Kevin Smith is back, though not on this podcast, that's just a tricky way to say he's back with his second film, Mallrats. Joining Evan are SmirkGently and Levi.Left of the ...

Yes, we have T.V. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, season 2 is here and so are we. I'm back with Nick, from The Intervention podcast for some LOTR content. We reflect on our impressions of the first season and discuss charact...

I'm not even supposed to be here today. 37. In a row?? What else is there to say. Kevin Smith's first film. We discuss how incredible it was to have been made, the politics of Gen X, gum commericials and so much more.

Today, we celebrate our Independence Day! Well, maybe not, but you can hear us talk about how it's not possible to get from NYC to D.C. in 4 hours during a global apocalypse. Welcome to earth!

Just some more slop for the trough as we get back into gear with the real stuff.  It's coming, we promise. Free Palestine!Resources:Answer Coalition

Nick and Steve get together for some drinks and have some fun comparing the political situations of the US and the UK.  Nothing earthshattering here, folks, but good to be back, even if only for a moment.Resources:

The United States is the world’s leading purveyor of immiseration, destruction, death, and instability—as the swamp that sustains our current world order of monopoly capitalism and imperialism, the United States is still, and has been for a cen...

We join Destiny of Closeted History to begin what we anticipate being the first in many collaborations exploring the intersection of the LGBTQ+ movement with other revolutionary struggles.  Th...

Getting sloppy again going over the basic contours of the European left in anticipation of Levi's move to the German fatherland. We also break some fresh ground talking about Biden's infirm grasp on reality and Trump's racial insensitivity...th...

Hey all, no Intervention standalone this week, but enjoy Nick's conversation with two local Palestinian-American activists on Pittsburgh Liberation Radio.Palestinian-Americans Karim and Ahmed return to the show to tell stories of strugg...

The episode details the events of the Fourth Arab-Israeli War of 1973 (also known as the Yom Kippur War, the Ramadan War, and the October War) and the aftermath in Israels domestic affairs. The sizable amount of Israeli blood spilled provided a...

Nick and Comrade Ty have a discussion on imperialism, popular resistance and self-determination in our contemporary context. We discuss how to apply and update foundational theory to concrete conditions in 2024, with the genocide in Gaza and th...

Another heaping helping of slop for Mr Pig's piglets. On this one we "cherry-pick evidence — some factual, some highly distorted — to push misleading narratives" - according to the Washington Post. We talk bloodthirsty Dems

We've been teasing this one for quite some time and, after long last, it's here.  Steve leads an initial discussion on where we're in our knowledge and preconceptions of the Irish Republican Army and the broad history of Ireland. <...

Notes this is a rebroadcast from the Pittsburgh PSL podcast: Pittsburgh Liberation RadioIn this episode, Nick sits down with local Palestinian-American activists Karim and Ahmed for...

As promised in the previous episode,  we discuss  V. I. Lenin's Draft Theses on National and Colonial Questions for the Second Congress of the Communist Int...

This is an experiment of sorts. Before jumping into the seminar style discussion we've done in the past, we've chosen to do a straight reading of V. I. Lenin's Draft ...

In this episode begins with the War of Attrition beginning 1967 through the fallout of the 1972 attack by the Black September Group on the Munich Olympics.Pan-Arabism transitioned to more localized struggles in which the Soviet Union an...

We're back with Evan of Left of the Projector for the third (maybe second?) entry in the History in Film series. This time it's 1960's Zionist epic, Exodus. Based on

A year in review, U.S. Steel brings good news to their shareholders, the pillaging of the Congo, Steve's Reich-wing roundup, and a spark of hope in the smoldering left in the State of Israel.Articles:

Al Jazeera launched a “Know their Names' ' project on December 12th to bring attention to the over 275 P...

After two months that have felt like two decades, Mike rejoins us to polish off The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.  In

We take a minute to work through two articles in depth which speak to structural rot at the basis of the Israeli liberal establishment. The first by Jonathan Ofir argues the depravity at the basis of the genocide of Palestinians is proof of a s...

Joe Mayall finally returns to talk about the parallels between the American propaganda efforts leading into the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the current massive propaganda push to support Israel's erasure of Palestine. Pulling from Joe's article (...

Levi joined Evan and public historian Justin Clark to help host the latest series on Left of the Projector: History in Film. For the first installment (or maybe the second if you count our own episode on