Welcome to the Empire Files podcast. This is Mike Prysner. Some of you may know that I run another podcast called Eyes Left, a military podcast hosted by anti-war veterans like myself.

After a long hiatus, we recently brought back Eyes Left as an Empire Files production. We started with a bang this past November, breaking the Ron DeSantis torture scandal on that show, which has since

become a national story. Now that Eyes Left is an official part of Empire Files content,

all your tax-deductible donations made to Empire Files on our Patreon or elsewhere,

fund the production of this show, which I believe plays an important role in politicizing

active duty members of the U.S. military. But those episodes are only available under

Eyes Left, wherever you stream podcasts. All the episodes are free. Nothing is paywalled, but we wanted

to give you a preview here for all our listeners who aren't yet aware of that sister project.

So here's a sample of a recent episode, part of a series called Wakeups, which tells the stories

of members of the U.S. military who became

anti-imperialist. This one is very special to me because not only is the guest the first

Army Green Beret to become an anti-war voice since the Vietnam War, but part of his political transformation

was discovering the Isleft podcast years ago. So here's a clip with former Special Forces Staff Sergeant, Evan Brown.

A wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean up in Ukraine. I racked it. I'm a hawk.

I would have picked up arms myself to prevent 9-11 to get them.

As president, I wanted to give myself the Congressional Medal of Honor, but they wouldn't let me do it.

They wouldn't let me do it.

I said, I'm going to give myself a kick.

I've always wanted that.

We just flew B-52 B-1 bombers in the South China Sea.

We're not going to pay attention.

So those are kind of first, you know, you try to go to protest.

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