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In episode 2 of our series on Michał Goleniewski, Boris examines how competing paranoid factions within the CIA spun out of control and ultimately drove Goleniewski into the arms of the American far-right. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Rey continues the story of early Anthroposophy during WW1 through the post-war period before Nazis took power in 1933. Steiner and his followers were part of the German nationalist movement and shared many characteristics with the Völkisch ariosophists, but had their own unique race theories that drew from theosophical ideas. Music Credits: TV Dust - Two Questions --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Boris begins a new series looking at the remarkable journey of Michał Goleniewski, the Cold War Polish spy whose 1961 defection to the West made him one of the CIA's top assets, until his subsequent fall from grace and claim to the Romanov throne found him at the center of a network of far right lunatics. Part 1 will cover his life and career in Poland up to the defection. Music Credits: Breakout - Takie moje miasto jest --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Rey starts off a new series on Anthroposophy, an even more racist spin-off of Theosophy, by examining the race theories of founder Rudolf Steiner, who is best known today as the creator of the holistic Waldorf educational system. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

TENE has a very nerdy conversation with historian Stefan Gužvica about the history of Balkan communists in the 1920s, their relationship with various nationalist movements and the Comintern, and why Vienna was significant in all of this. Check out Stefan's work here: https://stefanguzvica.su/ --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

In part two, Boris explores the odd biography of the mosque's co-founder; respected nuclear scientist, US Army colonel, and Sufi Sheikh Asaf Duraković who had dark connections to Ustaša war criminals and right-wing extremists. They follow the progression of the mosque from the Cold War to the 90s, when its designation changed from Croation to Bosnian. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

In this two part news update, Boris and Rey discuss the recent state funeral for Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladić. In part two, we are joined by returning guest Peter Korotaev of the Events in Ukraine substack to discuss the shootout in Kyiv between two factions of the Ukrainian intelligence services over a member of Neo-Nazi paramilitary Russian Volunteer Corps. Check out Peter's substack here: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/ --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Boris examines the strange backstory behind a Toronto area mosque founded by a former member of the Waffen SS and a Sufi Sheikh nuclear scientist as a bridge between the Islamic world and Croatian emigre extremists. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

TENEpod is joined by Andy from This Wreckage podcast to talk about sports and his recent book Metropolitans: New York Baseball, Class Struggle, and the People's Team. Did Theosophists invent baseball? This and more on TENE sports hour. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Rey thinks he figured out what the Order of Nine Angles really is. Alternatively, he is having a mental breakdown. It should be fun either way. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Rey wraps up the Theosophy series by alking about the extraordinary life of Jiddu Krishnamurti, from his days as a "child prophet: adopted and indocrinated by the Theosophical Society, to his later days as a part of California elite society and a world teacher...on his own terms. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

TENE & friend take a look at David Myatt's latest attempt at humor, check up on the tradcath world as well as suffer through Steven Crowder's new idiotic love affair with fascism and Pinochet. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

TENE takes a trip to Polaris, Lemuria, and Hyperborea to try and make sense of Helena Blavatsky's "Root Races," a fundamental component of Theosophist cosmology and Blavatsky's totally-not-sketchy contribution to evolutionary theory. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Boris takes a look at the biographies of two Orthodox priests from Pennsylvania and Ohio whose activities during WW2 earned them medals from Tito, and got them into hot water with the US Government as dangerous reds. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod

Taking a break from the usual cast of characters, Boris examines two Yugoslav-American anti-fascist publications published in the US in the 1940s. --- Subscribe to https://patreon.org/tenepod https://bsky.app/profile/tenepod.bsky.social https://x.com/tenepod