Prior to the 1980s and even into the 1990s, Canada represented one of the final frontiers in Western Civilization, relatively untouched by globalization owing to a harsh climate and rugged landscape, geographically isolating it from trade and migration outside of with the United States. But as China entered the World Trade Organization in 2000 and…
Jungle Strike – Venezuela and Operation Absolute Resolve
In the aftermath of the United States’ removal of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro on January 3rd, 2026, the world is rife with speculation as to the reasons for the operation, ranging from oil politics, drug interdiction, and broader geopolitical rivalries between the United States and the coalition of global superpowers in the BRICS alliance. Although…
2025 – Year in Review
Following a wild election in 2024, which included an assassination attempt on then candidate and now President Donald Trump, 2025 was bound to be controversial. Realizing the fears and hopes of millions, the United States began enforcing its borders again, and enacting trade tariffs designed to shore up is dwindling manufacturing base. Geopolitically, attempts were…
The Housing Crisis – with Stormy Waters
In 1980, the median priced home in the United States was equivalent to 3 years of the median annual salary. In 2023, this had risen to 6 years – an effective doubling of real home prices. Despite attempts at lowering interest rates in the past year, wages have not kept up with housing costs, and…
Fighting for Territory – Lessons from the Spanish Civil War – with Karl Dahl
During the first and second world wars, Spain remained neutral and largely unscathed by the fighting. But between the wars, Spain was embroiled in an internal conflict that quickly drew in foreign powers from the Soviet Union, the fascist world, and the democratic capitalist nations of the West. This Spanish Civil War raged for three…
Nuremberg – The Final Battle – The World at War – Part XIV
In the demolition of Nazi Germany, the first act was a bloody, physically destructive war that lasted less than six years, resulting in ruined cities and millions dead. But the population largely persisted, and in order to make it clear that the Allies’ version of the truth would stand the political test of time, the…
Nuremberg – The Reckoning – The World at War – Part XIII
After the bloodiest conflict in history, where all sides piled millions of bodies in burnt-out husks of once great European cities, the victors of WWII decided to prosecute the war further upon the former leaders of their vanquished enemy. In November 1945, mere months after the official surrender of Germany and Japan, the International Military…
Crowbar – Legacy of the Black Cube
Set in the Cold War tensions of the early 1980s American West Coast, ‘Crowbar’ follows a cast of shadowy operatives working the between spaces of black market drugs, guns, and intelligence agency missions. Its author Andrew Edwards joins us tonight for a discussion of his latest work, and why the ‘NOIR’ genre of fiction speaks…
The World at War – Part XII – Lend-Lease and the Arsenal of Democracy
Over the course of WWII, the United States, having no territory attacked or taken save a few islands in the Pacific, managed to supply nearly 50% of Britain’s food, almost all of its petroleum, and upwards of 40% of various strategic raw materials and food stuffs the Soviet Union needed in their respective fights with…
The World at War – Part XI – Kamikaze – Unconditional Surrender (Myth20c – Ep305)
In 1967, director Kihachi Okamoto released the film ‘Japan’s Longest Day’, depicting the pivotal 24 hours the government debated if they would accept the Allies’ terms for surrender in 1945. For context, the movie summarizes Japan’s point of view: “for the first seven months of the war Japan was overwhelmingly dominant. In the blink of…
The World at War – Part X – Downfall of the Reich
In the final year of WWII, the overwhelming weight of the Allied assault on the Third Reich brought into full focus the severity of Germany’s situation. From the east, the Red Army went from recapturing Soviet territory to advancing into Axis countries. From the west, the successful American and British landings at Normandy help prompt…
The World at War – Part IX – The Nightmare Forest
In 1944, the western and eastern fronts began collapsing on the German Reich, following the capitulation of its ally Italy in 1943 and the successful landing of Allied forces in France in June, 1944. In terms of production, the Allies already outstripped Germany 4 to 1, and with the Wehrmacht allocating upwards of 80% of…
Myth of the 20th Century 
