What a Hell of a Way to Die

Donald Trump, America’s big, wet President, recently pardoned a war criminal named Mike Behenna. Recently, he indicated that he wants to pardon even more war criminals -- all of them white dudes who murdered people in Iraq and Afghanistan. In this...

Our friend Joe Kassabian (), THE HOOLIGANS OF KANDAHAR and host of the Lions Led by Donkeys podcast, has a new book coming out called CITIZEN OF EARTH. You can buy it here, and you should: In this episode, Joe and Francis discuss the new book, bad...

Francis is out doing dad things, and Nate is covering down with a weird one out of left field. This week, Nate and special guest Riley Quinn () of discuss a looming horror in the distance: Donald Trump fans’ weird crossover with the Warhammer 40k...

In this episode, Francis speaks with Army public affairs veteran Fred Wellman () about a recent article by an Army PAO that basically blames the media for not being patriotic enough. As fellow flacks, they discuss why this is a garbage take and why...

In a preview of this week's bonus episode, Francis speaks with Bryan Quinby () of Street Fight Radio on the topic of the recent Netflix film 'Triple Frontier.' Why is it so long? Why is Ben Affleck basically playing himself? And why do a bunch of...

This week, we react to the recent happening at the US-Mexico border, in which a group of paramilitaries (among them ex-cops and veterans) held unarmed asylum seekers at gunpoint until the Border Patrol could arrest them. As Francis and Nate discuss,...

We figured it was time to dig in a little deeper on British military stories. This week, Nate speaks with British Army veteran and journalist Joe Glenton () about his recent piece in the Independent, on the topic of paratroopers shooting at a picture...

It’s been something of a banner week for dumb military and veteran news. For starters, a scandal emerged in Nate’s adopted home of Britain after a video showed British Army paratroopers happily shooting a portrait of Labour party leader Jeremy...

Rumor has it that leftist politics podcasts only exist to rip on Democrats. Well, that’s only half-true: we rip on right-wing politicians all day long, but we know that they’re fascists and plutocrats. Democrats, on the other hand, are supposed to...

This week, we speak with Current Affairs () Editor-in-Chief Nathan J. Robinson () about pacifism: why it’s so maligned in popular discourse, and why a horror of war and violence is a necessary thing in our violence-saturated era. Nathan recently...