Bogan Intelligentsia

In this episode we sit down again with Dr Rodrigo Acuña – independent journalist, Latin America specialist with a PhD on Venezuelan foreign policy, and author of a recent Truthout article – for a sharp, unflinching return conversation amid the explosive US-Venezuela standoff in late December 2025. This is the independent analysis mainstream outlets won’t touch: a clear-eyed look at Trump’s oil tanker seizures and blockade, deadly military strikes, Maduro’s defiance, and why even Venezuelans critical of Maduro overwhelmingly reject foreign-backed regime change.Episode Details: Duration ~60 minutes | Release Date: Saturday, 27 December 2025 | Guest: Dr Rodrigo Acuña – Latin America analyst, journalist, documentary filmmaker on VenezuelaSupport the Launch:Subscribe for free on Substack at boganintel.com to get episodes and show notes, or go paid ($5/month). Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Watch the video version on our YouTube channel. Subscribe for updates. Back us on Patreon starting at $3/month. Share this episode on X (@Boganintelpod) or with your network to amplify our reach. Keywords: Rodrigo Acuña Venezuela, US tanker blockade 2025, Trump Maduro confrontation, oil seizures international waters, Venezuelan navy escorts, piracy accusations, regime change opposition, Essequibo Guyana tensions, US sanctions family Maduro, Latin America escalation, Truthout experts regime change, civic-military unity Venezuela 

In Episode 43 we sit down again with Yaakov Aharon – Sydney-based journalist, member of the Bondi Jewish community, and connected to Chabad Lubavitch – for a deeply personal and unflinching return conversation after the tragic Sunday shooting attack on the Chabad event in Bondi. This is the raw, insider perspective mainstream outlets won’t platform: a Jewish community voice examining grief, politicisation, and what the tragedy reveals about Australia in late 2025. Episode Details: Duration ~89 minutes | Release Date: Sunday, 21 December 2025 | Guest: Yaakov Aharon – Sydney journalist, Bondi Jewish community member, Chabad-connected commentator Support the Launch:Subscribe for free on Substack at boganintel.com to get episodes and show notes, or go paid ($5/month). Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Watch the video version on our YouTube channel. Subscribe for updates. Back us on Patreon starting at $3/month. Share this episode on X (@Boganintelpod) or with your network to amplify our reach. Keywords: Yaakov Aharon, Bondi Chabad shooting, Sydney Jewish community 2025, Bondi vigil atmosphere, political exploitation Australia, Christchurch vs Bondi response, Mossad Iran allegations, ASIO intelligence failure, Segal antisemitism report, Australian multiculturalism facade, gun control debate, national unity crisis 

Nasser Mashni, President of Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN), shares his powerful Palestinian-Australian migrant journey. From growing up in multicultural Australia, working in milk bars, his father's inspiring resistance legacy, and what fighting for peace looks like in todays world.We also also reflect on the Bondi tragedy, Aussie hero Ahmed al-Ahmed, and what it means to be Australian in multicultural Australia.Episode Details: Duration ~73 minutes | Release Date: Wednesday, 17 December 2025 | Guest: Nasser Mashni – President of Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN), Palestinian-Australian advocate  Support the Launch:Subscribe for free on Substack at boganintel.com to get episodes and show notes, or go paid ($5/month). Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Watch the video version on our YouTube channel. Subscribe for updates. Back us on Patreon starting at $3/month. Share this episode on X (@Boganintelpod) or with your network to amplify our reach. Keywords:  Nasser Mashni, APAN, Palestinian Australian migrant, father's resistance story, Palestinian resistance evolution, Gaza resistance 2025, West Bank Intifada, Marwan Barghouti prisoner, Greater Israel Trump Netanyahu, Israeli society pathology, Australia UNRWA cuts, Palestine recognition 2025, Gaza genocide Australia, Indigenous Palestinian solidarity, Australian activism Palestine 

