The Empire Never Ended

TENE continues their refresher course on the American Nazi Party by checking in on its successor, the National Socialist White People's Party, through the lens of a 1975 documentary film entitled, California Reich (1975). Reading: Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason's Siege. By Spencer Sunshine. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/t...

Fritz finally cracks the topic of Revilo P. Oliver, whose nutty ideas connect the mainstream National Review-types of the Cold War to the whackiest communist conspiracy theories of the John Birch Society, as well as the Turner Diaries and even the rudiments of 'SIEGE-culture'. Reading: Matthew Erlich - Dangerous Ideas on Campus (2021) Frank Mintz - The Liberty Lobby and the American Right (1985) C...

TENE pod peeks in at the European Parliament election results and then suffers through the PBD Podcast's platforming of Patriot Front's Thomas Rousseau. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

The Nazis regularly cited the United States as the key inspiration for their infamous Nuremberg Laws; Rey explains the many reasons why. Reading: Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law by James Whitman Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE News Network continues its 24-hour coverage of civil unrest in the tiny nation of Chakfukia. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE pod watches two Moon films co-written by Robert Heinlein, the big-budget 'hard sci-fi' George Pal film, Destination Moon (1950), and Heinlein's cheaply made and horrible labor of love, Project Moonbase (1953). Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Setti once again joins TENE pod to grok Robert A. Heinlein's novels, Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land,  and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and their disturbing prescriptions for an unwelcome future. Check out Settembrini's podcast Zock Bock Radio ! pesa-nexus (dot) de/category/zock-bock-radio Music: "World of Automatans", "Light Years", and "Midnight Crawlers" by Eric Matyas : www.sound...

Originally published: April 8th, 2023 Fritz narrates the rise and fall of Project Stargate, the US 'intelligence' community and army's special unit of psychic remote viewers, as well as a brief look at Jim Channon's First Earth Battalion, made famous by the film, The Men Who Stare at Goats . Music: Legionnaire by Scott Buckley. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE pod is joined once again by Settembrini of Zock Bock Radio to review the life of Robert A. Heinlein, the libertarian militarist 'Dean of Science Fiction' who brought Sci-Fi into the mainstream. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Boris examines the pro-Japanese Pacific Movement of the Eastern world and other movements advocating an Afro-Asian alliance in the US and the subsequent attempts by the US government to blame racial discontent on a shadowy Japanese secret society. Readings: When Japan Was "Champion of the Darker Races": Satokata Takahashi and the Flowering of Black Messianic Nationalism by Ernest Allen Jr. | Waiti...

The boyzies chew the fat over some bizarre clips of contemporary political life in the US, from biblical curses to Tucker's new 'Racial Holy War Soon' fearmongering, before checking out the lineup of a recent fascist rap festival in Turin, Italy. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE pod has a laidback May Day to chat about the recent Alex Garland film Civil War from a critical and Balkan perspective before ragging on Tucker Carlson's debutante cotillion interview for Aleksandr Dugin. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

J. G. Michael of Parallax Views joins Boris and Fritz to watch the 1985 anti-communist Cannon Films production, Invasion, USA , starring and co-written by Chuck Norris. They put the film in the historical context of the theme of Red Dawn -style Communist coup fiction beginning with the 1947 comic book, Is This Tomorrow , illustrated by Charles M. Schulz of Peanuts fame, and the original 1952 film...

Rey continues his study of US Scientific institutions' contribution to the Holocaust and follows the American eugenics movement after the war and its massive effort to whitewash its sordid history. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Alex from the excellent podcast, 12 Rules for What , returns to TENE pod to tell the unfortunate story of conservationist, eugenicist, and human-zoo keeper Madison Grant, his supporters in the U.S. patrician class, and his brief but definitive moment in the Nazi limelight. Subscribe to 12 Rules For What at twitter.com/12rulesforwhat Read The Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far Right Sub...

TENE pod wraps up their biographical look at "America's No. 1 Fascist", Lawrence Dennis, the crazy connections he made in his late career, and his turn from celebrated prophet to seditious outcast in the public mind. Reading: The Color of Fascism - Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism in the United States by Gerald Horne Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter...

Boris introduces the podcast to Mexican Synarchism, a little-understood contribution to North American fascism that briefly but impactfully held the attention of the press, activists, and some familiar tene pod villains during the 1930s. Featuring: Trio Paloma - Usamljeni Dečak Also, Song: Mexican Mariachi Background Music Music provided by NCM [No Copyright Music]. Creative Commons - Attribution...

TENE pod gets to know the 'Brain' of Interwar American Fascism, Lawrence Dennis, from his wild beginnings as a traveling 'colored' child preacher from Atlanta at the end of the 19th century, to his racial 'passing' into the highest echelons of political and class rule in the United States leading up to the Second World War. Reading: The Color of Fascism - Lawrence Dennis, Racial Passing, and the R...

Lester Glint joins TENE pod to recount the horrifying history of the Black Legion, one of the most important American fash networks of the interwar period, as well as one of the least understood. The Black Legion took over entire towns and government departments, unleashing a stunning period of quiet terror and assassination, all with the backing of industrial superpowers like Henry Ford. Check ou...

episode originally published October 19th, 2023. TENE pod hears the cinematic true story of a group of Yugoslav communists in Canada who traverse the Atlantic to join the anti-fascist struggle in 1942. They survive U-boat attacks,  get stranded at sea, and tell off asshole British officers just to parachute themselves into a war and kill them some Nazis. Features music from the films  Sutjeska  an...

In another TENE pod news update, the boyzies discuss Rise Above Movement founder Rob Rundo's recent legal tribulations as well as those of the Patriot Front, and then follow the Active Club train to a couple of Oregon teenagers and their American Banderite Network of weirdos. Stumptown Research Collective: Terror Tots: Neo-Nazi Youth In Hillsboro Oregon American Banderite Network: How Teenage Twin...

The TENE Pod film club meets to watch John Wayne's 1952 anti-communist propaganda film, Big Jim McLain , about a psychotic House Unamerican Activities Committee investigator who hunts for commies in one of the US' most picturesque colonies. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Fritz brings his study into the fascistic history of the American Legion to a temporary close with a look at their colorful interwar career, including involvement in a couple of whacky coup plots! Recommended Reading: The Inside Story of the Legion by Justin Gray (1948). American Legion as Educator by William Gellerman (1938). Enforcing Conformity: Race in the American Legion, 1940-1960 - Olivier...

Rey introduces the tight relationship between US Academia and the Nazis through the Eugenics movement, and its near total hold on US scientific institutions up to the second world war and, for some, long afterward. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE pod begins its study of the American Legion, America's largest veteran's organization, examining the shifty characters that pieced it together from a world war they themselves pushed, and from the First Red Scare.   Recommended reading for part one: For God & Country: The American Legion, 1919-1941 by William Pencak (1989)  The Inside Story of the Legion by Justin Gray (1948)    Music: "In Ho...