The State Between Us

The State Between Us

My name is Fritz McAlinden and this is The State Between Us, the anti-fascist podcast for dark dives into the ruling class insanity and fashy political cultures as well as our defenses against them through mutual aid and building each other up, sharing knowledge, and connecting the disparate voices in our overlapping struggles. Also TTRPGs, Sci-Fi, and other nerd shit. Let's get weird with it!

  1. 4일 전

    29. Revenge of the WASP II: UFOs and that Old-Money Woo

    Fritz, still worried about what Tucker Carlson and JD Vance have in store for the post-MAGA right, uncovers the old WASP spiritual foundations of the American mythology around UFOs/UAPs/Flying Saucers, etc.. From a Swedish Psychic Astronaut in the 18th century, through the upper-class salons of the (2nd?) Theosophical Society in the 19th, and the fashy UFO cults of the early-20th, UFO-ology's origins are all about woo-woo, Christian mysticism, fantasy 'science' fiction, and the old money of WASP elites of the past. Special thanks to the cast!Karl Marx played by Settembrini of Zock Bock RadioWilliam Rathborne Greg played by Pádraig Ó Ruairc of Burn Them Out!: A History of Fascism and the Far Right in IrelandHelena Blavatsky played by Leah Reading: [check out the patreon page later for additional citations!]◇ Barkun, Michael. A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America. 2nd ed., UC Press, 2013.◇ -- Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement. UNC Press, 1996.◇ Madden, Deborah. The Religious Politics of Prophecy. History of European Ideas. Issue 24. Elsevier, 2008.◇ Paley, Morton D. "A New Heaven is Begun": William Blake and Swedenborgianism. Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly, Volume 13, Issue 2. 1979. Other Links:◇ Recommended video essays on Theosophy and I AM Activity by Weird Reads with Emily Louise◇ Fritz and Setti talk Heinlein and Cambellian Sci-Fi on Zock Bock Radio episode 61, "America is a Harsh Mistress" Music:Intro Song: Crystal Cave by SNIFFAH (2025)Closing Song: The Buchanan Brothers - When You See Those Flying Saucers (1947)Also including music by SNIFFAH, Ramona, Koleso Nešťastia, and pixabay.org. #Swedenborgism, #UFOs, #UAPs, #Tucker, #Vance, #Theosophy, #Spiritualism

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    28. Class War and Counterinsurgency in Appalachia: The '84 Massey Coal Strike w/ Ashley Nguyen

    From 1984 to '85, both sides of the Tug Fork river on the West Virginia / Kentucky border were occupied by private security forces, green berets, mercenaries, and other muscle for the bosses to terrorize striking coal miners under the UMWA. Historian Ashley Nguyen joins TSBU to explain how the tactics of class warfare that beset the Massey strikers were part of the larger global counterinsurgency terror that defined American imperialism during the Cold War. Like it? Share it! Connect to The State Between Us at patreon.com/TheStateBetweenUs for more episodes, exclusive content, and live events.Bluesky: @thestatebetweenus.bsky.social‬Instagram: thestatebetweenuspodEmail: thestatebetweenus@proton.meYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheStateBetweenUsPodArmed and ready on the picket... trench? "A European hired as a security guard monitors video cameras used as part of a surveillance system at a coal mine in Sidney, Ky. " SoF 1986 "The more it hurt, the stronger I got...": Shot miner interviewed in Mine War on Blackberry Creek, 1986. Soldier of Fortune (SoF), Sept. 1986. *Ep includes an interview clip with Nomonde Ngubo of the National Union of Mineworkers of South Africa, featured in the documentary Mine War on Blackberry Creek, 1986. Reading:Burton, Orisanmi. Tip of the spear : black radicalism, prison repression, and the long Attica revolt. UCP, Oakland, 2023.Camp, Jordan T. Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State. UCP, 2016.Schrader, Stuart. Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing. UCP, 2019. Cold open song: "The Black Eternal Night" by Widows of the Night. Subversives, Electric Fields, 2026.Intro song: Title unknown, performer unknown. Clipped from Mine War on Blackberry Creek, 1986.Outro song: "The Tale of the Dragon", unknown performer. > Linked here Also featuring music from koleso neštastia and pixabay.com

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    23. The News Rug II: The TFP's Favorite Marine and Iran Triggers the Dispensationalists

    In TSBU's second edition of the News Rug, Fritz rips up the carpet on two recent U.S. press stories to track the long history of bad trouble underneath them: [2] trad-cath marine John W. Ripley's posthumous medal of honor taking us back to a militant traddy cult from Brazil: the infamous Tradition, Family, and Property, and [2] the news that American soldiers are being told that the war in Iran is about to trigger the rapture, and the terrible fashy network behind it, the good ole Council for National Policy. Like it? Share it! Connect to The State Between Us at patreon.com/TheStateBetweenUs for more episodes, exclusive content, and live events. Reading:◇ Celestini, Carmen. God, Country, and Christian Conservatives - The National Association of Manufacturers, the John Birch Society, and the Rise of the Christian Right. (Dissertation 2018, University of Waterloo)◇ Hummel, Danielg G.. The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How the Evangelical Battle over the End Times Shaped a Nation. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2013.◇ Kruse, Kevin M.. One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America. Princeton, 2016.◇ Lernoux, Penny. People of God : the struggle for world Catholicism. Viking, 1989.◇ Weinberg, Carl R.. Red Dynamite: Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America. Cornell, 2021.◇ Wink, George. Brazil, Land of the Past: The Ideological Roots of the New Right. Bibliotopia, 2021. Music by koleso neštastia, Ramona, pixabay.org, Louis Armstrong, and Jeff Mangum.

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My name is Fritz McAlinden and this is The State Between Us, the anti-fascist podcast for dark dives into the ruling class insanity and fashy political cultures as well as our defenses against them through mutual aid and building each other up, sharing knowledge, and connecting the disparate voices in our overlapping struggles. Also TTRPGs, Sci-Fi, and other nerd shit. Let's get weird with it!