https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/e46008b6-31ae-4a8b-be78-86e33a1618f7 Episodes of Devil's Chess Club--and all American Exception podcast episodes--are available first on Patreon [ https://www.patreon.com/americanexception ]. Former CIA officer and bestselling author Barry Eisler joins us to discuss his new novel, 'The System' [ https://x.com/barryeisler ]. Here is what I wrote about the book: "The System depicts a fictionalized version of the late US Empire—an economic and military juggernaut now in terminal decline as the regime and its institutions buckle under the weight of their own corrupt and corrupting inertia. With compelling prose, Eisler has written a deep political thriller in which the characters exist in shades of gray. They all must accommodate various governmental and private sector interests in such a way as to become complicit in a system so illegitimate that its true dimensions cannot be candidly discussed or explained in “mainstream” settings. Let us hope that entertaining fiction like this can help snap Americans out of their red/blue partisan trances and unite them against their real enemy—the oligarchic regime itself." Special thanks to: • Dana Chavarria, production • Casey Moore, graphics • Michelle Boley, animated intro • Mock Orange, music Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:05:30 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/e46008b6-31ae-4a8b-be78-86e33a1618f7 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.