much closer look at. (Code Word: Santa Claus) *** Jimmy Logue left his wife after only two years of marriage. Without first getting divorced, he married another woman – whom he badly mistreated, so she left him. But he had already started an affair with her sister, so he married her next – now on his third wife. He abused her as well. He was also a career criminal – spending half his life living off the spoils of his thievery, the other half behind bars when caught. So it probably comes as no surprise that he was suspect number one when his third wife was found murdered. (A Romance In Crime) CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open00:02:46.639 = The Assassination of the Loch Ness Monster00:06:29.397 = A Romance In Crime00:14:10.249 = ***Why So Serious About Sirius?00:37:43.689 = ***Code Word: Santa Claus00:46:08.503 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakSOURCES and RESOURCES – and/or --- PRINT VERSION to READ or SHARE:BOOK: “The Sirius Mystery: New Scientific Evidence of Alien Contact 5,000 Years Ago” by Robert Temple: https://amzn.to/2JDnD27BOOK: “The Secret Teachings of All Ages” by Manly P. Hall: https://amzn.to/3mNlkbo“Why So Serious About Sirius?” by Gregg Prescott, M.S. for Message To Eagle: https://tinyurl.com/y2v4gqsd“The Assassination of the Loch Ness Monster” by Blake Stilwell for Military.com: https://tinyurl.com/y2kpzrn5“A Romance in Crime” by Robert Wilhelm for Murder by Gaslight: https://tinyurl.com/y584we6w“Code Word: Santa Claus” by Tim Swartz, for Mysteries Magazine (no longer online or in print)=====(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)= = = = ="I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46= = = = =WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.=====Originally aired: December 05, 2020EPISODE PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/NazisVsNessieABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: Weird Darkness is a true crime and paranormal podcast narrated by professional award-winning voice actor, Darren Marlar. Seven days per week, Weird Darkness focuses on all thing strange and macabre such as haunted locations, unsolved mysteries, true ghost stories, supernatural manifestations, urban legends, unsolved or cold case murders, conspiracy theories, and more. On Thursdays, this scary stories podcast features horror fiction along with the occasional creepypasta. Weird Darkness has been named one of the “Best 20 Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal. Listeners have described the show as a cross between “Coast to Coast” with Art Bell, “The Twilight Zone” with Rod Serling, “Unsolved Mysteries” with Robert Stack, and “In Search Of” with Leonard Nimoy.DISCLAIMER: Ads heard during the podcast that are not in my voice are placed by third party agencies outside of my control and should not imply an endorsement by Weird Darkness or myself. *** Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised.#WeirdDarkness #WWIIHistory #LochNessMonster #Propaganda #NaziGermany #BizarreHistory #WorldWarII #Nessie #StrangeButTrue #WeirdHistory

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQAKGQ-687M&t=10s Premiered on 9 Mar 2025 Ella Rule, chair of the CPGB-ML gives a presentation to celebrate International Working Women's day 2025. Ella Rule gives the real and uncensored history of Sylvia Pankhurst, her family and background, hers fathers role in the formation of the Independent Labour Party, her More and sisters fight for the rights of women to have the Vote. And most importantly Sylvia's struggle against all injustice, for property rights for married women, against racism, against colonialism, for freedom for India and later Abyssinia - Ethiopia, and along the way her realisation that all workers and oppressed must struggle for their own freedom, and that path lay along the direction of socialism. Organising among the working women and the working people of East London, she founded the Women's Dreadnaught, with a circulation of 20,000, and after WW1, in the time of the great socialist stirring of the British Masses, the Red Rising, she changed her organisation's name to the Worker's dreadnaught. Journeying to Moscow to meet Lenin at the Second Congress of the communist international, she was persuaded to lead her organisation to join in forming the young communist party - the CPGB - with William Gallagher and others, and to affiliate to Labour: “in order to support it as a rope supports a hanged man”. However falling in love with an Italian anarcho-socialist, she criticised the Soviet Union's centralised economic planning, and in stead joined to Italy to take part in the bienno-rosso: the Red two years, in Turin, and other cities where workers had taken effective power of their cities and workplaces - until drowned in blood by the rise of Mussolini. Sylvia withdrew from the movement, concentrating on campaigning for womens maternity and children's rights, before journeying to Ethiopia where she made important contributions to the development of Ethiopia and its civil institutions, after Ethiopia had managed to rid itself of Italian Colonialism. Ella's article on Sylvia Pankhurst can be read here: https://www.lalkar.org/article/4641/t... Subscribe! Donate! Join us in building a bright future for humanity! www.thecommunists.org www.lalkar.org www.redyouth.org Telegram: t.me/thecommunists Twitter: twitter.com/cpgbml Soundcloud: @proletarianradio Rumble: rumble.com/c/theCommunists Odysee: odysee.com/@proletariantv:2 Facebook: www.facebook.com/cpgbml Online Shop: https://shop.thecommunists.org/ Education Program: Each one teach one! www.londonworker.org/education-programme/ Join the struggle www.thecommunists.org/join/ Donate: www.thecommunists.org/donate/

