Super Structure with Julian Feeld
Super Structure is a podcast about the many shapes of power, including propaganda, political repression, and revolutionary struggles. It helps listeners, along with comedian Jon Gabrus, understand current events, history, and politics. The show aims to live, laugh, and radicalize together.
Episodes
Operation 40 & the Anti-Castro Cubans (E11)
Once again under mounting siege, Cuba’s revolution is no stranger to violent meddling by the United States and wealthy Cubans in exile. We explore a “wet work” team of assassins, spies and brutes assembled in 1960 and known as Operation 40. As usual, your hosts are Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus.Go to patreon.com/superstructure to get a feed with double the episodes for just $5 a month.Research and w
The Black Liberation Army & Republic of New Afrika (E10) Sample
Guerrilla warfare in the 20th century United States? Factions of the Black Power movement made this a reality. Following our episode on the Weather Underground, we tackle the Black Liberation Army and the Republic of New Afrika. Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus explore recent history that now seems farfetched.Go to patreon.com/superstructure to get a feed with double the episodes for just $5 a month.Re
The Weather Underground (E9)
One of the most well-known but least understood movements in the history of the American revolutionary left, the Weather Underground Organization is on our docket in this first of a two-part episode on domestic revolutionary groups in the USA. Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus explore it with you. Go to patreon.com/superstructure to get a feed with double the episodes for just $5 a month.Research and wr
Origins of NATO (E8)
What is the function and purpose of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization? This turns out to be a question even its founders struggled with. Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus explore NATO’s founding after World War 2.Go to patreon.com/superstructure to get a feed with double the episodes for just $5 a month.Research and writing by Ryan McGahan and Josh Messite. Editing by Ty Wood. Theme song by Thiago
The Hondurasgate Octopus (E7)
Drug trafficking, the military, foreign interests… Honduras has long been a focus of the anti-communist project in South and Central America. Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus explore the path to Hondurasgate, the latest scandal exposing this particular octopus of corruption.Go to patreon.com/superstructure to get a feed with double the episodes for just $5 a month.Research and writing by Caio Almendra.
The Late Great Planet Earth (E6) Sample
The least known book that changed the world. The Late Great Planet Earth is the topic of our first Super Structure book club episode. Published in 1970, TLGPE became a huge best seller that influenced people from Ronald Reagan to Ruby Ridge’s Vicki Weaver. It’s also the blueprint for a now-resurgent form of Christian Zionism. Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus are joined by Hayden Tank, host of the Bible
Ruby Ridge (E5)
A family beset by religious mania, white supremacist obsessions, and deep paranoia about the government. Federal agencies causing multiple deaths through a bungled attempt at apprehending Randy and Vicki Weaver. Ruby Ridge is a central flashpoint of the paranoid nineties. Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus walk you through it.Go to patreon.com/superstructure to get a feed with double the episodes for jus
Plato’s Run (Movie Night) 1997 (E4) Sample
Retired Navy Seal Gary Busey heads to Cuba to get trapped in a web of violence and intrigue by a landmine baron and a KGB-trained Cuban spy in this straight-to-video movie from 1997. Half-hearted propaganda ensues. Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus lead you through this delightful romp in Super Structure’s first movie night.Go to patreon.com/superstructure to get a feed with double the episodes for just
Ted Shackley Jr: The CIA’s Forrest Gump (E3)
We explore CIA interventionism through Ted Shackley Jr, an agent involved in many of the more cruel and dramatic episodes over the course of three decades. From Operation Paperclip to the Cuban missile crisis to the toppling of Allende in Chile and even Iran-Contra, Shackley was there for it all.Go to patreon.com/superstructure to get a feed with double the episodes for just $5 a month.Research an
Origins of ICE (E2) Sample
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has become a huge problem under Trump, but what led us here? How did we end up with a network of concentration camps for migrants, extrajudicial disappearances, and outright murder? Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus trace the United States’ relationship with immigration and deportation all the way back to the 19th century.Go to patreon.com/superstructu
Mossadegh & the Anglo-American Coup (E1)
In the 50’s, Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh presaged a different future for the country. But he made a crucial mistake: he nationalized oil and attempted to lift his people out of poverty through social programs. This led to a CIA- and MI6-led coup and years of tumult for the country that has long been an American boogeyman. Julian Feeld and John Gabrus explore.Go to patreon.com/superst
Episode Zero
Julian Feeld and John Gabrus discuss the upcoming podcast.For double the episodes you can subscribe to our patreon.Theme song by Thiago França. Cover Art by Ruben Gerard.SUPERSTRUCTUREPODCAST.COM
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