I am joined by returning guest Indrajit Samarajiva, also known as Indi or Indica. We pick up from our last interview, when we discussed White Empire, its decline, the Axis of Resistance, and the shifting terrain of warfare. Namely, I asked Indi how he understands the United States (the head of the White Empire) and Israel’s war of aggression on Iran and why and how Iran has successfully fought back, effectively won, and asserted its sovereignty, and what this portends for the future of the US and Israel and their expansionist aims. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/indrajit-samarajiva-2 // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast // Subscribe: https://pod.link/1169842000 [ EP 405 / REC 05.27.2026 / REL 06.08.2026 ]

I am joined by returning guest Indrajit Samarajiva, also known as Indi or Indica. We pick up from our last interview, when we discussed White Empire, its decline, the Axis of Resistance, and the shifting terrain of warfare. Namely, I asked Indi how he understands the United States (the head of the White Empire) and Israel’s war of aggression on Iran and why and how Iran has successfully fought back, effectively won, and asserted its sovereignty, and what this portends for the future of the US and Israel and their expansionist aims. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Subscribe: https://pod.link/1169842000

I’m joined in this episode by returning guest Kollibri terre Sonnenblume—writer, photographer, tree-hugger, animal lover, occasional farmer, and cultural dissident. We begin by discussing the theme of Kollibri’s essay, Stop Insulting Animals: We must own our own culture and selves, a piece that addresses how we speak about animals—the bad metaphors, clumsy euphemisms, and casual degradations of more-than-human life in common parlance—revealing something deeply rooted in the dominant culture. It may seem trivial, but examining language unveils how deeply unexamined human supremacism is.  Our discussion then moves into the subject of Sonnenblume’s upcoming piece examining one of the main drivers of habitat loss globally: industrial agriculture. We excavate the roots of this ever-expanding paradigm of food production and land use, going back to the Neolithic Revolution millennia ago and the Industrial Revolution centuries ago, and how we are reaching hard material limits presently, with extinction-level outcomes. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/kollibri-terre-sonnenblume-2 // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast // Subscribe: https://pod.link/1169842000 [ EP 404 / REC 05.09.2026 / REL 06.01.2026 ]

I’m joined in this episode by returning guest Kollibri terre Sonnenblume—writer, photographer, tree-hugger, animal lover, occasional farmer, and cultural dissident. They’re the author of several books on the intersections of ecology and human society, and they write for the newsletter, Speaking for the Trees (no matter where they’re from). // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

Media scholar Robin Andersen joins me to discuss her impeccably researched book, The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza, published by OR Books and the Institute for Palestine Studies. The Complicit Lens is a meticulously documented, searing indictment of the US legacy media’s direct complicity in the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Andersen identifies the propagandistic frame venerable liberal outlets, like The New York Times, Washington Post, and LA Times, as well as their broadcast outlet contemporaries, report within to carry water for the US-backed Israeli bombardment of Gaza since al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/robin-andersen // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast [ EP 403 / REC 04.20.2026 / REL 05.08.2026 ]

Media scholar Robin Andersen joins me to discuss her impeccably researched book, The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza, published by OR Books and the Institute for Palestine Studies. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

Clare Follmann, M.E.S., joins me to discuss her new book, Scapegoat: What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong, from AK Press. Follmann examines the invasive species story, identifying the language and metaphors used to categorize certain sets of species as “invasive”—as invading and destroying habitats—often framed in the militaristic and xenophobic rhetoric of border nationalism and racial purity. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/clare-follmann // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast [ EP 402 / REC 03.28.2026 / REL 04.16.2026 ]

Clare Follmann, M.E.S., joins me to discuss her new book, Scapegoat: What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong, from AK Press. Follmann examines the invasive species story, identifying the language and metaphors used to categorize certain sets of species as “invasive”—as invading and destroying habitats—often framed in the militaristic and xenophobic rhetoric of border nationalism and racial purity. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness

Journalist Peter Byrne joins me to discuss the burgeoning and sprawling military AI industry, its consortium of players, and its relationship with the warmaking and surveillance powers of the United States government, explicated in his extensive 10-part Military AI Watch series for Project Censored. Furthermore, Byrne elucidates how AI systems are being used in the now weeks-long US-Israel war on Iran, both in the decision to launch this war and in the day-to-day decision-making of military strategists. // Episode notes: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/peter-byrne // Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness // Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast

Journalist Peter Byrne joins me to discuss the burgeoning and sprawling military AI industry, its consortium of players, and its relationship with the warmaking and surveillance powers of the United States government, explicated in his extensive 10-part Military AI Watch series for Project Censored. // Support the work + listen to the full interview: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness