Breht talks at length about meditation, how it works, and why its so essential to have a daily practice. In the process he speaks passionately on the nuances of Buddhism and dives deep into our all-too-human psychology. He also discusses how to truly make the world a better place, human social and psychological evolution, the development and internalization of language, Christ and the Buddha, i...
2024-07-26 13:00:15 +0000 UTC
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Trump gets shot. Biden drops out. Kamala is coronated. Alyson and Breht discuss and analyze it all.
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Outro Song: Music for Shoplifting by P.O.S.
2024-07-25 23:35:15 +0000 UTC
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Sarah Bracke and Luis Manuel Hernandez Aguilar join Breht and Adnan to discuss an anthology of essays they edited together called "The Politics of Replacement: Demographic Fears, Conspiracy Theories, and Rac...
2024-07-24 13:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Here is the latest episode from our other podcast about mental health and addiction (and absurd/juvenile humor). I am sure many of you are already aware of it, but if you aren't, check it out. Its very different from what I do anywhere else, and its with my high school buddy who is in active recovery for alcoholism and addiction.
Dave gets abducted by aliens and converses w...
2024-07-23 12:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Alyson and Breht reflect on the pathetic Presidential Debate, analyze the fallout from the debate, and then reflect on some major internal divisions within both American and Israeli societies.
2024-07-02 20:42:35 +0000 UTC
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Author and Scholar Marcello Musto joins the show to discuss his book "The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography".
Together, Marcello and Breht explore the last couple years of Karl Marx's life, including his personal tr...
2024-06-29 02:03:02 +0000 UTC
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Breht reads the forward that him and his Guerilla History co-hosts (Henry Hakamaki and Adnan Husain) wrote for the brand new book put out by Iskra Books "Historical Documents of the P.L.O.: A Collection for Critical Organizational Study", a scholarly yet accessible anthology of the documents that forged t...
2024-06-18 13:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Aaron J. Leonard returns to the show to discuss his newest book "Meltdown Expected: Crisis, Disorder, and Upheaval at the End of the 1970s". The final years of the 1970's were a moment of crisis an...
2024-06-17 01:26:05 +0000 UTC
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In our final installment of our Modern China series, we conclude with this important, and inevitably controversial discussion of the Deng Reforms and the Reform Period! Very important that no matter your ideological tendencies, you come into this episode with an open mind, because ...
2024-06-12 23:06:58 +0000 UTC
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Breht opens up about his lifelong struggle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in the hopes that it might help others. He discusses developing contamination OCD as a child after a traumatic event, reflects on how his OCD has morphed over the years and taken on different forms, and offers words of encouragement, loving compassion, and hope for those dealing with this condition.
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2024-06-10 04:01:04 +0000 UTC
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Students and organizers Cheli and Phia join Alyson and Breht to discuss their different experiences on the front lines of student encampments at Cal State LA and the University of Oregon. Together, they discuss the reasons for their protests, share the differing reactions from university administrations and faculty, and give listeners an inside look at the negotiations, stratagies, and current ...
2024-06-05 14:15:08 +0000 UTC
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In this patreon episode, Breht and David let their kids do the intro, then Breht talks about robbing a homerun in his softball league before diving into more serious matters: Trump's felony convictions and its implications, the intellectual and moral depravity of American Zionist elites as highlighted by Bill Maher, and then reads and reflects on2024-05-31 20:01:43 +0000 UTC
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Philosopher Scott Sehon joins Breht to discuss his new book "Socialism: A Logical Introduction". Together they analyze arguments in favor of capitalism, argue against them, and defend socialism as a superior form of socio-...
2024-05-27 17:32:00 +0000 UTC
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In this episode of Guerrilla History, we get into part 3 of our 4 part miniseries on modern Chinese history featuring Ken Hammond (and guest host Breht O'Shea of Revolutionary Left Radio) with an amazing discussion of The Great Leap Forward and The Cultural Revolution!
If you haven't already listened to pa...
2024-05-22 19:47:55 +0000 UTC
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In this final iteration of our long-standing series "Dialectics Deep Dive", Matthew Furlong joins Breht to discuss Althusser's essay "Contradiction and Overdetermination" and in the process they discuss many aspects of dialectical materialism and Marxist philosophy.
Check out Part 1 of this episode here: 2024-05-17 13:35:21 +0000 UTC
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This is a teaser for our other show, Shoeless in South Dakota... a podcast about mental health, addiction, recovery, comedy, friendship, philosophy, self-help (and a million other things).
