Super Structure with Julian Feeld

Drug trafficking, the military, foreign interests… Honduras has long been a focus of the anti-communist project in South and Central America. Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus explore the path to Hondurasgate, the latest scandal exposing this particular octopus of corruption.

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Research and writing by Caio Almendra. Editing by Ty Wood. Theme song by Thiago França. Cover art by Ruben Gerard. Super Structure selection of the week is Corrido a Honduras by Unknown.

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Bibliography

• ASTURIAS, Miguel Ángel. El Papa Verde. Buenos Aires: Losada, 1954.
• BARAHONA, Marvin. El golpe 28-J: Conspiración transnacional, un crimen en la impunidad. Tegucigalpa: Editorial Guaymuras, 2010.
• BLUM, William. Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II. London: Zed Books, 2003.
• CANAL RED. Audios filtrados del caso Hondurasgate. Madrid: Canal Red, 2026. Available at: https://canalred.tv. Accessed on: May 15, 2026.
• CARDOZA Y ARAGÓN, Luis. La batalla de Guatemala. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1956.
• CENTRO NACIONAL ANTICORRUPCIÓN (CNA). Los pecados capitales de las ZEDE. Tegucigalpa: CNA, 2022.
• FRANK, Dana. The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2018.
• GÁLVEZ BRESSER, Jorge; AGUILAR, Carla. “Las Zonas de Empleo y Desarrollo Económico (ZEDE) y el perfeccionamiento de los mecanismos de despojo en Honduras”. Revista de Ciencias Sociales, San José, v. 1, n. 171, p. 45–63, 2021.
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• SCOTT, Peter Dale; MARSHALL, Jonathan. Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
• TORRES-RIVAS, Edelberto. Centroamérica: la democracia posible. San José: EDUCA, 1987.
• TORRES-RIVAS, Edelberto. La guerra de baja intensidad en Centroamérica. San José: EDUCA, 1988.
• WEBB, Gary. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. New York: Seven Stories Press, 1998.
• ZAVALA, Oswaldo. Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in U.S. and Mexican Culture. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2022.
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The least known book that changed the world. The Late Great Planet Earth is the topic of our first Super Structure book club episode. Published in 1970, TLGPE became a huge best seller that influenced people from Ronald Reagan to Ruby Ridge’s Vicki Weaver. It’s also the blueprint for a now-resurgent form of Christian Zionism. Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus are joined by Hayden Tank, host of the Bible Lore podcast, to explore this piece of apocalyptic prophesy.

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Research and writing by Spencer Barrows and Grace Cathedral Park. Editing by Ty Wood. Theme song by Thiago França. Cover art by Ruben Gerard. Super Structure selection of the week is Dambala by Nina Simone.

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Bibliography

Hal Lindsay, The Late Great Planet Earth

A family beset by religious mania, white supremacist obsessions, and deep paranoia about the government. Federal agencies causing multiple deaths through a bungled attempt at apprehending Randy and Vicki Weaver. Ruby Ridge is a central flashpoint of the paranoid nineties. Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus walk you through it.

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Research and writing by Spencer Barrows and Grace Cathedral Park. Editing by Ty Wood. Theme song by Thiago França. Cover art by Ruben Gerard. Super Structure selection of the week is I Shall Not Be Moved by Shirley Ann Lee.

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Bibliography

Radley Balko, Rise of the Warrior Cop

John Ganz, When the Clock Broke

Jess Walter, Ruby Ridge

Chris Jennings, End of Days

https://nebraskastudies.org/en/1975-1999/foreclosures-lead-to-violence/posse-comitatus/

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/aryan-nations/

Retired Navy Seal Gary Busey heads to Cuba to get trapped in a web of violence and intrigue by a landmine baron and a KGB-trained Cuban spy in this straight-to-video movie from 1997. Half-hearted propaganda ensues. Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus lead you through this delightful romp in Super Structure’s first movie night.

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Editing by Ty Wood. Theme song by Thiago França. Cover art by Ruben Gerard. Super Structure selection of the week is Tougnafo by Mama Keita.

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Filmography

• Plato’s Run (1997)

We explore CIA interventionism through Ted Shackley Jr, an agent involved in many of the more cruel and dramatic episodes over the course of three decades. From Operation Paperclip to the Cuban missile crisis to the toppling of Allende in Chile and even Iran-Contra, Shackley was there for it all.

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Research and writing by Marty Pynchon Meyer and Ryan McGahan. Editing by Ty Wood. Theme song by Thiago França. Cover art by Ruben Gerard. Super Structure selection of the week is You Don’t Know What’s Going On by Exuma.

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Bibliography

• Blond Ghost by David Corn

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has become a huge problem under Trump, but what led us here? How did we end up with a network of concentration camps for migrants, extrajudicial disappearances, and outright murder? Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus trace the United States’ relationship with immigration and deportation all the way back to the 19th century.

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Research and writing by Spencer Barrows and Grace Cathedral Park. Editing by Ty Wood. Theme song by Thiago França. Cover art by Ruben Gerard.

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Bibliography

• The Deportation Machine by Adam Goodman
• Everyone Who Is Here is Gone by Jonathan Blitzer
• The Contrarian by Max Chafkin
• The Migrant's Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration by Brianna Nofil
• Detention, deportation, devolution and immigrant incapacitation in the US, post 9/11 by Mathew Coleman and Austin Kocher
• 9/11 and the Transformation of U.S. Immigration Law and Policy by Deepa Iyer and Jayesh M. Rathod
• https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/immigration-act-1882
• https://www.vox.com/videos/479915/ice-history-video
• https://immigrationvisaattorney.com/what-do-dhs-uscis-cbp-and-ice-do/
• https://immigrationhistory.org/item/page-act/
• https://immigrationhistory.org/item/geary-act/

In the 50’s, Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh presaged a different future for the country. But he made a crucial mistake: he nationalized oil and attempted to lift his people out of poverty through social programs. This led to a CIA- and MI6-led coup and years of tumult for the country that has long been an American boogeyman. Julian Feeld and John Gabrus explore.

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Research and writing by Séamus Malekafzali. Editing by Ty Wood. Theme song by Thiago França. Cover art by Ruben Gerard. Super Structure selection of the week is Saraabe Toe by Kourosh Yaghmaei.

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Bibliography

• All the Shah’s Men by Stephen Kinzer
• The Coup by Ervand Abrahamian
• A History of Modern Iran by Ervand Abrahamian
• The Iran National Front and the Struggle for Democracy by Masoud Kazemzadeh
• Khomeinism by Ervand Abrahamian
• Iran’s Political Economy Since the Revolution by Suzanne Maloney
• Mossadegh in Military Court by Jalil Bozorgmehr
• Musaddiq and the Struggle for Power in Iran by Homa Katouzian
• https://www.nytimes.com/1952/09/28/archives/mossadegh-prophet-or-buffoon-his-place-in-history-may-be-determined.html
• https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/fedaian-e-esla/
• https://www.mohammadmossadegh.com/news/indian-express/mossadeq-wants-monarchy-to-stay/
• https://dayan.org/content/worker-street-mosaddegh-street-struggle-over-collective-memory-iranian-prime-minister
• https://www.democracynow.org/2017/7/24/newly_declassified_documents_confirm_us_backed
• https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/afgani-jamal-al-din/

Julian Feeld and John Gabrus discuss the upcoming podcast.

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