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Super Structure with Julian Feeld
Super Structure is a podcast about the many shapes of power. The power of propaganda, the power of political repression, and the power of revolutionary struggles the world over.
We help you — and comedian Jon Gabrus — understand current events, history and politics.
So join us as we live, laugh, and radicalize together.
Episodes
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
The Russian Revolution Part 1 (E47)
What paved the course for the 1917 Bolshevik revolution? In this first of two parts, we explore the turmoil of World War I, the Czar’s many ignoble failures…
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News For Two Adult Sons feat Jake Rockatansky (E46) Sample
French protests heat up. Trump taps Russia for oil as the Iran war continues to drive prices up. ICE keeps metastasizing. Flock cameras continue to be misused…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
The Ascent of the Far Right in France & Europe feat Marlon Ettinger (E45)
We spoke with writer and journalist Marlon Ettinger about the rise of the far right in France and western Europe more broadly. Your host is Julian Feeld. Go to…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
The Wonderful World of US Arms Exports feat Josef Burton (E44) Sample
From World War II to the Global War On Terror, the United States has armed the world in various ways. We break down the history of US Arms Exports with Josef…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
Last Plane Out (1983) Movie Night (E43)
A movie about friendship with a Nicaraguan dictator in the process of being overthrown by revolutionaries. Last Plane Out (1983) is the story of an American…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
Indonesian Propaganda: Part 2 (E42) Sample
Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world and it experienced an anti-communist genocide in the mid 1960s. We conclude our two-parter about…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
Indonesian Propaganda: Part 1 (E41)
Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world and it experienced an anti-communist genocide in the mid 1960s. We kick off a two-parter about…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
Camp of the Saints feat. Hayden Tank (E40) Sample
A grotesque and puerile book from 1971 that stoked anti-immigrant panic and inspired such luminaries as Stephen Miller, Marine Le Pen, and Steve Bannon. This…
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The Age of Imperialist Realism feat. Daniel Bessner (E39)
“The American Empire is more than just a political formation: it’s also a state of mind.” This week’s guest is Daniel Bessner of the American Prestige Podcast…
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The Nepalese Revolution (E38) Sample
In 2006, despite the unstoppable ascendancy of liberal-capitalist hegemony in the post-Soviet context, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), completed a…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
Scenes From The Libertarian Movement (E37)
A story in chapters: we explore the Libertarian movement and its attempts at creating a city (or even nation). Your hosts are Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus. Go…
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News Trickles Down feat. Liv Agar (E36) Sample
Cops continue to use Flock to spy on people they know. Trump steals Venezuelan oil. DHS and ICE expand their violent activities. Canada’s Mark Carney feuds…
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Global Ecocide and the US Military feat. Abby Martin & Mike Prysner (E35)
We examine how the Pentagon is the world’s single largest institutional polluter while working to keep its contributions to the climate crisis invisible. Your…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
Red Scorpion (1988) Movie Night (E34) Sample
An action movie about a heavily muscled man discovering that communism is bad. But the movie’s production history connects Hollywood directly to the Reagan…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
Building a Client State in El Salvador feat. Max Palma (E33)
We track El Salvador’s development from the era of Spanish rule to Nayib Bukele’s current regime. Your hosts are Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus. They’re joined by…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
The Japanese Cult in Brazil That Never Lost World War II (E32) Sample
This is the story of a secret society among Japanese migrants in Brazil, the Shindo Renmei. They adamantly insisted that Japan had won World War II, to the…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
The Road to War With Iran feat. Séamus Malekafzali (E31)
We map out the history of Iran’s relationship with the United States (and Israel) leading to the current war. Your host is Julian Feeld with guest Séamus…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
The Evangelical Colonization and Genocide of Guatemala (E30) Sample
In the 1970s and 80s, Guatemala saw a joint effort by a military junta, the United Fruit Company, the CIA and American Evangelicals to suppress an indigenous…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
The Lost Cause (E29)
After the Civil War, Reconstruction sought to remedy a deeply structurally racist antebellum South. But a movement sprung up dubbed the Lost Cause. It sought…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
News: Flock of Pigs, FEMAnority Report, DSA Meltdowns (E28) Sample
The government spies on anti-Flock-camera activists and warns of terrorism. A cop uses Flock to spy on his ex. Spain experiences a suspicious surge of migrants…
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Charivari & the History of the KKK feat Devin O’Shea (E27)
We explore the Ku Klux Klan, from its theatrical origins in “charivari” during reconstruction to the Hollywood-inspired white hooded gang most people are…
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The Life and Death of Thomas Sankara (E26) Sample
The Marxist, Pan-Africanist revolutionary from Burkina Faso is our subject. Thomas Sankara was president of the country from 1983 to 1987, but was ultimately…
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The Siege (1998) Movie Night (E25) feat Mathilde Huron