À l'est du pays, plusieurs centaines de milliers d'enfants et d'adolescents vivent dans les territoires occupés depuis plus de 10 ans.  À l'école, ils subissent un endoctrinement, on leur apprend à haïr l'Ukraine et à glorifier la Russie et son armée. En dépit de ce lavage de cerveau, certains jeunes parviennent à partir. Fuir l'occupation russe, au risque de rompre avec sa famille À l'est de l'Ukraine, plusieurs centaines de milliers d'enfants et d'adolescents résident dans les territoires occupés par la Russie depuis plus de 10 ans.  À l'école, ils subissent un endoctrinement, on leur apprend à haïr l'Ukraine et à glorifier la Russie et son armée. En dépit de ce lavage de cerveau, certains jeunes parviennent à résister, à découvrir une autre vision de la situation, voire à fuir ces territoires occupés. C'est le cas d'Ivan, 18 ans. Après avoir fait connaissance avec des adolescents ukrainiens sur Internet, il a pris la décision de quitter sa ville natale de Louhansk pour rejoindre Kiev, au risque de ne plus jamais revoir ses parents. Anastasia Becchio et Julien Boileau l'ont rencontré.   Olha Reshetylova, médiatrice pour les droits des soldats Pour défendre leur pays face à la Russie, les Ukrainiens se sont mobilisés dans des proportions sans précédent. Souvent de façon spontanée, en dehors de cadres institutionnels parfois très désorganisés au début du conflit. Et jusqu'à présent, les soldats et leurs familles n'avaient jamais disposé d'une structure indépendante pour les défendre au sein de l'État. C'est désormais chose faite, avec la création officielle d'un poste de médiateur militaire ; et la nomination à ce poste d'Olha Reshetylova. Issue de la société civile, consciente d'une méfiance générale à l'égard des institutions militaires, elle était déjà active sur cette question. Les précisions à Kyiv de notre correspondante Emmanuelle Chaze.   Que savent les Italiens de leur histoire coloniale ?  L'Italie est encore un jeune pays quand ses troupes débarquent sur les côtes africaines dans les années 1880.  Elle installe d'abord des colonies en Somalie, en Érythrée, puis dans l'actuelle Libye. En 1936, après la conquête de l'Éthiopie, Benito Mussolini déclare posséder un Empire, alors même que les grandes puissances coloniales commencent à envisager un après. L'histoire de cet Empire qui s'arrête avec la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale est brève, mais très violente. Et si elle a profondément marqué l'imaginaire des Italiens, elle reste paradoxalement mal connue. À Rovereto dans le nord de l'Italie, le Musée de la guerre présente une exposition sur ces années, et leur écho. Visite guidée avec Olivier Favier.     En un mot : le Social prescribing, des ordonnances pour faire du sport ou consulter une assistante sociale Au Royaume-Uni, comme dans de nombreux pays d'Europe, la santé publique est toujours à la peine : le manque de moyens et la pénurie de main-d'œuvre affectent depuis des années le NHS le service de santé nationale. Alors pour répondre aux besoins des patients, les professionnels innovent : à la fois par souci d'économie et d'efficacité, ils ont notamment lancé «les prescriptions sociales». Dans les cas où les médicaments ne seraient pas forcément utiles, elles peuvent se substituer aux traditionnelles ordonnances médicales. Marie Billon.

