The Empire Never Ended

TENE reviews John Wayne's epic propaganda film, The Green Berets. With plenty of production help from deep state nerds and the US army, Wayne's role is based on a real life Finnish SS goon. Subscribe to  patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Fritz concludes his three-part look at Christopher Simpson's 1988 book, Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War, with the story of the Vatican's ratlines and Krunoslav Draganovic, self-appointed Croatian representative of the Intermarium (Between the Seas) initiative and Ustasha war criminal who became the most successful Nazi smuggler of the 40s and 50s while livi...

TENE returns to the dark corners of Telegram to see how Ukrainian and Russian fascists are handling the latest developments in the war. The boys also examine a recent RT 'documentary' weaving an alarmist narrative with an overtly fascist tone of an supposedly impending war in Kosovo. Also, wtf do monarchists want today? Subscribe to  patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Fritz walks TENE through Operation Bloodstone, yet another bizarre clandestine use of fascists and collaborators for espionage by the CIA, as well as militias for the 'inevitable' atomic apocalypse to come. Subscribe to  patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

TENE's Mystery Fascist Theater 3000 watches the new Breitbart joint "My Son Hunter" for the first time together and offers their two cents. It's pretty bad, folks. Stay tuned to the end for the sparkling commentary of Kemal and the Professor at the Movies ! Subscribe to  patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Fritz expands the scope of Arc 4 for an episode to introduce the Gehlen Organization, a network of Nazis bankrolled by US Intelligence and America's main source of information on the Soviet Union after WW2 which set the pace for 'Cold War' anti-communist hysteria. This is part one of a multipart look at Christopher Simpson's 1988 book, Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on th...

TENE wraps up their initial investigation into the Black Hand with three important and intriguing figures: Slobodan Jovanović, Božin Simić, and Milan Gavrilović, each with various trajectories across the political spectrum but all connected to the Black Hand. These three fellas allegedly all had important roles to play in the still-enigmatic coup of the 27th of March, 1941 against the pro-Axis reg...

In this episode, Rey discusses how an offshoot of the original Serbia National Defense was founded in the US in 1914, and then re-founded in 1941 as an anti-communist organization that anticipated Cold War rhetoric. Even more interestingly, just like the SND of 1908 that gave birth to the Black Hand, the new US-based incarnation of the group also had a terrorist element developing inside of it. Cl...

From the Black Hand to Red Army Intelligence, Rey explains why Mustafa Golubić is one of the most interesting people in modern Balkan history. His story passes through the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, communist stay-behind units in Germany and France, Stalinist Chetniks that never were, and so much more. Subscribe to  patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Rey takes Arc 4 back to the Old Country, unraveling the complex tangle of nationalist militants, Young Bosnia nihilists, assassinations, and empires that lead to the rise of a proto-deep state in Serbia at the start of the 20th century. Did the Black Hand live on in the United States? Subscribe to  patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

Boris and Fritz recount the remarkably parallel lives of George Wuchinich and George Musulin; the former was an American Slav Congress member and champion of the Partisan cause and US socialism while the latter was a Chetnik-loving nationalist and career CIA anti-communist. Both were Yugoslav Americans from Western PA, both were among the first US paratroopers for the Office of Strategic Services...

Boris guides TENE into the McCarthy era of anti-communist hysteria in the US, and its disastrous effects on the Yugoslav diaspora as it paves the way for nationalists and fascists to rise to prominence. Subscribe to   patreon.org/tenepod  and  twitter.com/tenepod .  

TENE explores the life and career of Slovenian-American snitch, Matt Cvetic, by watching his absurdly fantastical biopic from 1951 titled, "I Was a Communist for the FBI". The boyzies dissect this genre-defining example of HUAC-era propaganda and compare it to Cvetic's actual (terrible) experiences. Subscribe to   patreon.org/tenepod  and  twitter.com/tenepod .

