In this week’s “State of the Force” address Pete Hegseth outlines structural reforms that will engender further zealotry and ineptitude. The end state: a more demoralized and incompetent military. You can follow El, the Queen of Regs here:https://linktr.ee/queenofregs?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAcGRvZgJzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA85MzY2MTk3NDMzOTI0NTkAAaftqexpwGatNMI42YxkSQY8OWET7FmfxbK7rhMwRr0WQMTKP4Nw9_gHeqCT-g_aem_re2Yoqho4a3nRpakXYMM9w

In this week’s “State of the Force” address Pete Hegseth outlines structural reforms that will engender further zealotry and ineptitude. The end state: a more demoralized and incompetent military. You can follow El, the Queen of Regs here: https://linktr.ee/queenofregs?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAcGRvZgJzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA85MzY2MTk3NDMzOTI0NTkAAaftqexpwGatNMI42YxkSQY8OWET7FmfxbK7rhMwRr0WQMTKP4Nw9_gHeqCT-g_aem_re2Yoqho4a3nRpakXYMM9w

In this week’s “State of the Force” address Pete Hegseth outlines structural reforms that will engender further zealotry and ineptitude. The end state: a more demoralized and incompetent military. You can follow El, the Queen of Regs here:https://linktr.ee/queenofregs?utm_source=ig&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=link_in_bio&amp;fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAcGRvZgJzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA85MzY2MTk3NDMzOTI0NTkAAaftqexpwGatNMI42YxkSQY8OWET7FmfxbK7rhMwRr0WQMTKP4Nw9_gHeqCT-g_aem_re2Yoqho4a3nRpakXYMM9w

207. The State of Farces: Pete Hegseth’s Quest to Build a Crusader Army w/ The Queen of Regs

Subscribe to the Black Panther Newspaper thebpp.us/newspaper and YouTube.com/@tvfreepalestine This podcast is a production of Radio Free Empire Media. To get access to all RFE media content including ad free and bonus episodes, subscribe at www.rfemedia.com. And please like, rate and review wherever you are listening it helps others find us. FOLLOW US: https://www.instagram.com/rfemedia GUEST: https://www.instagram.com/free.palestine.tv Laith Marouf unveils the reality on the ground in defiance of western media's obfuscation. In the wake of an open letter from Western "Revolutionaries" parroting CIA and imperial talking points with the cloaked aim of delegitimizing Iran's resistance against an unceasing U.S. and Israeli global aggression, West Asia is proving its resilience through its ability to withstand desperate attempts to divide and conquer populations in Lebanon, Syria and Iran along sectarian, national or religious lines. Laith speaks on the current status within Lebanon, Syria and the shifting dynamics of power that Iran has managed to assert. These new material changes has exposed western failures in its goals for division and the growing momentum of revolutionary unity manifesting in Lebanon, Syria and West Asia as a whole. Laith Marouf is a long-time political activist, award-winning journalist, and political commentator working in media since 1999. He is also the founder of Free Palestine TV and regularly appears on television and radio, including Press TV, RT, and Al Mayadeen and has published with independent media such as Electronic Intifada, Mint Press, Black Agenda Report and more.

Subscribe to the Black Panther Newspaper thebpp.us/newspaper and YouTube.com/@tvfreepalestine This podcast is a production of Radio Free Empire Media. To get access to all RFE media content including ad free and bonus episodes, subscribe at www.rfemedia.com. And please like, rate and review wherever you are listening it helps others find us. FOLLOW US: https://www.instagram.com/rfemedia GUEST: https://www.instagram.com/free.palestine.tv Laith Marouf unveils the reality on the ground in defiance of western media's obfuscation. In the wake of an open letter from Western "Revolutionaries" parroting CIA and imperial talking points with the cloaked aim of delegitimizing Iran's resistance against an unceasing U.S. and Israeli global aggression, West Asia is proving its resilience through its ability to withstand desperate attempts to divide and conquer populations in Lebanon, Syria and Iran along sectarian, national or religious lines. Laith speaks on the current status within Lebanon, Syria and the shifting dynamics of power that Iran has managed to assert. These new material changes has exposed western failures in its goals for division and the growing momentum of revolutionary unity manifesting in Lebanon, Syria and West Asia as a whole. Laith Marouf is a long-time political activist, award-winning journalist, and political commentator working in media since 1999. He is also the founder of Free Palestine TV and regularly appears on television and radio, including Press TV, RT, and Al Mayadeen and has published with independent media such as Electronic Intifada, Mint Press, Black Agenda Report and more.

198. Western "Leftism" panders to Empire as West Asia unites against it w/Laith Marouf

Subscribe to https://www.rfemedia.com/ for ad-free episodes and exclusive content. In this episode we discuss the recent socio-cultural backlash against the war with Iran and Dr. Rad’s new book “Don't Say Palestine: How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide.” Are we finally, as a population, gaining a modicum of media literacy? Assal Rad is a historian of Middle East history and a Nonresident Fellow at Arab Center Washington DC and DAWN. She works on research and writing related to U.S. foreign policy issues and the Middle East. She is the author of The State of Resistance: Politics, Culture, and Identity in Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and Don’t Say Palestine: How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide (Vintage, 2026). Assal completed a PhD in History from the University of California, Irvine in 2018.Links to the book here:https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/834977/dont-say-palestine-by-assal-rad/https://www.audible.com/pd/Dont-Say-Palestine-Audiobook/B0H4RTFV8W?srsltid=AU7gw4V5CgpfTLQ1m3_RJ0UAB2EYPX8zcoFssW1cWlg33XVstlAwWcxGYou can follow Assal here:https://x.com/AssalRad

Subscribe to https://www.rfemedia.com/ for ad-free episodes and exclusive content. In this episode we discuss the recent socio-cultural backlash against the war with Iran and Dr. Rad’s new book “Don't Say Palestine: How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide.” Are we finally, as a population, gaining a modicum of media literacy? Assal Rad is a historian of Middle East history and a Nonresident Fellow at Arab Center Washington DC and DAWN. She works on research and writing related to U.S. foreign policy issues and the Middle East. She is the author of The State of Resistance: Politics, Culture, and Identity in Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and Don’t Say Palestine: How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide (Vintage, 2026). Assal completed a PhD in History from the University of California, Irvine in 2018. Links to the book here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/834977/dont-say-palestine-by-assal-rad/ https://www.audible.com/pd/Dont-Say-Palestine-Audiobook/B0H4RTFV8W?srsltid=AU7gw4V5CgpfTLQ1m3_RJ0UAB2EYPX8zcoFssW1cWlg33XVstlAwWcxG You can follow Assal here: https://x.com/AssalRad

204. Occupation and Forever Wars: Is US Media Propaganda Finally in Collapse? w/ Assal Rad

A bombshell leak to the Washington post on Sunday, August 31st, demonstrated that US General Officers in the Pentagon are vying for increasingly finite assets and matériel across Combatant Commands, limiting the military viability of interventions in Iran, Ukraine, and Latin America. This episode examines how and why that is. Here is our general outline: Part 1: Russia–Ukraine<ul><li>Why did the CIA Director urgently fly to Russia?</li><li>The US trying to freeze the Ukraine conflict</li><li>NATO’s fragility</li><li>Can the US rebuild its industrial base?</li></ul>Part 2: Iran, Sanctions & Economic Warfare<ul><li>The limits of military force</li><li>The new sanctions / economic isolation</li><li>Iran’s capacity to withstand the war</li><li>Iran’s international partners</li></ul>Part 3: Venezuela & Latin America<ul><li>Securing Latin America</li><li>The Venezuela deal</li><li>Long-term objectives</li><li>China & multipolarity in the Americas</li></ul>Final synthesis:● The three sections ultimately connect:○ Ukraine: limits of US/NATO military power.○ Iran: limits of US military and financial coercion.○ Venezuela: attempt to compensate by consolidating influence closer to home.● Central question: Is the US adapting to a declining relative position—or attemptingto reverse it through increasingly aggressive economic, military and politicalcoercion?

