Michael Bachelard on The Exclusive Brethren

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Amora of Hero Warrior and Leigh of the ASF (Melbourne North). Amora is a member of Hero Warrior, an anarchist group resisting the Tatmadaw, Myanmar’s military junta. Leigh is a member of the Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation, the Australian section of the International Workers Alliance.Note that Amora’s words are voiced by a guest of the show.Currently, the ASF-IWA is engaged in a fundraising campaign for HW to assist in the purchase of food, medicine and other essentials:On 22 July, ‘Hero Warrior’, an independent Local Peoples Defence Force (LPDF) based in Central Myanmar, officially mandated ASF-IWA to conduct humanitarian fundraisers for ‘Hero Warrior’ food distribution program to displaced communities and healthcare infrastructure for the next 12 months.To find out more and/or to make a donation, please see the ASF-IWA site linked above.

This week we have a yarn with Tom Raue of anticop [Bluesky]. anticop is ‘an educational resource for countering the police. Whether you’ve been searched for drugs, you’re organising a rally, or you’re engaged in direct action, we’ve got you covered.’

This week we talk to semi-regular guest, the always-outrageous Lucy Hamilton [Bluesky]. We last spoke to Lucy in July about the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship. On this occasion, we asked Lucy about recent gatherings of the (far) right in Australia … and a few other remaining outposts of Western Civilization (Israel and the United States).

Generally YNP! is in favour of the power of friendship, nevertheless in this episode we have a chat with Emma Hagberg, the author of Comrades, Not Friends: The Revolutionary Front, Antifascism, and Class Struggle (PM Press/Working Class History, 2026).

This week we have a chat with games developer and writer Leena van Deventer about Gamergate, the grievance economy and the paranoid style in game mechanics.

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Michael Bachelard. Michael is a reporter for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald and the author of Behind the Exclusive Brethren (Scribe, 2010), which details the church’s ‘origins in the United Kingdom in the nineteenth century, their fractious history, their extraordinary use of scripture to control members and dissidents, and their lucrative business and financial arrangements … a fascinating story of influence and power exercised across several continents.’

In this episode we talk to Jason Wilson [Bluesky]. We last spoke to Jason in February on The Epstein Files. On this occasion, we spoke to him about US empire and decline.

In this episode we talk to The Guardian’s Ariel Bogle [Bluesky], whom we last spoke with in July last year about her book with Cam Wilson, Conspiracy Nation. On this occasion we spoke to her about 764, ‘one part of a growing online ecosystem that pushes young members into brutal and degrading acts’ which has ‘perpetrators and victims in dozens of countries’, including Australia.We also spoke to Ariel about: Australian anti-terror laws and their impact upon children and youth; One Nation Party propaganda being produced by slop farmers in Indonesia.

This week we have a yarn with Dr. Émile P. Torres [Bluesky]. Émile is an author (most recently of the book Human Extinction: A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation), podcaster (Dystopia Now) and critic of the bundle of ideologies collectively known as TESCREAL: Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism and Longtermism.

This week we talk to Thinkfluencer & Viral Sensation Tom Tanuki about drinking blood with Kim Beazley and the remnants of Qanon in Australia.