While the American empire blows its brains out against the wailing wall, Angela is joined by Peter Ryan to discuss his article "Economics of Empire". Empire brutally subjugates the periphery but it deploys more nuanced tactics to exploit the core. Beset on all sides by rightoid slaves, leftoid hustlers, and vile third positionist demons dancing to the tune the imperial elites have selected, can we build a durable anti-imperialism for the masses using the occluded Fourth Position of Scientific Connllyism-De Gaullism-Dengism?

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Recorded on Day 14 of the Zionist War of Aggression Against the Iranian People, Angela and Sean discuss the immediate and short term consequences of the war, the Spanish clothing themselves in glory, and delay any discussion of Doing Something About All Of This until we fall back to a secure location in Barcelona.

Read Sean's substack post "Towards a New U.S. Antiwar Movement" here: https://seanpmccarthy.substack.com/p/towards-a-new-antiwar-movement-in

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Sean and Angela are joined by friend of the pod Malcom Kyeyune to discuss the favored odds on the current superposition of the war with Iran. Will Neocon Don's pressing need to rerun the battle of Thermopylae be stymied by a fleet of ancient bombers and cutting edge warships overflowing with raw sewage, or will the empire 'fuck it we ball' into World War IV/the grave?

Check out The Rise and Fall of Nuremberg Christianity by Malcom Kyeyune: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2026/02/the-rise-and-fall-of-nuremberg-christianity/

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