Our thoughts on the wars, foreign and domestic, covering Greenland, Canada, China, Venezuela, EU, NATO, Israel, Minneapolis, the consolidation of neo-fascist lumpen imperialism

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Show notes:

EU’s “anti coercion tool”, the Trade bazooka, turns against Trump https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/world/europe/greenland-us-trade-war.html

Estonia's suppression of Russian minority: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/russia/article/2025/03/26/estonia-s-parliament-bans-local-voting-for-non-europeans-targeting-russians_6739540_140.html

Israeli War Keynesianism:

https://jacobin.com/2025/09/israel-war-economy-reservist-compensation

https://www.972mag.com/israel-genocide-economy-gaza-war/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-rolls-out-tax-benefits-to-lure-back-tech-talent-and-investments-after-gaza-war/

https://www.boi.org.il/en/communication-and-publications/regular-publications/monetary-policy-reports/monetary-policy-report-first-half-of-2025/

Rise of Nazis and a capitalist ‘Dual State’, not dual power: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/opinion/renee-good-ice-immunity.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/trump-executive-order-lawlessness-constitutional-crisis/682112/

https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/politics/the-fork-in-the-road-2/

Song: Andrew Bird - Dear Old Greenland

Our initial reaction to Trump's first regime change and some thoughts on the end of the Bolivarian Revolution.

Statement from La Clase: https://laclase.info/content/abajo-la-agresion-yanqui-defendamos-a-venezuela/

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Song: Rebel Diaz - Work Like Chavez

We talk about Adrian's new Ill Will Editions essay Revolts Without Revolution, a development of the memetic theory from his previous essays on Gilet Jaunes and George Floyd for a year of coordinated youth revolts and right-populist power-grabs.

Memes With Force: https://illwill.com/print/memes-with-force

Memes Without Ends: https://illwill.com/memes-without-end

Maucio Lazzarato - The United States and Fascistic Capitalism: https://illwill.com/fascistic-capitalism

Nueva Icaria - New Fascisms and the Reconfiguration of Global Counterrevolution: https://illwill.com/new-fascisms

Preorder Depose–the first publication from Ill Will Editions: https://store.illwilleditions.com/products/depose-luigi-mangione-and-the-right-to-health

Song: Youthquake - Manuver

Jack Z. Bratich chats about the concept of "microfascism," a term coined by Deleuze as part of their project of tracing “the genealogy and the permanence of certain fascist machineries” in order “to refuse to allow any fascist formula to slip by, on whatever scale it may manifest itself, including within the scale of the family or even within our own personal economy." Happy Thanksiving!

The concept suggests that fascist impulses don't just come from "above" (authoritarian leaders) but can emerge from "below" in how people treat each other daily. Deleuze and Guattari believed everyone has some "fascist" potential—desires for domination, control, or submission. Bratich's work looks at the idea in the current context of MAGA, stochastic terrorism, and the manosphere.

Buy his book On Microfascism: Gender, War, Death and Conspiracy Panics: Political Rationality and Popular Culture from Common Notions.

3WF interview: https://threewayfight.org/antifascism-in-2025-shane-burley-interviews-xtn-alexander-and-matthew-n-lyons/

Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies: https://monoskop.org/images/5/54/Theweleit_Klaus_Male_Fantasies_Vol_1_Women_Floods_Bodies_History.pdf

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Phil Neel guides our Halloween descent into HELLWORLD--his epic new horror-theory analysis of the megastructures of global capitalism, and a search of the revolutionary subjectivity necessary to revolt against our domestication into the planetary factory.

Phil Neel's substack: https://philneel.substack.com/

Theory of the Party: https://illwill.com/theory-of-the-party

Song: Merle Haggard - Are the Good Times Really Over?

Longtime friend of the show, historian Aaron J. Leonard joins us to talk about his new book Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American Communism.

It's a history of the monitoring, infiltration, and legal suppression of the Communist Party USA that begins with a very familiar-sounding "black scare" against anarchists after a high-profile assassination in 1901.

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Article on the book: https://truthout.org/articles/how-a-century-of-anti-communism-cleared-the-way-for-trumps-authoritarianism/

Video: Trump says "we took free speech away": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4VqMY8djOM

Indypendent article on Antifa: https://indypendent.org/2025/10/what-is-antifa/

Song: billy woods - Source Awards

A member of DFW Defendants Support reports from the first court hearing for 17 activists being charged with terrorism after attending a July 4 noise demo in Dallas gone very wrong. While details of the events are limited, it has been centrally cited by the Trump admin to justify their assault on protest and dissent, offering some clues of how similar prosecutions might proceed in the future, and highlighting the necessity of solidarity with those targeted for their political beliefs and associations.

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Des’ support committee IG

NLG Statement

Final Straw interview with Moira Meltzer-Cohen

Info on the pro-Palestine activist mentioned: https://www.keranews.org/criminal-justice/2025-09-24/tarrant-county-raunaq-alam-perjury GF Uprising support Free Casey Goonan

Image from YDSA Texas

Sean and Varn tackle the important question regarding the release of the much-vaunted 'Epstein Files': which ones of 'our faves' might be implicated? How do we avoid the 'socialism of fools' after this and Gaza? What does the Epstein story tell us about the rot at the heart of our ruling class? What do the files tell us about the absolute state of barbarism we currently live in and must find some way to work ourselves out of?

N.B. at one point in the main episode Sean, in reference to diversity within Judaism, mentions the Satmar Hasidic community in NYC but neglects to mention why he brought it up which is because they one of the main sects that rejects Zionism on religious principle. To listen to the paywalled section where Sean and Varn elaborate more on these questions become a patron at www.patreon.com/thiswreckage and to watch the video recording of the whole thing become a patron of Varn at www.patreon.com/varnvlog

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If you are in the Philadelphia area the ILC is having a first meetup for the Greater Philly chapter at Wissahickon Brewing Company on American Street Saturday, February 21st from 7pm to 8:30pm.

For more info you can email ILCofPhilly at gmail dot com. Hope to see you there!

Song: Gary Numan - This Wreckage