We explore a pre-Bush and pre-9/11 movie about New York being under attack by CIA-trained Palestinian terrorists. Our guest is Mathilde Huron. Your hosts are…
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The Angola Prison Rodeo & the Louisiana State Penitentiary feat Beck Strah (E24) Sample
We explore the prison rodeo and general history of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, better known as Angola. Our guest is Beck Strah, cohost of the Prison…
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Uranium Mining, the Navajo & the Nuclear Legacy of New Mexico feat Kurly Tlapoyawa (E23)
We explore the devastating and ongoing effects of uranium mining and testing in New Mexico, especially in connection to the Navajo people. Our guest is Kurly…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
Operation Gladio: NATO’s Stay-Behind Armies (E22) Sample
A vast secret network of armed anti-Communists established in the 40s. We explore the story of how counter-measures to an imagined post-WW2 Soviet invasion…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
The 2000 Election Steal (E21)
Bush VS Gore at the turn of the millennium. It involved a J6-like riot, featured many of the most powerful people alive today, and happened right in front of…
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Race, Samba & Funk in Brazil: Part 2 feat Caio Almendra (E20) Sample
This episode is the story of how two Black musical styles in Brazil faced the exact same dilemma: dire repression and market integration, which would…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
Race, Samba & Funk in Brazil: Part 1 feat Caio Almendra (E19)
This is the story of how a country, which acts in many ways as a bizarre mirror to the United States, engineered its own toxic brand of white supremacy, and…
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Van Damme Does Tel Aviv feat Hesse Deni & Will Menaker (E18) Sample
Jean-Claude Van Damme travels to Israel to don a hasidic disguise and beat up cops in Tel Aviv. This movie night sees us exploring The Order (2001) with Hesse…
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News Roundup feat Liv Agar (E17)
Israeli propaganda courses, 30 years in prison for moving anarchist zines, Monsanto not liable, Peter Thiel’s secret society leaked, a global heatwave and a…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
Origins of Zionism (E16) Sample
We explore the roots of the settler-colonial project known as Zionism – which led to the formation of the state of Israel on Palestinian land. Your hosts are…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
The Turner Diaries (E15)
The book that defined a generation of right wing racist violence, traces of The Turner Diaries (first published in 1978) can still be found shot through…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
The Oklahoma City Bombing (E14) Sample
A historic act of domestic terrorism committed by a right-wing crank obsessed with the Turner Diaries, Ruby Ridge and Waco. The Oklahoma City Bombing and…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
The Order (E13)
An American Neo-Nazi organization active in the 80s, The Order (AKA The Silent Brotherhood) partook in murder, armed robbery, and even declared war on the…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
Russian Populism & the Narodniks (E12) Sample
Revolutionary movements in Russia existed before the Bolsheviks. We explore the various groups attempting to topple the Tsar and lift the peasantry out of dire…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
Operation 40 & the Anti-Castro Cubans (E11)
Once again under mounting siege, Cuba’s revolution is no stranger to violent meddling by the United States and wealthy Cubans in exile. We explore a “wet work”…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
The Black Liberation Army & Republic of New Afrika (E10) Sample
Guerrilla warfare in the 20th century United States? Factions of the Black Power movement made this a reality. Following our episode on the Weather…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
The Weather Underground (E9)
One of the most well-known but least understood movements in the history of the American revolutionary left, the Weather Underground Organization is on our…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
Origins of NATO (E8) Sample
What is the function and purpose of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization? This turns out to be a question even its founders struggled with. Julian Feeld and…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
The Hondurasgate Octopus (E7)
Drug trafficking, the military, foreign interests… Honduras has long been a focus of the anti-communist project in South and Central America. Julian Feeld and…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
The Late Great Planet Earth (E6) Sample
The least known book that changed the world. The Late Great Planet Earth is the topic of our first Super Structure book club episode. Published in 1970, TLGPE…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
Ruby Ridge (E5)
A family beset by religious mania, white supremacist obsessions, and deep paranoia about the government. Federal agencies causing multiple deaths through a…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
Plato’s Run (Movie Night) 1997 (E4) Sample
Retired Navy Seal Gary Busey heads to Cuba to get trapped in a web of violence and intrigue by a landmine baron and a KGB-trained Cuban spy in this…
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Ted Shackley Jr: The CIA’s Forrest Gump (E3)
We explore CIA interventionism through Ted Shackley Jr, an agent involved in many of the more cruel and dramatic episodes over the course of three decades…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
Origins of ICE (E2) Sample
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has become a huge problem under Trump, but what led us here? How did we end up with a network of…
- Super Structure with Julian Feeld
Mossadegh & the Anglo-American Coup (E1)
In the 50’s, Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh presaged a different future for the country. But he made a crucial mistake: he nationalized oil and…
Super Structure with Julian FeeldEpisode Zero
Julian Feeld and John Gabrus discuss the upcoming podcast. For double the episodes you can subscribe to our patreon. Theme song by Thiago França. Cover Art by…