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Bolsonaro Flees, Trump's CIA is Integral to Ukraine's War Effort, Israeli Racism Helps Keep Bibi in Power, Ukraine is Providing Military Aid for Israel's Genocidal War, Ukraine's Slow Attritional Loss Continues...

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This week we are joined by our official France correspondent, Matthew to discuss the ongoing protests across Europe.

The ‘Total Strike’ Has Come for France

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2026/10/the-total-strike-has-come-for-france 

“Can We Be Angry About the Vandalism and Still Take Certain High School Students’ Complaints Seriously?”

https://www.lefigaro.fr/en/france/madeleine-de-jessey-can-we-be-angry-about-the-vandalism-and-still-take-certain-high-school-students-complaints-seriously-20261008 

Are student protests being manipulated ahead of France's presidential election?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8zxlyg965r3o 

France is facing crisis after crisis. Her...

This week, Ben and Jason sat down for a free flowing discussion about the current state of things and how to experience the world around us without being aloof or carried away by the ever shifting and fickle political currents of time.

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This week the boys finish up the last section of Kritikpunkt's article Fascism? For What? We deal with the age old question, is fascism on the rise and if so why?

From the article:

"Hitler and his associates ruled by perverted means because they were evil, and with their malice they were able to win over their masses. Today there are evil people again, and they must not be allowed to take power, because then one would once again have to submit to non-democracy. Such is the theory of bourgeois anti-fascism. We consider this formula...

The Five Year Fuel Crisis, US Fails to Care for Iran War Wounded, Israel at Risk of Civil War and Collapse, Cartels Training in Ukraine, No Russia is not Losing the War...  

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This week the boys sat down to do their second close reading of an article by the Kritikpunkt Team titled Fascism? For What? We deal with the age old question, is fascism on the rise and if so why?

From the article:

"Hitler and his associates ruled by perverted means because they were evil, and with their malice they were able to win over their masses. Today there are evil people again, and they must not be allowed to take power, because then one would once again have to submit to non-democracy. Such is the...

  The boys are back with another Q and A. We cover how to relate to anti-imperial struggles, the legacy of the American Revolution, super profits, the Frankfurt School, and the ever lowering horizons of the socialist movement.

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US Removes Al-Qaeda Syria From Terror List, Ansar Allah Victory Steamroller, Netanyahu Busted, The US Keeps Losing in Iran, Ukraine is Losing the War, The Offensive that Wasn't...

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This week the boys sat down to do a close reading of an article by the Kritikpunkt Team titled Fascism? For What? We deal with the age old question, is fascism on the rise and if so why?

From the article:

"Hitler and his associates ruled by perverted means because they were evil, and with their malice they were able to win over their masses. Today there are evil people again, and they must not be allowed to take power, because then one would once again have to submit to non-democracy. Such is the theory...

This week, the boys got together with our official European correspondent, Matthew, to talk about the triumph of the AFD in the Anhalt Sachsen elections this past week and end up talking about the European Right, Fascism, Post-Fascism, and how to keep losing elections to racist ghouls while acting morally superior and helping no one.  

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Welcome to a special, long-form collaboration: The Regrettable Century and VarnVlog combined in our Captain Planet team of pessimism. Today, we are opening up a comprehensive multi-part investigation into New York Times columnist Ross Douthat's landmark 2020 thesis, The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victim of Our Own Success.

Drawing its name and conceptual infrastructure from Jacques Barzun’s classic From Dawn to Decadence, Douthat’s work defines a decadent society not as a spectacular moral collapse, but as an advanced state of structural stasis. It is a condition where a society remains remarkably wealthy off of past...

Economic D-Day, Iran Strikes Back, US Army Secretary Resigns in Protest, Iran's Financial Situation, Azov on the Rise, The Zionist/Ukrainian Nazi Alliance, Inter-Agency Intel War in Kiev, Russia Advances...

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This week the dudes and the patrons got together to chill and discuss the overall vibes in the world.

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This week the boys sat down with Dean and Matt from The Magnificast to discuss their new book. 

From the editor:

Capitalism's excessive patterns of production and consumption are fueling the biggest existential threat to humanity: climate change. The central assumption of our current economic system puts economic growth before all other values. But infinite growth on a finite planet is fundamentally impossible. We must embrace the idea of degrowth.

With a name like "degrowth," misunderstandings are easy to come by, like assuming degrowth is about austerity or population control; on the contrary, d...