A bombshell leak to the Washington post on Sunday, August 31st, demonstrated that US General Officers in the Pentagon are vying for increasingly finite assets and matériel across Combatant Commands, limiting the military viability of interventions in Iran, Ukraine, and Latin America. This episode examines how and why that is. Here is our general outline: Part 1: Russia–UkraineWhy did the CIA Director urgently fly to Russia?The US trying to freeze the Ukraine conflictNATO’s fragilityCan the US rebuild its industrial base?Part 2: Iran, Sanctions & Economic WarfareThe limits of military forceThe new sanctions / economic isolationIran’s capacity to withstand the warIran’s international partnersPart 3: Venezuela & Latin AmericaSecuring Latin AmericaThe Venezuela dealLong-term objectivesChina & multipolarity in the AmericasFinal synthesis: ● The three sections ultimately connect: ○ Ukraine: limits of US/NATO military power. ○ Iran: limits of US military and financial coercion. ○ Venezuela: attempt to compensate by consolidating influence closer to home. ● Central question: Is the US adapting to a declining relative position—or attempting to reverse it through increasingly aggressive economic, military and political coercion?

A bombshell leak to the Washington post on Sunday, August 31st, demonstrated that US General Officers in the Pentagon are vying for increasingly finite assets and matériel across Combatant Commands, limiting the military viability of interventions in Iran, Ukraine, and Latin America. This episode examines how and why that is. Here is our general outline: Part 1: Russia–Ukraine<ul><li>Why did the CIA Director urgently fly to Russia?</li><li>The US trying to freeze the Ukraine conflict</li><li>NATO’s fragility</li><li>Can the US rebuild its industrial base?</li></ul>Part 2: Iran, Sanctions &amp; Economic Warfare<ul><li>The limits of military force</li><li>The new sanctions / economic isolation</li><li>Iran’s capacity to withstand the war</li><li>Iran’s international partners</li></ul>Part 3: Venezuela &amp; Latin America<ul><li>Securing Latin America</li><li>The Venezuela deal</li><li>Long-term objectives</li><li>China &amp; multipolarity in the Americas</li></ul>Final synthesis:● The three sections ultimately connect:○ Ukraine: limits of US/NATO military power.○ Iran: limits of US military and financial coercion.○ Venezuela: attempt to compensate by consolidating influence closer to home.● Central question: Is the US adapting to a declining relative position—or attemptingto reverse it through increasingly aggressive economic, military and politicalcoercion?

199. THE US IS RUNNING OUT OF OPTIONS: Iran, Ukraine, Venezuela & the Crisis of American Power

Our society exhibits a suicidal lack of empathy. We are witnessing mass death, violence, displacement on a global scale, all normalized and obfuscated by generations of bourgeois media and propaganda.How do we begin to push back against it in order to fight for a more sane, sustainable, and equitable world? In this episode of Colonial Outcasts we go inside the isolated and near-invisible world of US women’s prisons with former defense attorney and photojournalist Sarah Bennet. She is the author of “Looking Inside: Women with Life Sentences,” a long-term photographic project about women convicted of homicide and sentenced to life in New York State. The book follows them inside prison, after release, and in everyday life afterward, using portraits plus personal materials like letters, drawings, Polaroids, and handwritten notes to show that they are more than the crime that led to their sentences. The project resists stereotypes and asks readers to consider how punishment, memory, identity, and rehabilitation shape a life over decades.This is a challenging topic. Hope you enjoy!Link to Sarah’s book:https://www.kehrerverlag.com/en/Sara-Bennett/978-3-96900-238-4https://www.amazon.com/dp/3969002389?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback

