Molly talks to Spencer Sunshine about his book, Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege. Sunshine's book explores the history of Siege, the book that is today's nazi terrorist's bible.

https://www.routledge.com/Neo-Nazi-Terrorism-and-Countercultural-Fascism-The-Origins-and-Afterlife-of-James-Masons-Siege/Sunshine/p/book/9780367190606

Molly talks to Spencer Sunshine about his book, Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason&rsquo;s Siege. Sunshine's book explores the history of Siege, the book that is today's nazi terrorist's bible.
<a href="https://www.routledge.com/Neo-Nazi-Terrorism-and-Countercultural-Fascism-The-Origins-and-Afterlife-of-James-Masons-Siege/Sunshine/p/book/9780367190606">https://www.routledge.com/Neo-Nazi-Terrorism-and-Countercultural-Fascism-The-Origins-and-Afterlife-of-James-Masons-Siege/Sunshine/p/book/9780367190606</a>

Weird Little Guys is a weekly show about the worst people you’ve never heard of, taking you beyond the headlines to get to know the race warriors and aspiring terrorists trying to unravel the fabric of our society. Weaving together the origin stories of modern American white supremacist groups and the crimes that land their members in court, independent journalist Molly Conger exposes the monsters for what they really are - some weird guy. Whether they’re conspiring to build bombs or serving swastika shaped cookies at a dinner party, the weird little guys trying to destroy America are a little less scary with their masks off. 

Weird Little Guys is a weekly show about the worst people you’ve never heard of, taking you beyond the headlines to get to know the race warriors and aspiring terrorists trying to unravel the fabric of our society. Weaving together the origin stories of modern American white supremacist groups and the crimes that land their members in court, independent journalist Molly Conger exposes the monsters for what they really are - some weird guy. Whether they’re conspiring to build bombs or serving swastika shaped cookies at a dinner party, the weird little guys trying to destroy America are a little less scary with their masks off.

Investigative journalist Molly Conger takes you beyond the headlines to examine some of the worst people on the planet, most of whom you’ve never heard of. These are the weird little guys trying to ruin life as we know it.

Weird Little Guys

(Maybe Don't) Read Siege - (It Could Happen Here Bonus)

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/fb5b956f-858e-4d4d-8fc4-b27c01694d7e/transcript

When the man responsible for bombing a federal building in Oklahoma City was arrested, he was carrying a page of his favorite book. The book had been sold at gun shows and in ads in nazi newsletters for years, but suddenly the rest of the country was asking... can a book kill? 

Sources:

Berger, J.M. "The Turner Legacy: The Storied Origins and Enduring Impact of White Nationalism’s Deadly Bible", The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism - The Hague 7, no. 8 (2016).

Belew, Kathleen. Bring the War Home : The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America. Harvard University Press, 2018.

Sunshine, Spencer (2024). Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege (1st ed.). New York, NY: Routledge

Pierce, Kelvin. Sins of My Father, Growing Up with America's Most Dangerous White Supremacist. Independently Published, 2020

Martin Durham, White Rage: The Extreme Right and American Politics (new
york: routledge, 2007)

Gardell, Mattias (2003). Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism. Durham: Duke University Press.

Kaplan, Jeffrey (July 2018). "America's apocalyptic literature of the radical right". International Sociology. 33 (4): 503–522

Flynn, Kevin, and Gary Gerhardt. The Silent Brotherhood: Inside America's Racist Underground Free Press ; Collier Macmillan, 1989.

Michael, George(2003) 'The revolutionary model of Dr William L. Pierce', Terrorism and Political Violence, 15: 3

Michael, George(2010) 'Blueprints and Fantasies: A Review and Analysis of Extremist Fiction', Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 33: 2

Griffin, R. S. (2001). The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds. 1st Books Library.

