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THIS WEEK IN VIOLENCE: Strange Bedfellows Jul 05, 2026

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Army, Allied Militias, Islamist Armed Groups Commit Violations with Impunity
Report by Human Rights Watch – Jun 28, 2026

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Blood Work is a Scam Goldin Production
This episode was produced by Thomas O’Mahony
Our theme song is ‘Dream Weapon’ by Genghis Tron
Our artwork is provided courtesy of KT Kobel

An Unsolved Remainder: Haiti w/ Jonathan M. Katz Jun 30, 2026

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Jonathan joins us to talk about the gang violence that has engulfed Haiti since 2021 and place the instability that has haunted that nation within its proper political and historical context.

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Image: A man stands in front of a burning barricade on a street filled with smoke from burning tires during a protest in Cap-Haitien, following the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise in July of 2021 (Source: REUTERS/Ricardo Arduengo)

Blood Work is a Scam Goldin Production
This episode was produced by Thomas O’Mahony
Our theme song is ‘Dream Weapon’ by Genghis Tron
Our artwork is provided courtesy of KT Kobel

THIS WEEK IN VIOLENCE: Slob Hog Down
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Now that prophecy has failed, and Britain’s vaunted emperor-administrator Sir Keir Starmer has been exposed in both his bare-arsed nudity and his interior vacuity, we took the opportunity to give his bare arse a courtesy Blood Work kick as he shambles out the door. Good riddance to a pig, a slob, and a wretched dog.

Axis of Empire w/ Dr. Afshin Matin-Asgari Jun 23, 2026

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Gregk speaks to the author of a new book on US-Iran relations to place the two countries’ braided history in its proper context and make sense of… how we got here.

Axis of Empire: A History of US-Iran Relations is out now, available from Verso

Image: A photograph of a large anti-USA mural painted on the side of a residential apartment block in downtown Tehran

Blood Work is a Scam Goldin Production
This episode was produced by Thomas O’Mahony
Our theme song is ‘Dream Weapon’ by Genghis Tron
Our artwork is provided courtesy of KT Kobel
If you enjoyed this episode:
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THIS WEEK IN VIOLENCE: VetClaims.AI

For this week’s newsletter, we present four articles which collectively paint an interesting picture of our current conjecture, beginning with the text of Iran’s fourteen-point MoU with the US, running through the UFC spectacle at the White House, and concluding with an excellent recently-published interview with Alberto Toscano.

An Orchestral Conductor of Violence: The Veiled Prophet w/ Devin O'Shea Jun 16, 2026

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Devin joins Gregk to talk about his book The Veiled Prophet: Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. Louis. It’s a conversation that goes some places.

The Veiled Prophet: Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. Louis comes out on June 23, 2026, published by Haymarket Books.

Pre-order now:

– Haymarket Books (US)

– Blackwell’s (UK)

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– and check out his Spotify playlist of 90s Mall Music

Image: Painting of the first 1878 Veiled Prophet, St. Louis Chief of Police Colonel John Priest, wielding a silver police baton. Priest, a prominent realtor and civic leader, appears “in robes of his office as Grand Oracle.” (Source: Missouri Historical Society)

THIS WEEK IN VIOLENCE: Right on Cue
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This week we are, of course, going to speak about the violence which erupted on the streets of Belfast this week, and provide some commentary on how this sordid saga not only bears the mark of those fascists from Britain’s past whom we covered at length, but has plenty to say about the ones currently walking among us — even plugging themselves into the very architecture of the British state apparatus itself.

Genghis Tron: Signal Fire w/ Michael Sochynsky Jun 12, 2026

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Genghis Tron’s keyboardist and programmer joins us to talk about the band’s new record and making despair-laden music in a collapsing world.

GENGHIS TRON: SIGNAL FIRE — OUT NOW.

STREAM HERE

PHYSICAL COPIES & MERCH AVAILABLE VIA:

– Bandcamp

– Relapse Records

– Rough Trade (UK)

– Shirt Killer

Combat 18, Part 4: Ladageddon w/ Gareth Watkins Jun 09, 2026

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Our story of Britain’s most infamous neo-nazi terror gang concludes with a Harlow Night of the Long Knives and a final, desperate attempt to kick off and claim the race war.

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Image: A man walks past a burning barricade during the Oldham riots in 2001.

Blood Work is a Scam Goldin Production
This episode was produced by Thomas O’Mahony
Our theme song is ‘Dream Weapon’ by Genghis Tron
Our artwork is provided courtesy of KT Kobel

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THIS WEEK IN VIOLENCE: Lather, Rinse, Repeat
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For this week’s newsletter, we take a look at Nigel Farage’s cynical, exploitative response to the Henry Nowak murder case, and the shameful role our political, media and civic elites play in legitimising and affirming right-wing outrage with the hopes of shoring up their own power.

Warp & Weft: Afghan War Rugs Jun 02, 2026

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We explore the cultural history of rug-weaving in Afghanistan, and how decades of war caused that country’s craft and conditions into a morbid reciprocity.

