The Empire Never Ended

The Empire Never Ended is a weekly podcast about fascist freaks and Balkan (anti)nationalist history. We mostly cover horrible things. All in great detail. Hosted by Boris Mamlëz and Rey Katula, and produced by Sal Falcon.

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#397
Wednesday · 1 hr 12 min
397: Spies, Czars, and Kooks pt 1 - Michał Goleniewski, Triple Agent
Boris begins a new series looking at the remarkable journey of Michał Goleniewski, the Cold War Polish spy whose 1961 defection to the West made him one of the CIA's top assets, until his subsequent fall from grace and claim to the Romanov throne found him at the center of a network of far right lunatics. Part 1 will cover his life and career in Poland up to the defection. Music Credits: Breakout - Takie moje miasto jest --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod
#396
September 29 · 1 hr 17 min
396: Anthroposophy pt. 1 - Cosmic Eugenics
Rey starts off a new series on Anthroposophy, an even more racist spin-off of Theosophy, by examining the race theories of founder Rudolf Steiner, who is best known today as the creator of the holistic Waldorf educational system. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod
September 22 · 1 hr 38 min
395: The Vienna Connection: Balkan Federation, Nationalism & Communists in the 1920s, w/ Stefan Gužvica
TENE has a very nerdy conversation with historian Stefan Gužvica about the history of Balkan communists in the 1920s, their relationship with various nationalist movements and the Comintern, and why Vienna was significant in all of this. Check out Stefan's work here: https://stefanguzvica.su/ --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod
#394
September 16 · 8 min
394: A Mosque in Etobicoke pt. 2 (Teaser)
In part two, Boris explores the odd biography of the mosque's co-founder; respected nuclear scientist, US Army colonel, and Sufi Sheikh Asaf Duraković who had dark connections to Ustaša war criminals and right-wing extremists. They follow the progression of the mosque from the Cold War to the 90s, when its designation changed from Croation to Bosnian. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod
#393
September 10 · 12 min
393: Funeral in Belgrade, Shootout in Kyiv - with Peter Korotaev (Teaser)
In this two part news update, Boris and Rey discuss the recent state funeral for Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladić. In part two, we are joined by returning guest Peter Korotaev of the Events in Ukraine substack to discuss the shootout in Kyiv between two factions of the Ukrainian intelligence services over a member of Neo-Nazi paramilitary Russian Volunteer Corps. Check out Peter's substack here: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/ --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod
#392
August 31 · 8 min
392: A Mosque in Etobicoke pt. 1 (Teaser)
Boris examines the strange backstory behind a Toronto area mosque founded by a former member of the Waffen SS and a Sufi Sheikh nuclear scientist as a bridge between the Islamic world and Croatian emigre extremists. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod
#391
August 27 · 1 hr 12 min
391: The Umpire Never Ended with A. M. Gittlitz
TENEpod is joined by Andy from This Wreckage podcast to talk about sports and his recent book Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People's Team. Did Theosophists invent baseball? This and more on TENE sports hour. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod
#390
August 18 · 4 min
390: O9A - "The Owls Are Not What They Seem" (Teaser)
Rey thinks he figured out what the Order of Nine Angles really is. Alternatively, he is having a mental breakdown. It should be fun either way. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod
#389
August 11 · 1 hr 21 min
389: Theosophy pt. 7 - Jiddu Krishnamurti, Ex-Messiah
Rey wraps up the Theosophy series by alking about the extraordinary life of Jiddu Krishnamurti, from his days as a "child prophet: adopted and indocrinated by the Theosophical Society, to his later days as a part of California elite society and a world teacher...on his own terms. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod
#388
August 7 · 9 min
388: TENE News Lounge - David Myatt and the Monster from the BaeldracaVerse (Teaser)
TENE & friend take a look at David Myatt's latest attempt at humor, check up on the tradcath world as well as suffer through Steven Crowder's new idiotic love affair with fascism and Pinochet. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod
July 30 · 8 min
387: Sweat to Eggs: Blavatsky's Root Races (Teaser)
TENE takes a trip to Polaris, Lemuria, and Hyperborea to try and make sense of Helena Blavatsky's "Root Races," a fundamental component of Theosophist cosmology and Blavatsky's totally-not-sketchy contribution to evolutionary theory. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod
July 20 · 5 min
386: Tito's Red Priests in America: Emil Glocar & Vojislav Gaćinović (Teaser)
Boris takes a look at the biographies of two Orthodox priests from Pennsylvania and Ohio whose activities during WW2 earned them medals from Tito, and got them into hot water with the US Government as dangerous reds. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod
#385
July 17 · 1 hr 6 min
385: Tito's American Almanac - 1945-48
Taking a break from the usual cast of characters, Boris examines two Yugoslav-American anti-fascist publications published in the US in the 1940s. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod
#384
July 10 · 1 hr 12 min
384: Theosophy pt 6 - P D Ouspensky and J G Bennett
Near the end of the Theosophy series, Rey examines the strange lives of Peter Ouspensky and John G. Bennett, who were followers of Gurdjieff, but also gurus in their own right with many followers of their own. They struggled with the legacy of Gurdjieff in different ways, but both were in pretty sad states by the end of their lives.
#385
July 4 · 7 min
383: TENE Film Club: Citizen Vigilante - The Turner Diaries for the Chronically Distracted
Courtesy of Elon Musk, Uwe Boll goes on a paid vacation to Croatia where he enjoys restaurants, the nightlife, and also films a movie starring Armie Hammer about how it's cool and based to murder immigrant families because of woke. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod
#382
June 24 · 7 min
382: Theosophy pt. 5 - Gurdjieff and the Shearing of Sheep (Teaser)
George Gurdjieff was never formally a theosophist, but his "doctrine" contained a very similar backstory, and many of his followers were former theosophists. Gurdjieff was a practice-oriented despotic cult leader, whose follwers believed him to be one of the Masters of the Great White Brotherhood described by Helena Blavatsky.
#381
June 19 · 1 hr 10 min
381: Theosophy pt. 4 - Rudolf Steiner, the Theosophist
In the fourth episode of our series on Theosophy, Rey talks about the founder of Anthroposophy, Austrian guru Rudolf Steiner. Steiner started started out as a Theosophist, but was much too ambitious and much too German for that movement. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod
#380
June 12 · 3 min
380: Theosophy pt. 3 - Charles Leadbeater and the Wandering Bishop (Teaser)
The story of the Theosophical Society takes a dark turn, as we examine the malignant influence of Charles Leadbeater, how he took an Indian boy from his family, and together with James Wedgwood formed the Liberal Catholic Church and proclaimed himself a Bishop. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod
#379
June 8 · 1 hr 20 min
[UNLOCKED] 379: Downstream from Cop Piss - Bovino's European Vacation
The TENE crew zooms out from Bovino's attendance (among others) at the recent far-right "Remigration Summit" in Portugal and follows the various threads and shadows of recurring characters on the show, who are unfortunately very real. Music Credits: Kaleidoscope - Girmitiya --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod
#381
June 5 · 8 min
379: Downstream from Cop Piss - Bovino's European Vacation (Teaser)
The TENE crew zooms out from Bovino's attendance (among others) at the recent far-right "Remigration Summit" in Portugal and follows the various threads and shadows of recurring characters on the show, who are unfortunately very real.

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