To listen to the rest of THIS episode, and all of our other Shoeless episodes, check us ou...
2024-05-02 12:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Alyson and Breht discuss the student-led protests for Palestine sweeping across American universities, the reaction to them by the ruling class elite and their attack dogs (the cops), lessons learned from previous movements over the past decade or so, parallels to 1968 and the anti-Vietnam War protests, the current negotiations between the Palestinian resistance and Israel, and what it all mean...
2024-05-01 13:27:10 +0000 UTC
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Breht is interviewed as a guest on Left of the Projector (along with Amanda Joy Moon). Together, with the host Evan, the three discuss Soviet Filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky's film "Stalker" from 1979.
In case you missed our first collab on Tarkovsky's film "Solaris" you can find that discussion 2024-04-30 21:55:13 +0000 UTC
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In this episode, Alyson and Breht wrestle with the possible rise of artificial general intelligence and its implications. Together they discuss the Silicon Valley Techno-Cult and their religious search for immortality, their hubristic attempts to "build god" and escape death, their neoliberal subjectivities and how that manifests in their work, how AI might manifest under the capitalist mode of...
2024-04-10 16:32:37 +0000 UTC
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Musa Springer, Erica Caines, & Onyesonwu Chatoyer from Hood Communist join Breht O'Shea to discuss their participation in The Second International Meeting of Theoretical Publications of Left Parties and Movements in Havana, Cuba before discussing the history a...
2024-04-04 16:30:11 +0000 UTC
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In this episode of Guerrilla History, we launch our 4 part miniseries on modern Chinese history featuring Ken Hammond (and guest host Breht O'Shea of Revolutionary Left Radio) with this terrific discussion on the Taiping and Boxer Rebellions! Be sure to go back and listen to the 2024-04-01 13:45:26 +0000 UTC
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Listen to the first installment of this four-episode series HERE
Kenneth J. Hammond is Professor of History at New Mexico State University. Hammond was a student and Students for a Democratic Society leader at Kent State University fro...
2024-03-27 13:59:37 +0000 UTC
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Alyson and Breht explain and explore this famous text from Karl Marx, in the process they discuss French history, class conflict, the peasantry and lumpenproletariat, Bonapartism and Fascism, history, the role of the State under capitalism, and how all of this helps us to make sense of our contemporary moment of crisis in the US and around the world.
2024-03-18 15:04:57 +0000 UTC
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EARLY RELEASE: Musa and Tunde from the ATL chapter of the Black Alliance for Peace join Breht to discuss the GILEE Program (Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange) and its implications, the construction of Cop City (and the plans for more), the militarization of police in an era of capitalist and liberal crisis, ...
2024-03-12 16:57:28 +0000 UTC
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After a wonderful 3 and half years, Breht and Producer Dave are bidding farewell to Guerrilla History. Henry and Adnan will continue the program. In this episode, they all reflect on their time together and promise to keep collaborating when and where possible going forward!
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2024-03-08 18:09:46 +0000 UTC
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PATREON EXCLUSIVE: Josh Fernandez joins the show to discuss his new biography "The Hands That Crafted the Bomb: The Making of a Lifelong Antifascist". Together Josh and Breht have a wide ranging conversation on antifascism, teaching, prison, organizing, parenting, drug and alcohol abuse, and much more.
Check out the book here: 2024-02-29 23:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Rest in Peace, Aaron.
"To burn oneself by fire is to prove that what one is saying is of the utmost importance. There is nothing more painful than burning oneself. To say something while experiencing this kind of pain is to say it with utmost courage, frankness, determination, and sincerity."
- Thich Nhat Hanh in a letter to MLK Jr. regarding the self-immolation of Vietnamese Buddhi...
2024-02-29 14:38:25 +0000 UTC
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In this patreon exclusive, Breht reads and reflects on Buddhist writings including Thich Nhat Hanh's letter to MLK Jr. regarding Buddhist monks in Vietnam engaging in self-immolation and how it differs from suicide, and 2024-02-28 01:05:43 +0000 UTC
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On this episode of Red Menace, Alyson and Breht had some things come up such that they couldn't record their planned episode on Marx's 18th Brumaire (coming soon!), so instead they have a deep, organic and wide-ranging conversation on mysticism; together they explore humanities religious and spiritual traditions and the mystical strain within them, discuss atheism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christiani...
2024-02-20 14:38:10 +0000 UTC
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