Cullick, Jonathan S. “The Literary Offenses of a Neo-Nazi: Narrative Voice in ‘The Turner Diaries.’” Studies in Popular Culture, vol. 24, no. 3, 2002, pp. 87–99.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/guru-white-hate-william-pierce-timothy-mcveigh-831091/

When the man responsible for bombing a federal building in Oklahoma City was arrested, he was carrying a page of his favorite book. The book had been sold at gun shows and in ads in nazi newsletters for years, but suddenly the rest of the country was asking... can a book kill? Sources: Berger, J.M. "The Turner Legacy: The Storied Origins and Enduring Impact of White Nationalism&rsquo;s Deadly Bible", The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism - The Hague 7, no. 8 (2016). Belew, Kathleen. Bring the War Home : The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America. Harvard University Press, 2018. Sunshine, Spencer (2024). Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason&rsquo;s Siege (1st ed.). New York, NY: Routledge Pierce, Kelvin. Sins of My Father, Growing Up with America's Most Dangerous White Supremacist. Independently Published, 2020 Martin Durham, White Rage: The Extreme Right and American Politics (new york: routledge, 2007) Gardell, Mattias (2003). Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism. Durham: Duke University Press. Kaplan, Jeffrey (July 2018). "America's apocalyptic literature of the radical right". International Sociology. 33 (4): 503&ndash;522 Flynn, Kevin, and Gary Gerhardt. The Silent Brotherhood: Inside America's Racist Underground Free Press ; Collier Macmillan, 1989. Michael, George(2003) 'The revolutionary model of Dr William L. Pierce', Terrorism and Political Violence, 15: 3 Michael, George(2010) 'Blueprints and Fantasies: A Review and Analysis of Extremist Fiction', Studies in Conflict &amp; Terrorism, 33: 2 Griffin, R. S. (2001). The Fame of a Dead Man&rsquo;s Deeds. 1st Books Library. Cullick, Jonathan S. &ldquo;The Literary Offenses of a Neo-Nazi: Narrative Voice in &lsquo;The Turner Diaries.&rsquo;&rdquo; Studies in Popular Culture, vol. 24, no. 3, 2002, pp. 87&ndash;99. <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/guru-white-hate-william-pierce-timothy-mcveigh-831091/">https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/guru-white-hate-william-pierce-timothy-mcveigh-831091/</a>

Earl Turner's Diary

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/571e5c0a-2d2b-40dc-b942-b3cb0161a8ad/transcript

Parts 7 & 8 of the South Africa arc.

Blood River

Original Air Date: 4.17.25

In 2002, a terrorist group failed to assassinate Nelson Mandela. In 2012, a plot to assassinate Jacob Zuma was foiled. Both plots were attempts to fulfill a prophecy and renew a bloody covenant with God.

Sources:

Thompson, Leonard L. The Political Mythology of Apartheid. Yale University Press, 1986. 
FA Mouton (1995) F A van Jaarsveld (1922–1995) — a flawed genius?, , 27:1,
5-11, DOI: 10.1080/00232089585310011
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00232089585310011 

Stephney, Inez Mary.  “Race, History and the Internet: The use of the Internet in White Supremacist Propaganda in the late 1990’s, with particular reference to South Africa”
https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/server/api/core/bitstreams/b04bdabb-ecd9-4f99-a3ae-fff55b88f483/content 

Schönteich, Martin, and Henri Boshoff. “Volk”, Faith and Fatherland: The Security Threat Posed by the White Right. Institute for Security Studies, 2003. 

Ndlovu, Sifiso Mxolisi. “Johannes Nkosi and the Communist Party of South Africa: Images of ‘Blood River’ and King Dingane in the Late 1920s-1930.” History and Theory, vol. 39, no. 4, 2000, pp. 111–32. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2678052.

http://www.anc.org.za/content/formation-umkhonto-we-sizwe 

https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/johannes-nkosi 

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/december-16-reflection-changing-south-african-heritage 

https://scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0259-94222024000200001 

https://www.iol.co.za/news/rightwing-coup-plot-case-postponed-1491552 

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/battle-blood-river-1838 

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/origins-battle-blood-river-1838

https://web.archive.org/web/20071220164018/http://www2.univ-reunion.fr/~ageof/text/74c21e88-617.html#_ftn13

https://web.archive.org/web/20081217042554/http://history.humsci.ukzn.ac.za/files/sempapers/Adutoit2005.pdf 

https://www.litnet.co.za/adriaan-snyman-1938/

https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/items/a64ddcfc-49eb-4680-b59d-b342d8bc358c 

https://www.news24.com/news24/five-boeremag-members-found-guilty-of-conspiring-to-murder-madiba-20150430 

https://mg.co.za/article/2004-08-03-boeremag-relied-on-rottweiler-and-kgb/  

Snyman, Adriaan. Voice of a Prophet. Vaandel Publishers, 1999. 

