Let Them Eat Cake

In this episode, we talk to Sean Hastings, a researcher and host of “What Happened To Syria,” where Sean talks about the history of the Syrian civil war and Syrian revolution. He also co-founded hurriya.net and edits for the English language site. With us, he talks about the fallout of the war against ISIS, and the Assad regime, the impacts on different groups throughout Syria, and how HTS and Jol...

This episode, we speak to Uday of Militant Wire, a repeat guest we have had on multiple times, to discuss the memetics of the luffy flag appearing in gen z protests across south and south east asia, along with some locations in Africa and even South America. With one of these eventuating in the collapse and overthrow of the Nepalese government, this is somerthing we believe has the potential to be...

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We Interview Rowan Glass, a journalist from Modern Insurgent, who put together a recent MI documentary covering the thirtieth anniversary of the Zapatistas Autonomy. We try to get into what, and who, the Zapatistas are, for anyone who’s not aware. John and Jack have been wanting to cover the Zapatistas for a while and consider them to one of the more important autonomous groups around today. This...

Get 15% off a Ground News subscription with our Affiliate Link! Go to ⁠https://check.ground.news/5thgeniw⁠ and follow the prompts. This episode we talk to a YouTuber, Anarchist organiser, and author Daniel Baryon, aka Anark. He creates anarchist theory content online, as well as working with the Tulsa Co-op in an on the ground, real world co-op. We discuss a lot of topics, and this is a very jargo...

Get 15% off a Ground News subscription with our Affiliate Link! Go to https://check.ground.news/5thgeniw and follow the prompts. Want to create live streams like this? Check out StreamYard: https://streamyard.com/pal/d/6376503596810240 This episode is going to be a slightly different style. We are interviewing 2024 presidential candidate for the US Pirate Party, Vermin Supreme, and his running mat...

A special episode covering the protests in Bangladesh (we livestreamed the night before the government caved. This covers everything to the government giving into demands and scrapping quotas.

This episode is going to be a slightly different style. The topic of today's video will be the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, which is not recognised by the United States, and is known as the Taliban, and why people would support their rule over the nation.  Neither Jack, John, nor 5thGen condone these points of view, stances, or anything said during this interview. As we are journalists, we...

This episode, we host Sonja, an activist, organiser, and anarchist based out of Oklahoma. Sonja explains how to organise, how to work as a street medic, and more!  Before the interview we cover some headlines, due to a delay on the production of Let Them Eat Cakes this week is more of a May news wrap so, in the wrap, we cover the Catalan elections, Georgian anti-government protests, French colonia...

This episode, we host two activists from Singapore who play an active role in countering the Christian far-right that is slowly taking over their country.  Before the interview we cover some headlines, this week we cover the internal Boeing catastrophe, African, Sahel and the Horn, politics, EU and Gaza updates, South American Democracy and more.  In this weeks episode we cover what Dominion ideol...

This episode we host a former British marine and private military contractor who gives us a run down of what it takes to become a private military contractor, alongside telling us stories from his time in the job. Before the interview we cover some headlines, this week we cover democracy updates from recent elections in Africa, South East Asia, and the Caribbean, the violent death of a non binary...

This episode we host Sino Talk, a journalist whose focus covers mainly China, but Asia in general, a very knowledgeable person when it comes to China, definitely someone to watch. Before the interview we cover some headlines, this week we cover an AI being weaponised by fascists and conservatives to harass women that post images of their body online, another AI being used to remove clothes from Ta...

This episode we host Sino Talk, a journalist whose focus covers mainly China, but Asia in general, a very knowledgeable person when it comes to China, definitely someone to watch. Before the interview we cover some headlines, this week we cover the European Union adopting immigration policy proven not to work, Somaliland port deal with Ethiopia sparking outrage in Somalia and the Ecuadorian crisis...