À l'est du pays, plusieurs centaines de milliers d'enfants et d'adolescents vivent dans les territoires occupés depuis plus de 10 ans.  À l'école, ils subissent un endoctrinement, on leur apprend à haïr l'Ukraine et à glorifier la Russie et son armée. En dépit de ce lavage de cerveau, certains jeunes parviennent à partir. Fuir l'occupation russe, au risque de rompre avec sa famille À l'est de l'Ukraine, plusieurs centaines de milliers d'enfants et d'adolescents résident dans les territoires occupés par la Russie depuis plus de 10 ans.  À l'école, ils subissent un endoctrinement, on leur apprend à haïr l'Ukraine et à glorifier la Russie et son armée. En dépit de ce lavage de cerveau, certains jeunes parviennent à résister, à découvrir une autre vision de la situation, voire à fuir ces territoires occupés. C'est le cas d'Ivan, 18 ans. Après avoir fait connaissance avec des adolescents ukrainiens sur Internet, il a pris la décision de quitter sa ville natale de Louhansk pour rejoindre Kiev, au risque de ne plus jamais revoir ses parents. Anastasia Becchio et Julien Boileau l'ont rencontré.   Olha Reshetylova, médiatrice pour les droits des soldats Pour défendre leur pays face à la Russie, les Ukrainiens se sont mobilisés dans des proportions sans précédent. Souvent de façon spontanée, en dehors de cadres institutionnels parfois très désorganisés au début du conflit. Et jusqu'à présent, les soldats et leurs familles n'avaient jamais disposé d'une structure indépendante pour les défendre au sein de l'État. C'est désormais chose faite, avec la création officielle d'un poste de médiateur militaire ; et la nomination à ce poste d'Olha Reshetylova. Issue de la société civile, consciente d'une méfiance générale à l'égard des institutions militaires, elle était déjà active sur cette question. Les précisions à Kyiv de notre correspondante Emmanuelle Chaze.   Que savent les Italiens de leur histoire coloniale ?  L'Italie est encore un jeune pays quand ses troupes débarquent sur les côtes africaines dans les années 1880.  Elle installe d'abord des colonies en Somalie, en Érythrée, puis dans l'actuelle Libye. En 1936, après la conquête de l'Éthiopie, Benito Mussolini déclare posséder un Empire, alors même que les grandes puissances coloniales commencent à envisager un après. L'histoire de cet Empire qui s'arrête avec la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale est brève, mais très violente. Et si elle a profondément marqué l'imaginaire des Italiens, elle reste paradoxalement mal connue. À Rovereto dans le nord de l'Italie, le Musée de la guerre présente une exposition sur ces années, et leur écho. Visite guidée avec Olivier Favier.     En un mot : le Social prescribing, des ordonnances pour faire du sport ou consulter une assistante sociale Au Royaume-Uni, comme dans de nombreux pays d'Europe, la santé publique est toujours à la peine : le manque de moyens et la pénurie de main-d'œuvre affectent depuis des années le NHS le service de santé nationale. Alors pour répondre aux besoins des patients, les professionnels innovent : à la fois par souci d'économie et d'efficacité, ils ont notamment lancé «les prescriptions sociales». Dans les cas où les médicaments ne seraient pas forcément utiles, elles peuvent se substituer aux traditionnelles ordonnances médicales. Marie Billon.

After alienating the western liberal democracies with whom they had previously enjoyed friendly relations, the Empire of Japan began exploring new friendship and alliances with the growing fascist powers which were emerging in Europe as the Second Sino-Japanese war began in 1937.Support the show My latest novel, "Califia's Crusade," is now available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple Books, Bookshop.org, and many other online platforms!

Nuestro corresponsal en París, Antonio Delgado, nos trae la última hora del robo en el museo del Louvre. Más tarde, Ana Zurita nos cuenta cómo ha sido la entrega de la medalla de oro del Círculo de Bellas Artes al escritor Antonio Scurati por su obra sobre Mussolini y su defensa de la lectura frente a las redes sociales. En "La ventana del Nautilus", Guillermo Busutil reivindica el humor inteligente, de Aristófanes a “Risa Caníbal” de Las Huecas. Además, Ángeles Caso entrevista a Teresa Sanjurjo, directora de la Fundación Princesa de Asturias.Escuchar audio

