Cointelpro
Cointelpro is a podcast and independent media project that confronts the prospect of decline and structural crisis in the 21st century through a combination of interviews and feature stories. We aim to investigate the nature of our social and material realities, anticipating the trends and themes of the next 80 years.
Episodes
58 episodes
57. Regulators for Sale, SBF and FTX
Austin and Mike discuss the Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX story from this past month. Here's a link to the piece Mike mentioned during the show: https://protos.com/we-watched-every-sbf-interview-so-you-dont-have-to/
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56. A Second Condon Report
We discuss the recent New York Times piece by Julian Barnes, a national security reporter for the pa...
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55. Consider the Snow Crab
Alaskan officials have cancelled the snow crab fishing season for this year. Austin and Mike consider the implications of this trend within the context of decline and collapse. CO...
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54. The Soldier (Film Review #6)
Mike and Austin review the 1982 Glickenhaus film The Soldier starring Ken Wahl.COINTELPRO Official Twitter.Co-hosts: Mike Spencer...
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53. Oke Shannon and Geopolitics - feat. Franc Milburn
We're joined by Franc Milburn for a third time on the show to discuss the geopolitical situation between western powers and an increasingly co...
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51. Adding the Flour - feat. John Yost
This time on Cointelpro we do an interview with John Yost about the 2022 documentary he directed called Alien Abduction: Answers. We talk about Yost’s experiences with the phenomenon, its intentions, and what our focus should be ...
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50. The President in Exile
This show is firmly a post-2020 podcast. But this week we dive into the six year effort to litigate Donald Trump. COINTELPRO Official Twitter.Co-hosts:
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49. The Network State
Balaji Srinivasan's 2022 book The Network State is the topic of this episode. It’s a web3 political treatise with a crash course in history and social theory, making both accessible to an audience more typically focused on t...
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48. A Rude Awakening
Mike and Austin discuss Daniel Greenleaf's Wall Street Journal Op-Ed from last week. COINTELPRO Official Twitter.Co-hosts: Mike Spencer
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47. Bailey's Lock - feat. Austin Mejdrich
We're joined for a third time on the show by Austin Mejdrich, a district director for the Illinois Democrats, to talk about three political stories. Mike and Austin ask Mejdrich about the violence in Highland Park over the weekend, the Ro...
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46. The Mountain and the River (feat. Jesse Peak)
A MUFON investigator looks into the abyss only to find it staring back at him.Jesse Peak on Twitter.Jesse's website.
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45. Bitcoin's Trojan Horse
Mike Spencer discusses his recent publication for Protos with Austin<...
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44. The Only Place Where This Happens
Austin and Mike react to growing up in a country post-Columbine. We discuss the multifaceted causes of this violence, the immutable rhetorical cycle in the media, and the political dysfunction that ensures it will never stop. You can foll...
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43. A Skull and Bones Congressional Hearing
We discuss the first Congressional UFO hearing in more than 50 years and one hell of a strange Easter egg that a United States Congressman decided to enter into the Congressional record. We provide context for the infamous Wilson-Davis document...
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42. False Flag: An American War Story #3 (feat. Arlene Diaz)
"Remember the Maine" -- In this week's episode Dr. Arlene Diaz joins Mike Spencer, Austin to discuss the start of the Spanish-Cuban-American War. As tensions build in Cuba, American imperialists order the USS Maine into Havana Harbor.&nbs...
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41. False Flag: An American War Story #2 (feat. Peter Guardino)
"American Blood on American Soil" -- In this week's episode Mike, Austin, and Dr. Peter Guardino discuss the start of the Mexican-American War. With troops garr...
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40. False Flag: An American War Story #1
We kick off our second series on the pod this week. By highlighting three instances when facts and events have been manipulated and adjusted to fit the motives of interested factions in the U.S. ruling class, we endeavor to raise skeptici...
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39. The Shield of the West
We discuss Ezra Klein's NYT article "The Enemies of Liberalism Are Showing Us What it Really Means." Klein is in dialogue throughout with...
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38. The Tehran Incident
It was September 18th, 1976. That night, the Iranian capital city of Tehran, was quiet. It was still dark out when civilians started noticing something strange hovering over the city. Four separate phone calls were received by the Iranian Ai...
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37. Raising Arizona (Film Review #5)
We induct a fifth film into the COINTELPRO canon. Nicholas Cage, John Goodman, and Holly Hunter star in the second Coen Brothers' movie. We discuss the connections between this film, the western genre, and No Country for Old Men; and, exp...
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36. An Estimate of the Situation (feat. David Marler)
We are joined this week by David Marler, an independent researcher who is widely known in the field of UAP research as the foremost expert on triangular UFOs. In 2013, he published the book, Triangular UFOs: An Estimate of the Situation
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35. Big Stupid Proxy War
Our world conflict preview, I guess? Recorded March 1, 2022. Follow us on Twitter and support us on Patreon.
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