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Mission South Africa

Original Air Date: 5.1.25

At the end of this miniseries about white supremacist terrorism in the final years of apartheid in South Africa, this episode returns to the present day as white South Africans are lining up outside the embassy in Pretoria to claim refugee status under Trump's executive order.

Sources:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-focuses-persecution-claims-white-south-africans-seek-resettlement-2025-04-24/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/06/white-afrikaner-donald-trump-america-us-administration

https://www.dw.com/en/us-diplomat-ejected-from-new-zealand-after-mysterious-incident/a-38016563

https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_departments/Parliamentary_Library/Research/FlagPost/2022/May/diplomatic-expulsions

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/24/australia-expels-israeli-diplomat

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59023465

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/world/americas/06ecuador.html

https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/05/29/so-how-do-you-expel-an-ambassador-anyway/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/addressing-egregious-actions-of-the-republic-of-south-africa/

https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/topic/social/

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/pool-reports-february-2-2025

https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-press-gaggle-after-air-force-one-arrival-february-2-2025/#15

https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/topic/calendar/

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-african-party-accuses-white-group-treason-over-trump-attack-2025-02-10/

https://www.enca.com/news-top-stories/ramaphosa-slams-afriforum-solidarity

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-02-13-apartheid-stratcom-agents-trump-edwin-feulner/

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/oct/24/an-indictment-of-south-africa-whites-only-town-orania-is-booming

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africas-white-afrikaner-separatists-want-trumps-help-become-state-2025-04-03/ 

https://laist.com/news/food/milky-way-kosher-restaurant-reopens-steven-spielbergs-mom-la-legendary

https://iol.co.za/news/politics/2025-03-17-eff-condemns-us-ambassador-expulsion-vows-to-block-white-supremacist-appointment/

https://www.biznews.com/interviews/2025/02/27/us-ramaphosa-financial-sanction-anc-joel-pollak

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-03-30-new-us-envoy-might-be-even-more-conservative-than-me-joel-pollak/

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/23/africa/south-african-ambassador-ebrahim-rasool-intl/index.html

https://mistra.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/MISTRA-Statement-webinar-Implications-of-changes-in-US-administration-for-South-Africa-and-Africa.pdf 

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-03-18-rasool-diplomacy-and-global-power/

https://www.sajr.co.za/rasools-expulsion-a-crisis-not-a-hiccup/

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-pick-for-ambassador-to-south-africa-actively-opposed-fight-to-end-apartheid

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/07/14/Foundation-unveils-Contra-commercials/1746553233600/

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2025-02-19-ernst-roets-leaves-solidarity-movement-to-live-out-his-calling/

https://za.usembassy.gov/u-s-refugee-admissions-program-faqs/ 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/us/politics/trump-south-africa-white-afrikaners-refugee.html