Should "good" people work for authoritarians? Does their implicit endorsement do more harm than their replacement by someone potentially worse? This was a common debate during Donald Trump's first term in the White House. Less so, during his second as loyalists assume most top positions in the administration. A century ago, this was a central question for Italy's governing class as Benito Mussolini's fascist movement seized and consolidated power, evolving over three years from a mix of authoritarianism and democracy into full-blown dictatorship. Some chose retirement and some exile. Alberto Beneduce, who publicly denounced fascist violence in 1922 and called for police repression of Mussolini's movement, chose to stay. Over 15 years, this committed socialist leveraged the Duce's trust to build a network of economic agencies that outlasted Mussolini and provided the foundations of post-war Italian capitalism. At his zenith in the late-1930s, Beneduce was on the board of 26 corporations, chaired eight and was - in the words of Lorenzo Castellani, author of Alberto Beneduce, Mussolini's Technocrat: Power, Knowledge, and Institutions in Fascist Italy (Routledge, 2025) - the head of a "state outside the state". Lorenzo Castellani is a tenure-track researcher and professor at LUISS Guido Carli in Rome. Tim Jones is a policy analyst at Medley Advisors and also writes and podcasts on European affairs at 242.news on Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Should "good" people work for authoritarians? Does their implicit endorsement do more harm than their replacement by someone potentially worse? This was a common debate during Donald Trump's first term in the White House. Less so, during his second as loyalists assume most top positions in the administration. A century ago, this was a central question for Italy's governing class as Benito Mussolini's fascist movement seized and consolidated power, evolving over three years from a mix of authoritarianism and democracy into full-blown dictatorship. Some chose retirement and some exile. Alberto Beneduce, who publicly denounced fascist violence in 1922 and called for police repression of Mussolini's movement, chose to stay. Over 15 years, this committed socialist leveraged the Duce's trust to build a network of economic agencies that outlasted Mussolini and provided the foundations of post-war Italian capitalism. At his zenith in the late-1930s, Beneduce was on the board of 26 corporations, chaired eight and was - in the words of Lorenzo Castellani, author of Alberto Beneduce, Mussolini's Technocrat: Power, Knowledge, and Institutions in Fascist Italy (Routledge, 2025) - the head of a "state outside the state". Lorenzo Castellani is a tenure-track researcher and professor at LUISS Guido Carli in Rome. Tim Jones is a policy analyst at Medley Advisors and also writes and podcasts on European affairs at 242.news on Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Per approfondire gli argomenti della puntata: Le pillole dedicate alla Seconda Guerra Mondiale : https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpMrMjMIcOkkGZRHeXYGIdtrROjUyCruh La storia della Seconda Guerra Mondiale, raccontata mese per mese : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s32_oqqNA9s&list=PLpMrMjMIcOklkc8kVPFQ6nWEtqxOG1XWJ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Should "good" people work for authoritarians? Does their implicit endorsement do more harm than their replacement by someone potentially worse? This was a common debate during Donald Trump's first term in the White House. Less so, during his second as loyalists assume most top positions in the administration. A century ago, this was a central question for Italy's governing class as Benito Mussolini's fascist movement seized and consolidated power, evolving over three years from a mix of authoritarianism and democracy into full-blown dictatorship. Some chose retirement and some exile. Alberto Beneduce, who publicly denounced fascist violence in 1922 and called for police repression of Mussolini's movement, chose to stay. Over 15 years, this committed socialist leveraged the Duce's trust to build a network of economic agencies that outlasted Mussolini and provided the foundations of post-war Italian capitalism. At his zenith in the late-1930s, Beneduce was on the board of 26 corporations, chaired eight and was - in the words of Lorenzo Castellani, author of Alberto Beneduce, Mussolini's Technocrat: Power, Knowledge, and Institutions in Fascist Italy (Routledge, 2025) - the head of a "state outside the state". Lorenzo Castellani is a tenure-track researcher and professor at LUISS Guido Carli in Rome. Tim Jones is a policy analyst at Medley Advisors and also writes and podcasts on European affairs at 242.news on Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/european-studies

Should "good" people work for authoritarians? Does their implicit endorsement do more harm than their replacement by someone potentially worse? This was a common debate during Donald Trump's first term in the White House. Less so, during his second as loyalists assume most top positions in the administration. A century ago, this was a central question for Italy's governing class as Benito Mussolini's fascist movement seized and consolidated power, evolving over three years from a mix of authoritarianism and democracy into full-blown dictatorship. Some chose retirement and some exile. Alberto Beneduce, who publicly denounced fascist violence in 1922 and called for police repression of Mussolini's movement, chose to stay. Over 15 years, this committed socialist leveraged the Duce's trust to build a network of economic agencies that outlasted Mussolini and provided the foundations of post-war Italian capitalism. At his zenith in the late-1930s, Beneduce was on the board of 26 corporations, chaired eight and was - in the words of Lorenzo Castellani, author of Alberto Beneduce, Mussolini's Technocrat: Power, Knowledge, and Institutions in Fascist Italy (Routledge, 2025) - the head of a "state outside the state". Lorenzo Castellani is a tenure-track researcher and professor at LUISS Guido Carli in Rome. Tim Jones is a policy analyst at Medley Advisors and also writes and podcasts on European affairs at 242.news on Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/italian-studies