This is the interview Australian campuses and legacy media won’t touch in 2025: from the hidden history of how defensive Zionism became aggressive militarism; from mob violence in Mandatory Palestine to the institutional reasons peace keeps failing; from the personal hell of anti-Zionist Jewish life online to Israel’s influence on global bodies and U.S. elections; to Shaiel’s own IDF regrets and the moral rot inside units like 8200, and his anti-Zionist change that made him persona non grata in pro-Israel circles.Episode Details: Duration ~97 minutes | Release Date: Tuesday, 9 December 2025 | Guest: Shaiel Ben-Ephraim – ex IDF Intelligence officer, historian, ex-diplomat, author of “Why I Turned My Back on Zionism” Support the Launch:Subscribe for free on Substack at boganintel.com to get episodes and show notes, or go paid ($5/month). Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Watch the video version on our YouTube channel. Subscribe for updates. Back us on Patreon starting at $3/month. Share this episode on X (@Boganintelpod) or with your network to amplify our reach.Keywords: Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, Why I Turned My Back on Zionism, IDF target selection, Israeli militarism origins, U.S.-Israel relations, peace process failure, anti-Zionist Jew, academic censorship, Gaza 2023-2025, Unit 8200 AI targeting, moral reckoning Israel

Episode 40 of the Bogan Intelligentsia Podcast – Prof. Roger Markwick (Honorary Professor of Modern European History, University of Newcastle) breaks thirty years of Australian academic silence on the real origins of the Russia–Ukraine war. This is the forbidden lecture they won’t let you hear on any Australian campus: the actual post-WW2 contest for Europe, the deep historical roots of modern Ukraine, Eurasianism and the real (limited) role of Alexander Dugin, the suppressed timeline of the 2014 Maidan coup, the Odessa Trade Union House massacre that was memory-holed in the West, the eight-year Donbass war that began in 2014, the sabotaged Minsk agreements, and how an oligarch-funded TV comedian with zero political experience was transformed into the West’s Churchillian saint. Layer by layer, Markwick dismantles the “unprovoked aggression” fairy tale that every legacy outlet still parrots in 2025.If you’ve ever wondered why dissenting academics on this topic can be counted on one hand, this is the episode that explains it.Episode Details: Duration ~80 minutes | Release Date: Wednesday, 3 December 2025 | Guest: Prof. Roger Markwick – author, Soviet and post-Soviet dissidence specialist, lecturer on the long history of Israel–PalestineSupport the Launch:Subscribe for free on Substack at boganintel.com to get episodes and show notes, or go paid ($5/month). Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Watch the video version on our YouTube channel. Subscribe for updates. Back us on Patreon starting at $3/month. Share this episode on X (@Boganintelpod) or with your network to amplify our reach.Keywords: Roger Markwick, Russia Ukraine war origins, NATO expansion lies, Maidan 2014, Odessa massacre, Donbass war 2014-2022, Alexander Dugin, Eurasianism, Zelensky oligarchs, Minsk betrayal, Australian academic censorship, Western propaganda collapse

Episode 39 of the Bogan Intelligentsia Podcast – Antoun Issa (ex-Guardian Australia senior editor, Deep Cut founder) on why he quit one of the country’s top media jobs over its Gaza coverage, how Australian journalism remains a racially gatekept Anglo-elite club, why “objectivity” is code for colonial bias, the untouchable power of the pro-Israel lobby in Canberra, and how independent outlets are now the only ones doing real investigative work on weapons deals, Pine Gap, and Australia’s complicity in Israel’s genocide. The most brutal, necessary autopsy of Australian media you’ll hear in 2026.Episode Details: Duration ~95 minutes | Release Date: Saturday, 28 November 2025 | Guest: Antoun Issa – founder Deep Cut, ex-Guardian AustraliaSupport the Launch:Subscribe for free on Substack at boganintel.com to get episodes and show notes, or go paid ($5/month). Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Watch the video version on our YouTube channel. Subscribe for updates. Back us on Patreon starting at $3/month. Share this episode on X (@Boganintelpod) or with your network to amplify our reach.Keywords: Antoun Issa, Deep Cut, Guardian resignation, Gaza coverage, Australian media racism, pro-Israel lobby, ABC genocide refusal, independent journalism