Pentagon Wants to Retreat From the Persian Gulf, Shipping Chaos Threatens World Food Supply, Arms Manufacture Scam, Mossad Iran Purge, Israel Bombs Turkish Assets in Syria, Royal Navy Too Small and Weak, Ukraine Drone War Failure and Russian Breakthroughs...  

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This week Jason and Kevin got together to do a close read the document that is causing American Conservatives to lose their minds, the new program of the Democratic Socialists of America.

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In this episode the boys continue their ongoing discussion of the influences of popular-socialism, folk-socialism, left-populism, and left-nationalism on the western workers' movement and how to navigate the impossible task of resurrecting the "Real Marxist" tradition. 

The Problem With Left Nationalism

https://jacobin.com/2026/01/left-nationalism-universalism-populism-melenchon 

The Left and Its Meaning

https://sublationmedia.com/the-left-and-its-meaning/

Folk Socialism — A Left-Populist Disorder 

https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/folk-socialism-a-left-populist-disorder/ 

A Socialism for the 21st Century

https://truthout.org/articles/a-socialis...

  This week, two old veterans of about two and a half decades in the fight against half a dozen imperialist wars read and discussed an article about why there is not anti-war movement.  

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Iran War Strategic Summary, Iran and Oman Hormuz Agreement, The US is Out of Missiles, China Missile Practice on US Ship Models, Ukraine Bombs Restaurant, Ukraine 40 Day Drone War Failure, Ukraine Counteroffensive Failure, Ukraine Out of Air Defense Missiles...

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This week we continue our series on republicanism by returning to an episode we did on the complicated legacy of the American Revolution. This older episode now has a 40 minute preface where we discuss the episode and how much things have changed since the original, enjoy! 

Like the bourgeois project as a whole, the historical consequences of the American Revolution have had mixed results. Simultaneously spurring on the cause of human freedom and stifling it, the American Revolution was pregnant with a creative and destructive spirit. As the American Empire appears to be in decline, we ask w...

JD Vance Admits Epstein Was Mossad and Israel Derailed Negotiations, Pentagon Budget Crisis, US Weapons Shortage, Failure and Firings in Ukraine...

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This week the boys all got together to do a bonus episode about the current state of the republic. We are clearly ailing as a society and we are clearly in trouble as a country. Will the decline of the empire lead to the fall of the republic?

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This week we sat down with our comrade Brad, a union organizer and CPUSA member, to discuss an article he wrote about two conflicting visions of radical change at the heart of the unfinished American Revolution and its implications for the contemporary workers' movement. 

Abolition Democracy or Reconstruction Democracy?
Working-Class Leadership and the Unfinished Democratic Revolution

https://newjubileenotes.substack.com/p/abolition-democracy-or-reconstruction 

Israel Tried to Assassinate Iran's Negotiators, The Abysmal State of US Oil Reserves, The War is Back the Strait is Closed, Ukraine on the Brink, Russian Advance Slowed but Ukrainian Losses Surge...  

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We continue our month long series on American Communism by doing a close read and discussion of two articles about the Communist Party of the United States of America's role as the cutting edge of liberatory politics in the mid 20th century.

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*The first version of this episode was only an hour long for some reason. We've re-uploaded the full episode which is a half hour longer.*

For America's 250th birthday, the boys got together to discuss the legacy of the American Revolution. There are two major poles of thought on the American left, with wildly differing interpretations of the American Revolution. They both make some good points, we discuss those here. 

The Social and Intellectual Legacy of the American Revolution

https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/essays/social-and-intellectual-legacy-american-revolution 

Ken Burn...

Last week's British race riots were largely organized by a rising movement of affiliated neo-Nazi organizations called Active Clubs. It should surprise no one that they have direct links to Ukraine.

This week we do a close read of an article from the Azov Lobby Blog and discuss the outsized impact of Ukraine's Azov movement on global neo-Nazism.

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This week we invited Daniel Tutt and C. Derick Varn to talk about their new book, The People are Not One: Socialist Strategy After Left Populism. 

From the publisher:

In The People Are Not One, Daniel Tutt and C. Derick Varn dismantle the central illusion of contemporary left politics: that “the people” can serve as a coherent subject of emancipation. Against both right and left populisms, they argue that this fantasy of unity obscures real class antagonisms and traps socialism in a dead-end politics of moral appeal and electoral maneuver.

Through a sustained criti...