This summary episode revisits the rise of Italian fascism and Benito Mussolini's path to power during the tumultuous early 1920s. Born from Italy's sense of betrayal after World War I—when promised territorial gains in the Mediterranean never materialized—the fascist movement gained momentum as a bulwark against the growing Communist threat. Led by military veterans discharged into a war-ravaged economy, fascist squads found support among industrialists and political elites who saw them as the only force capable of matching Communist passion and violence. Mussolini's dramatic March on Rome in October 1922 proved to be a strategic masterstroke that, despite being poorly organized, succeeded when King Victor Emmanuel III chose not to declare martial law, instead appointing Mussolini as Prime Minister of Europe's first fascist government. What followed was a gradual consolidation of power, marked by the rigged 1924 elections under the Acerbo Law and the pivotal Matteotti murder, after which Mussolini fully embraced fascist violence and began reshaping Italian society. The episode traces how Mussolini's expansionist ambitions led to costly adventures in Ethiopia and the Spanish Civil War, ultimately leaving Italy militarily weakened and economically strained just as it prepared to enter World War II as Germany's junior partner—setting the stage for an even greater disaster than the first world war. Contact advertising@airwavemedia.com to advertise on History of the Second World War. History of the Second World War is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

¡Vótame en los Premios iVoox 2025! Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! ¿Cómo una pastilla de alcanfor y unas leyes raciales en Italia cambiaron para siempre el destino del mundo? En este episodio, te llevamos a un viaje electrizante que comienza en la Roma de 1901, marcada por la tragedia personal de un joven genio, Enrico Fermi. Exploramos cómo el ascenso del fascismo y las infames Leyes Raciales de Mussolini obligaron a Fermi y a su familia a huir, encontrando refugio en la Universidad de Columbia, en Estados Unidos. Pero esta no es solo una historia de exilio; es el relato de un momento cumbre de la historia humana: El Gran Salto: Descubre quién fue el visionario de la Universidad de Columbia que le tendió la mano a Fermi, facilitando su escape a bordo del R.M.S. Franconia. El Día Cero: Revive el 2 de diciembre de 1942 en la Universidad de Chicago. Conoce la tensión, el silencio abrumador y el momento exacto en que Fermi, como un arquitecto pragmático, logró la primera reacción nuclear en cadena controlada bajo las gradas de un estadio de fútbol. El Código Secreto: Te revelamos el misterioso mensaje en clave que confirmó el éxito del experimento: "El navegante italiano ha aterrizado en el Nuevo Mundo." El Legado de la Estima: Analizamos la doble vida de Fermi: su rol fundamental en la creación de las bombas de Los Álamos y su posterior carrera en Chicago, donde se dedicó a la enseñanza y a plantear preguntas existenciales como la famosa Paradoja de Fermi. Únete a nosotros para entender por qué la figura de Fermi sigue siendo un recordatorio constante del poder transformador de la ciencia y de la profunda responsabilidad ética que conlleva desatar la fuerza del átomo. ¡Dale al Play y viaja al corazón de la física que moldeó el siglo XX! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Antena Historia te regala 30 días PREMIUM, para que lo disfrutes https://www.ivoox.com/premium?affiliate-code=b4688a50868967db9ca413741a54cea5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Produce Antonio Cruz Edita ANTENA HISTORIA Antena Historia (podcast) forma parte del sello iVoox Originals ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- web……….https://antenahistoria.com/ YOUTUBE Podcast Antena Historia - YouTube correo..... antenahistoria@gmail.com Facebook…..Antena Historia Podcast | Facebook Twitter…...https://twitter.com/AntenaHistoria Telegram…...https://t.me/foroantenahistoria DONACIONES PAYPAL...... https://paypal.me/ancrume ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ¿QUIERES ANUNCIARTE en ANTENA HISTORIA?, menciones, cuñas publicitarias, programas personalizados, etc. Dirígete a Antena Historia - AdVoices https://advoices.com/antena-historia Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Confira no Morning Show desta quarta-feira (15): O Conselho de Administração dos Correios se reúne nesta quarta-feira (15) para avaliar um pedido de empréstimo de R$ 10 bilhões em 2025 e mais R$ 10 bilhões em 2026, com aval do Tesouro Nacional. A medida visa equilibrar as contas da estatal, que registrou prejuízo de R$ 4,3 bilhões no primeiro semestre, mais que o triplo do valor registrado em 2024. O presidente dos Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, afirmou nesta terça-feira (14) que poderá encerrar negócios com a China relacionados à exportação de óleo de cozinha e outros produtos, em resposta à suspensão chinesa da compra de soja norte-americana desde maio deste ano. A medida representa uma nova escalada nas tensões comerciais entre as duas maiores economias do mundo. Para explicar o assunto, o Morning Show conversa com Pablo Spyer, o Tourinho. O ministro André Mendonça, do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF), determinou o bloqueio de R$ 390 milhões em bens, móveis, imóveis e valores do Sindicato Nacional dos Aposentados, Pensionistas e Idosos (Sindnapi). A decisão ocorre no contexto da Operação Sem Desconto, conduzida pela Polícia Federal, que investiga descontos indevidos em aposentadorias e benefícios do INSS, envolvendo dirigentes e possíveis irregularidades na gestão do sindicato. A série “Mussolini” revisita a ascensão do ditador italiano e as origens do fascismo, mostrando como o movimento se formou, conquistou o poder e mergulhou a Itália em um período de autoritarismo e guerra. A trama, analisada pelo cineasta Josias Teófilo, vai além da narrativa histórica e faz um alerta político contemporâneo. Essas e outras notícias você confere no Morning Show.

