326: White Legions in the Congo pt.2: From Mladić to Mobutu
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In a desperate attempt at a last stand to halt the Rwandan backed army of Laurent Desire Kabila, Mobutu hires mercenaries composed of members of the infamous 10th Sabotage Detachment of the Bosnian Serb army, responsible for some of the worst atrocities in the Bosnian war, under the command of French intelligence asset "Yugo Dominic". Subscribe to @tenepod.bsky.social + x.com/tenepod
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325: Film Club--Wild Geese (1978) (Teaser)
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TENE and friend watch the star studded 1978 action film The Wild Geese. Richard Burton and Roger Moore (James Bond) play a romanticized versions of Mad Mike and his racist mercenaries, except now they're good guys who just want to teach us how the West should forgive Africans for being corrupt. Subscribe to @tenepod.bsky.social + x.com/tenepod
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324: Mobutu: The All-Powerful Cold Warrior (teaser)
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Boris gives us a brief overview of Mobutu's reign in Congo/Zaire from 1960s-1990s and examines his role as the ultimate Cold Warrior. Subscribe to @tenepod.bsky.social + x.com/tenepod
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323: All Things Siege - Interview with Spencer Sunshine
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We finally sit down with Spencer Sunshine to talk about his book "Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason's Siege" (2024). Support Spencer at: Subscribe to @tenepod.bsky.social + x.com/tenepod
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322: Merwin K. Hart and the Fascist/Conservative Continuum in the US (teaser)
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Rey walks us through the first part of David Austin Walsh's book Taking America Back, which is centered around Hart's career in the 1933-1953 period. Merwin was a "liminal figure of the US right-wing", able to meet the president in the White House, but also to work together with known fascist "crackpots" (Coughlin, G. L. K. Smith, Wesley Swift...). Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod @tenepod.bsky.social + x.com/tenepod
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321: White Legions in the Congo pt. 1: Mad Mike and Kongo Müller
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In part one of a series on mercenaries in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Boris explores the strange history of the (ex)Nazis and racist psychopaths who helped install the regime of Mobutu Sese Seko following the assassination of Patrice Lumumba. Reading: Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja - The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People’s History Ending music: Vicky Longomba-Vive Patrice Lumumba Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod @tenepod.bsky.social + x.com/tenepod
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320: [Michael J.] "Moynihan is an Idiot" (teaser)
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Michael Moynihan is an editor (Siege), writer (Lords of Chaos), musician (Blood Axis), fascist (Universal Order, Tyr), but above all, "Moynihan is an Idiot" (according to Charles Manson). Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod @tenepod.bsky.social + x.com/tenepod
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319: Adam Parfrey: a Crypto-fascist Propagandist
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Adam Parfrey, founder of Feral House publishing, was an incredibly influential man of letters, publisher, and journalist. He also had an extremely racist, social-darwinist secret agenda. He was a real jerk. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod @tenepod.bsky.social + twitter.com/tenepod
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318: Boyd Rice: racist, sociopath and also a musician (teaser)
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Boyd Rice was a pioneer, not only of industrial music, but also of artsy Nazi douchebaggery. He was also the genius who first had the bright idea that Siege should be a book.
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317: American Front 0 - Ćevapi 1
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From San Francisco to Novi Sad, the original Nazi-punks who were supposed to f#ck off. The history of the American Front, "the first US national skinhead organization" from Bob Heick to James Porrazzo. Subscribe to patreon.org/tenepod @tenepod.bsky.social + x.com/tenepod
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