<description>&lt;p&gt;Dan from &lt;a href="https://workstoppagepod.com"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Work Stoppage&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;and &lt;a href="https://anchor.fm/gametable"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Red Game Table&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;tells us about the chilling history of the US and its intelligence apparatuses' collaboration with the Nazis, including how the CIA took Nazi human experimentation research and ran with it, leading to programs such as MKULTRA.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Music:&lt;br&gt;
Fonola Band - "Bella Ciao"&lt;br&gt;
Phil Ochs - "I Ain't Marching Anymore"&lt;br&gt;
The Mountain Goats - "Maybe Sprout Wings"&lt;br&gt;
Frederic Mercier - "Spirit"&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sources:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War&lt;/em&gt; by Christopher Simpson&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Clouds of Secrecy: The Army's Germ Warfare Tests Over Populated Areas&lt;/em&gt; by Leonard Cole&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Trading with the Enemy: An Exposé of the Nazi-American Money Plot, 1933-1949&lt;/em&gt; by Charles Higham&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press&lt;/em&gt; by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;The Search For the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control&lt;/em&gt; by John Marks&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://jeff-kaye.medium.com/a-real-flood-of-bacteria-and-germs-communications-intelligence-and-charges-of-u-s-4decafdc762"&gt;&lt;u&gt;https://jeff-kaye.medium.com/a-real-flood-of-bacteria-and-germs-communications-intelligence-and-charges-of-u-s-4decafdc762&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/u&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.liberationschool.org/fascist-plots-in-the-u-s-contemporary-lessons-from-the-1934-business-plot/"&gt;&lt;u&gt;https://www.liberationschool.org/fascist-plots-in-the-u-s-contemporary-lessons-from-the-1934-business-plot/&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br&gt;
https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/sirhan-sirhan&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</description>

Dan from <a href="https://workstoppagepod.com">Work Stoppage</a> and <a href="https://anchor.fm/gametable">Red Game Table</a> tells us about the chilling history of the US and its intelligence apparatuses' collaboration with the Nazis, including how the CIA took Nazi human experimentation research and ran with it, leading to programs such as MKULTRA.
Music: 
Fonola Band - "Bella Ciao" 
Phil Ochs - "I Ain't Marching Anymore" 
The Mountain Goats - "Maybe Sprout Wings" 
Frederic Mercier - "Spirit" 

Sources:
Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War by Christopher Simpson 
Clouds of Secrecy: The Army's Germ Warfare Tests Over Populated Areas by Leonard Cole 
Trading with the Enemy: An Exposé of the Nazi-American Money Plot, 1933-1949 by Charles Higham 
Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair 
The Search For the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control by John Marks 
<a href="https://jeff-kaye.medium.com/a-real-flood-of-bacteria-and-germs-communications-intelligence-and-charges-of-u-s-4decafdc762">https://jeff-kaye.medium.com/a-real-flood-of-bacteria-and-germs-communications-intelligence-and-charges-of-u-s-4decafdc762</a> 
<a href="https://www.liberationschool.org/fascist-plots-in-the-u-s-contemporary-lessons-from-the-1934-business-plot/">https://www.liberationschool.org/fascist-plots-in-the-u-s-contemporary-lessons-from-the-1934-business-plot/</a> 
https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/sirhan-sirhan

12 - The United States and the Legacy of the Third Reich: Collaboration and Biological Warfare Post-WW2

<description>&lt;p&gt;Eilex, Taylor, and Ethan look back on the year, going through the major events of each month and going on some longer digressions about COVID-19 vaccine backlash, critical race theory, the hope of labor struggle, and how easy it was to assassinate world leaders a hundred years ago.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Outro music: "Auld Lang Syne," Alexandrov Ensemble&lt;/p&gt;
</description>

Eilex, Taylor, and Ethan look back on the year, going through the major events of each month and going on some longer digressions about COVID-19 vaccine backlash, critical race theory, the hope of labor struggle, and how easy it was to assassinate world leaders a hundred years ago.
Outro music: "Auld Lang Syne," Alexandrov Ensemble

2021: A Land of Contrasts

<description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode originally intended to be recorded and released before Halloween, we go over the social/political trends undergirding 90 years of US horror cinema decade by decade. Eilex shares a few frightening Latin American folktales and their ideological basis in colonization, and Jeremy talks about &lt;em&gt;No One Gets Out Alive &lt;/em&gt;(2021) and the messages behind it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;James Bell, “US Horror Film and the Capitalist Crisis (1974–1985)”, ep 1 of &lt;em&gt;Prolekult&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Mark Steven, &lt;em&gt;Splatter Capital&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Susan Sontag, &lt;a href="https://www.commentary.org/articles/susan-sontag/the-imagination-of-disaster/"&gt;“The Imagination of Disaster”&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Commentary Magazine&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</description>

In this episode originally intended to be recorded and released before Halloween, we go over the social/political trends undergirding 90 years of US horror cinema decade by decade. Eilex shares a few frightening Latin American folktales and their ideological basis in colonization, and Jeremy talks about No One Gets Out Alive (2021) and the messages behind it.
James Bell, “US Horror Film and the Capitalist Crisis (1974–1985)”, ep 1 of Prolekult
Mark Steven, Splatter Capital
Susan Sontag, <a href="https://www.commentary.org/articles/susan-sontag/the-imagination-of-disaster/">“The Imagination of Disaster”</a>, Commentary Magazine

11 - Ideology and Reaction in Horror

<description>&lt;p&gt;This is a non-standard ITF episode because we had Jeremy back but we didn't have anything prepared, so we did an off-the-cuff roundup of the state of things, including blowing off steam about COVID, reading some absurd financial press opinions on China, and brainstorming timely bumper stickers. This one's all over the place, but we'll be back to providing thoughtful and researched content next time!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Any opinions shared by ITF members on this episode do not represent the views of ITF or its members.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Outro music: "Motherless Child," Romare&lt;/p&gt;
</description>

This is a non-standard ITF episode because we had Jeremy back but we didn't have anything prepared, so we did an off-the-cuff roundup of the state of things, including blowing off steam about COVID, reading some absurd financial press opinions on China, and brainstorming timely bumper stickers. This one's all over the place, but we'll be back to providing thoughtful and researched content next time!
Any opinions shared by ITF members on this episode do not represent the views of ITF or its members.
Outro music: "Motherless Child," Romare

Interlude - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Putting Hydrogen Peroxide in My Nebulizer

<description>&lt;p&gt;ITF's first in-person episode!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As a result, Eilex, Taylor, and Ethan have a wide-ranging and somewhat freeform discussion about happiness, what it means, how it's measured, and why capitalist ideology wants to quantify it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Outro: "It Was A Good Day", Ice Cube&lt;/p&gt;
</description>

ITF's first in-person episode!&nbsp;
As a result, Eilex, Taylor, and Ethan have a wide-ranging and somewhat freeform discussion about happiness, what it means, how it's measured, and why capitalist ideology wants to quantify it.
Outro: "It Was A Good Day", Ice Cube

10 - Happiness

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