Plus de cent ans après, retour sur les circonstances pour le moins troubles de la prise du pouvoir, en Italie, de Mussolini et sur le mythe de la « marche sur Rome ». Mention légales : Vos données de connexion, dont votre adresse IP, sont traités par Radio Classique, responsable de traitement, sur la base de son intérêt légitime, par l'intermédiaire de son sous-traitant Ausha, à des fins de réalisation de statistiques agréées et de lutte contre la fraude. Ces données sont supprimées en temps réel pour la finalité statistique et sous cinq mois à compter de la collecte à des fins de lutte contre la fraude. Pour plus d'informations sur les traitements réalisés par Radio Classique et exercer vos droits, consultez notre Politique de confidentialité.Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Marc Amorós, el experto de La Ventana de redes, habla de como se usa la música para blanquear el franquismo o las dictaduras de Mussolini o Hitler en Redes sociales. 

Pace per il nostro tempo", disse il primo ministro britannico Neville Chamberlain al ritorno in patria sventolando come un trofeo il testo dell'accordo con la Germania, la Francia e l'Italia sulla questione dei Sudeti. In realtà gli accordi di Monaco di fine settembre 1938 ridisegnarono gli equilibri europei in previsione della guerra. A fronte dell'illusione inglese, della sconfitta francese e del ridimensionamento del ruolo di Mussolini, l'unico vero vincitore della conferenza fu Hitler. Il quale, messo da parte il Piano Verde di invasione della Boemia, vide soddisfatte in parte le sue mire espansionistiche e si sarebbe sentito autorizzato a chiedere sempre di più.

"Mussolini: Son of the Century" is a biographical historical drama television series directed by Joe Wright, based on the 2018 novel "M: Son of the Century" by Antonio Scurati. Starring Luca Marinelli as Benito Mussolini, the series centers on Mussolini's early political career in the 1920s. It premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival to positive reviews for its direction, score, and Marinelli's performance. Wright was kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about his experience working on the series, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the series, which is now available to stream in full on MUBI. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