Parts 7 &amp; 8 of the South Africa arc.
Blood River
Original Air Date: 4.17.25
In 2002, a terrorist group failed to assassinate Nelson Mandela. In 2012, a plot to assassinate Jacob Zuma was foiled. Both plots were attempts to fulfill a prophecy and renew a bloody covenant with God.
Sources:
Thompson, Leonard L. The Political Mythology of Apartheid. Yale University Press, 1986.&nbsp; FA Mouton (1995) F A van Jaarsveld (1922&ndash;1995) &mdash; a flawed genius?, , 27:1, 5-11, DOI: 10.1080/00232089585310011 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00232089585310011&nbsp;
Stephney, Inez Mary. &nbsp;&ldquo;Race, History and the Internet: The use of the Internet in White Supremacist Propaganda in the late 1990&rsquo;s, with particular reference to South Africa&rdquo; https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/server/api/core/bitstreams/b04bdabb-ecd9-4f99-a3ae-fff55b88f483/content&nbsp;
Schönteich, Martin, and Henri Boshoff. &ldquo;Volk&rdquo;, Faith and Fatherland: The Security Threat Posed by the White Right. Institute for Security Studies, 2003.&nbsp;
Ndlovu, Sifiso Mxolisi. &ldquo;Johannes Nkosi and the Communist Party of South Africa: Images of &lsquo;Blood River&rsquo; and King Dingane in the Late 1920s-1930.&rdquo; History and Theory, vol. 39, no. 4, 2000, pp. 111&ndash;32. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2678052.
<a href="http://www.anc.org.za/content/formation-umkhonto-we-sizwe">http://www.anc.org.za/content/formation-umkhonto-we-sizwe</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/johannes-nkosi">https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/johannes-nkosi</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/december-16-reflection-changing-south-african-heritage">https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/december-16-reflection-changing-south-african-heritage</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0259-94222024000200001">https://scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0259-94222024000200001</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.iol.co.za/news/rightwing-coup-plot-case-postponed-1491552">https://www.iol.co.za/news/rightwing-coup-plot-case-postponed-1491552</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/battle-blood-river-1838">https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/battle-blood-river-1838</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/origins-battle-blood-river-1838">https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/origins-battle-blood-river-1838</a>
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071220164018/http://www2.univ-reunion.fr/~ageof/text/74c21e88-617.html#_ftn13">https://web.archive.org/web/20071220164018/http://www2.univ-reunion.fr/~ageof/text/74c21e88-617.html#_ftn13</a>
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081217042554/http://history.humsci.ukzn.ac.za/files/sempapers/Adutoit2005.pdf">https://web.archive.org/web/20081217042554/http://history.humsci.ukzn.ac.za/files/sempapers/Adutoit2005.pdf</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.litnet.co.za/adriaan-snyman-1938/">https://www.litnet.co.za/adriaan-snyman-1938/</a>
<a href="https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/items/a64ddcfc-49eb-4680-b59d-b342d8bc358c">https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/items/a64ddcfc-49eb-4680-b59d-b342d8bc358c</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.news24.com/news24/five-boeremag-members-found-guilty-of-conspiring-to-murder-madiba-20150430">https://www.news24.com/news24/five-boeremag-members-found-guilty-of-conspiring-to-murder-madiba-20150430</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://mg.co.za/article/2004-08-03-boeremag-relied-on-rottweiler-and-kgb/">https://mg.co.za/article/2004-08-03-boeremag-relied-on-rottweiler-and-kgb/</a> &nbsp;
Snyman, Adriaan. Voice of a Prophet. Vaandel Publishers, 1999.&nbsp;
--
Mission South Africa
Original Air Date: 5.1.25
At the end of this miniseries about white supremacist terrorism in the final years of apartheid in South Africa, this episode returns to the present day as white South Africans are lining up outside the embassy in Pretoria to claim refugee status under Trump's executive order.
Sources:
<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us-focuses-persecution-claims-white-south-africans-seek-resettlement-2025-04-24/">https://www.reuters.com/world/us-focuses-persecution-claims-white-south-africans-seek-resettlement-2025-04-24/</a>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/06/white-afrikaner-donald-trump-america-us-administration">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/06/white-afrikaner-donald-trump-america-us-administration</a>
<a href="https://www.dw.com/en/us-diplomat-ejected-from-new-zealand-after-mysterious-incident/a-38016563">https://www.dw.com/en/us-diplomat-ejected-from-new-zealand-after-mysterious-incident/a-38016563</a>
<a href="https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_departments/Parliamentary_Library/Research/FlagPost/2022/May/diplomatic-expulsions">https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_departments/Parliamentary_Library/Research/FlagPost/2022/May/diplomatic-expulsions</a>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/24/australia-expels-israeli-diplomat">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/24/australia-expels-israeli-diplomat</a>
<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59023465">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59023465</a>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/world/americas/06ecuador.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/world/americas/06ecuador.html</a>