Episode 38 of the Bogan Intelligentsia Podcast features Dr Alex Waters in a no-holds-barred second-hour deep dive: Can Australia ever say “no” to the United States? Has AUKUS irreversibly chained us to a dying unipolar order while Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand join BRICS+? Are we sleepwalking into becoming the southern pillar of a new American Monroe Doctrine in Asia? From creeping U.S. nuclear-sub bases on our west coast to the hypocrisy of lecturing ASEAN on democracy while selling coal to juntas, Dr Waters details what should be the most important Australian foreign-policy conversation of the decade.Episode Details: Duration: ~75 minutes | Release Date: Monday, November 23, 2025 | Guest: Dr Alex Waters, geopolitical analyst & authorSupport the Launch:Subscribe for free on Substack at boganintel.com to get episodes and show notes, or go paid ($5/month). Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Watch the video version on our YouTube channel. Subscribe for updates. Back us on Patreon starting at $3/month. Share this episode on X (@Boganintelpod) or with your network to amplify our reach.Keywords: Alex Waters, AUKUS, US bases Australia, Pine Gap, Australian sovereignty 2025, Monroe Doctrine Asia, BRICS+, Ecuador US expulsion, strategic autonomy #BoganIntelligentsia #auspol #AUKUS #Sovereignty

In Episode 37 of Bogan Intelligentsia, Program Director of the Lowy Institute's International Security Program Sam Roggeveen unpacks his The Echidna Strategy for Australia's strategic autonomy, critiques bipartisan orthodoxy on U.S. alliances, dissects nuclear risks in Asia amid Tindal's B-52 rotations and militarism under the US, and explores lessons from Trump's Taiwan dismissals and Ukraine dithering for Indo-Pacific allies. Duration: ~75 minutes Release Date: Monday, December 15, 2025 Guest: Sam Roggeveen, Lowy Institute Director & Author of The Echidna StrategySupport the Launch:Subscribe for free on Substack at boganintel.com to get episodes and show notes, or go paid ($5/month). Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Watch the video version on our YouTube channel. Subscribe for updates. Back us on Patreon starting at $3/month. Share this episode on X (@Boganintelpod) or with your network to amplify our reach.Keywords: Sam Roggeveen, Echidna Strategy, Australian defense, AUKUS perils, nuclear Asia risks, Trump Taiwan, Ukraine ally lessons, China regionalism, Tindal basing, sovereign thinkers, Indo-Pacific future #BoganIntelligentsia #SamRoggeveen #EchidnaStrategy #AUKUS #NuclearRisks #AusPol #politics #australianpolitics

In Episode 36 of Bogan Intelligentsia, Suzan Wahhab shares her personal story as a Palestinian Christian advocate, traces the ancient history of Christianity in the Levant, explores the enduring presence of Palestinian Christians and analyzes the precarious positions of Palestinian Christians in Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel today. Duration: ~90 minutes Release Date: Monday, December 15, 2025 Guest: Suzan Wahhab, Palestinian Christian Advocate & HistorianSupport the Launch:Subscribe for free on Substack at boganintel.com to get episodes and show notes, or go paid ($5/month). Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Watch the video version on our YouTube channel. Subscribe for updates. Back us on Patreon starting at $3/month. Share this episode on X (@Boganintelpod) or with your network to amplify our reach.Keywords: Suzan Wahhab, Palestinian Christians, Levant history, Gaza Christians, Muslim holy site protectors, biblical genetics, Third Temple Amalek, Christian attacks, Scofield Bible Zionism, Lebanon Syria assaults, Netanyahu future #BoganIntelligentsia #SuzanWahhab #PalestinianChristians #ChristianZionism #LevantHistory

Description: Episode 35 of the Bogan Intelligentsia Podcast features Doug Cameron, former Australian Senator and union leader. In this 75-minute discussion, Doug shares his early career in unions and politics, contrasts the strength of Australia's union movement before and after the Accord, examines the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in 2025, critiques its centrism and neoliberal turn, discusses the risks of AUKUS, explores ALP's ties to Israel and Zionism, addresses the lack of diverse views and sovereign thinking in Labor, and questions what the modern ALP stands for.Episode Details: Duration: ~75 minutes Release Date: Monday, November 10, 2025 Guest: Doug Cameron, Former Australian Senator & Union LeaderSupport the Launch:Subscribe for free on Substack at boganintel.com to get episodes and show notes, or go paid ($5/month). Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Watch the video version on our YouTube channel. Subscribe for updates. Back us on Patreon starting at $3/month. Share this episode on X (@Boganintelpod) or with your network to amplify our reach.Thank You, Fans: Your commitment has brought this podcast to life. Join us in building the Bogan Intelligentsia Podcast and help shape a community for bold ideas. Keywords: Doug Cameron, Australian unions, Labor Party 2025, Accord impact, neoliberalism, AUKUS perils, ALP Israel ties, Labor diversity #BoganIntelligentsia #DougCameron #AustralianLabor #UnionMovement #AUKUS