Rey introduces saint and stench wizard, Nikolaj Velimirović, one of Serbian Orthodoxy's most important bishops and the gray eminence of Serbian Fascism. Once a government emissary beloved by Serbian liberals, he took a turn towards the fashy in the 1920s, catching the eye of Adolf Hitler, whom Velimirović compares to none other than Saint Sava himself. Subscribe to   patreon.org/tenepod  and  twit...

TENE unpacks the 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee report on the massive American Slav Congress of the 1940s which organized millions of Slavs in the US under a banner of socialist anti-fascist resistance. Despite being almost entirely unknown today, the ASC was a profoundly influential institution that the post-FDR US Government saw as one of its greatest threats. Subscribe to   patreon...

Boris and Rey examine the activities of South Slavs in America during WW2, stretching from rifts in the Serbian community in response to Ustaša genocide to the success of the popular front in the form of the United Committee of South Slavic Americans and (failed) attempts to join the partisans in the old country. Subscribe to   patreon.org/tenepod  and  twitter.com/tenepod .

TENE examines the under-recognized 1940s horror film, Cat People, the story of a young Serbian immigrant working as a fashion designer in New York who is struggling with a dark secret. Her home village in Serbia suffers an evil curse whereby the women become terrifying werepanthers when their passions are aroused! A classic film with a very shaky handle on Serbian history and culture. Subscribe to...

Boris rediscovers two forgotten stories from the history of Southern Slav working people in the United States: the Serbian Orthodox Church's struggle against its socialist congregation and the Soviet Union's frustrated attempt to bring America's Balkan proletariat into the party line. Subscribe to   patreon.org/tenepod  and  twitter.com/tenepod .

Kemal joins TENE to discuss American folk hero, Joe Magarac, a Hunky literally made of steel. They contrast his heroic image against that of the industrial laborer as laid out both in tragic journals and whacky Tamburitzan sketch comedy c. 1930. Kemal also breaks down the controversy surrounding Liberty City folk-hero, Nico Bellic, of Grand Theft Auto fame. Subscribe to   patreon.org/tenepod  and ...

Welcome to Arc 4! TENE lays out the general idea for the coming months, and introduces some key figures, mutual aid societies, and publications from the Yugoslav diaspora's anarchist/socialist scene in the early 20th century. Subscribe to   patreon.org/tenepod  and  twitter.com/tenepod .

Live from Azle, Texas, Dale Sinister and Dale Diablo host the popular Dale Sinister's Satanic Hoedown. Featuring special guests, arts and crafts, and diabolic jokes for the whole Black Lodge to enjoy! Music by  AlexGrohl  from  Pixabay Subscribe to   patreon.org/tenepod  and  twitter.com/tenepod .

In what definitely counts as a legitimate episode, TENE spends way too much time with the recent reunion of neo-nazi James Mason and TV exorcist Bob Larson as they pretend to disagree with each other. Subscribe to   patreon.org/tenepod  and  twitter.com/tenepod .

The TENE film club meets again to take on the dreaded Black Legion! The boys watch two films, Legion of Terror (1936) and Black Legion (1937) starring Humphrey Bogart, as well as two radio plays, an episode of True Detective Mysteries (1937) and another entitled "The White Legion" (1938) on the original superhero serial, The Shadow . They compare these representations to the actual white supremaci...

TENE looks at the successors to the Tempel ov Blood, the Satanic Front, and attempts to situate them in the mess of nazi vampires, nazi sith lords, nazi ninjas, nazi satanists, and FBI informants that makeup whatever the O9A is devolving into in the US. Subscribe to   patreon.org/tenepod  and  twitter.com/tenepod .  

TENE meets again with Mark Bray to discuss his latest book, The Anarchist Inquisition: Assassins, Activists, and Martyrs in Spain and France (2022), covering the events and figures surrounding the Trials of Montjuich in turn-of-the-century Spain, the resulting developments in policing and statecraft, and the anarchist movement of the period. Subscribe to   patreon.org/tenepod  and  twitter.com/ten...