<a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/05/29/so-how-do-you-expel-an-ambassador-anyway/">https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/05/29/so-how-do-you-expel-an-ambassador-anyway/</a>
<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/addressing-egregious-actions-of-the-republic-of-south-africa/">https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/addressing-egregious-actions-of-the-republic-of-south-africa/</a>
<a href="https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/topic/social/">https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/topic/social/</a>
<a href="https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/pool-reports-february-2-2025">https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/pool-reports-february-2-2025</a>
<a href="https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-press-gaggle-after-air-force-one-arrival-february-2-2025/#15">https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-press-gaggle-after-air-force-one-arrival-february-2-2025/#15</a>
<a href="https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/topic/calendar/">https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/topic/calendar/</a>
<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-african-party-accuses-white-group-treason-over-trump-attack-2025-02-10/">https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-african-party-accuses-white-group-treason-over-trump-attack-2025-02-10/</a>
<a href="https://www.enca.com/news-top-stories/ramaphosa-slams-afriforum-solidarity">https://www.enca.com/news-top-stories/ramaphosa-slams-afriforum-solidarity</a>
<a href="https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-02-13-apartheid-stratcom-agents-trump-edwin-feulner/">https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-02-13-apartheid-stratcom-agents-trump-edwin-feulner/</a>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/oct/24/an-indictment-of-south-africa-whites-only-town-orania-is-booming">https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/oct/24/an-indictment-of-south-africa-whites-only-town-orania-is-booming</a>
<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africas-white-afrikaner-separatists-want-trumps-help-become-state-2025-04-03/">https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africas-white-afrikaner-separatists-want-trumps-help-become-state-2025-04-03/</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://laist.com/news/food/milky-way-kosher-restaurant-reopens-steven-spielbergs-mom-la-legendary">https://laist.com/news/food/milky-way-kosher-restaurant-reopens-steven-spielbergs-mom-la-legendary</a>
<a href="https://iol.co.za/news/politics/2025-03-17-eff-condemns-us-ambassador-expulsion-vows-to-block-white-supremacist-appointment/">https://iol.co.za/news/politics/2025-03-17-eff-condemns-us-ambassador-expulsion-vows-to-block-white-supremacist-appointment/</a>
<a href="https://www.biznews.com/interviews/2025/02/27/us-ramaphosa-financial-sanction-anc-joel-pollak">https://www.biznews.com/interviews/2025/02/27/us-ramaphosa-financial-sanction-anc-joel-pollak</a>
<a href="https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-03-30-new-us-envoy-might-be-even-more-conservative-than-me-joel-pollak/">https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-03-30-new-us-envoy-might-be-even-more-conservative-than-me-joel-pollak/</a>
<a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/23/africa/south-african-ambassador-ebrahim-rasool-intl/index.html">https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/23/africa/south-african-ambassador-ebrahim-rasool-intl/index.html</a>
<a href="https://mistra.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/MISTRA-Statement-webinar-Implications-of-changes-in-US-administration-for-South-Africa-and-Africa.pdf">https://mistra.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/MISTRA-Statement-webinar-Implications-of-changes-in-US-administration-for-South-Africa-and-Africa.pdf</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-03-18-rasool-diplomacy-and-global-power/">https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-03-18-rasool-diplomacy-and-global-power/</a>
<a href="https://www.sajr.co.za/rasools-expulsion-a-crisis-not-a-hiccup/">https://www.sajr.co.za/rasools-expulsion-a-crisis-not-a-hiccup/</a>
<a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-pick-for-ambassador-to-south-africa-actively-opposed-fight-to-end-apartheid">https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-pick-for-ambassador-to-south-africa-actively-opposed-fight-to-end-apartheid</a>
<a href="https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/07/14/Foundation-unveils-Contra-commercials/1746553233600/">https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/07/14/Foundation-unveils-Contra-commercials/1746553233600/</a>
<a href="https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2025-02-19-ernst-roets-leaves-solidarity-movement-to-live-out-his-calling/">https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2025-02-19-ernst-roets-leaves-solidarity-movement-to-live-out-his-calling/</a>
<a href="https://za.usembassy.gov/u-s-refugee-admissions-program-faqs/">https://za.usembassy.gov/u-s-refugee-admissions-program-faqs/</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/us/politics/trump-south-africa-white-afrikaners-refugee.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/us/politics/trump-south-africa-white-afrikaners-refugee.html</a>