Trump Threatens Iran and Backs Down Again, US Intel Upgrades Israel's Espionage Threat Level, Israel's Plans For Radical Militarization and Autarky, Sy Hersh Says Trump Wanted to Use Nukes on Iran, Ukraine's Long Range Strikes Aren't Going to Win the War...  

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Welcome back to Boundless and Bottomless Seas. In this episode, we finally cross the finish line of Alexander Dugin’s infamous text, The Fourth Political Theory.

While Dugin frames himself as the ultimate adversary to Western postmodernism, a close, line-by-line reading reveals a wild, contradictory smoothie of ideas. We put it all in the blender: Soviet Marxism, radical traditionalism, Carl Schmitt's friend-enemy distinction, a heavy dose of Martin Heidegger, and a few tablespoons of pure Infowars-level internet mysticism.

We dive deep into the messy world of his conflicting translations and the obscure concepts found in his appendices:

This week Arnold from Fight Like an Animal joins us to talk about his new book Fight Like an Animal: Revolutionary Biology in Defense of Life.

From the Publisher's Site:

The stories we tell matter, especially when we aren't aware we're telling them, or how they shape our behavior. In Fight Like an Animal, Arnold Schroder argues that all modern conceptions of politics, from anarchism to fascism, exhibit a shared confusion. All are based on some form of the nature-nurture binary: the idea that human behavior is either biologically or socially-determined, and that...

Trump Backs Down From Renewed War With Iran, NATO Rejects Mandatory Ukraine Tax, Israel Wants Holocaust Denier to Rule Iran, Latvian Government Collapses, US Does Israel's Fighting, Ukraine's Losses Higher Than Russia In 2026 So Far, Territorial Gain Discrepancies...

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Finally, the long-awaited end of 'Disaster Nationalism' by Richard Seymour. The gang dives into the final chapters of this amazing book. https://www.versobooks.com/products/3147-disaster-nationalism?srsltid=AfmBOopteajdHFhvPPMqXAdXY-mHaQbhDVu5iClxBvNpDm57Jdetk0kH

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As socialists, what should we think about conspiracy theories? Should the myriad secret diabolical acts perpetrated by the elites lead us to be more open minded toward the ravings of the open-minded so-called "lunatic fringe," Or does it even matter whether the theories are true?  

Comments on the Society of the Spectacle
https://files.libcom.org/files/Comments%20on%20the%20Society%20of%20the%20Spectacle.pdf

Conspiracy Theory Is Dead
https://jacobin.com/2023/05/conspiracy-theory-is-dead

Conspiracies: Left vs Right
https://theramparts.substack.com/p/conspiracies-the-left-vs-right 

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F-35s With no Radar, US Pulling Troops From Europe, Chinese Solar Exports Soar, Iran Is a Massive Strategic Defeat For the US, Israel's Government Is Crumbling, Vehicle and Territory Losses In Ukraine...  

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This week's bonus episode is the second and last part of our close read close read of a 2021 article from Current Affairs titled What Is Fascism—And Why the Definition Matters by Abel Sterling. We found some merit in this article and decided it would form the basis of a good discussion.

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This week, the boys got together to finish the discussion about what appears to be a massive shift in the way the global system is ordered. Will it be better? Likely not.  Will it present opportunities for rupture? Hopefully. 

Why Is There No Antiwar Movement in the US?

https://jacobin.com/2026/03/iran-us-antiwar-movement-trump 

Welcome to a Multidimensional Economic Disaster 

https://archive.ph/gEEBj  

The decline of the West and the rise of ‘the Rest’ will lead to a new world order

https://www.chathamho...

Jason and Varn are back and discussing Dugin again. As the discussion of the book inches closer to conclusion, this discussion moves into Dugin's ideas about Fascism, Liberalism, and Communism and the need to transcend these ideologies in the 21st century before moving into the Heideggerian foundations of Dugin's thought.  

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This week, the boys got together to talk about what appears to be a massive shift in the way the global system is ordered. Will it be better? Likely not.  Will it present opportunities for rupture? Hopefully. 

Why Is There No Antiwar Movement in the US?

https://jacobin.com/2026/03/iran-us-antiwar-movement-trump 

Welcome to a Multidimensional Economic Disaster 

https://archive.ph/gEEBj  

The decline of the West and the rise of ‘the Rest’ will lead to a new world order

https://www.chathamhouse.org/publicati...

This week's bonus episode is a close read of an article from Current Affairs titled What Is Fascism—And Why the Definition Matters by Abel Sterling. We found some merit in this article and decided it would form the basis of a good discussion. Stay tuned for part two.

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