¡Vótame en los Premios iVoox 2025! Pocas palabras italianas son tan comunes en prácticamente todos los idiomas como mafia. Una mafia es cualquier organización criminal, pero su origen es siciliano. La palabra en sí proviene del árabe, pero no adquiriría pleno significado hasta mucho después, cuando la isla fue invadida por los normandos para pasar luego a ser controlada por los reyes de Aragón. Con la llegada de los normandos se impuso un sistema de latifundios que despojó a muchos campesinos de sus tierras. Eso les empujó a a refugiarse en las montañas. Estos refugios se convirtieron en nidos de bandoleros que asaltaban caminos. Los bandidos, conocidos como “mafiosi”, se ganaron respeto de sus comunidades ya que actuaban como defensores de los lugareños frente los invasores extranjeros. La mafia moderna, surgida en el siglo XIX, tiene sus raíces en esta resistencia. La mafia siciliana se organizaba en clanes familiares con estrictos códigos de conducta como la omertà (ley del silencio), que imponía no colaborar con las autoridades, y la vendetta (venganza). Estas normas fomentaban un sentido de honor, lealtad y obediencia absoluta al jefe de familia. Durante el dominio español y el reino de las Dos Sicilias, los mafiosi mantuvieron su influencia ya que actuaban como una justicia paralela en las zonas rurales. En la segunda mitad del siglo XIX con la unificación italiana no cambio la cosa demasiado. Controlaban los pueblos y sus tierras de labor y, a cambio, cobraban servicios de “protección”. Era una administración paralela, más efectiva incluso que el gobierno para el día a día. Fue en esa época cuando dio su salto a América de mano de la emigración. Allí los sicilianos formaron comunidades en las que la mafia replicó sus métodos traídos de Italia conformando bandas que apelaban a la identidad siciliana, a la “cosa nostra”. Pero EEUU era muy distinto a Sicilia, así que no tardaron en evolucionar hasta convertirse en poderosas bandas dedicadas en exclusiva al crimen organizado. Fue en ciudades estadounidenses como Nueva York o Chicago donde aparecieron los mafiosos más reconocidos como Al Capone o Lucky Luciano, ambos de origen siciliano, que modernizaron la mafia hasta convertirla en un sindicato del crimen que incluía tanto a italianos como a judíos e irlandeses. En Sicilia, entretanto, los mafiosos fueron perseguidos de forma implacable por el Gobierno fascista de Mussolini, que llegó a ponerlos fuera de juego, pero resurgieron con fuerza tras la segunda guerra mundial. En la posguerra, los gobiernos republicanos se apoyaron en los capos mafiosos, una decisión que terminarían lamentando porque el problema se enquistó durante décadas. El milagro económico de aquellos años transformó la isla en una sociedad urbana e industrial mucho menos controlable, lo que obligó a los mafiosos a adaptarse. En EEUU, donde el crimen organizado llegó a tener una gran importancia, la mafia fue diluyéndose en negocios legales, lo que tuvo como consecuencia que perdiese lo poco que le quedaba de aquella mafia siciliana que había llegado con la inmigración. Así, algo que había nacido como un movimiento de resistencia frente a los invasores fue evolucionando hasta transformarse primero en una organización criminal muy poderosa cuya actividad abarcaba dos continentes, y luego en sofisticados criminales dedicados al lavado de dinero del narcotráfico. De aquella mafia que presentan las películas casi nada queda salvo el nombre que, ese sí, ha hecho una fortuna extraordinaria. En El ContraSello: 0:00 Introducción 3:48 La Cosa Nostra 25:32 Premios iVoox - https://premios.ivoox.com/ 1:20:58 El tesoro del Vita 1:26:44 Los polacos en el III Reich Bibliografía: “Cosa Nostra. 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A pesquisadora Gisela Pereyra Doval (CONICET/UNR) analisa o governo Javier Milei e suas contradições: o autoritarismo disfarçado de liberalismo, os cortes à ciência e às universidades, o impacto social do ajuste econômico e a política externa alinhada a Trump e à ultradireita global. No boletim do OED, David Magalhães comenta o assassinato de Charlie Kirk, o avanço do antiglobalismo e da extrema-direita transnacional, e encerra com uma dica cultural sobre Mussolini, o Filho do Século. The post Milei e o populismo reacionário na Argentina appeared first on Chutando a Escada.

The term ‘Antifa' derives from the German word for Antifascist — and the constellation of resistance movements largely created as a response to Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. Today, Antifa describes a decentralized anti-fascist movement with local groups and unaffiliated activists all over the world. Many became aware of Antifascist organizing following Antifa's intervention at the white supremacist ‘Unite The Right' rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. For the last decade, Antifa has come to symbolize progressive protest and movement building – engaging in doxxing,, property destruction, and street-level physical confrontations. In late September of this year, U.S. President Donald Trump officially designated Antifa a domestic terror organization. Mark Bray is an academic, scholar of European history and radicalism, and the author of several books including ‘ANTIFA — the anti fascist handbook.' He joins the show to discuss the rise of antifascist movements from the 1930s to today, and why Trump's terror designation recalls authoritarian crackdowns through history, both in the U.S., Canada and abroad. We'd love to hear from you! Complete our listener survey here.For transcripts of Front Burner, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/transcripts

America saw a significant reverse-migration in the 1800s and 1900s, with 20–50% of Italian immigrants returning to Italy as ritornati and tens of thousands of Americans, including ideologues and workers, moving to Germany, Italy, and the USSR in the 1930s seeking political or economic opportunities. Some of these American expatriates were drawn to revolutionary movements in Europe and Asia, blending idealism with political activism Today’s guest is David Mayers, author of Seekers and Partisans: Americans Abroad in the Crisis Years, 1935–1941. We discuss alienated Americans who went abroad during the interwar years in search of a new home and/or to further deeply personal causes. They include John Robinson, a black aviator who in 1935 led the Ethiopian air force against the Italian invasion; Agnes Smedley, who joined the Chinese communists during the Sino-Japanese war; Helen Keller, an advocate of the seeing- and hearing-impaired; Ezra Pound, a lauded poet who championed Mussolini; and Anna Louise Strong, drawn to Stalin's USSR.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