CZM Rewind: Blood River & Mission South Africa

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Parts 5 & 6 of the South Africa arc.

The Whites' Last Stand

Original Air Date: 4.3.25

In the final days of apartheid, white extremists were getting desperate. That desperation contributed to one of the strangest political crises of the late 20th century. 

Sources:

https://dcist.com/story/12/09/24/aryan-nations/

https://archive.idavox.com/index.php/2012/09/24/the-aryan-nations-show-of-farce-in-dc/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naRGivc7Ong

Guelke, Adrian. “Political Violence and the South African Transition.” Irish Studies in International Affairs, vol. 4, 1993, pp. 59–68. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/30001810. 

https://antifainfoblatt.de/aib24/suedafrika-machtkampf-krieg-auf-kleiner-flamme 

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/white-supremacist-arthur-kemp-steps-leader-neo-nazi-group-national-alliance/ 

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/26/world/white-separatists-storm-south-african-negotiations.html?fbclid=IwAR2oDpPTYh0q173RdYwv5cox59uhpyHBrQdGfC65L22gY7pZAcwbArH8BkI

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/how-the-volk-myth-died-it-took-just-a-few-minutes-to-change-the-course-of-south-african-history-john-carlin-reports-from-mafikeng-1428703.html 

https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/amntrans/1998/98092123_mma_mmabath3.htm 

https://web.archive.org/web/20140503185912/http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/newsticker/rechte-in-suedafrika-rekrutieren-internationale-soeldner---politikermord-lautet-ein-auftrag-die-killer-kamen-von-der-reeperbahn,10917074,8820188.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/13/world/a-homeland-s-agony.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2 

https://mg.co.za/article/1994-06-17-foreign-hooligans-embarrass-awb/

https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/media%5C1997%5C9708/s970821c.htm

https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/amntrans%5Cpta/2derby1.htm

Death of Apartheid: The Whites’ Last Stand. (1995, May 28). Brian Lapping Associates.

---

The Jamboree in Jamba

This is the very strange story of the time Dolph Lundgren starred in a piece of apartheid propaganda.

Sources:

Bellant, Russ. Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party. South End Press, 1991.

Abramoff, Jack. Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth about Washington Corruption from America’s Most Notorious Lobbyist. WND Books, 2011.

Easton, Nina. Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Crusade. Simon & Schuster, 2000.

Ivon, David. “Touting for South Africa: International Freedom Foundation.” Covert Action Information Bulletin, 1989.

Blumenthal, Sidney (December 1983). "Let Lehrman Be Reagan". The New Republic.

Cachalia, Firoz and Mervyn Shear. WITS: A University in the Apartheid Era. Wits University Press, 2022.

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-02-13-apartheid-stratcom-agents-trump-edwin-feulner/ 

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-11-13-atrocious-crimes-apartheid-hitmans-brutal-confessions-serve-as-a-warning-for-south-africans/ 

https://mg.co.za/article/2008-05-29-the-spy-who-lost-it/ 

https://mg.co.za/article/2001-03-23-the-height-of-hypocrisy/ 

https://disa.ukzn.ac.za/sites/default/files/pdf_files/SNSep83.pdf 

https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files4/SNNov83.pdf 

https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files4/SNOct80.pdf 

https://staging.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files3/pam19870826.026.009.583.pdf

https://antifainfoblatt.de/aib24/suedafrika-machtkampf-krieg-auf-kleiner-flamme

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/48870988/volume-36-number-07-university-of-the-witwatersrand 

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/38832258/volume-36-number-13

https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/06/293602.html?c=on 

https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files2/pam19811200.026.009.580.pdf 

https://harpers.org/archive/2008/08/the-wrecking-crew/ 

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/06/world/4-rebel-units-sign-anti-soviet-pact.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/10/world/reporter-s-notebook-angola-s-children-of-war.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20060128022735/http://www.alternet.org/story/13134/

https://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAWCHC/1996/3.pdf 

https://www.georgeherald.com/News/Article/Local-News/robert-hall-pioneer-in-medical-equipment-dies-20170711 

https://mg.co.za/article/1996-04-04-noseweek-case-takes-a-new-turn/

https://www.nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/npr/73gould.pdf

https://www.salon.com/2005/08/17/abramoff_2/ 

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/09/movies/south-africa-helps-us-film-makers-in-namibia-with-troops-and-trucks.html 

https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/case-study/abramoff-lobbying-congress

