Keith Allen Dennis rejoins The State Between Us to offer a one-stop-shop for all things China Lobby, the original network of right-wing power players, spies, and criminal capitalists who positioned the "loss" of China to communism at the center of the new red scare in the USA that bookended the entire 'Cold War'. From the Kuomintang to the National Alliance, the China Lobby connects the worst of the worst in Americanism, imperialism, and fascism.

Cool art from The Reporter, 1952.

Keith's pile o' references

References Mentioned (see above photo for more references):
Bellant, Russ. Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party. Boston: South End Press, 1991.
Lintner, Bertil. Blood Brothers: The Criminal Underworld in Asia. 2003.
Seagrave, Sterling. The Soong Dynasty. Harper & Row, 1985.
Recluse's VISUP blog on the ASC

Music:
Intro - "The Red Sun Must Illuminate Taiwan", performers unknown
Outro - "Joe McCarthy's Ghost", Minutemen. 1982.
"I Can't Have Your Love", Yao Li. 1930s.
"Holo Holo Kaa", Hal Aloma. 1940s.
"Careless Hands", Sammy Kaye. 1949.
"Tracy's Theme", Spencer Ross. 1959.
Also includes music from FesliyanStudios.com

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The forgotten story of American Industry's post-war espionage, propaganda, and policy outfit, the American Security Council. Launched by Robert E. Wood and Hitler-loving Chicago Tribune owner, Robert McCormick, in the mid-'50s, the ASC was built on the work of Nazi spies, staffed with Special Agents of the FBI, and funded by - and serving - the USA's most powerful firms. From the China Lobby, through WACL, to the Reagan administration and beyond, the American Security Council makes an ignominious addition to the terrible giants of The State Between Us.

Reading:
Ernie Lazar's FOIA boxes on The American Security Council available at archive.org
Turner, William. Power on the Right. 1971, Ramparts Press.

Also, check out Keith Allen Dennis' ASC work on The Farm Podcast here!

Music:
"240" by Koleso Nešťastia
"In Honor" from FesliyanStudios.com
"Running Night" from pixabay.com
Additional sounds from freesound.org
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Fritz meets with labor organizer, Eli, to discuss the early career and connections of Alt-Right co-founder and Regnery Dynasty byproduct, Richard Spencer, and how Gainesville organized to de-platform Dicky and his fashy friends at the University of Florida in 2017, the first real test for Spencer's circle following the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.

Photo by Brian Bianco from Getty Images published by NBC news.

Intro and outro music:
"Atados" by Gutless (Gainesville, FL. 2017.)

Additional music from pixabay.com

Intro clip from CBS News

Reading:
Bar-On, Tamir. Richard B. Spencer and the Alt Right. In, Key Thinkers of the Radical Right. Ed. Mark Sedgwick. Oxford, 2019.

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TSBU takes on the Regnery family tree, the branches of which take us to the America First Committee, the US Conservative Revolution, and the absurd but influential Alt-Right. The Regneries rubbed shoulders with the Who's Who of the 20th century's most important fascists, reactionaries, Yale spies, and NAM big shots since breaking rich in Kansas City, and didn't stop when they made it to DC.

Wilhelm and the kids. Billy Hank is top right.

Reading:
Bjerre-Poulsen, Niels. Right Face: Organizing the American Conservative Movement, 1945-65. Museum Tusculanum Press. Copenhagen, 2002.
Cole, Wayne S.. America First: The Battle Against Interventionism, 1940-1941. University of Wisconsin, 1953.
Tanenhaus, Sam. Buckley: The Life and Revolution that Changed America. Random House, 2025.
Walsh, David Austin. Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right. Yale, 2024.

Intro Music: Spike Jones, "Der Fuerher's Face". 1943.
Outro Music: Ramona, "Cello and Voice".
Other music from pixabay.org, chosic.com, fesliyanstudios.com, archive.org, and Ramona.

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Medievalist Chase Padusniak joins TSBU to help Fritz briefly extend his vacation from contemporary horrors with 14th-century ones, and narrate the chaotic struggles of class formation in Norwich and the Low Countries through the strange lens of medieval mysticism.

DMs take note! Lorestuff incoming...

Stay tuned for Chase's upcoming podcast, Death Is a Photograph, coming soon!
For Patrons, Chase will be joining us in the tavern this month to take your questions about all things medieval and mystical. Check out our Patreon page soon for times!

Anchorite digs.

Music: Dies Irae (Dance Remix) and Gregorian Chants (Remix) prod. by Ryz
SFX and add. music: freesound.org and pixabay.com

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In 1647, the urban dispossessed of Naples erupted into a revolutionary class war against their gangster aristocracy. Lead by a 'barefoot Moses', the destitute Masaniello, the brief but impactful revolt led to over a week of chaos that turned power in the Renaissance metropolis on its head, marking "the first time that the proletariat of any European city seized power and governed alone".

Background music from pixabay.com and fesliyanstudios.com
Intro: Oro. Stop the War. 1977.
Outro: Donatella Viggiano. Napule Canta e More. 1979.
Also featuring piano compositions by Franz List, performer unknown.

Reading:
D'Alessio, Silvana. Masaniello: The Life and Afterlife of a Neapolitan Revolutionary. Amsterdam U.P., 2022 (Translation).
Linebaugh, Peter, and Marcus Rediker. The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. Boston: Beacon Press, 2000.
Monod, Paul. The Power of Kings: Monarchy and Religion in Europe, 1588-1715. Yale U.P., 1999.

Sound effects from freesound.org

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Historian of Irish resistance Pádraig Ó Ruairc joins Fritz to discuss the rise of the British Fascisti (yes, that's what they called themselves), the first Fascist organization in the UK, their imperial and class origins, their freaky friends and their terrible role in the occupation of Ireland.

Get Burn Them Out!: A History of Fascism and the Far Right in Ireland from Bloomsbury press!

Music: Opener "Come Out Ye Black and Tans" attributed to Dominic Behan, performer unknown. retrieved from archive.org.
Closer: "God Bless England" performed by the Mary Wallopers.
also featuring music from fesliyanstudios.com

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In an attempt to wrap his head around the ultra-influential Council for National Policy, the secretive beating heart of the American Right today, Fritz is compelled to just sum up the whole history of Americanism instead, the oft-neglected endemic form of fascism in the U. S. of A.. From the National Association of Manufacturers, through the American Legion, to the Evangelical Right, the story of the CNP isn't only Reaganism, Project 2025, the Rapture and death squads; it's the bleeding edge of American fascism itself!

Key Readings:
Anderson, Scott, and Jon Lee Anderson. Inside the League: The Shocking Exposé of How Terrorists, Nazis, and Latin American Death Squads Have Infiltrated the World Anti-Communist League. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1986.
Barkun, Michael. Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement. Revised edition. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Bellant, Russ. Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party. Boston: South End Press, 1991.
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)
Eco, Umberto. 1995. “Ur-Fascism.” The New York Review of Books, June 22, 1995.
Gray, Justin. The Inside Story of the Legion. New York: Boni & Gaer, 1948.

Music:
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy - 'California Uber Alles'.
John Hartford - 'I'm Still Here'
Koleso Nešťastia - 361.1
All other music from pixabay.com, archive.org and fesliyanstudios.com
Sound effects from freesound.org