*This episode was originally published on 21 Nov 2021.

Guests: For the safety of the two guests, their names are being kept private.

In this episode I interview two siblings about their migration, from Michoacan Mexico, into the U.S., through the Texas desert, & living in the U.S. undocumented.

*This episode was originally published on August 23rd 2021, and a new short intro was added that was recorded Jan 20th 2025)

Guest: Pete Howson

In this episode I speak about the emergence of crypto currencies, their toll on the environment & colonialism.

Rick is a citizen of the Comanche Nation, & has a masters in Indigenous People's Law.

In this episode, I speak with the creator of "Eyes Wide Open" to speak about Western Intelligence agencies (CIA specifically). We quickly cover:

- Operation Gladio

- Creation of the CIA

- Iran/Contra

- Octopus Murders

- The Maga-communists

I highly recommend "Eyes Wide Open" to learn about the history of western intelligence agencies, and their ties to corporations, organized crime, and colonialism.

Rick is a citizen of the Comanche Nation, and has a master's in Indigenous People's law.

In this episode I speak to Andrew Canessa and Manuela Lavinas Picq, about their book "Savages and Citizens - How Indigeneity Shapes the State".

Topics discussed:

- Westphalian sovereignty & its Eurocentric roots, in comparison to Indigenous sovereignty.

- The concept of "tribalism" within a Eurocentric concept of sovereignty.

- The Doctrine of Discovery: A Pillar of the Modern Political System.

- The Cobo Report, & UNDRIP.

- Plurinationalism.

* Rick is a citizen of the Comanche Nation, & has a master's in Indigenous People's Law from the University of Oklahoma.

In this episode Derek (PlantsFanon) of Post Scarcity Pod, and I, quickly go over our (decolonial) critiques of the eurocentrisms within Marxism.

Topics we cover:

- Who is Karl Marx?

- Who is Frederich Engels?

- Who is Lewis Henry Morgan?

- What is Marxism?

- Using Dialectical Materialism as a tool in our critique

- Using Mao's method of Contradiction to find the principal contradiction

- What is Eurocentrism?

- Critiques of Unilinearism

- Critiques of "Modernization" & "Development"

- Critiques of Proletarianism

- Critique of the Base & Superstructure

- Rebuttals to rebuttals:

~ "Marx wasn't Eurocentric"

~ "Marxism is a living science"

~ "Marxism isn't Eurocentric because many of the national liberation movements in the 3rd word were Marxists" (then posts that corny ass meme)

~ “When Marx and Engels used “Barbarian” to describe other societies it was satirical” or “They were people of their time”

~ “Marx wasn’t being racist, he was describing material conditions”

~ Isn’t this “revisionism?"

Recommended reading for this episode:

"Development as Modernity, Modernity as Development" by Lwazi Lushaba

"Eurocentrism and the Communist Movement" by Robert Biel

"Marx at the Margins" by Kevin B. Anderson

"God is red" by Vine Deloria Jr.

"No Spiritual Surrender" by Klee Benally

"A Tortured People" by Howard Adams

"The Principal Contradiction" by Torkil Lauesen

* There has never been a time when we told people not to read the Marxist classics (Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao). We simply have said that they missed specific contradictions.

** Before you come at us sideways, make sure you've actually done the reading.

** Before you come at us sideways, make sure you're not a settler.

In this Episode I speak with Tanya & KDM about Neo-Tainoism, & how it is a symptom of indigenismo.

Guests:

Tanya - Tanya is an independent researcher of pre and post modern Boricua heritage in Puerto Rico, and is an admin of the Facebook page; "Taino Leadership Summit"

KDM -

Guest: Keiran Stewart-Assheton (Black People's Union)

Hosts:

Derek (Black & Chamoro) (AKA: PlantsFanon)

Rick Tabenunaka (Comanche)

In this episode, we cover terms from Keiran's post about Imperialism, Colonialism, & Occupation. We all give our thoughts as we read their descriptions.

Terms discussed:

Colonial Imperialism. Settler Imperialism. Economic Imperialism. Cultural Imperialism. Military Imperialism. Political Imperialism. Neo Imperialism. Settler Colonialism. Exploitation Colonialism. Plantation Colonialism. Economic/Trade Colonialism. Surrogate Colonialism. Internal Colonialism. Missionary Colonialism. Military Occupation. Colonial Occupation. Prolonged Occupation. Foreign Civil Administration. International or UN Occupation. Economic Occupation. Occupation by proxy.

*This episode was originally published in October 2019.

Guest: Darryl Leroux

Hosts: Ai-Nan, Rick (Comanche)

In this Episode we speak to professor and author of "Distorted Descent White Claims to Indigenous Identity". We cover the topics of misappropriated identities of the Metis people by French settlers. We compare them to the misappropriated Indigenous identities by the Chicano & Mexican settler community, Chicano academia. We also discuss the damage of misappropriating Indigenous identities has, and could do, to Indigenous communities in Canada, U.S., and Mexico.

Guest: Cedar Sherbert

In this episode I speak with Cedar Sherbert (Kumeyaay) about misappropriation of Kumeyaay idendity, and his experience with exposing a pretendian named "Nasdijj", and we speak about twins who misappropriate Kumeyaay identity.

*This episode was originally published Janurary 2020

Guest: Dr. Kim Tallbear

Hosts: Ai-nan, Robin (Yakama/Comanche.), Rick (Comanche), & James Hernandez

In this episode we speak with Dr. Kim Tallbear about her book "Native American DNA". We cover the topics of why ancestry DNA tests cannot tell someone they're Indigenous, colonial aspects in scientific community, and about polyamory.