Our society exhibits a suicidal lack of empathy. We are witnessing mass death, violence, displacement on a global scale, all normalized and obfuscated by generations of bourgeois media and propaganda. How do we begin to push back against it in order to fight for a more sane, sustainable, and equitable world? In this episode of Colonial Outcasts we go inside the isolated and near-invisible world of US women’s prisons with former defense attorney and photojournalist Sarah Bennet. She is the author of “Looking Inside: Women with Life Sentences,” a long-term photographic project about women convicted of homicide and sentenced to life in New York State. The book follows them inside prison, after release, and in everyday life afterward, using portraits plus personal materials like letters, drawings, Polaroids, and handwritten notes to show that they are more than the crime that led to their sentences. The project resists stereotypes and asks readers to consider how punishment, memory, identity, and rehabilitation shape a life over decades. This is a challenging topic. Hope you enjoy! Link to Sarah’s book:https://www.kehrerverlag.com/en/Sara-Bennett/978-3-96900-238-4 https://www.amazon.com/dp/3969002389?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback

Our society exhibits a suicidal lack of empathy. We are witnessing mass death, violence, displacement on a global scale, all normalized and obfuscated by generations of bourgeois media and propaganda.How do we begin to push back against it in order to fight for a more sane, sustainable, and equitable world? In this episode of Colonial Outcasts we go inside the isolated and near-invisible world of US women’s prisons with former defense attorney and photojournalist Sarah Bennet. She is the author of “Looking Inside: Women with Life Sentences,” a long-term photographic project about women convicted of homicide and sentenced to life in New York State. The book follows them inside prison, after release, and in everyday life afterward, using portraits plus personal materials like letters, drawings, Polaroids, and handwritten notes to show that they are more than the crime that led to their sentences. The project resists stereotypes and asks readers to consider how punishment, memory, identity, and rehabilitation shape a life over decades.This is a challenging topic. Hope you enjoy!Link to Sarah’s book:https://www.kehrerverlag.com/en/Sara-Bennett/978-3-96900-238-4https://www.amazon.com/dp/3969002389?lv=shuf&amp;channelId=500&amp;plpRedirect=mhFallback

205. How Can You Defend Those People?! Empathy in an Era of Mass Dehumanization w/ Sarah Bennett

This Episode is more of an informal rant about the current manifestation of Liberalism around the Palestinian Genocide and how it is part of the same ideological system as white nationalism and supremacy. Seems radical, I know, but bear with us...

This Episode is more of an informal rant about the current manifestation of Liberalism around the Palestinian Genocide and how it is part of the same ideological system as white nationalism and supremacy. Seems radical, I know, but bear with us...

Episode 2: White Liberalism and Atrocity Tourism

Welcome to Episode 1 of Colonial Outcasts, a manifestly anti-establishment podcast dedicated to challenging and dismantling ideological systems that perpetuate the self-destructive status quo of Western Imperialism. 

Our first guest is Dr. Liam O'Mara, an anti-Zionist and anti-Fascist professor of history and comparative genocide studies. The topics discussed are diverse and surround the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, all leading to speculation on how a genocide-enabling ideology can eventually be dismantled.

Welcome to Episode 1 of Colonial Outcasts, a manifestly anti-establishment podcast dedicated to challenging and dismantling ideological systems that perpetuate the self-destructive status quo of Western Imperialism. Our first guest is Dr. Liam O'Mara, an anti-Zionist and anti-Fascist professor of history and comparative genocide studies. The topics discussed are diverse and surround the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, all leading to speculation on how a genocide-enabling ideology can eventually be dismantled.

Episode 1: Dr Liam O'Mara

The anti-imperialist podcast your uncle will hate. Greg Stoker and Mark Wayne dig into history, anthropology, and military science to expose empire and narrative control, twice a week. Support us and get bonus content and ad-free listening at RFEmedia.com

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