The Pete Quiñones Show

Thomas777, commentator and writer on policing and state institutions. He traces modern urban policing from Peel to post‑war paramilitary turns. Topics include privatization of police functions, community policing origins, LAPD militarization and scandals, and predictions of localized, privatized security and self‑policing communities.

Live Q&A on protests, platform troubles, and streaming logistics. A report on a chemical plant fire and its possible regional effects. Heated debate over US troop deployments, who benefits from American casualties, and worries about drafts and recruitment shifts. Wide-ranging talk on social media toxicity, wartime atrocities, drone and EMP defense tech, and building local resilience for uncertain times.

Thomas777, a revisionist historian and fiction writer, returns for Part 2 on the trial of Adolf Eichmann. He explores the political motives behind prosecuting Eichmann and Israel’s economic and diplomatic stakes. He questions the construction of Eichmann’s public image, contested evidence and blocked defense witnesses. He also examines reparations politics, international law around the abduction, and media’s role in shaping the story.

Hunger the Dye Merchant, a Lebanese-American commentator who lived years in the Middle East, guides listeners through Lebanon’s sectarian patchwork. He outlines where fighting hits hardest and how Israel-Hezbollah tensions evolved. He traces Palestinian refugee impacts, Hezbollah’s tactics and goals, and shifting Christian demographics. Short, vivid sketches of complex regional history and current fronts.

Long-form reading and commentary on Israel Shahak's controversial survey of Jewish law, history, and political influence. The discussion highlights legal definitions of Jewishness, historic social structures, and claims about rabbinical rulings toward non‑Jews. Topics include Kabbalah, Talmudic legalism, ritual workarounds, medieval and modern Jewish societal roles, Zionism, and diaspora political impact.

A full reading tackles why government springs from social yet self-interested human nature and how competing private affections shape public order. It explores taxation as a source of faction, the tension between numerical majorities and concurrent majorities, and proposals for institutional vetoes to prevent majority or ruler dominance. Historical precedents and risks of concentrated party power are examined.

Aaron from Timeline Earth, podcaster and creator who brings historical readings to life, guides a close reading of Herbert Marcuse's 'Repressive Tolerance'. They explore why Marcuse still matters. Short, focused discussions cover tolerance as a tool of power, how media and consumer society shape truth, limits of liberal neutrality, and the call for counter-education and strategic dissidence.

Tyler Janke, an attorney and host of the Libertarian Podcast Review, offers a skeptical legal lens on the Leo Frank case. He walks through the murder, investigative twists, courtroom strategy, shifting testimonies, appeals, and the lynching. The conversation also traces how the case influenced the formation of Jewish advocacy groups and enduring public narratives.

Thomas777, a revisionist historian and fiction writer who runs the Substack Radio Free Chicago, reads and comments on Léon DeGrelle's The Burning Souls. They explore DeGrelle's Walloon roots, his role with the Walloon Legion and Waffen-SS, and the book's mix of Catholic piety, martyrdom motifs, and Heideggerian longing for homeland. The conversation also covers frontline life, spiritual dimensions of war, and cultural relevance today.

A long-form reading and commentary on Maurice Samuel's 1924 book exploring the perceived divide between Jewish and Gentile life forces. Discussions trace contrasts in morality, sport, war, monotheism, loyalty, discipline, assimilation, and modern antisemitism. The recording moves through historical examples, cultural frameworks, and Samuel's uneasy conclusions about reconciliation.