Happy New Year Listeners! For this month's bonus episode Isaac and Peter re-examine the 1943 drive-by murder of Anarchist/Organizer/Fed?/Gadfly and "man of great appetites" Carlo Tresca. And for our non-subscribers we're happy to provide this 30 minute preview, with almost a whole hour extra along with more documents, if you subscribe.

Tresca had a incredible career as uncompromising anarchist man-among-the-people, who for decades unleashed a flood of agitprop for strike defense and against the church, mafia, and fascists as a speaker and in his constantly financially-troubled newspaper Il Martello. As he got older though, we see Tresca as an alliance-spinning wheeler and dealer and FBI informant, who became an increasingly annoying thorn to the newly-sanitized fascists and mafiosi ready to resume running Italy following a US invasion.

With documents from the NY archives we unpack the details of Tresca's 'unsolved' murder by Mafia gunman Carmine Galante, and then walk through the rogue's gallery of a fascist oligarch and his henchmen who organized the hit, as well as why and how an investigation with serious evidence got derailed.

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This is a big one, folks- on this episode we talk to former presidential candidate, congressman, mayor of Cleveland, and author Dennis Kucinich! Many of you may remember the congressman as one of the few to consistently stand against the war fever of the post 9-11 period. He was also Mayor of Cleveland in the 1970s, where his bold, uncompromising efforts to protect his constituents from exploitation at the hands of highly connected corporate crooks earned him the ire of the powerful- and assassination attempts. 

Dennis takes Isaac and Peter through the labyrinth of Cleveland municipal politics, recounts his (successful!) battle to keep the city’s electrical grid in the hands of the residents, and tells us the harrowing story of it nearly cost him his life. We don’t always get a lot of victories, and this one was hard fought- it’s genuinely moving to hear it in the voice of the man who did it.

The Division of Light and Power can be found here in paperback and kindle: 

https://www.amazon.com/Division-Light-Power-Dennis-Kucinich/dp/1638772347

Thanks again to Komakino for our opening music and Ubuntu 444 for the closing track as well.

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We've arrived at the finale of our Rosenbergs series, and it isn't looking good. Beginning our story in the middle of the trial, Isaac and Peter discuss how the Rosenbergs kneecapped defense team tried and failed to counter-attack the prosecution's perjury-boosted case. The stage is set to use execution to get Julius to break and name some names.

But it's only months after the death sentence is handed down on Julius and Ethel that the more than 2 year fight to save them for the electric chair with the crew of misfit liberals and leftists at the (deep breath..) Committee to Secure Justice in the Rosenberg Case. There's a fair bit for law nerds to chew on but more importantly a person-by-person movement unfolds that takes our saga through physical brawls at the supreme court, last-minute surprise evidence, backstabbing prima donna judges and even an appearance by a nuke-nerd eccentric country lawyer.

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