Ep 45 - Expedition to Disaster

Recorded on day 26 of the 3 day special military operation, Sean and Angela are joined by Cassandra of the Pod Malcom Kyeyune to discuss how the Zionist War of Aggression is proceeding.   --- To hear every episode of Rocinante, subscribe to the Patreon: https://patreon.com/RocinantePod You can find all our links here: https://linktr.ee/rocinantepod

While the American empire blows its brains out against the wailing wall, Angela is joined by Peter Ryan to discuss his article "Economics of Empire". Empire brutally subjugates the periphery but it deploys more nuanced tactics to exploit the core. Beset on all sides by rightoid slaves, leftoid hustlers, and vile third positionist demons dancing to the tune the imperial elites have selected, can we build a durable anti-imperialism for the masses using the occluded Fourth Position of Scientific Connllyism-De Gaullism-Dengism?   Read "Economics of Empire" here:  https://ryanresearch.substack.com/p/economics-of-empire-elites-win-everyone   --- To hear every episode of Rocinante, subscribe to the Patreon: https://patreon.com/RocinantePod You can find all our links here: https://linktr.ee/rocinantepod

Recorded on Day 14 of the Zionist War of Aggression Against the Iranian People, Angela and Sean discuss the immediate and short term consequences of the war, the Spanish clothing themselves in glory, and delay any discussion of Doing Something About All Of This until we fall back to a secure location in Barcelona. Read Sean's substack post "Towards a New U.S. Antiwar Movement" here: https://seanpmccarthy.substack.com/p/towards-a-new-antiwar-movement-in --- To hear every episode of Rocinante, subscribe to the Patreon: https://patreon.com/RocinantePod You can find all our links here: https://linktr.ee/rocinantepod

Sean and Angela are joined by friend of the pod Malcom Kyeyune to discuss the favored odds on the current superposition of the war with Iran. Will Neocon Don's pressing need to rerun the battle of Thermopylae be stymied by a fleet of ancient bombers and cutting edge warships overflowing with raw sewage, or will the empire 'fuck it we ball' into World War IV/the grave? Check out The Rise and Fall of Nuremberg Christianity by Malcom Kyeyune: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2026/02/the-rise-and-fall-of-nuremberg-christianity/ --- To hear every episode of Rocinante, subscribe to the Patreon: https://patreon.com/RocinantePod You can find all our links here: https://linktr.ee/rocinantepod  

Was the collapse of the Soviet Union inevitable or was is destroyed from within? Was it collateral damage of the world spirit trying to birth Papa John a decade too soon? Sean and Angela discuss "Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union" By Vladislav M. Zubok.    https://www.powells.com/book/collapse-the-fall-of-the-soviet-union-9780300268171   --- To hear the rest of this episode and every Patreon exclusive episode we release, subscribe to the Patreon: https://patreon.com/RocinantePod You can find all our links here: https://linktr.ee/rocinantepod

On this week's episode of Rocinante, Angela is joined by László Molnárfi. Has the left abandoned its working-class roots by embracing a liberal cultural politics of moralism and identity, thereby making itself irrelevant and pushing people toward right-wing populism? How can a revitalized socialist movement reclaim popular appeal by focusing on material issues like housing and wages, while constructively engaging with questions of nationalism, migration, and sovereignty? Check out László's work here: https://linktr.ee/lacicloud --- To hear every episode of Rocinante, subscribe to the Patreon: https://patreon.com/RocinantePod You can find all our links here: https://linktr.ee/rocinantepod

We're back from the Christmas break with a three hour discussion of Julian Jackson's biography of Charles De Gaulle. https://www.powells.com/book/de-gaulle-9781913368784 We hope you enjoyed your holiday festivities because we're going on a strict diet of andouillette and unfiltered cigarettes in 2026. --- To hear the rest of this episode and every Patreon exclusive episode we release, subscribe to the Patreon: https://patreon.com/RocinantePod You can find all our links here: https://linktr.ee/rocinantepod

Sean and Angela dive into the provocative 1998 book The Fix. Shifting the budget to focus heavily on treatment over law enforcement dramatically reduced the heroin crisis and crime rates. Why did this successful, evidence-based strategy disappear, leading to our current exponential crisis?  Find The Fix here: https://www.powells.com/book/fix-9780520223356 Thanks to Jackson Duke for tracking down the 48 Hours documentary Heroin Connection, mentioned in the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHSna7lpYcE --- To hear every episode of Rocinante, subscribe to the Patreon: https://patreon.com/RocinantePod You can find all our links here: https://linktr.ee/rocinantepod

This week Angela and Sean are joined by comrade Malcom Kyeyune to discuss the triumph of mild social democracy with Twelver characteristics, the importance of packing the security services with loyalists, the peril of cutting food aid to the working poor, and more! --- To hear every episode of Rocinante, subscribe to the Patreon: https://patreon.com/RocinantePod You can find all our links here: https://linktr.ee/rocinantepod

This week we take a slight detour to celebrate the Irish holiday of Halloween. We establish the Rocinante 'anti-being scared' doctrine, discuss food safety and naval power as seen in season one of The Terror, dutch on dutch violence in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, biosecurity totalitarianism in Masque of the Red Death, and more!   --- To hear the rest of this episode and every Patreon exclusive episode we release, subscribe to the Patreon: https://patreon.com/RocinantePod You can find all our links here: https://linktr.ee/rocinantepod