This episode we host Black Red Guard, a political YouTuber/Streamer, a pragmatic Maoist, and an active member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Before the interview we cover some headlines, this week we cover Toomaj Salehi’s detainment in Iran, The Second Thomas Shoal incident, another democracy update, HTS rebels fighting Assad’s forces, and Guinea-Bissau. In the main show, we dive into th...

This episode we host Alan, A refugee displaced by the violence of the Assad regime during the Syrian revolution. Before the interview we cover some headlines, this week we covered Xi Jinping's trip to the United States in mid-November, an update on the state of global democracy after a string of very important elections from Argentina to New Zealand, and finally covering the current conflicts...

This episode we host Jordan, the founder of A Better Way 2A, with the goal of solving the issues of toxic gun culture in the United States resulting in an extremely  exclusionary hobby. Headlines covered this episode are American and NATO hinting that Ukraine should enter peace agreements with Russia, Pakistan’s forced deportation of 1.7 million afghan nationals back to Afghanistan, Ongoing clashe...

This episode we host Pegah, an Iranian National living outside of the country. We discuss the morality police, life in Iran, how the regime treats its people, especially women, and much more!  An extremely timely episode and a great, raw conversation about Iran As always, we are 5thGen, and we hope youenjoy this episode. If you want to support us, you can do so at Patreon.com/5thgen and follow us...

This episode we host a Venezuelan national by the name of Enzo, he was involved in the resistance against the Maduro government and Venezuelan police and was lucky enough to have the means to escape. We discuss this, Maduro, how he got out, being a slave under capitalism in Sweden, and much more. It’s quite the discussion and we’ve masked Enzo’s video and voice for security purposes. As always, we...

This episode we host the YouTuber, Bozistan, who primarily makes content and context for the Middle East and its history Our episode follows these lines and we discuss the Middle East and some choice figures within Islam and the Middle East. As always, we are 5thGen, and we hope you enjoy this episode. if you want to support us, you can do so at Patreon.com/5thgen and follow us @5thgenIW on instag...

This is another Let Them Eat Cake special where we cover the recent Kirkuk demonstrations that resulted in the deaths of four Kurds. Our guest and friend of the show, Hevi, is here to break down the imperialist agenda of the Iranian state. This whole issue stems from Donald Trump handing Kirkuk, a Kurdish city, to Qasem Soleimani following the 2017 Kurdish referendum. As always, we are 5thGen. We...

This episode we host Kafa, a front line soldier in the Armed Forces of Ukraine from a currently Russian occupied city in Crimea. Kafa is also a queer icon, anarchist and pilot in the UFA. We dive into what it's like fighting a country who has stolen your home, what it's like being a queer soldier in a highly visualised war, motivations and much more You can support Kafa on PayPal (cl.quindt@gmail....

This episode we host Dustin, a professional piercer and gun enthusiast, from America's North East. Dustin has been involved with leftist wing and queer gun spaces, leftist subculture and the piercing/tattooist culture. We discuss tattooing, piercing, guns and left wing politics and, as always, we are 5thGen, and we hope you enjoy this episode. And, if you want to support us, you can do so at Patre...

This episode we host Jake Hanrahan, best known as the founder of Popular Front, to talk about the Satanist Neo-Nazi group, The Order of the Nine Angles. Although he doesn't like to admit it, he may be the most pre-eminent figure when it comes to knowing the ins and outs of O9A. We dive into the group, their beliefs, their habits and their literature. You can follow Jake's work @PopularFront_ and s...

This episode we have Antoine Brimbal as the guest, he is the founder of The Modern Insurgent, a grass roots journalistic outfit with their work focusing on insurgencies, rebel organisations, and political movements, notably those which are under-reported. We dive into a select few ongoing insurgency groups with Ace leading this interview. This is Antoine's bread and butter, this interview is extre...

This episode we have Adam Fitzgerald as the guest, he hosts "the Darkened Hour" podcast which focuses exclusively on the truth about the attacks that occurred on the United States on September 11th, 2001 and the subsequent push for transparency from the US government, among other related topics. Ultimately, we discuss what the 9/11 truther movement actually is, not what it was perverted into, the...