Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2022-07-21
Books mentioned on Part Two: The World Anti-Communist League: A Study in Nazi Death Squads
Mia is joined by Robert to continue discussing the World Anti-Communist League's rampage through Italy and Latin America. See omnystudio.
Christopher Wong discussed Inside the League by Scott Anderson and others and Predatory States by J. Patrice McSherry.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Inside the League
Inside the League by Scott Anderson and Jon Lee Anderson is a detailed investigative book examining right-wing political networks, death squads, and international anti-communist organizations during the Cold War.
Discussed“I'm I'm I'm going to quote from inside the league here about like what they were doing. First through it liaison in the league. The KMT identified the political party in a Latin country that was the most militantly anti-communist.”
Where to get it
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Predatory States
Predatory States by J.
Discussed“Um here's from the predatory state. The 1980 WACL meeting uh well communist league meeting in Buenos seemed to have been a defining event in exporting the Condor system from the southern cone.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Starving Ghosts in Every Thread
“The guy who reads Starving Ghosts. Yeah. Yeah. So good book.”
Plugged After the Revolution
“scholars debate what book I wrote, but a lot of them seem to believe that it's called After the Revolution, and that you can find it if you if you Google AK Press After the Revolution. Uh, or if you go to the thing that I'm looking up”
Passing Terraform
“You can probably find props book there. Let me look it up. Let me look up props book on bookshop.org. Also called Terraform. Let me look up Terraform on bookshop.org which connects you to indie bookstores.”
Passing Terraform in Action
“Props book is on there along with the book Terraforming Mars by some guy I've never heard of. Shout out to that book Terraform in Action by Scott Winkler, which has what looks like an Ottoman Janisary on the front.”