James Scaminaci is an independent researcher and former civilian senior intelligence analyst for the U.S. Army’s Intelligence and Threat Analysis Center (ITAC) and the European Command’s Joint Analysis Center (JAC), specializing in the former Soviet Union, the former Yugoslavia, counter-organized crime, and counter-terrorism. He received his PhD in sociology from Stanford University and has written about the Christian Right in America, the Patriot militia movement, the Tea Party, and the concept of fourth-generation warfare. In this conversation, we discuss Hamas’s massacre on October 7, the Christian Right in America, the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) movement, Trump’s connection to NAR, anti-LGBT bigotry in Russia, “spiritual kung fu” in China, the racist roots of the pro-life and militia movements, the NRA, the corporate origins of the war on science, how woke leftists harm the lower class, why AOC is not really socialist, the military strategist John Boyd, the discursive force of identity politics, deep-fake propaganda, and much more. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit volodzko.substack.com/subscribe