Colonial Outcasts

Colonial Outcasts

The anti-imperialist podcast your uncle will hate. Greg Stoker and Mark Wayne dig into history, anthropology, and military science to expose empire and narrative control, twice a week. Support us and get bonus content and ad-free listening at RFEmedia.com

  1. 1d ago

    215. Is New Zealand America’s Next Pacific Outpost? | Five Eyes, China & Māori Resistance

    Help support us and get ad-free exclusive content by subscribing to our substack at https://www.rfemedia.com/ or our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/c/ColonialOutcasts. The US has been heavily involved in Oceania since the 2nd World War. Now that US bases in West Asia have been destroyed in the Iran war, is it finally time for the Pacific Pivot?With US munitions drained by yet another West Asia war and its Gulf bases battered, Washington's long-promised "Pivot to Asia" is back on the table. This week on Colonial Outcasts, the anti-imperialist podcast your hawkish uncle will hate, we head to Aotearoa/New Zealand with Dr. Nathan Rew of The University of Waikato, and Bianca Ranson of Kaiawhina Tamaki. New Zealand is a microcosm of how the US empire manages its rivals and its vassal states alike. We cover: 🔻 The Pacific Pivot: how Obama's 2011 "Rebalance to Asia" became permanent US doctrine, and what it means for governance, daily life, and land sovereignty in New Zealand 🔻 Five Eyes: what the intelligence alliance is, how it expands US reach in the region, whether it provokes China, and what Kash Patel is after 🔻 The Pacific Islands Forum: can small island states shape the Indo-Pacific order, or are they being turned into pawns over climate finance, rare earth minerals, and maritime control? Is the Forum compromised, and why is Israel a partner? 🔻 China vs. the US: who is the real threat in great-power competition? 🔻 Resistance: the nuclear-free Pacific, Indigenous land rights, and the Māori protest movement 🔻 Election season: New Zealand's hard-right government and its problematic oppositionYou can Follow Bianca and org here: https://www.instagram.com/kaiawhina_tamaki?vrfl=MXZpOWdhbTRoaGJqdQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr

  2. Oct 12

    211. Columbus and Epstein: A Legacy of Whiteness w/ the Brown Berets

    This episode is ad-free at https://www.rfemedia.com/ To learn about indigenous history is to learn that the foundational myth of the United States is that the American Revolution wasn’t actually a revolution, it was instead a fight over colonial sovereignty. Colonial elites wanted to expand west beyond Appalachia while the British imperialists, concerned with the maintenance of Empire, did not have the patience to fight another costly frontier war that would gain them little. It’s also to learn that if the British prosecuted the war the colonists did against the indigenous tribes, or how they prosecuted campaigns in Africa or India, which were inherently g-sidal - there would be no United States. But you can’t biological warfare, mass starve, and immolate your third cousins and return to London society with martial honor. Because the colonists were humans. The First Nations, the Africans, the peoples of Hindustan, were not. So when conservatives adjacent to the Palestine movement say - we’ve been Israelified. This isn’t who we are, we’re occupied. What do you mean - this has always been what we’ve done. The mask off of the Trump administration is simply us coming back to ourselves minus all the post-Vietnam civil rights window dressing. We have a very important episode for you today and we hope you listen to it in its entirety, which you can do ad-free and for free at RFEmedia.com. If you are listening on other platforms you’re gonna get ads, sorry.

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The anti-imperialist podcast your uncle will hate. Greg Stoker and Mark Wayne dig into history, anthropology, and military science to expose empire and narrative control, twice a week. Support us and get bonus content and ad-free listening at RFEmedia.com

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