**Discussion begins at 5:00**On Christmas Eve, 1945, tragedy struck the Sodder family home in Fayetteville, West Virginia.  A fire destroyed the house — but five of the children were never found.  Authorities ruled the blaze accidental, yet no bones, remains, or evidence of the children were ever recovered.For decades, George and Jennie Sodder believed their kids hadn't perished in the flames at all.  Were the Sodder children kidnapped? Was it a Mafia cover-up tied to George's outspoken views?  Or was this just one of history's strangest true crime coincidences?In this episode, we dive deep into the mysterious disappearance of the Sodder Children: the cut phone lines, the disabled trucks, the suspicious “wrong number” call, and the mysterious photo mailed to the family two decades later.  This unsolved case has haunted West Virginia for nearly 80 years — and it remains one of the most chilling Christmas true crime stories ever told.Send us a textSupport the showTheme song by INDA

The current government shutdown is unlike any we have seen before. President Trump is turning this into a political assault on blue states, energy projects, infrastructure projects, and more. What does this shutdown really mean for our democracy? Where are the bold politicians, either left or right, who can take a stand against Trump's excesses? Tune in as David Rothkopf and Norm Ornstein discuss the current state of our government and more. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The current government shutdown is unlike any we have seen before. President Trump is turning this into a political assault on blue states, energy projects, infrastructure projects, and more. What does this shutdown really mean for our democracy? Where are the bold politicians, either left or right, who can take a stand against Trump's excesses? Tune in as David Rothkopf and Norm Ornstein discuss all this and more. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The current government shutdown is unlike any we have seen before. President Trump is turning this into a political assault on blue states, energy projects, infrastructure projects, and more. What does this shutdown really mean for our democracy? Where are the bold politicians, either left or right, who can take a stand against Trump's excesses? Tune in as David Rothkopf and Norm Ornstein discuss all this and more. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In this second episode of our fascism series, Cameron and Ray trace the roots of fascism from the French Revolution through the 19th century and into the early 20th century. They explore how nationalism, the Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment, industrial upheaval, social Darwinism, Nietzsche's philosophy, Bismarck's realpolitik, futurism, and mass psychology all fed into the eventual rise of fascism. Along the way, they compare past anxieties about modernity with today's fears of AI and technology, dig into the religious devotion of MAGA Trumpism, and unpack the Italian Fascist Manifesto of 1919. By the end, the groundwork is set for how Mussolini and others fused these cultural, philosophical, and political threads into a movement that would reshape the 20th century. The post #138 – Fascism: The Remix of History's Worst Ideas (Fascism part 2) appeared first on The BS Filter.

Matt Ehret and Ghost welcome Cynthia Chung to dig into Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, the architect of Pan-Europe and an overlooked forerunner of fascism. They trace how Kalergi's blueprint for the European Union drew from crusader ideology, Masonic symbolism, and a vision of reviving the Habsburg Empire. The conversation unpacks his ties to Mussolini, the Vatican, and Zionism, revealing how the League of Nations and Balfour Declaration carried forward a larger imperial strategy. From propaganda nudging Gen Z into crusader cosplay to Steve Bannon's modern “gladiator schools,” the hosts expose how old Templar currents resurface in today's geopolitics. They examine the danger of game theory traps that pit groups against one another, pushing societies toward engineered conflict and authoritarian “solutions.” With insights into social imperialism, the Fabian roots of fascism, and the modern Pan-Europe movement's push to break up Russia, this episode connects the past to the precarious present, urging listeners to resist empire by reclaiming sovereignty, economics, and responsibility for self-government.

The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 175 Who is Aleksandr Dugin, and why does anyone care about him? This turns out to be an increasingly important question as Dugin's crackpot Fascist philosophy increasingly informs the "New Right" (Woke Right) in America. Dugin is a radical Russian philosopher who has sometimes been referred to as "Putin's philosopher" or "Putin's brain," though it is unclear how invested in his thinking Russian leader Vladimir Putin actually is. In 1997, Dugin wrote a short but unambiguously Fascist essay called "Fascism, Borderless and Red" (https://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/DuginA-Fascism-Borderless-Red.pdf) to call for a new Fascist movement in Russia modeled directly off not only Mussolini (https://newdiscourses.com/2024/01/fascism-idolatry-of-the-state/) but off of Hitler's National Socialism (https://newdiscourses.com/2025/06/the-nazi-experiment-vol-1-the-nazi-racial-worldview/) in Germany. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay reads through this short essay to introduce you to "Duginism." Join him to get informed. Latest from New Discourses Press! The Queering of the American Child: https://queeringbook.com/ Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2025 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #NewDiscourses #JamesLindsay #Dugin