Parts 5 &amp; 6 of the South Africa arc.
The Whites' Last Stand
Original Air Date: 4.3.25
In the final days of apartheid, white extremists were getting desperate. That desperation contributed to one of the strangest political crises of the late 20th century.&nbsp;
Sources:
<a href="https://dcist.com/story/12/09/24/aryan-nations/">https://dcist.com/story/12/09/24/aryan-nations/</a>
<a href="https://archive.idavox.com/index.php/2012/09/24/the-aryan-nations-show-of-farce-in-dc/">https://archive.idavox.com/index.php/2012/09/24/the-aryan-nations-show-of-farce-in-dc/</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naRGivc7Ong">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naRGivc7Ong</a>
Guelke, Adrian. &ldquo;Political Violence and the South African Transition.&rdquo; Irish Studies in International Affairs, vol. 4, 1993, pp. 59&ndash;68. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/30001810.&nbsp;
<a href="https://antifainfoblatt.de/aib24/suedafrika-machtkampf-krieg-auf-kleiner-flamme">https://antifainfoblatt.de/aib24/suedafrika-machtkampf-krieg-auf-kleiner-flamme</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/white-supremacist-arthur-kemp-steps-leader-neo-nazi-group-national-alliance/">https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/white-supremacist-arthur-kemp-steps-leader-neo-nazi-group-national-alliance/</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/26/world/white-separatists-storm-south-african-negotiations.html?fbclid=IwAR2oDpPTYh0q173RdYwv5cox59uhpyHBrQdGfC65L22gY7pZAcwbArH8BkI">https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/26/world/white-separatists-storm-south-african-negotiations.html?fbclid=IwAR2oDpPTYh0q173RdYwv5cox59uhpyHBrQdGfC65L22gY7pZAcwbArH8BkI</a>
<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/how-the-volk-myth-died-it-took-just-a-few-minutes-to-change-the-course-of-south-african-history-john-carlin-reports-from-mafikeng-1428703.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/how-the-volk-myth-died-it-took-just-a-few-minutes-to-change-the-course-of-south-african-history-john-carlin-reports-from-mafikeng-1428703.html</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/amntrans/1998/98092123_mma_mmabath3.htm">https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/amntrans/1998/98092123_mma_mmabath3.htm</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140503185912/http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/newsticker/rechte-in-suedafrika-rekrutieren-internationale-soeldner---politikermord-lautet-ein-auftrag-die-killer-kamen-von-der-reeperbahn,10917074,8820188.html">https://web.archive.org/web/20140503185912/http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/newsticker/rechte-in-suedafrika-rekrutieren-internationale-soeldner---politikermord-lautet-ein-auftrag-die-killer-kamen-von-der-reeperbahn,10917074,8820188.html</a>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/13/world/a-homeland-s-agony.html?sec=&amp;spon=&amp;pagewanted=2">https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/13/world/a-homeland-s-agony.html?sec=&amp;spon=&amp;pagewanted=2</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://mg.co.za/article/1994-06-17-foreign-hooligans-embarrass-awb/">https://mg.co.za/article/1994-06-17-foreign-hooligans-embarrass-awb/</a>
<a href="https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/media%5C1997%5C9708/s970821c.htm">https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/media%5C1997%5C9708/s970821c.htm</a>
<a href="https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/amntrans%5Cpta/2derby1.htm">https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/amntrans%5Cpta/2derby1.htm</a>
Death of Apartheid: The Whites&rsquo; Last Stand. (1995, May 28). Brian Lapping Associates.
---
The Jamboree in Jamba
This is the very strange story of the time Dolph Lundgren starred in a piece of apartheid propaganda.
Sources:
Bellant, Russ. Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party. South End Press, 1991.
Abramoff, Jack. Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth about Washington Corruption from America&rsquo;s Most Notorious Lobbyist. WND Books, 2011.
Easton, Nina. Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Crusade. Simon &amp; Schuster, 2000.
Ivon, David. &ldquo;Touting for South Africa: International Freedom Foundation.&rdquo; Covert Action Information Bulletin, 1989.
Blumenthal, Sidney (December 1983). "Let Lehrman Be Reagan". The New Republic.
Cachalia, Firoz and Mervyn Shear. WITS: A University in the Apartheid Era. Wits University Press, 2022.