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Blood Work is a Scam Goldin Production
This episode was produced by Thomas O’Mahony
Our theme song is ‘Dream Weapon’ by Genghis Tron
Our artwork is provided courtesy of KT Kobel

THIS WEEK IN VIOLENCE: Super Smash TV
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This week, some light entertainment for you, in the form of recent developments surrounding the Trump administration’s planned UFC fight on the White House lawn as part of America’s 250th anniversary celebrations.

Sources:

Afghan Rug Shop, ‘80cm x 60cm Fall of Afghanistan War Rug’, Afghan Rug Shop

Naman P. Ahuja (2019), ‘War Rugs’, Marg Publications, available via academia.edu

Max Allen (2008), ‘Battleground: War Rugs from Afghanistan’, Textile Museum of Canada, available via archive.org

Rachel Edman (2020), ‘An introduction to War Rugs’, MacGuffin Magazine, available via Rachel Edman

Bettina Gräf (2023), ‘Drone Rugs: Knotted Images as a Reminder of the Cruel Global Present’, Suzanna in the Bath. Essays on Middle East Studies and Public Discourse, available via academia.edu

Impart (2025), ‘Afghan War Rugs’, Impart

Nigel Lendon and Tim Bonyhady, Rugs of War (Wordpress)

RespectableLawyer (2018), ‘THREAD: Afghan War Rugs and the Lossy Compression of Cultural Coding’, Twitter/X, available via Threadreader and archive.today

Ron O’Callaghan (2003), ‘Afghan War Rugs: A Sub-group With Iranian Influence’, Rug Review, available via archive.today

Kevin Sudeith, WarRug.com

Brian Spooner (2011), ‘Afghan Wars, Oriental Carpets, and Globalization’, Expedition (53:1), available at Penn Museum

Pamela D. Toler (2021), ‘How Afghanistan’s “Rugs of War” Helped Its Citizens Tell the Story of Conflict’, Historynet

Kelly Wilson (2014), ‘Afghan War Rugs’, Art Amongst War: Visual Culture in Afghanistan, 1979-2014 (Exhibition Booklet), The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) Art Gallery, available via academia.edu

Image: A high quality example of a typical 9/11 war rug, woven and knotted by hand in the aftermath of the 2002 US invasion of Afghanistan

Combat 18, Part 3: Crisis of Ladsculinity w/ Gareth Watkins May 26, 2026

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Gareth returns to continue our history of ‘90s Britain’s most notorious neo-nazi gang, recounting the time Will Browning convinced a Scandinavian to mail a package bomb to an Olympic swimmer.

Image: Thomas Nakaba marching at a far-right rally in Copenhagen, Denmark, in the 1990s.

Blood Work is a Scam Goldin Production
This episode was produced by Thomas O’Mahony
Our theme song is ‘Dream Weapon’ by Genghis Tron
Our artwork is provided courtesy of KT Kobel

For more:

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THIS WEEK IN VIOLENCE: Protecting the Organism
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This week we’ve got a recent report from the BBC regarding activities by a para-state political organisation in Russia which appears to be assuming ever greater policing and security prerogatives within that state amidst the exceptional situation of the war on Ukraine – and becoming further radicalised and emboldened in the process.

Do Your Own Research: Conspiracy, Paranoia & the Drive to Violence w/ Julian Feeld May 19, 2026

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Do Your Own Research: Conspiracy, Paranoia & the Drive to Violence w/ Julian Feeld

Julian and Gregk discuss the history of conspiracy, lone wolves, mass psychoses, and his new show SUPER STRUCTURE on the power of propaganda, political repression & revolutionary struggle.

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Image: ‘Pizzagate’ gunman Edgar Maddison Welch being apprehended by police shortly after storming the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in Washington D.C. on December 4, 2016. (Sathi Soma/AP)

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Blood Work is a Scam Goldin Production
This episode was produced by Thomas O’Mahony
Our theme song is ‘Dream Weapon’ by Genghis Tron
Our artwork is provided courtesy of KT Kobel

THIS WEEK IN VIOLENCE: Before the Law
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This week, Gregk presents three separate news stories which each communicate different but interrelated ideas about the relation between law and violence, particularly in our present conjuncture.

Valley of Malls: Post-Fordist Cities & Political Repression, Part Two May 12, 2026

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We conclude our two-parter with a story that runs through Lewis Powell, Times Square, 9/11 and Occupy, and concludes by considering a vanguard of neoliberal authoritarianism: The Olympics.

Image: An interior shot of the amusement park at Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota

Blood Work is a Scam Goldin Production
This episode was produced by Thomas O’Mahony
Our theme song is ‘Dream Weapon’ by Genghis Tron
Our artwork is provided courtesy of KT Kobel

For more:

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THIS WEEK IN VIOLENCE: Cóndor Dos, Águila Moribunda
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For this week’s newsletter, we’ve got two news stories for you, which are separate, but which are nonetheless connected in a strange, poetic way. Collectively, we think they say something about the current condition of US empire, and what happens when imperial ambitions extend beyond even empire’s grasp.

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