They didn’t conquer us with force first— they conquered meaning.What if “education” was the most successful imperial technology ever built?From scripture to school bells to algorithms: the same machine, updated.In The Curriculum of Empire, Mark and Lynna trace a hidden lineage: how Christianity colonized conscience, how Prussia engineered the modern school, how empires rewrote alphabets to thin meaning, and how today’s algorithms finish the job—administering reality itself. This isn’t nostalgia. It’s a map. And it ends with a return: attention, land, community, and a living world beneath the words.What if literacy wasn’t neutral? What if learning to read was also learning to submit—first to a sacred text, then to the school bell, and finally to the invisible prompt?In this episode, Mark and Lynna tell a continuous story of empire as a curriculum: a long sequence of “software updates” designed to make human beings predictable. We move from Christianity’s interior conquest—where obedience becomes virtue and doubt becomes danger—into Prussia’s revolutionary invention of standardized schooling: time conquered by bells, bodies trained by repetition, and childhood turned into infrastructure. We step into Russia’s alphabet reforms as a case study in symbolic warfare: when a state doesn’t just manage belief, but rewrites the letters that carry memory.Then we bring it forward—into the present. Interfaces, metrics, dashboards, profiles: an administered reality where meaning becomes data and the human spirit is reduced to what can be measured.But we refuse despair. The episode ends with a hope-filled return to the living world—attention reclaimed, language that breathes again, land as relationship, real community, and a future human world that grows organically beneath the managed one

For more than a century, the United States has overthrown foreign governments—sometimes openly, often covertly, almost always in the name of order, security, or freedom.In this episode of Transition Radio Show, Mark and Lynna trace America’s regime-change doctrine from the overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani in Hawaii, through the Philippine-American War, Guatemala, Iran, and Iraq—and into the modern age of collapse, blowback, and endless war.Through history, theology, and five dramatized vignettes, we ask a harder question than whether these interventions “worked”:What did they do to the world—and what did they do to us?This is a story about empire in denial, power without accountability, and the human cost hidden behind slogans like “stability” and “mission accomplished.”In 1893, the U.S. overthrew the Queen of Hawaii.In 1953, it toppled Iran’s democracy.In 2003, it declared “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq.

Transition Radio goes inside the killing that should shake every person in this country: the execution of Renee Nicole Good on a Minneapolis street. She was a U.S. citizen, a mother of three, and frame‑by‑frame analysis shows she turned her steering wheel away from ICE agents one second before they shot her three times. The official story calls her a “domestic terrorist.” The evidence tells a very different story.In “Three Shots in Minneapolis: From ICE Raids to American Fascism,” the episode follows the bullets back through a century of policy: from Teddy Roosevelt’s white‑supremacist “forward race” ideology and FDR’s Japanese American concentration camps, to Operation Wetback, Bush’s Patriot Act, and the creation of ICE as a domestic shock force.This is not “broken policy”—it is a system engineered for racial control, impunity, and profit, now supercharged under Trump’s second term.We connect Renee’s death to a much larger machinery: 68,990 people in ICE detention, seven deaths in custody in a single month, sexual torture at Fort Bliss, 32,000 children unaccounted for in federal hands, and Trump’s $4.67 million deal to send deportees—including U.S. citizens—to El Salvador’s CECOT mega‑prison. All 14 classic warning signs of fascism are now active in U.S. policy. This is the episode for anyone still wondering if “it can happen here.” It already is.