<a href="https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-02-13-apartheid-stratcom-agents-trump-edwin-feulner/">https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-02-13-apartheid-stratcom-agents-trump-edwin-feulner/</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-11-13-atrocious-crimes-apartheid-hitmans-brutal-confessions-serve-as-a-warning-for-south-africans/">https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-11-13-atrocious-crimes-apartheid-hitmans-brutal-confessions-serve-as-a-warning-for-south-africans/</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://mg.co.za/article/2008-05-29-the-spy-who-lost-it/">https://mg.co.za/article/2008-05-29-the-spy-who-lost-it/</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://mg.co.za/article/2001-03-23-the-height-of-hypocrisy/">https://mg.co.za/article/2001-03-23-the-height-of-hypocrisy/</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://disa.ukzn.ac.za/sites/default/files/pdf_files/SNSep83.pdf">https://disa.ukzn.ac.za/sites/default/files/pdf_files/SNSep83.pdf</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files4/SNNov83.pdf">https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files4/SNNov83.pdf</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files4/SNOct80.pdf">https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files4/SNOct80.pdf</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://staging.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files3/pam19870826.026.009.583.pdf">https://staging.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files3/pam19870826.026.009.583.pdf</a>
<a href="https://antifainfoblatt.de/aib24/suedafrika-machtkampf-krieg-auf-kleiner-flamme">https://antifainfoblatt.de/aib24/suedafrika-machtkampf-krieg-auf-kleiner-flamme</a>
<a href="https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/48870988/volume-36-number-07-university-of-the-witwatersrand">https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/48870988/volume-36-number-07-university-of-the-witwatersrand</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/38832258/volume-36-number-13">https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/38832258/volume-36-number-13</a>
<a href="https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/06/293602.html?c=on">https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/06/293602.html?c=on</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files2/pam19811200.026.009.580.pdf">https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files2/pam19811200.026.009.580.pdf</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2008/08/the-wrecking-crew/">https://harpers.org/archive/2008/08/the-wrecking-crew/</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/06/world/4-rebel-units-sign-anti-soviet-pact.html">https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/06/world/4-rebel-units-sign-anti-soviet-pact.html</a>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/10/world/reporter-s-notebook-angola-s-children-of-war.html">https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/10/world/reporter-s-notebook-angola-s-children-of-war.html</a>
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060128022735/http://www.alternet.org/story/13134/">https://web.archive.org/web/20060128022735/http://www.alternet.org/story/13134/</a>
<a href="https://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAWCHC/1996/3.pdf">https://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAWCHC/1996/3.pdf</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.georgeherald.com/News/Article/Local-News/robert-hall-pioneer-in-medical-equipment-dies-20170711">https://www.georgeherald.com/News/Article/Local-News/robert-hall-pioneer-in-medical-equipment-dies-20170711</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://mg.co.za/article/1996-04-04-noseweek-case-takes-a-new-turn/">https://mg.co.za/article/1996-04-04-noseweek-case-takes-a-new-turn/</a>
<a href="https://www.nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/npr/73gould.pdf">https://www.nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/npr/73gould.pdf</a>
<a href="https://www.salon.com/2005/08/17/abramoff_2/">https://www.salon.com/2005/08/17/abramoff_2/</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/09/movies/south-africa-helps-us-film-makers-in-namibia-with-troops-and-trucks.html">https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/09/movies/south-africa-helps-us-film-makers-in-namibia-with-troops-and-trucks.html</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/case-study/abramoff-lobbying-congress">https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/case-study/abramoff-lobbying-congress</a>

CZM Rewind: The Whites' Last Stand & The Jamboree in Jamba

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