A People's History of Violence

Peter takes the lead on this ep! Guiding us through a deep dive into the once-thriving cottage industry of what was once the gold standard in some kind of white blue collar authenticity: Boston Irish gangster memoirs. In Part 1 we deal the government creation of the island against the world community of South Boston, or Southie through the pouring of social democratic tendencies through the static...

Zachary Taylor isn’t one of the presidents who gets talked about most often… but we aren’t most podcasts. We have here a 150-year journey complete with a plotting pro-slavery quack doctor, piles of 'night soil', sudden illness, nuclear reactors, secret passages, and a poison cure no one was watching: 'Emetic of Tartar'. Only in office for about fifteen months, the all-things-to-all-politicians Whi...

Zachary Taylor isn’t one of the presidents who gets talked about most often… but we aren’t most podcasts. We have here a 150-year journey complete with a plotting pro-slavery quack doctor, piles of 'night soil', sudden illness, nuclear reactors, secret passages, and a poison cure no one was watching: 'Emetic of Tartar'. Only in office for about fifteen months, the all-things-to-all-politicians Whi...

We've arrived at the finale of our Rosenbergs series, and it isn't looking good. Beginning our story in the middle of the trial, Isaac and Peter discuss how the Rosenbergs kneecapped defense team tried and failed to counter-attack the prosecution's perjury-boosted case. The stage is set to use execution to get Julius to break and name some names. But it's only months after the death sentence is ha...

It's the holiday season listeners, and we have a gift for you. This is a big one, folks- on this episode we talk to former presidential candidate, congressman, mayor of Cleveland, and author Dennis Kucinich! Many of you may remember the congressman as one of the few to consistently stand against the war fever of the post 9-11 period. He was also Mayor of Cleveland in the 1970s, where his bold, unc...

Happy New Year Listeners! For this month's bonus episode Isaac and Peter re-examine the 1943 drive-by murder of Anarchist/Organizer/Fed?/Gadfly and "man of great appetites" Carlo Tresca. And for our non-subscribers we're happy to provide this 30 minute preview, with almost a whole hour extra along with more documents, if you subscribe. Tresca had a incredible career as uncompromising anarchist man...

Welcome back, listeners. Today we look at the Lockerbie bombing of 1988, where a bomb in a luggage compartment downed a PanAm flight and killed 270 people in all, including 190 Americans. Allegedly, supposedly, maybe the US has arrested and charged the Libyan bomb-maker that brought down the plane. But this case is not that simple, and might actually be steeped in Imperial global politics. Unlike...

The meta-motivated media-saturated too scripted for tv Idaho student murders dragged your lofty co-hosts out of the higher dimension of history and into a bout of manic social analysis and 'mindhunting'. After analyzing the evidence in the pretty straightforward case, we talk about the True Crime "community", it's explosion and "Power of Nightmares" function, and how it seemed to shape the (allege...