Last Born In The Wilderness

Abby Martin and Dahr Jamail join me to discuss their collaboration on Earth’s Greatest Enemy, a documentary that takes on the planet’s biggest polluter: the US military. // Episode notes + video: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/martin-jamail // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast // Subscribe: https://...

Abby Martin and Dahr Jamail join me to discuss their collaboration on Earth’s Greatest Enemy, a documentary that takes on the planet’s biggest polluter: the US military. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Subscribe: https://pod.link/1169842000

Journalist, author, and translator Mirna Wabi-Sabi returns to the program. We go over her recent investigation into how the Brazilian majority state-owned company, Petrobras, silences scientific findings into the ecological impacts of its exploratory and extraction operations and its outsized influence on shaping political and economic realities of Brazil. // Episode notes: https://www.lastbornint...

Journalist, author, and translator Mirna Wabi-Sabi returns to the program. We go over her recent investigation into how the Brazilian majority state-owned company, Petrobras, silences scientific findings into the ecological impacts of its exploratory and extraction operations and its outsized influence on shaping political and economic realities of Brazil. // Support the work + listen to the full...

Professor Eliot Jacobson returns to discuss the currently developing and unprecedented El Niño event, elaborating on what makes this culminating event so alarming and devastating. Our discussion is a bit of an explainer of how this fits into broader climatological trends and how we can comport ourselves in a time of accelerating crises. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/epi...

Professor Eliot Jacobson returns to discuss the currently developing and unprecedented El Niño event, elaborating on what makes this culminating event so alarming and devastating. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Subscribe: https://pod.link/1169842000

Author and researcher Spencer Sunshine returns to the podcast to discuss his 2024 book, Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege, published by Routledge. We also touch on the Prairieland defendants case, operational security, and the second Trump administration’s pointed attacks on antifascist and anti-ICE organizing. // Episode notes: https:...

Author and researcher Spencer Sunshine returns to the podcast to discuss his 2024 book, Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege, published by Routledge. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Subscribe: https://pod.link/1169842000

Sam from Liberation Martial Arts articulates and demonstrates his pedagogic approach to martial arts training, rooted in anti-authoritarian and decolonial theory and praxis. LMA is intended to be liberatory. What does that mean? Is martial arts, as it’s broadly defined and commonly practiced and instructed, not liberatory? If so, why? // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episo...

Sam from Liberation Martial Arts joins me to discuss how martial arts can be a truly liberatory body practice. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Subscribe: https://pod.link/1169842000

I am joined by returning guest Indrajit Samarajiva, also known as Indi or Indica. We pick up from our last interview, when we discussed White Empire, its decline, the Axis of Resistance, and the shifting terrain of warfare. Namely, I asked Indi how he understands the United States (the head of the White Empire) and Israel’s war of aggression on Iran and why and how Iran has successfully fought bac...

I am joined by returning guest Indrajit Samarajiva, also known as Indi or Indica. We pick up from our last interview, when we discussed White Empire, its decline, the Axis of Resistance, and the shifting terrain of warfare. Namely, I asked Indi how he understands the United States (the head of the White Empire) and Israel’s war of aggression on Iran and why and how Iran has successfully fought bac...

I’m joined in this episode by returning guest Kollibri terre Sonnenblume—writer, photographer, tree-hugger, animal lover, occasional farmer, and cultural dissident. We begin by discussing the theme of Kollibri’s essay, Stop Insulting Animals: We must own our own culture and selves, a piece that addresses how we speak about animals—the bad metaphors, clumsy euphemisms, and casual degradations of mo...

I’m joined in this episode by returning guest Kollibri terre Sonnenblume—writer, photographer, tree-hugger, animal lover, occasional farmer, and cultural dissident. They’re the author of several books on the intersections of ecology and human society, and they write for the newsletter, Speaking for the Trees (no matter where they’re from). // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https:...

Media scholar Robin Andersen joins me to discuss her impeccably researched book, The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza, published by OR Books and the Institute for Palestine Studies. The Complicit Lens is a meticulously documented, searing indictment of the US legacy media’s direct complicity in the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Andersen identifie...

Media scholar Robin Andersen joins me to discuss her impeccably researched book, The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza, published by OR Books and the Institute for Palestine Studies. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

Clare Follmann, M.E.S., joins me to discuss her new book, Scapegoat: What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong, from AK Press. Follmann examines the invasive species story, identifying the language and metaphors used to categorize certain sets of species as “invasive”—as invading and destroying habitats—often framed in the militaristic and xenophobic rhetoric of border nationalism and racial puri...

Clare Follmann, M.E.S., joins me to discuss her new book, Scapegoat: What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong, from AK Press. Follmann examines the invasive species story, identifying the language and metaphors used to categorize certain sets of species as “invasive”—as invading and destroying habitats—often framed in the militaristic and xenophobic rhetoric of border nationalism and racial puri...

Journalist Peter Byrne joins me to discuss the burgeoning and sprawling military AI industry, its consortium of players, and its relationship with the warmaking and surveillance powers of the United States government, explicated in his extensive 10-part Military AI Watch series for Project Censored. Furthermore, Byrne elucidates how AI systems are being used in the now weeks-long US-Israel war on...

Journalist Peter Byrne joins me to discuss the burgeoning and sprawling military AI industry, its consortium of players, and its relationship with the warmaking and surveillance powers of the United States government, explicated in his extensive 10-part Military AI Watch series for Project Censored. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

For episode 400 of Last Born In The Wilderness, Dare Carrasquillo returns to discuss the world of Red Dust. This concept of Red Dust provides a useful frame for understanding the dizzying, heartrending, numbing, enraging, and maddening churn of events we experience and witness daily. As crises accentuate and accelerate in their intensity, so do our responses to them. // Episode notes + transcript:...

Dare Carrasquillo returns to discuss the world of Red Dust. This concept of Red Dust provides a useful frame for understanding the dizzying, heartrending, numbing, enraging, and maddening churn of events we experience and witness daily. As crises accentuate and accelerate in their intensity, so do our responses to them.  // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/l...

I'm joined by Dr. Špela Šalamon, Nuclear Medicine Specialist Physician and biomedical scientist. She has contributed to global efforts in understanding and mitigating the impacts of COVID-19 and published several papers addressing the risks following COVID-19 infections, emphasizing the necessity for proactive health measures. In October of last year, she co-authored and published the AJPM Focus r...

Dr. Špela Šalamon joined me to provide an evidence-based comparison of HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, based on a review she co-authored and published for AJPM Focus: COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between? // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

Writer, researcher, and movement strategist Ben Lorber returns to the podcast to discuss his recent deep dives into the ascendancy and growing influence of the groypers, led by the charismatic, tenacious, and odious Nick Fuentes—a significant part of the rising and contentious anti-Israel wing of the America First movement. // Episode notes + transcript: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/epi...